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

11. Annie Hall (1977)

Annie Hall Woody Allen Diane Keaton
United Artists

Woody Allen's one-of-a-kind romantic comedy firmly flipped the bird to conventional Hollywood romance with a cheekily self-aware, fourth-wall-breaking effort that brilliantly satirised aching middle-class neurosis while telling a genuinely touching - not to mention hilarious - romance between a never-better Allen and Diane Keaton.

Annie Hall deserves a high spot on this list for the cocaine scene and the Marshall McLuhan cameo alone, but it's a rare Best Picture winner that manages to be refreshingly unpretentious, relatively "low stakes" and also devilishly smart all at the same time.

Allen's name is always going to colour the film somewhat, but it is one of cinema's all-time great examples of a master filmmaker in total control of their work.

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