Oscars Best Picture Alphabet
Which letter has the best set of Oscar winning Best Pictures that begin with it?
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Please Note: There are no Oscar winning Best Picture beginning with J, Q, V, X and Z.
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- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsChiwetel EjioforMichael Kenneth WilliamsMichael FassbenderIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.0 to 9: 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge SandersA seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.A: All About Eve (1950), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), All the King's Men (1949), Amadeus (1984, American Beauty (1999), An American in Paris (1951), Annie Hall (1977), Argo (2012), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), The Apartment (1960), The Artist (2011)
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsCharlton HestonJack HawkinsStephen BoydAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.B: Ben-Hur (1959), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Braveheart (1995), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Broadway Melody (1929), A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.C: Casablanca (1942), Cavalcade (1933), Chariots of Fire (1981), Chicago (2002), Cimarron (1931), Crash (2004), CODA (2021)
- DirectorKevin CostnerStarsKevin CostnerMary McDonnellGraham GreeneLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.D: Dances with Wolves (1990), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Departed (2006)
- DirectorAnthony MinghellaStarsRalph FiennesJuliette BinocheWillem DafoeAt the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.E: The English Patient (1996), Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksRobin WrightGary SiniseThe history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.F: Forrest Gump (1994), From Here to Eternity (1953), The French Connection (1971)
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsBen KingsleyJohn GielgudRohini HattangadiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.G: Gandhi (1982), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Gigi (1958), Gladiator (2000), Going My Way (1944), Gone with the Wind (1939), Grand Hotel (1932), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Green Book (2018)
- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsJohn LauriePrince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.H: Hamlet (1948), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Hurt Locker (2008)
- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsSidney PoitierRod SteigerWarren OatesA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.I: In the Heat of the Night (1967), It Happened One Night (1934)
- DirectorRobert BentonStarsDustin HoffmanMeryl StreepJane AlexanderAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.K: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), The King's Speech (2010)
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.L: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Last Emperor (1987), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), The Lost Weekend (1945)
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsErnest BorgnineBetsy BlairEsther MinciottiA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.M: Marty (1955), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), My Fair Lady (1964), Moonlight (2016), A Man for All Seasons (1966)
- DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsTommy Lee JonesJavier BardemJosh BrolinViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.N: No Country for Old Men (2007), Nomadland (2020)
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsMark LesterRon MoodyShani WallisAfter being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London.O: Oliver! (1968), On the Waterfront (1954), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Ordinary People (1980), Out of Africa (1985), Oppenheimer (2023)
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.P: Patton (1970), Platoon (1986), Parasite (2019)
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsDustin HoffmanTom CruiseValeria GolinoAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.R: Rain Man (1988), Rebecca (1940), Rocky (1976)
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.S: Schindler's List (1993), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Spotlight (2015), Sunrise (1927), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Sound of Music (1965), The Sting (1973), The Shape of Water (2017)
- DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsShirley MacLaineDebra WingerJack NicholsonFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.T: Terms of Endearment (1983), Titanic (1997), Tom Jones (1963)
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan FreemanRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."U: Unforgiven (1992)
- DirectorJerome RobbinsRobert WiseStarsNatalie WoodGeorge ChakirisRichard BeymerTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.W: West Side Story (1961), Wings (1927)
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel BarrymoreThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.Y: You Can't Take It with You (1938)