The Best Picture Academy Award is presented to the film that the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences believe is the year's best movie. Before 1951, the award was presented to the studio, since then, it has been presented to the producer.Official Site: Best Picture Facts

Switching back to a practice used decades ago at the Academy Awards, the 2010 Oscars featured 10 Best Picture nominees, rather than the standard five. The films in contention for Best Picture in 2010 were Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up and Up in the Air. The Best Picture winner, The Hurt Locker, was named the winner on March 7, 2010, at the awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California.

1. The Hurt Locker -- WINNER
2. Avatar
3. The Blind Side
4. District 9
5. An Education
6. Inglourious Basterds
7. Precious
8. A Serious Man
9. Up
10. Up in the Air

1. Slumdog Millionaire - Winner
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Frost Nixon
4. The Reader
5. Milk

1. Atonement
2. Juno
3. Michael Clayton
4. There Will Be Blood
5. No Country for Old Men - Winner

• 1929: Wings
• 1951: All About Eve
• 1978: Annie Hall
• 1998: Titanic
• 2002: A Beautiful Mind
• 2003: Chicago
• 2004: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• 2005: Million Dollar Baby
• 2006: Crash
• 2007: The Departed
• 2008: No Country for Old Men
• 2009: Slumdog Millionaire