'Celebrating Art and Connection Since 1929'
Are you not entertained?
The Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is where it all started…Thursday, May 16, 1929. No red carpet. 270 guests. No live broadcast. 15 minutes. It’s hard to imagine the Academy Awards humble beginnings and its survival in the wake of the biggest global recession only five months later. It’s purpose; to support and unite.
Moving forward a couple of years, it’s interesting to note how the arts held the world together during the Great Depression. The US Federal Government employed creatives through the FERA (later becoming the WPA) emergency program for public relief, connection and hope - an unprecedented act for the people.
Moving forward again 85 odd years and we find ourselves again seeking connection through music, creativity and storytelling. It’s hard to deny a world without art. Countries like Italy have turned to music amidst their greatest adversity since the Second World War. The puzzle, Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison foreshadows as essential for his children during this #stayhome order filters under art and entertainment with its origins being found in painting. And the luxury of streaming platforms like Netflix, Stan and Amazon Prime has dramatically escalated as we face a new normal. Arts play a crucial role in society so its difficult to watch our industry fall through the recent cracks.
If you are looking for an appreciation challenge over the next few months whilst you #stayhome, treat yourself to the complete list of ‘Best Picture’ Oscar winning films since the very first Academy Awards. The first Academy Awards honoured films from 1927 and 1928.
If you’re wanting to delve deeper into a particular category or view the nominees for each year, head over to, www.oscars.org.
Happy viewing!
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The 2010s
‘12 Years A Slave’ won ‘Best Picture at The 86th Academy Awards.
2020 - ‘Parasite’
2019 - ‘Green Book’
2018 - ‘The Shape of Water’
2017 - ‘Moonlight’
2016 - ‘Spotlight’
2015 - ‘Birdman’
2014 - ‘12 Years a Slave’
2013 - ‘Argo’
2012 - ‘The Artist’
2011 - ‘The King's Speech’
The 2000s
‘Chicago’ won ‘Best Picture’ at The 75th Academy Awards
2010 - ‘The Hurt Locker’
2009 - ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
2008 - ‘No Country for Old Men’
2007 - ‘The Departed’
2006 - ‘Crash’
2005 - ‘Million Dollar Baby’
2004 - ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’
2003 - ‘Chicago’
2002 - ‘A Beautiful Mind’
2001 - ‘Gladiator’
The 1990s
‘Braveheart’ won ‘Best Picture’ at The 68th Academy Awards.
2000 - ‘American Beauty’
1999 - ‘Shakespeare in Love’
1998 - ‘Titanic’
1997 - ‘The English Patient’
1996 - ‘Braveheart’
1995 - ‘Forrest Gump’
1994 - ‘Schindler’s List’
1993 - ‘Unforgiven’
1992 - ‘The Silence of the Lambs’
1991 - ‘Dances With Wolves
The 1980s
‘Terms of Endearment’ won ‘Best Picture’ at The 56th Academy Awards.
1990 - ‘Driving Miss Daisy’
1989 - ‘Rain Man’
1988 - ‘The Last Emperor’
1987 - ‘Platoon’
1986 - ‘Out of Africa’
1985 - ‘Amadeus’
1984 - ‘Terms of Endearment’
1983 - ‘Gandhi’
1982 - ‘Chariots of Fire’
1981 - ‘Ordinary People’
The 1970s
‘The Godfather’ won ‘Best Picture’ at The 45th Academy Awards.
1980 - ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’
1979 - ‘The Deer Hunter’
1978 - ‘Annie Hall’
1977 - ‘Rocky’
1976 - ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest’
1975 - ‘The Godfather Part II’
1974 - ‘The Sting’
1973 - ‘The Godfather’
1972 - ‘The French Connection’
1971 - ‘Patton’
The 1960s
‘West Side Story’ won ‘Best Picture’ at The 34th Academy Awards.
1970 - ‘Midnight Cowboy’
1969 - ‘Oliver!’
1968 - ‘In the Heat of the Night’
1967 - ‘A Man for All Seasons’
1966 - ‘The Sound of Music’
1965 - ‘My Fair Lady’
1964 - ‘Tom Jones’
1963 - ‘Lawrence of Arabia’
1962 - ‘West Side Story’
1961 - ‘The Apartment’
The 1950s
‘Around The World in 80 Days’ won ‘Best Picture’ at The 29th Academy Awards.
1960 - ‘Ben-Hur’
1959 - ‘Gigi’
1958 - ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’
1957 - ‘Around the World in 80 Days’
1956 - ‘Marty’
1955 - ‘On the Waterfront’
1954 - ‘From Here to Eternity’
1953 - ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’
1952 - ‘An American in Paris’
1951 - ‘All About Eve’
The 1940s
‘Casablanca’ won ‘Best Picture’ at the The 16th Academy Awards.
1950 - ‘All the Kings Men’
1949 - ‘Hamlet’
1948 - ‘Gentleman's Agreement’
1947 - ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’
1946 - ‘The Lost Weekend’
1945 - ‘Going My Way’
1944 - ‘Casablanca’
1943 - ‘Mrs. Miniver’
1942 - ‘How Green Was My Valley’
1941 - ‘Rebecca’
The 1930s
‘Gone With The Wind’ won ‘Best Picture’ at The 12th Academy Awards.
1940 - ‘Gone with the Wind’
1939 - ‘You Can't Take It with You’
1938 - ‘The Life of Emile Zola’
1937 - ‘The Great Ziegfeld’
1936 - ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’
1935 - ‘It Happened One Night’
1933/1934 - ‘Cavalcade’
1932/1933 - ‘Grand Hotel’
1931/1932 - ‘Cimarron’
1930/1931 - ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
The 1920s
‘The Broadway Melody’ won ‘Best Picture’ at The 1st Academy Awards.
1929/1930 - ‘The Broadway Melody’
1927-1928/1929 - ‘Wings’