Ahead of the 97th Oscars, we are ranking all of the Best Picture winners in the history of the Academy Awards. Parasite, Oppenheimer, and more.

More than anything, every best-picture winner serves as a snapshot of its particular moment, reflecting both the ever-changing film industry and the stories that captured our hearts and minds ...

Here's a list of every woman who has won Best Actress since the first Academy Awards in 1929, including Emma Stone, Meryl Streep, Michelle Yeoh, Katharine Hepburn, Halle Berry and more.

Yet the latter takes the cake for being the most-nominated movie to win in every single nominated ... Only three best picture winners were directed by women: Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" ...

We’ve gone back and rewatched every Best Picture winner since the year 2000, and the result has been eye-opening. Some films have aged poorly, some have surprisingly stood the test of time ...

Aside from Best Picture, every award at the Oscars is voted on ... the system “is to ensure that the Best Picture winner is the movie that is the most widely liked by the electorate." ...