My Top 10 Oscar-Winning Best Picture Movies

The Oscars are tomorrow and again, the Best Picture category is surprisingly unpredictable as it is between 3 movies. However, sometimes or maybe nearly half the time, the Academy predicts the wrong movie to get Best Picture (*cough* Shakespeare in Love *cough* Saving Private Ryan *cough* for Best Picture *cough*). So, I'd put together a list of my 10 favorite Best Picture winners that establish themselves, in my opinion, as the ones that deserve the trophy.

None of the movies that won Best Picture from the 2010s so far are on the list but if I were to choose one honorable mention, I'd pick 12 Years A Slave.

Honorable Mentions:
The Silence of the Lambs
Million Dollar Baby
Rain Man
Midnight Cowboy
Titanic
On the Waterfront

10. The Sound of Music

9. Unforgiven

8. No Country for Old Men

7. The Departed

6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

5. Amadeus

4. Schindler's List

3. The Godfather Part II

2. Braveheart

1. The Godfather

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