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Every Best Picture winner of the 2010s

The ten Best Picture winners from the 2011 to the 2020 ceremonies, from The King's Speech to Moonlight and Parasite.

By Rankiew · · 3 min read

From a king with a stammer to a Korean thriller, these ten films won Best Picture at the ceremonies from 2011 to 2020. The decade even had the famous envelope mix-up of 2017, when Moonlight won after the wrong title was read.

The ten winners of the decade

1. The King's Speech (2010)

George VI tries to overcome his stammer with the help of an unusual speech therapist.

Worth it if: you want a warm, elegant historical drama.

Oscars: 2011 · Winner: Best Picture

2. The Artist (2011)

A silent film star sees his world fall apart with the arrival of sound.

Worth it if: you want a love letter to old Hollywood.

Oscars: 2012 · Winner: Best Picture

3. Argo (2012)

The CIA invents a fake film to rescue six Americans from Iran in 1980.

Worth it if: you want a true story that plays like a thriller.

Oscars: 2013 · Winner: Best Picture

4. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

Solomon Northup, a free Black man, is kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Worth it if: you are ready for a hard, necessary film.

Oscars: 2014 · Winner: Best Picture

5. Birdman (2014)

A former superhero actor tries to save his career on Broadway.

Worth it if: you like films about actors and their egos.

Oscars: 2015 · Winner: Best Picture

6. Spotlight (2015)

Boston Globe reporters uncover abuse in the Catholic Church.

Worth it if: you love investigative journalism.

Oscars: 2016 · Winner: Best Picture

7. Moonlight (2016)

Three moments in the life of a young Black gay man in Miami.

Worth it if: you want a quiet, intimate and beautiful drama.

Oscars: 2017 · Winner: Best Picture

8. The Shape of Water (2017)

In 1962, a mute cleaner falls in love with an amphibian creature held in a secret lab.

Worth it if: you want a strange and tender love story.

Oscars: 2018 · Winner: Best Picture

9. Green Book (2018)

A Black pianist and his Italian American driver tour the segregated South in 1962.

Worth it if: you want a light road movie about friendship.

Oscars: 2019 · Winner: Best Picture

10. Parasite (2019)

A poor family slowly works its way into the home of a rich family in Seoul, until everything spins out of control.

Worth it if: you want a thriller that is funny, sharp and surprising.

Oscars: 2020 · Winner: Best Picture

Which film won Best Picture at the end of the decade?

Parasite closed the decade at the 2020 ceremony, the first film not in English to win Best Picture.

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