Best Oscar-Winning Films Of All Time
Winning an Academy Award is a great honor for the film. Every year, only the best of the best get the opportunity of taking home the prestigious Oscar Award. They are achievement awards given to films by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Listed below are some of our best picks of Oscar-winning films.
The Godfather: Part II
Year of Release – 1974
This American epic crime film stars Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, and Robert De Niro. The second installment of The Godfather Trilogy is partially based on Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel, The Godfather.
The Godfather: Part II was nominated for eleven Oscars at the 47Th Academy Awards and became the first sequel to have won Best Picture award. The film won a total of six awards, which included Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay.
Casablanca
Year of Release – 1943
This American romantic drama film is set during the Second World War. It focuses on an American expatriate who is in a situation where he can either choose love for the woman by turning her husband to the Police or help her save her husband and escaping from Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans.
Casablanca was an A-list film that won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Lawrence of Arabia
Year of Release – 1962
This British epic historical drama film is based on the life of T.E. Lawrence in the Ottoman Empire’s provinces of Hejaz and Greater Syria during the First World War.
Lawrence of Arabia was nominated for ten Oscars while winning seven at the 35th Academy awards.
All About Eve
Year of Release – 1952
This American drama film is based on the 1946 short story by Mary Orr, The Wisdom of Eve and stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing and Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington
All About Eve recorded a total of 14 nominations and won seven of them that included Best Picture and Best Actress.
The Godfather: Part I
Year of Release – 1972
The first part of The Godfather Trilogy, The Godfather: Part I, stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and James Caan. The story chronicles the transformation of Michael Corleone from a reluctant family outsider to a ruthless mafia.
The film won three Oscars at the 45th Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
The French Connection
Year of Release – 1971
This American action-thriller film tells the story of New York Police Department detectives, Jimmy Doyle and Buddy Russo, whose real-life counterparts are two Narcotics Detectives, in pursuit of a wealthy French heroin smuggler.
The film won five Oscars at the 44th Academy Awards that included Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor.
The Apartment
Year of Release – 1960
It is a romantic comedy film that follows an insurance clerk, C. C. Baxter, who lends his Upper West Side apartment to his boss for sexual recreation in the hope of climbing the corporate ladder. He later falls in love with someone who has been seeing his Boss.
The film became the eighth highest-grossing film of 1960 and won five Oscars out of ten nominations that included Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Screenplay.
Schindler’s List
Year of Release – 1993
This historical drama film is directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and is considered one of the best movies based on the Second World War events. The film follows a German industrialist, Oskar Schindler, who, along with his wife, saved more than a thousand Polish-Jewish refugees from being sent to the Auschwitz concentration camps.
The film was nominated for twelve Oscars and won seven out of them including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. These were some of the best movies ever to win an Oscar in the 90 years of Oscar history.
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