Since The Oscars are on tonight, I thought I’d look back at my favorite Best Picture winners and nominees for each decade since the 1940s. I skipped the 1920s and 1930s, because I don’t know any of the movies from those decades. I picked two from each decade (*winners) and two honorable mentions:

• 1940s: Rebecca* and Casablanca*
• 1950s: All About Eve* and Sunset Boulevard
• 1960s: Judgment at Nuremberg and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Paul Newman and Robert Redford)
• 1970s: The Godfather Part II* and The Conversation (special shout out to the late Gene Hackman), honorable mention: Network (so relevant always)
• 1980s: Broadcast News and Field of Dreams, honorable mention: Moonstruck, one of of my wife’s favorite movies
• 1990s: Schindler’s List* and Goodfellas
• 2000s: Gladiator* and Up in the Air
• 2010s: Winter’s Bone and Beasts of the Southern Wild
• 2020s: Drive My Car and Everything Everywhere All At Once

If I had to pick just one that I’d say you must see, it would be Sunset Boulevard for lines like this: “I am big, it’s the pictures that got small.“

What are some of your favorite Best Picture winners and/or nominees?