BuzzFeed assembled a listing of every Academy Award winning film in the Best Picture category since the inception of the Oscars. The films are ranked in order of their favorites. Obviously, taste in movies varies wildly from person to person, and it's likely that no one will agree with the way these films are ranked. Yet the list is nice because it features great images of each picture and key information as to who directed and wrote the picture, what films competed with it in the Best Picture category for that year, as well as mentions of the actors and other facts.
The photo above is of number twelve on the list, 1939's Gone With the Wind, directed by Victor Fleming and written by Sidney Howard. The film is a grand-scale epic in which the enduring characters remain vivid and engaging, even so many years later. Read more about the other 85 Oscar-winning Best Picture films here.
Image: MGM
The list was good for one thing: it showed other movies that lost to the ranked movies, and mentioned other movies that were arguably better. But the order of the movies listed (and the reasons why) were pretty stilted. I felt as if a couple films (Dances With Wolves and Forrest Gump) were ranked lower than necessary simply because they beat arguably better films (Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption) that came out in the same years.
Again, that's just my opinion, imperfect as Buzzfeed's.