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‘Lord of the Rings’ is Voted Ultimate Best Picture

Yahoo! conducted an online poll with the proposition: which among Oscar Best Picture winners should be named Best Picture of all time?

And with more than 700,000 votes, movie fanatics from all over the world decided that the Ultimate Best Picture is Peter Jackson‘s Lord of the Rings: Return of the Kings (2003).

The 3rd installment of the “Rings” trilogy bested Francis Ford Copolla‘s The Godfather in the final bout. It also bested Forrest Gump, Schindler’s List, The Godfather Part II, Gladiator, Casablanca, Silence of the Lambs, Gone with the Wind and Lawrence of Arabia in the final leg of the poll.

In 2004, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 Oscars for which it was nominated breaking the record of The Last Emperor with 9. It’s tied with Ben Hur and Titanic for the movie with most number of Oscar wins (11 trophies). It also marked the first movie in the fantasy genre to ever win an Oscar Best Picture award.

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