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

15. Patton (1970)

Patton is remembered largely for George C. Scott's monumental, Oscar-winning performance as General George S. Patton, which dominates practically every single scene of the movie and is by far his most iconic role for mighty fine reason.

Amusingly, Scott was the first actor to ever refuse the Oscar (expressing a dislike for acting being a competition), while the film went on to win a total of seven awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Franklin J. Schaffner) and Best Original Screenplay for Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North.

It is a rare near-three-hour movie that doesn't feel that long, with Scott's ludicrously charismatic turn making the minutes tick by alongside an even-handed script that refuses to become a mere flag-waving hagiography.