Best Picture winners by runtime
A Peakle category. Higher = a longer film. Name answers one at a time, each one higher than the last. New to the game? Read how to play.
When it was played
- Puzzle #26, November 3, 2026 · replay in the archive
The numbers
- 98 answers count.
- The longest possible climb is 65 steps, because some answers are tied and a tie ends the climb.
How it's counted
- Every film that won the Oscar for Best Picture, by runtime in minutes from Wikidata. Where Wikidata lists several cuts, the runtime in the film's Wikipedia article is used.
Source
Wikidata: Academy Award for Best Picture winners and their runtimes (Wikipedia's infobox where Wikidata lists several), as of October 30, 2026.
Every answer
Alphabetical. Their values stay a secret, so the climb is still worth replaying.
12 Years a Slave · A Beautiful Mind · A Man for All Seasons · All About Eve · All Quiet on the Western Front · All the King's Men · Amadeus · American Beauty · An American in Paris · Annie Hall · Anora · Argo · Around the World in 80 Days · Ben-Hur · Birdman · Braveheart · Casablanca · Cavalcade · Chariots of Fire · Chicago · Cimarron · CODA · Crash · Dances with Wolves · Driving Miss Daisy · Everything Everywhere All at Once · From Here to Eternity · Gandhi · Gentleman's Agreement · Gigi · Gladiator · Going My Way · Gone with the Wind · Grand Hotel · Green Book · Hamlet · How Green Was My Valley · In the Heat of the Night · It Happened One Night · Kramer vs. Kramer · Lawrence of Arabia · Marty · Midnight Cowboy · Million Dollar Baby · Moonlight · Mrs. Miniver · Mutiny on the Bounty · My Fair Lady · No Country for Old Men · Nomadland · Oliver! · On the Waterfront · One Battle After Another · One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest · Oppenheimer · Ordinary People · Out of Africa · Parasite · Patton · Platoon · Q134773 · Rain Man · Rebecca · Rocky · Schindler's List · Shakespeare in Love · Slumdog Millionaire · Spotlight · Terms of Endearment · The Apartment · The Artist · The Best Years of Our Lives · The Bridge on the River Kwai · The Broadway Melody · The Deer Hunter · The Departed · The English Patient · The French Connection · The Godfather · The Godfather Part II · The Great Ziegfeld · The Greatest Show on Earth · The Hurt Locker · The King's Speech · The Last Emperor · The Life of Emile Zola · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · The Lost Weekend · The Shape of Water · The Silence of the Lambs · The Sound of Music · The Sting · Titanic · Tom Jones · Unforgiven · West Side Story · Wings · You Can't Take It With You