Best Picture

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The 2022 Academy Awards, honoring films from 2021, saw CODA win Best Picture. The ceremony clarified categories and corrected misannouncements, underscoring the industry’s evo...

Awards Coverage

The 2022 Academy Awards named CODA as the Best Picture winner, marking the first time a streaming-exclusive film won the top prize. This outcome highlighted evolving distributio...

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The Best Picture nominees for the 2024 ceremonies (honoring films released in 2023) reflected a year of polarizing blockbusters, intimate auteurs, and streaming‑first breakthr...

Guides And Explainers

The Critics Choice Movie Award for Best Picture is an annual honor presented by the Critics Choice Association (CCA) to the film the organization deems to have achieved the most...

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The 2017 Best Picture nominees reflect a year of diverse storytelling, bold genre experiments, and polarizing Oscar conversations. Chosen by the Academy’s voting membership un...

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The 2023 Oscar Best Picture nominees were announced during the 95th Academy Awards cycle, recognizing excellence in filmmaking from eligible releases in 2022. This curated list...

Guides And Explainers

The 2026 Oscar winner for Best Picture was “Collective” , a documentary directed by American filmmaker Laura Poitras . The award was presented at the 98th Academy Awards cer...

Awards Analysis

The Golden Globes Best Picture nominees are chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), a group of international journalists who cover entertainment from Los Angel...

Awards Analysis

This guide explains how the Academy typically builds its Best Picture slate and what to expect for the Oscars 2026 race. Because the official nominees for the 2026 ceremony will...

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The film that won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 88th Academy Awards in 2016 was Spotlight , the investigative drama about the Boston Globe’s reporting on Catholic Church s...