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I love making lists of stuff. Films, TV shows, books, songs... anything. So, in anticipation to the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, I thought it would be fun to make a list of my favourite Best Picture winners. I did a similar thing back in 2017, but I have watched a few more winnings films since then, so this is an updated version of my top 20 favourite Best Picture winners. Please bear in mind that I have not seen every single film that has won the award, so my choices are based on the ones that I have in fact seen so far.   20. Rain Man (1988) Directed by Barry Levinson, Rain Man  is the story of an abrasive and self-centered wheeler-dealer named Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multi-million-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own and of whose existence Charlie was completely unaware. Besides winning for Best Picture, Rain Man also re...

Throughout this month, I have decided to do a series of Oscar-related articles in anticipation to the 89th Academy Awards ceremony, which will be held on February 26. On Monday I shared with you my top 10 favourite Best Picture winners from 1929 to 1969 , so today I thought I would do the same, but with the winners from 1970 to 2015. Again, please bear in mind that this is my own personal opinion, which of course is limited to the films I have seen so far.     10. 12 Years a Slave (2013)   Directed by Steve McQueen | Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor (Solomon Northup), Michael Fassbender (Edwin Epps), Lupita Nyong'o (Patsey), Paul Dano (John Tibeats) and Benedict Cumberbatch (William Ford) | Fox Searchlight Pictures | 134 minutes Solomon Northup: I don't want to survive. I want to live.     9. The Sting (1973)  Directed by George Roy Hill | Starring Paul Newman (Henry «Shaw» Gondorff), Robert Redford (Johnny «Kelly» Hooker), Robert Shaw (Doyle Lonnegan), Robert...