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.

The Hurt Locker

The Hurt LockerThe 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.

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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
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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
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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
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Crash

Best Picture 2005

Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters
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Million Dollar Baby

Best Picture 2004

A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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