Oscar Bucket List

A Kurdish family tries to cross the Alps into Switzerland on foot, in winter.

The seven-hour Soviet Tolstoy, with the Red Army as extras at Borodino.

A Buenos Aires teacher begins to suspect her adopted daughter was taken from a "disappeared" mother.

A French cook in a Danish Lutheran village spends her lottery win on one dinner.

Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma across three hours and 300,000 extras at the funeral.

A Black Philadelphia detective and a Mississippi sheriff solve a murder they cannot stand to share.

Two British runners at the 1924 Olympics, and the beach to Vangelis.

Thomas More refuses to bless Henry VIII's divorce and pays with his head.

Thirty years of a London family, from the Boer War to the Jazz Age, from Noel Coward's play.

Garbo, Crawford and the Barrymores cross paths in a Berlin hotel; "I want to be alone."

The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.

Three hours of Broadway spectacle around the impresario who invented the revue.

The first talkie to win, a backstage musical about two sisters and one man.

A Welsh mining family remembered; the film that beat Citizen Kane.

German schoolboys march to the trenches in the film that defined the anti-war picture.

A journalist poses as Jewish to write about antisemitism in postwar America.

Laurence Olivier's black-and-white Elsinore, the only Shakespeare film to win Best Picture.

A writer is tried for her husband's death, with only their blind son as witness.

The Oklahoma land rush and forty years of a frontier newspaper; the first western to win.

Bing Crosby as a young priest who sings his way through a struggling parish.

A runaway heiress and a reporter on a bus; the romantic comedy blueprint, and the first clean sweep of the big five.

Bette Davis's ageing star and the fan who takes everything; "fasten your seatbelts".

Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.

A populist governor's rise and rot, drawn from Huey Long.

Hitchcock's only Best Picture: a second wife haunted by the first at Manderley.

An English family through Dunkirk and the Blitz, made to bring America into the war.

Capra's screwball comedy about a family that refuses to be respectable.

Three veterans come home to the same small town and cannot fit back in.

The first Best Picture: a silent Great War dogfight epic with real biplanes and Clara Bow.

Clark Gable leads the mutiny against Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh.