Thursday 27 February 2014

Best-picture Oscar winners : The Washington Post

John Goodman, Alan Arkin and actor-director Ben Affleck in “Argo.” The film won Academy Awards for best picture and best adapted screenplay in 2013. More pics below
Jean Dujardin stars as George Valentin in Michel Hazanavicius’s film “The Artist.” The black-and-white silent film won best picture in 2012. Dujardin also won for the Oscar for best actor. (The Weinstein Company)
Colin Firth portrays King George VI in “The King’s Speech,” which won the best picture award for 2010. Firth also given the best actor Oscar, and Tom Hooper received the Oscar for best director. (The Weinstein Group via Reuters)
Dev Patel, left, and Anil Kapoor star in “Slumdog Millionaire,” a romantic drama about a young man from the Mumbai slums who appears on the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” The film won the best picture Oscar for 2008 and seven other Academy Awards, including best director and best adapted screenplay. (Ishika Mohan / Fox Searchlight via AP)
Josh Brolin stars in “No Country For Old Men” a crime thriller that won the best picture award. Joel and Ethan Coen also won the Oscars for best director and best adapted screenplay for the film. (Reuters)
Matt Damon, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio star in Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed,” the crime drama that won the best picture Oscar. Scorsese won the best director Oscar for the film. (Andrew Cooper / Warner Bros. via AP)
Thandie Newton and Matt Dillon star in “Crash,” directed by Paul Haggis. It won the best picture Oscar, as well as two other Oscars. (Lorey Sebastian / Lionsgate)
Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank star in “Million Dollar Baby,” which was named best picture. The movie about a boxing trainer and an underdog amateur was based on short stories by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and “cutman“ Jerry Boyd. Eastwood won the best director Oscar that year, and Swank won the best actress award. (Merie W. Wallace/Warner Bros. / AP)
Director Peter Jackson stands with actor Bernard Hill on the set of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King.” The film is the first and so far only fantasy movie to win the best picture Oscar, and it won all 11 Oscars for which it was nominated, an Oscar record. (Reuters)
Renee Zellweger stars in “Chicago,” which won the best picture Oscar and five other Academy Awards. It was the first musical to win best picture since “Oliver!“ in 1969. (Reuters)
Russell Crowe portrays mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. in “A Beautiful Mind,” the best picture winner. Ron Howard won the best director prize for the movie. (Reuters)
Russell Crowe stars as Maximus, a Roman general sold into slavery and trained as a gladiator, in “Gladiator,” which won the best picture Oscar. The film won a total of five Academy Awards. (Dreamworks/Universal Studios)
Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening star in “American Beauty,” which won best picture. (Lorey Sebastian/Dreamworks)
Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes star in “Shakespeare in Love,” directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. The film won the 1998 best picture Oscar and six other Academy Awards. (AP)
Leonardo diCaprio and Kate Winslet star in “Titanic,” the adventure blockbuster that won the best picture Oscar. It matched Oscar records for the most nominations and wins with 14 nominations and 11 wins. (Reuters)
Juliette Binoche stars in “The English Patient,” which won the best picture Oscar. The film received 12 Oscar nominations, and Binoche also won for best supporting actress. (Reuters)
Mel Gibson, center, stars in “Braveheart,” which won the best picture and a best director Oscar for Gibson. (Reuters)
Tom Hanks starred in “Forrest Gump,” which won the best picture Oscar; Hanks won the best actor Oscar that year. (Phillip Carus / ABC)
Ralph Fiennes, left, and Liam Neeson in “Schindler’s List,” which received the best picture Oscar. The film won six other Oscars. (David James / Universal Pictures)
Clint Eastwood won the best picture and best director Oscars in 1992 for “Unforgiven,” and Gene Hackman, who played Little Bill Daggett, won for best supporting actor. (Warner Bros. / ABC)
“Silence of the Lambs,” starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, won the best picture Oscar for 1991. Foster and Hopkins also won the top acting Oscars that year. (Photofest)
Milos Forman directs a scene from “Amadeus,” which won the best picture Academy Award for 1984. (AP)
“Gandhi,” Richard Attenborough’s epic film about an Indian lawyer’s transformation into one of the world’s great men of peace, won the best picture Oscar, as well as the best actor Oscar for Ben Kingsley for 1982. (Columbia Pictures Industries Inc.)
Ben Cross stars in the 1981 film “Chariots of Fire,” which won the best picture Oscar in 1981. (Copyright Warner Bros. and the Ladd Co.)
Dustin Hoffman, left, and Justin Henry appear in a scene from “Kramer vs. Kramer,” the 1979 winner of the best picture Oscar. Henry, the youngest nominee ever, was 8 when nominated as best supporting actor for the movie. (AP)
Diane Keaton and Woody Allen star in “Annie Hall,” which won the best picture Oscar in 1977. (United Artists Corp.)
Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire star in “Rocky,” which won the best picture Oscar in 1976. (AP)
Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which won for best picture in 1975. (AP)
Marlon Brando in “The Godfather,” which won the best picture Oscar in 1972. (Paramount Home Entertainment)
“The French Connection“ won the award in 1971. (AP)

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