- The next Oscars ceremony was delayed from February 2021 to April 2021.
- 92 movies have won the Oscar for best picture in the history of the Academy Awards.
- We ranked all 92 films based on how well they fared with critics, including the latest, "Parasite."
Movie buffs will have to wait a tad longer for the next Oscars ceremony.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Oscars voting body, announced this week that the 93rd Academy Awards would be pushed back from February 2021 to April 2021 and that the eligibility window would extend from the final day of this year through February.
The move comes amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced studios to delay releases and movie theaters to shut down (though the major chains, like Regal and AMC Theatres, are expected to reopen by July).
That leaves "Parasite" to be the reigning Oscars champion for a little longer. The movie became the first international film to win best picture at this year's Oscars, joining 91 past winners.
One of the winners, 1939's "Gone with the Wind," was pulled from WarnerMedia's new streaming competitor HBO Max last week as protests against racism spread across the US. It will return with a conversation about its historical context and racial stereotypes.
Business Insider ranked all 92 best picture winners — from the first winner, "Wings," in 1927 to "Parasite"— based on their critic score on reviews-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. In the case of ties, we broke them based on their audience scores on the site. (And if those were the same, the film with more user ratings came out on top.)
All 92 best picture Oscar winners are ranked below:
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92. "The Broadway Melody" (1929)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 36%
91. "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 43%
90. "Cimarron" (1931)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 52%
89. "Out of Africa" (1985)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 58%
88. "Cavalcade" (1933)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 61%
87. "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 66%
86. "Forrest Gump" (1994)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 70%
85. "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 72%
84. "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%
Audience score: 77%
83. "Crash" (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%
Audience score: 88%
82. "A Beautiful Mind" (2001)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%
Audience score: 93%
81. "Gladiator" (2000)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 77%
Audience score: 87%
80. "Braveheart" (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 78%
Audience score: 85%
79. "Green Book" (2018)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 78%
Audience score: 91%
78. "Terms of Endearment" (1983)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%
Audience score: 83%
77. "Gigi" (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 80%
Audience score: 74%
76. "The Life of Emile Zola" (1937)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 81%
Audience score: 73%
75. "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 81%
Audience score: 81%
74. "Oliver!" (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%
Audience score: 81%
73. "Going My Way" (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 83%
Audience score: 75%
72. "A Man For All Seasons" (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 83%
Audience score: 87% (9,761 user ratings)
71. "Dances With Wolves" (1990)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 83%
Audience score: 87% (213,660 user ratings)
70. "The Sound of Music" (1965)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 83%
Audience score: 91%
69. "Chariots of Fire" (1981)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%
Audience score: 80%
68. "The English Patient" (1996)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%
Audience score: 83%
67. "Gandhi" (1982)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%
Audience score: 92%
66. "Tom Jones" (1963)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%
Audience score: 58%
65. "Chicago" (2002)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%
Audience score: 83%
64. "Ben-Hur" (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%
Audience score: 89%
63. "American Beauty" (1999)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%
Audience score: 93%
62. "Grand Hotel" (1932)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
Audience score: 77%
61. "Ordinary People" (1980)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
Audience score: 88%
60. "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
Audience score: 89%
59. "Platoon" (1986)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
Audience score: 93%
58. "Titanic" (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%
Audience score: 69%
57. "Rain Man" (1988)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%
Audience score: 90%
56. "The Last Emperor" (1987)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 90%
Audience score: 88% (39,892 user ratings)
55. "Midnight Cowboy" (1969)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 90%
Audience score: 88% (39,986 user ratings)
54. "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" (2014)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
Audience score: 77%
53. "How Green Was My Valley" (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
Audience score: 81%
52. "Million Dollar Baby" (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
Audience score: 90% (404,597 user ratings)
51. "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
Audience score: 90% (1,155,691 user ratings)
50. "Gone with the Wind" (1939)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
Audience score: 93%
49. "The Departed" (2006)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
Audience score: 94%
48. "The Shape of Water" (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
Audience score: 72%
47. "Shakespeare in Love" (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
Audience score: 80%
46. "From Here to Eternity" (1953)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
Audience score: 84%
45. "Wings" (1927)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 78%
44. "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 83%
43. "West Side Story" (1961)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 84%
42. "Mrs. Miniver" (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 85%
41. "No Country for Old Men" (2007)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 86% (398,967 user ratings)
40. "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" (2003)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 86% (34,679,773 user ratings)
39. "You Can't Take It With You" (1938)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 88%
38. "The Deer Hunter" (1978)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 92%
37. "The Apartment" (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 94%
36. "Amadeus" (1984)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 95%
35. "Rocky" (1976)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
Audience score: 69%
34. "In the Heat of the Night" (1967)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
Audience score: 92%
33. "Patton" (1970)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
Audience score: 93%
32. "The Sting" (1973)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
Audience score: 95%
31. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
Audience score: 96%
30. "All the King's Men" (1949)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
Audience score: 78%
29. "Hamlet " (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
Audience score: 80%
28. "The Artist" (2011)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
Audience score: 87%
27. "12 Years a Slave" (2013)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
Audience score: 90% (140,233 user ratings)
26. "My Fair Lady" (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
Audience score: 90% (187,023 user ratings)
25. "The King's Speech" (2010)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
Audience score: 92%
24. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
Audience score: 93%
23. "An American in Paris" (1951)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
Audience score: 79%
22. "Argo" (2012)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
Audience score: 90%
21. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
Audience score: 93% (10,806 user ratings)
20. "Unforgiven" (1992)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
Audience score: 93%
19. "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
Audience score: 95%
18. "The Hurt Locker" (2009)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
Audience score: 84%
17. "Spotlight" (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
Audience score: 93%
16. "The Godfather Part II" (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
Audience score: 97% (411,269 user ratings)
15. "Schindler's List" (1993)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
Audience score: 97% (411,437 user ratings)
14. "Moonlight" (2016)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
Audience score: 79%
13. "The French Connection" (1971)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
Audience score: 87%
12. "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
Audience score: 89%
11. "Annie Hall" (1977)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
Audience score: 92%
10. "It Happened One Night" (1934)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
Audience score: 93% (33,653 user ratings)
9. "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
Audience score: 93% (75,050 user ratings)
8. "The Godfather" (1972)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
Audience score: 98%
7. "Parasite" (2019)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 99%
Audience score: 90%
6. "All About Eve" (1950)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 99%
Audience score: 94%
5. "On the Waterfront" (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 99%
Audience score: 95% (52,168 user ratings)
4. "Casablanca" (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 99%
Audience score: 95% (357,424 user ratings)
3. "Marty" (1955)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
Audience score: 87%
2. "The Lost Weekend" (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
Audience score: 90%
1. "Rebecca" (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
Audience score: 92%