In this article, we list all of those movies made between 1927 and 1949 that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
We have also highlighted the winning movie of each year.
How many Academy Award winners have you seen? Let us know in the comments below.
1st Academy Awards
Best Films of 1927 and 1928
Nominated Movies
Wings
The Racket
7th Heaven
Best Picture Winner
Wings
2nd Academy Awards
Best Films of 1928 and 1929
Nominated Movies
The Broadway Melody
Alibi
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
In Old Arizona
The Patriot
Best Picture Winner
The Broadway Melody
3rd Academy Awards
Best Films of 1929 and 1930
Nominated Movies
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Big House
Disraeli
The Divorcee
The Love Parade
Best Picture Winner
All Quiet on the Western Front
4th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1930 and 1931
Nominated Movies
East Lynne
The Front Page
Skippy
Trader Horn
Cimarron
Best Picture Winner
Cimarron
5th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1931 and 1932
Nominated Movies
Grand Hotel
Arrowsmith
Bad Girl
The Champ
Five Star Final
One Hour With You
Shanghai Express
The Smiling Lieutenant
Best Picture Winner
Grand Hotel
6th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1932 and 1933
Nominated Movies
42nd Street
A Farewell to Arms
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Lady for a Day
Little Women
Cavalcade
The Private Life of Henry VIII
She Done Him Wrong
Smilin’ Through
State Fair
Best Picture Winner
Cavalcade
7th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1934
Nominated Movies
It Happened One Night
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Cleopatra
Flirtation Walk
The Gay Divorcee
Here Comes the Navy
The House of Rothschild
Imitation of Life
One Night of Love
The Thin Man
Viva Villa!
The White Parade
Best Picture Winner
It Happened One Night
8th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1935
Nominated Movies
Alice Adams
Broadway Melody of 1936
Captain Blood
David Copperfield
The Informer
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Les Miserables
Naughty Marietta
Ruggles of Red Gap
Top Hat
Best Picture Winner
Mutiny on the Bounty
9th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1936
Nominated Movies
Anthony Adverse
Dodsworth
Libeled Lady
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco
The Story of Louis Pasteur
The Great Ziegfield
A Tale of Two Cities
Three Smart Girls
Best Picture Winner
The Great Ziegfield
10th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1937
Nominated Movies
The Awful Truth
Captains Courageous
Dead End
The Good Earth
In Old Chicago
Lost Horizon
The Life of Emile Zola
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Stage Door
A Star is Born
Best Picture Winner
The Life of Emile Zola
11th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1938
Nominated Movies
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Boys Town
The Citadel
Four Daughters
Grand Illusion
Jezebel
Pygmalion
Test Pilot
Best Picture Winner
You Can’t Take It With You
12th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1939
Nominated Movies
Dark Victory
Goodbye Mr Chips
Gone With the Wind
Love Affair
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights
Best Picture Winner
Gone With the Wind
13th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1940
Nominated Movies
All This and Heaven Too
Foreign Correspondent
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
Kitty Foyle
The Letter
The Long Voyage Home
Our Town
The Philadelphia Story
Rebecca
Best Picture Winner
Rebecca
14th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1941
Nominated Movies
Blossoms in the Dust
Citizen Kane
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Hold Back the Dawn
The Little Foxes
The Maltese Falcon
One Foot in Heaven
How Green Was My Valley
Sergeant York
Suspicion
Best Picture Winner
How Green Was My Valley
15th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1942
Nominated Movies
49th Parallel
Kings Row
The Magnificent Ambersons
Mrs. Miniver
The Pied Piper
The Pride of the Yankees
Random Harvest
The Talk of the Town
Wake Island
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Best Picture Winner
Mrs. Miniver
16th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1943
Nominated Movies
Casablanca
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Heaven Can Wait
The Human Comedy
In Which We Serve
Madame Curie
The More the Merrier
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Song of Bernadette
Watch on the Rhine
Best Picture Winner
Casablanca
17th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1944
Nominated Movies
Double Indemnity
Gaslight
Going My Way
Since You Went Away
Wilson
Best Picture Winner
Going My Way
18th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1945
Nominated Movies
Anchors Aweigh
The Bells of St. Mary’s
The Lost Weekend
Mildred Pierce
Spellbound
Best Picture Winner
The Lost Weekend
19th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1946
Nominated Movies
The Best Years of Our Lives
Henry V
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Razor’s Edge
The Yearling
Best Picture Winner
The Best Years of Our Lives
20th Academy Awards
Best Films of 1947
Nominated Movies
The Bishop’s Wife
Crossfire
Gentleman’s Agreement
Great Expectations
Miracle on 34th Street
Best Picture Winner
Gentleman’s Agreement
21st Academy Awards
Best Films of 1948
Nominated Movies
Hamlet
Johnny Belinda
The Red Shoes
The Snake Pit
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Best Picture Winner
Hamlet
22nd Academy Awards
Best Films of 1949
Nominated Movies
All the King’s Men
Battleground
The Heiress
A Letter to Three Wives
Twelve O’Clock High
Best Picture Winner
All the King’s Men
How many Best Picture winners have you seen? Let us know in the comments below.