Flashback: Oscar Best Picture winners
HEART OF THE OCEAN. Kate Winslet's most memorable scene in the 1998 Oscar Best Picture, 'Titanic.' Photo from the 'Titanic' Facebook page
HOLLYWOOD, USA - Here is a list of the Best Picture Oscar winners from the last 20 years, ahead of this Sunday's 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood.
Steven Spielberg's presidential drama "Lincoln" and Ben Affleck's Iran hostage drama "Argo" are seen as frontrunners, although it is seen as one of the least predictable Oscars races in recent memory.
2012 - "The Artist"
2011 - "The King's Speech"
2010 - "The Hurt Locker"
2009 - "Slumdog Millionaire"
2008 - "No Country for Old Men"
2007 - "The Departed"
2006 - "Crash"
2005 - "Million Dollar Baby"
2004 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
2003 - "Chicago"
2002 - "A Beautiful Mind"
2001 - "Gladiator"
2000 - "American Beauty"
1999 - "Shakespeare in Love"
1998 - "Titanic"
1997 - "The English Patient"
1996 - "Braveheart"
1995 - "Forrest Gump"
1994 - "Schindler's List"
1993 - "Unforgiven"
- Rappler.com
(Rappler live blogs the 85th Oscars on Monday, February 25, 5:30am.)
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