Best Picture Movies Bucket List

Follow the Corleone crime family saga

Witness the Holocaust survival story

Watch the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once, which won multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture

Watch the 2023 Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb.

Watch the 2020 film Nomadland, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2021.

A burned man in a Tuscan villa remembers a desert affair before the war.

Oliver Stone's own tour of Vietnam, a rookie between two sergeants.

A Mumbai tea boy explains, question by question, how he knows every answer.

A Brooklyn sex worker marries a Russian oligarch's son and his family arrives.

Puyi from the Forbidden City to a Beijing garden, shot inside the real palace.

Newman and Redford run the long con on a Chicago mob boss, to Scott Joplin rags.

The CIA fakes a sci-fi movie to smuggle six diplomats out of Tehran in 1980.

George VI, a stammer and an Australian speech therapist with no credentials.

Jack, Rose, the door, and eleven Oscars; the film that was everything in 1997.

A pianist and his bouncer-driver tour the 1962 Deep South with the Negro Motorist Green Book.

John Nash, game theory and the schizophrenia that came with the Nobel.

Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter; the third big-five sweep.

William Wallace, blue face paint and the Battle of Stirling without the bridge.

Three steelworkers from Pennsylvania go to Vietnam; the Russian roulette scenes.

McMurphy against Nurse Ratched in the ward; the second film to sweep the big five.

A washed-up superhero actor stages a Broadway play, in one apparent take.

A suburban father unravels; a plastic bag in the wind.

Two days of colliding lives in Los Angeles; the most argued-about Best Picture of its decade.

A hustler drives his autistic savant brother across America and turns into a person.

Salieri's jealous confession of Mozart, from Peter Shaffer's play.

Eastwood's retired killer takes one last job; the western that buried the myth.

The Boston Globe team that broke the Catholic Church abuse story, told as process.