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

14. It Happened One Night (1934)

Frank Capra's delightful screwball comedy hasn't lost a step in the eight and a half decades since its release. It's easily the best and most eminently watchable of the dozen-or-so Best Picture winners, a prototypical "opposites attract" romance with perfectly-matched leads Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert doing some of their finest work (for which they both won Oscars).

It is a warm, prolonged hug of a movie that incredibly avoids feeling saccharine or patronising: there's a real pithiness to the cracking one-liners, which in concert with the aforementioned direction and performances, allowed it to become the first ever film to win the coveted Big Five Oscars (a feat which wasn't repeated for 41 years).