Business Insider ranked all 91 films from the first winner "Wings" in 1927 to "Green Book" based on their critic score on reviews-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. In the case of ties, we broke them based on their audience scores on the site (And if those were the same, the film with more user ratings came out on top.)
Some of the results may be a surprise ("Argo" is ... pretty high on the list), while others ( notorious winner "Crash" ) probably won't be.
All 91 best picture Oscar winners are ranked below:
91. "The Broadway Melody" (1929)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 35%
90. "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 45%
89. "Cimarron" (1931)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 53%
88. "Out of Africa" (1985)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 60%
87. "Cavalcade" (1933)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 61%
86. "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 64%
85. "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 71%
84. "Forrest Gump" (1994)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 72%
83. "Crash" (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%
82. "A Beautiful Mind" (2001)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%
81. "The Life of Emile Zola" (1937)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 76%
80. "Gladiator" (2000)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 76%
79. "Braveheart" (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 77%
78. "Gentlemans Agreement" (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 78%
77. "Gigi" (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%
76. "Going My Way" (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%
75. "Green Book" (2018)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 80%
74. "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%
Audience score: 81% (53,602 user ratings)
73. "Oliver!" (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%
Audience score: 81% (56,053 user ratings)
72. "A Man For All Seasons" (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%
Audience score: 87% (9,709 user ratings)
71. "Dances With Wolves" (1990)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%
Audience score: 87% (213,480 user ratings)
70. "Chariots of Fire" (1981)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 84%
69. "The English Patient" (1996)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 84%
68. "Tom Jones" (1963)
Woodfall Film Productions
Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%
67. "Chicago" (2002)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%
66. "Grand Hotel" (1932)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%
65. "The Sound of Music" (1965)
Robert Wise Productions via YouTube
Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%
64. "Gandhi" (1982)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%
63. "Ben-Hur" (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%
62. "Titanic" (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%
61. "Terms of Endearment" (1983)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
60. "Platoon" (1986)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
Audience score: 93% (239,550 user ratings)
59. "American Beauty" (1999)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
Audience score: 93% (659,979 user ratings)
58. "Rain Man" (1988)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%
57. "How Green Was My Valley" (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 90%
56. "Midnight Cowboy" (1969)
Jerome Hellman Productions
Rotten Tomatoes score: 90%
55. "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" (2014)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
54. "Hamlet " (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
53. "You Cant Take it With You" (1938)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
Audience score: 88% (9,339 user ratings)
52. "Ordinary People" (1980)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
Audience score: 88% (23,123 user ratings)
51. "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
50. "Million Dollar Baby" (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
Audience score: 90% (404,726 user ratings)
49. "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
Audience score: 90% (1,155,478 user ratings)
48. "The Departed" (2006)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
47. "The Shape of Water" (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
46. "Shakespeare in Love" (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
45. "From Here to Eternity" (1953)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
44. "Mrs. Miniver" (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
43. "The Last Emperor" (1987)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
42. "Gone With the Wind" (1939)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
41. "Rocky" (1976)
Chartoff Winkler Productions
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
40. "Wings" (1927)
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
39. "No Country for Old Men" (2007)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 86% (398,270 user ratings)
38. "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" (2003)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 86% (34,679,279 user ratings)
37. "The Sting" (1973)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 95% (61,563 user ratings)
36. "Amadeus" (1984)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Audience score: 95% (179,835 user ratings)
35. "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
34. "West Side Story" (1961)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
33. "The Deer Hunter" (1978)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
Audience score: 92% (103,194 user ratings)
32. "The Kings Speech" (2010)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
Audience score: 92% (144,135 user ratings)
31. "The Apartment" (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
30. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" (1975)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%
29. "An American in Paris" (1951)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
28. "The Artist" (2011)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
27. "12 Years a Slave" (2013)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
26. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
25. "My Fair Lady" (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
Audience score: 90% (186,935 user ratings)
24. "Argo" (2012)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
Audience score: 90% (208,186 user ratings)
23. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
Audience score: 92% (10,732 user ratings)
22. "In the Heat of the Night" (1967)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
Audience score: 92% (23,056 user ratings)
21. "Patton" (1970)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
20. "Unforgiven" (1992)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
19. "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%
18. "All the Kings Men" (1949)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
17. "The Hurt Locker" (2009)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
16. "Annie Hall" (1977)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
15. "Spotlight" (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
14. "Casablanca" (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
13. "The Godfather Part II" (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
Audience score: 97% (410,462 user ratings)
12. "Schindlers List" (1993)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%
Audience score: 97% (410,783user ratings)
11. "Moonlight" (2016)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
10. "The French Connection" (1971)
Philip D'Antoni Productions
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
9. "It Happened One Night" (1934)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
Audience score: 93% (33,464 user ratings)
8. "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
Audience score: 93% (74,715 user ratings)
7. "On the Waterfront" (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
6. "The Godfather" (1972)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%
5. "Marty" (1955)
Hecht-Lancaster Productions
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
4. "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
3. "The Lost Weekend" (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
2. "Rebecca" (1940)
Selznick International Pictures
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
1. "All About Eve" (1950)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%
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