Best Picture Winners Academy Awards
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Best Picture Winners Academy Awards
This lens is going to cover the Best Picture winners of the Academy Awards. Each of the movies selected was named the best picture for its specific years and this particular lens will list the movies starting with the most recent.
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The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker follows an elite bomb squad in Iraq. The main character stars actor Jeremy Renner who is a top bomb specialist but also likes to walk the edge of sanity. The Hurt Locker was directed by Kathryn Bigelow in a movie that was loved by critics to the point where it was named best picture of the year. The Hurt Locker Trailer
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Picture 2008
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers. IMDB
Slumdog Millionaire Trailer
No Country for Old Men
Best Picture 2007
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande IMDB
No Country For Old Men Trailer
The Departed
Best Picture 2006
Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities. IMDB
The Departed Trailer
Crash
Best Picture 2005
Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters
Crash Trailer
Million Dollar Baby
Best Picture 2004
A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer
Million Dollar Baby Trailer
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Best Picture 2003
The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring
Lord Of The Rings Return Of The King Trailer
Chicago
Best Picture 2002
Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago
Chicago Trailer
A Beautiful Mind
Best Picture 2001
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize
A Beautiful Mind Trailer
Best Picture 2001
Gladiator
Best Picture 2000
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge
Gladiator Trailer
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