# The Best Picture winners of the 1940s

The ten films released between 1940 and 1949 that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, from Rebecca to All the King's Men.

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- Mar 19, 2026 · leitora.curioso
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## Top 10

1. **Rebecca** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Alfred Hitchcock, 1940. Hitchcock's only Best Picture winner.
2. **Mrs. Miniver** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — William Wyler, 1942. An English family during the war.
3. **Casablanca** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Michael Curtiz, 1942/1943. Rick, Ilsa and the Café Américain.
4. **The Lost Weekend** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Billy Wilder, 1945. An alcoholic writer over one weekend; also the Cannes Grand Prix.
5. **The Best Years of Our Lives** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — William Wyler, 1946. Three veterans return home.
6. **Hamlet** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Laurence Olivier, 1948. The first non-American film to win.
7. **All the King's Men** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Robert Rossen, 1949. The rise of a populist politician.
8. **How Green Was My Valley** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — John Ford, 1941. A Welsh mining family; it beat Citizen Kane.
9. **Going My Way** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Leo McCarey, 1944. Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley.
10. **Gentleman's Agreement** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Elia Kazan, 1947. A journalist poses as Jewish to expose antisemitism.

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