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I find the Academy Awards to be a joke, and little more than an excuse for Hollywood to be pretentious and circle jerk over how awesome they think they are. Films that win Best Picture are rarely the actual best picture of any given year.

But of the ones that have actually won, I'd probably go with Return of the King. Because it's one of the few movies that shouldn't have won by their usual standards (it was a fantasy movie and wasn't pretentious enough), but won anyway because public support for it was so strong the Academy couldn't get away with snubbing it (even though they almost certainly wanted to).

Other choices for my subjective favorites probably include The Godfather, Gladiator, and Amadeus - though I wouldn't say all of those were the objectively best for their given year either.