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Movies listed here are based on the "Best Picture" award from the Academy Awards®

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Year Movies* Event Classmates
2004     57 
2003     67 
2002     61 
2001     54 
2000 Gladiator     81 
1999 American Beauty     39 
1998 Shakespeare in Love     53 
1997 Titanic (1997)   Pathfinder sends Mars photos.
Princess Di is killed in a car accident.
 		 41 
1996 The English Patient   Scientist clone sheep.
 		 99 
1995 Braveheart   O.J. Simpson found not guilty.
 		 36 
1994 Forrest Gump     14 
1993 Schindler's List   Apartheid ends in South Africa.
 		 30 
1992 Unforgiven     17 
1991 The Silence of the Lambs   Soviet Union dissolves.
 		 5 
1990 Dances With Wolves     6 
1989 Driving Miss Daisy   Berlin wall falls.
 		 5 
1988 Rain Man     10 
1987 The Last Emperor     7 
1986 Platoon   Shuttle Challenger explodes.
The world's worst nuclear power accident occurs when a reactor explodes at Chernobyl.
 		 10 
1985 Out of Africa     3 
1984 Amadeus     2 
1983 Terms of Endearment     5 
1982 Gandhi     4 
1981 Chariots of Fire   AIDS is discovered.
 		 8 
1980 Ordinary People     4 
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer   Bill Gates and his college friend Paul Allen launch Microsoft Corp.
 		 3 
1978 The Deer Hunter   First 'test-tube baby' born.
 		 4 
1977 Annie Hall   Apple II first mass market PC.
 		 6 
1976 Rocky     1 
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest     2 
1974 The Godfather Part II   Nixon resigns.
 		 4 
1973 The Sting   Roe vs. Wade legalize abortion.
 		 2 
1972 The Godfather     3 
1971 The French Connection     1 
1970 Patton     5 
1969 Midnight Cowboy   "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
 		 5 
1968 Oliver!   Martin Luther King Jr. Slain.
Robert F. Kennedy Slain.
Riots at Democratic convention.
 		 8 
1967 In the Heat of the Night     8 
1966 A Man for All Seasons     4 
1965 The Sound of Music   U.S. escalates Vietnam War.
 		 3 
1964 My Fair Lady   The Civil Rights Act of 1964 grants equal access to public accommodations to everyone regardless of race, religion or national origin.
Beatles tour USA
 		 0 
1963 Tom Jones   President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
Martin Luther King Jr. 'Dream' Speech.
 		 3 
1962 Lawrence of Arabia   Glenn first American in orbit.
Cuban missile crisis.
 		 1 
1961 West Side Story   Gagarin first man in space.
Berlin wall goes up.
 		 4 
1960 The Apartment   Birth control pill OK'd by FDA.
 		 0 
1959 Ben-Hur   Computer chip invented.
 		 0 
1958 Gigi     0 
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai     2 
1956 Around the World in 80 Days     0 
1955 Marty     1 
1954 On the Waterfront     0 
1953 From Here to Eternity   New polio vaccine works.
 		 0 
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth     0 
1951 An American in Paris     0 
1950 All about Eve     0 
1949 All the King's Men     0 
1948 Hamlet (1948)     0 
1947 Gentleman's Agreement   In 1947, Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the color barrier against black players in baseball.
 		 0 
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives     0 
1945 The Lost Weekend   US drops the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The "Atomic Age" begins
 		 1 
1944 Going My Way   D-Day - The Allies land in France.
 		 0 
1943 Casablanca     2 
1942 Mrs. Miniver     0 
1941 How Green Was My Valley   Japanese planes bomb the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941.
 		 0 
1940 Rebecca   Winston Churchill is named prime minister in May 1940.
 		 3 

* Based on "Best Picture" award from the Academy Awards®

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