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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Oscars Best Picture Winners, Ranked

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In honor of this year's Oscars, we polled listeners to ask a simple question: What's the best best picture winner of all time? Today, we run through our listeners' ranking of the Top 10, and give our picks for the best winner of all time.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A warning, this episode contains mention of suicide.

0:04.0

In honor of this year's Oscars, we pulled listeners to ask a simple question.

0:13.1

What is the best, best picture winner of all time?

0:17.1

Ninety-three movies have won the prize, including some of the greatest films of all time, not

0:21.6

to mention the occasional head scratcher.

0:24.5

I'm Linda Holmes.

0:25.8

And I'm Steven Thompson, and today we have got your ranking of the top ten best picture

0:30.7

winners and some picks of our own on pop culture happy hour from NPR.

0:35.4

Joining Linda and me today from his home studio is Glenn Weldon of NPR's Culture Desk,

0:39.8

Kai Glen.

0:40.8

Hey, Steven.

0:41.8

And also here from her home on the West Coast is Aisha Harris.

0:44.3

Hey Aisha.

0:45.3

Hey Steven.

0:46.3

It is a pleasure to have us all here.

0:49.1

So in recent weeks, we've asked listeners to answer a poll in which they choose the best

0:54.2

best picture winners of all time.

0:56.7

Each voter got five picks, so you didn't necessarily have to decide between, say, Casablanca

1:02.6

and Green Book, thousands of people answered the call, giving us a hearty cross section

1:08.1

of choices.

1:09.1

In fact, 91 of the 93 best picture winners got votes with the only shout outs going to

1:14.9

1931s, Simaron, and 1937s, the life of Emule Zola.

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