This Bucket List Goal is to Watch Every Best Picture Oscars Nominees and Winners from 1927 to 2028
Watching every Academy Award best picture nominee and winner from 1927 to 2028 is possibly our most ambitious bucket list goal yet. The details are simple, we will watch every available movie that was nominated for best picture at the academy awards, including the winners, from it’s inception until it’s 101’s year. We say available movies because in some rare cases movies might have been lost to time and not be available to watch anymore, in those cases we will skip the movie and it won’t have an impact on the failure or success of the goal.
Why We Chose This Goal
When we started this goal in 2019, there were already more than 500 movies that got a best picture nomination and more than 90 winners. Even if we were to watch one movie a day it would take us almost two years to watch the previous nominees. Starting in 2019, with the latest Oscars having been given to movies that came out in 2018, also meant that the nominees and winners from 2019 to 2028 were not yet decided which guaranteed that the goal would take a decade to complete. So why did we choose to do this seemingly crazy goal? Simple, because we love movies and this goal gave us the opportunity to watch numerous historically significant and potentially great movies. Of course, being nominated for a best picture Oscar does not guarantee the quality of a movie, but I get a feeling that even the worst movies will prove to be entertaining in some way.
Our Reviews of Every Academy Award Best Picture Nominees and Winners from 1927-2028
1927-28 (1st Academy Award)
Wings (1927) Review
Wings (1927) won the Oscar for Best Picture (Outstanding Picture) at the 1927/28 Academy Award.
The Racket (1928) Review
The Racket (1928) was nominated for Best Picture (Outstanding Picture) at the 1927/28 Academy Award.
7th Heaven (1927) Review
7th Heaven (1927) was nominated for Best Picture (Outstanding Picture) at the 1927/28 Academy Award.
1928-29 (2nd Academy Award)
The Broadway Melody (1929) Review
The Broadway Melody (1929) won Best Picture (Outstanding Production) at the 3rd Academy Award.
The Patriot (1928) Discussion
The Patriot (1928) was nominated for Best Picture (Outstanding Picture) at the 1928/29 Academy Award.
In Old Arizona (1928) Review
In Old Arizona (1928) was nominated for Best Picture (Outstanding Picture) at the 1928/29 Academy Award.
Hollywood Revue of 1929 Review
Hollywood Revue of 1929 was nominated for Best Picture (Outstanding Picture) at the 1928/29 Academy Award.
Alibi (1929) Review
Alibi (1929) was nominated for Best Picture (Outstanding Picture) at the 1928/29 Academy Award.
1929-30 (3rd Academy Award)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Review
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) won Best Picture (Outstanding Production) at the 3rd Academy Award.
The Divorcee (1930) Review
The Divorcee (1930) was nominated for Best Picture (Outstanding Production) at the 3rd Academy Award.
The Big House (1930) Review
The Big House (1930) was nominated for Best Picture (Outstanding Production) at the 3rd Academy Award.
The Love Parade (1929) Review
The Love Parade (1929) was nominated for Best Picture (Outstanding Production) at the 3rd Academy Award.
Disraeli (1929) Review
Disraeli (1929) was nominated for Best Picture (Outstanding Production) at the 3rd Academy Award.
1930-31 (4th Academy Award) ✓
Cimarron (Winner) ✓
Skippy ✓
The Front Page ✓
East Lynne ✓
Trader Horn ✓
1931-32 (5th Academy Award) ✓
Grand Hotel (Winner) ✓
Arrowsmith ✓
Bad Girl ✓
The Champ ✓
Five Star Final ✓
One Hour with You ✓
Shanghai Express ✓
The Smiling Lieutenant ✓
1932-33 (6th Academy Award) ✓
Cavalcade (Winner) ✓
42nd Street ✓
A Farewell to Arms ✓
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ✓
Lady for a Day ✓
Little Women ✓
The Private Life of Henry VIII ✓
She Done Him Wrong ✓
Smilin’ Through ✓
State Fair ✓
1934 (7th Academy Award)
It Happened One Night (Winner) ✓
The Barretts of Wimpole Street ✓
Cleopatra ✓
Flirtation Walk ✓
The Gay Divorcee ✓
Here Comes the Navy ✓
The House of Rothschild ✓
Imitation of Life ✓
One Night of Love ✓
The Thin Man ✓
Viva Villa! ✓
The White Parade
1935 (8th Academy Award) ✓
Mutiny on the Bounty (Winner) ✓
Alice Adams ✓
Broadway Melody of 1936 ✓
Captain Blood ✓
David Copperfield ✓
The Informer ✓
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer ✓
A Midsummer Night’s Dream ✓
Les Misérables ✓
Naughty Marietta ✓
Ruggles of Red Gap ✓
Top Hat ✓
1936 (9th Academy Award) ✓
The Great Ziegfeld (Winner) ✓
Anthony Adverse ✓
Dodsworth ✓
Libeled Lady ✓
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ✓
Romeo and Juliet ✓
San Francisco ✓
The Story of Louis Pasteur ✓
A Tale of Two Cities ✓
Three Smart Girls ✓
1937 (10th Academy Award) ✓
The Life of Emile Zola (Winner) ✓
The Awful Truth ✓
Captains Courageous ✓
Dead End ✓
The Good Earth ✓
In Old Chicago ✓
Lost Horizon ✓
One Hundred Men and a Girl ✓
Stage Door ✓
A Star Is Born ✓
1938 (11th Academy Award) ✓
You Can’t Take It with You (Winner) ✓
The Adventures of Robin Hood ✓
Alexander’s Ragtime Band ✓
Boys Town ✓
The Citadel ✓
Four Daughters ✓
Grand Illusion ✓
Jezebel ✓
Pygmalion ✓
Test Pilot ✓
1939 (12th Academy Award) ✓
Gone with the Wind (Winner) ✓
Dark Victory ✓
Goodbye, Mr. Chips ✓
Love Affair ✓
Ninotchka ✓
Of Mice and Men ✓
Stagecoach ✓
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ✓
Wuthering Heights ✓
The Wizard of Oz ✓
1940 (13th Academy Award)
Rebecca (Winner)
All This, and Heaven Too
Foreign Correspondent
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
Kitty Foyle
The Letter
The Long Voyage Home
Our Town
The Philadelphia Story
1941 (14th Academy Award)
How Green Was My Valley (Winner)
Blossoms in the Dust
Citizen Kane
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Hold Back the Dawn
The Little Foxes
The Maltese Falcon
One Foot in Heaven
Sergeant York
Suspicion
1942 (15th Academy Award)
Mrs. Miniver (Winner)
The Invaders
Kings Row
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Pied Piper
The Pride of the Yankees
Random Harvest
The Talk of the Town
Wake Island
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1943 (16th Academy Award)
Casablanca (Winner)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Heaven Can Wait
The Human Comedy
In Which We Serve
Madame Curie
The More the Merrier
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Song of Bernadette
Watch on the Rhine
1944 (17th Academy Award)
Going My Way (Winner)
Double Indemnity
Gaslight
Since You Went Away
Wilson
1945 (18th Academy Award)
The Lost Weekend (Winner)
Anchors Aweigh
The Bells of St. Mary’s
Mildred Pierce
Spellbound
1946 (19th Academy Award)
The Best Years of Our Lives (Winner)
Henry V
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Razor’s Edge
The Yearling
1947 (20th Academy Award)
Gentleman’s Agreement (Winner)
The Bishop’s Wife
Crossfire
Great Expectations
Miracle on 34th Street
1948 (21st Academy Award)
Hamlet (Winner)
Johnny Belinda
The Red Shoes
The Snake Pit
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 (22nd Academy Award)
All the King’s Men (Winner)
Battleground
The Heiress
A Letter to Three Wives
Twelve O’Clock High
1950 (23rd Academy Award)
All About Eve (Winner)
Born Yesterday
Father of the Bride
King Solomon’s Mines
Sunset Boulevard
1951 (24th Academy Award)
An American in Paris (Winner)
Decision Before Dawn
A Place in the Sun
Quo Vadis
A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 (25th Academy Award)
The Greatest Show on Earth (Winner)
High Noon
Ivanhoe
Moulin Rouge
The Quiet Man
1953 (26th Academy Award)
From Here to Eternity (Winner)
Julius Caesar
The Robe
Roman Holiday
Shane
1954 (27th Academy Award)
On the Waterfront (Winner)
The Caine Mutiny
The Country Girl
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Three Coins in the Fountain
1955 (28th Academy Award)
Marty (Winner)
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Mister Roberts
Picnic
The Rose Tattoo
1956 (29th Academy Award)
Around the World in 80 Days (Winner)
Friendly Persuasion
Giant
The King and I
The Ten Commandments
1957 (30th Academy Award)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Winner)
12 Angry Men
Peyton Place
Sayonara
Witness for the Prosecution
1958 (31st Academy Award)
Gigi (Winner)
Auntie Mame
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Defiant Ones
Separate Tables
1959 (32nd Academy Award)
Ben-Hur (Winner)
Anatomy of a Murder
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Nun’s Story
Room at the Top
1960 (33rd Academy Award)
The Apartment (Winner)
The Alamo
Elmer Gantry
Sons and Lovers
The Sundowners
1961 (34th Academy Award)
West Side Story (Winner)
Fanny
The Guns of Navarone
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
1962 (35th Academy Award)
Lawrence of Arabia (Winner)
The Longest Day
The Music Man
Mutiny on the Bounty
To Kill a Mockingbird
1963 (36th Academy Award)
Tom Jones (Winner)
America America
Cleopatra
How the West Was Won
Lilies of the Field
1964 (37th Academy Award)
My Fair Lady (Winner)
Becket
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Mary Poppins
Zorba the Greek
1965 (38th Academy Award)
The Sound of Music (Winner)
Darling
Doctor Zhivago
Ship of Fools
A Thousand Clowns
1966 (39th Academy Award)
A Man for All Seasons (Winner)
Alfie
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
The Sand Pebbles
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967 (40th Academy Award)
In the Heat of the Night (Winner)
Bonnie and Clyde
Doctor Dolittle
The Graduate
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
1968 (41st Academy Award)
Oliver! (Winner)
Funny Girl
The Lion in Winter
Rachel, Rachel
Romeo and Juliet
1969 (42nd Academy Award)
Midnight Cowboy (Winner)
Anne of the Thousand Days
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Hello, Dolly!
Z
1970 (43rd Academy Award)
Patton (Winner)
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
MASH
1971 (44th Academy Award)
The French Connection (Winner)
A Clockwork Orange
Fiddler on the Roof
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
1972 (45th Academy Award)
The Godfather (Winner)
Cabaret
Deliverance
The Emigrants
Sounder
1973 (46th Academy Award)
The Sting (Winner)
American Graffiti
Cries and Whispers
The Exorcist
A Touch of Class
1974 (47th Academy Award)
The Godfather Part II (Winner)
Chinatown
The Conversation
Lenny
The Towering Inferno
1975 (48th Academy Award)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Winner)
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
Nashville
1976 (49th Academy Award)
Rocky (Winner)
All the President’s Men
Bound for Glory
Network
Taxi Driver
1977 (50th Academy Award)
Annie Hall (Winner)
The Goodbye Girl
Julia
Star Wars
The Turning Point
1978 (51st Academy Award)
The Deer Hunter (Winner)
Coming Home
Heaven Can Wait
Midnight Express
An Unmarried Woman
1979 (52nd Academy Award)
Kramer vs. Kramer (Winner)
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
Breaking Away
Norma Rae
1980 (53rd Academy Award)
Ordinary People (Winner)
Coal Miner’s Daughter
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
Tess
1981 (54th Academy Award)
Chariots of Fire (Winner)
Atlantic City
On Golden Pond
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Reds
1982 (55th Academy Award)
Gandhi (Winner)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Missing
Tootsie
The Verdict
1983 (56th Academy Award)
Terms of Endearment (Winner)
The Big Chill
The Dresser
The Right Stuff
Tender Mercies
1984 (57th Academy Award)
Amadeus (Winner)
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
Places in the Heart
A Soldier’s Story
1985 (58th Academy Award)
Out of Africa (Winner)
The Color Purple
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Prizzi’s Honor
Witness
1986 (59th Academy Award)
Platoon (Winner)
Children of a Lesser God
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
A Room with a View
1987 (60th Academy Award)
The Last Emperor (Winner)
Broadcast News
Fatal Attraction
Hope and Glory
Moonstruck
1988 (61st Academy Award)
Rain Man (Winner)
The Accidental Tourist
Dangerous Liaisons
Mississippi Burning
Working Girl
1989 (62nd Academy Award)
Driving Miss Daisy (Winner)
Born on the Fourth of July
Dead Poets Society
Field of Dreams
My Left Foot
1990 (63rd Academy Award)
Dances with Wolves (Winner)
Awakenings
Ghost
The Godfather Part III
Goodfellas
1991 (64th Academy Award)
The Silence of the Lambs (Winner)
Beauty and the Beast
Bugsy
JFK
The Prince of Tides
1992 (65th Academy Award)
Unforgiven (Winner)
The Crying Game
A Few Good Men
Howards End
Scent of a Woman
1993 (66th Academy Award)
Schindler’s List (Winner)
The Fugitive
In the Name of the Father
The Piano
The Remains of the Day
1994 (67th Academy Award)
Forrest Gump (Winner)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
The Shawshank Redemption
1995 (68th Academy Award)
Braveheart (Winner)
Apollo 13
Babe
The Postman (Il Postino)
Sense and Sensibility
1996 (69th Academy Award)
The English Patient (Winner)
Fargo
Jerry Maguire
Secrets & Lies
Shine
1997 (70th Academy Award)
Titanic (Winner)
As Good as It Gets
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential
1998 (71st Academy Award)
Shakespeare in Love (Winner)
Elizabeth
Life Is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
1999 (72nd Academy Award)
American Beauty (Winner)
The Cider House Rules
The Green Mile
The Insider
The Sixth Sense
2000 (73rd Academy Award)
Gladiator (Winner)
Chocolat
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Erin Brockovich
Traffic
2001 (74th Academy Award)
A Beautiful Mind (Winner)
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge!
2002 (75th Academy Award)
Chicago (Winner)
Gangs of New York
The Hours
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Pianist
2003 (76th Academy Award)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Winner)
Lost in Translation
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Mystic River
Seabiscuit
2004 (77th Academy Award)
Million Dollar Baby (Winner)
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Ray
Sideways
2005 (78th Academy Award)
Crash (Winner)
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich
2006 (79th Academy Award)
The Departed (Winner)
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
2007 (80th Academy Award)
No Country for Old Men (Winner)
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood
2008 (81st Academy Award)
Slumdog Millionaire (Winner)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
2009 (82nd Academy Award)
The Hurt Locker (Winner)
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
2010 (83rd Academy Award)
The King’s Speech (Winner)
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
2011 (84th Academy Award)
The Artist (Winner)
The Descendants
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
2012 (85th Academy Award)
Argo (Winner)
Amour
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
2013 (86th Academy Award)
12 Years a Slave (Winner)
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street
2014 (87th Academy Award)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Winner)
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
2015 (88th Academy Award)
Spotlight (Winner)
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
2016 (89th Academy Award)
Moonlight (Winner)
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
2017 (90th Academy Award)
The Shape of Water (Winner)
Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 (91st Academy Award)
Green Book (Winner)
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Roma
A Star Is Born
Vice
2019 (92nd Academy Award) ✓
Parasite (Winner) ✓
Marriage Story ✓
The Irishman ✓
Little Women ✓
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ✓
Joker ✓
Ford v Ferrari ✓
Jojo Rabbit ✓
1917 ✓
2020 (93rd Academy Award)
Nomadland (Winner)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 ✓
Mank ✓
Minari ✓
Sound of Metal ✓
Promising Young Woman
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021 (94th Academy Award)
TBD
2022 (95th Academy Award)
TBD
2023 (96th Academy Award)
TBD
2024 (97th Academy Award)
TBD
2025 (98th Academy Award)
TBD
2026 (99th Academy Award)
TBD
2027 (100th Academy Award)
TBD
2028 (101st Academy Award)
TBD
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