# Oscar Madness - Best Picture Winners (R2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 2, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-madness-best-picture-winners-r2/455077 "2008-07-02T18:51:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-madness-best-picture-winners-r2/455077/21 "2008-07-03T01:32:42Z")
1928-1947 [1] Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) [7] All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930) [3] It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934) [4] The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946) 1948-1967 [1] Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962) [2] On the Waterfront (Kazan ,1954) [3] All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950) [4] The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) 1968-1987 [1] The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) [2] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975) [3] The Sting (Hill, 1973) [5] The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978) 1988-2007 [1] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003) [2] Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993) [6] The Departed (Scorsese, 2006) [4] The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-madness-best-picture-winners-r2/455077/22 "2008-07-03T01:36:27Z")
1928-1947 [1] Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) [2] Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940) [3] It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934) [4] The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946) 1948-1967 [1] Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962) [2] On the Waterfront (Kazan ,1954) [6] In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967) [5] Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959) 1968-1987 [1] The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) [10] Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969) [3] The Sting (Hill, 1973) [4] Platoon (Stone, 1986) 1988-2007 [1] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003) [2] Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993) [3] American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) [4] The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-madness-best-picture-winners-r2/455077/23 "2008-07-03T04:52:46Z")
1928-1947 [1] Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) [7] All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930) [6] Gone With the Wind (Fleming, 1939) 1948-1967 [1] Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962) [7] A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann, 1966) [3] All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950) [4] The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) 1968-1987 [1] The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) [2] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975) [11] The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971) [5] The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978) 1988-2007 [9] Braveheart (Gibson, 1995) (so far this was easy, but MAN, my two favorite movies of the last 15 years…) [10] Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992) [3] American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) (screw you Departed. Crash was 10x the movie you were) [4] The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) ---
**Author:** ![WoodenTaco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@WoodenTaco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WoodenTaco)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-madness-best-picture-winners-r2/455077/24 "2008-07-03T05:49:43Z")
1928-1947 [1] Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) ??? ??? ??? 1948-1967 [1] Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962) [2] On the Waterfront (Kazan ,1954) ??? [4] The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) 1968-1987 [1] The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) [2] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975) [11] The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971) [5] The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978) 1988-2007 [9] Braveheart (Gibson, 1995) [2] Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993) [3] American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) [4] The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-madness-best-picture-winners-r2/455077/25 "2008-07-03T05:51:09Z")
1928-1947 [1] Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) [7] All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930) [6] Gone With the Wind (Fleming, 1939) [5] The Lost Weekend (Wilder, 1945) 1948-1967 [1] Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962) [2] On the Waterfront (Kazan ,1954) [6] In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967) [5] Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959) 1968-1987 [1] The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) [2] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975) [11] The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971) [5] The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978) 1988-2007 [1] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003) [2] Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993) [3] American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) [4] The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-madness-best-picture-winners-r2/455077/26 "2008-07-03T18:52:56Z")
Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930) Gone With the Wind (Fleming, 1939) The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946) Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962) A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann, 1966) All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950) Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959) The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975) The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971) Platoon (Stone, 1986) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003) Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992) American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) Forrest Gump (Zemeckis, 1994) ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-madness-best-picture-winners-r2/455077/27 "2008-07-03T23:55:35Z")
1928-1947 [1] Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) [7] All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930) [3] It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934) [4] The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946) 1948-1967 [1] Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962) [7] A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann, 1966) [6] In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967) [4] The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) 1968-1987 [1] The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) [2] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975) [11] The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971) [4] Platoon (Stone, 1986) 1988-2007 [9] Braveheart (Gibson, 1995) [10] Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992) [3] American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) [4] The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-madness-best-picture-winners-r2/455077/28 "2008-07-07T14:59:18Z")
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