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Best Picture winners

Order by the release year of the winning film. You place all 53 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the Best Picture winners timeline game

Each card is a film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and you're putting them in order by the year the film was released. The director's name sits under each title. One winner starts on the timeline with its year in view. Every new card goes into the gap you think is right. A good placement turns up the year; get it wrong and the film still lands where it belongs, at the cost of one of three lives.

The winners stretch from the studio era's lavish epics to recent independent films and international breakthroughs. Not every winner is here, so gaps open up in places you won't expect. The director's name helps if you know their careers, but a long career can cover a lot of ground. Prestige dramas from the middle of the list are the ones people misplace most.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 244 times. An average run places 11.3 cards, and 80% of all placements land in the right spot. Only 10 runs have ever placed every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Out of Africa missed 43% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Ordinary People missed 41% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Chariots of Fire missed 40% of the time, usually by a single place

The safest card is Casablanca, placed right 97% of the time.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 53 cards you might be dealt, with 25 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming
  • Casablanca Michael Curtiz
  • The Sound of Music Robert Wise
  • The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola
  • Annie Hall Woody Allen
  • Ordinary People Robert Redford
  • Gandhi Richard Attenborough
  • Out of Africa Sydney Pollack
  • The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Driving Miss Daisy Bruce Beresford
  • Dances with Wolves Kevin Costner
  • Unforgiven Clint Eastwood
  • Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis
  • The English Patient Anthony Minghella
  • Shakespeare in Love John Madden
  • Gladiator Ridley Scott
  • Chicago Rob Marshall
  • Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood
  • The Departed Martin Scorsese
  • No Country for Old Men Coen brothers
  • The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow
  • The Artist Michel Hazanavicius
  • 12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen
  • Spotlight Tom McCarthy
  • The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro
  • Parasite Bong Joon-ho
  • CODA Sian Heder
  • Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan

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