Academy Award for Best Picture
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| Academy Award for Best Picture | |
| Awarded for | Best Motion Picture of the Year |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
| Country | United States |
| First awarded | 1929 (for films released in 1927/1928) |
| First winner | Wings (1927) |
| Most recent winner | The Hurt Locker (2009) |
| Official website | |
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The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible not only to vote on the final ballot, but also to nominate. During the annual Academy Awards ceremony, Best Picture is reserved as the final award presented and, since 1951, is collected at the podium by the film's producers. The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is considered the most important of the Academy Awards, as it is the final award presented, directing, acting, and writing efforts put forth for a film. The Grand Staircase columns at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, 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 80 years ago. On June 24, 2009 it was announced that the Best Picture nominees would be raised from five to ten selected nominees for the award, starting with the 2010 Academy Award Ceremony.[1]
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[edit] History
At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there was no Best Picture award. Instead, there were two separate awards, one called Most Outstanding Production, won by the epic Wings, and one called Most Artistic Quality of Production, won by the art film Sunrise. The awards were intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking, and in fact the judges and the studio bosses who sought to influence their decisions paid more attention to the latter - MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who had disliked the realism of King Vidor's The Crowd, pressured the judges not to honor his own studio's film, and to select Sunrise instead. The next year, the Academy instituted a single award called Best Production, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings had been the equivalent of that award, with the result that Wings is often listed as the winner of a sole Best Picture award for the first year. The title of the award was eventually changed to Best Picture for the 1931 awards.
Since 1944, the Academy has restricted nominations to five Best Picture nominees per year. As of the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony (for 2009), there have been 474 films nominated for the Best Picture award. Throughout the past 82 years, AMPAS has presented a total of 82 Best Picture awards. Invariably, the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 82 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 60 have also been awarded Best Director.[1] Only three films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated (though only one since the early 1930s): Wings (1927/28), Grand Hotel (1931/32), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). The only two Best Director winners to win for films which did not receive a Best Picture nomination are likewise in the early years: Lewis Milestone (1927/28) and Frank Lloyd (1928/29).
However, in 2009, The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced that the number of Best Picture nominees would be increased from five to ten. The expansion was a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and '40s, when anywhere between eight and 12 films were shortlisted (or longlisted). "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going 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" .[1]
One point of contention is the lack of consideration of non-English language films for categories other than Best Foreign Language Film. Very few foreign language films have been nominated for any other categories, regardless of artistic merit. To date, only eight foreign language films (and three partly foreign language films) have been nominated for Best Picture: Grand Illusion (French, 1938); Z (French, 1969); The Emigrants (Swedish, 1972); Cries and Whispers (Swedish, 1973); Il Postino (Italian/Spanish, 1995); Life Is Beautiful (Italian, 1998); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Mandarin Chinese, 2000); and Letters from Iwo Jima (Japanese, 2006), which was ineligible for the Best Foreign Language Oscar because it was an American production. The only partly foreign language films to win Best Picture are The Godfather Part II (English/Sicilian, 1974), The Last Emperor (English/Mandarin, 1987) and Slumdog Millionaire (English/Hindi, 2008).
Another point of contention is the recent extreme bias toward 2-plus hour films: Crash (2005, 112m) is the shortest film to win Best Picture in the past 20 years. It has been criticized for ignoring films that were huge commercial and critical successes. Furthermore, no animated movie has won the award (Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Disney-Pixar's Up were nominated), and only one comedy (Shakespeare in Love, 1998) has won in the last 30 years.
To date, ten films exclusively financed outside the United States have won Best Picture; all ten were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom. Those films were, in chronological order: Hamlet, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, Oliver!, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, The Last Emperor, and Slumdog Millionaire.
No Best Picture winner is 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, usually having been edited for reissue (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees such as Tom Jones and Star Wars are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. The 1928 film The Patriot is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost; The Racket was believed lost for many years but a print existed in producer Howard Hughes' archives and it has since been shown on Turner Classic Movies. Wings and Sunrise were the only silent winners of a Best Picture-equivalent award, although a part-silent version of All Quiet on the Western Front was created for foreign-language release and survives.
[edit] Winners and nominees
In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. 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, but it may be the year after first release (as with Casablanca and, if the film-festival premiere is considered, Crash). This is 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 (if any) on that ceremony. Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. For foreign language films, the original title is also shown. Until 1950, the Best Picture award was given to the production company; from 1951 on, it has gone to the producer. The official name of the award has changed several times over the years:
- 1927/28 → 1928/29: Outstanding Picture
- 1929/30 → 1940: Outstanding Production
- 1941 → 1943: Outstanding Motion Picture
- 1944 → 1961: Best Motion Picture
- 1962 → Present: Best Picture
For the first ceremony, three films each were nominated for two separate awards similar to the Best Picture 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 reduced back to five. This number remained until 2010, when it was once again raised to ten.
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Actors | ||
| Cimarron | RKO Radio | William LeBaron |
| Richard Dix, Irene Dunne | ||
| East Lynne | Fox | Winfield Sheehan[G] |
| Ann Harding, Conrad Nagel | ||
| The Front Page | Caddo, United Artists | Howard Hughes |
| Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian | ||
| Skippy | Paramount | Adolph Zukor |
| Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl | ||
| Trader Horn | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Irving G. Thalberg |
| Harry Carey, Edwina Booth | ||
| Grand Hotel | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Irving Thalberg |
| Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore | ||
| Arrowsmith | Goldwyn, United Artists | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes | ||
| Bad Girl | Fox | Winfield Sheehan[G] |
| Sally Eilers, James Dunn | ||
| The Champ | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | King Vidor |
| Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper | ||
| Five Star Final | First National | Hal B. Wallis |
| Edward G. Robinson | ||
| One Hour with You | Paramount | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald | ||
| Shanghai Express | Paramount | Adolph Zukor |
| Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong | ||
| The Smiling Lieutenant | Paramount | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins | ||
| Gone with the Wind | Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | David O. Selznick |
| Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland | ||
| Dark Victory | Warner Bros. | David Lewis |
| Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Humphrey Bogart | ||
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Victor Saville |
| Robert Donat, Greer Garson | ||
| Love Affair | RKO Radio | Leo McCarey |
| Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer | ||
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Columbia | Frank Capra |
| James Stewart, Jean Arthur | ||
| Ninotchka | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sidney Franklin |
| Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas | ||
| Of Mice and Men | Roach, United Artists | Lewis Milestone |
| Burgess Meredith, Betty Field | ||
| Stagecoach | United Artists | Walter Wanger |
| John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell | ||
| The Wizard of Oz | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Frank Morgan | ||
| Wuthering Heights | Goldwyn, United Artists | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald | ||
| Going My Way | Paramount | Leo McCarey |
| Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald | ||
| Double Indemnity | Paramount | Joseph Sistrom |
| Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson | ||
| Gaslight | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. |
| Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury | ||
| Since You Went Away | Selznick, United Artists | David O. Selznick |
| Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple | ||
| Wilson | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald | ||
| The Lost Weekend | Paramount | Charles Brackett |
| Ray Milland, Jane Wyman | ||
| Anchors Aweigh | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Joe Pasternak |
| Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson | ||
| The Bells of St. Mary's | RKO Radio | Leo McCarey |
| Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman | ||
| Mildred Pierce | Warner Bros. | Jerry Wald |
| Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth | ||
| Spellbound | United Artists | David O. Selznick |
| Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck | ||
| The Best Years of Our Lives | RKO Radio | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Harold Russell | ||
| Henry V | United Artists | Laurence Olivier |
| Laurence Olivier, Renée Asherson, Leslie Banks | ||
| It's a Wonderful Life | RKO Radio | Frank Capra |
| James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Gloria Grahame | ||
| The Razor's Edge | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall | ||
| The Yearling | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sidney Franklin |
| Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman, Jr. | ||
| Gentleman's Agreement | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Dean Stockwell | ||
| The Bishop's Wife | RKO Radio | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven | ||
| Crossfire | RKO Radio | Adrian Scott |
| Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Sam Levene | ||
| Great Expectations | Rank-Cineguild, U-I | Ronald Neame |
| John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Anthony Wager, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt | ||
| Miracle on 34th Street | 20th Century Fox | William Perlberg |
| Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, Edmund Gwenn | ||
| Hamlet | J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, Universal International | Laurence Olivier |
| Laurence Olivier, Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie, Jean Simmons | ||
| Johnny Belinda | Warner Bros. | Jerry Wald |
| Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead, Jan Sterling | ||
| The Red Shoes | Rank Organisation, Powell and Pressburger, Eagle-Lion Films | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring | ||
| The Snake Pit | 20th Century Fox | Anatole Litvak, Robert Bassler |
| Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn | ||
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Warner Bros. | Henry Blanke |
| Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt | ||
| All the King's Men | Rossen, Columbia | Robert Rossen |
| Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, Mercedes McCambridge | ||
| Battleground | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Dore Schary |
| Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy | ||
| The Heiress | Paramount | William Wyler |
| Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins | ||
| A Letter to Three Wives | 20th Century Fox | Sol C. Siegel |
| Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern | ||
| Twelve O'Clock High | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Dean Jagger | ||
| All About Eve | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe | ||
| Born Yesterday | Columbia | S. Sylvan Simon |
| Broderick Crawford, Judy Holliday, William Holden | ||
| Father of the Bride | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sam Zimbalist |
| Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor | ||
| King Solomon's Mines | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sam Zimbalist |
| Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger | ||
| Sunset Boulevard | Paramount | Charles Brackett |
| William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson | ||
| An American in Paris | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Arthur Freed |
| Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron | ||
| Decision Before Dawn | 20th Century Fox | Anatole Litvak, Frank McCarthy |
| Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner | ||
| A Place in the Sun | Paramount | George Stevens |
| Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters | ||
| Quo Vadis | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sam Zimbalist |
| Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr | ||
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Warner Bros. | Charles K. Feldman |
| Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden | ||
| The Greatest Show on Earth | Paramount | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Gloria Grahame, Dorothy Lamour, James Stewart | ||
| High Noon | United Artists | Stanley Kramer |
| Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado | ||
| Ivanhoe | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Pandro S. Berman |
| Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor | ||
| Moulin Rouge | United Artists | John Huston |
| José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon | ||
| The Quiet Man | Republic | John Ford, Merian C. Cooper |
| John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara | ||
| From Here to Eternity | Columbia | Buddy Adler |
| Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra | ||
| Julius Caesar | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | John Houseman |
| Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern, Edmond O'Brien, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr | ||
| The Robe | 20th Century Fox | Frank Ross |
| Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature | ||
| Roman Holiday | Paramount | William Wyler |
| Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn | ||
| Shane | Paramount | George Stevens |
| Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, Jack Palance | ||
| On the Waterfront | Columbia | Sam Spiegel[N] |
| Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger | ||
| The Caine Mutiny | Columbia | Stanley Kramer |
| Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray | ||
| The Country Girl | Paramount | William Perlberg |
| Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden | ||
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Jack Cummings |
| Jane Powell, Howard Keel | ||
| Three Coins in the Fountain | 20th Century Fox | Sol C. Siegel |
| Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jordan, Maggie McNamara, Rossano Brazzi | ||
| Marty | United Artists | Harold Hecht |
| Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair | ||
| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | 20th Century Fox | Buddy Adler |
| William Holden, Jennifer Jones | ||
| Mister Roberts | Warner Bros. | Leland Hayward |
| Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon | ||
| Picnic | Columbia | Fred Kohlmar |
| William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell, Susan Strasberg, Betty Field, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell | ||
| The Rose Tattoo | Paramount | Hal B. Wallis |
| Burt Lancaster, Anna Magnani, Marisa Pavan | ||
| Around the World in 80 Days | United Artists | Michael Todd |
| David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Newton | ||
| Friendly Persuasion | Allied Artists | William Wyler |
| Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins | ||
| Giant | Warner Bros. | George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg |
| Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean | ||
| The King and I | 20th Century Fox | Charles Brackett |
| Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner | ||
| The Ten Commandments | Paramount | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo | ||
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | Columbia | Sam Spiegel |
| William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa | ||
| Peyton Place | 20th Century Fox | Jerry Wald |
| Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Diane Varsi, Hope Lange, Arthur Kennedy, Russ Tamblyn, Lloyd Nolan, Terry Moore, Leon Ames, Betty Field, Mildred Dunnock | ||
| Sayonara | Warner Bros. | William Goetz |
| Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, Red Buttons, James Garner, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki | ||
| 12 Angry Men | United Artists | Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose |
| Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, E. G. Marshall, Ed Begley | ||
| Witness for the Prosecution | United Artists | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. |
| Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester | ||
| Gigi | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Arthur Freed |
| Leslie Caron, Louis Jordan, Maurice Chevalier | ||
| Auntie Mame | Warner Bros. | Jack L. Warner |
| Rosalind Russell | ||
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Lawrence Weingarten |
| Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives | ||
| The Defiant Ones | Kramer, United Artists | Stanley Kramer |
| Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier | ||
| Separate Tables | United Artists | Harold Hecht |
| Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper | ||
| Ben-Hur | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sam Zimbalist |
| Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Jack Hawkins, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Sam Jaffe, Hugh Griffith | ||
| Anatomy of a Murder | Columbia | Otto Preminger |
| James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, George C. Scott, Eve Arden | ||
| The Diary of Anne Frank | 20th Century Fox | George Stevens |
| Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Lou Jacobi, Gusti Huber, Diane Baker, Ed Wynn | ||
| The Nun's Story | Warner Bros. | Henry Blanke |
| Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans | ||
| Room at the Top | Continental | John Woolf, James Woolf |
| Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Hermione Baddely | ||
| The Apartment | United Artists | Billy Wilder |
| Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Jack Kruschen | ||
| The Alamo | United Artists | John Wayne |
| John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey | ||
| Elmer Gantry | United Artists | Bernard Smith |
| Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones, Patti Page | ||
| Sons and Lovers | 20th Century Fox | Jerry Wald |
| Dean Stockwell, Trevor Howard, Wendy Hiller, Heather Sears, Mary Ure | ||
| The Sundowners | Warner Bros. | Fred Zinnemann |
| Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns | ||
| West Side Story | United Artists | Robert Wise |
| Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris | ||
| Fanny | Warner Bros. | Joshua Logan |
| Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer | ||
| The Guns of Navarone | Columbia | Carl Foreman |
| Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn | ||
| The Hustler | 20th Century Fox | Robert Rossen |
| Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Jackie Gleason | ||
| Judgment at Nuremberg | United Artists | Stanley Kramer |
| Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift | ||
| Lawrence of Arabia | Columbia | Sam Spiegel |
| Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, José Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, Claude Rains | ||
| The Longest Day | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Richard Beymer, Richard Burton, John Wayne, Sal Mineo | ||
| The Music Man | Warner Bros. | Morton DaCosta |
| Robert Preston, Shirley Jones | ||
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Aaron Rosenberg |
| Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris | ||
| To Kill a Mockingbird | U-I | Alan J. Pakula |
| Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford | ||
| Tom Jones | United Artists | Tony Richardson |
| Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Diane Cilento, Joyce Redman | ||
| America, America | Warner Bros. | Elia Kazan |
| Stathis Giallelis | ||
| Cleopatra | 20th Century Fox | Walter Wanger |
| Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Richard Burton | ||
| How the West Was Won | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cinerama | Bernard Smith |
| Carroll Baker, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart | ||
| Lilies of the Field | United Artists | Ralph Nelson |
| Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala | ||
| My Fair Lady | Warner Bros. | Jack L. Warner |
| Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper | ||
| Becket | Paramount | Hal B. Wallis |
| Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, John Gielgud | ||
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Columbia | Stanley Kubrick |
| Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden | ||
| Mary Poppins | Disney, Buena Vista | Walt Disney, Bill Walsh |
| Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke | ||
| Zorba the Greek | 20th Century Fox | Michael Cacoyannis |
| Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova | ||
| The Sound of Music | 20th Century Fox | Robert Wise |
| Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Peggy Wood | ||
| Darling | Embassy | Joseph Janni |
| Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey | ||
| Doctor Zhivago | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Carlo Ponti |
| Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay | ||
| Ship of Fools | Columbia | Stanley Kramer |
| Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin, José Ferrer, Oskar Werner, Michael Dunn | ||
| A Thousand Clowns | United Artists | Fred Coe |
| Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam | ||
| In the Heat of the Night | United Artists | Walter Mirisch |
| Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger | ||
| Bonnie and Clyde | Warner Bros., Seven Arts | Warren Beatty |
| Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons | ||
| Doctor Dolittle | 20th Century Fox | Arthur P. Jacobs |
| Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough | ||
| The Graduate | Embassy | Lawrence Turman |
| Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross | ||
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Columbia | Stanley Kramer |
| Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards | ||
| Oliver! | Columbia | John Woolf |
| Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Jack Wild, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed | ||
| Funny Girl | Columbia | Ray Stark |
| Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford | ||
| The Lion in Winter | Avco Embassy | Martin Poll |
| Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn | ||
| Rachel, Rachel | Warner Bros. | Paul Newman |
| Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Estelle Parsons | ||
| Romeo and Juliet | Paramount | Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne |
| Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Michael York | ||
| Midnight Cowboy | United Artists | Jerome Hellman |
| Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Brenda Vaccaro, Sylvia Miles | ||
| Anne of the Thousand Days | Universal | Hal B. Wallis |
| Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Anthony Quayle | ||
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 20th Century Fox | John Foreman |
| Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross | ||
| Hello, Dolly! | 20th Century Fox | Ernest Lehman |
| Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford | ||
| Z[K] | Cinema V | Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi |
| Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Irene Papas | ||
| Patton | 20th Century Fox | Frank McCarthy |
| George C. Scott, Karl Malden | ||
| Airport | Universal | Ross Hunter |
| Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton | ||
| Five Easy Pieces | Columbia | Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler |
| Jack Nicholson, Karen Black | ||
| Love Story | Paramount | Howard G. Minsky |
| Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley | ||
| MASH | 20th Century Fox | Ingo Preminger |
| Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall | ||
| The French Connection | 20th Century Fox | Philip D'Antoni |
| Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider | ||
| A Clockwork Orange | Warner Bros. | Stanley Kubrick |
| Malcolm McDowell | ||
| Fiddler on the Roof | United Artists | Norman Jewison |
| Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey | ||
| The Last Picture Show | Columbia | Stephen J. Friedman |
| Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan | ||
| Nicholas and Alexandra | Columbia | Sam Spiegel |
| Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman | ||
| The Godfather | Paramount | Albert S. Ruddy |
| Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, John Cazale | ||
| Cabaret | Allied Artists | Cy Feuer |
| Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey | ||
| Deliverance | Warner Bros. | John Boorman |
| Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox | ||
| The Emigrants[K] | Warner Bros. | Bengt Forslund |
| Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann | ||
| Sounder | 20th Century Fox | Robert B. Radnitz |
| Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks | ||
| The Sting | Universal | Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips |
| Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Eileen Brennan | ||
| American Graffiti | Universal | Francis Ford Coppola, Gary Kurtz |
| Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Paul Le Mat | ||
| Cries and Whispers[K] | New World Pictures | Ingmar Bergman |
| Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, Harriet Andersson | ||
| The Exorcist | Warner Bros. | William Peter Blatty |
| Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Linda Blair | ||
| A Touch of Class | Avco Embassy | Melvin Frank |
| George Segal, Glenda Jackson | ||
| The Godfather Part II[O] | Paramount | Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos |
| Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Talia Shire, John Cazale, Michael V. Gazzo, Lee Strasberg | ||
| Chinatown | Paramount | Robert Evans |
| Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston | ||
| The Conversation | Paramount | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams | ||
| Lenny | United Artists | Marvin Worth |
| Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine | ||
| The Towering Inferno | 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. | Irwin Allen |
| Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Jennifer Jones, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, O. J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Flannery | ||
| Rocky | United Artists | Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff |
| Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers | ||
| All the President's Men | Warner Bros. | Walter Coblenz |
| Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jane Alexander, Jason Robards | ||
| Bound for Glory | United Artists | Robert F. Blumofe, Harold Leventhal |
| David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon | ||
| Network | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists | Howard Gottfried |
| Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight | ||
| Taxi Driver | Columbia | Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips |
| Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel | ||
| Annie Hall | United Artists | Charles H. Joffe |
| Woody Allen, Diane Keaton | ||
| The Goodbye Girl | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros. | Ray Stark |
| Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings | ||
| Julia | 20th Century Fox | Richard Roth |
| Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell | ||
| Star Wars | 20th Century Fox | George Lucas |
| Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness | ||
| The Turning Point | 20th Century Fox | Herbert Ross, Arthur Laurents |
| Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt, Leslie Browne | ||
| The Deer Hunter | Universal | Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall |
| Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken | ||
| Coming Home | United Artists | Jerome Hellman |
| Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford | ||
| Heaven Can Wait | Paramount | Warren Beatty |
| Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Dyan Cannon, Jack Warden | ||
| Midnight Express | Columbia | Alan Marshall, David Puttnam |
| Brad Davis, John Hurt | ||
| An Unmarried Woman | 20th Century Fox | Paul Mazursky, Tony Ray |
| Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy | ||
| Kramer vs. Kramer | Columbia | Stanley R. Jaffe |
| Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry | ||
| All That Jazz | 20th Century Fox | Robert Alan Aurthur |
| Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange | ||
| Apocalypse Now | United Artists | Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson, Tom Sternberg |
| Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne | ||
| Breaking Away | 20th Century Fox | Peter Yates |
| Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Jackie Earle Haley, Daniel Stern, Barbara Barrie | ||
| Norma Rae | 20th Century Fox | Tamara Asseyev, Alex Rose |
| Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman | ||
| Chariots of Fire | The Ladd Company, Warner Bros. | David Puttnam |
| Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm, John Gielgud | ||
| Atlantic City | Paramount | Denis Héroux |
| Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon | ||
| On Golden Pond | ITC Films | Bruce Gilbert |
| Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman | ||
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Paramount | Frank Marshall |
| Harrison Ford, Karen Allen | ||
| Reds | Paramount | Warren Beatty |
| Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton | ||
| Terms of Endearment | Paramount | James L. Brooks |
| Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, John Lithgow, Jeff Daniels, Danny DeVito | ||
| The Big Chill | Columbia | Michael Shamberg |
| Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, William Hurt, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams | ||
| The Dresser | Columbia | Peter Yates |
| Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay | ||
| The Right Stuff | Warner Bros., The Ladd Company | Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff |
| Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn | ||
| Tender Mercies | Universal, AFD | Philip S. Hobel |
| Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Ellen Barkin | ||
| Out of Africa | Universal | Sydney Pollack |
| Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer | ||
| The Color Purple | Warner Bros. | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones |
| Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Rae Dawn Chong, Adolph Caesar | ||
| Kiss of the Spider Woman | Island Alive | David Weisman |
| William Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Sônia Braga | ||
| Prizzi's Honor | 20th Century Fox, ABC Motion Pictures | John Foreman |
| Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia, Anjelica Huston, William Hickey | ||
| Witness | Paramount | Edward S. Feldman |
| Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Danny Glover | ||
| The Last Emperor[O] | Columbia | Jeremy Thomas |
| John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole | ||
| Broadcast News | 20th Century Fox | James L. Brooks |
| William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks | ||
| Fatal Attraction | Paramount | Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing |
| Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer | ||
| Hope and Glory | Columbia | John Boorman |
| Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Sarah Miles | ||
| Moonstruck | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Patrick J. Palmer, Norman Jewison |
| Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello | ||
| Unforgiven | Warner Bros. | Clint Eastwood |
| Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris | ||
| The Crying Game | Miramax | Stephen Woolley |
| Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker | ||
| A Few Good Men | Columbia, Castle Rock Entertainment | Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman |
| Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Jack Nicholson | ||
| Howards End | Sony Pictures Classics | Ismail Merchant |
| Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave | ||
| Scent of a Woman | Universal | Martin Brest |
| Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell | ||
| Forrest Gump | Paramount | Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey |
| Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field | ||
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films | Duncan Kenworthy |
| Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas | ||
| Pulp Fiction | Miramax | Lawrence Bender |
| John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames | ||
| Quiz Show | Hollywood Pictures | Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozick, Robert Redford |
| John Turturro, Ralph Fiennes, David Paymer, Paul Scofield | ||
| The Shawshank Redemption | Columbia, Castle Rock Entertainment | Niki Marvin |
| Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman | ||
| Braveheart | Paramount, Icon | Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey |
| Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan | ||
| Apollo 13 | Universal, Imagine Entertainment | Brian Grazer |
| Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan | ||
| Babe | Universal | Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell |
| James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, voices of Christine Cavanaugh, Hugo Weaving | ||
| Il Postino[K] | Miramax | Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano Daniele |
| Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta | ||
| Sense and Sensibility | Columbia | Lindsay Doran |
| Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant | ||
| Titanic | Paramount, 20th Century Fox | James Cameron, Jon Landau |
| Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton | ||
| As Good as It Gets | TriStar | James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi Zea |
| Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding, Jr. | ||
| The Full Monty | Fox Searchlight | Umberto Pasolini |
| Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Hugo Speer, Steve Husion, Paul Barber | ||
| Good Will Hunting | Miramax | Lawrence Bender |
| Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver | ||
| L.A. Confidential | Warner Bros. | Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, Michael G. Nathanson |
| Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell | ||
| Shakespeare in Love | Miramax/Universal | David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman |
| Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Judi Dench | ||
| Elizabeth | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment | Shekhar Kapur, Alison Owen, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan |
| Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush | ||
| Life Is Beautiful[K] | Miramax | Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi |
| Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi | ||
| Saving Private Ryan | DreamWorks, Paramount | Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn |
| Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi | ||
| The Thin Red Line | 20th Century Fox | Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill |
| Sean Penn, George Clooney, Adrien Brody, Ben Chaplin, Woody Harrelson | ||
| American Beauty | DreamWorks | Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks |
| Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper | ||
| The Cider House Rules | Miramax | Richard N. Gladstein |
| Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Paul Rudd, Delroy Lindo, Michael Caine | ||
| The Green Mile | Castle Rock Entertainment, Warner Bros. | Frank Darabont, David Valdes |
| Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan | ||
| The Insider | Touchstone Pictures | Pieter Jan Brugge, Michael Mann |
| Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer | ||
| The Sixth Sense | Hollywood Pictures | Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, M. Night Shyamalan |
| Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Haley Joel Osment | ||
| Gladiator | DreamWorks, Universal | Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig |
| Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Djimon Hounsou, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris | ||
| Chocolat | Miramax | David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran |
| Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Lena Olin | ||
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon[K] | Sony Pictures Classics | William Kong, Hsu Li Kong, Ang Lee |
| Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi | ||
| Erin Brockovich | Universal, Columbia | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher |
| Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart | ||
| Traffic | USA Films | Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Bickford |
| Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones | ||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | New Line Cinema | Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh |
| Viggo Mortensen, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, Ian Holm | ||
| Lost in Translation | Focus Features | Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola |
| Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris | ||
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 20th Century Fox, Miramax, Universal | Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson |
| Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany | ||
| Mystic River | Warner Bros. | Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt, Clint Eastwood |
| Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney | ||
| Seabiscuit | Universal, DreamWorks | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gary Ross |
| Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper | ||
| Million Dollar Baby | Warner Bros. | Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg |
| Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman | ||
| The Aviator | Warner Bros., Miramax | Michael Mann, Graham King |
| Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Kelli Garner, Gwen Stefani, Jude Law | ||
| Finding Neverland | Miramax | Richard N. Gladstein, Nellie Bellflower |
| Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell, Julie Christie, Dustin Hoffman | ||
| Ray | Universal | Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin |
| Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King | ||
| Sideways | Fox Searchlight | Michael London |
| Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh | ||
| Crash | Lions Gate Entertainment | Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman |
| Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Ludacris, Thandie Newton, Michael Pena, Ryan Philippe, Larenz Tate | ||
| Brokeback Mountain | Focus Features | Diana Ossana, James Schamus |
| Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid | ||
| Capote | United Artists | Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener | ||
| Good Night, and Good Luck | Warner Bros. | Grant Heslov |
| David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson | ||
| Munich | DreamWorks, Universal | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel |
| Eric Bana, Daniel Craig | ||
| No Country for Old Men | Miramax, Paramount Vantage | Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen |
| Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald | ||
| Atonement | Focus Features | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster |
| James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave | ||
| Juno | Fox Searchlight | Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith |
| Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, J.K. Simmons, Allison Janney | ||
| Michael Clayton | Warner Bros. | Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent, Sydney Pollack |
| George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton | ||
| There Will Be Blood | Paramount Vantage, Miramax | Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar |
| Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano | ||
| Slumdog Millionaire[O] | Fox Searchlight, Warner Bros. | Christian Colson |
| Dev Patel, Frieda Pinto, Anil Kapoor | ||
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Paramount, Warner Bros. | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Cean Chaffin |
| Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson | ||
| Frost/Nixon | Universal | Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner |
| Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Hall, Oliver Platt | ||
| Milk | Focus Features | Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks |
| Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna | ||
| The Reader | The Weinstein Company | Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris |
| Kate Winslet, David Kross, Ralph Fiennes | ||
[edit] Notes
- A : The official name of the award for 1927-1928 and 1928-1929 called Outstanding Picture
- B : The official name of the award from 1929-1930 to 1940 called Outstanding Production
- C : The official name of the award from 1941 to 1943 called Outstanding Motion Picture
- D : The official name of the award from 1944 to 1961 called Best Motion Picture
- E : The official name of the award from 1962 called Best Picture
- F : There were two categories for "Outstanding Picture" with the other being Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Production where the winner was Sunrise (production company: Fox; producer: William Fox). This category was dropped immediately after the first year of the Academy Award.[2]
- G1 2 3 4 5 : Head of studio
- H1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that A Farewell to Arms came in second, and Little Women third.
- I1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that The Barretts of Wimpole Street came in second, and The House of Rothschild third.
- J1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that The Informer came in second, and Captain Blood third.
- K1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 : Nominated motion picture with non-English dialogue track (AMPAS: foreign language film).[3] Three of which, Z, Life is Beautiful and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[4]
- L : Production company with the most nominations (38) and the most awards (5). Applying only from 1927-1928 to 1950.[5]
- M : Person with the most nominations (6 nominations, 0 awards). Applying only from 1951 to 2008.[5]
- N : Person with the most awards (3 awards, Spiegel 4 nominations, Zaentz 3 nominations). Applying only from 1951 to 2008.[5]
- O1 2 3 : Winner with partly non-English dialogue track (AMPAS: foreign language).[6]
[edit] Milestones
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1927-28 | Wings | 2 | 2 | Winner of the first Academy award for Best Picture |
| 1st | 1927-28 | Wings | 2 | 2 | First (and only) silent film to win Best Picture |
| 2nd | 1928-29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First sound film to win Best Picture |
| 2nd | 1928-29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First musical to win Best Picture |
| 2nd | 1928-29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First film to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards |
| 2nd | 1928-29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First winner for Best Picture to receive an acting nomination |
| 3rd | 1929-30 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 2 | 2 | First talkie war film to win Academy Awards |
| 4th | 1930-31 | Cimarron | 3 | 7 | First film to be nominated for every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 4th | 1930-31 | Cimarron | 3 | 7 | First Western to win Best Picture |
| 4th | 1930-31 | Skippy | 1 | 4 | First (and only) film based on a comic book, comic strip, or graphic novel to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 5th | 1931-32 | Grand Hotel | 1 | 1 | First (and only) film to win Best Picture without receiving any other nominations |
| 6th | 1932-33 | She Done Him Wrong | 0 | 1 | Shortest film to be nominated for Best Picture (1 hour 6 minutes) |
| 6th | 1932-33 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1 | 2 | First foreign film to be nominated for Best Picture and to win any Academy Award (British) |
| 7th | 1934 | It Happened One Night | 5 | 5 | First of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 7th | 1934 | It Happened One Night | 5 | 5 | First Best Picture nominee to win both Best Actor and Best Actress |
| 7th | 1934 | It Happened One Night | 5 | 5 | First comedy to win Best Picture |
| 8th | 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1 | 8 | First remake to win Best Picture |
| 8th | 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1 | 8 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards |
| 8th | 1935 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 2* | 3 | First Shakespeare adaptation to be nominated for Best Picture (*one of its two Oscars was a write-in winner) |
| 10th | 1937 | A Star Is Born | 1 | 7 | First all-color film nominated for Best Picture |
| 10th | 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola | 3 | 10 | First biographical picture (biopic) to win Best Picture |
| 11th | 1938 | Grand Illusion | 0 | 1 | First foreign language film to be nominated for Best Picture (French) |
| 11th | 1938 | You Can't Take It With You | 2 | 7 | First of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted for the screen from plays which won the Pulitzer Prize |
| 12th | 1939 | The Wizard of Oz | 2 | 6 | First children's film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 12th | 1939 | Gone with the Wind | 8 | 13 | Longest film to win Best Picture (3 hours 54 minutes) |
| 12th | 1939 | Gone with the Wind | 8 | 13 | First all-color film to win Best Picture |
| 13th | 1940 | Rebecca | 2 | 11 | First thriller to win Best Picture |
| 15th | 1942 | Mrs. Miniver | 6 | 12 | First Best Picture nominee to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories |
| 16th | 1943 | The Ox-Bow Incident | 0 | 1 | Last film to date to be nominated for Best Picture and no other award |
| 18th | 1945 | The Bells of St. Mary's | 1 | 8 | First sequel to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 18th | 1945 | The Lost Weekend | 4 | 7 | Only film to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix du Festival International du Film |
| 21st | 1948 | Hamlet | 4 | 7 | First foreign film to win Best Picture (British) |
| 23rd | 1950 | All About Eve | 6 | 14 | First of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture |
| 26th | 1953 | From Here to Eternity | 8 | 13 | Last Best Picture winner to date to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories |
| 26th | 1953 | The Robe | 2 | 5 | First motion picture (and Best Picture nominee) in CinemaScope |
| 28th | 1955 | Marty | 4 | 8 | Only film to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or |
| 28th | 1955 | Marty | 4 | 8 | Shortest film to win Best Picture (1 hour 31 minutes) |
| 28th | 1955 | Marty | 4 | 8 | First (and only) film based on a television movie or mini-series to win Best Picture |
| 29th | 1956 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 5 | 8 | |
| 32nd | 1959 | Ben-Hur | 11 | 12 | First of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture |
| 33rd | 1960 | The Apartment | 5 | 10 | Last black-and-white film before 1993 (and last entirely in B&W) to win Best Picture |
| 34th | 1961 | West Side Story | 10 | 11 | First of only two Best Picture winners to have more than one credited director (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise) |
| 35th | 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | 7 | 10 | Only Best Picture winner to have credited roles for actors of only one gender |
| 37th | 1964 | Dr. Strangelove | 0 | 4 | First science fiction film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 39th | 1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 5 | 13 | First (and only) Best Picture nominee to be nominated for every award category in which it was eligible |
| 40th | 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | 5 | 7 | First (and only) mystery to win Best Picture |
| 41st | 1968 | Oliver! | 6 | 11 | First film with an MPAA rating to win Best Picture |
| 41st | 1968 | Oliver! | 6 | 11 | First (and only) G-rated film to date to win Best Picture |
| 42nd | 1969 | Midnight Cowboy | 3 | 7 | First (and only) X-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 43rd | 1970 | Patton | 7 | 10 | First PG-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 44th | 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 4 | Last X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 44th | 1971 | The French Connection | 5 | 8 | First R-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 45th | 1972 | Cabaret | 8 | 10 | Best Picture nominee to win the most Academy Awards (8) without winning Best Picture |
| 46th | 1973 | The Exorcist | 2 | 10 | First horror film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 47th | 1974 | The Godfather Part II | 6 | 11 | First sequel to win Best Picture. |
| 48th | 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 5 | 9 | Second of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 49th | 1976 | Rocky | 3 | 10 | First sports film to win Best Picture |
| 50th | 1977 | The Turning Point | 0 | 11 | First of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11 nominations without winning any Academy Awards |
| 53rd | 1980 | Ordinary People | 4 | 6 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without a Best Film Editing nomination. |
| 54th | 1981 | Reds | 3 | 12 | Last Best Picture nominee to date to receive nominations in all four of the acting categories |
| 58th | 1985 | The Color Purple | 0 | 11 | Second of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11 nominations without winning any Academy Awards |
| 58th | 1985 | The Color Purple | 0 | 11 | First PG-13-rated to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 58th | 1985 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1 | 4 | First Independent film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 59th | 1986 | Children of a Lesser God | 1 | 5 | First film directed by a woman (Randa Haines) to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 60th | 1987 | The Last Emperor | 9 | 9 | First PG-13-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 61st | 1988 | Rain Man | 4 | 8 | First (and only) film to win Berlin Golden Bear and Best Picture |
| 62nd | 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | 4 | 9 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director |
| 62nd | 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | 4 | 9 | Second of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted for the screen from plays having won the Pulitzer Prize |
| 62nd | 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | 4 | 9 | Last Best Picture winner to date with a PG rating (or lower) |
| 63rd | 1990 | The Godfather Part III | 0 | 7 | First of only two trilogies to have all three films nominated for Best Picture |
| 64th | 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | 2 | 6 | First animated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 64th | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | 5 | 7 | Third of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 64th | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | 5 | 7 | Last Best Picture winner to date to win both Best Actor and Best Actress |
| 64th | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | 5 | 7 | First horror film to win Best Picture |
| 66th | 1993 | Schindler's List | 7 | 12 | First (and only) black-and-white film after 1960 to win Best Picture (though with some color sequences) |
| 66th | 1993 | The Fugitive | 1 | 7 | First film based on a television series to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 67th | 1994 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | 0 | 2 | First film to be nominated for Best Picture and only one other award after the switch to five nominees in 1944 |
| 70th | 1997 | As Good As It Gets | 2 | 7 | Last Best Picture nominee to date to win both Best Actor and Best Actress |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | Second of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | Second of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | First Best Picture winner to be produced, directed, written, and edited by the same person (James Cameron) |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | First Best Picture winner to gross over US$1,000,000,000, worldwide.[7] |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without a screenplay nomination (Adapted or Original) |
| 71st | 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | 7 | 13 | Last comedy to date to win Best Picture |
| 71st | 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | 7 | 13 | Most Oscars without a Best Director win |
| 73rd | 2000 | Traffic | 4 | 5 | Last Best Picture nominee to date to have been based on a television movie or mini-series |
| 73rd | 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 4 | 10 | First (and only) martial arts film to date to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 73rd | 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 4 | 10 | Foreign language film nominated for Best Picture to date with the most number of Academy Award nominations |
| 74th | 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | 4 | 8 | Last biopic to date to win Best Picture |
| 75th | 2002 | Chicago | 6 | 13 | Last musical to date to win (or be nominated for) Best Picture |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | Second of only two trilogies to have all three films nominated for Best Picture, and only one to have the third installment win. |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | Third of only three films to date to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | Last film to date to win Best Picture and all of its other nominated categories |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | First (and only) film to win more than 10 awards (including Best Picture) and not receive an acting nomination |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | First (and only) film to date with ten or more nominations (11) to win in every nomination it received including Best Picture |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | First (and only) fantasy film to date to win Best Picture |
| 77th | 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | 4 | 7 | Last film to date to be nominated for every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 77th | 2004 | The Aviator | 5 | 11 | Last film to date to win the most Academy Awards (5) in its year without winning Best Picture |
| 78th | 2005 | Crash | 3 | 6 | First (and only) film festival acquisition to win Best Picture |
| 78th | 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | 0 | 6 | Last black-and-white film to date to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 79th | 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 1 | 4 | Last foreign language film to date to be nominated for Best Picture (Japanese) |
| 79th | 2006 | The Departed | 4 | 5 | First (and only) remake of a foreign film to win Best Picture |
| 80th | 2007 | No Country for Old Men | 4 | 8 | Last western to date to win Best Picture |
| 80th | 2007 | No Country for Old Men | 4 | 8 | Last Best Picture winner to date to have more than one credited director (Joel and Ethan Coen) |
| 80th | 2007 | No Country for Old Men | 4 | 8 | First (and only) film of the 2000s decade to gross under $2 million in its opening weekend to win Best Picture |
| 81st | 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | 8 | 10 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without receiving any acting nominations |
| 81st | 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | 8 | 10 | Tied with Gandhi as Best Picture winner with second most Oscars for a British production (behind The English Patient) and second most Oscars for a non-American production (behind The Last Emperor).[8] |
| 82nd | 2009 | The Hurt Locker | 6 | 9 | Lowest Budget for a Film to win Best Picture. |
| 82nd | 2009 | The Hurt Locker | 6 | 9 | Lowest Box Office Gross to win Best Picture. |
| 82nd | 2009 | Up | 2 | 5 | First computer animated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 82nd | 2009 | Up | 2 | 5 | Second of only two animated films to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 82nd | 2009 | Up | 2 | 5 | Last family film to date to be nominated for Best Picture |
[edit] Superlatives
Before 1951, the award was for the studio or studios which produced the film. Since then, the award has been to the individual producers credited on the film. Note also that until 1943, there were ten rather than five nominated films per year. As of 2009, there are ten nominated films, once again. The first year in which multiple individuals jointly won was 1973, with three winners for The Sting. The most joint winners was five, for Shakespeare in Love in 1998. After this the Academy imposed a limit of three nominated producers per film; however this may be exceeded in "a rare and extraordinary circumstance", such as in 2008 when Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among four nominees for The Reader.[9]
| Category | Number | Producer |
|---|---|---|
| Most nominations, pre-1951, company | 41 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Most wins, pre-1951, company | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Most nominations, pre-1951, person | 16 | Hal B. Wallis |
| Most wins, pre-1951, person | 3 | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Most nominations, post-1951, person | 6 | Kathleen Kennedy, Stanley Kramer, Steven Spielberg |
| Most wins, post-1951, person | 3 | Sam Spiegel, Saul Zaentz |
| Most nominations, overall, person | 19 | Hal B. Wallis |
| Most wins, overall, person | 3 | Sam Spiegel, Saul Zaentz, Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Category | Film | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Longest Winner | Gone with the Wind | 3 hours 54 minutes |
| Longest Nominee | Cleopatra | 4 hours 2 minutes |
| Shortest Winner | Marty | 1 hour 31 minutes |
| Shortest Nominee | She Done Him Wrong | 1 hour 6 minutes |
[edit] See also
- List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
- List of Academy Award-winning films
- List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
- Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Production
- BAFTA Award for Best Film
- Films considered the greatest ever
- Lists of films
- List of film directors by name
- List of film production companies
- List of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
[edit] References
- ^ a b Joyce Eng (24 June 2009). "Oscar Expands Best Picture Race to 10 Nominees". TV Guide Online. http://www.tvguide.com/Movie-News/Oscar-Expands-Best-1007223.aspx. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
- ^ "Best Pictures - Facts & Trivia (part 1)". Filmsite.org. http://www.filmsite.org/bestpics.html. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ^ "Oscar Trivia". Oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/trivia.html. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ Variety Staff (2007-03-01). "Best Foreign Film". Variety. http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117856491.html?nav=history. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ a b c "Academy Awards Statistics". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/helpMain.jsp?helpContentURL=statistics/indexStats.html. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ "Best Pictures - Facts & Trivia (part 2)". Filmsite.org. http://www.filmsite.org/bestpics1.html. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/oscar/
- ^ "FILMS WITH 10 OR MORE NOMINATIONS". Academy Award Database. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/helpMain.jsp?helpContentURL=statistics/indexStats.html. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
- ^ Siegel, Tatiana (27 January 2009). "Acad allows 'Reader' 4 producers; Minghella, Pollack to be named as nominees". Variety (Reed Business). http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117999153.html?nav=news&categoryid=1982&cs=1. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
- The Academy Awards Database (official site; in "Award Category" box, select "Best Picture")
[edit] External links
- Oscars.org (official Academy site)
- Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional site)
- The Academy Awards Database (official site)
- Academy Awards Photos and News(People.com)
- Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
- IMDb.com (Internet Movie Database site)
- Link to DVD list of all Best Picture Winners
- Complete list of Academy Award winners by year (1928-present) and by merit
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