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Oscar Best Picture Winners 1970-Present. by gianvlucero • Created 8 years ago • Modified 3 years ago. The films that won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
- French Connection (1971) 7.7
- Mer v. Kramer (1979) 7.8
- Ton (1970) 7.9
- IE Hall (1977) 8.0
- Deer Hunter (1978) 8.1
- KY (1976) 8.1
- Sting (1973) 8.3
- Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7
- Godfather Part II ((1974) 9.0
- Godfather (1972) 9.2
William Friedkin's definitive NYC police drama The French Connection won five Oscars in total. In addition to being awarded Best Picture, the film won Oscars for Best Actor (Gene Hackman), Director (Friedkin), Adapted Screenplay (Ernest Tidyman), and Film Editing (Gerald B. Greenberg). The film tracks undercover police officer Jimmy Popeye Doyle (H...
Robert Benton's courtroom drama Kramer Vs. Kramershines a light on the ugly process of marital divorce and the gutting legal battle for child custody. In addition to winning Best Picture, Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep also nabbed Oscars for the performances as an estranged married couple. RELATED: 10 Best Meryl Streep Movies, According To IMDb Be...
The decade kicked-off with a traditional pro-war celebration of General George S. Patton (George C. Scott), the notorious tank-commander who rose to prominence during WWII. The film won seven Oscars in total, including Best Picture, Actor (Scott), and Director (Franklin J. Schaffner). The story charts Patton's rise up the ranks of the U.S. Army, be...
Despite the seismic shift that Star Wars caused the landscape of mainstream cinema, it was Woody Allen's Annie Hallthat took home the golden statuette for Best Picture in 1977. Hailed as the definitive rom-com, Annie Hall follows nebbish New York comedian Alvy Singer and his unlikely romance with the goofy lounge singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). D...
The decade began with the traditional jingoistic military movie Patton. The decade ended with a much more sobering and conflicted account of the horrors of war in Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter. Both won Best Picture. RELATED: Christopher Walken's 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes The Deer Hunterconcerns a trio of blue-collar Pennsylva...
While many believe Taxi Driver was the finest film of 1976, the Best Picture Oscar went to Sylvester Stallone's classic boxing drama, Rocky. The crowd-pleasing underdog story centers on Rocky Balboa, an Italian-American prize-fighter desperate to make it big. Rocky seizes the opportunity to face heavyweight champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) during...
George Roy Hill's classic caper comedy The Sting reunited quite arguably the finest cinematic pairing of all time. Paul Newman and Robert Redford join forces again, four years after making history with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Johnny (Redford) and Henry (Newman) are two conmen who concoct an elaborate plot to bilk big-time boss Doyle Lon...
In addition to winning Best Picture, Milos Forman's adaptation ofOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestwon four Academy Awards. They include Best Director (Forman), Leading Actor (Jack Nicholson), Leading Actress (Louise Fletcher), and Adapted Screenplay (Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben). RELATED: 10 Continuity Errors In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Bas...
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part IInot only won six Oscars, including Best Picture, it also currently ranks #3 on IMDb's Top 250 movies ever made. Coppola collected Oscars for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay, while star Robert De Niro won Best Supporting Actor. The story continues the operatic saga of the Corleone crime fami...
With a whopping 9.2 rating, The Godfatheris not only the highest-rated Best Picture winner of the 1970s, but it's also the #2 ranked film on IMDb's Top 250. The epic mafia drama also earned Marlon Brando a Best Leading Actor Award for his iconic turn as Italian crime boss Vito Corleone. The landmark film revolves around the elderly Vito bestowing p...
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[The big-budget Patton (at about $12 million) was the first war film to win Best Picture since 1962, when Lawrence of Arabia (1962) won the Best Picture award. It was also the first PG-rated film to win Best Picture since the institution of the MPAA rating system.]
One year after Oliver! became the only G-rated film to win Best Picture, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated film to win, though its rating was changed in 1971 to R after the MPAA revised its ratings criteria.
Best PictureBest DirectorMidnight Cowboy – Jerome Hellman, ...John Schlesinger – Midnight Cowboy‡ ...John Wayne – True Grit as Rooster ...Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean ...Gig Young – They Shoot Horses, Don't ...Goldie Hawn – Cactus Flower as Toni ...Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – ...Midnight Cowboy – Waldo Salt based on the ...Oct 30, 2023 · While the Oscars may not always get it right in terms of the films to which they award Best Picture, it’s hard to argue with many of the winners that came from the ‘70s. We’ve recently been...
Elizabeth Taylor presenting producer Jerome Hellman with the Oscar® for Best Picture for "Midnight Cowboy" at the 42nd Academy Awards® in 1970.
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