20th Century Best Picture Winners Ranked (Part 2) |
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BEST PICTURE WINNERS (*Ranked by Artistic Merit based upon Entertainment Weekly 2001 Oscar Guide) |
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Award |
Academy Award Winner |
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and Wins |
Competition from |
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Mutiny on the Bounty | Frank Lloyd |
1 Win |
Top Hat (1935) |
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An American In Paris | Vincente Minnelli |
6 Wins |
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) A Place in the Sun |
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Dances with Wolves | Kevin Costner |
7 Wins |
GoodFellas |
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Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis |
6 Wins |
Pulp Fiction The Shawshank Redemption |
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Braveheart | Mel Gibson |
5 Wins |
Sense and Sensibility |
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The Sting | George Roy Hill |
7 Wins |
American Graffiti |
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The Sound of Music | Robert Wise |
5 Wins |
Darling |
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Rocky | John G. Avildsen |
3 Wins |
Taxi Driver Network |
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The English Patient | Anthony Minghella |
9 Wins |
Jerry Maguire Fargo |
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Ben-Hur | William Wyler |
11 Wins |
Anatomy of a Murder |
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Gandhi | Richard Attenborough |
8 Wins |
Tootsie |
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My Fair Lady | George Cukor |
8 Wins |
Dr. Strangelove Or: |
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A Man for All Seasons | Fred Zinnemann |
6 Wins |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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Shakespeare in Love | John Madden |
7 Wins |
Saving Private Ryan |
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In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison |
5 Wins |
Bonnie and Clyde |
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Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack |
7 Wins |
Prizzi's Honor |
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Hamlet | Laurence Olivier |
4 Wins |
The Red Shoes The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
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Grand Hotel | Edmund Goulding |
1 Win |
Shanghai Express |
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Tom Jones | Tony Richardson |
4 Wins |
America, America |
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Wings (Best Production) Sunrise (Unique and Artistic Picture) |
William Wellman F. W. Murnau |
2 Wins 4 Noms 3 Wins |
Seventh Heaven |
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Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner |
7 Wins |
M*A*S*H |
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The Great Ziegfeld | Robert Z. Leonard |
3 Wins |
Libeled Lady |
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Marty | Delbert Mann |
4 Wins |
Mister Roberts |
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The Life of Emile Zola | William Dieterle |
3 Wins |
A Star Is Born The Awful Truth |
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Going My Way | Leo McCarey |
7 Wins |
Double Indemnity |
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Gentleman's Agreement | Elia Kazan |
3 Wins |
Great Expectations |
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Mrs. Miniver | William Wyler |
5 Wins |
The Magnificent Ambersons |
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Oliver! | Carol Reed |
5 Wins |
Funny Girl |
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Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks |
5 Wins |
The Right Stuff |
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You Can't Take It With You | Frank Capra |
2 Wins |
Grand Illusion |
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Chariots of Fire | Hugh Hudson |
4 Wins |
Reds |
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Driving Miss Daisy | Bruce Beresford |
5 Wins |
Born on the Fourth of July |
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The Broadway Melody | Harry Beaumont |
1 Win |
The Patriot |
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Around the World in 80 Days | Michael Anderson |
5 Wins |
Giant |
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Cimarron | Wesley Ruggles |
3 Wins |
The Front Page |
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Cavalcade | Frank Lloyd |
3 Wins |
Little Women |
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The Greatest Show on Earth | Cecil B. DeMille |
2 Wins |
High Noon |