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Academy Award Best Picture Flashcards

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1927/1928*?

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Wings (Starring Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1927/1928**?

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Sunrise (Starring George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1928/1929?

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The Broadway Melody (Starring Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, The Angeles Twins)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1929/1930?

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All Quiet on the Western Front (Starring Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1930/1931?

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Cimarron (Starring Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O’Neil)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1931/1932?

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Grand Hotel (Starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1932/1933?

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Cavalcade (Starring Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor, Herbert Mundin)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1934?

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It Happened One Night (Starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1935?

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Mutiny on the Bounty (Starring Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1936?

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The Great Ziegfeld (Starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1937?

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The Life of Emile Zola (Starring Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1938?

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You Can’t Take It with You (Starring Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1939?

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Gone with the Wind (Starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O’Neil)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1940?

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Rebecca (Starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1941?

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How Green Was My Valley (Starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1942?

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Mrs. Miniver (Starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1943?

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Casablanca (Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1944?

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Going My Way (Starring Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1945?

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The Lost Weekend (Starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1946?

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The Best Years of Our Lives (Starring Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1947?

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Gentleman’s Agreement (Starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1948?

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Hamlet (Starring Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, John Laurie, Esmond Knight)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1949?

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All the King’s Men (Starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1950?

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All About Eve (Starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1951?

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An American in Paris (Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1952?

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The Greatest Show on Earth (Starring James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1953?

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From Here to Eternity (Starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1954?

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On the Waterfront (Starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1955?

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Marty (Starring Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Augusta Ciolli)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1956?

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Around the World in Eighty Days (Starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1957?

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The Bridge on the River Kwai (Starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1958?

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Gigi (Starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1959?

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Ben-Hur (Starring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1960?

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The Apartment (Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1961?

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West Side Story (Starring Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1962?

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Lawrence of Arabia (Starring Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1963?

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Tom Jones (Starring Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine, Rachel Kempson)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1964?

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My Fair Lady (Starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1965?

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The Sound of Music (Starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1966?

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A Man for All Seasons (Starring Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1967?

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In the Heat of the Night (Starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1968?

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Oliver! (Starring Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1969?

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Midnight Cowboy (Starring Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1970?

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Patton (Starring George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1971?

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The French Connection (Starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1972?

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The Godfather (Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1973?

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The Sting (Starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1974?

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The Godfather: Part II (Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1975?

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1976?

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Rocky (Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1977?

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Annie Hall (Starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1978?

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The Deer Hunter (Starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1979?

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Kramer vs. Kramer (Starring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1980?

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Ordinary People (Starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1981?

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Chariots of Fire (Starring Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1982?

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Gandhi (Starring Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1983?

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Terms of Endearment (Starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1984?

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Amadeus (Starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1985?

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Out of Africa (Starring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1986?

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Platoon (Starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1987?

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The Last Emperor (Starring John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole, Ruocheng Ying)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1988?

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Rain Man (Starring Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1989?

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Driving Miss Daisy (Starring Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1990?

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Dances with Wolves (Starring Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1991?

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The Silence of the Lambs (Starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1992?

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Unforgiven (Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1993?

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Schindler’s List (Starring Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1994?

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Forrest Gump (Starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1995?

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Braveheart (Starring Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1996?

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The English Patient (Starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1997?

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Titanic (Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1998?

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Shakespeare in Love (Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 1999?

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American Beauty (Starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2000?

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Gladiator (Starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2001?

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A Beautiful Mind (Starring Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2002?

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Chicago (Starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2003?

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Starring Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2004?

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Million Dollar Baby (Starring Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2005?

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Crash (Starring Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Karina Arroyave)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2006?

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The Departed (Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2007?

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No Country for Old Men (Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2008?

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Slumdog Millionaire (Starring Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2009?

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The Hurt Locker (Starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2010?

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The King’s Speech (Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2011?

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The Artist (Starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell)

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Which movie won Best Picture in 2012?

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Argo (Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

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Wings (1927/1928*)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife. NOTE: AT THE FIRST CEREMONY, there were two categories seen equally as the “top” award: Outstanding Picture (which went to Wings) and Unique and Artistic Production (Sunrise). The following year, UAP was dropped, and the Academy retroactively named Wings as the top movie for 1927/1928.

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Sunrise (1927/1928**)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield’s shows. Eddie was in love with Harriet, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in love to her, but she is courted by Jock Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jock nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Harriet recognizes, that Eddie is in love with Queenie.

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The Broadway Melody (1928/1929)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

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All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/1930)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Cimarron (1930/1931)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.

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Grand Hotel (1931/1932)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A cavalcade of English life from New Year’s Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War.

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Cavalcade (1932/1933)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who’s actually a reporter looking for a story.

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It Happened One Night (1934)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on avenging his captors.

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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: This biography follows the ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld, famed producer of extravagant stage revues.

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The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.

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The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

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You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Civil War.

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Gone with the Wind (1939)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband’s dead first wife.

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Rebecca (1940)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

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How Green Was My Valley (1941)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

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Mrs. Miniver (1942)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

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Casablanca (1943)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Youthful Father Chuck O’Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy, but his level gaze and twinkling eyes make it clear that he knows he made the right choice. After joining a parish, O’Malley’s worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of kids looking for direction and handle the business details of the church-building fund, winning over his aging, conventional superior, Father Fitzgibbon.

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Going My Way (1944)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout.

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The Lost Weekend (1945)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.

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Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.

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Hamlet (1948)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.

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All the King’s Men (1949)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.

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All About Eve (1950)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. However, things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.

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An American in Paris (1951)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer against a background of circus spectacle.

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The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit’s team, while his captain’s wife and second in command are falling in love.

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From Here to Eternity (1953)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

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On the Waterfront (1954)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.

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Marty (1955)

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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel about a Victorian Englishman who bets that with the new steamships and railways he can do what the title says.

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Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

117
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men’s construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

118
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

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Gigi (1958)

119
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

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Ben-Hur (1959)

120
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

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The Apartment (1960)

121
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Musical about two youngsters from rival NYC gangs who fall in love.

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West Side Story (1961)

122
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during his World War I service in the Middle East.

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

123
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: In eighteenth century England, “first cousins” Tom Jones and Master Blifil grew up together in privilege in the western countryside, but could not be more different in nature.

A

Tom Jones (1963)

124
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

A

My Fair Lady (1964)

125
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

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The Sound of Music (1965)

126
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

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A Man for All Seasons (1966)

127
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.

A

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

128
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Musical adaptation about an orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.

A

Oliver! (1968)

129
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.

A

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

130
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.

A

Patton (1970)

131
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

A

The French Connection (1971)

132
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

A

The Godfather (1972)

133
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

A

The Sting (1973)

134
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba.

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The Godfather: Part II (1974)

135
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Upon admittance to a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients to take on the oppressive head nurse.

A

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

136
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the heavy-weight champion, Apollo Creed, in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

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Rocky (1976)

137
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

A

Annie Hall (1977)

138
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.

A

The Deer Hunter (1978)

139
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: A just-divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of him.

A

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

140
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

A

Ordinary People (1980)

141
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.

A

Chariots of Fire (1981)

142
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

A

Gandhi (1982)

143
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma’s marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora’s interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways.

A

Terms of Endearment (1983)

144
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum.

A

Amadeus (1984)

145
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter.

A

Out of Africa (1985)

146
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

A

Platoon (1986)

147
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: The story of the final Emperor of China.

A

The Last Emperor (1987)

148
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt’s father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

A

Rain Man (1988)

149
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.

A

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

150
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.

A

Dances with Wolves (1990)

151
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

A

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

152
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Name the Best Picture winner described as: Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.

A

Unforgiven (1992)

153
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

A

Schindler’s List (1993)

154
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him.

A

Forrest Gump (1994)

155
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, a commoner begins a revolt and leads Scottish warriors against the cruel English tyrant who rules Scotland with an iron fist.

A

Braveheart (1995)

156
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: At the close of WWII, 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.

A

The English Patient (1996)

157
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be married to a rich claimant by her mother, falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

A

Titanic (1997)

158
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

A

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

159
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter’s attractive friend.

A

American Beauty (1999)

160
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor’s corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

A

Gladiator (2000)

161
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

A

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

162
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn’t going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

A

Chicago (2002)

163
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron’s army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.

A

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

164
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.

A

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

165
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

A

Crash (2005)

166
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: An undercover state cop who has infiltrated an Irish gang and a mole in the police force working for the same mob race to track down and identify each other before being exposed to the enemy, after both sides realize their outfit has a rat.

A

The Departed (2006)

167
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

A

No Country for Old Men (2007)

168
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.

A

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

169
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.

A

The Hurt Locker (2009)

170
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.

A

The King’s Speech (2010)

171
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

A

The Artist (2011)

172
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.

A

Argo (2012)

173
Q

Which movie won Best Picture in 2013?

A

12 Years a Slave

174
Q

Name the Best Picture winner described as: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

A

12 Years a Slave (2013)

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