The Oscars are this Sunday, and to celebrate 85 years of Hollywood self-love, editor Nelson Carvajal put together this supercut of all the Best Picture winners, from 1927’s Wings to last year’s The Artist. It’s actually chronological, even if it sounds alphabetical. As ThePlaylist notes, those are also the only two silent films ever to win. And expect another A movie to win this year, with Argo. Can you name all the movies in the supercut? If not, there’s always Wikipedia. Or the list I’ve included below.
Neither here nor there, but I think a good name for a silent porn star would be ‘Lilian Gash.’
• 2011 – “The Artist”
• 2010 – “The King’s Speech”
• 2009 – “The Hurt Locker”
• 2008 – “Slumdog Millionaire”
• 2007 – “No Country for Old Men”
• 2006 – “The Departed”
• 2005 – “Crash”
• 2004 – “Million Dollar Baby”
• 2003 – “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
• 2002 – “Chicago”
• 2001 – “A Beautiful Mind”
• 2000 – “Gladiator”
• 1999 – “American Beauty”
• 1998 – “Shakespeare in Love”
• 1997 – “Titanic”
• 1996 – “The English Patient”
• 1995 – “Braveheart”
• 1994 – “Forrest Gump”
• 1993 – “Schindler’s List”
• 1992 – “Unforgiven”
• 1991 – “The Silence of the Lambs”
• 1990 – “Dances With Wolves”
• 1989 – “Driving Miss Daisy”
• 1988 – “Rain Man”
• 1987 – “The Last Emperor”
• 1986 – “Platoon”
• 1985 – “Out of Africa”
• 1984 – “Amadeus”
• 1983 – “Terms of Endearment”
• 1982 – “Gandhi”
• 1981 – “Chariots of Fire”
• 1980 – “Ordinary People”
• 1979 – “Kramer vs. Kramer”
• 1978 – “The Deer Hunter”
• 1977 – “Annie Hall”
• 1976 – “Rocky”
• 1975 – “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
• 1974 – “The Godfather Part II”
• 1973 – “The Sting”
• 1972 – “The Godfather”
• 1971 – “The French Connection”
• 1970 – “Patton”
• 1969 – “Midnight Cowboy”
• 1968 – “Oliver!”
• 1967 – “In the Heat of the Night”
• 1966 – “A Man for All Seasons”
• 1965 – “The Sound of Music”
• 1964 – “My Fair Lady”
• 1963 – “Tom Jones”
• 1962 – “Lawrence of Arabia”
• 1961 – “West Side Story”
• 1960 – “The Apartment”
• 1959 – “Ben-Hur”
• 1958 – “Gigi”
• 1957 – “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
• 1956 – “Around the World in 80 Days”
• 1955 – “Marty”
• 1954 – “On the Waterfront”
• 1953 – “From Here to Eternity”
• 1952 – “The Greatest Show on Earth”
• 1951 – “An American in Paris”
• 1950 – “All About Eve”
• 1949 – “All the Kings Men”
• 1948 – “Hamlet”
• 1947 – “Gentleman’s Agreement”
• 1946 – “The Best Years of Our Lives”
• 1945 – “The Lost Weekend”
• 1944 – “Going My Way”
• 1943 – “Casablanca”
• 1942 – “Mrs. Miniver”
• 1941 – “How Green Was My Valley”
• 1940 – “Rebecca”
• 1939 – “Gone with the Wind”
• 1938 – “You Can’t Take It with You”
• 1937 – “The Life of Emile Zola”
• 1936 – “The Great Ziegfeld”
• 1935 – “Mutiny on the Bounty”
• 1934 – “It Happened One Night”
• 1932/1933 – “Cavalcade”
• 1931/1932 – “Grand Hotel”
• 1930/1931 – “Cimarron”
• 1929/1930 – “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• 1928/1929 – “The Broadway Melody”
• 1927/1928 – “Wings”