Every Best Picture Oscar Winner Ranked Worst To Best

The first Hollywood production filmed inside the Forbidden City in Beijing, Bernardo Bertolucci's epic biopic of Puyi, the final Emperor of China, is a visually arresting character study that's at once intimate and sweeping.

Following the young leader through revolution, imprisonment, loss, and war, The Last Emperor avoids politics and instead soars as a deeply personal account of a child forced to become a man too early, in a world quickly and violently changing around him.

Complete with stunning set pieces and some of the greatest visuals ever captured in a Best Picture winner, Bertolucci's drama is strange, ironic, and breathtakingly tragic. You'll find yourself thinking about Puyi and his story long after it's finished.