Oscars: Every Best Picture Winner Ever Ranked From Worst To Best
12. Unforgiven (1992)
Easily the best directorial effort of Clint Eastwood's career - which netted him his first Best Picture and Best Director wins - Unforgiven is a masterful revisionist western which smartly subverts the myriad hard-hitting roles Eastwood has played over the years, in one of the most psychologically complex westerns ever made.
From the fantastic ensemble cast to Jack N. Green's beautiful cinematography and the movie's overall unconventionally haunting tenor, it's easily the best western of the last 30 years, and a Best Picture winner perfectly braced between demands both populist and "worthy".
Eastwood losing the Best Actor Oscar to a long-overdue Al Pacino for his scenery-chewing performance in Scent of a Woman is also a major point of contention, and really, Eastwood probably should've netted the acting gong he still remains without today.