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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 Rarest
The Life of Emile Zola
Legendary
31,817 monthly Wikipedia views
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Rarity 1.000
Most common
One Battle After Another
Common
11,802,196 monthly Wikipedia views
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Rarity 0.000
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
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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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Sources 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.