Best Picture

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1			Oscar Nominations for Best Picture (Top listing is Winner)	Stars	Description

2	2016		Spotlight	Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams	The true story fo how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic church to core.
3			The Big Short	Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling	Four denizens in the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take to the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight.
4			Bridge Of Spies	Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda	During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested spy in court, then help the CIA facilitate an exchange for Francis Gary Powers, a soviet captured U2 pilot.
5			Brooklyn	Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson	An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up to her, she must choose between 2 countries and the lives there.
6			Mad Max: Fury Road	Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult	A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in postapocalyptic Australia in search for her homeland with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper, & a drifter, Max.
7			The Martian	Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig	During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. He survives and finds himself stranded and alone.
8			The Revenant	Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter	A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
9			Room	Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers	A kidnapped mother and son escape from a room in which they have endured impresonment for the entirety of the boy's life.
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11	2015		Birdman	Alejandro G. Inarritu, John Lesher, James W. Scotchdopole	A washed up actor, who once played a superhero, battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career and himself in the days leading up to the opening of a Broadway play.
12			American Sniper	Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar	Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
13			Boyhood	Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland	The life of a young man, Mason, from age 5 to age 18.
14			The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson	The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.
15			The Imitation Game	Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman	During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
16			Selma	Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner	A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
17			The Theory of Everything	Tim Bevan, Eric Feliner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten	The relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
18			Whiplash	Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster	A promising young drummer enrolls at a music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
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20	2014		12 Years a Slave	Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Williams, Michael Fassbender	In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
21			American Hustle	Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper	A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FMI agent, who pushes them into powerbrokers and mafia.
22			Captain Phillips	Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman	True store of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of US MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years.
23			Dallas Buyers Club	Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto	In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with it.
24		X	Gravity	Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris	A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after a catastrophe destroys their shuttle and leaves them adrift in orbit.
25			Her	Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson	A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need.
26			Nebraska	Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb	An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes marketing prize.
27			Philomena	Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark	A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she was forced to live in a convent.
28			The Wolf of Wall Street	Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie	Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to has fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
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30	2013	X	Argo	Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman	Dramatazation of 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract 6 fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.
31			Amour	Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert	Georges and Anne are in their 80's. One day Anne has an attack, and the couples bond of love is severely tested.
32			Beasts of the Southern Wild	Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly	Faced with her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, 6 year old Hushpuppy must learn courage/love.
33		X	Django Unchained	Jamie Foxx, Christopher Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprico	With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
34		X	Les Miserables	Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe, Anne Hathaway	In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker's daughter, Cosette.
35		X	Life of Pi	Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain	A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with a Bengal tiger.
36			Lincoln	Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn	As the civil war continues to rage, Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to free the slaves.
37			Silver Linings Playbook	Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro	After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Then he meets Tiffany, a girl with her own problems.
38			Zero Dark Thirty	Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt	A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the 09/11/01 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy S.E.A.L. team 6 in May 2011.
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40	2012		The Artist	Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman	Hollywood 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion.
41			The Descendants	George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller	A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident.
42			Extreemly Loud & Incredibly Close	Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock	A 9 year old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the locket that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father.
43			The Help	Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer	An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid's point of view on the white families for which they work.
44		X	Hugo	Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee	Set in1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automation.
45			Midnight in Paris	Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams,	A family travel to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple who are forced to confront their differing views of a perfect life.
46			Moneyball	Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill	Oakland A's general manager BIlly Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
47		X	The Tree of Life	Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain	A family with three boys in the 1950s. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence.
48			War Horse	Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis	Young Albert enlists to serve in WW I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and across Europe as the war rages on.
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50	2011	X	The King's Speech	Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter	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.
51		X	Inception	Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page	In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception.
52		X	Black Swan	Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel	A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
53		X	The Fighter	Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams	A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.
54			The Kids Are All Right	Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo	Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their birth father into their family life.
55		X	127 Hours	James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kata Mara	A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
56			The Social Network	Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake	A chronicle of the founding of Facebook, the social-networking Web site.
57			Toy Story 3	Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack	The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.
58		X	True Grit	Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfield	A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her father's murderer.
59		X	Winter's Bone	Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt	An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
60	2010	X	The Hurt Locker	Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty	Iraq. 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.
61		X	Avatar	Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver	A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
62		X	The Blind Side	Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw	Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw
63		X	District 9	Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope	An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
64			An Education	Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina	A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
65		X	Inglourious Basterds	Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth	In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
66			Precious	Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton	In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
67		X	Up	Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger	By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America.
68			Up in the Air	George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick	With a job that has him traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham leads an empty life out of a suitcase, until his company does the unexpected: ground him.
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70	2009	X	Slumdog Millionaire	Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla	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.
71			The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton	Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
72			Frost/Nixon	Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon	A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
73		X	Milk	Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch	The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.
74			The Reader	Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz	Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
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76	2008	X	No Country for Old Men	Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin	Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.
77		X	Atonement	Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn	Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
78			Juno	Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garnet	Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
79			Michael Clayton	George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson	A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
80			A Serious Man	Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick	A black comedy drama centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel through multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking for meaning and answers he seems to stay stalled.
81			There Will Be Blood	Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciaran Hinds	A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
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83	2007	X	The Departed	Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson	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.
84			Babel	Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal	Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
85		X	Letters From Iwo Jima	Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara	The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
86		X	Little Miss Sunshine	Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear	A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
87			The Queen	Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell	After the death of Princess Diana, HRM Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
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89	2006	X	Crash	Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton	Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters.
90			Brokeback Mountain	Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams	The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years.
91			Capote	Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr., Catherine Keener	Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.
92			Good Night, and Good Luck	David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson	Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.
93			Munich	Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josee Croze	Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.
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95	2005	X	Million Dollar Baby	Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman	A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer.
96		X	The Aviator	Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale	A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.
97			Finding Neverland	Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie	The story of J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
98			Ray	Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington	The life and career of the legendary popular music pianist, Ray Charles.
99		X	Sideways	Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen	Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment, embark on a week long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.
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