IMDb's Top 10 Highest-Rated Best Picture Oscar Winners

Mumbai, February 13 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for the 94th Academy Awards on Tuesday (Feb. 8). Benedict Cumberbatch-starrer "The Power of the Dog" led the show with 12 nominations, including the Best Picture.

This year, the Best Picture category includes 10 films - "The Power of the Dog", "CODA", "Belfast ", "Dune", "King Richard", "West Side Story", "Don't Look Up", "Drive My Car", "Licorice Pizza", and Nightmare Alley. Among these films, "Dune" is one of the highest-rated movies of 2021 while "Don't Look Up" is on the other side, though it has been hailed for its subject.



It remains to see which film begs Oscars for the Best Picture, but analysts are predicting that it could be between "Dune", and "Power of The Dog", two of the top-rated movies. On IMDb, "Dune's" rating is 8.1 while "Power of The Dog" is rated with 6.9 ratings.

Meanwhile, IMDb has released the list of top 10 highest-rated Best Picture Oscars winning movies of all time. "The Godfather" (1972), based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same name, lends at the number position with IMDb ratings of 9.2. At the 45th Academy Awards, the film won Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay, in addition to 7 other nominations.

The sequel to "Godfather", released in 1974, is IMDb's 2nd highest-rated movie that won the Best Picture Oscar. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards at the 47th Academy Awards and went on to win 6 of them. "The Godfather Part II" also became the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar.



Tom Hanks' comedy-drama "Forrest Gump", which is also being remade in Hindi as "Lal Singh Chadha", starring superstar Aamir Khan, had won the 6 Oscars including Best Picture at the 67th Academy Awards. In the IMDb's list of the Best Picture winners, "Forest Gump" lands at number 5. "Gladiator" ranks number 10 in the list. It won Best Picture among the 5 Oscars at the 73rd Academy Awards.

Check out the complete list of Highest-Rated Best Picture Oscar winners on IMDb -

1. The Godfather (1972) - 9.2



2. The Godfather: Part II (1974) - 9.0

3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - 8.9

4. Schindler's List (1993) - 8.9

5. Forrest Gump (1994) - 8.8

6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - 8.7

7. Parasite (2019) - 8.6

8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - 8.6

9. The Departed (2006) - 8.5

10. Gladiator (2000) - 8.5

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