And the Oscar for Best Picture went to ... (2008 Edition)

In celebration of Oscar Weekend for the 81st Annual Academy Awards, here's a brief journey back remembering classic moments from all 80 of the films previously honored as the Academy's Best Picture of the year ... right before they are joined by another new film this year. All 80 of the Best Picture winners from the first winner WINGS in 1927 to 2007's NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.

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Film & Animation

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• best
• picture
• academy
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• film
• movie
• cinema
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• music
• classic
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[CYNLAGASCA]

This is a great compilation of best picture movies. A moviebuff like me could easily identify the movies just by short clips. However, I would prefer that you highlighted Joan Fontaine's clips in Rebecca, like her close-up face (e.g. smiling face when she danced with Laurence Olivier or her startled look, wearing a hat, when her husband is interrogated). Thanks.

[EagleFly26]

That is Gentleman's Agreement, Best Picture from 1947.

[pennylanex12]

1:19 what movie is that?

[FredNotJorge]

You should label it.

[pabloiranzo]

Good montage, but one thing you must never do is to put scenes involving dialogues if there's no original sound of the movie.

[Mungojerrie]

Nice video, but bad selection.

[xaxie1]

while you are watching this, take a brief moment to skip to all about eve at 1:30 and then back to the beginning, and see how much the quality of film has changed within 30 years, trully remarkable

[TMTGeneralDeath]

My top ten are 1:The Godfather 1 and 2 2:Schindler's List 3:The French Connection 4:Patton 5:Gladiator 6:The Silence of the Lambs 7:Rocky 8:Platoon 9:The Sting 10:Braveheart

[Simpsons50187]

Not bad. Amazing the way you didn't put the year and the film titles at the bottom; some people can recognize the clips right off the bat and say things like "(Gasp) GONE WITH THE WIND; classic!" and "Oh OUT OF AFRICA; one of my favorites." The TITANIC clip was brilliant; doesn't get any better than that! :)

P.S. Congrads to SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE as the new winner!

[EagleFly26]

The first piece of music is the score from Gone Baby Gone by Harry-Gregson Williams and the second half is Randy Newman's score from Seabiscuit ... will probably replace the Seabiscuit score in my re-edit soon to add Slumdog Millionaire.