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theMaximal.com | The Best Picture Oscar Award Winner Movies 1 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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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