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The Best Picture Oscar Award Winner Movies
February 1, 2016
Oscar Academy Awards
Academy Award winner films for Best Picture are listed from the beginning of Oscars (1929).
In this list, you can find the best picture awarded movies, their total awards, nominations,
directors, producers, casts and so on.
The most Academy Awarded movies are Ben-Hur, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The
Return of the King with 11 awards each. The most Oscar nominated movies (13 each) are All
About Eve and Titanic.
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the best picture oscar award winner movies list
A’s: Awards, N’s: Nominations
Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
87 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
4 9 2015 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Producer: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Production Company:
Fox Searchlight
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Starring: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts
Other Nominees: American Sniper, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash
86 12 Years a Slave 3 9 2014 Steve McQueen
Producer: Brad Pitt
Production Company: Fox Searchlight
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Alfre Woodard
Other Nominees: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Her, Nebraska, Philomena, The Wolf of Wall Street
85 Argo 3 7 2013 Ben Affleck
Producer: Grant Heslov
Production Company:
Warner Bros.
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Starring: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Other Nominees: Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty
84 The Artist 5 10 2012 Michel Hazanavicius
Producer: Thomas Langmann
Production Company:
The Weinstein Co.
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo
Other Nominees: The Descendants, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, War Horse
83 The King's Speech 4 12 2011 Tom Hooper
Producer: Iain Canning
Production Company: The Weinstein Co.
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon
Other Nominees: 127 Hours, Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter's Bone
82 The Hurt Locker 6 9 2010 Kathryn Bigelow
Producer: Kathryn Bigelow
Production Company:
Summit Entertainment
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Guy Pearce
Other Nominees: Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, A Serious Man, Up,
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Up in the Air
81 Slumdog Millionaire 8 10 2009 Danny Boyle
Producer: Christian Colson
Production Company: Fox Searchlight
Release Date: August 30, 2008
Starring: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan
Other Nominees: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader
80 No Country for Old Men 4 8 2008 Joel Coen
Producer: Scott Rudin
Production Company:
Paramount Vantage
Release Date: May 19, 2007
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper
Other Nominees: Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood
79 The Departed 4 5 2007 Martin Scorsese
Producer: Graham King
Production Company:
Warner Bros.
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, Alec Baldwin
Other Nominees:
Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen
78 Crash 3 6 2006 Paul Haggis
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Producer: Paul Haggis
Production Company:
Lionsgate
Release Date: September 10, 2004
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Ludacris, Thandie Newton, Michael Peña, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate
Other Nominees:
Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich
77 Million Dollar Baby 4 7 2005 Clint Eastwood
Producer: Clint Eastwood
Production Company: Warner Bros.
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
Other Nominees: The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways
76 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
11 11 2004 Peter Jackson
Producer: Barrie M. Osborne
Production Company:
New Line Cinema
Release Date: December 1, 2003
Starring:
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Karl Urban, John Noble, Andy Serkis, Ian Holm, Sean Bean
Other Nominees:
Lost in Translation, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, Seabiscuit
75 Chicago 6 13 2003 Rob Marshall
Producer: Martin Richards
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Production Company:
Miramax
Release Date: December 10, 2002
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs, Colm Feore, Christine Baranski, Dominic West, Mýa Harrison, Deidre Goodwin, Denise Faye, Ekaterina Chtchelkanova, Susan Misner
Other Nominees:
Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Pianist
74 A Beautiful Mind 4 8 2002 Ron Howard
Producer: Brian Grazer
Production Company:
DreamWorks
Release Date: December 13, 2001
Starring: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, Christopher Plummer
Other Nominees:
Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge!
73 Gladiator 5 12 2001 Ridley Scott
Producer: Douglas Wick
Production Company:
DreamWorks
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, Richard Harris
Other Nominees: Chocolat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Traffic
72 American Beauty 5 8 2000 Sam Mendes
Producer: Bruce Cohen
Production Company:
DreamWorks
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Release Date: September 8, 1999
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Chris Cooper
Other Nominees: The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense
71 Shakespeare in Love 7 13 1999 John Madden
Producer: David Parfitt
Production Company:
Miramax
Release Date: December 3, 1998
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Judi Dench
Other Nominees: Elizabeth, Life Is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line
70 Titanic 11 14 1998 James Cameron
Producer: James Cameron
Production Company:
Paramount
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Victor Garber, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner, Bill Paxton, Gloria Stuart
Other Nominees:
As Good as It Gets, The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential
69 The English Patient 9 12 1997 Anthony Minghella
Producer: Saul Zaentz
Production Company: Miramax
Release Date: November 15, 1996
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas
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Director
Other Nominees: Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets & Lies, Shine
68 Braveheart 5 10 1996 Mel Gibson
Producer: Mel Gibson
Production Company:
Paramount
Release Date: May 24, 1995
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Angus Macfadyen
Other Nominees: Apollo 13, Babe, Il Postino: The Postman, Sense and Sensibility
67 Forrest Gump 6 13 1995 Robert Zemeckis
Producer: Wendy Finerman
Production Company:
Paramount
Release Date: June 23, 1994
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field
Other Nominees: Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption
66 Schindler's List 7 12 1994 Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg
Production Company:
Universal
Release Date: November 30, 1993
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz
Other Nominees: The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, The Remains of the Day
65 Unforgiven 4 9 1993 Clint Eastwood
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Producer: Clint Eastwood
Production Company: Warner Bros.
Release Date: August 3, 1992
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
Other Nominees: The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman
64 The Silence of the Lambs 5 7 1992 Jonathan Demme
Producer: Edward Saxon
Production Company: Orion
Release Date: February 14, 1991
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald
Other Nominees: Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides
63 Dances with Wolves 7 12 1991 Kevin Costner
Producer: Jim Wilson
Production Company: Orion
Release Date: October 19, 1990
Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Other Nominees: Awakenings, Ghost, The Godfather Part III, Goodfellas
62 Driving Miss Daisy 4 9 1990 Bruce Beresford
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck
Production Company: Warner Bros.
Release Date: December 13, 1989
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti Lupone, Esther Rolle
Other Nominees: Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot
61 Rain Man 4 8 1989 Barry Levinson
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Producer: Mark Johnson
Production Company: United Artists
Release Date: December 16, 1988
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
Other Nominees: The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, Working Girl
60 The Last Emperor 9 9 1988 Bernardo Bertolucci
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Production Company:
Columbia
Release Date: October 23, 1987
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Other Nominees: Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, Moonstruck
59 Platoon 4 8 1987 Oliver Stone
Producer: Arnold Kopelson
Production Company:
Orion
Release Date: December 19, 1986
Starring: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen
Other Nominees: Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, A Room with a View
58 Out of Africa 7 11 1986 Sydney Pollack
Producer: Sydney Pollack
Production Company: Universal
Release Date: December 18, 1985
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Starring: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Other Nominees: The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi's Honor, Witness
57 Amadeus 8 11 1985 Miloš Forman
Producer: Saul Zaentz
Production Company:
Orion
Release Date: September 6, 1984
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay
Other Nominees: The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story
56 Terms of Endearment 5 11 1984 James L. Brooks
Producer: James L. Brooks
Production Company: Paramount
Release Date: November 23, 1983
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, John Lithgow
Other Nominees: The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies
55 Gandhi 8 11 1983 Richard Attenborough
Producer: Richard Attenborough
Production Company:
Columbia
Release Date: November 30, 1982
Starring: Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen, Ben Kingsley
Other Nominees: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict
54 Chariots of Fire 4 7 1982 Hugh Hudson
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Producer: David Puttnam
Production Company:
Warner Bros.
Release Date: 30 March 1981
Starring: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Cheryl Campbell, Alice Krige, Lindsay Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Nigel Davenport, Brad Davis, Peter Egan, Sir John Gielgud, Ian Holm, Patrick Magee
Other Nominees:
Atlantic City, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reds
53 Ordinary People 4 6 1981 Robert Redford
Producer: Ronald L. Schwary
Production Company: Paramount
Release Date: September 19, 1980
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton
Other Nominees: Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Tess
52 Kramer vs. Kramer 5 9 1980 Robert Benton
Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe
Production Company: Columbia
Release Date: December 19, 1979
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander
Other Nominees: All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Norma Rae
51 The Deer Hunter 5 9 1979 Michael Cimino
Producer: Barry Spikings
Production Company:
Universal
Release Date: December 8, 1978
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale, Meryl Streep, George Dzundza
Other Nominees: Coming Home, Heaven Can Wait, Midnight Express, An Unmarried Woman
50 Annie Hall 4 5 1978 Woody Allen
Producer: Charles H. Joffe
Production Company:
United Artists
Release Date: April 20, 1977
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Janet Margolin, Shelley Duvall, Christopher Walken, Colleen Dewhurst
Other Nominees:
The Goodbye Girl, Julia, Star Wars, The Turning Point
49 Rocky 3 10 1977 John G. Avildsen
Producer: Irwin Winkler
Production Company: United Artists
Release Date: November 21, 1976
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith
Other Nominees: All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Network, Taxi Driver
48 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5 9 1976 Miloš Forman
Producer: Saul Zaentz
Production Company: United Artists
Release Date: November 19, 1975
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher
Other Nominees: Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville
47 The Godfather Part II 6 11 1975 Francis Ford Coppola
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Production Company:
Paramount
Release Date: December 12, 1974
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Talia Shire, Morgana King, John Cazale, Marianna Hill, Lee Strasberg
Other Nominees: Chinatown, The Conversation, Lenny, The Towering Inferno
46 The Sting 7 10 1974 George Roy Hill
Producer: Tony Bill
Production Company: Universal
Release Date: December 25, 1973
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Other Nominees: American Graffiti, Cries and Whispers, The Exorcist, A Touch of Class
45 The Godfather 3 10 1973 Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Albert S. Ruddy
Production Company:
Paramount
Release Date: March 15, 1972
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, Diane Keaton
Other Nominees: Cabaret, Deliverance, The Emigrants, Sounder
44 The French Connection 5 8 1972 William Friedkin
Producer: Philip D'Antoni
Production Company:
20th Century Fox
Release Date: October 9, 1971
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Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi
Other Nominees: A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Picture Show, Nicholas and Alexandra
43 Patton 7 10 1971 Franklin J. Schaffner
Producer: Frank McCarthy
Production Company: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: April 2, 1970
Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler
Other Nominees: Airport, Five Easy Pieces, Love Story, MASH
42 Midnight Cowboy 3 7 1970 John Schlesinger
Producer: Jerome Hellman
Production Company:
United Artists
Release Date: May 25, 1969
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro
Other Nominees: Anne of the Thousand Days, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hello Dolly!, Z
41 Oliver! 5 11 1969 Carol Reed
Producer: John Woolf
Production Company: Romulus Films
Release Date: September 26, 1968
Starring: Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester, Jack Wild
Other Nominees: Funny Girl, The Lion in Winter, Rachel Rachel, Romeo and Juliet
40 In the Heat of the Night 5 7 1968 Norman Jewison
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Production Company:
United Artists
Release Date: August 2, 1967
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant
Other Nominees: Bonnie and Clyde, Doctor Dolittle, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
39 A Man for All Seasons 6 8 1967 Fred Zinnemann
Producer: Fred Zinnemann
Production Company:
Columbia
Release Date: December 12, 1966
Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Orson Welles, Robert Shaw, Susannah York
Other Nominees: Alfie, The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming, The Sand Pebbles, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
38 The Sound of Music 5 10 1966 Robert Wise
Producer: Robert Wise
Production Company: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: March 2, 1965
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Other Nominees: Darling, Doctor Zhivago, Ship of Fools, A Thousand Clowns
37 My Fair Lady 8 12 1965 George Cukor
Producer: Jack L. Warner
Production Company:
Warner Bros.
Release Date: November 9, 1964
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Oscar Best Picture A’s N’s Oscar Year
Director
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett
Other Nominees: Becket, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Mary Poppins, Zorba the Greek
36 Tom Jones 4 10 1964 Tony Richardson
Producer: Tony Richardson
Production Company:
Woodfall Films
Release Date: September 29, 1963
Starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Diane Cilento, Joyce Redman
Other Nominees: America America, Cleopatra, How the West Was Won, Lilies of the Field
35 Lawrence of Arabia 7 10 1963 David Lean
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Production Company:
Horizon Pictures
Release Date: December 10, 1962
Starring: Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole
Other Nominees: The Longest Day, The Music Man, Mutiny on the Bounty, To Kill a Mockingbird
34 West Side Story 10 11 1962 Robert Wise
Producer: Robert Wise
Production Company: United Artists
Release Date: October 18, 1961
Starring: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn
Other Nominees: Fanny, The Guns of Navarone, The Hustler, Judgment at Nuremberg
33 The Apartment 5 10 1961 Billy Wilder
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Director
Producer: Billy Wilder
Production Company: United Artists
Release Date: June 15, 1960
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Jack Kruschen
Other Nominees: The Alamo, Elmer Gantry, Sons and Lovers, The Sundowners
32 Ben-Hur 11 12 1960 William Wyler
Producer: Sam Zimbalist
Production Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: November 18, 1959
Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith
Other Nominees: Anatomy of a Murder, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Nun's Story, Room at the Top
31 Gigi 9 9 1959 Vincente Minnelli
Producer: Arthur Freed
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: May 15, 1958
Starring: Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold
Other Nominees: Auntie Mame, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Defiant Ones, Separate Tables
30 The Bridge on the River Kwai
7 8 1958 David Lean
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Production Company:
Horizon Pictures
Release Date: October 2, 1957
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Director
Starring: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, André Morell, Peter Williams, John Boxer, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne
Other Nominees:
12 Angry Men, Peyton Place, Sayonara, Witness for the Prosecution
29 Around the World in 80 Days
5 8 1957 Michael Anderson
Producer: Michael Todd
Production Company: United Artists
Release Date: October 17, 1956
Starring: Cantinflas, David Niven, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine
Other Nominees: Friendly Persuasion, Giant, The King and I, The Ten Commandments
28 Marty 4 8 1956 Delbert Mann
Producer: Harold Hecht
Production Company:
United Artists
Release Date: April 11, 1955
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Frank Sutton, Karen Steele, Jerry Paris, Esther Minciotti, Augusta Ciolli
Other Nominees: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Mister Roberts, Picnic, The Rose Tattoo
27 On the Waterfront 8 12 1955 Elia Kazan
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Production Company:
Columbia
Release Date: July 28, 1954
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Eva Marie Saint
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Other Nominees: The Caine Mutiny, The Country Girl, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Three Coins in the Fountain
26 From Here to Eternity 8 13 1954 Fred Zinnemann
Producer: Buddy Adler
Production Company:
Columbia
Release Date: August 5, 1953
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, Jack Warden
Other Nominees: Julius Caesar, The Robe, Roman Holiday, Shane
25 The Greatest Show on Earth 2 5 1953 Cecil B. DeMille
Producer: Cecil B. DeMille
Production Company:
Paramount
Release Date: January 10, 1952
Starring: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, James Stewart, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame, Lyle Bettger
Other Nominees: High Noon, Ivanhoe, Moulin Rouge, The Quiet Man
24 An American in Paris 6 8 1952 Vincente Minnelli
Producer: Arthur Freed
Production Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: November 11, 1951
Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch
Other Nominees: Decision Before Dawn, A Place in the Sun, Quo Vadis, A Streetcar Named Desire
23 All About Eve 6 14 1951 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Director
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Production Company: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: October 13, 1950
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Other Nominees: Born Yesterday, Father of the Bride, King Solomon's Mines, Sunset Boulevard
22 All the King's Men 3 7 1950 Robert Rossen
Producer: Robert Rossen
Production Company: Rossen
Release Date: November 8, 1949
Starring: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek
Other Nominees: Battleground, The Heiress, A Letter to Three Wives, Twelve O'Clock High
21 Hamlet 4 7 1949 Laurence Olivier
Producer: Laurence Olivier
Production Company:
Two Cities Films
Release Date: May 4, 1948
Starring: Laurence Olivier
Other Nominees: Johnny Belinda, The Red Shoes, The Snake Pit, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
20 Gentleman's Agreement 3 8 1948 Elia Kazan
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Production Company:
20th Century Fox
Release Date: November 11, 1947
Starring: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, June Havoc, Anne Revere
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Other Nominees: The Bishop's Wife, Crossfire, Great Expectations, Miracle on 34th Street
19 The Best Years of Our Lives 7 8 1947 William Wyler
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Production Company:
RKO Radio
Release Date: November 21, 1946
Starring: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Harold Russell
Other Nominees: Henry V, It's a Wonderful Life, The Razor's Edge, The Yearling
18 The Lost Weekend 4 7 1946 Billy Wilder
Producer: Charles Brackett
Production Company: Paramount
Release Date: November 16, 1945
Starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman
Other Nominees: Anchors Aweigh, The Bells of St. Mary's, Mildred Pierce, Spellbound
17 Going My Way 7 10 1945 Leo McCarey
Producer: Leo McCarey
Production Company: Paramount
Release Date: May 3, 1944
Starring: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Risë Stevens
Other Nominees: Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Since You Went Away, Wilson
16 Casablanca 3 8 1944 Michael Curtiz
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Production Company:
Warner Bros.
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Release Date: January 23, 1943
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Other Nominees:
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Heaven Can Wait, The Human Comedy, In Which We Serve, Madame Curie, The More the Merrier, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Song of Bernadette, Watch on the Rhine
15 Mrs. Miniver 6 12 1943 William Wyler
Producer: Sidney Franklin
Production Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: June 4, 1942
Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Other Nominees:
The Invaders (49th Parallel), Kings Row, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Pied Piper, The Pride of the Yankees, Random Harvest, The Talk of the Town, Wake Island, Yankee Doodle Dandy
14 How Green Was My Valley 5 10 1942 John Ford
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Production Company:
20th Century Fox
Release Date: October 28, 1941
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall
Other Nominees:
Blossoms in the Dust, Citizen Kane, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Hold Back the Dawn, The Little Foxes, The Maltese Falcon, One Foot in Heaven, Sergeant York, Suspicion
13 Rebecca 2 11 1941 Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: David O. Selznick
Production Company:
Selznick International Pictures
Release Date: April 12, 1940
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
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Other Nominees:
All This and Heaven Too, Foreign Correspondent, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, Kitty Foyle, The Letter, The Long Voyage Home, Our Town, The Philadelphia Story
12 Gone with the Wind 8 13 1940 Victor Fleming
Producer: David O. Selznick
Production Company:
Selznick International Pictures
Release Date: December 15, 1939
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland
Other Nominees:
Dark Victory, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights
11 You Can't Take It With You 2 7 1939 Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Production Company:
Columbia
Release Date: September 1, 1938
Starring: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold
Other Nominees:
The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Boys Town, The Citadel, Four Daughters, Grand Illusion, Jezebel, Pygmalion, Test Pilot
10 The Life of Emile Zola 3 10 1938 William Dieterle
Producer: Henry Blanke
Production Company:
Warner Bros.
Release Date: August 11, 1937
Starring: Paul Muni, Gloria Holden, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut
Other Nominees:
The Awful Truth, Captains Courageous, Dead End, The Good Earth, In Old Chicago, Lost Horizon, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Stage Door, A Star Is Born
9 The Great Ziegfeld 3 7 1937 Robert Z. Leonard
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Producer: Hunt Stromberg
Production Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: April 8, 1936
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
Other Nominees:
Anthony Adverse, Dodsworth, Libeled Lady, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco, The Story of Louis Pasteur, A Tale of Two Cities, Three Smart Girls
8 Mutiny on the Bounty 1 8 1936 Frank Lloyd
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Production Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: November 8, 1935
Starring: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Movita, Mamo
Other Nominees:
Alice Adams, Broadway Melody of 1936, Captain Blood, David Copperfield, The Informer, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Les Misérables, Naughty Marietta, Ruggles of Red Gap, Top Hat
7 It Happened One Night 5 5 1935 Frank Capra
Producer: Harry Cohn
Production Company:
Columbia
Release Date: February 22, 1934
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
Other Nominees:
The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Cleopatra, Flirtation Walk, The Gay Divorcee, Here Comes the Navy, The House of Rothschild, Imitation of Life, One Night of Love, The Thin Man, Viva Villa!, The White Parade
6 Cavalcade 3 4 1934 Frank Lloyd
Producer: Winfield Sheehan
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Production Company:
Fox
Release Date: April 15, 1933
Starring: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin
Other Nominees:
42nd Street, A Farewell to Arms, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Lady for a Day, Little Women, The Private Life of Henry VIII, She Done Him Wrong, Smilin' Through, State Fair
5 Grand Hotel 1 1 1933 Edmund Goulding
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Production Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: April 12, 1932
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt
Other Nominees: Arrowsmith, Bad Girl, The Champ, Five Star Final, One Hour with You, Shanghai Express, The Smiling Lieutenant
4 Cimarron 3 7 1932 Wesley Ruggles
Producer: William LeBaron
Production Company: RKO Radio
Release Date: February 9, 1931
Starring: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne
Other Nominees: East Lynne, The Front Page, Skippy, Trader Horn
3 All Quiet on the Western Front
2 4 1931 Lewis Milestone
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Production Company: Universal
Release Date: August 24, 1930
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Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim
Other Nominees: The Big House, Disraeli, The Divorcee, The Love Parade
2 The Broadway Melody 1 3 1930 Harry Beaumont
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: February 1, 1929
Starring: Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love, Jed Prouty
Other Nominees: Alibi, Hollywood Revue, In Old Arizona, The Patriot
1 Wings 2 2 1929 William A. Wellman
Producer: Lucien Hubbard
Production Company: Paramount
Release Date: August 12, 1927
Starring: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper
Other Nominees: The Racket, Seventh Heaven
P.S.: Oscars are given for the previous year so you may come across the 88th Oscars as 2015.
However, the year on this list denotes the ceremony year.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (11/11), Gigi (9/9), The Last Emperor (9/9)
and Wings (2/2)won all the awards that are nominated.
William Wyler is the only director whose three films got the Best Picture Oscar award. The
awarded movies directed by are Ben-Hur (1960 Oscars), The Best Years of Our Lives (1947
Oscars) and Mrs. Miniver (1943 Oscars).
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