Academy Award for Best Picture

American annual film award

Academy Award for Best Picture

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Awarded for| Best Motion Picture of the Year
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First awarded| May 16, 1929; 96 years ago (1929-05-16) (for films released during the 1927/1928 film season)
Most recent winner| CODA (2021)
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The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Oscars is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot.[1] The Best Picture category is often the final award of the night and is widely considered as the most prestigious honor of the ceremony.[2][3][4]

The Grand Staircase columns at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award's inception.[5] There have been 581 films nominated for Best Picture and 94 winners.[6]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 1.1 Category name changes
* 1.2 Recipients
* 1.3 Best Picture and Best Director
* 1.4 Nomination limit increased
* 1.5 Language and country of origin
* 1.6 Rating
* 1.7 Genres
* 1.8 Sequel nominations and winners
* 1.9 Remake nominations and winners
* 1.10 Silent film winners
* 1.11 Version availability
* 1.12 Ceremony mistake
* 2 Winners and nominees
* 2.1 1920s
* 2.2 1930s
* 2.3 1940s
* 2.4 1950s
* 2.5 1960s
* 2.6 1970s
* 2.7 1980s
* 2.8 1990s
* 2.9 2000s
* 2.10 2010s
* 2.11 2020s
* 3 Individuals with multiple wins
* 4 Individuals with multiple nominations
* 5 Production companies with multiple nominations and wins
* 6 Note
* 7 See also
* 8 Notes
* 9 References
* 10 External links

## History[edit | edit source]

### Category name changes[edit | edit source]

At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: Outstanding Picture and Unique and Artistic Picture, the former being won by the war epic Wings, and the latter by the art film Sunrise. Each award was intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking.

The following year, the Academy dropped the Unique and Artistic Picture award, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings was the highest honor that could be awarded.[7] Although the award kept the title Outstanding Picture for the next ceremony, the name underwent several changes over the years as seen below. Since 1962, the award has been simply called Best Picture.[6]

* 1927/28–1928/29: Academy Award for Outstanding Picture
* 1929/30–1940: Academy Award for Outstanding Production
* 1941–1943: Academy Award for Outstanding Motion Picture
* 1944–1961: Academy Award for Best Motion Picture
* 1962–present: Academy Award for Best Picture

### Recipients[edit | edit source]

Until 1950, this award was presented to a representative of the production company. That year the protocol was changed so that the award was presented to all credited producers. This rule was modified in 1999 to apply a maximum limit of three producers receiving the award, after the five producers of Shakespeare in Love had received the award.[8][9][10]

As of 2020[update], the "Special Rules for the Best Picture of the Year Award" limit recipients to those who meet two main requirements:[11]

* Those with screen credit of "producer" or "produced by", explicitly excluding those with the screen credit "executive producer, co-producer, associate producer, line producer, or produced in association with"
* those three or fewer producers who have performed the major portion of the producing functions

The rules allow bona fide team of not more than two people shall be considered to be a single “producer” if the two individuals have had an established producing partnership as determined by the Producers Guild of America Producing Partnership Panel. Final determination of the qualifying producer nominees for each nominated picture will be made by the Producers Branch Executive Committee, including the right to name any additional qualified producer as a nominee.[11]

The Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among the four producers nominated for The Reader.[12] As of 2014[update] the Producers Branch Executive Committee determines such exceptions, noting they take place only in "rare and extraordinary circumstance[s]."[11]

Steven Spielberg currently holds the record for most nominations at eleven, winning one, while Kathleen Kennedy holds the record for most nominations without a win at eight. Sam Spiegel and Saul Zaentz tie for the most wins with three each. As for the time when the Oscar was given to production companies instead, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer holds the record with five wins and 40 nominations.

### Best Picture and Best Director[edit | edit source]

The Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been closely linked throughout their history. Of the 94 films that have won Best Picture, 67 have also been awarded Best Director. Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: Wings directed by William A. Wellman (1927/28), Grand Hotel directed by Edmund Goulding (1931/32), Driving Miss Daisy directed by Bruce Beresford (1989), Argo directed by Ben Affleck (2012), Green Book directed by Peter Farrelly (2018), and CODA (2021) directed by Sian Heder. The only two Best Director winners to win for films that did not receive a Best Picture nomination were during the early years of the awards: Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Knights (1927/28), and Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady (1928/29).[13]

### Nomination limit increased[edit | edit source]

On June 24, 2009, AMPAS announced that the number of films to be nominated in the Best Picture award category would increase from five to ten, starting with the 82nd Academy Awards (2009).[14] Although the Academy never officially said so, many commenters noted the expansion was likely in part a response to public criticism of The Dark Knight (2008) (and, in previous years, other blockbusters and popular films) not being nominated for Best Picture.[15][16][17] Officially, the Academy said the rule change was a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and 1940s, when eight to 12 films were nominated each year. "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize," AMPAS President Sid Ganis said in a press conference. "I can't wait to see what that list of 10 looks like when the nominees are announced in February."[14]

At the same time, the voting system was switched from first-past-the-post to instant runoff voting (also known as preferential voting).[18] In 2011, the Academy revised the rule again so that the number of films nominated was between five and ten; nominated films must earn either 5% of first-place rankings or 5% after an abbreviated variation of the single transferable vote nominating process.[19] Bruce Davis, the Academy executive director at the time, said, "A Best Picture nomination should be an indication of extraordinary merit. If there are only eight pictures that truly earn that honor in a given year, we shouldn't feel an obligation to round out the number."[20] This system lasted until 2021, when the Academy reverted back to a set number of ten nominees from the 94th Academy Awards onward.[21]

### Language and country of origin[edit | edit source]

Only thirteen non-English language films have been nominated in the category: La Grande Illusion (French, 1938); Z (French, 1969); The Emigrants (Swedish, 1972); Cries and Whispers (Swedish, 1973); The Postman (Il Postino) (Italian/Spanish, 1995); Life Is Beautiful (Italian, 1998); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Mandarin Chinese, 2000); Letters from Iwo Jima (Japanese, 2006, but ineligible for Best Foreign Language Film, as it was an American production); Amour (French, 2012); Roma (Spanish/Mixtec, 2018); Parasite (Korean, 2019); Minari (Korean, 2020, but ineligible for Best International Feature Film, as it was an American production),[22] and Drive My Car (Japanese, 2021). Parasite became the first film not in English to win Best Picture.[23][24]

Only ten films wholly financed outside the United States have won Best Picture, eight of which were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom: Hamlet (1948), Tom Jones (1963), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Chariots of Fire (1981), Gandhi (1982), The Last Emperor (1987), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), and The King's Speech (2010). The ninth film, The Artist (2011), was financed in France and the tenth film, Parasite (2019), was financed in South Korea.[25]

### Rating[edit | edit source]

Since 1968, most Best Picture winners have been R-rated. Oliver! is the only G-rated film and Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated (now NC-17) film, so far, to win Best Picture. The latter has since been downgraded to an R rating. Only eleven films have won with a PG rating, the first was Patton and the last was Driving Miss Daisy. Only nine films have won with a PG-13 rating, the first was The Last Emperor and the last was CODA.

### Genres[edit | edit source]

Some genres of film (or mediums in the case of an animation) have received few or no nominations or awards. Only three animated films have been nominated — Beauty and the Beast (1991), Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010). The latter two were nominated after the Academy expanded the number of nominees, but none have won. No comic book or superhero film has won, and only three have ever been nominated — Skippy (1931), Black Panther (2018), and Joker (2019). Only two fantasy films have won — The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Shape of Water (2017), although more have been nominated. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) is the only horror film to win Best Picture, and only five others have been nominated for Best Picture: The Exorcist (1973), Jaws (1975), The Sixth Sense (1999), Black Swan (2010), and Get Out (2017). No science fiction film has won the award, although several films have been nominated, including A Clockwork Orange, Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Avatar, District 9, Inception, Gravity, Her, The Martian, Arrival, Mad Max: Fury Road, Don't Look Up and Dune.

No documentary feature has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although Chang was nominated in the "Unique and Artistic Production" category at the 1927/28 awards.

Several musical adaptations based on material previously filmed in non-musical form have won Best Picture, including Gigi, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Oliver!, and Chicago.

Several epics or historical epic films have won Best Picture, including the first recipient Wings. Others include Cimarron, Cavalcade, Gone with the Wind, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Last Emperor, Dances with Wolves, Schindler’s List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, The English Patient, Titanic, Gladiator, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

### Sequel nominations and winners[edit | edit source]

Few sequels have been nominated for Best Picture and just two have won: The Godfather Part II (the film before that, The Godfather, also won the award; the third film in the installment The Godfather Part III, was nominated as well but did not win the award) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (the films before that, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers were both nominated for the award but did not win). Other nominees include The Bells of St. Mary's (the sequel to the 1944 winner, Going My Way), The Queen (sequel to the 2003 television film, The Deal), Toy Story 3, and Mad Max: Fury Road.[22]

Another nominee, Broadway Melody of 1936, was a follow-up of sorts to previous winner The Broadway Melody. But, beyond the title and some music, there is no story connection to the earlier film. The Silence of the Lambs was adapted from the sequel novel to Red Dragon. The latter had been adapted for film as Manhunter by a different studio. The Lion in Winter features Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, a role he had played previously in the film Becket, but Winter is not a sequel to Becket. Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima was a companion piece to his film Flags of Our Fathers that was released earlier the same year. These two films depict the same battle from the different viewpoints of Japanese and United States military forces; the two films were shot back-to-back. In addition, Black Panther is a continuation of the events that occurred in Captain America: Civil War and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

### Remake nominations and winners[edit | edit source]

Along similar lines to sequels, there have been few winners that are either remakes or adaptations of the same source materials or subjects. 1959's Ben-Hur is a remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title and both were adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. 2006's The Departed is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs and was the first remake of a non-English language or international film to win. Other nominees include 1963's Cleopatra about the title last queen of Egypt following the 1934 version, 2018's A Star is Born following the 1937 film of the same name, and 2019's Little Women following the 1933 film of the same name with both being adaptations of the 1868 novel.[26] 2010's True Grit was the second adaptation of Charles Portis's 1968 novel following the 1969 film of the same name. Four of the nominees for the 94th ceremony were based on source material previously made into films: CODA, Dune, Nightmare Alley, and West Side Story. 2021's West Side Story became the second adaptation of the same source material for a previous Best Picture winner to be nominated for the same award after 1962's Mutiny on the Bounty.[27] For that same ceremony, CODA became the second remake of a non-English language or international film to win.

### Silent film winners[edit | edit source]

At the 1st Academy Awards, the Best Picture award – then named "Academy Award for Outstanding Picture" – was presented to the 1927 silent film Wings.

The Artist (2011) was the first essentially silent (with the exception of a single scene of dialogue, and a dream sequence with sound effects) film since Wings to win Best Picture. It was the first silent nominee since 1928's The Patriot. It was the first Best Picture winner to be produced entirely in black-and-white since 1960's The Apartment. (Schindler's List, the 1993 winner, was predominantly black-and-white but it did contain some color sequences).[25]

### Version availability[edit | edit source]

No Best Picture winner has been lost, though a few such as All Quiet on the Western Front and Lawrence of Arabia exist only in a form altered from their original, award-winning release form. This has usually been due to editing for reissue (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees, such as Tom Jones (prior to its 2018 reissues by The Criterion Collection and the British Film Institute) and Star Wars, are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. The Broadway Melody originally had some sequences photographed in two-color Technicolor. This footage survives only in black and white.[28]

The 1928 film The Patriot is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost (about one-third is extant).[29] The Racket, also from 1928, was believed lost for many years until a print was found in Howard Hughes' archives. It has since been restored and shown on Turner Classic Movies.[30] The only surviving complete prints of 1931's East Lynne and 1934's The White Parade exist within the UCLA film archive.[31]

### Ceremony mistake[edit | edit source]

In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenter Faye Dunaway read La La Land as the winner of the award. However, she and Warren Beatty had mistakenly been given the duplicate envelope for the "Best Actress in a Leading Role" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in La La Land moments prior. In the resulting chaos, it was La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz who finally announced—two minutes and twenty-seven seconds later—that Moonlight was the real winner.[32]

## Winners and nominees[edit | edit source]

In the list below, winners are listed first in the gold row, followed by the other nominees.[6] Except for the early years (when the Academy used a non-calendar year), the year shown is the one in which the film first premiered in Los Angeles County, California; normally this is also the year of first release, however, it may be the year after first release (as with Casablanca and, if the film-festival premiere is considered, Crash). This is also the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited theatrically during 2005 was eligible for consideration for the 2005 Best Picture Oscar, awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article on that ceremony. Each individual entry shows the title followed by nominee.

Until 1950, the Best Picture award was given to the production company; from 1951 on, it has gone to the producer or producers. The Academy used the producer credits of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) until 1998, when all five producers of Shakespeare in Love made speeches after its win.[8][9] A three-producer limit has been applied some years since.[9][10] There was controversy over the exclusion of some PGA-credited producers of Crash and Little Miss Sunshine.[10] The Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously among the four nominated for The Reader.[12] However, now any number of producers on a film can be nominated for Best Picture, should they be deemed eligible.

For the first ceremony, three films were nominated for the award. For the following three years, five films were nominated for the award. This was expanded to eight in 1933, to ten in 1934, and to twelve in 1935, before being dropped back to ten in 1937. In 1945, it was further reduced to five. This number remained until 2009, when the limit was raised to ten and later adjusted in 2011, to vary between five and ten.

For the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928, and July 31, 1929. Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

indicates the winner

### 1920s[edit | edit source]

Year of Film Release  | Film  | Film Studio

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1927/28
(1st)

Wings | Famous Players-Lasky
7th Heaven | Fox
The Racket | The Caddo Company
1928/29
(2nd)
[a]
The Broadway Melody | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Alibi | Feature Productions
Hollywood Revue | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
In Old Arizona | Fox
The Patriot | Paramount Famous Lasky

### 1930s[edit | edit source]

Year of Film Release  | Film  | Film Studio

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1929/30
(3rd)
All Quiet on the Western Front | Universal
The Big House | Cosmopolitan
Disraeli | Warner Bros.
The Divorcee | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Love Parade | Paramount Famous Lasky
1930/31
(4th)
Cimarron | RKO Radio
East Lynne | Fox
The Front Page | The Caddo Company
Skippy | Paramount Publix
Trader Horn | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1931/32
(5th)
Grand Hotel | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Arrowsmith | Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Bad Girl | Fox
The Champ | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Five Star Final | First National
One Hour with You | Paramount Publix
Shanghai Express | Paramount Publix
The Smiling Lieutenant | Paramount Publix
1932/33
(6th)
[b]
Cavalcade | Fox
42nd Street | Warner Bros.
A Farewell to Arms | Paramount
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | Warner Bros.
Lady for a Day | Columbia
Little Women | RKO Radio
The Private Life of Henry VIII | London Films
She Done Him Wrong | Paramount
Smilin' Through | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
State Fair | Fox
1934
(7th)
[c]
It Happened One Night | Columbia
The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cleopatra | Paramount
Flirtation Walk | First National
The Gay Divorcee | RKO Radio
Here Comes the Navy | Warner Bros.
The House of Rothschild | 20th Century
Imitation of Life | Universal
One Night of Love | Columbia
The Thin Man | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Viva Villa! | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The White Parade | Jesse L. Lasky (production company)
1935
(8th)
[d]
Mutiny on the Bounty | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Alice Adams | RKO Radio
Broadway Melody of 1936 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Captain Blood | Cosmopolitan
David Copperfield | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Informer | RKO Radio
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Paramount
A Midsummer Night's Dream | Warner Bros.
Les Misérables | 20th Century
Naughty Marietta | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Ruggles of Red Gap | Paramount
Top Hat | RKO Radio
1936
(9th)
The Great Ziegfeld | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Anthony Adverse | Warner Bros.
Dodsworth | Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Libeled Lady | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Columbia
Romeo and Juliet | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
San Francisco | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Story of Louis Pasteur | Cosmopolitan
A Tale of Two Cities | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Three Smart Girls | Universal
1937
(10th)
The Life of Emile Zola | Warner Bros.
The Awful Truth | Columbia
Captains Courageous | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Dead End | Samuel Goldwyn Productions
The Good Earth | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
In Old Chicago | 20th Century-Fox
Lost Horizon | Columbia
One Hundred Men and a Girl | Universal
Stage Door | RKO Radio
A Star Is Born | Selznick International Pictures
1938
(11th)
You Can't Take It with You | Columbia
The Adventures of Robin Hood | Warner Bros.-First National
Alexander's Ragtime Band | 20th Century-Fox
Boys Town | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Citadel | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Four Daughters | Warner Bros.-First National
Grand Illusion | Realization D'Art Cinematographique
Jezebel | Warner Bros.
Pygmalion | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Test Pilot | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1939
(12th)
Gone with the Wind | Selznick International Pictures
Dark Victory | Warner Bros.-First National
Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Love Affair | RKO Radio
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Columbia
Ninotchka | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Of Mice and Men | Hal Roach (production company)
Stagecoach | Walter Wanger (production company)
The Wizard of Oz | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Wuthering Heights | Samuel Goldwyn Productions

### 1940s[edit | edit source]

Year of Film Release  | Film  | Film Studio

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1940
(13th)
Rebecca | Selznick International Pictures
All This, and Heaven Too | Warner Bros.
Foreign Correspondent | Walter Wanger (production company)
The Grapes of Wrath | 20th Century-Fox
The Great Dictator | Charles Chaplin Productions
Kitty Foyle | RKO Radio
The Letter | Warner Bros.
The Long Voyage Home | Argosy-Wanger
Our Town | Sol Lesser (production company)
The Philadelphia Story | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1941
(14th)
How Green Was My Valley | 20th Century-Fox
Blossoms in the Dust | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Citizen Kane | Mercury
Here Comes Mr. Jordan | Columbia
Hold Back the Dawn | Paramount
The Little Foxes | Samuel Goldwyn Productions
The Maltese Falcon | Warner Bros.
One Foot in Heaven | Warner Bros.
Sergeant York | Warner Bros.
Suspicion | RKO Radio
1942
(15th)
Mrs. Miniver | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
49th Parallel[33] | Ortus
Kings Row | Warner Bros.
The Magnificent Ambersons | Mercury
The Pied Piper | 20th Century-Fox
The Pride of the Yankees | Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Random Harvest | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Talk of the Town | Columbia
Wake Island | Paramount
Yankee Doodle Dandy | Warner Bros.
1943
(16th)
Casablanca | Warner Bros.
For Whom the Bell Tolls | Paramount
Heaven Can Wait | 20th Century-Fox
The Human Comedy | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
In Which We Serve | Two Cities Films
Madame Curie | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The More the Merrier | Columbia
The Ox-Bow Incident | 20th Century-Fox
The Song of Bernadette | 20th Century-Fox
Watch on the Rhine | Warner Bros.
1944
(17th)

Going My Way | Paramount
Double Indemnity | Paramount
Gaslight | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Since You Went Away | Selznick International Pictures
Wilson | 20th Century-Fox
1945
(18th)
The Lost Weekend | Paramount
Anchors Aweigh | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Bells of St. Mary's | Rainbow Productions
Mildred Pierce | Warner Bros.
Spellbound | Selznick International Pictures
1946
(19th)
The Best Years of Our Lives | Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Henry V | Two Cities Films
It's a Wonderful Life | Liberty Films
The Razor's Edge | 20th Century-Fox
The Yearling | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1947
(20th)
Gentleman's Agreement | 20th Century-Fox
The Bishop's Wife | Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Crossfire | RKO Radio
Great Expectations | J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild
Miracle on 34th Street | 20th Century-Fox
1948
(21st)
Hamlet | J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
Johnny Belinda | Warner Bros.
The Red Shoes | J. Arthur Rank-Archers
The Snake Pit | 20th Century-Fox
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Warner Bros.
1949
(22nd)
All the King's Men | Columbia
Battleground | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Heiress | Paramount
A Letter to Three Wives | 20th Century-Fox
Twelve O'Clock High | 20th Century-Fox

### 1950s[edit | edit source]

Year of Film Release  | Film  | Film Studio/Producer(s)

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1950
(23rd)
All About Eve | 20th Century-Fox
Born Yesterday | Columbia
Father of the Bride | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
King Solomon's Mines | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Sunset Boulevard | Paramount
1951
(24th)
An American in Paris | Arthur Freed
Decision Before Dawn | Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy
A Place in the Sun | George Stevens
Quo Vadis | Sam Zimbalist
A Streetcar Named Desire | Charles K. Feldman
1952
(25th)
The Greatest Show on Earth | Cecil B. DeMille
High Noon | Stanley Kramer
Ivanhoe | Pandro S. Berman
Moulin Rouge | John and James Woolf
The Quiet Man | John Ford and Merian C. Cooper
1953
(26th)
From Here to Eternity | Buddy Adler
Julius Caesar | John Houseman
The Robe | Frank Ross
Roman Holiday | William Wyler
Shane | George Stevens
1954
(27th)
On the Waterfront | Sam Spiegel
The Caine Mutiny | Stanley Kramer
The Country Girl | William Perlberg
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Jack Cummings
Three Coins in the Fountain | Sol C. Siegel
1955
(28th)
Marty | Harold Hecht
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Buddy Adler
Mister Roberts | Leland Hayward
Picnic | Fred Kohlmar
The Rose Tattoo | Hal B. Wallis
1956
(29th)
Around the World in 80 Days | Michael Todd
Friendly Persuasion | William Wyler
Giant | George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg
The King and I | Charles Brackett
The Ten Commandments | Cecil B. DeMille
1957
(30th)
The Bridge on the River Kwai | Sam Spiegel
12 Angry Men | Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose
Peyton Place | Jerry Wald
Sayonara | William Goetz
Witness for the Prosecution | Arthur Hornblow Jr.
1958
(31st)
Gigi | Arthur Freed
Auntie Mame | Jack L. Warner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Lawrence Weingarten
The Defiant Ones | Stanley Kramer
Separate Tables | Harold Hecht
1959
(32nd)
Ben-Hur | Sam Zimbalist
Anatomy of a Murder | Otto Preminger
The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens
The Nun's Story | Henry Blanke
Room at the Top | John Woolf and James Woolf

### 1960s[edit | edit source]

Year of Film Release  | Film  | Producer(s)

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1960
(33rd)
The Apartment | Billy Wilder
The Alamo | John Wayne
Elmer Gantry | Bernard Smith
Sons and Lovers | Jerry Wald
The Sundowners | Fred Zinnemann
1961
(34th)
West Side Story | Robert Wise
Fanny | Joshua Logan
The Guns of Navarone | Carl Foreman
The Hustler | Robert Rossen
Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer
1962
(35th)

Lawrence of Arabia | Sam Spiegel
The Longest Day | Darryl F. Zanuck
The Music Man | Morton DaCosta
Mutiny on the Bounty | Aaron Rosenberg
To Kill a Mockingbird | Alan J. Pakula
1963
(36th)
Tom Jones | Tony Richardson
America America | Elia Kazan
Cleopatra | Walter Wanger
How the West Was Won | Bernard Smith
Lilies of the Field | Ralph Nelson
1964
(37th)
My Fair Lady | Jack L. Warner
Becket | Hal B. Wallis
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick
Mary Poppins | Walt Disney and Bill Walsh
Zorba the Greek | Michael Cacoyannis
1965
(38th)
The Sound of Music | Robert Wise
Darling | Joseph Janni
Doctor Zhivago | Carlo Ponti
Ship of Fools | Stanley Kramer
A Thousand Clowns | Fred Coe
1966
(39th)
A Man for All Seasons | Fred Zinnemann
Alfie | Lewis Gilbert
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming | Norman Jewison
The Sand Pebbles | Robert Wise
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Ernest Lehman
1967
(40th)
In the Heat of the Night | Walter Mirisch
Bonnie and Clyde | Warren Beatty
Doctor Dolittle | Arthur P. Jacobs
The Graduate | Lawrence Turman
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Stanley Kramer
1968
(41st)
Oliver! | John Woolf
Funny Girl | Ray Stark
The Lion in Winter | Martin Poll
Rachel, Rachel | Paul Newman
Romeo and Juliet | Anthony Havelock-Allan and John Brabourne
1969
(42nd)
Midnight Cowboy | Jerome Hellman
Anne of the Thousand Days | Hal B. Wallis
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | John Foreman
Hello, Dolly! | Ernest Lehman
Z | Jacques Perrin and Ahmed Rachedi

### 1970s[edit | edit source]

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1970
(43rd)
Patton | Frank McCarthy
Airport | Ross Hunter
Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson and Richard Wechsler
Love Story | Howard G. Minsky
M*A*S*H | Ingo Preminger
1971
(44th)
The French Connection | Philip D'Antoni
A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick
Fiddler on the Roof | Norman Jewison
The Last Picture Show | Stephen J. Friedman
Nicholas and Alexandra | Sam Spiegel
1972
(45th)
The Godfather | Albert S. Ruddy
Cabaret | Cy Feuer
Deliverance | John Boorman
The Emigrants | Bengt Forslund
Sounder | Robert B. Radnitz
1973
(46th)
The Sting | Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, and Julia Phillips
American Graffiti | Francis Ford Coppola and Gary Kurtz
Cries and Whispers | Ingmar Bergman
The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty
A Touch of Class | Melvin Frank
1974
(47th)
The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, and Fred Roos
Chinatown | Robert Evans
The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola
Lenny | Marvin Worth
The Towering Inferno | Irwin Allen
1975
(48th)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz
Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick
Dog Day Afternoon | Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand
Jaws | Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown
Nashville | Robert Altman
1976
(49th)
Rocky | Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff
All the President's Men | Walter Coblenz
Bound for Glory | Robert F. Blumofe and Harold Leventhal
Network | Howard Gottfried
Taxi Driver | Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips
1977
(50th)
Annie Hall | Charles H. Joffe
The Goodbye Girl | Ray Stark
Julia | Richard Roth
Star Wars | Gary Kurtz
The Turning Point | Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents
1978
(51st)
The Deer Hunter | Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, and John Peverall
Coming Home | Jerome Hellman
Heaven Can Wait | Warren Beatty
Midnight Express | Alan Marshall and David Puttnam
An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky and Anthony Ray
1979
(52nd)
Kramer vs. Kramer | Stanley R. Jaffe
All That Jazz | Robert Alan Aurthur
Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson, and Tom Sternberg
Breaking Away | Peter Yates
Norma Rae | Tamara Asseyev and Alex Rose

### 1980s[edit | edit source]

Year of Film Release  | Film  | Producer(s)

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1980
(53rd)
Ordinary People | Ronald L. Schwary
Coal Miner's Daughter | Bernard Schwartz
The Elephant Man | Jonathan Sanger
Raging Bull | Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff
Tess | Claude Berri and Timothy Burrill
1981
(54th)
Chariots of Fire | David Puttnam
Atlantic City | Denis Héroux
On Golden Pond | Bruce Gilbert
Raiders of the Lost Ark | Frank Marshall
Reds | Warren Beatty
1982
(55th)
Gandhi | Richard Attenborough
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
Missing | Edward Lewis and Mildred Lewis
Tootsie | Sydney Pollack and Dick Richards
The Verdict | Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown
1983
(56th)
Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks
The Big Chill | Michael Shamberg
The Dresser | Peter Yates
The Right Stuff | Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff
Tender Mercies | Philip S. Hobel
1984
(57th)
Amadeus | Saul Zaentz
The Killing Fields | David Puttnam
A Passage to India | John Brabourne and Richard B. Goodwin
Places in the Heart | Arlene Donovan
A Soldier's Story | Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary, and Patrick Palmer
1985
(58th)
Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack
The Color Purple | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Quincy Jones
Kiss of the Spider Woman | David Weisman
Prizzi's Honor | John Foreman
Witness | Edward S. Feldman
1986
(59th)
Platoon | Arnold Kopelson
Children of a Lesser God | Burt Sugarman and Patrick J. Palmer
Hannah and Her Sisters | Robert Greenhut
The Mission | Fernando Ghia and David Puttnam
A Room with a View | Ismail Merchant
1987
(60th)
The Last Emperor | Jeremy Thomas
Broadcast News | James L. Brooks
Fatal Attraction | Stanley R. Jaffe and Sherry Lansing
Hope and Glory | John Boorman
Moonstruck | Patrick J. Palmer and Norman Jewison
1988
(61st)
Rain Man | Mark Johnson
The Accidental Tourist | Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun, and Michael Grillo
Dangerous Liaisons | Norma Heyman and Hank Moonjean
Mississippi Burning | Frederick Zollo and Robert F. Colesberry
Working Girl | Douglas Wick
1989
(62nd)
Driving Miss Daisy | Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck
Born on the Fourth of July | A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone
Dead Poets Society | Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, and Tony Thomas
Field of Dreams | Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon
My Left Foot | Noel Pearson

### 1990s[edit | edit source]

Year of Film Release  | Film  | Producer(s)

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1990
(63rd)
Dances with Wolves | Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner
Awakenings | Walter Parkes and Lawrence Lasker
Ghost | Lisa Weinstein
The Godfather Part III | Francis Ford Coppola
Goodfellas | Irwin Winkler
1991
(64th)
The Silence of the Lambs | Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, and Ron Bozman
Beauty and the Beast | Don Hahn
Bugsy | Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson and Warren Beatty
JFK | A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone
The Prince of Tides | Barbra Streisand and Andrew S. Karsch
1992
(65th)
Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood
The Crying Game | Stephen Woolley
A Few Good Men | David Brown, Rob Reiner, and Andrew Scheinman
Howards End | Ismail Merchant
Scent of a Woman | Martin Brest
1993
(66th)
Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, and Branko Lustig
The Fugitive | Arnold Kopelson
In the Name of the Father | Jim Sheridan
The Piano | Jan Chapman
The Remains of the Day | Mike Nichols, John Calley, and Ismail Merchant
1994
(67th)
Forrest Gump | Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, and Steve Starkey
Four Weddings and a Funeral | Duncan Kenworthy
Pulp Fiction | Lawrence Bender
Quiz Show | Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozik, and Robert Redford
The Shawshank Redemption | Niki Marvin
1995
(68th)
Braveheart | Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd Jr., and Bruce Davey
Apollo 13 | Brian Grazer
Babe | Bill Miller, George Miller, and Doug Mitchell
The Postman (Il Postino) | Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, and Gaetano Daniele
Sense and Sensibility | Lindsay Doran
1996
(69th)
The English Patient | Saul Zaentz
Fargo | Ethan Coen
Jerry Maguire | James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai, and Cameron Crowe
Secrets & Lies | Simon Channing-Williams
Shine | Jane Scott
1997
(70th)
Titanic | James Cameron and Jon Landau
As Good as It Gets | James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, and Kristi Zea
The Full Monty | Uberto Pasolini
Good Will Hunting | Lawrence Bender
L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, and Michael Nathanson
1998
(71st)
Shakespeare in Love | David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, and Marc Norman
Elizabeth | Alison Owen, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan
Life Is Beautiful | Elda Ferri and Gianluigi Braschi
Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, and Gary Levinsohn
The Thin Red Line | Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, and Grant Hill
1999
(72nd)
American Beauty | Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks
The Cider House Rules | Richard N. Gladstein
The Green Mile | Frank Darabont and David Valdes
The Insider | Pieter Jan Brugge and Michael Mann
The Sixth Sense | Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, and Barry Mendel

### 2000s[edit | edit source]

Year of Film Release  | Film  | Producer(s)

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2000
(73rd)
Gladiator | Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, and Branko Lustig
Chocolat | David Brown, Kit Golden, and Leslie Holleran
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | William Kong, Hsu Li-kong, and Ang Lee
Erin Brockovich | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, and Stacey Sher
Traffic | Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, and Laura Bickford
2001
(74th)
A Beautiful Mind | Brian Grazer and Ron Howard
Gosford Park | Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, and David Levy
In the Bedroom | Graham Leader, Ross Katz, and Todd Field
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Barrie M. Osborne
Moulin Rouge! | Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, and Fred Baron
2002
(75th)
Chicago | Martin Richards
Gangs of New York | Alberto Grimaldi and Harvey Weinstein
The Hours | Scott Rudin and Robert Fox
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, and Peter Jackson
The Pianist | Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, and Alain Sarde
2003
(76th)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh
Lost in Translation | Ross Katz and Sofia Coppola
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Peter Weir, and Duncan Henderson
Mystic River | Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt, and Clint Eastwood
Seabiscuit | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Gary Ross
2004
(77th)
Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, and Tom Rosenberg
The Aviator | Michael Mann and Graham King
Finding Neverland | Richard N. Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower
Ray | Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, and Howard Baldwin
Sideways | Michael London
2005
(78th)
Crash | Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman
Brokeback Mountain | Diana Ossana and James Schamus
Capote | Caroline Baron, William Vince, and Michael Ohoven
Good Night, and Good Luck | Grant Heslov
Munich | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Barry Mendel
2006
(79th)
The Departed | Graham King
Babel | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin, and Jon Kilik
Letters from Iwo Jima | Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Lorenz
Little Miss Sunshine | David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, and Marc Turtletaub
The Queen | Andy Harries, Christine Langan, and Tracey Seaward
2007
(80th)
No Country for Old Men | Scott Rudin, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen
Atonement | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster
Juno | Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, and Russell Smith
Michael Clayton | Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent, and Sydney Pollack
There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, and JoAnne Sellar
2008
(81st)
Slumdog Millionaire | Christian Colson
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Ceán Chaffin
Frost/Nixon | Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Eric Fellner
Milk | Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks
The Reader | Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, and Redmond Morris
2009
(82nd)
The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro
Avatar | James Cameron and Jon Landau
The Blind Side | Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, and Broderick Johnson
District 9 | Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham
An Education | Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
Inglourious Basterds | Lawrence Bender
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire | Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and Gary Magness
A Serious Man | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Up | Jonas Rivera
Up in the Air | Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, and Jason Reitman

### 2010s[edit | edit source]

Year of Film Release  | Film  | Producer(s)

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2010
(83rd)
The King's Speech | Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin
127 Hours | Danny Boyle, John Smithson, and Christian Colson
Black Swan | Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, and Brian Oliver
The Fighter | David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, and Mark Wahlberg
Inception | Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas
The Kids Are All Right | Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, and Celine Rattray
The Social Network | Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca, and Scott Rudin
Toy Story 3 | Darla K. Anderson
True Grit | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, and Scott Rudin
Winter's Bone | Alix Madigan and Anne Rosellini
2011
(84th)
The Artist | Thomas Langmann
The Descendants | Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, and Jim Taylor
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Scott Rudin
The Help | Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, and Michael Barnathan
Hugo | Graham King and Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris | Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum
Moneyball | Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, and Brad Pitt
The Tree of Life | Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner, and Grant Hill
War Horse | Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
2012
(85th)
Argo | Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney
Amour | Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Michael Katz
Beasts of the Southern Wild | Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, and Michael Gottwald
Django Unchained | Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, and Pilar Savone
Life of Pi | Gil Netter, Ang Lee, and David Womark
Lincoln | Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy
Les Misérables | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh
Silver Linings Playbook | Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen, and Jonathan Gordon
Zero Dark Thirty | Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, and Megan Ellison
2013
(86th)
12 Years a Slave | Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Anthony Katagas
American Hustle | Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, and Jonathan Gordon
Captain Phillips | Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael De Luca
Dallas Buyers Club | Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter
Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman
Her | Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, and Vincent Landay
Nebraska | Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa
Philomena | Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, and Tracey Seaward
The Wolf of Wall Street | Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joey McFarland, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff
2014
(87th)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole
American Sniper | Clint Eastwood, Andrew Lazar, Robert Lorenz, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan
Boyhood | Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven M. Rales, and Jeremy Dawson
The Imitation Game | Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman
Selma | Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
The Theory of Everything | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, and Anthony McCarten
Whiplash | Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, and David Lancaster
2015
(88th)
Spotlight | Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, and Michael Sugar
The Big Short | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Brad Pitt
Bridge of Spies | Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, and Kristie Macosko Krieger
Brooklyn | Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
Mad Max: Fury Road | Doug Mitchell and George Miller
The Martian | Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, and Mark Huffam
The Revenant | Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon
Room | Ed Guiney
2016
(89th)
Moonlight | Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
Arrival | Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder, and David Linde
Fences | Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington, and Todd Black
Hacksaw Ridge | Bill Mechanic and David Permut
Hell or High Water | Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn
Hidden Figures | Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams, and Theodore Melfi
La La Land | Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt
Lion | Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, and Angie Fielder
Manchester by the Sea | Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, and Kevin J. Walsh
2017
(90th)
The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale
Call Me by Your Name | Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, and Marco Morabito
Darkest Hour | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten, and Douglas Urbanski
Dunkirk | Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan
Get Out | Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., and Jordan Peele
Lady Bird | Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, and Evelyn O'Neill
Phantom Thread | JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, and Daniel Lupi
The Post | Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg, and Kristie Macosko Krieger
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh
2018
(91st)
Green Book | Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga
Black Panther | Kevin Feige
BlacKkKlansman | Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele, and Spike Lee
Bohemian Rhapsody | Graham King
The Favourite | Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, and Yorgos Lanthimos
Roma | Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón
A Star Is Born | Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper, and Lynette Howell Taylor
Vice | Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick
2019
(92nd)
Parasite | Kwak Sin-ae and Bong Joon-ho
Ford v Ferrari | Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and James Mangold
The Irishman | Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Jojo Rabbit | Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi, and Chelsea Winstanley
Joker | Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Little Women | Amy Pascal
Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach and David Heyman
1917 | Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, and Callum McDougall
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, and Quentin Tarantino

### 2020s[edit | edit source]

Year of Film Release  | Film  | Producer(s)

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2020
(93rd)
Nomadland | Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, and Chloé Zhao
The Father | David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, and Philippe Carcassonne
Judas and the Black Messiah | Shaka King, Charles D. King, and Ryan Coogler
Mank | Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth, and Douglas Urbanski
Minari | Christina Oh
Promising Young Woman | Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell, and Josey McNamara
Sound of Metal | Bert Hamelinck and Sacha Ben Harroche
The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Marc Platt and Stuart M. Besser
2021
(94th)
CODA | Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, and Patrick Wachsberger
Belfast | Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, and Tamar Thomas
Don't Look Up | Adam McKay and Kevin Messick
Drive My Car | Teruhisa Yamamoto
Dune | Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, and Cale Boyter
King Richard | Tim White, Trevor White, and Will Smith
Licorice Pizza | Sara Murphy, Adam Somner, and Paul Thomas Anderson
Nightmare Alley | J. Miles Dale, Guillermo del Toro, and Bradley Cooper
The Power of the Dog | Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Jane Campion, and Tanya Seghatchian
West Side Story | Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger

## Individuals with multiple wins[edit | edit source]

3 wins[34]

* Sam Spiegel
* Saul Zaentz

2 wins[34]

* Clint Eastwood
* Arthur Freed
* Dede Gardner
* Jeremy Kleiner
* Branko Lustig
* Albert S. Ruddy
* Robert Wise

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## Individuals with multiple nominations[edit | edit source]

11 nominations[34][35]

* Steven Spielberg

9 nominations[34]

* Scott Rudin

8 nominations[34]

* Kathleen Kennedy

6 nominations[34]

* Eric Fellner
* Dede Gardner
* Stanley Kramer

5 nominations[34]

* Tim Bevan
* Francis Ford Coppola
* Clint Eastwood
* Jeremy Kleiner
* Frank Marshall

4 nominations[34]

* Warren Beatty
* James L. Brooks
* David Brown
* Ethan Coen
* Bradley Cooper
* Megan Ellison
* Donna Gigliotti
* Peter Jackson
* Norman Jewison
* Graham King
* Sydney Pollack
* David Puttnam
* Sam Spiegel
* George Stevens
* Irwin Winkler

3 nominations

* Paul Thomas Anderson
* Lawrence Bender
* Jason Blum
* Iain Canning
* Ceán Chaffin
* Robert Chartoff
* Joel Coen
* Bruce Cohen
* Christian Colson
* Michael De Luca
* Steve Golin
* Brian Grazer
* David Heyman
* Alejandro González Iñárritu
* Emma Tillinger Koskoff
* Kristie Macosko Krieger
* Stanley Kubrick
* Robert Lorenz
* Ismail Merchant
* Barrie M. Osborne
* Brad Pitt
* Marc Platt
* Martin Scorsese
* Emile Sherman
* Hal B. Wallis
* Fran Walsh
* Robert Wise
* John Woolf
* Saul Zaentz
* Richard D. Zanuck

2 nominations

* Buddy Adler
* Robert Altman
* Kathryn Bigelow
* Mark Boal
* John Boorman
* John Brabourne
* Lisa Bruce
* Dana Brunetti
* Jim Burke
* James Cameron
* Peter Chernin
* Alfonso Cuarón
* J. Miles Dale
* Guillermo del Toro
* Cecil B. DeMille
* Finola Dwyer
* John Foreman
* Gray Frederickson
* Arthur Freed
* Richard N. Gladstein
* Jonathan Gordon
* Ed Guiney
* Jerome Hellman
* Grant Heslov
* Grant Hill
* Ron Howard
* Stanley R. Jaffe
* Dan Janvey
* Dan Jinks
* Mark Johnson
* Ross Katz
* A. Kitman Ho
* Arnold Kopelson
* Gary Kurtz
* Jon Landau
* Ang Lee
* Ernest Lehman
* Daniel Lupi
* Branko Lustig
* Michael Mann

* Anthony McCarten
* Frank McCarthy
* Adam McKay
* Barry Mendel
* Kevin Messick
* Arnon Milchan
* George Miller
* Doug Mitchell
* Gil Netter
* Patrick J. Palmer
* Mary Parent
* David Parfitt
* Amy Pascal
* Jordan Peele
* Julia Phillips
* Michael Phillips
* Amanda Posey
* Sean McKittrick
* Christopher Nolan
* Fred Roos
* Albert S. Ruddy
* Tracey Seaward
* Ronald L. Schwary
* JoAnne Sellar
* Michael Shamberg
* Stacey Sher
* Bernard Smith
* Peter Spears
* Ray Stark
* Oliver Stone
* Emma Thomas
* Jenno Topping
* Douglas Urbanski
* Jerry Wald
* Jack L. Warner
* Harvey Weinstein
* Douglas Wick
* James Woolf
* William Wyler
* Peter Yates
* Sam Zimbalist
* Fred Zinnemann
* Edward Zwick

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## Production companies with multiple nominations and wins[edit | edit source]

Production Company  | Nominations  | Wins

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20th Century Studios | 62  | 9
Columbia Pictures | 56  | 12
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 40  | 9
Universal Pictures | 34  | 9
Warner Bros. Pictures | 25  | 9
Paramount Pictures | 20  | 11
Searchlight Pictures | 19  | 5
Miramax Films | 15  | 4
DreamWorks | 13  | 4
RKO Pictures | 11  | 1
Focus Features | 10  | 0
Plan B Entertainment | 8  | 3
Samuel Goldwyn Productions | 8  | 1
Netflix | 7  | 0
Orion Pictures | 6  | 4
Touchstone Pictures | 6  | 0
The Weinstein Company | 6  | 2
Selznick International Pictures | 5  | 2
Annapurna Pictures | 5  | 0
A24 | 4  | 1
Walt Disney Pictures | 4  | 0
J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films | 3  | 1
New Line Cinema | 3  | 1
Cosmopolitan Productions | 3  | 0
Amazon Studios | 2  | 0
Pixar Animation Studios | 2  | 0
Hollywood Pictures | 2  | 0
The Caddo Company  | 2  | 0
Walter Wanger (production company)  | 2  | 0
Mercury | 2  | 0
Apple | 1  | 1
Neon | 1  | 1

## Note[edit | edit source]

* Only three film studios held the most records; Columbia Pictures holds the most wins with 12, 20th Century Studios holds the most nominations with 62, and Focus Features holds the most nominations without a win with 10.

## See also[edit | edit source]

* BAFTA Award for Best Film
* Golden Pyramid Award
* Independent Spirit Award for Best Film
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
* Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
* Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
* Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
* Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
* List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
* List of presenters of the Academy Award for Best Picture
* List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
* Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
* List of Academy Award-winning films
* List of film production companies
* List of films considered the best
* Lists of films
* Academy Aperture 2025

## Notes[edit | edit source]

1. ^ The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges at the time.
2. ^ The Academy also announced that A Farewell to Arms came in second, and Little Women third.
3. ^ The Academy also announced that The Barretts of Wimpole Street came in second, and The House of Rothschild third.
4. ^ The Academy also announced that The Informer came in second, and Captain Blood third.

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* Ordinary People (1980)
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* Braveheart (1995)
* The English Patient (1996)
* Titanic (1997)
* Shakespeare in Love (1998)
* American Beauty (1999)
* Gladiator (2000)

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* A Beautiful Mind (2001)
* Chicago (2002)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
* Million Dollar Baby (2004)
* Crash (2005)
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* Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
* Spotlight (2015)
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