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Rarest Best Picture Winner — All 98 Answers Ranked by Rarity

98 answers are accepted for “Name a Best Picture winner”. The Life of Emile Zola is the rarest Best Picture winner in this ranking, with 31,817 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Cavalcade is the second-rarest with 38,798 monthly Wikipedia views, 1.22× the figure for The Life of Emile Zola. One Battle After Another is the most common Best Picture winner in this ranking, with 11,802,196 monthly Wikipedia views, 370.9× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 98 answers: 74,033,891. The Life of Emile Zola is under 0.1% of that total. 20 answers are Epic or Legendary: The Life of Emile Zola (Legendary), Cavalcade (Legendary), The Great Ziegfeld (Legendary), and 17 more.

Quick answer

Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).

Ranked answers

98 answers to “Name a Best Picture winner”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this prompt.
Rank Answer Tier Rarity Monthly Wikipedia views
1 The Life of Emile Zola on Wikipedia Legendary 1.000 31,817
2 Cavalcade on Wikipedia Legendary 0.990 38,798
3 The Great Ziegfeld on Wikipedia Legendary 0.979 47,241
4 The Broadway Melody on Wikipedia Legendary 0.969 52,281
5 Hamlet on Wikipedia Legendary 0.959 58,427
6 All the King's Men on Wikipedia Legendary 0.948 75,603
7 Cimarron on Wikipedia Legendary 0.938 81,933
8 Mutiny on the Bounty on Wikipedia Epic 0.928 82,506
9 Tom Jones on Wikipedia Epic 0.918 88,700
10 The Lost Weekend on Wikipedia Epic 0.907 88,709
11 Going My Way on Wikipedia Epic 0.897 92,613
12 Gentleman's Agreement on Wikipedia Epic 0.887 94,776
13 Grand Hotel on Wikipedia Epic 0.876 103,027
14 You Can't Take It with You on Wikipedia Epic 0.866 103,693
15 Mrs. Miniver on Wikipedia Epic 0.856 106,907
16 The Greatest Show on Earth on Wikipedia Epic 0.845 123,212
17 Wings on Wikipedia Epic 0.835 133,094
18 Marty on Wikipedia Epic 0.825 148,303
19 Around the World in 80 Days on Wikipedia Epic 0.814 155,658
20 An American in Paris on Wikipedia Epic 0.804 157,819
21 Gigi on Wikipedia Rare 0.794 171,208
22 How Green Was My Valley on Wikipedia Rare 0.784 186,523
23 A Beautiful Mind on Wikipedia Rare 0.773 197,203
24 The Artist on Wikipedia Rare 0.763 231,643
25 The Best Years of Our Lives on Wikipedia Rare 0.753 241,617
26 From Here to Eternity on Wikipedia Rare 0.742 247,142
27 It Happened One Night on Wikipedia Rare 0.732 249,460
28 Patton on Wikipedia Rare 0.722 249,614
29 A Man for All Seasons on Wikipedia Rare 0.711 255,042
30 All Quiet on the Western Front on Wikipedia Rare 0.701 266,628
31 Oliver! on Wikipedia Rare 0.691 279,392
32 Rebecca on Wikipedia Rare 0.680 293,838
33 The Apartment on Wikipedia Rare 0.670 317,942
34 In the Heat of the Night on Wikipedia Rare 0.660 327,246
35 Driving Miss Daisy on Wikipedia Rare 0.649 330,885
36 Annie Hall on Wikipedia Rare 0.639 336,582
37 Ordinary People on Wikipedia Rare 0.629 349,272
38 All About Eve on Wikipedia Rare 0.619 354,813
39 My Fair Lady on Wikipedia Rare 0.608 358,782
40 On the Waterfront on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.598 360,083
41 West Side Story on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.588 375,870
42 Gandhi on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.577 403,642
43 The French Connection on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.567 411,009
44 Out of Africa on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.557 413,254
45 Chariots of Fire on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.546 424,749
46 The English Patient on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.536 453,511
47 Chicago on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.526 454,182
48 The Sting on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.515 460,766
49 The Last Emperor on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.505 466,381
50 Shakespeare in Love on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.495 483,234
51 The Hurt Locker on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.485 492,275
52 The Bridge on the River Kwai on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.474 507,512
53 Terms of Endearment on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.464 511,593
54 Dances With Wolves on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.454 526,861
55 The King's Speech on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.443 537,853
56 Kramer vs. Kramer on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.433 563,231
57 Nomadland on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.423 576,608
58 CODA on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.412 593,945
59 Birdman on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.402 626,974
60 Midnight Cowboy on Wikipedia Familiar 0.392 634,065
61 Spotlight on Wikipedia Familiar 0.381 644,637
62 Unforgiven on Wikipedia Familiar 0.371 671,491
63 Platoon on Wikipedia Familiar 0.361 680,406
64 Million Dollar Baby on Wikipedia Familiar 0.351 695,099
65 Rain Man on Wikipedia Familiar 0.340 714,836
66 Crash on Wikipedia Familiar 0.330 751,487
67 Slumdog Millionaire on Wikipedia Familiar 0.320 754,468
68 The Shape of Water on Wikipedia Familiar 0.309 817,911
69 The Deer Hunter on Wikipedia Familiar 0.299 828,183
70 Moonlight on Wikipedia Familiar 0.289 834,714
71 Amadeus on Wikipedia Familiar 0.278 836,015
72 Ben-Hur on Wikipedia Familiar 0.268 839,384
73 12 Years a Slave on Wikipedia Familiar 0.258 874,106
74 Braveheart on Wikipedia Familiar 0.247 882,181
75 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King on Wikipedia Familiar 0.237 893,838
76 Argo on Wikipedia Familiar 0.227 900,913
77 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on Wikipedia Familiar 0.216 957,704
78 American Beauty on Wikipedia Familiar 0.206 994,226
79 Rocky on Wikipedia Common 0.196 1,062,589
80 Casablanca on Wikipedia Common 0.186 1,118,087
81 Lawrence of Arabia on Wikipedia Common 0.175 1,154,132
82 Parasite on Wikipedia Common 0.165 1,258,703
83 Green Book on Wikipedia Common 0.155 1,262,637
84 The Godfather Part II on Wikipedia Common 0.144 1,267,333
85 The Sound of Music on Wikipedia Common 0.134 1,377,518
86 Gone with the Wind on Wikipedia Common 0.124 1,381,590
87 The Silence of the Lambs on Wikipedia Common 0.113 1,435,284
88 Schindler's List on Wikipedia Common 0.103 1,442,231
89 Forrest Gump on Wikipedia Common 0.093 1,443,980
90 Everything Everywhere All at Once on Wikipedia Common 0.082 1,456,530
91 The Departed on Wikipedia Common 0.072 1,470,372
92 Gladiator on Wikipedia Common 0.062 1,535,308
93 Anora on Wikipedia Common 0.052 1,624,566
94 No Country for Old Men on Wikipedia Common 0.041 2,047,875
95 Titanic on Wikipedia Common 0.031 2,201,920
96 The Godfather on Wikipedia Common 0.021 2,427,089
97 Oppenheimer on Wikipedia Common 0.010 3,304,805
98 One Battle After Another on Wikipedia Common 0.000 11,802,196

FAQ

What is the rarest Best Picture winner?

The Life of Emile Zola is the rarest Best Picture winner in this ranking, with 31,817 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).

How many Best Picture winners are there?

There are 98 Best Picture winners in this ranking, from The Life of Emile Zola (rarest) to One Battle After Another (most common).

What is the most common Best Picture winner?

One Battle After Another is the most common Best Picture winner in this ranking, with 11,802,196 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).

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Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.