Picture

1927-28
Who won: Wings (production); Sunrise (unique and artistic picture)
Who should have won: Sunrise 

1928-29
Who won: Broadway Melody
Who should have won: The Cameraman

1929-30 
Who won: All Quiet on the Western Front

1930-31
Who won: Cimarron
Who should have won: The Public Enemy

1931-32
Who won: Grand Hotel
Who should have won: Scarface 

1932-33 
Who won: Cavalcade 
Who should have won: King Kong 

1934 
Who won: It Happened One Night 

1935
Who won: Mutiny on the Bounty 
Who should have won: Top Hat

1936 
Who won: The Great Ziegfeld 
Who should have won: Dodsworth

1937 
Who won: The Life of Emile Zola 
Who should have won: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1938 
Who won: You Can't Take It With You 
Who should have won: Grand Illusion 

1939 
Who won: Gone With the Wind

1940 
Who won: Rebecca
Who should have won: His Girl Friday 

1941 
Who won: How Green Was My Valley 
Who should have won: Citizen Kane 

1942 
Who won: Mrs. Miniver 
Who should have won: Sullivan's Travels 

1943 
Who won: Casablanca

1944 
Who won: Going My Way 
Who should have won: Laura 

1945 
Who won: The Lost Weekend

1946 
Who won: The Best Years of Our Lives

1947 
Who won: Gentleman's Agreement 
Who should have won: Shoeshine

1948 
Who won: Hamlet 
Who should have won: Red River

1949 
Who won: All the King's Men 
Who should have won: The Bicycle Thief

1950 
Who won: All About Eve 

1951 
Who won: An American in Paris 
Who should have won: Strangers on a Train 

1952 
Who won: The Greatest Show on Earth 
Who should have won: Singin' in the Rain 

1953
Who won: From Here to Eternity

1954 
Who won: On the Waterfront 
Who should have won: Rear Window 

1955
Who won: Marty 
Who should have won: Ugetsu 

1956 
Who won: Around the World in Eighty Days 
Who should have won: The Searchers

1957 
Who won: The Bridge on the River Kwai 

1958 
Who won: Gigi 
Who should have won: Vertigo 

1959
Who won: Ben-Hur 
Who should have won: Some Like It Hot 

1960 
Who won: The Apartment 
Who should have won: Psycho 

1961
Who won: West Side Story 
Who should have won: La Dolce Vita 

1962
Who won: Lawrence of Arabia
Who should have won: The Manchurian Candidate

1963
Who won: Tom Jones
Who should have won: 8 1/2

1964
Who won: My Fair Lady 
Who should have won: A Hard Day's Night 

1965 
Who won: The Sound of Music 
Who should have won: Repulsion 

1966 
Who won: A Man for All Seasons 
Who should have won: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1967
Who won: In the Heat of the Night 
Who should have won: The Graduate

1968 
Who won: Oliver! 
Who should have won: 2001: A Space Odyssey

1969 
Who won: Midnight Cowboy 
Who should have won: The Wild Bunch

1970 
Who won: Patton 
Who should have won: MASH

1971 
Who won: The French Connection 
Who should have won: McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1972
Who won: The Godfather

1973
Who won: The Sting
Who should have won: Cries and Whispers

1974 
Who won: The Godfather, Part II

1975
Who won: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


1976
Who won: Rocky
Who should have won: All the President's Men

1977
Who won: Annie Hall 
Who should have won: Star Wars

1978
Who won: The Deer Hunter

1979
Who won: Kramer vs. Kramer 
Who should have won: Apocalypse Now

1980
Who won: Ordinary People 
Who should have won: Raging Bull

1981
Who won: Chariots of Fire 
Who should have won: Raiders of the Lost Ark

1982
Who won: Gandhi 
Who should have won: Blade Runner

1983 
Who won: Terms of Endearment 
Who should have won: The Right Stuff 

1984 
Who won: Amadeus 
Who should have won: The Terminator

1985
Who won: Out of Africa
Who should have won: Prizzi's Honor

1986
Who won: Platoon 

1987 
Who won: The Last Emperor 
Who should have won: Empire of the Sun

1988 
Who won: Rain Man 
Who should have won: Who Framed Roger Rabbit 

1989 
Who won: Driving Miss Daisy 
Who should have won: Do the Right Thing

1990 
Who won: Dances With Wolves 
Who should have won: GoodFellas

1991
Who won: The Silence of the Lambs 

1992 
Who won: Unforgiven 
Who should have won: Malcolm X 

1993 
Who won: Schindler's List 

1994 
Who won: Forrest Gump
Who should have won: Pulp Fiction

1995 
Who won: Braveheart 
Who should have won: Toy Story

1996 
Who won: The English Patient 
Who should have won: Fargo

1997
Who won: Titanic
Who should have won: L.A. Confidential 

1998 
Who won: Shakespeare in Love 
Who should have won: Saving Private Ryan 

1999
Who won: American Beauty 
Who should have won: Magnolia 

2000
Who won: Gladiator
Who should have won: Wonder Boys

2001 
Who won: A Beautiful Mind 
Who should have won: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2002
Who won: Chicago 
Who should have won: Spirited Away 

2003 
Who won: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2004 
Who won: Million Dollar Baby

2005 
Who won: Crash 
Who should have won: Brokeback Mountain

2006 
Who won: The Departed 
Who should have won: The Lives of Others 

2007 
Who won: No Country for Old Men 

2008 
Who won: Slumdog Millionaire 
Who should have won: In Bruges

2009 
Who won: The Hurt Locker 

2010
Who won: The King's Speech 
Who should have won: The Social Network 

2011
Who won: The Artist 
Who should have won: The Descendants

2012
Who won: Argo. 
Who should have won: ?

2013 
Who won: Twelve Years a Slave
Who should have won: ?