Every Best Picture Oscar Winner Ranked Worst To Best
28. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
This timeless adaptation of Erich Remarque's war novel was the first truly great Best Picture winner, capturing the horrors of life in the trenches of the First World War and remaining almost a century later a relevant and wrenching humanist vision.
All great war movies are explicitly anti-war at heart, but All Quiet on the Western Front wears its pacifism on its sleeve to startling effect, with haunting imagery and an evocative finale that has yet to lose its punch.
Other war films - including a handful left on this list - brought their stories to life with sharper scripts and more nuanced themes, but they wouldn't have been so effective without All Quiet on the Western Front's enduring influence.