List of Best Pictures, Academy Awards since 1990

Here are the Oscar winners for Best Pictures in the annual Academy Awards since 1990.



1990 Best picture winner : Dances with Wolves directed by Kevin Costner



1991 The Silence of the Lambs directed by Jonathan Demme



1992 Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood




1993 Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg




1994 Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis




1995 Braveheart by Mel Gibson



1996 The English Patient - directed by Anthony Minghella



1997 Titanic by James Cameron




1998 Shakespeare in Love by John Madden



1999 American Beauty by Sam Mendes



2000 Gladiator by Ridley Scott




2001 A Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard




2002 Chicago by Rob Marshall



2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King directed by Peter Jackson




2004 Million Dollar Baby by Clint Eastwood




2005 Crash by Paul Haggis



2006 The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese



2007 No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen




2008 Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle



2009 The Hurt Locker directed by Kathryn Bigelow. This movie about a Bomb Disposal expert beat the highly fancied movie Avatar directed by Kathryn Bigelow ex husband James Cameron



2010 The King's Speech directed by Tom Hooper


2011 - The Artist, a black and white, non dialogue silent French comedy drama movie directed by Michel Hazanavicius. The Artist won 5 Academy Awards in total, Best Picture, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius, Best Actor for French Actor and new darling of Hollywood, Jean Dujardin, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score.

Can an Indian movie win Best Picture at the 81st Academy Award????

Normally only Movie Stars and Hollywood's top actors / actress/ directors walked the red carpet at the annual Academy Award in Hollywood....

We used to see the likes of John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Gene Hackman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Merryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Anne Hathaway, Jane Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rex Harrison, Mae West, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Jackson and other stars at the glamorous event.

But there is significant difference for this year 81st Oscar presentation at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood today Sunday 22 February 2009....

This time, 9 ordinary poor children from the slums of Mumbai in India will also walk the glamorous red carpet, enter the Kodak theatre, be seated and may even walk on stage to receive their Oscar.

They come to Hollywood because they are child actors who starred in India's most successful movie - "Slumdog Millionaire".

'Slumdog Millionaire" produced at a modest cost of USD15 million is nominated for 10 Oscars - including Best Picture at the most prestigious and highest honours of the global movie industry.

'Slumdog millionaire' will be battling it out with "The curious case of Benjamin Button", "The Reader", Frost/Nixon and Milk for the main award - Best Picture.

The plot of the movie tells of 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, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers and win 1 million US Dollar at the show.

Cast - Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Prem Kumar, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Jamal K. Malik and child actors amongst others - Rubina Ali, Mohammed Azhaudin Ismail, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar.

Directed by Danny Boyle - a British.

Since its release in the cinemas on January 9, 2009, Slumdog Millionaire has won 16 awards at the Golden Globes, BAFTA awards and Critics' Choice Awards.



Gee.... Slumdog Millionaire is better than other legendary Bollywood movies such as Bobby, Kuch Kuch Hota Hei, Naya Daur, Gumrah, Zanjeer, Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, Deewar, Sholay (highest ever grossing Bollywood movie) and Coolie.

Even Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Raj Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor,Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Dimple Kapadia, Perveen Babi, Vinod Khanna, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Nargis, Dharmendra, Rekha, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri and Amjad Khan were never nominated for an Oscar in their glittering careers as Bollywood top actors and actresses...!!!!!!