# 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.

Source: https://rankiew.app/blog/best-picture-winners-2010s
Published: 2026-10-25
Author: Rankiew
Tags: oscars, best picture, oscar winners, moonlight, parasite

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)

::film[The King's Speech|2010]

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

- **Director:** Tom Hooper
- **Genre:** History, Drama

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

**Oscars:** 2011 · Winner: Best Picture

## 2. The Artist (2011)

::film[The Artist|2011]

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

- **Director:** Michel Hazanavicius
- **Genre:** Drama, Comedy

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

**Oscars:** 2012 · Winner: Best Picture

## 3. Argo (2012)

::film[Argo|2012]

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

- **Director:** Ben Affleck
- **Genre:** Thriller, History

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

**Oscars:** 2013 · Winner: Best Picture

## 4. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

::film[12 Years a Slave|2013]

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

- **Director:** Steve McQueen
- **Genre:** History, Drama

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

**Oscars:** 2014 · Winner: Best Picture

## 5. Birdman (2014)

::film[Birdman|2014]

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

- **Director:** Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- **Genre:** Comedy, Drama

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

**Oscars:** 2015 · Winner: Best Picture

## 6. Spotlight (2015)

::film[Spotlight|2015]

Boston Globe reporters uncover abuse in the Catholic Church.

- **Director:** Tom McCarthy
- **Genre:** Drama, History

**Worth it if:** you love investigative journalism.

**Oscars:** 2016 · Winner: Best Picture

## 7. Moonlight (2016)

::film[Moonlight|2016]

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

- **Director:** Barry Jenkins
- **Genre:** Drama

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

**Oscars:** 2017 · Winner: Best Picture

## 8. The Shape of Water (2017)

::film[The Shape of Water|2017]

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

- **Director:** Guillermo del Toro
- **Genre:** Fantasy, Drama

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

**Oscars:** 2018 · Winner: Best Picture

## 9. Green Book (2018)

::film[Green Book|2018]

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

- **Director:** Peter Farrelly
- **Genre:** Drama, Comedy

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

**Oscars:** 2019 · Winner: Best Picture

## 10. Parasite (2019)

::film[Parasite|2019]

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

- **Director:** Bong Joon Ho
- **Genre:** Thriller, Comedy

**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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