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Academy Awards for Best Picture Deservers (1940-2017)

This is not a list of the films who have won the Academy Award for best picture but instead is a list of films that in my opinion deserved the best picture award. Sometimes my opinion about which film deserved the award agrees with the opinion of the Academy but oftenly best picture winners were overshadowed by films which were simply better...
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Rebecca (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
3
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
4
Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
5
Double Indemnity (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
6
Spellbound (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
7
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
8
Out of the Past (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
9
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
10
The Third Man (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
11
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
12
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
13
High Noon (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
14
The Wages of Fear (1953)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
15
On the Waterfront (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
16
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
17
The Searchers (1956)
The Searchers (1956)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
18
12 Angry Men (1957)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
19
Vertigo (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
20
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
21
Psycho (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
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The Hustler (1961)
The Hustler (1961)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
23
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
24
8½ (1963)
8½ (1963)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
25
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
26
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Rotten Tomatoes®   83%
27
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
28
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
29
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
30
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Rotten Tomatoes®   87%
31
Patton (1970)
Patton (1970)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
32
The French Connection (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
33
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
34
Mean Streets (1973)
Mean Streets (1973)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
35
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
36
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
37
Taxi Driver (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
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Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
39
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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