Academy Award for Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture
Awarded for	Best Motion Picture of the Year
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awarded	May 16, 1929; 95 years ago (1929-05-16) (for films released during the 1927/1928 film season)
Most recent winner	Oppenheimer (2023)
Website	oscar.go.com/nominees/best-picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot.^[1] The Best Picture category is traditionally the final award of the night and is widely considered the most prestigious honor of the ceremony.^[2][3][4]

The Grand Staircase columns at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award's inception.^[5] There have been 601 films nominated for Best Picture and 96 winners.^[6]

History

Category name changes

At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony held in 1929 (for films made in 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: "Outstanding Picture" and "Unique and Artistic Picture", the former being won by the war epic Wings, and the latter by the art film Sunrise. Each award was intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking. In particular, The Jazz Singer was disqualified from both awards, since its use of synchronized sound made the film a sui generis item that would have unfairly competed against either category, and the Academy granted the film an honorary award instead.^[7]

The following year, the Academy dropped the Unique and Artistic Picture award, deciding retroactively that the award won by Wings was the highest honor that could be awarded, and allowed synchronized sound films to compete for the award.^[8] Although the award kept the title Outstanding Picture for the next ceremony, the name underwent several changes over the years, as seen below. Since 1962, the award has been simply called Best Picture.^[6]

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

Recipients

Until 1950, this award was presented to a representative of the production company. That year the protocol was changed so that the award was presented to all credited producers. This rule was modified in 1999 to apply a maximum limit of three producers receiving the award, after the five producers of Shakespeare in Love had received the award.^[9][10][11]

As of 2020^[update], the "Special Rules for the Best Picture of the Year Award" limit recipients to those who meet two main requirements:^[12]

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

The rules allow a bona fide team of not more than two people to be considered a single "producer" if the two individuals have had an established producing partnership as determined by the Producers Guild of America Producing Partnership Panel. Final determination of the qualifying producer nominees for each nominated picture will be made by the Producers Branch Executive Committee, including the right to name any additional qualified producer as a nominee.^[12]

The Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among the four producers nominated for The Reader.^[13] As of 2014^[update] the Producers Branch Executive Committee determines such exceptions, noting they take place only in "rare and extraordinary circumstance[s]."^[12]

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

Best Picture and Best Director

The Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been closely linked throughout their history. Of the 96 films that have won Best Picture, 69 have also been awarded Best Director. Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: Wings directed by William A. Wellman (1927/28), Grand Hotel directed by Edmund Goulding (1931/32), Driving Miss Daisy directed by Bruce Beresford (1989), Argo directed by Ben Affleck (2012), Green Book directed by Peter Farrelly (2018), and CODA directed by Sian Heder (2021). The only two Best Director winners to win for films that did not receive a Best Picture nomination were during the early years of the awards: Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Knights (1927/28), and Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady (1928/29).^[14]

Nomination limit increased

On June 24, 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced that the number of films to be nominated in the Best Picture award category would increase from 5 to 10, starting with the 82nd Academy Awards (2009).^[15] Although the Academy never officially said so, many commenters noted the expansion was likely in part a response to public criticism of The Dark Knight and WALL-E (both 2008) (and, in previous years, other blockbusters and popular films) not being nominated for Best Picture.^[16][17][18] Officially, the Academy said the rule change was a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and 1940s, when 8 to 12 films were nominated each year. "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize," AMPAS President Sid Ganis said in a press conference. "I can't wait to see what that list of 10 looks like when the nominees are announced in February."^[15]

At the same time, the voting system was switched from first-past-the-post to instant runoff voting (also known as preferential voting).^[19] In 2011, the Academy revised the rule again so that the number of films nominated was between 5 and 10; nominated films must earn either 5% of first-place rankings or 5% after an abbreviated variation of the single transferable vote nominating process.^[20] Bruce Davis, the Academy executive director at the time, said, "A Best Picture nomination should be an indication of extraordinary merit. If there are only eight pictures that truly earn that honor in a given year, we shouldn't feel an obligation to round out the number."^[21] This system lasted until 2021, when the Academy reverted back to a set number of ten nominees from the 94th Academy Awards onward.^[22]

Language and country of origin

Seventeen non-English language films have been nominated in the category: La Grande Illusion (French, 1938); Z (French, 1969); The Emigrants (Swedish, 1972); Cries and Whispers (Swedish, 1973); The Postman (Il Postino) (Italian/Spanish, 1995); Life Is Beautiful (Italian, 1998); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Mandarin Chinese, 2000); Letters from Iwo Jima (Japanese, 2006, but ineligible for Best Foreign Language Film because it was an American production); Amour (French, 2012); Roma (Spanish/Mixtec, 2018); Parasite (Korean, 2019); Minari (Korean, 2020, but ineligible for Best International Feature Film because it was an American production);^[23] Drive My Car (Japanese/Korean/Mandarin Chinese/German/Korean Sign Language, 2021), All Quiet on the Western Front (German, 2022), Anatomy of a Fall (French, 2023), Past Lives (Korean, 2023, but ineligible for Best International Feature Film because it was an American production), and The Zone of Interest (German/Polish/Yiddish, 2023). Parasite became the first film not in English to win Best Picture.^[24][25]

Ten films wholly financed outside the United States have won Best Picture, eight of which were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom: Hamlet (1948), Tom Jones (1963), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Chariots of Fire (1981), Gandhi (1982), The Last Emperor (1987), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), and The King's Speech (2010). The ninth film, The Artist (2011), was financed in France, and the tenth film, Parasite (2019), was financed in South Korea.^[26]

Rating

Since 1968, most Best Picture winners have been rated R under the Motion Picture Association's rating system. Oliver! is the only G-rated film and Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film (what is categorized as an NC-17 film today), so far, to win Best Picture; they won in back-to-back years, 1968 and 1969. The latter has since been changed to an R rating. Eleven films have won with a PG rating: the first was Patton (1970) and the most recent was Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Eleven more films have won with a PG-13 rating (which was introduced in 1984): the first was The Last Emperor (1987) and the most recent was CODA (2021).

Genres and mediums

Three animated films have been nominated for Best Picture: Beauty and the Beast (1991), Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010). The latter two were nominated after the Academy expanded the number of nominees, but none have won.

No comic book film has won, although three have been nominated: Skippy (1931), Black Panther (2018), and Joker (2019).^[27]

Two fantasy films have won: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Shape of Water (2017), although more have been nominated.

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) is the only horror film to win Best Picture. Five others have been nominated for Best Picture: The Exorcist (1973), Jaws (1975), The Sixth Sense (1999), Black Swan (2010), and Get Out (2017).

Several science-fiction films have been nominated for Best Picture, though Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) was the first one to win.^[28]

Titanic (1997) is the only disaster film to win Best Picture, though other such films have been nominated, including Airport (1970) and The Towering Inferno (1974).

No documentary feature has been nominated for Best Picture, although Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness was nominated in the Unique and Artistic Picture category at the 1927/28 awards. A Best Documentary Feature category was introduced in 1941.

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

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

Sequel nominations and winners

Nine films that were presented as direct sequels have been nominated for Best Picture: The Bells of St. Mary's (1945; the sequel to the 1944 winner, Going My Way), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Godfather Part III (1990), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Toy Story 3 (2010), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022).

Toy Story 3, Mad Max: Fury Road and Top Gun: Maverick are the only sequels to be nominated without any predecessors being nominated. The Godfather Part II and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King are the only sequels to have won the award, and their respective trilogies are the only series to have three films nominated. The Godfather series is the only film series with multiple Best Picture winners, with the first film winning the award for 1972 and the second film winning the award for 1974.^[23]

Another nominee, Broadway Melody of 1936, was a follow-up of sorts to previous winner The Broadway Melody, but beyond the title and some music, the two films have mutually independent stories. The Silence of the Lambs was adapted from the sequel novel to Red Dragon. The latter had been adapted for film as Manhunter by a different studio, and the two films have different casts and creative teams and were not presented as a series.^[29]

The Lion in Winter features Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, a role he had played previously in the film Becket, but The Lion in Winter is not a sequel to Becket. Similarly, The Queen features Michael Sheen as Tony Blair, a role he had played previously in the television film The Deal. Christine Langan, producer of both productions, described The Queen as not being a direct sequel, only that it reunited the same creative team.^[30]

Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima was a companion piece to his film Flags of Our Fathers that was released earlier the same year. These two films depict the same battle from the different viewpoints of Japanese and United States military forces; the two films were shot back-to-back.

In addition, Black Panther is a continuation of the events that occurred in Captain America: Civil War and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Remake nominations and winners

Along similar lines to sequels, there have been few nominees and winners that are either remakes or adaptations of the same source materials or subjects.

Ben-Hur, which won Best Picture of 1959, is a remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title and both were adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The Departed, which won Best Picture of 2006, is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs and is the first remake of a non-English language or international film to win.

Other nominees include 1963's Cleopatra about the titular last queen of Egypt following the 1934 version, 2018's A Star is Born following the 1937 film of the same name, and 2019's Little Women following the 1933 film of the same name with both being adaptations of the 1868 novel.^[31] True Grit, which was nominated for Best Picture of 2010, is the second adaptation of Charles Portis's 1968 novel following the 1969 film of the same name.

Four of the nominees for the 94th ceremony were based on source material previously made into films: CODA, Dune, Nightmare Alley, and West Side Story. The 2021 version of West Side Story became the second adaptation of the same source material for a previous Best Picture winner to be nominated for the same award after 1962's Mutiny on the Bounty.^[32] For that same ceremony, CODA became the second remake of a non-English-language or international film to win.

The 2022 German-language All Quiet on the Western Front is the second adaptation of the 1929 novel after the 1930 English-language film, and the third adaptation of the same source material of a previous Best Picture winner.^[33]

Silent film winners

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

The Artist (2011) was the first essentially silent (with the exception of a single scene of dialogue, and a dream sequence with sound effects) film since Wings to win Best Picture. It was the first silent nominee since 1928's The Patriot. It was the first Best Picture winner to be produced entirely in black-and-white since 1960's The Apartment. (Schindler's List, the 1993 winner, was predominantly black-and-white but contains some color sequences.)^[26]

Version availability

No Best Picture winner has been lost, though a few such as All Quiet on the Western Front and Lawrence of Arabia exist only in a form altered from their original, award-winning release form. This has usually been due to editing for reissue (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees, such as Tom Jones (prior to its 2018 reissues by The Criterion Collection and the British Film Institute) and Star Wars, are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. The Broadway Melody originally had some sequences photographed in two-color Technicolor. This footage survives only in black and white.^[34]

The 1928 film The Patriot is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost (about one-third is extant).^[35] The Racket, also from 1928, was believed lost for many years until a print was found in Howard Hughes' archives. It has since been restored and shown on Turner Classic Movies.^[36] The only surviving complete prints of 1931's East Lynne and 1934's The White Parade exist within the UCLA film archive.^[37]

Diversity standards

The Academy has established a set of "representation and inclusion standards", called Academy Aperture 2025, which a film will be required to satisfy in order to compete in the Best Picture category, starting with the 96th Academy Awards for films released in 2023.^[38][39] There are four general standards, of which a film must satisfy two to be considered for Best Picture: (a) on-screen representation, themes and narratives; (b) creative leadership and project team; (c) industry access and opportunities; and (d) audience development.^[38] As explained by Vox, the standards "basically break down into two big buckets: standards promoting more inclusive representation and standards promoting more inclusive employment".^[40] The standards are intended to provide greater opportunities for employment, in cast, crew, studio apprenticeships and internships, and development, marketing, publicity, and distribution executives, among underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, women, LGBTQ+ people, and persons with cognitive or physical disabilities (not counting developmental disabilities like the autism spectrum), or who are deaf or hard of hearing.^[38][41]

For the 94th and 95th Academy Awards (films released in 2021 and 2022), filmmakers were required to submit a confidential Academy Inclusion Standards form to be considered for Best Picture but were not required to fulfill the standards.^[40] These standards will only apply to the Best Picture category and do not affect a film's eligibility in other Oscar categories.^[38]

2016 ceremony mistake

At the 89th Academy Awards on February 26, 2017, presenter Faye Dunaway read La La Land as the winner of the award. However, she and Warren Beatty had mistakenly been given the duplicate envelope for the "Best Actress in a Leading Role" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in La La Land. While accepting the award, La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz, who was given the correct envelope, realized the mistake and announced that Moonlight had won the award.^[42]

Winners and nominees

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

Until 1950, the Best Picture award was given to the production company; from 1951 on, it has gone to the producer or producers. The Academy used the producer credits of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) until 1998, when all five producers of Shakespeare in Love made speeches after its win.^[9][10] A three-producer limit has been applied some years since.^[10][11] There was controversy over the exclusion of some PGA-credited producers of Crash and Little Miss Sunshine.^[11] The Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously among the four nominated for The Reader.^[13] However, now any number of producers on a film can be nominated for Best Picture, should they be deemed eligible.

For the first ceremony, three films were nominated for the award. For the following three years, five films were nominated for the award. This was expanded to eight in 1933, to ten in 1934, and to twelve in 1935, before being dropped back to ten in 1937. In 1945, it was further reduced to five. This number remained until 2009, when the limit was raised to ten; it was adjusted from 2011 to 2020 to vary between five and ten, but has been a full ten since 2022.

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. This has been the rule every year since except 2020, when the end date was extended to February 28, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2021, which was correspondingly limited to March 1 to December 31.

  indicates the winner

1920s

Year of Film Release	Film	Film Studio
1927/28 (1st)	Wings	Famous Players–Lasky (Lucien Hubbard, Jesse L. Lasky, B.P. Schulberg, & Adolph Zukor, producers)
	7th Heaven	Fox (William Fox, producer)
	The Racket	The Caddo Company (Howard Hughes, producer)
1928/29 (2nd) [a]
	The Broadway Melody	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Irving Thalberg & Lawrence Weingarten, producers)
	Alibi	Feature Productions (Roland West, producer)
	The Hollywood Revue	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Irving Thalberg & Harry Rapf, producers)
	In Old Arizona	Fox (Winfield Sheehan, producer)
	The Patriot	Paramount Famous Lasky

1930s

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

1940s

Year of Film Release	Film	Film Studio
1940 (13th)	Rebecca	Selznick International Pictures (David O. Selznick, producer)
	All This, and Heaven Too	Warner Bros.
	Foreign Correspondent	Walter Wanger (production company)
	The Grapes of Wrath	20th Century-Fox
	The Great Dictator	Charles Chaplin Productions
	Kitty Foyle	RKO Radio
	The Letter	Warner Bros.
	The Long Voyage Home	Argosy-Wanger
	Our Town	Sol Lesser (production company)
	The Philadelphia Story	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1941 (14th)
	How Green Was My Valley	20th Century-Fox (Darryl F. Zanuck, producer)
	Blossoms in the Dust	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	Citizen Kane	Mercury
	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	Columbia
	Hold Back the Dawn	Paramount
	The Little Foxes	Samuel Goldwyn Productions (Samuel Goldwyn, producer)
	The Maltese Falcon	Warner Bros.
	One Foot in Heaven	Warner Bros.
	Sergeant York	Warner Bros.
	Suspicion	RKO Radio
1942 (15th)
	Mrs. Miniver	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Sidney Franklin, producer)
	49th Parallel[43]	Ortus
	Kings Row	Warner Bros.
	The Magnificent Ambersons	Mercury
	The Pied Piper	20th Century-Fox
	The Pride of the Yankees	Samuel Goldwyn Productions (Samuel Goldwyn, producer)
	Random Harvest	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	The Talk of the Town	Columbia
	Wake Island	Paramount
	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Warner Bros.
1943 (16th)
	Casablanca	Warner Bros. (Hal B. Wallis, producer)
	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Paramount
	Heaven Can Wait	20th Century-Fox
	The Human Comedy	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	In Which We Serve	Two Cities Films
	Madame Curie	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	The More the Merrier	Columbia
	The Ox-Bow Incident	20th Century-Fox
	The Song of Bernadette	20th Century-Fox
	Watch on the Rhine	Warner Bros.
1944 (17th)
	Going My Way	Paramount (Leo McCarey, producer)
	Double Indemnity	Paramount
	Gaslight	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	Since You Went Away	Selznick International Pictures (David O. Selznick, producer)
	Wilson	20th Century-Fox
1945 (18th)
	The Lost Weekend	Paramount (Charles Brackett, producer)
	Anchors Aweigh	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	The Bells of St. Mary's	Rainbow Productions
	Mildred Pierce	Warner Bros.
	Spellbound	Selznick International Pictures (David O. Selznick, producer)
1946 (19th)
	The Best Years of Our Lives	Samuel Goldwyn Productions (Samuel Goldwyn, producer)
	Henry V	Two Cities Films
	It's a Wonderful Life	Liberty Films
	The Razor's Edge	20th Century-Fox
	The Yearling	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1947 (20th)
	Gentleman's Agreement	20th Century-Fox (Darryl F. Zanuck, producer)
	The Bishop's Wife	Samuel Goldwyn Productions (Samuel Goldwyn, producer)
	Crossfire	RKO Radio
	Great Expectations	J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild
	Miracle on 34th Street	20th Century-Fox
1948 (21st)
	Hamlet	J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films (Laurence Olivier, producer)
	Johnny Belinda	Warner Bros.
	The Red Shoes	J. Arthur Rank-Archers
	The Snake Pit	20th Century-Fox
	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	Warner Bros.
1949 (22nd)
	All the King's Men	Columbia (Robert Rossen, producer)
	Battleground	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
	The Heiress	Paramount
	A Letter to Three Wives	20th Century-Fox
	Twelve O'Clock High	20th Century-Fox

1950s

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

1960s

Year of Film Release	Film	Producer(s)
1960 (33rd)	The Apartment	Billy Wilder
	The Alamo	John Wayne
	Elmer Gantry	Bernard Smith
	Sons and Lovers	Jerry Wald
	The Sundowners	Fred Zinnemann
1961 (34th)
	West Side Story	Robert Wise
	Fanny	Joshua Logan
	The Guns of Navarone	Carl Foreman
	The Hustler	Robert Rossen
	Judgment at Nuremberg	Stanley Kramer
1962 (35th)
	Lawrence of Arabia	Sam Spiegel
	The Longest Day	Darryl F. Zanuck
	The Music Man	Morton DaCosta
	Mutiny on the Bounty	Aaron Rosenberg
	To Kill a Mockingbird	Alan J. Pakula
1963 (36th)
	Tom Jones	Tony Richardson
	America America	Elia Kazan
	Cleopatra	Walter Wanger
	How the West Was Won	Bernard Smith
	Lilies of the Field	Ralph Nelson
1964 (37th)
	My Fair Lady	Jack L. Warner
	Becket	Hal B. Wallis
	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Stanley Kubrick
	Mary Poppins	Walt Disney and Bill Walsh
	Zorba the Greek	Michael Cacoyannis
1965 (38th)
	The Sound of Music	Robert Wise
	Darling	Joseph Janni
	Doctor Zhivago	Carlo Ponti
	Ship of Fools	Stanley Kramer
	A Thousand Clowns	Fred Coe
1966 (39th)
	A Man for All Seasons	Fred Zinnemann
	Alfie	Lewis Gilbert
	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	Norman Jewison
	The Sand Pebbles	Robert Wise
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Ernest Lehman
1967 (40th)
	In the Heat of the Night	Walter Mirisch
	Bonnie and Clyde	Warren Beatty
	Doctor Dolittle	Arthur P. Jacobs
	The Graduate	Lawrence Turman
	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Stanley Kramer
1968 (41st)
	Oliver!	John Woolf
	Funny Girl	Ray Stark
	The Lion in Winter	Martin Poll
	Rachel, Rachel	Paul Newman
	Romeo and Juliet	Anthony Havelock-Allan and John Brabourne
1969 (42nd)
	Midnight Cowboy	Jerome Hellman
	Anne of the Thousand Days	Hal B. Wallis
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	John Foreman
	Hello, Dolly!	Ernest Lehman
	Z	Jacques Perrin and Ahmed Rachedi

1970s

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

1980s

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

1990s

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

2000s

Year of Film Release	Film	Producer(s)
2000 (73rd)	Gladiator	Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, and Branko Lustig
	Chocolat	David Brown, Kit Golden, and Leslie Holleran
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	William Kong, Hsu Li-kong, and Ang Lee
	Erin Brockovich	Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, and Stacey Sher
	Traffic	Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, and Laura Bickford
2001 (74th)
	A Beautiful Mind	Brian Grazer and Ron Howard
	Gosford Park	Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, and David Levy
	In the Bedroom	Graham Leader, Ross Katz, and Todd Field
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Barrie M. Osborne
	Moulin Rouge!	Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, and Fred Baron
2002 (75th)
	Chicago	Martin Richards
	Gangs of New York	Alberto Grimaldi and Harvey Weinstein
	The Hours	Scott Rudin and Robert Fox
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, and Peter Jackson
	The Pianist	Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, and Alain Sarde
2003 (76th)
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh
	Lost in Translation	Ross Katz and Sofia Coppola
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Peter Weir, and Duncan Henderson
	Mystic River	Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt, and Clint Eastwood
	Seabiscuit	Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Gary Ross
2004 (77th)
	Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, and Tom Rosenberg
	The Aviator	Michael Mann and Graham King
	Finding Neverland	Richard N. Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower
	Ray	Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, and Howard Baldwin
	Sideways	Michael London
2005 (78th)
	Crash	Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman
	Brokeback Mountain	Diana Ossana and James Schamus
	Capote	Caroline Baron, William Vince, and Michael Ohoven
	Good Night, and Good Luck	Grant Heslov
	Munich	Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Barry Mendel
2006 (79th)
	The Departed	Graham King
	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin, and Jon Kilik
	Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Lorenz
	Little Miss Sunshine	David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, and Marc Turtletaub
	The Queen	Andy Harries, Christine Langan, and Tracey Seaward
2007 (80th)
	No Country for Old Men	Scott Rudin, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen
	Atonement	Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster
	Juno	Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, and Russell Smith
	Michael Clayton	Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent, and Sydney Pollack
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, and JoAnne Sellar
2008 (81st)
	Slumdog Millionaire	Christian Colson
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Ceán Chaffin
	Frost/Nixon	Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Eric Fellner
	Milk	Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks
	The Reader	Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, and Redmond Morris
2009 (82nd)
	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro
	Avatar	James Cameron and Jon Landau
	The Blind Side	Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, and Broderick Johnson
	District 9	Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham
	An Education	Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
	Inglourious Basterds	Lawrence Bender
	Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire	Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and Gary Magness
	A Serious Man	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Up	Jonas Rivera
	Up in the Air	Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, and Jason Reitman

2010s

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

2020s

Year of Film Release	Film	Producer(s)
2020 (93rd)	Nomadland	Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, and Chloé Zhao
	The Father	David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, and Philippe Carcassonne
	Judas and the Black Messiah	Shaka King, Charles D. King, and Ryan Coogler
	Mank	Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth, and Douglas Urbanski
	Minari	Christina Oh
	Promising Young Woman	Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell, and Josey McNamara
	Sound of Metal	Bert Hamelinck and Sacha Ben Harroche
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Marc Platt and Stuart M. Besser
2021 (94th)
	CODA	Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, and Patrick Wachsberger
	Belfast	Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, and Tamar Thomas
	Don't Look Up	Adam McKay and Kevin Messick
	Drive My Car	Teruhisa Yamamoto
	Dune	Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, and Cale Boyter
	King Richard	Tim White, Trevor White, and Will Smith
	Licorice Pizza	Sara Murphy, Adam Somner, and Paul Thomas Anderson
	Nightmare Alley	Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, and Bradley Cooper
	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, and Roger Frappier
	West Side Story	Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger
2022 (95th)
	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, and Jonathan Wang
	All Quiet on the Western Front	Malte Grunert
	Avatar: The Way of Water	James Cameron and Jon Landau
	The Banshees of Inisherin	Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss
	The Fabelmans	Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, and Tony Kushner
	Tár	Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, and Scott Lambert
	Top Gun: Maverick	Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison, and Jerry Bruckheimer
	Triangle of Sadness	Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober
	Women Talking	Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Frances McDormand
2023 (96th)
	Oppenheimer	Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan
	American Fiction	Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson, and Jermaine Johnson
	Anatomy of a Fall	Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion
	Barbie	David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Robbie Brenner
	The Holdovers	Mark Johnson
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese, and Daniel Lupi
	Maestro	Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning, and Kristie Macosko Krieger
	Past Lives	David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, and Pamela Koffler
	Poor Things	Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Emma Stone
	The Zone of Interest	James Wilson

Individuals with multiple wins

3 wins[44] Sam Spiegel Saul Zaentz

2 wins[44] Clint Eastwood Arthur Freed Dede Gardner Jeremy Kleiner Branko Lustig Albert S. Ruddy Robert Wise

Individuals with multiple nominations

13 nominations[44][45] Steven Spielberg 9 nominations[44] Scott Rudin 8 nominations[44] Kathleen Kennedy 7 nominations[44] Dede Gardner 6 nominations[44] Eric Fellner Jeremy Kleiner Stanley Kramer 5 nominations[44] Tim Bevan Bradley Cooper Francis Ford Coppola Clint Eastwood Frank Marshall Kristie Macosko Krieger 4 nominations[44] Warren Beatty James L. Brooks David Brown Ethan Coen Megan Ellison Donna Gigliotti Peter Jackson Norman Jewison Graham King Sydney Pollack David Puttnam Martin Scorsese Sam Spiegel George Stevens Irwin Winkler

3 nominations Paul Thomas Anderson Lawrence Bender Jason Blum James Cameron Iain Canning Ceán Chaffin Robert Chartoff Joel Coen Bruce Cohen Christian Colson Michael De Luca Steve Golin Alejandro González Iñárritu Brian Grazer Ed Guiney David Heyman Mark Johnson Stanley Kubrick Jon Landau Robert Lorenz Daniel Lupi Ismail Merchant Christopher Nolan Barrie M. Osborne Patrick J. Palmer Brad Pitt Marc Platt Emile Sherman Emma Thomas Emma Tillinger Koskoff Hal B. Wallis Fran Walsh Robert Wise Saul Zaentz Richard D. Zanuck

2 nominations Buddy Adler Robert Altman Kathryn Bigelow Mark Boal John Boorman John Brabourne Robbie Brenner Graham Broadbent Lisa Bruce Dana Brunetti Jim Burke Peter Chernin Alfonso Cuarón Pete Czernin J. Miles Dale Guillermo del Toro Cecil B. DeMille Finola Dwyer Todd Field John Foreman Gray Frederickson Arthur Freed Richard N. Gladstein Jonathan Gordon Jerome Hellman Grant Heslov Grant Hill Ron Howard Stanley R. Jaffe Dan Janvey Dan Jinks Ross Katz A. Kitman Ho Arnold Kopelson Gary Kurtz Yorgos Lanthimos Ang Lee Ernest Lehman Baz Luhrmann Branko Lustig Michael Mann Anthony McCarten

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

Production companies and distributors with multiple nominations and wins

Columbia Pictures and United Artists have the most wins with 12, while 20th Century Studios has the most nominations with 64. Focus Features has the most nominations without a win with 16.

Production company/distributor	Nominations	Wins
Columbia Pictures	56	12
United Artists	48	12
Paramount Pictures	22	11
Universal Pictures	36	10
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	40	9
Warner Bros. Pictures	27	9
20th Century Studios	64	8
Searchlight Pictures	22	5
Miramax Films	21	4
DreamWorks	15	4
Orion Pictures	8	4
Plan B Entertainment	8	3
Regency Enterprises	8	2
A24	7	2
The Weinstein Company	6	2
Selznick International Pictures	5	2
RKO Pictures	11	1
Samuel Goldwyn Productions	8	1
Lionsgate Films	5	1
Apple	3	1
J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films	3	1
New Line Cinema	3	1
Neon	3	1
Hear/Say Productions	2	1
Summit Entertainment	2	1
Focus Features	16	0
Netflix	9	0
Sony Pictures Classics	8	0
Touchstone Pictures	6	0
Annapurna Pictures	5	0
Walt Disney Pictures	4	0
Cosmopolitan Productions	3	0
Amazon MGM Studios	3	0
Pixar Animation Studios	2	0
Hollywood Pictures	2	0
The Caddo Company	2	0
Walter Wanger Productions	2	0
Mercury	2	0

See also

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

Notes

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

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External links

• Oscars.org (official Academy site)
• Oscar.com (official ceremony site)
• The Academy Awards Database (official site)