How many hours to watch all Best Picture winners?

All 98 Best Picture winners total roughly 224 hours — about 112 days at 2 hours per day, or over 9 days of non-stop viewing.

What is the longest Best Picture winner?

Gone with the Wind (1939) at 238 minutes is the longest winner. Ben-Hur (1959) at 212 minutes and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) at 227 minutes are also among the longest.

What is the shortest Best Picture winner?

Marty (1955) at 91 minutes and Annie Hall (1977) at 93 minutes are among the shortest Best Picture winners.

How does this compare to Oscar nominees?

Recent Best Picture nominee cycles alone total 80–100 hours. See our Oscar nominees marathon guide for that list.

How long to watch every Best Picture Oscar winner?

From Wings (1927) to One Battle After Another (2025), the Best Picture catalog spans nearly a century of cinema.

All 98 Academy Award Best Picture winners are listed below with runtimes and streaming availability — from Wings through the latest winner, One Battle After Another.

Total films

Total runtime

226 hours

Average runtime

2h 18min

At 2 hours/day

112.9 days

98 Best Picture winners totaling 226 hours — about 113 days at 2 hours per day.

#	Film	Streaming	Year	Runtime
1	Wings	—	1927	2h 24min
2	The Broadway Melody	—	1929	1h 40min
3	All Quiet on the Western Front	fuboTV	1930	2h 32min
4	Cimarron	Artiflix	1931	2h 3min
5	Grand Hotel	—	1932	1h 52min
6	Cavalcade	—	1933	1h 50min
7	It Happened One Night	—	1934	1h 45min
8	Mutiny on the Bounty	TCM	1935	2h 12min
9	The Great Ziegfeld	—	1936	3h 5min
10	The Life of Emile Zola	—	1937	1h 56min
11	You Can't Take It with You	—	1938	2h 6min
12	Gone with the Wind	HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel	1939	3h 58min
13	Rebecca	Brew	1940	2h 10min
14	How Green Was My Valley	—	1941	1h 58min
15	Mrs. Miniver	IndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel	1942	2h 14min
16	Casablanca	HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, TCM	1942	1h 42min
17	Going My Way	—	1944	2h 6min
18	The Lost Weekend	—	1945	1h 41min
19	The Best Years of Our Lives	Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, YouTube TV	1946	2h 50min
20	Gentleman's Agreement	—	1947	1h 58min
21	Hamlet	Criterion Channel, fuboTV, HBO Max	1948	2h 33min
22	All the King's Men	—	1949	1h 49min
23	All About Eve	Artiflix, Broadway HD Amazon Channel	1950	2h 18min
24	An American in Paris	—	1951	1h 53min
25	The Greatest Show on Earth	—	1952	2h 32min
26	From Here to Eternity	—	1953	1h 58min
27	On the Waterfront	Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel	1954	1h 48min
28	Marty	—	1955	1h 31min
29	Around the World in 80 Days	—	1956	2h 55min
30	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel	1957	2h 41min
31	Gigi	—	1958	1h 55min
32	Ben-Hur	—	1959	3h 32min
33	The Apartment	—	1960	2h 5min
34	West Side Story	YouTube TV	1961	2h 33min
35	Lawrence of Arabia	Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads	1962	3h 47min
36	Tom Jones	Criterion Channel, HBO Max	1963	2h 8min
37	My Fair Lady	fuboTV, MGM Plus	1964	2h 50min
38	The Sound of Music	Disney Plus	1965	2h 52min
39	A Man for All Seasons	—	1966	2h
40	In the Heat of the Night	History Vault, IndieFlix, IndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel	1967	1h 49min
41	Oliver!	—	1968	2h 33min
42	Midnight Cowboy	fuboTV, MGM Plus, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel	1969	1h 53min
43	Patton	Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads	1970	2h 52min
44	The French Connection	Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, fuboTV	1971	1h 44min
45	The Godfather	fuboTV, MGM Plus, Paramount Plus Essential	1972	2h 55min
46	The Sting	TCM	1973	2h 9min
47	The Godfather Part II	fuboTV, MGM Plus, Paramount Plus Essential	1974	3h 22min
48	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	—	1975	2h 13min
49	Rocky	fuboTV, MGM Plus, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel	1976	2h
50	Annie Hall	YouTube TV	1977	1h 33min
51	The Deer Hunter	—	1978	3h 3min
52	Kramer vs. Kramer	—	1979	1h 45min
53	Ordinary People	fuboTV, MGM Plus, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel	1980	2h 4min
54	Chariots of Fire	—	1981	2h 5min
55	Gandhi	Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel	1982	3h 11min
56	Terms of Endearment	fuboTV, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Premium	1983	2h 12min
57	Amadeus	Criterion Channel	1984	2h 40min
58	Out of Africa	Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads, YouTube TV	1985	2h 41min
59	Platoon	fuboTV, MGM Plus, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel	1986	2h
60	The Last Emperor	Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV Channel, Criterion Channel	1987	2h 43min
61	Rain Man	Wonder Project Amazon Channel	1988	2h 13min
62	Driving Miss Daisy	—	1989	1h 39min
63	Dances with Wolves	fuboTV, MGM Plus, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel	1990	3h 1min
64	The Silence of the Lambs	Criterion Channel, fuboTV, MGM Plus	1991	1h 58min
65	Unforgiven	AMC+ Roku Premium Channel	1992	2h 11min
66	Schindler's List	Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads	1993	3h 15min
67	Forrest Gump	fuboTV, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Premium	1994	2h 22min
68	Braveheart	Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount+ Amazon Channel	1995	2h 58min
69	The English Patient	fuboTV, MGM Plus, MGM+ Amazon Channel	1996	2h 42min
70	Titanic	Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount+ Amazon Channel	1997	3h 14min
71	Shakespeare in Love	fuboTV, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Premium	1998	2h 3min
72	American Beauty	—	1999	2h 2min
73	Gladiator	fuboTV, Kanopy, Paramount Plus Essential	2000	2h 35min
74	A Beautiful Mind	—	2001	2h 15min
75	Chicago	fuboTV, MGM Plus, MGM+ Amazon Channel	2002	1h 53min
76	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel	2003	3h 21min
77	Million Dollar Baby	fuboTV, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Premium	2004	2h 12min
78	Crash	Philo	2005	1h 52min
79	The Departed	AMC, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel	2006	2h 31min
80	No Country for Old Men	fuboTV, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Premium	2007	2h 2min
81	Slumdog Millionaire	—	2008	2h
82	The Hurt Locker	Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads	2009	2h 11min
83	The King's Speech	Britbox Apple TV Channel , fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium	2010	1h 58min
84	The Artist	Lionsgate+ Amazon Channels, Philo	2011	1h 40min
85	Argo	—	2012	2h
86	12 Years a Slave	—	2013	2h 14min
87	Birdman	—	2014	1h 59min
88	Spotlight	fuboTV	2015	2h 9min
89	Moonlight	Hulu	2016	1h 51min
90	The Shape of Water	Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV Channel, HBO Max	2017	2h 3min
91	Green Book	Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads	2018	2h 10min
92	Parasite	—	2019	2h 12min
93	Nomadland	Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads	2020	1h 47min
94	CODA	Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel	2021	1h 51min
95	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Hulu, YouTube TV	2022	2h 19min
96	Oppenheimer	—	2023	3h
97	Anora	Hulu	2024	2h 19min
98	One Battle After Another	Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, HBO Max	2025	2h 42min

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Frequently asked questions

: All 98 Best Picture winners total roughly 224 hours — about 112 days at 2 hours per day, or over 9 days of non-stop viewing.
: Gone with the Wind (1939) at 238 minutes is the longest winner. Ben-Hur (1959) at 212 minutes and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) at 227 minutes are also among the longest.
: Marty (1955) at 91 minutes and Annie Hall (1977) at 93 minutes are among the shortest Best Picture winners.
: Recent Best Picture nominee cycles alone total 80–100 hours. See our Oscar nominees marathon guide for that list.

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