Best Picture Academy Award

AFI’s Top 25 movies of all time include only eight best picture winners.   The best year ever has to be 1962 with Lawrence of Arabia, The Longest Day, Mutiny on the Bounty, and To Kill a Mocking bird.  1994 has a good argument with Forest Gump, the Lion King, Shawshank Redemption, and Pulp Fiction.

AFI Rank	Title	Year	Best Picture	Place on list
1	Citizen Kane	1941	How Green was my Valley	NR
2	Casablanca	1942
3	The Godfather	1972
4	Gone with the Wind	1939
5	Lawrence of Arabia	1962
6	The Wizard of Oz	1939	Gone with the Wind	1
7	The Graduate	1967	In the Heat of the Night	NR
8	On the Waterfront	1954
9	Schindler’s List	1993
10	Singin’ in the Rain	1952	The Greatest Show on Earth	NR
11	It’s a Wonderful Life	1946	The Best Years of our Lives	37
12	Sunset Boulevard	1950	All About Eve	16
13	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957
14	Some Like It Hot	1959	Ben Hur	72
15	Star Wars	1977	Annie Hall	31
16	All About Eve	1950
17	The African Queen	1951	An American in Paris	68
18	Psycho	1960	The Apartment	93
19	Chinatown	1974	The Godfather Part II	32
20	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	1975
21	The Grapes of Wrath	1940	Rebecca	NR
22	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	Oliver!	NR
23	The Maltese Falcon	1941	How Green was my Valley	NR
24	Raging Bull	1980	Ordinary People	NR
25	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	Gandhi	NR