The Best Picture winners of the 2010s
The top 3 according to 547 votes from people: The King's Speech · The Artist · Argo. (Updated Sep 18, 2026.)
The ten films released between 2010 and 2019 that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, from The King's Speech to Parasite.
Top 10
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1
The King's Speech
Tom Hooper, 2010. Colin Firth as George VI and his stammer.
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2
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius, 2011. A silent black-and-white film, the first to win since 1929.
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3
Argo
Ben Affleck, 2012. The CIA rescue of six Americans from Tehran posing as a film crew.
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4
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen, 2013. Solomon Northup's memoir of being kidnapped into slavery.
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5
Birdman
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2014. Michael Keaton stages a Broadway play, shot as if in one take.
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6
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy, 2015. The Boston Globe investigation into abuse in the Catholic Church.
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7
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro, 2017. A mute cleaner and an amphibian man.
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8
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho, 2019. The first non-English-language Best Picture winner.
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9
Green Book
Peter Farrelly, 2018. A pianist and his driver tour the segregated South.
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10
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins, 2016. Chiron's life in three chapters; announced after the La La Land mix-up.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (4)
Parasite winning was the best moment of the decade.
Spotlight is so underrated, perfect journalism movie.
Birdman's fake single take, technically brilliant.
Parasite and Moonlight are the best of the decade. Green Book... not so much 😬