AA-WINNING BEST PICTURES RATED

★★★★

Grand Hotel (1932)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Last Emperor (1987)

★★★½

The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Rebecca (1940)
Going My Way (1944)
Hamlet (1948)
All About Eve (1950)
Gigi (1958)
The Apartment (1960)
Chariots of Fire (1981)

★★★

Wings (1928)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
An American in Paris (1951)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Gladiator (2000)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
The Departed (2006)
No Country for Old Men (2007)

★★½

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
All the King’s Men (1949)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
My Fair Lady (1964)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Oliver! (1968)
The French Connection (1971)
Annie Hall (1977)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Unforgiven (1992)
Braveheart (1995)
American Beauty (1999)

★★

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Casablanca (1943)
Marty (1955)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Tom Jones (1963)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Sting (1973)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Gandhi (1982)
Rain Man (1988)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

★½

Cimarron (1931)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Ordinary People (1980)
Out of Africa (1985)
Platoon (1986)
Schindler’s List (1993)
The English Patient (1996)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)

★

Cavalcade (1933)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
West Side Story (1961)
Patton (1970)
The Godfather (1972)
Amadeus (1984)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Titanic (1997)
Chicago (2002)

0 ★

On the Waterfront (1954)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Rocky (1976)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Crash (2005)

? (haven’t seen)

Broadway Melody (1929)
No Country for Old Men (2007)