Academy Award For Best Picture

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Academy Award for Best Picture

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The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Award for Best Picture
Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the
Awarded for Best Picture of the Year
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to
artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts
Picture category is the only category in which every member and Sciences
of the Academy is eligible not only to vote on the final ballot,
Country United States
but also to nominate. During the annual Academy Awards
ceremony, Best Picture is reserved as the final award First awarded 1929 (for films released in 1927
presented and, since 1951, is collected at the podium by the and 1928)
film's producers. The Academy Award for Best Motion
Currently The King's Speech (2010)
Picture is considered the most important of the Academy
Awards, as it is the final award presented, and represents all held by
the directing, acting, and writing efforts put forth for a film. Official http://www.oscars.org
The Grand Staircase columns at the Kodak Theatre in Los website
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 82 years ago. On June 24, 2009, AMPAS announced that the number of
films nominated in the Best Picture award category would increase from five to ten, starting with the 82nd Academy
Awards (2009).[1]
Contents
1 History
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 Notes
3 Milestones
3.1 Milestones related to acting
3.2 Milestones related to country or language
3.3 Milestones related to directing
3.4 Milestones related to genre
3.5 Milestones related to other Academy Awards
3.6 Milestones related
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3.6 Milestones related to other awards ceremonies
3.7 Milestones related to rating
3.8 Milestones related to sequels, prequels, remakes and adaptations
3.9 Milestones related to superlatives
3.10 Milestones related to technology
4 Superlatives
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
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, another of the nominees (the third was Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B.
Schoedsack's Chang) 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.
From 1944 to 2008, the Academy restricted nominations to five Best Picture nominees per year. As of the 83rd
Academy Awards ceremony (for 2010), there have been 484 films nominated for the Best Picture award.
Throughout the past 83 years, AMPAS has presented a total of 84 Best Picture awards. Invariably, the Academy
Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 83 films
that have been awarded Best Picture, 61 have also been awarded Best Director.[1]
(http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/statistics/bestpixdirdiff.html) 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 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."[1] At the same time, the voting system was switched from first-past-the-post to Alternative
Vote (also known as Instant Run-off Vote).[2]
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
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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 film has won the award (Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Disney-
Pixar's Up and Toy Story 3 were nominated), and only one comedy (Shakespeare in Love, 1998) has won in the
last 30 years.
To date, eleven films exclusively financed outside the United States have won Best Picture; all eleven 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, Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech
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, usually due to editing 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.
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.
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.
1920s
1927/28 [A] (1st)

Film Production company(s) Producer(s)
Wings Paramount, Famous Players-Lasky Lucien Hubbard
The Racket Caddo, Paramount Howard Hughes
Seventh Heaven Fox William Fox
1928/29 (2nd)
Irving Thalberg & Lawrence
The Broadway Melody Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[L]
Weingarten
Feature Productions, United
Alibi Roland West
Artists
The Hollywood Revue of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Harry Rapf
1929
In Old Arizona Fox Winfield Sheehan[G]
The Patriot Paramount Ernst Lubitsch
1930s
1929/30 [B] (3rd)

All Quiet on the Western Front Universal Carl Laemmle, Jr.
The Big House Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving Thalberg
Disraeli Warner Bros. Jack Warner, Darryl F. Zanuck
The Divorcee Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Robert Z. Leonard
The Love Parade Paramount Ernst Lubitsch
1930/31 (4th)
Cimarron RKO Radio William LeBaron
East Lynne Fox Winfield Sheehan[G]
The Front Page Caddo, United Artists Howard Hughes
Skippy Paramount Adolph Zukor
Trader Horn Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving G. Thalberg
1931/32 (5th)
Grand Hotel Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving Thalberg
Arrowsmith Goldwyn, United Artists Samuel Goldwyn
Bad Girl Fox Winfield Sheehan[G]
The Champ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer King Vidor
Five Star Final First National Hal B. Wallis
One Hour with You Paramount Ernst Lubitsch
Shanghai Express Paramount Adolph Zukor
The Smiling Lieutenant Paramount Ernst Lubitsch
1932/33 (6th)
Cavalcade[H] Fox Winfield Sheehan[G]
42nd Street Warner Bros. Darryl F. Zanuck
A Farewell to Arms[H] Paramount Adolph Zukor
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis
Lady for a Day Columbia Frank Capra
Little Women[H] RKO Radio Merian C. Cooper, Kenneth MacGowan
The Private Life of Henry VIII London Films, United Artists Alexander Korda
She Done Him Wrong Paramount William LeBaron
Smilin' Through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving Thalberg
State Fair Fox Winfield Sheehan[G]
1934 (7th)
It Happened One Night [I] Columbia Harry Cohn
The Barretts of Wimpole
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving Thalberg
Street [I]
Cleopatra Paramount Cecil B. DeMille
Flirtation Walk First National Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, Robert Lord
The Gay Divorcee RKO Radio Pandro S. Berman
Here Comes the Navy Warner Bros. Lou Edelman
20th Century, United Darryl F. Zanuck, William Goetz, Raymond
The House of Rothschild[I]
Artists Griffith
Imitation of Life Universal John M. Stahl
One Night of Love Columbia Harry Cohn, Everett Riskin
The Thin Man Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Hunt Stromberg
Viva Villa! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer David O. Selznick
The White Parade Fox Jesse L. Lasky
1935 (8th)
Mutiny on the Bounty[J] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving Thalberg, Albert Lewin
Alice Adams RKO Radio Pandro S. Berman
Broadway Melody of 1936 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer John W. Considine, Jr.
Warner Bros., Hal B. Wallis, Harry Joe Brown, Gordon
Captain Blood[J]
Cosmopolitan Hollingshead
David Copperfield Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer David O. Selznick
The Informer[J] RKO Radio Cliff Reid
The Lives of a Bengal
Paramount Louis D. Lighton
Lancer
A Midsummer Night's
Warner Bros. Henry Blanke
Dream
20th Century, United
Les Misérables Darryl F. Zanuck
Artists
Naughty Marietta Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Hunt Stromberg
Ruggles of Red Gap Paramount Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Top Hat RKO Radio Pandro S. Berman
1936 (9th)
The Great Ziegfeld Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Hunt Stromberg
Anthony Adverse Warner Bros. Henry Blanke

Dodsworth Goldwyn, United Artists Samuel Goldwyn, Merritt Hulbert
Libeled Lady Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Lawrence Weingarten
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Columbia Frank Capra
Romeo and Juliet Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving Thalberg
San Francisco Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer John Emerson, Bernard H. Hyman
The Story of Louis Pasteur Warner Bros. Henry Blanke
A Tale of Two Cities Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer David O. Selznick
Three Smart Girls Universal Joe Pasternak, Charles R. Rogers
1937 (10th)
The Life of Emile Zola Warner Bros. Henry Blanke
The Awful Truth Columbia Leo McCarey, Everett Riskin
Captains Courageous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Louis Lighton
Dead End Goldwyn, United Artists Samuel Goldwyn, Merritt Hulbert
The Good Earth Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving Thalberg, Albert Lewin
In Old Chicago 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck, Kenneth MacGowan
Lost Horizon Columbia Frank Capra
One Hundred Men and a Girl Universal Charles R. Rogers, Joe Pasternak
Stage Door RKO Radio Pandro S. Berman
A Star Is Born Selznick International, United Artists David O. Selznick
1938 (11th)
You Can't Take It With You Columbia Frank Capra
The Adventures of Robin Hood Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke
Alexander's Ragtime Band 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck, Harry Joe Brown
Boys Town Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer John W. Considine, Jr.
The Citadel Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Victor Saville
Four Daughters Warner Bros., First National Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke
Grand Illusion R. A. O., World Pictures Frank Rollmer, Albert Pinkovitch
Jezebel Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke
Pygmalion Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Gabriel Pascal
Test Pilot Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Louis Lighton
1939 (12th)
Gone with the Wind Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer David O. Selznick
Dark Victory Warner Bros. David Lewis
Goodbye, Mr. Chips Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Victor Saville
Love Affair RKO Radio Leo McCarey
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Columbia Frank Capra
Ninotchka Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sidney Franklin
Of Mice and Men Roach, United Artists Lewis Milestone
Stagecoach United Artists Walter Wanger
The Wizard of Oz Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Mervyn LeRoy
Wuthering Heights Goldwyn, United Artists Samuel Goldwyn
1940s
1940 (13th)
Rebecca Selznick, United Artists David O. Selznick
All This, and Heaven Too Warner Bros. Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, David Lewis
Foreign Correspondent Wanger, United Artists Walter Wanger
The Grapes of Wrath 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck, Nunnally Johnson
The Great Dictator Chaplin, United Artists Charlie Chaplin
Kitty Foyle RKO Radio David Hempstead
The Letter Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis
The Long Voyage Home Argosy, Wanger, United Artists John Ford
Our Town Lesser, United Artists Sol Lesser
The Philadelphia Story Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1941[C] (14th)
How Green Was My Valley 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck
Blossoms in the Dust Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving Asher
Citizen Kane RKO Radio Orson Welles
Here Comes Mr. Jordan Columbia Everett Riskin
Hold Back the Dawn Paramount Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
The Little Foxes RKO Radio Samuel Goldwyn
The Maltese Falcon Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis
One Foot in Heaven Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis
Sergeant York Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis, Jesse L. Lasky
Suspicion RKO Radio Alfred Hitchcock
1942 (15th)
Mrs. Miniver Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sidney Franklin
49th Parallel GFD, Columbia Michael Powell
Kings Row Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis
The Magnificent Ambersons Mercury, RKO Radio Orson Welles
The Pied Piper 20th Century Fox Nunnally Johnson
The Pride of the Yankees Goldwyn, RKO Radio Samuel Goldwyn
Random Harvest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sidney Franklin
The Talk of the Town Columbia George Stevens
Wake Island Paramount Joseph Sistrom
Yankee Doodle Dandy Warner Bros. Jack Warner, Hal B. Wallis, William Cagney
1943 (16th)
Casablanca Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis
For Whom the Bell Tolls Paramount Sam Wood
Heaven Can Wait 20th Century Fox Ernst Lubitsch
The Human Comedy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Clarence Brown
In Which We Serve United Artists Noël Coward
Madame Curie Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sidney Franklin
The More the Merrier Columbia George Stevens
The Ox-Bow Incident 20th Century Fox Lamar Trotti
The Song of Bernadette 20th Century Fox William Perlberg
Watch on the Rhine Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis
1944[D] (17th)
Going My Way Paramount Leo McCarey
Double Indemnity Paramount Joseph Sistrom

Gaslight Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Since You Went Away Selznick, United Artists David O. Selznick
Wilson 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck
1945 (18th)
The Lost Weekend Paramount Charles Brackett
Anchors Aweigh Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Joe Pasternak
The Bells of St. Mary's RKO Radio Leo McCarey
Mildred Pierce Warner Bros. Jerry Wald
Spellbound United Artists David O. Selznick
1946 (19th)
The Best Years of Our Lives RKO Radio Samuel Goldwyn
Henry V United Artists Laurence Olivier
It's a Wonderful Life RKO Radio Frank Capra
The Razor's Edge 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck
The Yearling Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sidney Franklin
1947 (20th)
Gentleman's Agreement 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck
The Bishop's Wife RKO Radio Samuel Goldwyn
Crossfire RKO Radio Adrian Scott
Great Expectations Rank-Cineguild, U-I Ronald Neame
Miracle on 34th Street 20th Century Fox William Perlberg
1948 (21st)
J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, Universal
Hamlet Laurence Olivier
International
Johnny Belinda Warner Bros. Jerry Wald
The Red Shoes Rank Organisation, Powell and Pressburger, Eagle- Michael Powell, Emeric
Lion Films Pressburger
The Snake Pit 20th Century Fox Anatole Litvak, Robert

Bassler
The Treasure of the Sierra
Warner Bros. Henry Blanke
Madre
1949 (22nd)
All the King's Men Rossen, Columbia Robert Rossen
Battleground Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Dore Schary
The Heiress Paramount William Wyler
A Letter to Three Wives 20th Century Fox Sol C. Siegel
Twelve O'Clock High 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck
1950s
1950 (23rd)
All About Eve 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck
Born Yesterday Columbia S. Sylvan Simon
Father of the Bride Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sam Zimbalist
King Solomon's Mines Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sam Zimbalist
Sunset Boulevard Paramount Charles Brackett
1951 (24th)
An American in Paris Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Arthur Freed
Decision Before Dawn 20th Century Fox Anatole Litvak, Frank McCarthy
A Place in the Sun Paramount George Stevens
Quo Vadis Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sam Zimbalist
A Streetcar Named Desire Warner Bros. Charles K. Feldman
1952 (25th)
The Greatest Show on Earth Paramount Cecil B. DeMille
High Noon United Artists Stanley Kramer
Ivanhoe Pandro S. Berman
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Moulin Rouge United Artists John Huston
The Quiet Man Republic John Ford, Merian C. Cooper
1953 (26th)
From Here to Eternity Columbia Buddy Adler
Julius Caesar Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer John Houseman
The Robe 20th Century Fox Frank Ross
Roman Holiday Paramount William Wyler
Shane Paramount George Stevens
1954 (27th)
On the Waterfront Columbia Sam Spiegel[N]
The Caine Mutiny Columbia Stanley Kramer
The Country Girl Paramount William Perlberg
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Jack Cummings
Three Coins in the Fountain 20th Century Fox Sol C. Siegel
1955 (28th)
Marty United Artists Harold Hecht
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 20th Century Fox Buddy Adler
Mister Roberts Warner Bros. Leland Hayward
Picnic Columbia Fred Kohlmar
The Rose Tattoo Paramount Hal B. Wallis
1956 (29th)
Around the World in 80 Days United Artists Michael Todd
Friendly Persuasion Allied Artists William Wyler
Giant Warner Bros. George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg
The King and I 20th Century Fox Charles Brackett
The Ten Commandments Paramount Cecil B. DeMille
1957 (30th)
The Bridge on the River Kwai Columbia Sam Spiegel
Peyton Place 20th Century Fox Jerry Wald
Sayonara Warner Bros. William Goetz
12 Angry Men United Artists Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose
Witness for the Prosecution United Artists Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
1958 (31st)
Gigi Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Arthur Freed
Auntie Mame Warner Bros. Jack L. Warner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Lawrence Weingarten
The Defiant Ones Kramer, United Artists Stanley Kramer
Separate Tables United Artists Harold Hecht
1959 (32nd)
Ben-Hur Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sam Zimbalist
Anatomy of a Murder Columbia Otto Preminger
The Diary of Anne Frank 20th Century Fox George Stevens
The Nun's Story Warner Bros. Henry Blanke
Room at the Top Continential, British Lion Films John Woolf, James Woolf
1960s
1960 (33rd)
The Apartment United Artists Billy Wilder
The Alamo United Artists John Wayne
Elmer Gantry United Artists Bernard Smith
Sons and Lovers 20th Century Fox Jerry Wald
The Sundowners Warner Bros. Fred Zinnemann
1961 (34th)
West Side Story United Artists Robert Wise
Fanny Warner Bros. Joshua Logan
The Guns of Navarone Columbia Carl Foreman

The Hustler 20th Century Fox Robert Rossen
Judgment at Nuremberg United Artists Stanley Kramer
1962[E] (35th)
Lawrence of Arabia Columbia Sam Spiegel
The Longest Day 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck
The Music Man Warner Bros. Morton DaCosta
Mutiny on the Bounty Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Aaron Rosenberg
To Kill a Mockingbird U-I Alan J. Pakula
1963 (36th)
Tom Jones United Artists Tony Richardson
America, America Warner Bros. Elia Kazan
Cleopatra 20th Century Fox Walter Wanger
How the West Was Won Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cinerama Bernard Smith
Lilies of the Field United Artists Ralph Nelson
1964 (37th)
Production
Film Producer(s)
company(s)
My Fair Lady Warner Bros. Jack L. Warner
Becket Paramount Hal B. Wallis
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
Columbia Stanley Kubrick
the Bomb
Walt Disney Walt Disney, Bill
Mary Poppins
Productions Walsh
Zorba the Greek 20th Century Fox Michael Cacoyannis
1965 (38th)
The Sound of Music 20th Century Fox Robert Wise
Darling Embassy Joseph Janni
Doctor Zhivago Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Carlo Ponti
Ship of Fools Columbia Stanley Kramer
A Thousand Clowns United Artists Fred Coe
1966 (39th)
A Man for All Seasons Columbia Fred Zinnemann
Alfie Paramount Lewis Gilbert
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming United Artists Norman Jewison
The Sand Pebbles 20th Century Fox Robert Wise
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Warner Bros. Ernest Lehman
1967 (40th)
In the Heat of the Night United Artists Walter Mirisch
Bonnie and Clyde Warner Bros., Seven Arts Warren Beatty
Doctor Dolittle 20th Century Fox Arthur P. Jacobs
The Graduate Embassy Lawrence Turman
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Columbia Stanley Kramer
1968 (41st)
Oliver! Columbia John Woolf
Funny Girl Columbia Ray Stark
The Lion in Winter Avco Embassy Martin Poll
Rachel, Rachel Warner Bros. Paul Newman
Romeo and Juliet Paramount Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne
1969 (42nd)
Midnight Cowboy United Artists Jerome Hellman
Anne of the Thousand Days Universal Hal B. Wallis
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 20th Century Fox John Foreman
Hello, Dolly! 20th Century Fox Ernest Lehman
Z[K] Cinema V
Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi
1970s
1970 (43rd)
Patton 20th Century Fox Frank McCarthy
Airport Universal Ross Hunter
Five Easy Pieces Columbia Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler
Love Story Paramount Howard G. Minsky
MASH 20th Century Fox Ingo Preminger
1971 (44th)
The French Connection 20th Century Fox Philip D'Antoni
A Clockwork Orange Warner Bros. Stanley Kubrick
Fiddler on the Roof United Artists Norman Jewison
The Last Picture Show Columbia Stephen J. Friedman
Nicholas and Alexandra Columbia Sam Spiegel
1972 (45th)
The Godfather Paramount Albert S. Ruddy
Cabaret Allied Artists Cy Feuer
Deliverance Warner Bros. John Boorman
The Emigrants[K] Warner Bros. Bengt Forslund
Sounder 20th Century Fox Robert B. Radnitz
1973 (46th)
The Sting Universal Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips
American Graffiti Lucasfilm, Universal Francis Ford Coppola, Gary Kurtz
Cries and Whispers[K] New World Pictures Ingmar Bergman
The Exorcist Warner Bros. William Peter Blatty
A Touch of Class Avco Embassy Melvin Frank
1974 (47th)
The Godfather Part Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred
Paramount
II[O] Roos
Chinatown Paramount Robert Evans
The Conversation Paramount Francis Ford Coppola
Lenny United Artists Marvin Worth
20th Century Fox, Warner
The Towering Inferno Irwin Allen
Bros.
1975 (48th)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest United Artists Saul Zaentz[N], Michael Douglas
Barry Lyndon Warner Bros. Stanley Kubrick
Dog Day Afternoon Warner Bros. Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand
Jaws Universal Richard D. Zanuck
Nashville Paramount Robert Altman
1976 (49th)
Rocky United Artists Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
All the President's Men Warner Bros. Walter Coblenz
Bound for Glory United Artists Robert F. Blumofe, Harold Leventhal
Network Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists Howard Gottfried
Taxi Driver Columbia Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips
1977 (50th)
Annie Hall United Artists Charles H. Joffe
The Goodbye Girl Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros. Ray Stark
Julia 20th Century Fox Richard Roth
Star Wars Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox Gary Kurtz
The Turning Point 20th Century Fox Herbert Ross, Arthur Laurents
1978 (51st)
Production
Film Producer(s)
company(s)
Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John
The Deer Hunter Universal
Peverall
Coming Home United Artists Jerome Hellman
Heaven Can Wait Paramount Warren Beatty
Midnight Express Columbia Alan Marshall, David Puttnam
An Unmarried
20th Century Fox Paul Mazursky, Tony Ray
Woman
1979 (52nd)
Production
Film Producer(s)
company(s)
Kramer vs.
Columbia Stanley R. Jaffe
Kramer
All That Jazz 20th Century Fox Robert Alan Aurthur
Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson, Tom
Apocalypse Now United Artists
Sternberg
Breaking Away 20th Century Fox Peter Yates
Norma Rae 20th Century Fox Tamara Asseyev, Alex Rose
1980s
1980 (53rd)
Ordinary People Paramount Ronald L. Schwary
Coal Miner's Daughter Universal Bernard Schwartz
The Elephant Man Paramount David Lynch
Raging Bull United Artists Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
Tess Columbia Claude Berri, Timothy Burrill
1981 (54th)
Chariots of Fire The Ladd Company, Warner Bros. David Puttnam
Atlantic City Paramount Denis Héroux
On Golden Pond ITC, Universal Bruce Gilbert
Raiders of the Lost Ark Lucasfilm, Paramount Frank Marshall
Reds Paramount Warren Beatty
1982 (55th)
Gandhi Columbia Richard Attenborough
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Universal Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy[M]

Missing Universal Edward Lewis, Mildred Lewis
Tootsie Columbia Sydney Pollack, Dick Richards
The Verdict 20th Century Fox Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
1983 (56th)
Terms of Endearment Paramount James L. Brooks
The Big Chill Columbia Michael Shamberg
The Dresser Columbia Peter Yates
The Right Stuff Warner Bros., The Ladd Company Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
Tender Mercies EMI Films, Universal Philip S. Hobel
1984 (57th)
Amadeus Orion Saul Zaentz
The Killing Fields Warner Bros. David Puttnam
A Passage to India Columbia John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin
Places in the Heart Tri-Star Arlene Donovan
A Soldier's Story Columbia Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary, Patrick Palmer
1985 (58th)
Out of Africa Universal Sydney Pollack
Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall,
The Color Purple Warner Bros.
Quincy Jones
Kiss of the Spider
Island Alive David Weisman
Woman
20th Century Fox, ABC Motion
Prizzi's Honor John Foreman
Pictures
Witness Paramount Edward S. Feldman
1986 (59th)
Platoon Orion Arnold Kopelson
Children of a Lesser God Paramount Burt Sugarman, Patrick J. Palmer
Hannah and Her Sisters Orion Robert Greenhut
The Mission Warner Bros. Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam
A Room with a View Cinecom Ismail Merchant
1987 (60th)
The Last Emperor[O] Columbia Jeremy Thomas
Broadcast News 20th Century Fox James L. Brooks
Fatal Attraction Paramount Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
Hope and Glory Columbia John Boorman
Moonstruck Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Patrick J. Palmer, Norman Jewison
1988 (61st)
Rain Man United Artists Mark Johnson
The Accidental Tourist Warner Bros. Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun, Michael Grillo
Dangerous Liaisons Warner Bros. Norma Heyman, Hank Moonjean
Mississippi Burning Orion Frederick Zollo, Robert F. Colesberry
Working Girl 20th Century Fox Douglas Wick
1989 (62nd)
Driving Miss Daisy Warner Bros. Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
Born on the Fourth of July Universal A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
Dead Poets Society Touchstone Pictures Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas
Field of Dreams Universal Lawrence Gordon, Charles Gordon
My Left Foot Miramax Noel Pearson
1990s
1990 (63rd)
Dances with Wolves Orion Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
Awakenings Columbia Walter F. Parkes, Lawrence Lasker
Ghost Paramount Lisa Weinstein
The Godfather Part III Paramount Francis Ford Coppola

Goodfellas Warner Bros. Irwin Winkler
1991 (64th)
The Silence of the Lambs Orion Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
Beauty and the Beast Disney Don Hahn
Bugsy TriStar Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Warren Beatty
JFK Warner Bros. A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
The Prince of Tides Columbia Barbra Streisand, Andrew S. Karsch
1992 (65th)
Unforgiven Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood
The Crying Game Miramax Stephen Woolley
A Few Good Men Columbia, Castle Rock Entertainment Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman
Howards End Sony Pictures Classics Ismail Merchant
Scent of a Woman Universal Martin Brest
1993 (66th)
Schindler's List Universal Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig
The Fugitive Warner Bros. Arnold Kopelson
In the Name of the Father Universal Jim Sheridan
The Piano Miramax Jane Campion
The Remains of the Day Columbia Mike Nichols, John Calley, Ismail Merchant
1994 (67th)
Forrest Gump Paramount Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey
Four Weddings and a PolyGram Filmed Entertainment,
Duncan Kenworthy
Funeral Gramercy
Pulp Fiction Miramax Lawrence Bender
Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozick,
Quiz Show Hollywood Pictures Robert Redford
The Shawshank Columbia, Castle Rock

Niki Marvin
Redemption Entertainment
1995 (68th)
Paramount, Icon, 20th Century
Braveheart Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey
Fox
Apollo 13 Universal, Imagine Entertainment Brian Grazer
Babe Universal Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell
Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano
Il Postino[K] Miramax
Daniele
Sense and
Columbia Lindsay Doran
Sensibility
1996 (69th)
The English
Miramax Saul Zaentz
Patient
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment,
Fargo Ethan Coen
Gramercy
James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai,
Jerry Maguire Gracie Films, TriStar
Cameron Crowe
Secrets & Lies October Films Simon Channing-Williams
Shine Fine Line Features Jane Scott
1997 (70th)
Lightstorm Entertainment, 20th Century Fox,
Titanic James Cameron, Jon Landau
Paramount
As Good as It James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi
TriStar
Gets Zea
The Full
Fox Searchlight Umberto Pasolini
Monty
Good Will
Miramax Lawrence Bender
Hunting
L.A. Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, Michael G.
Warner Bros.
Confidential Nathanson
1998 (71st)
Shakespeare David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward
in Love Miramax/Universal Zwick, Marc Norman
PolyGram Filmed
Elizabeth Entertainment, Gramercy Shekhar Kapur, Alison Owen, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
Life Is
Miramax Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi
Beautiful [K]
Saving Private
DreamWorks, Paramount Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
Ryan
The Thin Red
20th Century Fox Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill
Line
1999 (72nd)
American Beauty DreamWorks Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
The Cider House
Miramax Richard N. Gladstein
Rules
Castle Rock Entertainment,
The Green Mile Frank Darabont, David Valdes
Warner Bros.
The Insider Touchstone Pictures Pieter Jan Brugge, Michael Mann
Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, M.
The Sixth Sense Hollywood Pictures
Night Shyamalan
2000s
2000 (73rd)
DreamWorks, Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko
Gladiator
Universal Lustig
Chocolat Miramax David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran
Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Sony Pictures Classics William Kong, Hsu Li Kong, Ang Lee
Dragon[K]
Erin Brockovich Universal, Columbia Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher
Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura
Traffic USA Films
Bickford
2001 (74th)
Production
Film Producer(s)
company(s)
Universal,
A Beautiful Mind Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
DreamWorks
Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, David
Gosford Park USA Films
Levy
In the Bedroom Miramax Graham Leader, Ross Katz, Todd Field
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Barrie M.
New Line Cinema
the Ring Osborne
Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Fred
Moulin Rouge! 20th Century Fox
Baron
2002 (75th)
Production
Film Producer(s)
company(s)
Chicago Miramax Martin Richards
Gangs of New York Miramax Alberto Grimaldi, Harvey Weinstein
The Hours Paramount, Miramax Scott Rudin, Robert Fox
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter
New Line Cinema
Towers Jackson
Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain
The Pianist Focus Features
Sarde
2003 (76th)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson,
New Line Cinema
the King Fran Walsh
Lost in Translation Focus Features Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola
Master and Commander: The Far Side 20th Century Fox, Miramax, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir,
of the World Universal Duncan Henderson
Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt, Clint
Mystic River Warner Bros.
Eastwood
Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall,
Seabiscuit Universal, DreamWorks
Gary Ross
2004 (77th)
Million Dollar Baby Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg
The Aviator Warner Bros., Miramax Michael Mann, Graham King
Finding Neverland Miramax Richard N. Gladstein, Nellie Bellflower
Ray Universal Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin
Sideways Fox Searchlight Michael London
2005 (78th)
Lions Gate
Crash Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman
Entertainment
Brokeback Mountain Focus Features Diana Ossana, James Schamus
Capote United Artists Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven
Good Night, and Good
Warner Bros. Grant Heslov
Luck
Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry
Munich DreamWorks, Universal
Mendel
2006 (79th)
The Departed Warner Bros. Graham King
Babel Paramount Vantage Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin, Jon Kilik
Letters from Iwo Jima[K] Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Robert Lorenz
Little Miss Sunshine Fox Searchlight David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub
The Queen Miramax Andy Harries, Christine Langan, Tracey Seaward
2007 (80th)
No Country for Old Miramax, Paramount
Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Men Vantage
Atonement Focus Features Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
Juno Fox Searchlight Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
Michael Clayton Warner Bros. Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent, Sydney Pollack
Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne
There Will Be Blood Paramount Vantage, Miramax
Sellar
2008 (81st)
Fox Searchlight,
Slumdog Millionaire[O] Christian Colson
Warner Bros.
The Curious Case of Paramount, Warner
Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Cean Chaffin
Benjamin Button Bros.
Frost/Nixon Universal Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner
Milk Focus Features Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti,
The Reader The Weinstein Co.
Redmond Morris
2009 (82nd)
Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas
The Hurt Locker Summit Entertainment
Chartier, Greg Shapiro
Lightstorm Entertainment,
Avatar James Cameron, Jon Landau
20th Century Fox
Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick
The Blind Side Warner Bros.
Johnson
District 9 TriStar Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham
An Education Sony Pictures Classics Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
The Weinstein Co.,
Inglourious Basterds Lawrence Bender
Universal
Precious: Based on the Novel Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary
Lions Gate Entertainment
"Push" by Sapphire Magness
A Serious Man Focus Features Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Up Disney/Pixar Jonas Rivera
Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, Jason
Up in the Air Paramount
Reitman
2010s
2010 (83rd)
Production
Film Producer(s)
company(s)
The King's Speech The Weinstein Co. Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin
Black Swan Fox Searchlight Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy and Brian Oliver
The Fighter Paramount David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg
Inception Warner Bros. Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas
The Kids Are All
Focus Features Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray
Right
127 Hours Fox Searchlight Danny Boyle and Christian Colson
Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca and Scott
The Social Network Columbia Rudin
Toy Story 3 Disney/Pixar Darla K. Anderson
True Grit Paramount Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Scott Rudin
Winter's Bone Roadside Attractions Alix Madigan and Anne Rosellini
Notes
A : The official name of the award for 1928 and 1929 called Outstanding Picture
B : The official name of the award from 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.[3]
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).[4] Three of which, Z, Life is Beautiful and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won the Academy
Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[5]
L : Production company with the most nominations (38) and the most awards (5). Applying only from 1928
to 1950.[6]
M : Person with the most nominations (6 nominations, 0 awards). Applying only from 1951 to 2008.[6]
N : Person with the most awards (3 awards, Spiegel 4 nominations, Zaentz 3 nominations). Applying only
from 1951 to 2008.[6]
O1 2 3 : Winner with partly non-English dialogue track (AMPAS: foreign language).[7]
Milestones
Listed below at various Milestones for Best Picture that various films and individuals have achieved since the
inception of the Academy Awards.
Milestones related to acting
Annual Year Film Awards Noms Milestone
First winner for Best Picture to receive an acting

2nd 1929 The Broadway Melody 1 3
nomination
First Best Picture nominee to win both Best Actor
7th 1934 It Happened One Night 5 5
and Best Actress
First Best Picture nominee to receive nominations
15th 1942 Mrs. Miniver 6 12
in all of the four acting categories
Last Best Picture winner to date to receive
26th 1953 From Here to Eternity 8 13
nominations in all of the four acting categories
Only Best Picture winner to have credited roles
35th 1962 Lawrence of Arabia 7 10 for actors of only one gender
Last Best Picture nominee to date to receive
54th 1981 Reds 3 12
nominations in all four of the acting categories
The Silence of the Last Best Picture winner to date to win both Best
64th 1991 5 7
Lambs Actor and Best Actress
Last Best Picture nominee to date to win both
70th 1997 As Good As It Gets 2 7 Best Actor and Best Actress
First (and only) film to win more than 10 awards

The Lord of the Rings:
76th 2003 11 11 (including Best Picture) and not receive an acting
The Return of the King
nomination
Last film to date to win Best Picture without
81st 2008 Slumdog Millionaire 8 10
receiving any acting nominations
Milestones related to country or language
The Private
First foreign film to be nominated for Best Picture and to win
6th 1933 Life of 1 2
any Academy Award (British)
Henry VIII
Grand First foreign language film to be nominated for Best Picture
11th 1938 0 1
Illusion (French)
21st 1948 Hamlet 4 7 First foreign film to win Best Picture (British)
Crouching
Tiger,
73rd 2000 Hidden 4 10 Foreign language film nominated for Best Picture to date with
the most number of Academy Award nominations
Dragon
Letters from Last foreign language film to date to be nominated for Best
79th 2006 1 4
Iwo Jima Picture (Japanese)
The
79th 2006 4 5 First (and only) remake of a foreign film to win Best Picture
Departed
Tied with Gandhi as Best Picture winner with second most
Slumdog
81st 2008 8 10 Oscars for a British production (behind The English Patient
Millionaire
and The Last Emperor both with nine each).[8]
Milestones related to directing
Annual Year Awards Noms

Film Milestone
West Side First of only two Best Picture winners to have more than
34th 1961 10 11
Story one credited director (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise)
Children of a First film directed by a woman (Randa Haines) to be
59th 1986 1 5
Lesser God nominated for Best Picture
Driving Miss Last film to date to win Best Picture without being
62nd 1989 4 9
Daisy nominated for Best Director
First Best Picture winner to be produced, directed, written,
70th 1997 Titanic 11 14
and edited by the same person (James Cameron)
Shakespeare
71st 1998 7 13 Most Oscars without a Best Director win
in Love
No Country Last Best Picture winner to date to have more than one
80th 2007 4 8
for Old Men credited director (Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Hurt First (and only) Best Picture winner directed by a woman
82nd 2009 6 9
Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
First (and only) Best Picture nominee directed by an
82nd 2009 Precious 2 6
African-American (Lee Daniels)
Milestones related to genre
1927- First war film to be nominated and win

1st Wings 2 2
28 Best Picture
1927- First (and only) silent film to win Best
1st Wings 2 2
28 Picture
1928-
2nd The Broadway Melody 1 3 First musical to win Best Picture
29
1930-
4th Cimarron 3 7 First Western to win Best Picture
31
7th 1934 It Happened One Night 5 5 First comedy to win Best Picture
First biographical picture (biopic) to win
10th 1937 The Life of Emile Zola 3 10
Best Picture
First children's film to be nominated for
12th 1939 The Wizard of Oz 2 6
Best Picture
13th 1940 Rebecca 2 11 First thriller to win Best Picture
First (and only) mystery to win Best
40th 1967 In the Heat of the Night 5 7
Picture
First science Fiction film to be nominated
44th 1971 A Clockwork Orange 0 4
for Best Picture
46th 1973 The Exorcist 2 10 First horror film to be nominated for Best
Picture
49th 1976 Rocky 3 10 First sports film to win Best Picture
First Independent film to be nominated for
58th 1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman 1 4
Best Picture
First animated film to be nominated for
64th 1991 Beauty and the Beast 2 6
Best Picture
First (and only) horror film to win Best
64th 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 5 7
Picture
71st 1998 Shakespeare in Love 7 13 Last comedy to date to win Best Picture
Crouching Tiger, Hidden First (and only) martial arts film to date to
73rd 2000 4 10
Dragon be nominated for Best Picture
74th 2001 A Beautiful Mind 4 8 Last biopic to date to win Best Picture
Last musical to date to win (or be
75th 2002 Chicago 6 13
nominated for) Best Picture
The Lord of the Rings: The First (and only) fantasy film to date to win
76th 2003 11 11
Return of the King Best Picture
Milestones related to other Academy Awards
1927- Winner of the first Academy award for Best

1st Wings 2 2
28 Picture
1928- First film to win Best Picture without winning any
2nd The Broadway Melody 1 3
29 other Academy Awards
1930- First film to be nominated for every major
4th Cimarron 3 7
31 Academy Award, including Best Picture
1931- First (and only) film to win Best Picture without
5th Grand Hotel 1 1
32 receiving any other nominations
First of only three films to win every major
7th 1934 It Happened One Night 5 5
Academy Award, including Best Picture
Last film to date to win Best Picture without
8th 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty 1 8
winning any other Academy Awards
Last film to date to be nominated for Best Picture
16th 1943 The Ox-Bow Incident 0 1
and no other award
First film to be nominated for Best Picture and
24th 1951 Decision Before Dawn 0 2 only one other award after the switch to five
nominees in 1944
Who's Afraid of First (and only) Best Picture nominee to be
39th 1966 5 13
Virginia Woolf? nominated for every award category in which it
was eligible
Last film to date to win Best Picture without a
53rd 1980 Ordinary People 4 6
Best Film Editing nomination.
One Flew Over the Second of only three films to win every major
48th 1975 5 9
Cuckoo's Nest Academy Award, including Best Picture
The Silence of the Third of only three films to win every major
64th 1991 5 7
Lambs Academy Award, including Best Picture
Last film to date to win Best Picture without a
70th 1997 Titanic 11 14
screenplay nomination (Adapted or Original)
The Lord of the Rings: Last film to date to win Best Picture and all of its
76th 2003 11 11
The Return of the King other nominated categories
Milestones related to other awards ceremonies
You Can't
First of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted for
11th 1938 Take It 2 7
the screen from plays which won the Pulitzer Prize
With You
The Lost Only film to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival
18th 1945 4 7
Weekend Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
Only film to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival
28th 1955 Marty 4 8
Palme d'Or
First of only two films to win Best Picture without being
46th 1973 The Sting 7 10 nominated for either of the three Golden Globes for Best
Motion Picture (drama, comedy/musical or foreign film).
61st 1988 Rain Man 4 8 First (and only) film to win Berlin Golden Bear and Best Picture
Driving Second of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted
62nd 1989 4 9
Miss Daisy for the screen from plays having won the Pulitzer Prize
78th 2005 Crash 3 6 One of only two film festival acquisitions to win Best Picture
Second of only two films to win Best Picture without being
78th 2005 Crash 3 6 nominated for either of the three Golden Globes for Best
Motion Picture (drama, comedy/musical or foreign film).
The Hurt
82nd 2009 6 9 Second of only two film festival acquisitions to win Best Picture
Locker
Milestones related to rating
41st 1968 Oliver! 6 11 First film with an MPAA rating to win Best Picture
First (and only) G-rated film to date to win Best
41st 1968 Oliver! 6 11
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
A Clockwork
44th 1971 0 4 Last X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture
Orange
The French
44th 1971 5 8 First R-rated film to win Best Picture
Connection
First PG-13-rated to be nominated for Best
58th 1985 The Color Purple 0 11
Picture
60th 1987 The Last Emperor 9 9 First PG-13-rated film to win Best Picture
Last Best Picture winner to date with a PG rating
62nd 1989 Driving Miss Daisy 4 9 (or lower)
Milestones related to sequels, prequels, remakes and adaptations
First (and only) film based on a comic book, comic

1930-
4th Skippy 1 4 strip, or graphic novel to be nominated for Best
31
Picture
First Shakespeare adaptation to be nominated for
A Midsummer
8th 1935 2* 3 Best Picture (*one of its two Oscars was a write-in
Night's Dream
winner)
The Bells of St. First sequel to be nominated for Best Picture
18th 1945 1 8
Mary's
First (and only) film based on a television movie or
28th 1955 Marty 4 8
mini-series to win Best Picture
The Godfather Part
47th 1974 6 11 First sequel to win Best Picture.
II
The Godfather Part First of only two trilogies to have all three films
63rd 1990 0 7
III nominated for Best Picture
First film based on a television series to be
66th 1993 The Fugitive 1 7
nominated for Best Picture
Last Best Picture nominee to date to have been
73rd 2000 Traffic 4 5
based on a television movie or mini-series
The Lord of the Second of only two trilogies to have all three films
76th 2003 11 11
Rings: The Return of nominated for Best Picture, and only one to have
the King the third installment win.
First (and only) remake of an original film (Infernal
79th 2006 The Departed 4 5
Affairs) to win Best Picture
Only sequel to be nominated for Best Picture
83rd 2010 Toy Story 3 2 5
without any of its predecessors being nominated
Milestones related to superlatives
1932- Shortest film to be nominated for Best Picture (1

6th She Done Him Wrong 0 1
33 hour 6 minutes)
Longest film to win Best Picture (3 hours 54
12th 1939 Gone with the Wind 8 13
minutes)
First of only two films to receive 14 Academy
23rd 1950 All About Eve 6 14
Award nominations, including Best Picture
Shortest film to win Best Picture (1 hour 31
28th 1955 Marty 4 8
minutes)
First of only three films to win 11 Academy
32nd 1959 Ben-Hur 11 12
Awards, including Best Picture
Best Picture nominee to win the most Academy
45th 1972 Cabaret 8 10
Awards (8) without winning Best Picture
50th 1977 0 11 First of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11
The Turning Point
nominations without winning any Academy Awards
Second of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11
58th 1985 The Color Purple 0 11
nominations without winning any Academy Awards
Second of only two films to receive 14 Academy
70th 1997 Titanic 11 14
Award nominations, including Best Picture
First Best Picture winner to gross over
70th 1997 Titanic 11 14
US$1,000,000,000, worldwide.[9]
The Lord of the
Third of only three films to date to win 11
76th 2003 Rings: The Return of 11 11
Academy Awards, including Best Picture
the King
The Lord of the First (and only) film to date with ten or more
76th 2003 Rings: The Return of 11 11 nominations (11) to win in every nomination it
the King received including Best Picture
Last film to date to be nominated for every major
77th 2004 Million Dollar Baby 4 7
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
82nd 2009 The Hurt Locker 6 9 Lowest-grossing film after 1955 to win Best Picture
Milestones related to technology
1928- The Broadway

2nd 1 3 First sound film to win Best Picture
29 Melody
10th 1937 A Star Is Born 1 7 First all-color film nominated for Best Picture
Gone with the
12th 1939 8 13 First all-color film to win Best Picture
Wind
First motion picture (and Best Picture nominee) in
26th 1953 The Robe 2 5
CinemaScope
Last black-and-white film before 1993 (and last entirely
33rd 1960 The Apartment 5 10
in B&W) to win Best Picture
Beauty and the First and only hand drawn animated film to be nominated
64th 1991 2 6
Beast for Best Picture
First (and only) black-and-white film after 1960 to win
66th 1993 Schindler's List 7 12
Best Picture (though with some color sequences)
Good Night, Last black-and-white film to date to be nominated for
78th 2005 0 6
and Good Luck Best Picture
82nd 2009 Avatar 3 9 First nominee to be entirely filmed using 3D technology
First computer animated film to be nominated for Best
82nd 2009 Up 2 5
Picture
Superlatives
Category Record Holder Record Notes
Most Best Picture Awards by a

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 5 awards Note 1
Studio
Most Best Picture Nominations by a

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 40 nominations
Studio
Most Best Picture Awards by a

Sam Spiegel and Saul Zaentz 3 awards Note 1
Producer
Stanley Kramer, Steven

Most Best Picture Nominations by a
Spielberg, 6 nominations Note 2
Producer and Kathleen Kennedy
Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The
Best Picture with the Most Awards Lord of the Rings: The 11 awards
Return of the King
Best Picture with the Most
All About Eve and Titanic 14 nominations
Nominations
3 hours and 54
Longest Best Picture Winner Gone with the Wind Note 3
minutes
4 hours and 3
Longest Best Picture Nominee Cleopatra Note 4
minutes
1 hour and 31
Shortest Best Picture Winner Marty Note 5
minutes
1 hour and 6
Shortest Best Picture Nominee She Done Him Wrong
minutes
Note 1: Until the 23rd Academy Awards (1950), Best Picture was awarded to the studio that produced the film.
Beginning with the 24th Academy Awards (1951), however, it has been awarded 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 once again ten nominated films. The first year in which multiple individuals jointly won was 1973,
with three winners for The Sting. The greatest number of 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 limit may be exceeded
in a "rare and extraordinary circumstance", such as in 2008 when both Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack
were posthumously included among four nominees for The Reader.[10]
Note 2: Stanley Kramer, Steven Spielberg, and Kathleen Kennedy are the producers who have received the most
Best Picture nominations, with six apiece. Neither Kramer nor Kennedy has ever won the Best Picture award;
Spielberg won for Schindler's List in 1993.
Note 3: It remains a very close call — a tie, virtually — between the top two "longest" Best Pictures. The total film
time (without music) of Gone with the Wind (1939) is almost 221 minutes (3 hours and 41 minutes); with the
Overture, Intermission, Entr'acte, and Walkout Music, it reaches 234 minutes (3 hours and 54 minutes). The total
film time (without music) of the original Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is just over 222 minutes (3 hours and 42
minutes), slightly longer than Gone with the Wind. Lawrence of Arabia's additional elements extend the film to
about 232 minutes (3 hours and 52 minutes). If just counting the film itself, Lawrence of Arabia is the longest of the
two contenders. The other longest Best Picture winners are, in order: Ben-Hur (1959) at 212 minutes (3 hours and
32 minutes) and The Lord of Rings: Return of the King (2003) at 201 minutes (3 hours and 21 minutes).
Note 4: The longest movie to ever win any Academy Award was Russia's War and Peace (1965) at 414 minutes
(6 hours and 54 minutes), winner of Best Foreign Language Film.
Note 5: After Marty, the second shortest Best Picture winner is Annie Hall (1977) at 93 minutes (1 hour and 33
minutes).
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 production companies
List of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
References
1. ^ a b Joyce Eng (24 June 2009). "Oscar Expands Best Picture Race to 10 Nominees"
(http://www.tvguide.com/Movie-News/Oscar-Expands-Best-1007223.aspx) . TV Guide Online.
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Winners and nominees

1927/28 → 1928/29: Outstanding Picture

1927/28 [A] (1st)

1929/30 [B] (3rd)

It Happened One Night [I] Columbia Harry Cohn

Anthony Adverse Warner Bros. Henry Blanke

Double Indemnity Paramount Joseph Sistrom

The Snake Pit 20th Century Fox Anatole Litvak, Robert

The Guns of Navarone Columbia Carl Foreman

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Universal Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy[M]

Children of a Lesser God Paramount Burt Sugarman, Patrick J. Palmer

Hannah and Her Sisters Orion Robert Greenhut

The Godfather Part III Paramount Francis Ford Coppola

The Shawshank Columbia, Castle Rock

Milestones related to acting

Annual Year Film Awards Noms Milestone

First winner for Best Picture to receive an acting

First (and only) film to win more than 10 awards

Milestones related to country or language

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Milestones related to directing

Annual Year Awards Noms

Milestones related to genre

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1927- First war film to be nominated and win

Milestones related to other Academy Awards

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1927- Winner of the first Academy award for Best

Milestones related to other awards ceremonies

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Milestones related to rating

Milestones related to sequels, prequels, remakes and adaptations

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First (and only) film based on a comic book, comic

Milestones related to superlatives

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1932- Shortest film to be nominated for Best Picture (1

Milestones related to technology

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1928- The Broadway

Category Record Holder Record Notes

Most Best Picture Awards by a

Most Best Picture Nominations by a

Most Best Picture Awards by a

Stanley Kramer, Steven

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