Best Picture Oscar Winners on Blu-ray

[HD Canuck]

It's Oscar time. I'm in the middle of building my Best Picture Oscar winners collection and thought I'd compile this list for convenience. Winners are listed by date, with links to their pages here on Blu-Ray.com. All links go to the US editions except where noted. I will keep this list updated with new Blu-Ray announcements, etc.

01 1928 Wings - Award for Unique and Artistic Production: Sunrise (UK edition)
02 1929 The Broadway Melody
03 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front
04 1931 Cimarron
05 1932 Grand Hotel
06 1933 Cavalcade
07 1934 It Happened One Night (Criterion)
08 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty
09 1936 The Great Ziegfeld (not yet released)
10 1937 The Life of Emile Zola (not yet released)
11 1938 You Can't Take It With You
12 1939 Gone With The Wind
13 1940 Rebecca
14 1941 How Green Was My Valley
15 1942 Mrs. Miniver
16 1943 Casablanca
17 1944 Going My Way (Not yet released)
18 1945 The Lost Weekend (UK edition only)
19 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives
20 1947 Gentleman's Agreement
21 1948 Hamlet (UK edition)
22 1949 All the King's Men (Limited to 3000 copies)
23 1950 All About Eve
24 1951 An American in Paris
25 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth (Not yet released)
26 1953 From Here to Eternity
27 1954 On the Waterfront (Criterion)
28 1955 Marty
29 1956 Around the World in 80 Days (not yet released)
30 1957 The Bridge on The River Kwai
31 1958 Gigi
32 1959 Ben-Hur
33 1960 The Apartment
34 1961 West Side Story
35 1962 Lawrence of Arabia
36 1963 Tom Jones (Not yet released)
37 1964 My Fair Lady
38 1965 The Sound of Music
39 1966 A Man for All Seasons (Limited to 3000 copies)
40 1967 In the Heat of the Night
41 1968 Oliver! (Limited to 3000 copies)
42 1969 Midnight Cowboy
43 1970 Patton
44 1971 The French Connection
45 1972 The Godfather
46 1973 The Sting
47 1974 The Godfather Part II
48 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
49 1976 Rocky
50 1977 Annie Hall
51 1978 The Deer Hunter
52 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer
53 1980 Ordinary People (not released yet)
54 1981 Chariots of Fire
55 1982 Gandhi
56 1983 Terms of Endearment
57 1984 Amadeus
58 1985 Out of Africa
59 1986 Platoon
60 1987 The Last Emperor (Criterion)
61 1988 Rain Man
62 1989 Driving Miss Daisy
63 1990 Dances With Wolves
64 1991 The Silence of the Lambs
65 1992 Unforgiven
66 1993 Schindler's List
67 1994 Forrest Gump
68 1995 Braveheart
69 1996 The English Patient
70 1997 Titanic
71 1998 Shakespeare in Love
72 1999 American Beauty
73 2000 Gladiator
74 2001 A Beautiful Mind
75 2002 Chicago
76 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Theatrical Edition)
77 2004 Million Dollar Baby
78 2005 Crash
79 2006 The Departed
80 2007 No Country for Old Men
81 2008 Slumdog Millionaire
82 2009 The Hurt Locker
83 2010 The King's Speech
84 2011 The Artist
85 2012 Argo
86 2013 12 Years a Slave
87 2014 Birdman
88 2015 Spotlight
89 2016 Moonlight
90 2017 The Shape of Water
91 2018 Green Book
92 2019 Parasite
93 2020 Nomadland
94 2021 CODA
95 2022 B**ch-Slap: The Will Smith and Chris Rock Story!
95 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once
96 2023 Oppenheimer

[Rizor]

Cool list!

Gentleman's Agreement (1947) came out a few weeks ago. https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Gentl...Blu-ray/59336/

[HD Canuck]

Originally Posted by Rizor

Cool list!

Gentleman's Agreement (1947) came out a few weeks ago. https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Gentl...Blu-ray/59336/

Thanks for the heads-up. I added the link to the list.

[Cinemach]

Any thought of adding Sunrise to the list? It was given the 'Unique and Artistic Production' award at the first ceremony, an honor that hasn't been awarded since but was really considered a co-'Outstanding Picture' award with Wings. Both categories were amended the following year to the 'Best Picture' award that we have today.

[hsox05]

I want to collect all of these, too. It's a shame that it means I'll have to buy some films I genuinely didn't like... but that's alright. I also realized that there are a lot currently available that I don't have

[HD Canuck]

Originally Posted by Cinemach

Any thought of adding Sunrise to the list? It was given the 'Unique and Artistic Production' award at the first ceremony, an honor that hasn't been awarded since but was really considered a co-'Outstanding Picture' award with Wings. Both categories were amended the following year to the 'Best Picture' award that we have today.

I added it to the list.

[ycbbh]

Good idea, maybe you could expand it to include the rest of the BP nominees to make it more interesting.

I'm predicting Argo as the winner this year, it seems to be winning every other award

[HD Goofnut]

Thank you for this user friendly list. I sure wish we'd get The Greatest Show on Earth and In the Heat of the Night.

[RBBrittain]

You might want to note that the UK editions of The Lost Weekend & Hamlet are Region B-locked, but Sunrise is region-free.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by rbbrittain

you might want to note that the uk editions of the lost weekend & hamlet are region b-locked, but sunrise is region-free.

+1.

[Ernest Rister]

Dances With Wolves and Amadeus have yet to be released in true "Director's Cuts" -- i.e., the theatrical versions. Costner admitted he had nothing to do with the extended edition of DWW, and Foreman hated the scenes cut back into his movie for the supposed Amadeus "director's cut".

[Prof. Utonium]

Thanks for the list!

To be honest, I'm really surprised Sony hasn't released It Happened One Night, and especially From Here to Eternity, on Blu-ray yet. Those always seemed to be consistently good selling titles on DVD.

The same surprised reaction to MGM not having In the Heat of the Night out yet.

[Rizor]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Dances With Wolves and Amadeus have yet to be released in true "Director's Cuts" -- i.e., the theatrical versions. Costner admitted he had nothing to do with the extended edition of DWW, and Foreman hated the scenes cut back into his movie for the supposed Amadeus "director's cut".

Dances with Wolves is available in its theatrical cut in the UK. Region Free and about $16 to ship to the US. https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Dance...-Blu-ray/6219/

[Scholer]

Originally Posted by Prof. Utonium

Thanks for the list!

To be honest, I'm really surprised Sony hasn't released It Happened One Night, and especially From Here to Eternity, on Blu-ray yet. Those always seemed to be consistently good selling titles on DVD.

The same surprised reaction to MGM not having In the Heat of the Night out yet.

I have a feeling Sony might let Criterion handle them, they did let them have On the Waterfront.

And In the Heat of the Night is a really less demanded title, MGM will have to prepare a proper new edition with extras to have it sell. And as a very dark movie it will be problematic to create a referance HD Transfer without a 4k Scan. The dvd had a sub par transfer and no extras so sold very very less, so did Marty though it had a very good transfer. And Marty should be released, it's transfer is so good it will sell without extras.

And I think MGM should give In the Heat of the Night and Silence of the Lambs to Criterion, they both deserve 4k Scans and the Criterion treatment of extras.

[Ray_Rogers]

For me the Best Picture winners of 1997 and 1998 are:
L.A. Confidential and Saving Private Ryan.

Actually I never really realized I own so many Best Picture winners on Blu-ray disc.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Ray_Rogers

For me the Best Picture winners of 1997 and 1998 are:
L.A. Confidential and Saving Private Ryan.

Actually I never really realized I own so many Best Picture winners on Blu-ray disc.

Same here. Shakespeare in Love will never be my collection. The Best Picture Oscar should have gone to Saving Private Ryan.

[thetrixrabbit]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Same here. Shakespeare in Love will never be my collection. The Best Picture Oscar should have gone to Saving Private Ryan.

Or at least to 'Elizabeth' that was also up that year. Cate Blanchett got so robbed by Paltrow it isn't even funny! 'Elizabeth' was as good a candidate as 'Ryan' in my opinion. One might think costume dramas are a dime a dozen, but few had that level of quality and none with such intrigue before.

I still blame the Weinsteins for that whole mess! They had Disney's deep pockets available to them at the time and had no reservations about digging deep.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by thetrixrabbit

Or at least to 'Elizabeth' that was also up that year. Cate Blanchett got so robbed by Paltrow it isn't even funny! 'Elizabeth' was as good a candidate as 'Ryan' in my opinion. One might think costume dramas are a dime a dozen, but few had that level of quality and none with such intrigue before.

I still blame the Weinsteins for that whole mess! They had Disney's deep pockets available to them at the time and had no reservations about digging deep.

To make it even worse they gave Spielberg the Best Director Oscar and then robbed him of Best Picture.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by HD Canuck

29 1956 Around the World in 80 Days (not yet released)

They need to hurry up with this one.

I enjoy revisiting my DVD copy of Around the World in 80 Days, but this movie belongs in high definition with a good restoration, simply because of the vastness of the landscape scenery.

[punisher]

and this year's winner is..............

my picks are :

ARGO..outstanding...exciting film...even though you know how it will end, it keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout.

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK....amazing film..amazing performances by everyone...not all what I expected when I went to see it..it's going to rake in a lot of the big Oscars

that being said ..I did not see Lincoln nor do I plan to until it comes out on video. Yeah ,I know it's Speilberg..but having read so many books on Lincoln, and so many out there that I haven't read, I had no interest. My loss probably, but the film did not deliver the need to see it.