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

4. The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Marlon Brando
Paramount Pictures

What can even be said about Francis Ford Coppola's more-than-iconic crime classic, which is popularly credited with transforming movie gangsters from mere caricatures into full-bodied individuals in their own right?

Beautifully shot, sweepingly epic in the way so few movies successfully are, ultra-violent and undeniably moving, it's a movie that ticks every box a movie conceivably can.

What's perhaps most shocking about The Godfather's Best Picture win is that it won "only" three of its ten Oscar nominations, with Coppola somehow losing Best Director to Cabaret's Bob Fosse, and James Caan, Robert Duvall and Al Pacino cancelling each other out by all being nominated for Best Supporting Actor (allowing Cabaret's Joel Grey to swoop in).

It is the rarest of movies that truly lives up to its hype as one of the greatest films ever made, and one of the most unambiguously deserving Best Picture winners ever.

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