# The Best Picture winners of the 1930s

The ten films from the 1929/30 to 1939 seasons that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, from All Quiet on the Western Front to Gone with the Wind.

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- Mar 18, 2026 · Camila Almeida
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## Top 10

1. **Grand Hotel** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Edmund Goulding, 1932. Greta Garbo and an all-star cast in a Berlin hotel.
2. **Cimarron** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Wesley Ruggles, 1931. The Oklahoma land rush; the first western to win.
3. **All Quiet on the Western Front** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — Lewis Milestone, 1930. German soldiers in the First World War.
4. **It Happened One Night** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Frank Capra, 1934. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert; it won the top five awards.
5. **Cavalcade** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Frank Lloyd, 1933. An English family from 1899 to 1933.
6. **You Can't Take It with You** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Frank Capra, 1938. An eccentric family against a banker.
7. **Mutiny on the Bounty** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Frank Lloyd, 1935. Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh of the Bounty.
8. **The Great Ziegfeld** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Robert Z. Leonard, 1936. The life of Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld.
9. **The Life of Emile Zola** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — William Dieterle, 1937. Paul Muni and the Dreyfus affair.
10. **Gone with the Wind** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Victor Fleming, 1939. Scarlett O'Hara and the American Civil War; eight Oscars.

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