Top 10 Best Picture Winners: 1927-1960


10. Mrs. Miniver - directed by William Wyler (1942; 6 Oscars)
William Wyler’s films are about the emotional people that inhabit our world and are put in extraordinary circumstances. In Mrs. Miniver, Wyler told the emotionally wrenching story of the title character, a strong woman, played to perfection by Greer Garson, who has to help her family survive the beginning of World War II on the home front in Britain. Mrs. Miniver is one of the best Hollywood films made during the war and helped Americans understand just what our allies were going through. Just two years later, David O. Selznick would produce Since You Went Away, which told the story of what American housewives went through at home. While Selznick’s film is touching, it is simply nowhere near as powerful as Mrs. Miniver.

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