# The Best Picture winners of the 2010s

The ten films released between 2010 and 2019 that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, from The King's Speech to Parasite.

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- Mar 24, 2026 · pieter_couchpotato
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## Top 10

1. **The King's Speech** (62 · ▲70 ▼8) — Tom Hooper, 2010. Colin Firth as George VI and his stammer.
2. **The Artist** (59 · ▲63 ▼4) — Michel Hazanavicius, 2011. A silent black-and-white film, the first to win since 1929.
3. **Argo** (55 · ▲61 ▼6) — Ben Affleck, 2012. The CIA rescue of six Americans from Tehran posing as a film crew.
4. **12 Years a Slave** (44 · ▲51 ▼7) — Steve McQueen, 2013. Solomon Northup's memoir of being kidnapped into slavery.
5. **Birdman** (38 · ▲47 ▼9) — Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2014. Michael Keaton stages a Broadway play, shot as if in one take.
6. **Spotlight** (30 · ▲38 ▼8) — Tom McCarthy, 2015. The Boston Globe investigation into abuse in the Catholic Church.
7. **The Shape of Water** (29 · ▲37 ▼8) — Guillermo del Toro, 2017. A mute cleaner and an amphibian man.
8. **Parasite** (23 · ▲32 ▼9) — Bong Joon-ho, 2019. The first non-English-language Best Picture winner.
9. **Green Book** (22 · ▲35 ▼13) — Peter Farrelly, 2018. A pianist and his driver tour the segregated South.
10. **Moonlight** (11 · ▲26 ▼15) — Barry Jenkins, 2016. Chiron's life in three chapters; announced after the La La Land mix-up.

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