Every Academy Award for Best Picture from the last 25 years, placed by the year the film was released.
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Oscar Best Picture Winners 2001–2025 25
2001A Beautiful MindBest Picture — 74th Academy AwardsRon Howard's drama about mathematician John Nash, played by Russell Crowe, and his struggle with schizophrenia.
2002ChicagoBest Picture — 75th Academy AwardsRob Marshall's jazz-age musical with Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones, the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver! in 1968.
2003Lord of the Rings: Return of the King#1 film of 2003 — $1.12bn worldwideDirected by Peter Jackson. The final chapter of the trilogy. Won 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture — equalling the all-time record.
2004Million Dollar BabyBest Picture — 77th Academy AwardsClint Eastwood directs and stars as a veteran trainer who takes on Hilary Swank's determined boxer.
2005CrashBest Picture — 78th Academy AwardsPaul Haggis's ensemble drama about racial tension in Los Angeles, a surprise winner over Brokeback Mountain.
2006The DepartedBest Picture — 79th Academy AwardsMartin Scorsese's Boston crime thriller, a remake of Infernal Affairs, which finally brought Scorsese his directing Oscar.
2007No Country for Old MenBest Picture — 80th Academy AwardsThe Coen brothers' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, with Javier Bardem as the killer Anton Chigurh.
2008Slumdog MillionaireBest Picture — 81st Academy AwardsDanny Boyle's story of a Mumbai teenager on a TV quiz show, winner of eight Oscars.
2009The Hurt LockerBest Picture — 82nd Academy AwardsKathryn Bigelow's Iraq War film about a bomb disposal team. Bigelow became the first woman to win Best Director.
2010The King's SpeechPortrayed King George V in The King's Speech, the Oscar-winning film starring Colin Firth.
2011The ArtistBest Picture — 84th Academy AwardsMichel Hazanavicius's black-and-white silent film about Hollywood's switch to sound, the first French production to win Best Picture.
2012ArgoBest Picture — 85th Academy AwardsBen Affleck's thriller about the 1980 CIA operation that smuggled six Americans out of Iran posing as a film crew.
201312 Years a SlaveBest Picture — 86th Academy AwardsSteve McQueen's adaptation of Solomon Northup's memoir of being kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.
2014BirdmanBest Picture — 87th Academy AwardsAlejandro G. Iñárritu's dark comedy starring Michael Keaton as a faded superhero actor, shot to look like one continuous take.
2015SpotlightBest Picture — 88th Academy AwardsTom McCarthy's film about the Boston Globe team that exposed child abuse in the Catholic archdiocese.
2016MoonlightBest Picture — 89th Academy AwardsBarry Jenkins's coming-of-age drama in three chapters. Its win followed the envelope mix-up in which La La Land was announced first.
2017The Shape of WaterBest Picture — 90th Academy AwardsGuillermo del Toro's Cold War fairy tale about a mute cleaner and an amphibian creature held in a government lab.
2018Green BookBest Picture — 91st Academy AwardsPeter Farrelly's road film about pianist Don Shirley and his driver on a 1962 concert tour of the Deep South.
2019ParasitePlayed Park Dong-ik, the patriarch of the wealthy family, in Bong Joon-ho's Parasite. The film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and four Academy Awards including Best Picture, making it the first non-English language film to win that honour.
2020NomadlandBest Picture — 93rd Academy AwardsChloé Zhao's drama with Frances McDormand as a woman living in her van across the American West.
2021CODABest Picture — 94th Academy AwardsSian Heder's film about the hearing daughter of a Deaf fishing family, the first Best Picture from a streaming service.
2022Everything Everywhere All at OnceBest Picture — 95th Academy AwardsThe Daniels' multiverse comedy starring Michelle Yeoh, winner of seven Oscars.
2023OppenheimerOscar Best Picture 2023 — $952m worldwideDirected by Christopher Nolan, starring Cillian Murphy. The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
2024AnoraBest Picture — 97th Academy AwardsSean Baker's comedy-drama about a Brooklyn stripper who marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Baker won four Oscars for the one film.
2025One Battle After AnotherBest Picture — 98th Academy AwardsPaul Thomas Anderson's action thriller with Leonardo DiCaprio, loosely based on Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, winner of six Oscars.