Oscars Best Picture Alphabet
by Dibyayan_Chakravorty | created - 31 Aug 2016 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicWhich letter has the best set of Oscar winning Best Pictures that begin with it?
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Please Note: There are no Oscar winning Best Picture beginning with J, Q, V, X and Z.
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1. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt
Votes: 741,164 | Gross: $56.67M
0 to 9: 12 Years a Slave (2013)
2. All About Eve (1950)
Passed | 138 min | Drama
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Votes: 138,727 | Gross: $0.01M
A: All About Eve (1950), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), All the King's Men (1949), Amadeus (1984, American Beauty (1999), An American in Paris (1951), Annie Hall (1977), Argo (2012), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), The Apartment (1960), The Artist (2011)
3. Ben-Hur (1959)
G | 212 min | Adventure, Drama
After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet
Votes: 253,604 | Gross: $74.70M
B: Ben-Hur (1959), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Braveheart (1995), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Broadway Melody (1929), A Beautiful Mind (2001)
4. Casablanca (1942)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 605,871 | Gross: $1.02M
C: Casablanca (1942), Cavalcade (1933), Chariots of Fire (1981), Chicago (2002), Cimarron (1931), Crash (2004), CODA (2021)
5. Dances with Wolves (1990)
PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.
Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Votes: 290,536 | Gross: $184.21M
D: Dances with Wolves (1990), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Departed (2006)
6. The English Patient (1996)
R | 162 min | Drama, Romance, War
At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 200,838 | Gross: $78.65M
E: The English Patient (1996), Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
7. Forrest Gump (1994)
PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Votes: 2,256,220 | Gross: $330.25M
F: Forrest Gump (1994), From Here to Eternity (1953), The French Connection (1971)
8. Gandhi (1982)
PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth
Votes: 240,179 | Gross: $52.77M
G: Gandhi (1982), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Gigi (1958), Gladiator (2000), Going My Way (1944), Gone with the Wind (1939), Grand Hotel (1932), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Green Book (2018)
9. Hamlet (1948)
Approved | 154 min | Drama
Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
Director: Laurence Olivier | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, John Laurie, Esmond Knight
Votes: 18,387 | Gross: $7.09M
H: Hamlet (1948), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Hurt Locker (2008)
10. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant
Votes: 83,536 | Gross: $24.38M
I: In the Heat of the Night (1967), It Happened One Night (1934)
11. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
PG | 105 min | Drama
After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry
Votes: 154,666 | Gross: $106.26M
K: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), The King's Speech (2010)
12. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 314,285 | Gross: $44.82M
L: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Last Emperor (1987), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Lost Weekend (1945)
13. Marty (1955)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Augusta Ciolli
Votes: 27,010
M: Marty (1955), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), My Fair Lady (1964), Moonlight (2016), A Man for All Seasons (1966)
14. No Country for Old Men (2007)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson
Votes: 1,059,882 | Gross: $74.28M
N: No Country for Old Men (2007), Nomadland (2020)
15. Oliver! (1968)
G | 153 min | Drama, Family, Musical
After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed
Votes: 41,391 | Gross: $16.80M
O: Oliver! (1968), On the Waterfront (1954), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Ordinary People (1980), Out of Africa (1985), Oppenheimer (2023)
16. Patton (1970)
GP | 172 min | Biography, Drama, War
The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong
Votes: 107,940 | Gross: $61.70M
P: Patton (1970), Platoon (1986), Parasite (2019)
17. Rain Man (1988)
R | 133 min | Drama
After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen
Votes: 546,465 | Gross: $178.80M
R: Rain Man (1988), Rebecca (1940), Rocky (1976)
18. Schindler's List (1993)
R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Votes: 1,450,271 | Gross: $96.90M
S: Schindler's List (1993), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Spotlight (2015), Sunrise (1927), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Sound of Music (1965), The Sting (1973), The Shape of Water (2017)
19. Terms of Endearment (1983)
PG | 132 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito
Votes: 65,461 | Gross: $108.42M
T: Terms of Endearment (1983), Titanic (1997), Tom Jones (1963)
20. Unforgiven (1992)
R | 130 min | Drama, Western
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
Votes: 436,073 | Gross: $101.16M
U: Unforgiven (1992)
21. West Side Story (1961)
Approved | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn
Votes: 121,166 | Gross: $43.66M
W: West Side Story (1961), Wings (1927)
22. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold
Votes: 27,904 | Gross: $4.66M
Y: You Can't Take It with You (1938)
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