From Schindler to Oppenheimer: all Best Pictures at the Oscars in the past 30 years

Steven Spielberg's masterpiece is full of images that are burned into the collective memory. How do you portray the horror of the Holocaust? Spielberg did it in his own way, and he achieved glory.

"Stupid is who stupid does." It's one of the phrases in 'Forrest Gump,' a film not particularly brilliant but with the presence of a Tom Hanks who can handle everything. This year, 'Pulp Fiction' should have won, but the Academy did not dare to select it.

Mel Gibson is a director with enormous strength and radical ideas. He filmed both a violent interpretation of 'The Passion of the Christ' and this epic celebration of Scottish courage.

A romantic and beautiful film directed by the British Anthony Minghella. With an exceptional cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth...

A James Cameron blockbuster that tells a beautiful love story. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are especially attractive, young and with enough chemistry between them to thrill any spectator or viewer. One of those movies that you have to see at least once in your life.

One of the best works of Gwyneth Paltrow. And not to mention Judy Dench as Elizabeth I (photo). The Oscar should have gone to 'The Thin Red Line,' however. It was a controversial year for the Oscars.

The American dream blown up with a typical American family as the focus of all the dysfunctions in the world. Kevin Spacey was fabulous in this role.

Gladiator was the result of the union of mainstream cinema and the genre of featherweight purists. How do you combine that? Starring Russell Crowe (and directed by Ridley Scott), in a somewhat diffuse way, the film did it.

Russell Crowe again. Here he was playing John Forbes Nash, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. Never before was a mental illness as complicated as schizophrenia explained so well on the big screen.

A music film that won the Oscar for Best Picture. And it did so in competition with Martin Scorsese's 'Gangs of New York', Roman Polanski's 'The Pianist', 'The Hours' of Stephen Daldry, and Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.' That's impressive.

Going back to the Lord of the Rings saga, this one did take the award. It was the third in the chronological order, the one that came after T'he Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.' And it was also the biggest box-office hit of all time.

Clint Eastwood directed it, he participated in the production, composed the soundtrack, and played one of the main roles. The film addressed issues such as machismo, self-improvement, and morality in sports.

The typical interlocking comic book movie. In the end, it did not turn out to be the typical interwoven comic book film, but it became a turning point in the genre nas well as a comprehensive analysis of the human condition.

In 'The Departed,' Martin Scorsese did what he does best. And what he's best at, is directing underworld or majestic movies.

Based on the 2005 novel of the same name by American author Cormac McCarthy, and starring Javier Bardem, this film answers the question: what happens if a failed drug exchange in a remote part of the desert goes wrong? Well, this.

That day when Bollywood snuck into the Oscars. A masterpiece, from beginning to end.

This film tells the daily story of an American bomb disposal unit deployed in Iraq. It does in such a way that Americans liked it enough to give it the Oscar.

Stuttering, British royalty, and a lot of historical inspiration gave power to this story. Visually it's not bad either.

Shot in black and white and without sound, The Artist recovers the magic that cinema lost when it won in technical advances.

Another film on the external conflicts of the United States. This time it's about the Iranian hostage crisis. Ben Affleck is both director and protagonist.

A freeborn African-American from New York State is kidnapped in Washington D.C. in 1841, sold into slavery, and released in 1853. The film tells the story of him working on plantations in Louisiana for 12 years.

From the Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu, this film brings a lot of black humour, fantasy, and know-how. Its greatest merit? Being shot in a single sequence (except for some shots at the beginning and end). One hundred and nineteen minutes of film (almost) in a single sequence shot.

Based on real events, the movie tells how the Boston Globe uncovered a child sex abuse scandal in the Church. In real life, the newspaper won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for this achievement in public service.

This film is divided into three segments. It tells the story of the childhood, adolescence and maturity of Chiron, an African-American boy without a father who grows up in a depressed and troubled suburb of Miami.

This is a modern fable, a fantastic tale, and a beautiful yet sad story of love, innocence (or its loss), and alienation. The world is divided between those who idolize it and those who criticize it. But it won the Oscar.

A dramatic comedy dealing with the issue of racism as a central theme. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) is an African-American pianist who hires a tough Italian-American man (Viggo Mortensen) as a driver and bodyguard during a tour of the 1960s' southern United States. Directed by Peter Farrelly, it surprised many people by winning the Oscar for Best Picture.

A historic victory for Korean director Bong Joon-ho, as his black comedy 'Parasite' was the first ever to win the Oscar in both 'Best Picture' and 'Best International Feature Film.' Breaking the traditional language barrier of the Oscars, the film discusses the intertwined lives of a very poor and an extremely wealthy family in Korea.

Fern is in her sixties when she loses her job and her home. She decides to travel across the western United States and finds a community of other nomads, each with their own story and method of survival. Lead actress Frances McDormand and director Chloe Zhao won several awards - including Oscars - for their work on this movie.

Originally in French under the title 'La Famille Bélier,' this film tells the story of a high school student whose parents are deaf. While helping them with their fishing enterprise, she dreams of a better future after school. Cast member Troy Kotsur won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He's the first deaf person to do so.

A Chinese-American immigrant played by Michelle Yeoh - who won an Oscar for her role as the first Asian actress to do so - tries to connect with her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) by traveling through parallel universes. It results in a touching movie about mother-daughter relationships with magnificent performances of all actors - including the Oscar winners Ke Hui Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

A look inside the mind of one of the people behind the first atomic bomb. Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. both won Oscars for their roles, while Christopher Nolan got his first Academy Award - after several nominations in his prolific career - for this intense biopic.

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