Critically acclaimed movies that are oscar winners in best picture category

Actors : Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Joan Chen, Ruocheng Ying,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The story of the final Emperor of China.

Actors : John Savage, John Cazale, Christopher Walken, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Robert Benton,

Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.

Actors : Michael Strong, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, George C. Scott,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.

Actors : Tom Cruise, Gerald R. Molen, Dustin Hoffman, Valeria Golino,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

Actors : Rodney A. Grant, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Kevin Costner,

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.

Actors : Andrea Riseborough, Edward Norton, Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis,
Directors : Alejandro González Iñárritu,

A washed-up actor, who once played a famous superhero, attempts to revive his career by writing and starring in a Broadway play.

Actors : Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Angus Macfadyen, Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan,
Directors : Mel Gibson,

When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : George Cukor,

A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Actors : Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Lee Grant, Warren Oates,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.

Actors : Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Meryl Streep, Michael Kitchen,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

Actors : Mark Lester, Shani Wallis, Ron Moody, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Carol Reed,

Young Oliver Twist runs away from an orphanage and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Actors : Albert Finney, George Devine, Susannah York, Rachel Kempson,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England.

Actors : Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.