Best Picture Oscar Winners
Best Picture Winners
Director: Tom Hooper
Basic story: The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Basic story: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Basic story: A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Basic story: Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Basic story: Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities.
Director: Paul Haggis
Basic story: Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Basic story: A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer.
Director: Peter Jackson
Basic story: Aragorn leads the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw the dark lord's gaze from Frodo and Sam who are on the doorstep of Mount Doom with the One Ring.
Director: Rob Marshall
Basic story: Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Director: Ron Howard
Basic story: After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish.
2010 - "The King's Speech"
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