Top 5 Academy Award Best Picture Winners in History

Directed by Victor Fleming, Starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland. Adopted from Margaret Mitchell's novel of the same name. Set in the South in and around the time of the Civil War, Gone with the Wind chronicles the Civil War and its aftermath from a southern point of view.

Gone With The Wind received 10 Academy Awards, a record that stood for 20 years.

When adjusted for inflation, Gone With The Wind is the highest grossing film of all time. www.franklymydear.com

2.1943 - Casablanca, Warner Brothers Studio

Directed by Michael Curtiz, Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Set during WWII, Bogart's first attempt in a romantic lead, focuses on a man torn between love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her husband, a resistance leader, escape for the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. Casablanca was nominated for 8 Academy Awards, winning 3 including Best Picture. The characters, dialog and music have become iconic. "In all the bars in all the world."

3.1965 - The Sound of Music, 20th Century Fox

Directed by Robert Wise, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The Sound of Music film was based on the Broadway musical by the same name with songs by Rodgers & Hammerstein. The Broadway musical was an adaptation of the book "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Von Trapp. The story revolves around an Anti-Nazi family in Austria and their escape to freedom during WWII. The Sound of Music was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, won 5, including Best Picture and won 5 Golden Globes. www.sound-of-music.com

4.1972 - The Godfather, Paramount Pictures

Directed by Francis Ford Copolla, starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James, Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and Abe Vigoda. The movie is based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo. The Godfather is a crime drama that chronicles the lives of the Corleone family, an Italian- American crime family from 1945-1955. The Godfather was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, won 3 including Best Picture, 5 Golden Globes and one Grammy. www.thegodfather.com

5.1997 - Titanic, Paramount, 20th Century Fox

Written and directed by James Cameron starring Kate Winslett and Leonardio DiCaprio. Titanic is a disaster film with a mix of fiction and history. The movie chronicles the fictional love affair between two passengers from different socio-economic backgrounds on the ill fated HRS Titanic. Titanic won 11 Academy Awards, 4 Golden Globes and one Grammy. Titanic was the first DVD to sell 1 million copies. www.titanicmovie.com