Oscar Best Picture Winners

1. Wings (1927)
2. The Broadway Melody (1929)
3. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
4. Cimarron (1931)
5. Grand Hotel (1932)
6. Cavalcade (1933)
7. It Happened One Night (1934)
8. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
9. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
10. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
11. You Can't Take It With You (1938)
12. Gone With the Wind (1939)
13. Rebecca (1940)
14. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
15. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
16. Casablanca (1943)
17. Going My Way (1944)
18. The Lost Weekend (1945)
19. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
20. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
21. Hamlet (1948)
22. All the King's Men (1949)
23. All About Eve (1950)
24. An American in Paris (1951)
25. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
26. From Here to Eternity (1953)
27. On the Waterfront (1954)
28. Marty (1955)
29. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
30. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
31. Gigi (1958)
32. Ben-Hur (1959)
33. The Apartment (1960)
34. West Side Story (1961)
35. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
36. Tom Jones (1963)
37. My Fair Lady (1964)
38. The Sound of Music (1965)
39. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
40. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
41. Oliver! (1968)
42. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
43. Patton (1970)
44. The French Connection (1971)
45. The Godfather (1972)
46. The Sting (1973)
47. The Godfather Part II (1974)
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
49. Rocky (1976)
50. Annie Hall (1977)
51. The Deer Hunter (1978)
52. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
53. Ordinary People (1980)
54. Chariots of Fire (1981)
55. Gandhi (1982)
56. Terms of Endearment (1983)
57. Amadeus (1984)
58. Out of Africa (1985)
59. Platoon (1986)
60. The Last Emperor (1987)
61. Rain Man (1988)
62. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
63. Dances With Wolves (1990)
64. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
65. Unforgiven (1992)
66. Schindler's List (1993)
67. Forrest Gump (1994)
68. Braveheart (1995)
69. The English Patient (1996)
70. Titanic (1997)
71. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
72. American Beauty (1999)
73. Gladiator (2000)
74. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
75. Chicago (2002)
76. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
77. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
78. Crash (2005)
79. The Departed (2006)

Fun Facts from The Internet Movie Database Academy Awards page:

• The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929.
  
  
• The Academy Award (Oscar) is the main national film award in the USA.
  
  
• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization composed of over 6,000 motion picture craftsmen and women.
  
  
• The Oscar statuette is made from the alloy britannium and is then plated in copper, nickel silver, and finally, 24-karat gold. It stands 13-1/2 inches tall and weighs 8-1/2 pounds. The Oscar depicts a knight, holding a crusader's sword, standing on a reel of film. The film reel features five spokes, signifying the five original branches of the Academy (actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers).
  
  
• How Oscar received his nickname is not exactly clear. The most popular story is that Margaret Herrick, an Academy employee and eventual executive director, remarked that the statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar, and the Academy staff began to refer to it by that name. Although journalists used the nickname with increasing frequency during the late 1930s, the Academy did not officially use the name Oscar until 1939.
  
  
• As of 2000 the award ceremonies have been held 25 times at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 11 at the Pantages Theatre, 10 at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, 8 times each at the Biltmore Hotel and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 6 at the Ambassador Hotel, 3 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and once each at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and the Academy Award Theater (1949 Melrose Avenue headquarters).
  
  
• As of 2001 88 countries have submitted films for the foreign-language category at least once over the years.
  
  
• The Academy Awards ceremonies are commonly named after their according year of eligibility of films. E.g. the ceremony which took place in March 1997 is referred to as the 1996 Academy Awards.