Top 5 Best Movies to Win Best Picture Oscar

5. The French Connection (1971). Others might choose Casablanca or On the Waterfront. However, this seminal film influenced not only the modern cop drama, but on location filming; the grungy side streets and back alleys of NYC are practically the 3rd lead in the movie.

4. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). The first great anti-war movie. Though nearly 80 years old, it retains much of its power, with battle scenes that are still graphic and realistic.

3. Schindler’s List (1993). Spielberg takes on the enormity of the Holocaust, fights his urges to go sentimental and pulls it off.

2. The Godfather II (1974). Stands up remarkably well to its predecessor. Also a brilliant response to what the world misunderstood about the first one (the Corleones were never meant to be cultural icons; they were criminals).

1. The Godfather (1972). The great American epic about the seductiveness of power. Simply one of the greatest films ever made.

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