The Best Oscar Best Picture Winners of All Time

The Academy Awards might be just as famous for their perceived blunders as their prestige; that’s what happens when you have nearly a century of history to live down, or up to. But for all of the head-slappers of the Green Book variety over the past almost-100 years, it would be pretty easy to rattle off the ten worst Oscar Best Picture winners—the ones that have aged terribly, the ones that were pretty terrible from the jump, the one where Jimmy Stewart plays a circus clown on the run. Figuring out the best Oscar movies, the Best Best Pictures if you will, is actually a lot trickier, and for that, maybe the Academy is owed a modicum of appreciation, despite its sketchy origins as an anti-union measure and its array of stray hang-ups over the years.