# The Best Picture winners of the 1990s

The ten films released between 1990 and 1999 that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, from Dances with Wolves to American Beauty.

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- Mar 24, 2026 · Alba Cano
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## Top 10

1. **Dances with Wolves** (14 · ▲15 ▼1) — Kevin Costner, 1990. A Union lieutenant among the Sioux; seven Oscars.
2. **The Silence of the Lambs** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Jonathan Demme, 1991. It won the 'Big Five' Oscars.
3. **Unforgiven** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Clint Eastwood, 1992. An old gunfighter kills for money one last time.
4. **Schindler's List** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Steven Spielberg, 1993. Oskar Schindler saves more than a thousand Jews; seven Oscars.
5. **Forrest Gump** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Robert Zemeckis, 1994. Tom Hanks through half a century of US history.
6. **Shakespeare in Love** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — John Madden, 1998. A young Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet.
7. **Braveheart** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Mel Gibson, 1995. William Wallace and Scottish independence.
8. **The English Patient** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Anthony Minghella, 1996. A burned aviator recalls a love affair in the desert; nine Oscars.
9. **Titanic** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — James Cameron, 1997. Eleven Oscars, a shared record, and the highest-grossing film for twelve years.
10. **American Beauty** (0 · ▲3 ▼3) — Sam Mendes, 1999. A suburban father's midlife crisis.

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