Beyond the year-by-year roll call, the Oscar best picture winners by year complete list hides milestone firsts and shocking upsets. Here are the Best Picture facts that still dominate awards trivia night.

Wings won the first Best Picture Oscar at the 1929 ceremony — the only fully silent film to claim the prize. Every Oscar best picture winners by year complete list begins with that aviation epic at the top of history.

Parasite became the first non-English-language Best Picture winner at the 2020 ceremony. Bong Joon Ho's thriller remains the landmark international champion on the Oscar best picture winners by year complete list.

Moonlight won Best Picture in 2017 after presenters briefly named La La Land — the most chaotic live-TV moment in Oscar best picture winners by year complete list history. The right film still took the statuette.

Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The Return of the King each won 11 Oscars — the single-film record. The Godfather Part II remains the only sequel on the Oscar best picture winners by year complete list.