Oscars: Every Best Picture Winner Ever Ranked From Worst To Best

By Jack Pooley / March 6, 2018

68. Gandhi (1982)

The first of the many brutally long epic historical dramas which won Best Picture throughout the 1980s, Gandhi is best remembered for Ben Kingsley's remarkable, Oscar-winning performance than anything, while Richard Attenborough's workmanlike direction also scooped him a Best Director win more for its ambition than any particular technical excellence.

In a year where Spielberg's E.T. was everyone's favourite movie, the comparatively freeze-dried Gandhi doesn't really hold up as a fitting victor, especially considering how didactic and procedural it feels for the most part.

The film deserves to be held up as a good biopic all things considered, but it's rather lacking where true passion for its subject is concerned.