93 films. That’s how many movies have won the highly coveted Best Picture award at the prestigious Academy Awards. They say that an Oscar changes a person’s life. After Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite won the Best Picture award, it saw a hike of 468% in ticket sales. When Moonlight won the Oscar for Best Picture, it had its best weekend after its release and saw a jump in $703,000 at the Box Office the week after the Oscars aired and a hike of a whopping $2.3 million on the immediate weekend after. The fact remains clear – no matter how trolled they may be in recent years, the Academy Awards hold massive sway in the world of global cinema and make a person’s career. Keeping that in mind, we present a list of the Best Picture winners of the last 10 years.
2021
Nomadland
Director: Chloe Zhao
2020
Parasite
Director: Bong Joon-Ho
2019
Green Book
Director: Peter Farrelly
2018
The Shape of Water
Director: Guillermo del Toro
2017
Moonlight
Director: Barry Jenkins
2016
Spotlight
Director: Tom McCarthy
2015
Birdman
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
2014
12 Years a Slave
Director: Steve McQueen
2013
Argo
Director: Ben Affleck
2012
The Artist
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
2011
The King’s Speech
Director: Tom Hooper
2010
The Hurt Locker
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
[Image Credit: Nomadland]
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