Who Deserved Best Picture Each Year?

Going as far back as you wish, which movie do you believe deserved the Best Picture award each year? Be sure to only give consideration to movies that were originally nominated for the award.

2016 : Moonlight
2015 : Room
2014 : Whiplash
2013 : Her
2012 : Django Unchained
2011 : The Tree of Life
2010 : Inception
2009 : Inglorious Basterds
2008 : Milk
2007 : No Country For Old Men
2006 : Babel
2005 : Brokeback Mountain
2004 : Ray
2003 : Lost in Translation
2002 : Gangs of New York
2001 : A Beautiful Mind
2000 : Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
1999 : American Beauty
1998 : Life Is Beautiful
1997 : L.A. Confidential
1996 : Shine
1995 : Apollo 13
1994 : The Shawshank Redemption
1993 : Schindlers List
1992 : A Few Good Men
1991 : The Silence of the Lambs
1990 : Goodfellas
1989 : Field of Dreams
1988 : Rain Man

The rest of the 80's was full of terrible Best Picture nominations.

2016: Hardcore Henry
2015: Victoria/Anomalisa
2014: Whiplash
2012: The Hunt
2011: We Need to Talk About Kevin
2010: Black Swan
2009: Mary and Max
2008: In Bruges
2005: Cachè
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003: Kill Bill vol.1
2002: 28 Days Later
2001: Ameliè
2000: Requiem For a Dream
1999: Fight Club
1998: Truman Show
1997: Funny Games
1996: Fargo
1995: Toy Story
1994: Pulp Fiction
1992: Reservoir Dogs
1989: Cinema Paradiso
1988: Die Hard
1987: Full Metal Jacket
1986: Little Shop of Horrors
1985: Goonies
1982: First Blood
1981: An American Werewolf in London
1980: Blues Brothers
1979: Alien
1976: Taxi Driver
1974: Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1973: Exorcist
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1968: 2001 A space Odyssey
1967: The Graduate
1966: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1964: Dr Strangelove
1961: Yojimbo
1960: Psycho
1959: North by Northwest
1958: Vertigo
1957: 12 Angry Men
1954: Rear Window
1952: Singin' in the Rain
1948: Rope
1931: M

Most of these weren't nominated and that's what he was asking for. Otherwise it's just a favourite film of each year thread.

27/28 - Sunrise*
28/29 - The Broadway Melody
29/30 - All Quiet on the Western Front
31 - The Front Page
32 - The Champ
33 - I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
34 - It Happened One Night
35 - Top Hat
36 - Dodsworth
37 - Captains Corageous
38 - Jezebel
39 - The Wizard of Oz
40 - Rebecca
41 - Citizen Kane
42 - Yankee Doodle Dandy
43 - Casablanca
44 - Double Indemnity
45 - Mildred Pierce
46 - It's a Wonderful Life
47 - Great Expectations
48 - The Red Shoes
49 - All The King's Men
50 - Sunset BLVD
51 - A Streetcar named Desire
52 - High Noon
53 - From Here to Eternity
54 - On the Waterfront
55 - Mister Roberts
56 - Giant
57 - 12 Angry Men
58 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
59 - Anatomy of a Murder
60 - The Apartment
61 - West Side Story
62 - To Kill a Mockingbird
63 - Cleopatra
64 - My Fair Lady
65 - The Sound of Music
66 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
67 - The Graduate
68 - The Lion in Winter
69 - Midnight Cowboy
70 - Patton
71 - A Clockwork Orange
72 - The Godfather
73 - The Exorcist
74 - The Godfather Part 2
75 - One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
76 - Rocky
77 - Annie Hall
78 - Midnight Express
79 - Kramer vs Kramer
80 - Ordinary People
81 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
82 - Tootsie
83 - The Big Chill
84 - Amadeus
85 - Prizzi's Honor
86 - Platoon
87 - The Last Emperor
88 - Mississippi Burning
89 - Field of Dreams
90 - Goodfellas
91 - Silence of the Lambs
92 - Unforgiven
93 - In the Name of the Father
94 - Shawshank Redemption
95 - Braveheart
96 - Fargo
97 - LA Confidential
98 - Saving Private Ryan
99 - American Beauty
00 - Gladiator
01 - Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings
02 - Gangs of New York
03 - Master and Commander:Far Side of the World
04 - Million Dollar Baby
05 - Brokeback Mountain
06 - Departed
07 - No Country for old Men
08 - Slumdog Millionaire
09 - Up
10 - Inception
11 - Midnight in Paris
12 - Life of Pi
13 - American Hustle
14 - Birdman
15 - The Big Short
16 - Fences

* they split the categories during the first year

Since 2000 because the further back we go the less nominees i've seen:

2000:Gladiator
2001:Gosford Park
2002:The Two Towers
2003:Lost In Translation
2004:The Aviator
2005:Capote
2006:The Departed
2007:There Will Be Blood
2008:Benjamin Button
2009:A Serious Man (there were some good nominees this year)
2010:The Social Network
2011:The Descendants
2012:Silver Linings Playbook (Amour is the better film but i don't enjoy it, thought The Master was nominated that would've been my pick if it was)
2013:Her
2014:Birdman (or Grand Budapest it's close)
2015:Mad Max: Fury Road
2016:Manchester By The Sea

Some of those picks aren't particularly strong and there's some stuff i haven't seen that looks good.

Whoops.

I'll just go from 1950, because it's Monday and that's all I feel like doing right now...

1950: Sunset Boulevard
1951: A Place in the Sun
1952: High Noon
1953: Roman Holiday
1954: On the Waterfront
1955: Mister Roberts
1956: Giant
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1959: Anatomy of a Murder

1960: The Apartment
1961: The Hustler
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: Tom Jones
1964: Dr. Strangelove
1965: A Thousand Clowns
1966: The Sand Pebbles
1967: The Graduate
1968: The Lion in Winter
1969: Z

1970: MASH
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1972: The Godfather
1973: The Sting
1974: Chinatown
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976: Taxi Driver
1977: Star Wars
1978: Heaven Can Wait
1979: Breaking Away

1980: Raging Bull
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: Missing
1983: The Right Stuff
1984: Amadeus
1985: Witness
1986: Platoon
1987: Broadcast News
1988: Rain Man
1989: Dead Poet's Society

1990: GoodFellas
1991: Bugsy
1992: Unforgiven
1993: Schindler's List
1994: Pulp Fiction
1995: Apollo 13
1996: Fargo
1997: L.A. Confidential
1998: The Thin Red Line
1999: American Beauty

2000: Erin Brockovich
2001: Gosford Park
2002: The Pianist
2003: Lost in Translation
2004: Million Dollar Baby
2005: Good Night, and Good Luck
2006: Letters from Iwo Jima
2007: No Country for Old Men
2008: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2009: A Serious Man

2010: The Social Network
2011: The Artist
2012: Silver Linings Playbook
2013: Her
2014: Birdman
2015: The Revenant
2016: La La Land

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

In the interest of fairness (and possibly convenience) I only stuck to the years where I had seen all of that particular year's nominees. The results are obviously extremely limited (though it's worth noting that there were a lot of the years I had seen all but one of the nominees, but I still figured I should stick to my rule).

2016: Moonlight
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2014: Whiplash
2007: There Will Be Blood
1996: Fargo
1975: Jaws

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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0

Interesting....Jaws over Cuckoo's Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, and Nashville?

Started in 1927, when the Academy started throwing those awards out.

1927 Underworld
1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc
1929 The Broadway Melody
1930 The Big Trail
1931 The Public Enemy
1932 Scarface
1933 The Mayor of Hell
1934 Manhattan Melodrama
1935 G Men
1936 Bullets or Ballots
1937 The Last Gangster
1938 Angels With Dirty Faces
1939 The Roaring Twenties
1940 The Great Dictator
1941 The Maltese Falcon
1942 Casablanca
1943 Sahara
1944 Double Indemnity
1945 Conflict
1946 The Big Sleep
1947 Kiss of Death
1948 The Naked City
1949 White Heat
1950 Night and the City
1951 Strangers on a Train
1952 Singing in the Rain
1953 Pickup on South Street
1954 On the Waterfront
1955 Kiss Me Deadly
1956 Moby Dick
1957 Paths of Glory
1958 Touch of Evil
1959 North by Northwest
1960 Psycho
1961 Blast of Silence
1962 The Manchurian Candidate
1963 The Great Escape
1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1965 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
1966 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
1967 Bonnie and Clyde
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970 Patton
1971 The French Connection
1972 The Godfather
1973 The Sting
1974 The Godfather: Part II
1975 Barry Lyndon
1976 Taxi Driver
1977 Star Wars
1978 Dawn of the Dead
1979 Alien
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1981 Prince of the City
1982 Blade Runner
1983 Videodrome
1984 EDIT: Once Upon a Time in America
1985 To Live and Die in LA
1986 Aliens
1987 The Untouchables
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990 Goodfellas
1991 Silence of the Lambs
1992 Unforgiven
1993 A Bronx Tale
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Casino
1996 Fargo
1997 L.A. Confidental
1998 The General
1999 The Limey
2000 Memento
2001 Frailty
2002 Gangs of New York
2003 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004 Collateral
2005 Munich
2006 The Departed
2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2008 Burn After Reading
2009 Inglorious Basterds
2010 Animal Kingdom
2011 Drive
2012 Looper
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street
2014 A Most Violent Year
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 Green Room

My bad on the movie list, but if the Academy was honest with itself, all of these films would have been nominated anyway.

1973 - The Exorcist
1974 - Chinatown
1975 - Dog Day Afternoon
1976 - Taxi Driver
1977 - Star Wars
1978 - The Deer Hunter
1979 - Apocalypse Now
1980 - The Elephant Man
1981 - Reds
1982 - Gandhi
1983 - Tender Mercies
1984 - The Killing Fields
1985 - Kiss of the Spider Woman
1986 - Platoon
1987 - The Last Emperor
1988 - Mississippi Burning
1989 - Dead Poets Society
1990 - Goodfellas
1991 - Bugsy
1992 - Unforgiven
1993 - The Fugitive
1994 - Pulp Fiction
1995 - Braveheart
1996 - Fargo
1997 - L.A. Confidential
1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1999 - The Sixth Sense (American Beauty it's a better film than The Green Mile? or The Insider? No way!!)
2000 - Traffic
2001 - A Beautiful Mind
2002 - Gangs of New York
2003 - Mystic River
2004 - Million Dollar Baby
2005 - Munich
2006 - The Departed
2007 - No Country for Old Men
2008 - Frost/Nixon (f**k Slumdog Millionaire)
2009 - Inglourious Basterds
2010 - Black Swan
2011 - The Artist
2012 - Django Unchained
2013 - Nebraska
2014 - The Imitation Game
2015 - The Revenant
2016 - Manchester by the Sea

They're all good films that would have made fine Best Picture winners, but Jaws is quite simply my favourite of the five nominees - if I ranked them in order of preference it would go Jaws, Cuckoo's Nest, Barry Lyndon, Nashville, Dog Day.

Will do only 21st century ones:
2000 - requiem for a dream
2001 - Mulholland Drive
2002 - The Pianist
03 - LOTR 3
04 - Machinist
05 - Brokeback Mountain
06 - Departed
07 - There will be blood
08 - Curious Case of Benjamin Button
09 - Inglorious Basterds
10 - Incendies
11 - The Artist
12 - The Master
13 - Prisoners
14 - Gone Girl
15 - The Big Short
16 - Manchester By the Sea

2016 Green Room
No idea about others

Don't think this sort of thread will ever not turn into a best of each year thread but i thought i should point this out again after the last two posts.

1966: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

2016:

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Look, Dr. Lesh, we don't care about the disturbances, the pounding and the flashing, the screaming, the music. We just want you to find our little girl.

Well it IS in my top 20 favorite movies, also you must be a VERY harsh critic if you only give your favorite movie of all time a 4.5/5!