Unexplained List: Best Picture? Really?

Year	Best Picture	Better Picture
2025	Anora
2024	Oppenheimer	Poor Things
2023	Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
2022	CODA
2021	Nomadland	Judas and the Black Messiah
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	Magnolia
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 Emperor	Broadcast News
1987	Platoon
1986	Out of Africa	Brazil
1985	Amadeus
1984	Terms of Endearment
1983	Gandhi	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982	Chariots of Fire	Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981	Ordinary People	Raging Bull
1980	Kramer vs. Kramer	Apocalypse Now
Year	Best Picture	Better Picture
1979	The Deer Hunter	The Last Waltz
1978	Annie Hall	Star Wars
1977	Rocky	Taxi Driver
1976	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975	The Godfather Part II
1974	The Sting
1973	The Godfather
1972	The French Connection	A Clockwork Orange
1971	Patton	Airport
1970	Midnight Cowboy	Butch & Sundance
Year	Best Picture	Better Picture
1969	Oliver!	The Lion in Winter
1968	In The Heat of the Night	The Graduate
1967	A Man for All Seasons	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966	The Sound of Music
1965	My Fair Lady	Dr. Strangelove
1964	Tom Jones	Charade
1963	Lawrence of Arabia
1962	West Side Story
1961	The Apartment
1960	Ben-Hur	Anatomy of a Murder
Year	Best Picture	Better Picture
1959	Gigi	Touch of Evil
1958	The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957	Around the World in 80 Days	Giant
1956	Marty	Mister Roberts
1955	On The Waterfront
1954	From Here to Eternity	Roman Holiday
1953	The Greatest Show on Earth	Singin' in the Rain
1952	An American in Paris	A Streetcar Named Desire
1951	All About Eve	Sunset Boulevard
1950	All The King's Men
Year	Best Picture	Better Picture
1949	Hamlet	Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948	Gentleman's Agreement	The Lady from Shanghai
1947	The Best Years of Our Lives	The Big Sleep
1946	The Lost Weekend	Mildred Pierce
1945	Going My Way	Double Indemnity
1944	Casablanca
1943	Mrs. Miniver
1942	How Green Was My Valley	Citizen Kane
1941	Rebecca	The Grapes of Wrath
1940	Gone With the Wind	The Wizard of Oz
Year	Best Picture	Better Picture
1939	You Can't Take It With You	Bringing Up Baby
1938	The Life of Emile Zola	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937	The Great Ziegfeld	Modern Times
1936	Mutiny on the Bounty
1935	It Happened One Night
1934	Cavalcade	Duck Soup
1933	Grand Hotel	Scarface
1932	Cimarron	City Lights
1931	All Quiet on the Western Front
1930	The Broadway Melody	Spite Marriage
1929	Wings	Sunrise