7 Oscar-Winning Films Filled with Powerful Biblical Lessons

If you’ve ever wondered why your favorite family-friendly movie didn’t win Best Picture, it might be because, well, your favorite movie was family-friendly. Eight of the last 10 Best Picture winners at the Academy Awards were rated R. So were 14 of the last 17. In order to win Best Picture — it seems — a movie must be loaded with so much “junk” that it would make Beelzebub blush. It wasn’t always this way. In the 1980s, seven of the 10 Best Picture winners were rated PG or PG-13. The previous decade, half were. Yet since the 1990s, a majority of Best Picture winners each decade carried the “R” rating, meaning they’re restricted to those under 17. Of course, those Best Picture films rarely become the mega-blockbusters that are oh-so-coveted by Hollywood studios. In fact, not a single R-rated movie sits among the Top 20 grossing movies of all time. Oh well. Still, plenty of movies with PG-13, PG, and even G ratings have won Best Picture, and — even better — many of them are loaded with powerful biblical lessons. No doubt, nearly every Hollywood movie contains biblical lessons if you just squint hard enough, but for this list, we aimed to keep it as family-friendly as possible.Here are seven Best Picture-winning movies that were filled with biblical lessonsPhoto Credit: ©Canva Pro
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