the last ten winners of the Oscar for best film

“Oppenheimer”, “Poor Creatures”, “Killers of the Flower Moon”, “Barbie” or even “Anatomy of a Fall”… Which film will win the Oscar for best film this year? The suspense remains. In the meantime, here is the list of the last ten feature films crowned with the queen statuette.

The 96th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday in Los Angeles. Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan leads the race for statuettes with 13 nominations, followed by Poor Creatures (11) and Killers of the Flower Moon (10). barbie has 8 nominations and the French film Anatomy of a fall is nominated in 5 categories, including best film.

Here is the list of works that have received the Oscar for best feature film, the supreme award in Hollywood, over the last 10 years.

2023 – “Everything Everywhere All At Once”, by Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan

The film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, which mixes kung-fu, family comedy-drama, science fiction and multiverse, won seven statuettes, including best film, best director and best actress for Michelle Yeoh.

2022 – “CODA”, by Siân Heder

In a fishing town in Massachusetts. Seventeen-year-old Ruby is the only member of her family who is not deaf – also known as CODA, an acronym for “child of deaf adults”. When Ruby joins the high school choir, she discovers a gift for singing and falls in love with her partner Miles. Encouraged by her teacher, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she believes she owes to her family and the pursuit of her dreams. The American remake of The Aries family. This is the film that allowed Apple TV+ to become the first streaming platform to win at the Oscars in the flagship category of best feature film.

2021 – “Nomadland”, by Chloé Zhao

Chloé Zhao’s film also won the statuette for best film and best direction in 2021, with the story of Fern, a woman who decides to take her van and the path of a nomadic life, alone, after having lost his work.

2020 – “Parasite”, by Bong Joon-Ho

The South Korean also won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2020 with this breathtaking film on class struggle, which the story of an unemployed family whose life will change the day their son becomes an English teacher for a bourgeois family. The arrival of these “parasites” will mark the start of an uncontrollable spiral.

2019 – “Green Book: on the roads of the South”, by Peter Farrelly

This road movie by Peter Farrelly about the prejudices of America in the 1960s was also rewarded with three Golden Globes. It tells the story of Don Shirley, one of the rare black classical pianists of the time who undertook a concert tour in the segregated American South and hired to lead and protect him a white man, Tony Lip, an American of Italian origin, straight out of the Bronx .

2018 – “The Shape of Water”, by Guillermo del Toro

The Shape of Water, fantastic love story between a mute maid and an amphibian creature, won the Oscar for best film and its director, Guillermo del Torol’s Oscar for best director. The film also won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

2017 – “Moonlight”, from Barry Jenkins

The Oscar for best picture in 2027 was initially awarded in error to La La Land, before the team realizes the mistake. Adaptation of the play by Tarell Alvin McCraney Choir Boythe film deals with the African-American community through a character taken at three ages of his life.

2016 – “Spotlight”, from Tom McCarthy

Adapted from real events, Spotlight traces the fascinating investigation by the Boston Globe – crowned by the Pulitzer Prize – which uncovered an unprecedented scandal within the Catholic Church. A team of investigative journalists, called Spotlight, investigated suspicions of sexual abuse within one of the oldest and most respected institutions in the world for 12 months. The investigation will reveal that the Catholic Church protected Boston’s most prominent religious, legal and political figures for decades, and will subsequently trigger a wave of revelations around the world.

2015 – “Birdman”, fromAlejandro González Inarritu

The film “Birdman” won five Oscar awards in 2015. Michael Keaton plays a returning former actor who was a successful superhero. The film is a satire on celebrity that is both touching and humorous.

2014 – “12 Years A Slave”, by Steve McQueen

A film about slavery in the 19th century in the United States, tells the story in the United States, a few years before the Civil War, of Solomon Northup, a young black man from New York State, kidnapped and sold as slave. Faced with the cruelty of a cotton plantation owner, Solomon fights to stay alive and maintain his dignity. Twelve years later, he will meet a Canadian abolitionist: this meeting will change his life…

The ten previously crowned films are Argo (2013), The Artist (2012), The speech of a king (2011), Minesweepers (2010), Slumdog Millionaire (2009), No Country for Old Men (2008), Infiltrators (2007), Collision (2006), Million Dollar Baby (2005), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004).