How Many of These Best Picture Oscar Winners Can You Name? (Video)

Drew Grant — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:22:54 -0400

West Side Story won Best Picture. Remember??

With the Academy Awards looming in front of us this weekend like some long-awaited episode of Family Guy, it's difficult to figure out what movie should win Best Picture. Will it be Lincoln, which is very long and serious and obviously a top contender for those very reasons? Or Silver Linings Playbook, which has Bradley Cooper (People's Sexiest Man, 2012) falling in love with Katniss? How about Argo, which is Affleck's second best directorial effort of all time? Or Zero Dark Thirty? Life of Pi? Amour? (Follow-up question: Did anyone see Amour?) It'd be awesome if Best Picture went to Beasts of the Southern Wild, but can it win the Academy's love over Django Unchained? (Please do not let it go to Django Unchained.)

When putting down money for your Oscar predictions, it's always good to look at the past history of winners to see how the vote-makers will lean. Luckily, Nelson Carvajal has made a supercut of 84 years of Best Picture Winners. From Wings to On the Waterfront to The English Patient all the way up to last year's winner, The Artist, see how many of these brilliant films you can name.

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How Many of These Best Picture Oscar Winners Can You Name? (Video)