Since the Academy Awards were first held way back in 1929, and there’s been one Best Picture winner awarded every year (okay, except for that first year, when they had two big prizes: one that went to Wings, for Outstanding Picture, and Sunrise, for Best Unique and Artistic Picture), there are naturally many Best Picture winners. If you're keeping count, almost 100. And it’s hopefully not too controversial a statement to say that The Godfather is one of the best of all the Best Picture winners.

If you're talking about the greatest movies of all time, it’s usually a contender for that crown, too, so its status as a great Best Picture winner is almost irrelevant, compared to that (after all, there are hundreds – or maybe even thousands – of great movies that never even came close to winning Best Picture). In case you're one of the three people who haven’t heard of it, The Godfather is an epic gangster movie about the Corleone family, and they're both a proper family and then also a broader criminal family, with Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) being its aging patriarch.