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All 91 Oscar best-picture winners, ranked from worst to best by movie critics

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  • 91 movies have won the Oscar for best picture in the history of the Academy Awards.
  • We ranked all 91 films based on how well they fared with critics.

With the 91st Academy Awards now a wrap, we have a new Oscar best-picture winner: Peter Farrelly's controversial "Green Book."

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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:

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MGM

Rotten Tomatoes score: 35%

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Paramount Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 45%

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RKO Radio Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 53%

Universal Pictures

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 60%

Fox Film Corporation

Rotten Tomatoes score: 61%

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MGM

Rotten Tomatoes score: 64%

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Michael Todd Company

Rotten Tomatoes score: 71%

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Paramount

Rotten Tomatoes score: 72%

Lionsgate

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%

Audience score: 88%

Universal Pictures

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%

Audience score: 93%

Warner Bros.

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 76%

Audience score: 73%

Universal

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 76%

Audience score: 87%

Paramount Pictures

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 77%

20th Century Fox

Rotten Tomatoes score: 78%

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MGM

Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%

Audience score: 74%

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Paramount Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%

Audience score: 76%

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Universal

Rotten Tomatoes score: 80%

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Zanuck Company

Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%

Audience score: 81% (53,602 user ratings)

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Romulus Films

Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%

Audience score: 81% (56,053 user ratings)

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Highland Films

Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%

Audience score: 87% (9,709 user ratings)

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Orion

Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%

Audience score: 87% (213,480 user ratings)

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20th Century Fox

Rotten Tomatoes score: 84%

Audience score: 80%

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The Weinstein Company

Rotten Tomatoes score: 84%

Audience score: 83%

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Woodfall Film Productions

Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%

Audience score: 58%

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Miramax

Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%

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MGM

Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%

Audience score: 77%

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Robert Wise Productions via YouTube

Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%

Audience score: 91%

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Columbia Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 86%

Audience score: 92%

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MGM

Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%

Paramount Pictures

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%

Audience score: 69%

Paramount Pictures

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%

Audience score: 83%

Orion Pictures

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%

Audience score: 93% (239,550 user ratings)

Dreamworks

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%

Audience score: 93% (659,979 user ratings)

MGM

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Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%

20th Century Fox

Rotten Tomatoes score: 90%

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Audience score: 81%

Jerome Hellman Productions

Rotten Tomatoes score: 90%

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Audience score: 88%

Fox Searchlight

Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%

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Audience score: 77%

Two Cities Films

Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%

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Audience score: 81%

Columbia Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%

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Audience score: 88% (9,339 user ratings)

Paramont Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%

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Audience score: 88% (23,123 user ratings)

Columbia

Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%

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Audience score: 89%

Warner Bros.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%

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Audience score: 90% (404,726 user ratings)

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%

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Audience score: 90% (1,155,478 user ratings)

Warner Bros.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%

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Audience score: 94%

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

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Audience score: 73%

Miramax

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

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Audience score: 80%

Columbia Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

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Audience score: 84%

MGM

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

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Audience score: 85%

Record Picture Company

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

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Audience score: 88%

MGM

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

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Audience score: 92%

Chartoff Winkler Productions

Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%

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Audience score: 69%

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation

Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%

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Audience score: 78%

Paramount Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%

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Audience score: 86% (398,270 user ratings)

New Line

Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%

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Audience score: 86% (34,679,279 user ratings)

Universal Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%

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Audience score: 95% (61,563 user ratings)

Orion Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%

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Audience score: 95% (179,835 user ratings)

Arcola Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%

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Audience score: 83%

United Artists

Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%

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Audience score: 84%

Universal Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%

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Audience score: 92% (103,194 user ratings)

YouTube/Clevver Movies

Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%

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Audience score: 92% (144,135 user ratings)

Mirisch Corporation

Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%

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Audience score: 94%

Warner Brothers

Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%

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Audience score: 96%

MGM

Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%

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Audience score: 79%

The Weinstein Company

Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%

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Audience score: 87%

Regency Enterprises

Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%

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Audience score: 90%

Columbia Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%

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Audience score: 93%

Warner Brothers

Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%

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Audience score: 90% (186,935 user ratings)

Warner Brothers

Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%

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Audience score: 90% (208,186 user ratings)

Samuel Goldwyn Company

Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%

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Audience score: 92% (10,732 user ratings)

United Artists

Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%

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Audience score: 92% (23,056 user ratings)

20th Century Fox

Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%

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Audience score: 93%

Warner Bros.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%

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Audience score: 93%

Orion Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%

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Audience score: 95%

Columbia Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%

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Audience score: 78%

Voltage Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%

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Audience score: 84%

United Artists

Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%

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Audience score: 92%

Open Road Films

Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%

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Audience score: 93%

Warner Bros.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%

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Audience score: 95%

Paramount Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%

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Audience score: 97% (410,462 user ratings)

Universal Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 97%

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Audience score: 97% (410,783user ratings)

A24

Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%

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Audience score: 79%

Philip D'Antoni Productions

Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%

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Audience score: 87%

Columbia Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%

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Audience score: 93% (33,464 user ratings)

Columbia Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%

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Audience score: 93% (74,715 user ratings)

Columbia Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%

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Audience score: 95%

Paramount

Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%

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Audience score: 98%

Hecht-Lancaster Productions

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%

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Audience score: 87%

Universal Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%

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Audience score: 89%

Paramount Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%

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Audience score: 90%

Selznick International Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%

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Audience score: 92%

20th Century Fox

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%

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Audience score: 94%

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SEE ALSO: This year proved the Oscars have started to embrace Marvel and Netflix, even though 'Black Panther' and 'Roma' lost best picture

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