Oscar Best Picture Winners, Ranked
All 34 films here, ranked by 68 players. No Country for Old Men leads: it wins 76.3% of its matchups (n = 177) and was champion in 15 of 68 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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Birdman2015 Winner
The Holdovers2024 Nominee
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Oscar Best Picture: the community’s best
Win rate across 1,838 head-to-head picks from 68 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Best Picture winner | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Country for Old Men2008 Winner | 135–42 | 76.3% | 15 | 177 | |
| 2 | Parasite2020 Winner | 128–48 | 72.7% | 10 | 176 | |
| 3 | Oppenheimer2024 Winner | 118–51 | 69.8% | 7 | 169 | |
| 4 | The Departed2007 Winner | 102–51 | 66.7% | 5 | 153 | |
| 5 | Joker2020 Nominee | 101–58 | 63.5% | 2 | 159 | |
| 6 | La La Land2017 Nominee | 95–55 | 63.3% | 5 | 150 | |
| 7 | Everything Everywhere All at Once2023 Winner | 86–54 | 61.4% | 4 | 140 | |
| 8 | 19172020 Nominee | 84–60 | 58.3% | 1 | 144 |
Oscar Best Picture: the community tier list
From 1,838 head-to-head picks in 68 finished brackets. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Nobody yet
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- No Country for Old Men
- Parasite
- Oppenheimer
- The Departed
- Joker
- La La Land
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- 1917
- Birdman
- Barbie
- 12 Years a Slave
- Green Book
- Moonlight
- Slumdog Millionaire
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- The Holdovers
- Anora
- One Battle After Another
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Anatomy of a Fall
- The King's Speech
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- The Zone of Interest
- Past Lives
- Tar
- The Hurt Locker
- The Power of the Dog
- The Shape of Water
- Argo
- The Fabelmans
- + 5 more
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Maestro
How the Oscar Best Picture bracket works
This Best Picture winner ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Everything Everywhere All at Once or Oppenheimer? Parasite or Nomadland? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 34 films in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 34 films. The draw is seeded: the same for everyone today, different tomorrow, and different again whenever you press New draw. You can also play it at 8 or 32 or 34 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 34 entrants
All 34 entrants are listed below, including Everything Everywhere All at Once, Oppenheimer, Parasite and Nomadland. Updated
- Everything Everywhere All at Once2023 Winner
- Oppenheimer2024 Winner
- Parasite2020 Winner
- Nomadland2021 Winner
- CODA2022 Winner
- Moonlight2017 Winner
- The Shape of Water2018 Winner
- Green Book2019 Winner
- Spotlight2016 Winner
- Birdman2015 Winner
- 12 Years a Slave2014 Winner
- Argo2013 Winner
- The Artist2012 Winner
- The King's Speech2011 Winner
- The Hurt Locker2010 Winner
- No Country for Old Men2008 Winner
- Anora2025 Winner
- The Departed2007 Winner
- La La Land2017 Nominee
- 19172020 Nominee
- Joker2020 Nominee
- The Power of the Dog2022 Nominee
- The Fabelmans2023 Nominee
- Tar2023 Nominee
- Killers of the Flower Moon2024 Nominee
- Barbie2024 Nominee
- The Holdovers2024 Nominee
- Past Lives2024 Nominee
- Anatomy of a Fall2024 Nominee
- American Fiction2024 Nominee
- The Zone of Interest2024 Nominee
- Maestro2024 Nominee
- One Battle After Another2026 Winner
- Slumdog Millionaire2009 Winner
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Questions people ask
What is the best Best Picture winner?
According to 68 BracketRanker players, No Country for Old Men (2008 Winner). It wins 76.3% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 177) and was champion in 15 of 68 brackets (22.1%).
How many films are in the Oscar Best Picture bracket?
The pool holds 34 films. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32, 34 slots.
Which films are included?
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Oppenheimer, Parasite, Nomadland, CODA, Moonlight, The Shape of Water, Green Book, Spotlight, Birdman, 12 Years a Slave and Argo, plus 22 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Oscar Best Picture bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, no login is involved, and progress saves as you go.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other film grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two films that never met. If you would rather place the films into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 34 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these films?
Every completed bracket feeds the Oscar Best Picture community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 34 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own oscar best picture bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own films, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 34 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.