Top 10 Oscar Best Picture Winners of All Time

Every year the crème de la crème battle it out at the Oscars for the prestigious Best Picture award. We all have our predictions for this year’s winner, but let’s not forget about the amazing films from the past. Here are Youthink’s picks for the Best Picture winners of all time.

10. Gone With the Wind – 1939
This epic film set during the American Civil War tells the complicated love story of Scarlet O’Hara and what was probably the first love triangle ever made into a movie.

9. Casablanca – 1943
In WWII, Rick learns the real reason why his one true love, Ilsa, left him alone in Paris. While fleeing the Germans, they both realize how quickly plans can change and go wrong.

8. Oliver! – 1968
Based on the classic story by Charles Dickens, Oliver! takes us into the life of a poor orphan boy who learns how to “pick a pocket or two” from the best singing street-urchins there ever were.

7. The Departed – 2006
Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon get so absorbed in their double lives that they must figure out who each other really is in order to save themselves from the Irish Mafia in Boston.

6. The Sound of Music – 1965
Set in Austria in the 1930s, this movie made us fall in love with Julie Andrews all over again and taught us how to remember our musical scales with the classic Do Rae Mi song.

5. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – 2003
Third in the trilogy and a worldwide best seller, LOTR: Return of the King ended the journey that Frodo and Sam took to destroy the One Ring and all they encountered on their way.

4. Chicago – 2002
Set in 1920, Chicago follows the life of two showgirls on death row and left us singing sultry show tunes for days on end.

3. Forrest Gump – 1994
Forrest Gump, a man with a unique perspective on life, takes us on an historic journey and proves that what his mama said is true: “Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.”

2. Titanic – 1997
James Cameron’s multi-million dollar reenactment of the fateful journey of the Titanic, made us all start to lean over the bow of every boat screaming, “I’m the king of the world!”

1. Slumdog Millionaire – 2008
Coming from the slums of India, Jamal (Dev Patel) conquers all the hardships he has faced in his impoverished life to win an Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire and the girl he has loved since he was a child.