The Academy Awards are nearly upon us and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist is widely expected to take the coveted Best Picture prize. But what about previous ceremonies and Best Picture winners? Which films, decades and genres have been most popular with the Academy over the last thirty years, which films have hit it big at the box office and which have got the thumbs up from critics?

Quiet of the Matinee wanted answers and so we whipped up this infographic to find some. Feel free to share, comment, embed and enjoy.

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