What's your favorite Best Picture winning movie?

If you're not familiar with which movies are Best Picture winners, here are some examples you've probably seen.

IMO: Forest Gump

Honorable Mentions: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, No Country for Old Men

LotR: Return of the King.

runners up: Gladiator.

Looking at a list of winners, I can say there's been a lot of mistakes over the years.

Favorite: Rocky

Runners Up: Gladiator, Silence of the Lambs, LotR: RotK

The Godfather - Part II. What a hell of a movie. It's a shame that this masterpiece is obscured by its (also excellent) predecessor.

Godfather parts 1 and 2, Return of The King, Argo and Gladiator.

One Flew over The Cuckoo's Nest

Casablanca.

Silence of the Lambs

@yassassin:

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

LOTR is the best always.

The God Father 2 & 1, Forest Gump, Rocky, Unforgiven, Gandhi, Schindler's List, Dances with wolves, Lawrence of Arabia, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, The french connection, Gladiator, Braveheart, Million dollar baby, No country for old men, The departed and Hamlet.

Gump, RotK, Rocky are just awesome the rest are meh

I still cry watching Titanic for the 9th time.

It Happened One Night and Annie Hall for me though. Also Ben-Hur.

I also love The Godfather movies and the LOTR movies. I love most Best Picture winning movies but I can say that most of the winners were wrong like Rocky over Taxi Driver, Gandhi over E.T, How Green Was My Valley over Citizen Kane and The French Connection over A Clockwork Orange etc.

LOTR.

Braveheart, Dances with Wolves and The Return of the King.

The Godfather. Greatest film ever made.

The Apartment or The Godfather Part II.

Platoon

No Country

I always take L's, my favorite movies rarely get picked every year.

Favorite: As a Philadelphian, Rocky is more than a movie.

Casablanca is my favorite, but I believe Lawrence of Arabia to be among the greatest films ever made. My Top 5 would be:

1. Casablanca (1942)
2. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
3. The Sound of Music (1965)
4. It Happened One Night (1934)
5. Annie Hall (1977)

Return of the king.

Definitely not Gone With the Wind, Titanic, or Ben Hur. I’ve seen most of the others in this thread, and I love the majority of those. But the aforementioned three are such boring pieces of garbage, and Titanic was just straight up stupid. I can see why they won best picture, but as far as personal preference, they’re trash.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Deer Hunter

Driving Miss Daisy

The Silence of the Lambs

Forrest Gump

1) Godfather Part 2

2) Silence Of The Lambs

3) Godfather

4) American Beauty

5) Gone With The Wind

Godfather 2.

All hail the mobs.

Tie between Casablanca and Godfather II

Favorite: Titanic

Runner Up: The Hurt Locker

Tombstone.

Bump because the list just got bigger.

silence of the lambs

Great question. It's tough.

1. The Godfather

2. The Godfather Part II

3. Braveheart

4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

5. Gone With the Wind