The 10 greatest Best Picture winners, from Parasite to Casablanca
by Geoffrey Macnab
Feb 07, 2024
4 minutes
Look over the list of Best Picture winners over the years and you realise that almost every film selected is still in circulation.
William Wellman’s Wings, the very first winner in 1927, is readily available on DVD and Blu-Ray, as are such other early winners as Cimarron and Broadway Melody.
Most of the other Best Picture winners are titles that any film lover will recognise instantly. The blind spots are obvious. The Academy never chooses foreign language titles. In recent years, it has shunned comedies.
may have won in 2018, but voters are generally wary about genre pictures. You don’t see many sci-fi or martial arts titles
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