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Academy Award - Best Picture

Every February "Oscar Fever" hits the entertainment community and film fans around the world, building to the crescendo of the annual Academy Awards Presentation a month later, when hundreds of millions of cinema lovers glue themselves to their television sets to learn who will receive the golden statuettes. After more than seven decades of recognizing excellence in film-making achievement, the presentation of the "Oscars" has become the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' most famous activity. Below is a list of past winners for "Best Picture" of this, the ultimate bauble.

Dances With Wolves (1990)

8/10
Director: Kevin Costner
Starring: Mary McDonnell, Kevin Costner, Graham Greene

Breathtakingly filmed and eloquently told tale about an idealistic young Civil War soldier who makes friends with a Sioux Indian tribe, and eventually... Read more

The Silence of the Lambs (1990)

8.6/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine

Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice... Read more

Driving Miss Daisy (1990)

4.5/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd

The Oscar-winning adaptation of Alfred Uhry's play about a wealthy Jewish widow and her black chauffeur. It covers the period from the late forties th... Read more

Rain Man (1988)

8/10
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Dustin Hoffman, Michael D Roberts, Bonnie Hunt

It's a road movie about two brothers who didn't know the other existed until fate brought them together. Similaraties to the movie 'Twins' with Danny... Read more

The Last Emperor ( Blu-ray ) (1987)

7.8/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Joan Chen, John Lone, Peter O'Toole, Victor Wong

A stunning milestone in the history of cinema; John Lone stars as Pu Yi, emperor of China, who comes from a long history of a tradition that is irreve... Read more

The Last Emperor (1987)

7.8/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Victor Wong

A stunning milestone in the history of cinema; John Lone stars as Pu Yi, emperor of China, who comes from a long history of a tradition that is irreve... Read more

Platoon ( Blu-ray ) (1986)

8.1/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, John C McGinley, Johnny Depp, Keith David, Kevin...

Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, this harrowing drama chronicles Vietnam frontline combat as seen through the eyes of youn... Read more

Platoon (1986)

8.1/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker

Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, this harrowing drama chronicles Vietnam frontline combat as seen through the eyes of youn... Read more

Out of Africa ( Blu-ray ) (1985)

7.2/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford

The story of Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) and her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya around 1914. Based on the autobiography of Isak Dinesen (under t... Read more

Out of Africa (1985)

7.2/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer

The story of Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) and her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya around 1914. Based on the autobiography of Isak Dinesen (under t... Read more