79 Years of Best Picture Winners in Posters

This weekend the winners of the 80th Academy Awards will be announced. Which gives me a nice excuse to post a compilation of the posters for all of the best picture winners so far.

1927-1928 – Wings

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1928-1929 – The Broadway Melody

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1929-1930 All Quiet on the Western Front

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1930-1931 Cimarron

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1931-1932 Grand Hotel

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1932-1933 Cavalcade

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1934 – It Happened One Night

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Click in the link below to see the rest of the posters.

1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty

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1936 – The Great Ziegfeld

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1937 – The Life of Emile Zola

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1938 – You Can’t Take It with You

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1939 – Gone with the Wind

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1940 – Rebecca

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1941 – How Green Was My Valley

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1942 – Mrs. Miniver

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1943 – Casablanca

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1944 – Going My Way

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1945 – The Lost Weekend

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1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives

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1947 – Gentleman’s Agreement

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1948 – Hamlet

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1949 – All the King’s Men

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1950 – All About Eve

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1951 – An American in Paris

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1952 – The Greatest Show on Earth

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1953 – From Here to Eternity

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1954 – On the Waterfront

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1955 – Marty

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1956 – Around the World in Eighty Days

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1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai

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1958 – Gigi

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1959 – Ben-Hur

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1960 – The Apartment

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1961 – West Side Story

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1962 – Lawrence of Arabia

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1963 – Tom Jones

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1964 – My Fair Lady

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1965 – The Sound of Music

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1966 – A Man for All Seasons

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1967 – In the Heat of the Night

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1968 – Oliver!

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1969 – Midnight Cowboy

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1970 – Patton

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1971 – The French Connection

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1972 – The Godfather

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1973 – The Sting

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1974 – The Godfather Part II

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1975 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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1976 – Rocky

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1977 – Annie Hall

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1978 – The Deer Hunter

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1979 – Kramer vs. Kramer

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1980 – Ordinary People

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1981 – Chariots of Fire

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1982 – Gandhi

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1983 – Terms of Endearment

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1984 – Amadeus

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1985 – Out of Africa

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1986 – Platoon

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1987 – The Last Emperor

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1988 – Rain Man

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1989 – Driving Miss Daisy

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1990 – Dances with Wolves

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1991 – The Silence of the Lambs

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1992 – Unforgiven

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1993 – Schindler’s List

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1994 – Forrest Gump

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1995 – Braveheart

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1996 – The English Patient

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1997 – Titanic

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1998 – Shakespeare in Love

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1999 – American Beauty

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2000 – Gladiator

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2001 – A Beautiful Mind

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2002 – Chicago

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2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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2004 – Million Dollar Baby

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2005 – Crash

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2006 – The Departed

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*Update*

Make it 80

2007 – No Country For Old Men

*Update 2*

And here 81

2008 – Slumdog Millionaire

*Update 3*

And 82…

2009 – The Hurt Locker

*Update 4*

And 83

2010 – The King’s Speech

And 84

2011 – The Artist

It’s an interesting collection. Some great movies with forgettable posters. Some great posters with forgettable movies. And even some great movies with great posters. Poster-wise, my favorites are probably the ones for All Quiet on the Western Front, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, Gigi, The Godfather, Amadeus, Silence of the Lambs and Schindler’s List. But there are others that I really like and my list would probably differ from day to day. But what are your favorites?