Oscar Awards Best Picture - The Last 10 Years

Oscar Awards Best Picture - The Last 10 Years

2011 - The Artist: Director: Michel Hazanavicius

A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

2010 - The King's Speech: Director: Tom Hooper

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.

2009 - The Hurt Locker: Director: Kathryn Bigelow

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.

2008 - Slumdog Millionaire: Directors: Danny Boyle

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.

2007 - No Country for Old Men: Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

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.

2006 - The Departed: Director: Martin Scorsese

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.

2005 - Crash: Director: Paul Haggis

Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

2004 - Million Dollar Baby: Director: Clint Eastwood

A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer.

2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Director: Peter Jackson

A meek hobbit of The Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring and the dark lord Sauron.

2002 - Chicago: Director: Rob Marshall

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.

2001 - A Beautiful Mind: Director: Ron Howard

After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish.