The Pulpy winners for Best Picture, since 1930, subject to change because I change my mind...a lot. Disagree? Um...it's not your blog.
1930: Under the Roofs of Paris (Rene Clair)
1931: City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
1932: Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
1933: King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)
1934: It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
1935: Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
1936: Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand?)
1938: Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
1939: The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
1940: His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1942: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
1943: Day of Wrath (Carl Dreyer)
1944: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
1945: Brief Encounter (David Lean)
1946: It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
1947: Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton)
1948: Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
1949: Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
1950: Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
1952: Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)
1953: Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
1954: On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
1955: Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
1956: The Searchers (John Ford)
1957: Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959: Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
1960: The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
1961: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
1962: To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
1963: 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
1964: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
1965: Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
1966: Blow-up (Michelangelo Antonini)
1967: The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
1968: The Producers (Mel Brooks)
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
1970: Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
1971: The French Connection (William Friedkin)
1972: The Godfather (Frances Ford Coppola)
1973: The Sting (George Roy Hill)
1974: Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
1975: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
1976: Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
1977: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1978: Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
1979: Manhattan (Woody Allen)
1980: Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
1982: Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
1983: The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
1984: Amadeus (Milos Forman)
1985: The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
1986: Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
1987: Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
1988: Die Hard (John McTiernan)
1989: Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
1990: Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
1991: The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
1992: The Player (Robert Altman)
1993: Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
1994: Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
1995: The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
1996: The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
1997: Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson)
1998: The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
1999: American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
2000: Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
2001: Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann)
2002: Chicago (Rob Marshall)
2003: Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michael Gondry)
2005: A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
2006: The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
...I know, after 1990 I get really boring, but screw it.
# of Best Picture winners: I believe I counted 16 (hopefully this year'll make it 17). I don't pride myself on elitism like some people though, so even if the number was, you know, 50, I'd feel fine.
