Unexplained List: Best Picture? Really?

Year	Best Picture	Better Picture
2024	Oppenheimer	Poor Things
2023	Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
2022	CODA
2021	Nomadland
2020	Parasite

Year	Best Picture	Better Picture
2019	Green Book	The Favourite
2018	The Shape of Water	Get Out
2017	Moonlight
2016	Spotlight	Room
2015	Birdman	The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014	12 Years a Slave
2013	Argo	Zero Dark Thirty
2012	The Artist
2011	The King’s Speech	The Social Network
2010	The Hurt Locker	Inglourious Basterds

Year	Best Picture	Better Picture
2009	Slumdog Millionaire	The Dark Knight
2008	No Country for Old Men	There Will Be Blood
2007	The Departed	Children of Men
2006	Crash	Brokeback Mountain
2005	Million Dollar Baby	Eternal Sunshine...
2004	LOTR: Return of the King
2003	Chicago	City of God
2002	A Beautiful Mind	Amelie
2001	Gladiator	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000	American Beauty

Year	Best Picture	Better Picture
1999	Shakespeare in Love	Saving Private Ryan
1998	Titanic
1997	The English Patient	Fargo
1996	Braveheart	Toy Story
1995	Forrest Gump	The Shawshank Redemption
1994	Schindler’s List
1993	Unforgiven
1992	The Silence of the Lambs
1991	Dances With Wolves	Goodfellas
1990	Driving Miss Daisy	Do the Right Thing

Year	Best Picture	Better Picture
1989	Rain Man	Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988	The Last Emporer
1987	Platoon
1986	Out of Africa	Brazil
1985	Amadeus
1984	Terms of Endearment