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The Bests of Oscar Academy Awards

Academy Award winners and nominees are listed from the beginning of first Oscars (1927/28).

In this list, you can find the best picture awarded movies, the best actors and actresses, the

best directors, organization dates and places of the Oscar Academy Awards, movies’ total

awards, nominations, directors, producers, casts and so on.

# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

88 2015 Not Decided Yet Not Decided Yet Not Decided Yet

Oscar Academy Awards 88. Academy Awards (2015 Oscars)

Date / Place February 28, 2016 / Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Chris Rock

Most Awarded Movie(s) Not Decided Yet

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Revenant (12)

Best Picture

Not Decided Yet 0 awards and 0 nominations Producer: Not Decided Yet Production Company: Not Decided Yet Director: Not Decided Yet

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, Room, Spotlight

Best Actor Not Decided Yet

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Bryan Cranston for the role of "Dalton Trumbo" in the film Trumbo

Matt Damon for the role of "Mark Watney" in the film The Martian

Leonardo DiCaprio for the role of "Hugh Glass" in the film The Revenant

Michael Fassbender for the role of "Steve Jobs" in the film Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne for the role of "Lili Elbe" in the film The Danish Girl

Best Actress Not Decided Yet

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Cate Blanchett for the role of "Carol Aird" in the film Carol

Brie Larson for the role of "Joy "Ma" Newsome" in the film Room

Jennifer Lawrence for the role of "Joy Mangano" in the film Joy

Charlotte Rampling for the role of "Kate Mercer" in the film 45 Years

Saoirse Ronan for the role of "Eilis Lacey" in the film Brooklyn

Best Director Not Decided Yet

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Lenny Abrahamson, the director of the movie "Room"

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the director of the movie "The Revenant"

Tom McCarthy, the director of the movie "Spotlight"

Adam McKay, the director of the movie "The Big Short"

George Miller, the director of the movie "Mad Max: Fury Road"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Not Decided Yet Screen Writer(s): Not Decided Yet

87 2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected

Virtue of Ignorance)

Eddie

Redmayne Julianne Moore

Oscar Academy Awards 87. Academy Awards (2014 Oscars)

Date / Place February 22, 2015 / Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Neil Patrick Harris

Most Awarded Movie(s) Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (4), The Grand Budapest Hotel (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (9), The Grand Budapest Hotel (9)

Best Picture

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 4 awards and 9 nominations Producer: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Production Company: Fox Searchlight Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

American Sniper, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash

Best Actor Eddie Redmayne for the role of "Stephen Hawking" in the film The Theory of Everything

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Steve Carell for the role of "John Eleuthère du Pont" in the film Foxcatcher

Bradley Cooper for the role of "Chris Kyle" in the film American Sniper

Benedict Cumberbatch for the role of "Alan Turing" in the film The Imitation Game

Michael Keaton for the role of "Riggan Thomson" in the film Birdman

Best Actress Julianne Moore for the role of "Alice Daly-Howland" in the film Still Alice

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Marion Cotillard for the role of "Sandra Bya" in the film Two Days One Night

Felicity Jones for the role of "Jane Wilde-Hawking" in the film The Theory of Everything

Rosamund Pike for the role of "Amy Elliott-Dunne" in the film Gone Girl

Reese Witherspoon for the role of "Cheryl Strayed" in the film Wild

Best Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the director of the movie "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Wes Anderson, the director of the movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Richard Linklater, the director of the movie "Boyhood"

Bennett Miller, the director of the movie "Foxcatcher"

Morten Tyldum, the director of the movie "The Imitation Game"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Screen Writer(s): Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., Armando Bó

86 2013 12 Years a Slave Matthew McConaughey

Cate Blanchett

Oscar Academy Awards 86. Academy Awards (2013 Oscars)

Date / Place March 2, 2014 / Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Ellen DeGeneres

Most Awarded Movie(s) Gravity (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

American Hustle (10), Gravity (10)

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave 3 awards and 9 nominations Producer: Brad Pitt Production Company: Fox Searchlight Director: Steve McQueen

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Her, Nebraska, Philomena, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor Matthew McConaughey for the role of "Ron Woodroof" in the film Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Christian Bale for the role of "Irving Rosenfeld" in the film American Hustle

Bruce Dern for the role of "Woodrow "Woody" Grant" in the film Nebraska

Leonardo DiCaprio for the role of "Jordan Belfort" in the film The Wolf of Wall Street

Chiwetel Ejiofor for the role of "Solomon Northup" in the film 12 Years a Slave

Best Actress Cate Blanchett for the role of "Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis" in the film Blue Jasmine

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Amy Adams for the role of "Sydney Prosser / Lady Edith Greensly" in the film American Hustle

Sandra Bullock for the role of "Ryan Stone" in the film Gravity

Judi Dench for the role of "Philomena Lee" in the film Philomena

Meryl Streep for the role of "Violet Weston" in the film August: Osage County

Best Director Alfonso Cuarón, the director of the movie "Gravity"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Steve McQueen, the director of the movie "12 Years a Slave"

Alexander Payne, the director of the movie "Nebraska"

David O. Russell, the director of the movie "American Hustle"

Martin Scorsese, the director of the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Her Screen Writer(s): Spike Jonze

85 2012 Argo Daniel Day-Lewis

Jennifer Lawrence

Oscar Academy Awards 85. Academy Awards (2012 Oscars)

Date / Place February 24, 2013 / Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Seth MacFarlane

Most Awarded Movie(s)

Life of Pi (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Lincoln (12)

Best Picture

Argo 3 awards and 7 nominations Producer: Grant Heslov Production Company: Warner Bros. Director: Ben Affleck

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis for the role of "Abraham Lincoln" in the film Lincoln

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Bradley Cooper for the role of "Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Jr." in the film Silver Linings Playbook

Hugh Jackman for the role of "Jean Valjean" in the film Les Misérables

Joaquin Phoenix for the role of "Freddie Quell" in the film The Master

Denzel Washington for the role of "William "Whip" Whitaker Sr." in the film Flight

Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence for the role of "Tiffany Maxwell" in the film Silver Linings Playbook

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Jessica Chastain for the role of "Maya" in the film Zero Dark Thirty

Emmanuelle Riva for the role of "Anne Laurent" in the film Amour

Quvenzhané Wallis for the role of "Hushpuppy" in the film Beasts of the Southern Wild

Naomi Watts for the role of "Maria Bennett" in the film The Impossible

Best Director Ang Lee, the director of the movie "Life of Pi"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Michael Haneke, the director of the movie "Amour"

David O. Russell, the director of the movie "Silver Linings Playbook"

Steven Spielberg, the director of the movie "Lincoln"

Benh Zeitlin, the director of the movie "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Django Unchained Screen Writer(s): Quentin Tarantino

84 2011 The Artist Jean Dujardin Meryl Streep

Oscar Academy Awards 84. Academy Awards (2011 Oscars)

Date / Place February 26, 2012 / Hollywood and Highland Center Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Billy Crystal

Most Awarded Movie(s)

The Artist (5), Hugo (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Hugo (11)

Best Picture

The Artist 5 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Thomas Langmann Production Company: The Weinstein Co. Director: Michel Hazanavicius

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Descendants, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, War Horse

Best Actor Jean Dujardin for the role of "George Valentin" in the film The Artist

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Demián Bichir for the role of "Carlos Galindo" in the film A Better Life

George Clooney for the role of "Matthew King" in the film The Descendants

Gary Oldman for the role of "George Smiley" in the film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Brad Pitt for the role of "Billy Beane" in the film Moneyball

Best Actress Meryl Streep for the role of "Margaret Thatcher" in the film The Iron Lady

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Glenn Close for the role of "Albert Nobbs" in the film Albert Nobbs

Viola Davis for the role of "Aibileen Clark" in the film The Help

Rooney Mara for the role of "Lisbeth Salander" in the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Michelle Williams for the role of "Marilyn Monroe" in the film My Week with Marilyn

Best Director Michel Hazanavicius, the director of the movie "The Artist"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Woody Allen, the director of the movie "Midnight in Paris"

Terrence Malick, the director of the movie "The Tree of Life"

Alexander Payne, the director of the movie "The Descendants"

Martin Scorsese, the director of the movie "Hugo"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Midnight in Paris Screen Writer(s): Woody Allen

83 2010 The King's Speech Colin Firth Natalie Portman

Oscar Academy Awards 83. Academy Awards (2010 Oscars)

Date / Place February 27, 2011 / Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) James Franco, Anne Hathaway

Most Awarded Movie(s) Inception (4), The King's Speech (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

The King's Speech (12)

Best Picture

The King's Speech 4 awards and 12 nominations Producer: Iain Canning Production Company: The Weinstein Co. Director: Tom Hooper

Best Picture (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

Best Actor Colin Firth for the role of "King George VI" in the film The King's Speech

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Javier Bardem for the role of "Uxbal" in the film Biutiful

Jeff Bridges for the role of "Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn" in the film True Grit

Jesse Eisenberg for the role of "Mark Zuckerberg" in the film The Social Network

James Franco for the role of "Aron Ralston" in the film 127 Hours

Best Actress Natalie Portman for the role of "Nina Sayers" in the film Black Swan

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Annette Bening for the role of "Nicole "Nic" Allgood" in the film The Kids Are All Right

Nicole Kidman for the role of "Becca Corbett" in the film Rabbit Hole

Jennifer Lawrence for the role of "Ree Dolly" in the film Winter's Bone

Michelle Williams for the role of "Cynthia "Cindy" Heller" in the film Blue Valentine

Best Director Tom Hooper, the director of the movie "The King's Speech"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Darren Aronofsky, the director of the movie "Black Swan"

Joel Coen, the director of the movie "True Grit"

David Fincher, the director of the movie "The Social Network"

David O. Russell, the director of the movie "The Fighter"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The King's Speech Screen Writer(s): David Seidler

82 2009 The Hurt Locker Jeff Bridges Sandra Bullock

Oscar Academy Awards

82. Academy Awards (2009 Oscars)

Date / Place March 7, 2010 / Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin

Most Awarded Movie(s)

The Hurt Locker (6)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Avatar (9), The Hurt Locker (9)

Best Picture

The Hurt Locker 6 awards and 9 nominations Producer: Kathryn Bigelow Production Company: Summit Entertainment Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air

Best Actor Jeff Bridges for the role of "Otis "Bad" Blake" in the film Crazy Heart

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

George Clooney for the role of "Ryan Bingham" in the film Up in the Air

Colin Firth for the role of "George Falconer" in the film A Single Man

Morgan Freeman for the role of "Nelson Mandela" in the film Invictus

Jeremy Renner for the role of "Sergeant First Class William James" in the film The Hurt Locker

Best Actress Sandra Bullock for the role of "Leigh Anne Roberts-Tuohy" in the film The Blind Side

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Helen Mirren for the role of "Sophia Behrs-Tolstoy" in the film The Last Station

Carey Mulligan for the role of "Jenny Mellor" in the film An Education

Gabourey Sidibe for the role of "Claireece "Precious" Jones" in the film Precious

Meryl Streep for the role of "Julia Child" in the film Julie & Julia

Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, the director of the movie "The Hurt Locker"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

James Cameron, the director of the movie "Avatar"

Lee Daniels, the director of the movie "Precious"

Jason Reitman, the director of the movie "Up in the Air"

Quentin Tarantino, the director of the movie "Inglourious Basterds"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

The Hurt Locker Screen Writer(s): Mark Boal

81 2008 Slumdog Millionaire Sean Penn Kate Winslet

Oscar Academy Awards 81. Academy Awards (2008 Oscars)

Date / Place February 22, 2009 / Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Hugh Jackman

Most Awarded Movie(s) Slumdog Millionaire (8)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (13)

Best Picture

Slumdog Millionaire 8 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Christian Colson Production Company: Fox Searchlight Director: Danny Boyle

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader

Best Actor Sean Penn for the role of "Harvey Milk" in the film Milk

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Richard Jenkins for the role of "Walter Vale" in the film The Visitor

Frank Langella for the role of "Richard Nixon" in the film Frost/Nixon

Brad Pitt for the role of "Benjamin Button" in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Mickey Rourke for the role of "Randy "The Ram" Robinson" in the film The Wrestler

Best Actress Kate Winslet for the role of "Hanna Schmitz" in the film The Reader

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Anne Hathaway for the role of "Kym Buchman" in the film Rachel Getting Married

Angelina Jolie for the role of "Christine Dunne Collins" in the film Changeling

Melissa Leo for the role of "Ray Eddy" in the film Frozen River

Meryl Streep for the role of "Aloysius Beauvier" in the film Doubt

Best Director Danny Boyle, the director of the movie "Slumdog Millionaire"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Stephen Daldry, the director of the movie "The Reader"

David Fincher, the director of the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

Ron Howard, the director of the movie "Frost/Nixon"

Gus Van Sant, the director of the movie "Milk"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Milk Screen Writer(s): Dustin Lance Black

80 2007 No Country for Old Men Daniel Day-Lewis

Marion Cotillard

Oscar Academy Awards 80. Academy Awards (2007 Oscars)

Date / Place February 24, 2008 / Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Jon Stewart

Most Awarded Movie(s)

No Country for Old Men (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

No Country for Old Men (8), There Will Be Blood (8)

Best Picture

No Country for Old Men 4 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Scott Rudin Production Company: Paramount Vantage Director: Joel Coen

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood

Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis for the role of "Daniel Plainview" in the film There Will Be Blood

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

George Clooney for the role of "Michael Clayton" in the film Michael Clayton

Johnny Depp for the role of "Sweeney Todd / Benjamin Barker" in the film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tommy Lee Jones for the role of "Hank Deerfield" in the film In the Valley of Elah

Viggo Mortensen for the role of "Nikolai Luzhin" in the film Eastern Promises

Best Actress Marion Cotillard for the role of "Édith Piaf" in the film La Vie en rose

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Cate Blanchett for the role of "Queen Elizabeth I of England" in the film Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Julie Christie for the role of "Fiona Anderson" in the film Away from Her

Laura Linney for the role of "Wendy Savage" in the film The Savages

Ellen Page for the role of "Juno MacGuff" in the film Juno

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, the director of the movie "No Country for Old Men"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of the movie "There Will Be Blood"

Tony Gilroy, the director of the movie "Michael Clayton"

Jason Reitman, the director of the movie "Juno"

Julian Schnabel, the director of the movie "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Juno Screen Writer(s): Diablo Cody

79 2006 The Departed Forest Whitaker Helen Mirren

Oscar Academy Awards 79. Academy Awards (2006 Oscars)

Date / Place February 25, 2007 / Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Ellen DeGeneres

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Departed (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Dreamgirls (8)

Best Picture

The Departed 4 awards and 5 nominations Producer: Graham King Production Company: Warner Bros. Director: Martin Scorsese

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen

Best Actor Forest Whitaker for the role of "Idi Amin" in the film The Last King of Scotland

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Leonardo DiCaprio for the role of "Danny Archer" in the film Blood Diamond

Ryan Gosling for the role of "Dan Dunne" in the film Half Nelson

Peter O'Toole for the role of "Maurice" in the film Venus

Will Smith for the role of "Chris Gardner" in the film The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Actress Helen Mirren for the role of "Queen Elizabeth II" in the film The Queen

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Penélope Cruz for the role of "Raimunda" in the film Volver

Judi Dench for the role of "Barbara Covett" in the film Notes on a Scandal

Meryl Streep for the role of "Miranda Priestly" in the film The Devil Wears Prada

Kate Winslet for the role of "Sarah Pierce" in the film Little Children

Best Director Martin Scorsese, the director of the movie "The Departed"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Clint Eastwood, the director of the movie "Letters from Iwo Jima"

Stephen Frears, the director of the movie "The Queen"

Paul Greengrass, the director of the movie "United 93"

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the director of the movie "Babel"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Little Miss Sunshine Screen Writer(s): Michael Arndt

78 2005 Crash Philip Seymour Hoffman

Reese Witherspoon

Oscar Academy Awards 78. Academy Awards (2005 Oscars)

Date / Place March 5, 2006 / Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Jon Stewart

Most Awarded Movie(s) Brokeback Mountain (3), Crash (3), King Kong (3), Memoirs of a Geisha (3)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Brokeback Mountain (8)

Best Picture

Crash 3 awards and 6 nominations Producer: Paul Haggis Production Company: Lionsgate Director: Paul Haggis

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich

Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman for the role of "Truman Capote" in the film Capote

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Terrence Howard for the role of "Djay" in the film Hustle & Flow

Heath Ledger for the role of "Ennis Del Mar" in the film Brokeback Mountain

Joaquin Phoenix for the role of "Johnny Cash" in the film Walk the Line

David Strathairn for the role of "Edward R. Murrow" in the film Good Night and Good Luck

Best Actress Reese Witherspoon for the role of "June Carter" in the film Walk the Line

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Judi Dench for the role of "Laura Forster-Henderson" in the film Mrs Henderson Presents

Felicity Huffman for the role of "Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne / Stanley Schupak" in the film Transamerica

Keira Knightley for the role of "Elizabeth Bennet" in the film Pride & Prejudice

Charlize Theron for the role of "Josey Aimes" in the film North Country

Best Director Ang Lee, the director of the movie "Brokeback Mountain"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

George Clooney, the director of the movie "Good Night, and Good Luck"

Paul Haggis, the director of the movie "Crash"

Bennett Miller, the director of the movie "Capote"

Steven Spielberg, the director of the movie "Munich"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Crash Screen Writer(s): Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco

77 2004 Million Dollar Baby Jamie Foxx Hilary Swank

Oscar Academy Awards 77. Academy Awards (2004 Oscars)

Date / Place February 27, 2005 / Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Chris Rock

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Aviator (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

The Aviator (11)

Best Picture

Million Dollar Baby 4 awards and 7 nominations Producer: Clint Eastwood Production Company: Warner Bros. Director: Clint Eastwood

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways

Best Actor Jamie Foxx for the role of "Ray Charles" in the film Ray

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Don Cheadle for the role of "Paul Rusesabagina" in the film Hotel Rwanda

Johnny Depp for the role of "J. M. Barrie" in the film Finding Neverland

Leonardo DiCaprio for the role of "Howard Hughes" in the film The Aviator

Clint Eastwood for the role of "Frankie Dunn" in the film Million Dollar Baby

Best Actress Hilary Swank for the role of "Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald" in the film Million Dollar Baby

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Annette Bening for the role of "Julia Lambert" in the film Being Julia

Catalina Sandino Moreno for the role of "María Álvarez" in the film Maria Full of Grace

Imelda Staunton for the role of "Vera Rose Drake" in the film Vera Drake

Kate Winslet for the role of "Clementine Kruczynski" in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Director Clint Eastwood, the director of the movie "Million Dollar Baby"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Taylor Hackford, the director of the movie "Ray"

Mike Leigh, the director of the movie "Vera Drake"

Alexander Payne, the director of the movie "Sideways"

Martin Scorsese, the director of the movie "The Aviator"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Screen Writer(s): Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth

76 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Sean Penn Charlize Theron

Oscar Academy Awards 76. Academy Awards (2003 Oscars)

Date / Place February 29, 2004 / Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Billy Crystal

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (11)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (11)

Best Picture

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 11 awards and 11 nominations Producer: Barrie M. Osborne Production Company: New Line Cinema Director: Peter Jackson

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Lost in Translation, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, Seabiscuit

Best Actor Sean Penn for the role of "Jimmy Markum" in the film Mystic River

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Johnny Depp for the role of "Jack Sparrow" in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Ben Kingsley for the role of "Massoud Amir Behrani" in the film House of Sand and Fog

Jude Law for the role of "W. P. Inman" in the film Cold Mountain

Bill Murray for the role of "Bob Harris" in the film Lost in Translation

Best Actress Charlize Theron for the role of "Aileen Wuornos" in the film Monster

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Keisha Castle-Hughes for the role of "Paikea Apirana" in the film Whale Rider

Diane Keaton for the role of "Erika Berry" in the film Something's Gotta Give

Samantha Morton for the role of "Sarah Sullivan" in the film In America

Naomi Watts for the role of "Cristina "Cris" Williams-Peck" in the film 21 Grams

Best Director Peter Jackson, the director of the movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Sofia Coppola, the director of the movie "Lost in Translation"

Clint Eastwood, the director of the movie "Mystic River"

Fernando Meirelles, the director of the movie "City of God"

Peter Weir, the director of the movie "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Lost in Translation Screen Writer(s): Sofia Coppola

75 2002 Chicago Adrien Brody Nicole Kidman

Oscar Academy Awards 75. Academy Awards (2002 Oscars)

Date / Place March 23, 2003 / Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Steve Martin

Most Awarded Movie(s) Chicago (6)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Chicago (13)

Best Picture

Chicago 6 awards and 13 nominations Producer: Martin Richards Production Company: Miramax Director: Rob Marshall

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Pianist

Best Actor Adrien Brody for the role of "Władysław Szpilman" in the film The Pianist

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Nicolas Cage for the role of "Charlie Kaufman" in the film Adaptation

Michael Caine for the role of "Thomas Fowler" in the film The Quiet American

Daniel Day-Lewis for the role of "William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting" in the film Gangs of New York

Jack Nicholson for the role of "Warren R. Schmidt" in the film About Schmidt

Best Actress Nicole Kidman for the role of "Virginia Woolf" in the film The Hours

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Salma Hayek for the role of "Frida Kahlo" in the film Frida

Diane Lane for the role of "Constance 'Connie' Sumner" in the film Unfaithful

Julianne Moore for the role of "Cathy Whitaker" in the film Far from Heaven

Renée Zellweger for the role of "Roxie Hart" in the film Chicago

Best Director Roman Polanski, the director of the movie "The Pianist"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Pedro Almodóvar, the director of the movie "Talk to Her"

Stephen Daldry, the director of the movie "The Hours"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Rob Marshall, the director of the movie "Chicago"

Martin Scorsese, the director of the movie "Gangs of New York"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Talk to Her Screen Writer(s): Pedro Almodóvar

74 2001 A Beautiful Mind Denzel Washington

Halle Berry

Oscar Academy Awards 74. Academy Awards (2001 Oscars)

Date / Place March 24, 2002 / Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Whoopi Goldberg

Most Awarded Movie(s) A Beautiful Mind (4), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (13)

Best Picture

A Beautiful Mind 4 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Brian Grazer Production Company: DreamWorks Director: Ron Howard

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge!

Best Actor Denzel Washington for the role of "Detective Alonzo Harris" in the film Training Day

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Russell Crowe for the role of "John Forbes Nash Jr." in the film A Beautiful Mind

Sean Penn for the role of "Sam Dawson" in the film I Am Sam

Will Smith for the role of "Muhammad Ali" in the film Ali

Tom Wilkinson for the role of "Dr. Matt Fowler" in the film In the Bedroom

Best Actress Halle Berry for the role of "Leticia Musgrove" in the film Monster's Ball

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Judi Dench for the role of "Iris Murdoch" in the film Iris

Nicole Kidman for the role of "Satine" in the film Moulin Rouge!

Sissy Spacek for the role of "Ruth Fowler" in the film In the Bedroom

Renée Zellweger for the role of "Bridget Jones" in the film Bridget Jones's Diary

Best Director Ron Howard, the director of the movie "A Beautiful Mind"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Robert Altman, the director of the movie "Gosford Park"

Peter Jackson, the director of the movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"

David Lynch, the director of the movie "Mulholland Drive"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Ridley Scott, the director of the movie "Black Hawk Down"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Gosford Park Screen Writer(s): Julian Fellowes

73 2000 Gladiator Russell Crowe Julia Roberts

Oscar Academy Awards 73. Academy Awards (2000 Oscars)

Date / Place March 25, 2001 / Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Steve Martin

Most Awarded Movie(s) Gladiator (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Gladiator (12)

Best Picture

Gladiator 5 awards and 12 nominations Producer: Douglas Wick Production Company: DreamWorks Director: Ridley Scott

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Chocolat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Traffic

Best Actor Russell Crowe for the role of "Maximus Decimus Meridius" in the film Gladiator

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Javier Bardem for the role of "Reinaldo Arenas" in the film Before Night Falls

Tom Hanks for the role of "Chuck Noland" in the film Cast Away

Ed Harris for the role of "Jackson Pollock" in the film Pollock

Geoffrey Rush for the role of "The Marquis de Sade" in the film Quills

Best Actress Julia Roberts for the role of "Erin Pattee-Brockovich" in the film Erin Brockovich

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Joan Allen for the role of "Laine Hanson" in the film The Contender

Juliette Binoche for the role of "Vianne Rocher" in the film Chocolat

Ellen Burstyn for the role of "Sara Goldfarb" in the film Requiem for a Dream

Laura Linney for the role of "Sammy Prescott" in the film You Can Count on Me

Best Director Steven Soderbergh, the director of the movie "Traffic"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Stephen Daldry, the director of the movie "Billy Elliot"

Ang Lee, the director of the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"

Ridley Scott, the director of the movie "Gladiator"

Steven Soderbergh, the director of the movie "Erin Brockovich"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Origial ScreenPlay Almost Famous Screen Writer(s): Cameron Crowe

72 1999 American Beauty Kevin Spacey Hilary Swank

Oscar Academy Awards 72. Academy Awards (1999 Oscars)

Date / Place March 26, 2000 / Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Billy Crystal

Most Awarded Movie(s) American Beauty (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s) American Beauty (8)

Best Picture

American Beauty 5 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Bruce Cohen Production Company: DreamWorks Director: Sam Mendes

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense

Best Actor Kevin Spacey for the role of "Lester Burnham" in the film American Beauty

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Russell Crowe for the role of "Jeffrey Wigand" in the film The Insider

Richard Farnsworth for the role of "Alvin Straight" in the film The Straight Story

Sean Penn for the role of "Emmet Ray" in the film Sweet and Lowdown

Denzel Washington for the role of "Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter" in the film The Hurricane

Best Actress Hilary Swank for the role of "Brandon Teena" in the film Boys Don't Cry

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Annette Bening for the role of "Carolyn Burnham" in the film American Beauty

Janet McTeer for the role of "Mary Jo Walker" in the film Tumbleweeds

Julianne Moore for the role of "Sarah Miles" in the film The End of the Affair

Meryl Streep for the role of "Roberta Guaspari" in the film Music of the Heart

Best Director Sam Mendes, the director of the movie "American Beauty"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Lasse Hallström, the director of the movie "The Cider House Rules"

Spike Jonze, the director of the movie "Being John Malkovich"

Michael Mann, the director of the movie "The Insider"

M. Night Shyamalan, the director of the movie "The Sixth Sense"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Origial ScreenPlay American Beauty Screen Writer(s): Alan Ball

71 1998 Shakespeare in Love Roberto Benigni Gwyneth Paltrow

Oscar Academy Awards 71. Academy Awards (1998 Oscars)

Date / Place March 21, 1999 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Whoopi Goldberg

Most Awarded Movie(s) Shakespeare in Love (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Shakespeare in Love (13)

Best Picture

Shakespeare in Love 7 awards and 13 nominations Producer: David Parfitt Production Company: Miramax Director: John Madden

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Elizabeth, Life Is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line

Best Actor Roberto Benigni for the role of "Guido Orefice" in the film Life Is Beautiful

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Tom Hanks for the role of "Captain John Miller" in the film Saving Private Ryan

Ian McKellen for the role of "James Whale" in the film Gods and Monsters

Nick Nolte for the role of "Wade Whitehouse" in the film Affliction

Edward Norton for the role of "Derek Vinyard" in the film American History X

Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow for the role of "Viola de Lesseps/Thomas Kent" in the film Shakespeare in Love

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Cate Blanchett for the role of "Queen Elizabeth I of England" in the film Elizabeth

Fernanda Montenegro for the role of "Isadora "Dora" Teixeira" in the film Central Station

Meryl Streep for the role of "Kate Gulden" in the film One True Thing

Emily Watson for the role of "Jacqueline du Pré" in the film Hilary and Jackie

Best Director Steven Spielberg, the director of the movie "Saving Private Ryan"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Roberto Benigni, the director of the movie "Life Is Beautiful"

John Madden, the director of the movie "Shakespeare in Love"

Terence Malick, the director of the movie "The Thin Red Line"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Peter Weir, the director of the movie "The Truman Show"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Shakespeare in Love Screen Writer(s): Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard

70 1997 Titanic Jack Nicholson Helen Hunt

Oscar Academy Awards 70. Academy Awards (1997 Oscars)

Date / Place March 23, 1998 / Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Billy Crystal

Most Awarded Movie(s) Titanic (11)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Titanic (14)

Best Picture

Titanic 11 awards and 14 nominations Producer: James Cameron Production Company: Paramount Director: James Cameron

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

As Good as It Gets, The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential

Best Actor Jack Nicholson for the role of "Melvin Udall" in the film As Good as It Gets

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Matt Damon for the role of "Will Hunting" in the film Good Will Hunting

Robert Duvall for the role of "Euliss "Sonny" Dewey" in the film The Apostle

Peter Fonda for the role of "Ulysses "Ulee" Jackson" in the film Ulee's Gold

Dustin Hoffman for the role of "Stanley Motss" in the film Wag the Dog

Best Actress Helen Hunt for the role of "Carol Connelly" in the film As Good as It Gets

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Helena Bonham Carter for the role of "Kate Croy" in the film The Wings of the Dove

Julie Christie for the role of "Phyllis Mann" in the film Afterglow

Judi Dench for the role of "Queen Victoria" in the film Mrs Brown

Kate Winslet for the role of "Rose DeWitt Bukater" in the film Titanic

Best Director James Cameron, the director of the movie "Titanic"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Peter Cattaneo, the director of the movie "The Full Monty"

Atom Egoyan, the director of the movie "The Sweet Hereafter"

Curtis Hanson, the director of the movie "L.A. Confidential"

Gus Van Sant, the director of the movie "Good Will Hunting"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Origial ScreenPlay Good Will Hunting Screen Writer(s): Ben Affleck, Matt Damon

69 1996 The English Patient Geoffrey Rush Frances McDormand

Oscar Academy Awards 69. Academy Awards (1996 Oscars)

Date / Place March 24, 1997 / Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Billy Crystal

Most Awarded Movie(s) The English Patient (9)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The English Patient (12)

Best Picture

The English Patient 9 awards and 12 nominations Producer: Saul Zaentz Production Company: Miramax Director: Anthony Minghella

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets & Lies, Shine

Best Actor Geoffrey Rush for the role of "David Helfgott" in the film Shine

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Tom Cruise for the role of "Jerry Maguire" in the film Jerry Maguire

Ralph Fiennes for the role of "Count Laszlo de Almásy" in the film The English Patient

Woody Harrelson for the role of "Larry Flynt" in the film The People vs. Larry Flynt

Billy Bob Thornton for the role of "Karl Childers" in the film Sling Blade

Best Actress Frances McDormand for the role of "Marge Gunderson" in the film Fargo

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Brenda Blethyn for the role of "Cynthia Rose Purley" in the film Secrets & Lies

Diane Keaton for the role of "Bessie Wakefield" in the film Marvin's Room

Kristin Scott Thomas for the role of "Katharine Clifton" in the film The English Patient

Emily Watson for the role of "Bess McNeill" in the film Breaking the Waves

Best Director Anthony Minghella, the director of the movie "The English Patient"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Joel Coen, the director of the movie "Fargo"

Miloš Forman, the director of the movie "The People vs. Larry Flynt"

Scott Hicks, the director of the movie "Shine"

Mike Leigh, the director of the movie "Secrets & Lies"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Origial ScreenPlay Fargo Screen Writer(s): Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

68 1995 Braveheart Nicolas Cage Susan Sarandon

Oscar Academy Awards 68. Academy Awards (1995 Oscars)

Date / Place March 25, 1996 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Whoopi Goldberg

Most Awarded Movie(s) Braveheart (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Braveheart (10)

Best Picture

Braveheart 5 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Mel Gibson Production Company: Paramount Director: Mel Gibson

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Apollo 13, Babe, Il Postino: The Postman, Sense and Sensibility

Best Actor Nicolas Cage for the role of "Ben Sanderson" in the film Leaving Las Vegas

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Richard Dreyfuss for the role of "Glenn Holland" in the film Mr. Holland's Opus

Anthony Hopkins for the role of "Richard Nixon" in the film Nixon

Sean Penn for the role of "Matthew Poncelet" in the film Dead Man Walking

Massimo Troisi*[38] for the role of "Mario Ruoppolo" in the film Il Postino

Best Actress Susan Sarandon for the role of "Helen Prejean" in the film Dead Man Walking

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Elisabeth Shue for the role of "Sera" in the film Leaving Las Vegas

Sharon Stone for the role of "Ginger McKenna" in the film Casino

Meryl Streep for the role of "Francesca Johnson" in the film The Bridges of Madison County

Emma Thompson for the role of "Elinor Dashwood" in the film Sense and Sensibility

Best Director Mel Gibson, the director of the movie "Braveheart"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Mike Figgis, the director of the movie "Leaving Las Vegas"

Chris Noonan, the director of the movie "Babe"

Michael Radford, the director of the movie "Il Postino: The Postman"

Tim Robbins, the director of the movie "Dean Man Walking"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Usual Suspects Screen Writer(s): Christopher McQuarrie

67 1994 Forrest Gump Tom Hanks Jessica Lange

Oscar Academy Awards 67. Academy Awards (1994 Oscars)

Date / Place March 27, 1995 / Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) David Letterman

Most Awarded Movie(s) Forrest Gump (6)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Forrest Gump (13)

Best Picture

Forrest Gump 6 awards and 13 nominations Producer: Wendy Finerman Production Company: Paramount Director: Robert Zemeckis

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption

Best Actor Tom Hanks for the role of "Forrest Gump" in the film Forrest Gump

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Morgan Freeman for the role of "Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding" in the film The Shawshank Redemption

Nigel Hawthorne for the role of "King George III" in the film The Madness of King George

Paul Newman for the role of "Donald "Sully" Sullivan" in the film Nobody's Fool

John Travolta for the role of "Vincent Vega" in the film Pulp Fiction

Best Actress Jessica Lange for the role of "Carly Marshall" in the film Blue Sky

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Jodie Foster for the role of "Nell Kellty" in the film Nell

Miranda Richardson for the role of "Vivienne Haigh-Wood" in the film Tom & Viv

Winona Ryder for the role of "Josephine "Jo" March" in the film Little Women

Susan Sarandon for the role of "Regina "Reggie" Love" in the film The Client

Best Director Robert Zemeckis, the director of the movie "Forrest Gump"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Woody Allen, the director of the movie "Bullets over Broadway"

Krzysztof Kieślowski, the director of the movie "Three Colors: Red"

Robert Redford, the director of the movie "Quiz Show"

Quentin Tarantino, the director of the movie "Pulp Fiction"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Origial ScreenPlay Pulp Fiction Screen Writer(s): Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary

66 1993 Schindler's List Tom Hanks Holly Hunter

Oscar Academy Awards 66. Academy Awards (1993 Oscars)

Date / Place March 21, 1994 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Whoopi Goldberg

Most Awarded Movie(s) Schindler's List (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Schindler's List (12)

Best Picture

Schindler's List 7 awards and 12 nominations Producer: Steven Spielberg Production Company: Universal Director: Steven Spielberg

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, The Remains of the Day

Best Actor Tom Hanks for the role of "Andrew Beckett" in the film Philadelphia

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Daniel Day-Lewis for the role of "Gerry Conlon" in the film In the Name of the Father

Laurence Fishburne for the role of "Ike Turner" in the film What's Love Got to Do with It

Anthony Hopkins for the role of "James Stevens" in the film The Remains of the Day

Liam Neeson for the role of "Oskar Schindler" in the film Schindler's List

Best Actress Holly Hunter for the role of "Ada McGrath" in the film The Piano

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Angela Bassett for the role of "Anna Mae Bullock / Tina Turner" in the film What's Love Got to Do with It

Stockard Channing for the role of "Ouisa Kittredge" in the film Six Degrees of Separation

Emma Thompson for the role of "Sarah "Sally" Kenton" in the film The Remains of the Day

Debra Winger for the role of "Joy Davidman" in the film Shadowlands

Best Director Steven Spielberg, the director of the movie "Schindler's List"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Robert Altman, the director of the movie "Short Cuts"

Jane Campion, the director of the movie "The Piano"

James Ivory, the director of the movie "The Remains of the Day"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Jim Sheridan, the director of the movie "In the Name of the Father"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Piano Screen Writer(s): Jane Campion

65 1992 Unforgiven Al Pacino Emma Thompson

Oscar Academy Awards 65. Academy Awards (1992 Oscars)

Date / Place March 29, 1993 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Billy Crystal

Most Awarded Movie(s) Unforgiven (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Howard's End (9), Unforgiven (9)

Best Picture

Unforgiven 4 awards and 9 nominations Producer: Clint Eastwood Production Company: Warner Bros. Director: Clint Eastwood

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman

Best Actor Al Pacino for the role of "Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade" in the film Scent of a Woman

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Robert Downey Jr. for the role of "Charlie Chaplin" in the film Chaplin

Clint Eastwood for the role of "William "Will" Munny" in the film Unforgiven

Stephen Rea for the role of "Fergus" in the film The Crying Game

Denzel Washington for the role of "Malcolm X" in the film Malcolm X

Best Actress Emma Thompson for the role of "Margaret Schlegel" in the film Howards End

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Catherine Deneuve for the role of "Eliane Devries" in the film Indochine

Mary McDonnell for the role of "May-Alice Culhane" in the film Passion Fish

Michelle Pfeiffer for the role of "Lurene Hallett" in the film Love Field

Susan Sarandon for the role of "Michaela Murphy Odone" in the film Lorenzo's Oil

Best Director Clint Eastwood, the director of the movie "Unforgiven"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Robert Altman, the director of the movie "The Player"

Martin Brest, the director of the movie "Scent of a Woman"

James Ivory, the director of the movie "Howards End"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Neil Jordan, the director of the movie "The Crying Game"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Crying Game Screen Writer(s): Neil Jordan

64 1991 The Silence of the Lambs Anthony Hopkins

Jodie Foster

Oscar Academy Awards 64. Academy Awards (1991 Oscars)

Date / Place March 30, 1992 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Billy Crystal

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Silence of the Lambs (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Bugsy (10)

Best Picture

The Silence of the Lambs 5 awards and 7 nominations Producer: Edward Saxon Production Company: Orion Director: Jonathan Demme

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides

Best Actor Anthony Hopkins for the role of "Dr. Hannibal Lecter" in the film The Silence of the Lambs

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Warren Beatty for the role of "Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel" in the film Bugsy

Robert De Niro for the role of "Maximilian "Max" Cady" in the film Cape Fear

Nick Nolte for the role of "Tom Wingo" in the film The Prince of Tides

Robin Williams for the role of "Henry "Parry" Sagan" in the film The Fisher King

Best Actress Jodie Foster for the role of "Clarice Starling" in the film The Silence of the Lambs

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Geena Davis for the role of "Thelma Dickinson" in the film Thelma & Louise

Laura Dern for the role of "Rose" in the film Rambling Rose

Bette Midler for the role of "Dixie Leonard" in the film For the Boys

Susan Sarandon for the role of "Louise Sawyer" in the film Thelma & Louise

Best Director Jonathan Demme, the director of the movie "The Silence of the Lambs"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Barry Levinson, the director of the movie "Bugsy"

Ridley Scott, the director of the movie "Thelma & Louise"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

John Singleton, the director of the movie "Boyz n the Hood"

Oliver Stone, the director of the movie "JFK"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Thelma & Louise Screen Writer(s): Callie Khouri

63 1990 Dances with Wolves Jeremy Irons Kathy Bates

Oscar Academy Awards 63. Academy Awards (1990 Oscars)

Date / Place March 25, 1991 / Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Billy Crystal

Most Awarded Movie(s) Dances with Wolves (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Dances with Wolves (12)

Best Picture

Dances with Wolves 7 awards and 12 nominations Producer: Jim Wilson Production Company: Orion Director: Kevin Costner

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Awakenings, Ghost, The Godfather Part III, Goodfellas

Best Actor Jeremy Irons for the role of "Claus von Bülow" in the film Reversal of Fortune

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Kevin Costner for the role of "Lieutenant John J. Dunbar" in the film Dances with Wolves

Robert De Niro for the role of "Leonard Lowe" in the film Awakenings

Gérard Depardieu for the role of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in the film Cyrano de Bergerac

Richard Harris for the role of ""Bull" McCabe" in the film The Field

Best Actress Kathy Bates for the role of "Annie Wilkes" in the film Misery

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Anjelica Huston for the role of "Lilly Dillon" in the film The Grifters

Julia Roberts for the role of "Vivian Ward" in the film Pretty Woman

Meryl Streep for the role of "Suzanne Vale" in the film Postcards from the Edge

Joanne Woodward for the role of "India Bridge" in the film Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Best Director Kevin Costner, the director of the movie "Dances with Wolves"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the movie "The Godfather Part III"

Stephen Frears, the director of the movie "The Grifters"

Barbet Schroeder, the director of the movie "Reversal of Fortune"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Martin Scorsese, the director of the movie "Goodfellas"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Ghost Screen Writer(s): Bruce Joel Rubin

62 1989 Driving Miss Daisy Daniel Day-Lewis

Jessica Tandy

Oscar Academy Awards 62. Academy Awards (1989 Oscars)

Date / Place March 26, 1990 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Billy Crystal

Most Awarded Movie(s) Driving Miss Daisy (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Driving Miss Daisy (9)

Best Picture

Driving Miss Daisy 4 awards and 9 nominations Producer: Richard D. Zanuck Production Company: Warner Bros. Director: Bruce Beresford

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot

Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis for the role of "Christy Brown" in the film My Left Foot

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Kenneth Branagh for the role of "King Henry V of England" in the film Henry V

Tom Cruise for the role of "Ron Kovic" in the film Born on the Fourth of July

Morgan Freeman for the role of "Hoke Colburn" in the film Driving Miss Daisy

Robin Williams for the role of "John Charles "Keats" Keating" in the film Dead Poets Society

Best Actress Jessica Tandy for the role of "Daisy Werthan" in the film Driving Miss Daisy

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Isabelle Adjani for the role of "Camille Claudel" in the film Camille Claudel

Pauline Collins for the role of "Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw" in the film Shirley Valentine

Jessica Lange for the role of "Ann Talbot" in the film Music Box

Michelle Pfeiffer for the role of "Susie Diamond" in the film The Fabulous Baker Boys

Best Director Oliver Stone, the director of the movie "Born on the Fourth of July"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Woody Allen, the director of the movie "Crimes and Misdemeanors"

Kenneth Branagh, the director of the movie "Henry V"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Jim Sheridan, the director of the movie "My Left Foot"

Peter Weir, the director of the movie "Dead Poets Society"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Dead Poets Society Screen Writer(s): Tom Schulman

61 1988 Rain Man Dustin Hoffman Jodie Foster

Oscar Academy Awards 61. Academy Awards (1988 Oscars)

Date / Place March 29, 1989 / Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) None

Most Awarded Movie(s) Rain Man (4), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Rain Man (8)

Best Picture

Rain Man 4 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Mark Johnson Production Company: United Artists Director: Barry Levinson

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, Working Girl

Best Actor Dustin Hoffman for the role of "Raymond Babbitt" in the film Rain Man

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Gene Hackman for the role of "Agent Rupert Anderson" in the film Mississippi Burning

Tom Hanks for the role of "Josh Baskin" in the film Big

Edward James Olmos for the role of "Jaime Escalante" in the film Stand and Deliver

Max von Sydow for the role of "Lassefar" in the film Pelle the Conqueror

Best Actress Jodie Foster for the role of "Sarah Tobias" in the film The Accused

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Glenn Close for the role of "Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil" in the film Dangerous Liaisons

Melanie Griffith for the role of "Tess McGill" in the film Working Girl

Meryl Streep for the role of "Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton" in the film A Cry in the Dark

Sigourney Weaver for the role of "Dian Fossey" in the film Gorillas in the Mist

Best Director Barry Levinson, the director of the movie "Rain Man"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Charles Crichton, the director of the movie "A Fish Called Wanda"

Mike Nichols, the director of the movie "Working Girl"

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Alan Parker, the director of the movie "Mississippi Burning"

Martin Scorsese, the director of the movie "The Last Temptation of Christ"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Rain Man Screen Writer(s): Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow

60 1987 The Last Emperor Michael Douglas

Cher

Oscar Academy Awards 60. Academy Awards (1987 Oscars)

Date / Place April 11, 1988 / Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Chevy Chase

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Last Emperor (9)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Last Emperor (9)

Best Picture

The Last Emperor 9 awards and 9 nominations Producer: Jeremy Thomas Production Company: Columbia Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, Moonstruck

Best Actor Michael Douglas for the role of "Gordon Gekko" in the film Wall Street

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

William Hurt for the role of "Tom Grunick" in the film Broadcast News

Marcello Mastroianni for the role of "Romano" in the film Dark Eyes

Jack Nicholson for the role of "Francis Phelan" in the film Ironweed

Robin Williams for the role of "Adrian Cronauer" in the film Good Morning Vietnam

Best Actress Cher for the role of "Loretta Castorini" in the film Moonstruck

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Glenn Close for the role of "Alex Forrest" in the film Fatal Attraction

Holly Hunter for the role of "Jane Craig" in the film Broadcast News

Sally Kirkland for the role of "Anna" in the film Anna

Meryl Streep for the role of "Helen Archer" in the film Ironweed

Best Director Bernardo Bertolucci, the director of the movie "The Last Emperor"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

John Boorman, the director of the movie "Hope and Glory"

Lasse Hallström, the director of the movie "My Life as a Dog"

Norman Jewison, the director of the movie "Moonstruck"

Adrian Lyne, the director of the movie "Fatal Attraction"

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Best Origial ScreenPlay Moonstruck Screen Writer(s): John Patrick Shanley

59 1986 Platoon Paul Newman Marlee Matlin

Oscar Academy Awards 59. Academy Awards (1986 Oscars)

Date / Place March 30, 1987 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Paul Hogan

Most Awarded Movie(s) Platoon (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Platoon (8), A Room with a View (8)

Best Picture

Platoon 4 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Arnold Kopelson Production Company: Orion Director: Oliver Stone

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, A Room with a View

Best Actor Paul Newman for the role of "Fast Eddie Felson" in the film The Color of Money

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Dexter Gordon for the role of "Dale Turner" in the film Round Midnight

Bob Hoskins for the role of "George" in the film Mona Lisa

William Hurt for the role of "James Leeds" in the film Children of a Lesser God

James Woods for the role of "Richard Boyle" in the film Salvador

Best Actress Marlee Matlin for the role of "Sarah Norman" in the film Children of a Lesser God

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Jane Fonda for the role of "Alex Sternbergen" in the film The Morning After

Sissy Spacek for the role of "Babe Magrath" in the film Crimes of the Heart

Kathleen Turner for the role of "Peggy Sue Bodell" in the film Peggy Sue Got Married

Sigourney Weaver for the role of "Ellen Ripley" in the film Aliens

Best Director Oliver Stone, the director of the movie "Platoon"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Woody Allen, the director of the movie "Hannah and Her Sisters"

James Ivory, the director of the movie "A Room with a View"

Roland Joffé, the director of the movie "The Mission"

David Lynch, the director of the movie "Blue Velvet"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Hannah and Her Sisters Screen Writer(s): Woody Allen

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

58 1985 Out of Africa William Hurt Geraldine Page

Oscar Academy Awards 58. Academy Awards (1985 Oscars)

Date / Place March 24, 1986 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams

Most Awarded Movie(s) Out of Africa (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Color Purple (11), Out of Africa (11)

Best Picture

Out of Africa 7 awards and 11 nominations Producer: Sydney Pollack Production Company: Universal Director: Sydney Pollack

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi's Honor, Witness

Best Actor William Hurt for the role of "Luis Molina" in the film Kiss of the Spider Woman

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Harrison Ford for the role of "Detective Captain John Book" in the film Witness

James Garner for the role of "Murphy Jones" in the film Murphy's Romance

Jack Nicholson for the role of "Charley Partanna" in the film Prizzi's Honor

Jon Voight for the role of "Oscar "Manny" Manheim" in the film Runaway Train

Best Actress Geraldine Page for the role of "Carrie Watts" in the film The Trip to Bountiful

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Anne Bancroft for the role of "Miriam Ruth" in the film Agnes of God

Whoopi Goldberg for the role of "Celie Harris-Johnson" in the film The Color Purple

Jessica Lange for the role of "Patsy Cline" in the film Sweet Dreams

Meryl Streep for the role of "Karen Blixen" in the film Out of Africa

Best Director Sydney Pollack, the director of the movie "Out of Africa"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Héctor Babenco, the director of the movie "Kiss of the Spider Woman"

John Huston, the director of the movie "Prizzi's Honor"

Akira Kurosawa, the director of the movie "Ran"

Peter Weir, the director of the movie "Witness"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Witness Screen Writer(s): William Kelley, Earl Wallace, Pamela Wallace

57 1984 Amadeus F. Murray Abraham

Sally Field

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Oscar Academy Awards 57. Academy Awards (1984 Oscars)

Date / Place March 25, 1985 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Jack Lemmon

Most Awarded Movie(s) Amadeus (8)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Amadeus (11), A Passage to India (11)

Best Picture

Amadeus 8 awards and 11 nominations Producer: Saul Zaentz Production Company: Orion Director: Miloš Forman

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story

Best Actor F. Murray Abraham for the role of "Antonio Salieri" in the film Amadeus

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Jeff Bridges for the role of "Starman" in the film Starman

Albert Finney for the role of "Geoffrey Firmin" in the film Under the Volcano

Tom Hulce for the role of "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" in the film Amadeus

Sam Waterston for the role of "Sydney Schanberg" in the film The Killing Fields

Best Actress Sally Field for the role of "Edna Spalding" in the film Places in the Heart

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Judy Davis for the role of "Adela Quested" in the film A Passage to India

Jessica Lange for the role of "Jewell Ivy" in the film Country

Vanessa Redgrave for the role of "Olive Chancellor" in the film The Bostonians

Sissy Spacek for the role of "Mae Garvey" in the film The River

Best Director Miloš Forman, the director of the movie "Amadeus"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Woody Allen, the director of the movie "Broadway Danny Rose"

Robert Benton, the director of the movie "Places in the Heart"

Roland Joffé, the director of the movie "The Killing Fields"

David Lean, the director of the movie "A Passage to India"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Places in the Heart Screen Writer(s): Robert Benton

56 1983 Terms of Endearment Robert Duvall Shirley MacLaine

Oscar Academy Awards 56. Academy Awards (1983 Oscars)

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Date / Place April 9, 1984 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Johnny Carson

Most Awarded Movie(s) Terms of Endearment (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Terms of Endearment (11)

Best Picture

Terms of Endearment 5 awards and 11 nominations Producer: James L. Brooks Production Company: Paramount Director: James L. Brooks

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies

Best Actor Robert Duvall for the role of "Mac Sledge" in the film Tender Mercies

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Michael Caine for the role of "Dr. Frank Bryant" in the film Educating Rita

Tom Conti for the role of "Gowan McGland" in the film Reuben Reuben

Tom Courtenay for the role of "Norman" in the film The Dresser

Albert Finney for the role of "Sir" in the film The Dresser

Best Actress Shirley MacLaine for the role of "Aurora Greenway" in the film Terms of Endearment

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Jane Alexander for the role of "Carol Wetherly" in the film Testament

Meryl Streep for the role of "Karen Silkwood" in the film Silkwood

Julie Walters for the role of "Susan White / Rita" in the film Educating Rita

Debra Winger for the role of "Emma Greenway Horton" in the film Terms of Endearment

Best Director James L. Brooks, the director of the movie "Terms of Endearment"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Bruce Beresford, the director of the movie "Tender Mercies"

Ingmar Bergman, the director of the movie "Fanny and Alexander"

Mike Nichols, the director of the movie "Silkwood"

Peter Yates, the director of the movie "The Dresser"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Tender Mercies Screen Writer(s): Horton Foote

55 1982 Gandhi Ben Kingsley Meryl Streep

Oscar Academy Awards 55. Academy Awards (1982 Oscars)

Date / Place April 11, 1983 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, Walter Matthau

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Most Awarded Movie(s) Gandhi (8)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Gandhi (11)

Best Picture

Gandhi 8 awards and 11 nominations Producer: Richard Attenborough Production Company: Columbia Director: Richard Attenborough

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict

Best Actor Ben Kingsley for the role of "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi" in the film Gandhi

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Dustin Hoffman for the role of "Michael Dorsey aka Dorothy Michaels" in the film Tootsie

Jack Lemmon for the role of "Ed Horman" in the film Missing

Paul Newman for the role of "Frank Galvin" in the film The Verdict

Peter O'Toole for the role of "Alan Swann" in the film My Favorite Year

Best Actress Meryl Streep for the role of "Sophie Zawistowska" in the film Sophie's Choice

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Julie Andrews for the role of "Victor Grazinski / Victoria Grant" in the film Victor Victoria

Jessica Lange for the role of "Frances Farmer" in the film Frances

Sissy Spacek for the role of "Beth Horman" in the film Missing

Debra Winger for the role of "Paula Pokrifki" in the film An Officer and a Gentleman

Best Director Richard Attenborough, the director of the movie "Gandhi"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Sidney Lumet, the director of the movie "The Verdict"

Wolfgang Petersen, the director of the movie "Das Boot"

Sydney Pollack, the director of the movie "Tootsie"

Steven Spielberg, the director of the movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Gandhi Screen Writer(s): John Briley

54 1981 Chariots of Fire Henry Fonda Katharine Hepburn

Oscar Academy Awards 54. Academy Awards (1981 Oscars)

Date / Place March 29, 1982 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Johnny Carson

Most Awarded Movie(s) Chariots of Fire (4), Raiders of the Lost Ark (4)

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Most Nominated Movie(s) Reds (12)

Best Picture

Chariots of Fire 4 awards and 7 nominations Producer: David Puttnam Production Company: Warner Bros. Director: Hugh Hudson

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Atlantic City, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reds

Best Actor Henry Fonda for the role of "Norman Thayer, Jr." in the film On Golden Pond

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Warren Beatty for the role of "John Silas "Jack" Reed" in the film Reds

Burt Lancaster for the role of "Lou Pascal" in the film Atlantic City

Dudley Moore for the role of "Arthur Bach" in the film Arthur

Paul Newman for the role of "Michael Colin Gallagher" in the film Absence of Malice

Best Actress Katharine Hepburn for the role of "Ethel Thayer" in the film On Golden Pond

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Diane Keaton for the role of "Louise Bryant" in the film Reds

Marsha Mason for the role of "Georgia Hines" in the film Only When I Laugh

Susan Sarandon for the role of "Sally Matthews" in the film Atlantic City

Meryl Streep for the role of "Anna / Sara Woodruff" in the film The French Lieutenant's Woman

Best Director Warren Beatty, the director of the movie "Reds"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Hugh Hudson, the director of the movie "Chariots of Fire"

Louis Malle, the director of the movie "Atlantic City"

Mark Rydell, the director of the movie "On Golden Pond"

Steven Spielberg, the director of the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Chariots of Fire Screen Writer(s): Colin Welland

53 1980 Ordinary People Robert De Niro Sissy Spacek

Oscar Academy Awards 53. Academy Awards (1980 Oscars)

Date / Place March 31, 1981 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Johnny Carson

Most Awarded Movie(s) Ordinary People (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

The Elephant Man (8), Raging Bull (8)

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture

Ordinary People 4 awards and 6 nominations Producer: Ronald L. Schwary Production Company: Paramount Director: Robert Redford

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Tess

Best Actor Robert De Niro for the role of "Jake LaMotta" in the film Raging Bull

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Robert Duvall for the role of "Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur "Bull" Meechum" in the film The Great Santini

John Hurt for the role of "John Merrick" in the film The Elephant Man

Jack Lemmon for the role of "Scottie Templeton" in the film Tribute

Peter O'Toole for the role of "Eli Cross" in the film The Stunt Man

Best Actress Sissy Spacek for the role of "Loretta Lynn" in the film Coal Miner's Daughter

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Ellen Burstyn for the role of "Edna Mae Harper-McCauley" in the film Resurrection

Goldie Hawn for the role of "Judy Benjamin" in the film Private Benjamin

Mary Tyler Moore for the role of "Beth Jarrett" in the film Ordinary People

Gena Rowlands for the role of "Gloria Swenson" in the film Gloria

Best Director Robert Redford, the director of the movie "Ordinary People"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

David Lynch, the director of the movie "The Elephant Man"

Roman Polanski, the director of the movie "Tess"

Richard Rush, the director of the movie "The Stunt Man"

Martin Scorsese, the director of the movie "Raging Bull"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Melvin and Howard Screen Writer(s): Bo Goldman

52 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer Dustin Hoffman Sally Field

Oscar Academy Awards 52. Academy Awards (1979 Oscars)

Date / Place April 14, 1980 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Johnny Carson

Most Awarded Movie(s) Kramer vs. Kramer (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s) All That Jazz (9), Kramer vs. Kramer (9)

Best Picture Kramer vs. Kramer 5 awards and 9 nominations Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Production Company: Columbia Director: Robert Benton

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Norma Rae

Best Actor Dustin Hoffman for the role of "Ted Kramer" in the film Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Jack Lemmon for the role of "Jack Godell" in the film The China Syndrome

Al Pacino for the role of "Arthur Kirkland" in the film ...And Justice for All

Roy Scheider for the role of "Joe Gideon" in the film All That Jazz

Peter Sellers for the role of "Chance the Gardener aka Chauncey Gardiner" in the film Being There

Best Actress Sally Field for the role of "Norma Rae Webster" in the film Norma Rae

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Jill Clayburgh for the role of "Marilyn Holmberg" in the film Starting Over

Jane Fonda for the role of "Kimberly Wells" in the film The China Syndrome

Marsha Mason for the role of "Jennie MacLaine" in the film Chapter Two

Bette Midler for the role of "Mary Rose Foster" in the film The Rose

Best Director Robert Benton, the director of the movie "Kramer vs. Kramer"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the movie "Apocalypse Now"

Bob Fosse, the director of the movie "All That Jazz"

Édouard Molinaro, the director of the movie "La Cage aux Folles"

Peter Yates, the director of the movie "Breaking Away"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Breaking Away Screen Writer(s): Steve Tesich

51 1978 The Deer Hunter Jon Voight Jane Fonda

Oscar Academy Awards 51. Academy Awards (1978 Oscars)

Date / Place April 9, 1979 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Johnny Carson

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Deer Hunter (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Deer Hunter (9), Heaven Can Wait (9)

Best Picture

The Deer Hunter 5 awards and 9 nominations Producer: Barry Spikings Production Company: Universal Director: Michael Cimino

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Coming Home, Heaven Can Wait, Midnight Express, An Unmarried Woman

Best Actor Jon Voight for the role of "Luke Martin" in the film Coming Home

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Warren Beatty for the role of "Joe Pendleton" in the film Heaven Can Wait

Gary Busey for the role of "Buddy Holly" in the film The Buddy Holly Story

Robert De Niro for the role of "Michael Vronsky" in the film The Deer Hunter

Laurence Olivier for the role of "Ezra Lieberman" in the film The Boys from Brazil

Best Actress Jane Fonda for the role of "Sally Hyde" in the film Coming Home

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Ingrid Bergman for the role of "Charlotte Andergast" in the film Autumn Sonata

Ellen Burstyn for the role of "Doris" in the film Same Time Next Year

Jill Clayburgh for the role of "Erica Benton" in the film An Unmarried Woman

Geraldine Page for the role of "Eve" in the film Interiors

Best Director Michael Cimino, the director of the movie "The Deer Hunter"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Woody Allen, the director of the movie "Interiors"

Hal Ashby, the director of the movie "Coming Home"

Warren Beatty, the director of the movie "Heaven Can Wait"

Alan Parker, the director of the movie "Midnight Express"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Coming Home Screen Writer(s): Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, Nancy Dowd

50 1977 Annie Hall Richard Dreyfuss

Diane Keaton

Oscar Academy Awards 50. Academy Awards (1977 Oscars)

Date / Place April 3, 1978 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s) Star Wars (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Julia (11), The Turning Point (11)

Best Picture

Annie Hall 4 awards and 5 nominations Producer: Charles H. Joffe Production Company: United Artists

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Director: Woody Allen

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Goodbye Girl, Julia, Star Wars, The Turning Point

Best Actor Richard Dreyfuss for the role of "Elliot Garfield" in the film The Goodbye Girl

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Woody Allen for the role of "Alvy Singer" in the film Annie Hall

Richard Burton for the role of "Martin Dysart" in the film Equus

Marcello Mastroianni for the role of "Gabriele" in the film A Special Day

John Travolta for the role of "Anthony "Tony" Manero" in the film Saturday Night Fever

Best Actress Diane Keaton for the role of "Annie Hall" in the film Annie Hall

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Anne Bancroft for the role of "Emma Jacklin" in the film The Turning Point

Jane Fonda for the role of "Lillian Hellman" in the film Julia

Shirley MacLaine for the role of "Deedee Rodgers" in the film The Turning Point

Marsha Mason for the role of "Paula McFadden" in the film The Goodbye Girl

Best Director Woody Allen, the director of the movie "Annie Hall"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

George Lucas, the director of the movie "Star Wars"

Herbert Ross, the director of the movie "The Turning Point"

Steven Spielberg, the director of the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

Fred Zinnemann, the director of the movie "Julia"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Annie Hall Screen Writer(s): Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

49 1976 Rocky Peter Finch Faye Dunaway

Oscar Academy Awards 49. Academy Awards (1976 Oscars)

Date / Place March 28, 1977 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Richard Pryor, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, Warren Beatty

Most Awarded Movie(s) All the President's Men (4), Network (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Network (10), Rocky (10)

Best Picture

Rocky 3 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Irwin Winkler Production Company: United Artists Director: John G. Avildsen

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Network, Taxi Driver

Best Actor Peter Finch for the role of "Howard Beale" in the film Network

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Peter Finch for the role of "Howard Beale" in the film Network

Robert De Niro for the role of "Travis Bickle" in the film Taxi Driver

Giancarlo Giannini for the role of "Pasqualino Frafuso" in the film Seven Beauties

William Holden for the role of "Max Schumacher" in the film Network

Sylvester Stallone for the role of "Rocky Balboa" in the film Rocky

Best Actress Faye Dunaway for the role of "Diana Christensen" in the film Network

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Marie-Christine Barrault for the role of "Marthe" in the film Cousin Cousine

Talia Shire for the role of "Adrian Pennino" in the film Rocky

Sissy Spacek for the role of "Carrie White" in the film Carrie

Liv Ullmann for the role of "Jenny Isaksson" in the film Face to Face

Best Director John G. Avildsen, the director of the movie "Rocky"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Ingmar Bergman, the director of the movie "Face to Face"

Sidney Lumet, the director of the movie "Network"

Alan J. Pakula, the director of the movie "All the President's Men"

Lina Wertmüller, the director of the movie "Seven Beauties"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Network Screen Writer(s): Paddy Chayefsky

48 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Jack Nicholson Louise Fletcher

Oscar Academy Awards 48. Academy Awards (1975 Oscars)

Date / Place March 29, 1976 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly

Most Awarded Movie(s) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (9)

Best Picture

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 5 awards and 9 nominations Producer: Saul Zaentz Production Company: United Artists Director: Miloš Forman

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville

Best Actor Jack Nicholson for the role of "Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy" in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Walter Matthau for the role of "Willy Clark" in the film The Sunshine Boys

Al Pacino for the role of "Sonny Wortzik" in the film Dog Day Afternoon

Maximilian Schell for the role of "Arthur Goldman" in the film The Man in the Glass Booth

James Whitmore for the role of "Harry S. Truman" in the film Give 'em Hell Harry!

Best Actress Louise Fletcher for the role of "Nurse Mildred Ratched" in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Isabelle Adjani for the role of "Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewry" in the film The Story of Adele H.

Ann-Margret for the role of "Nora Walker" in the film Tommy

Glenda Jackson for the role of "Hedda Gabler-Tesman" in the film Hedda

Carol Kane for the role of "Gitl" in the film Hester Street

Best Director Miloš Forman, the director of the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Robert Altman, the director of the movie "Nashville"

Federico Fellini, the director of the movie "Amarcord"

Stanley Kubrick, the director of the movie "Barry Lyndon"

Sidney Lumet, the director of the movie "Dog Day Afternoon"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Dog Day Afternoon Screen Writer(s): Frank Pierson

47 1974 The Godfather Part II Art Carney Ellen Burstyn

Oscar Academy Awards 47. Academy Awards (1974 Oscars)

Date / Place April 8, 1975 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Godfather Part II (6)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Chinatown (11), The Godfather Part II (11)

Best Picture

The Godfather Part II 6 awards and 11 nominations Producer: Francis Ford Coppola Production Company: Paramount Director: Francis Ford Coppola

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Chinatown, The Conversation, Lenny, The Towering Inferno

Best Actor Art Carney for the role of "Harry Coombes" in the film Harry and Tonto

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Albert Finney for the role of "Hercule Poirot" in the film Murder on the Orient Express

Dustin Hoffman for the role of "Lenny Bruce" in the film Lenny

Jack Nicholson for the role of "J. J. "Jake" Gittes" in the film Chinatown

Al Pacino for the role of "Michael Corleone" in the film The Godfather Part II

Best Actress Ellen Burstyn for the role of "Alice Graham-Hyatt" in the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Diahann Carroll for the role of "Claudine Price" in the film Claudine

Faye Dunaway for the role of "Evelyn Cross Mulwray" in the film Chinatown

Valerie Perrine for the role of "Harriett Jolliff / Honey Bruce" in the film Lenny

Gena Rowlands for the role of "Mabel Longhetti" in the film A Woman Under the Influence

Best Director Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the movie "The Godfather Part II"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

John Cassavetes, the director of the movie "A Woman Under the Influence"

Bob Fosse, the director of the movie "Lenny"

Roman Polanski, the director of the movie "Chinatown"

François Truffaut, the director of the movie "Day for Night"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Chinatown Screen Writer(s): Robert Towne

46 1973 The Sting Jack Lemmon Glenda Jackson

Oscar Academy Awards 46. Academy Awards (1973 Oscars)

Date / Place April 2, 1974 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) John Huston, Diana Ross, Burt Reynolds, David Niven

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Sting (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

The Exorcist (10), The Sting (10)

Best Picture

The Sting 7 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Tony Bill Production Company: Universal

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Director: George Roy Hill

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

American Graffiti, Cries and Whispers, The Exorcist, A Touch of Class

Best Actor Jack Lemmon for the role of "Harry Stoner" in the film Save the Tiger

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Marlon Brando for the role of "Paul" in the film Last Tango in Paris

Jack Nicholson for the role of "Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky" in the film The Last Detail

Al Pacino for the role of "Frank Serpico" in the film Serpico

Robert Redford for the role of "Johnny "Kelly" Hooker" in the film The Sting

Best Actress Glenda Jackson for the role of "Vicki Allessio" in the film A Touch of Class

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Ellen Burstyn for the role of "Chris MacNeil" in the film The Exorcist

Marsha Mason for the role of "Maggie Paul" in the film Cinderella Liberty

Barbra Streisand for the role of "Katie Morosky" in the film The Way We Were

Joanne Woodward for the role of "Rita Walden" in the film Summer Wishes Winter Dreams

Best Director George Roy Hill, the director of the movie "The Sting"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Ingmar Bergman, the director of the movie "Cries and Whispers"

Bernardo Bertolucci, the director of the movie "Last Tango in Paris"

William Friedkin, the director of the movie "The Exorcist"

George Lucas, the director of the movie "American Graffiti"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Sting Screen Writer(s): David S. Ward

45 1972 The Godfather Marlon Brando Liza Minnelli

Oscar Academy Awards 45. Academy Awards (1972 Oscars)

Date / Place March 27, 1973 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson

Most Awarded Movie(s) Cabaret (8)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Godfather (10), Cabaret (10)

Best Picture

The Godfather 3 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Albert S. Ruddy Production Company: Paramount Director: Francis Ford Coppola

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Cabaret, Deliverance, The Emigrants, Sounder

Best Actor Marlon Brando for the role of "Vito Corleone" in the film The Godfather

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Michael Caine for the role of "Milo Tindle" in the film Sleuth

Laurence Olivier for the role of "Andrew Wyke" in the film Sleuth

Peter O'Toole for the role of "Jack Gurney 14th Earl of Gurney" in the film The Ruling Class

Paul Winfield for the role of "Nathan Lee Morgan" in the film Sounder

Best Actress Liza Minnelli for the role of "Sally Bowles" in the film Cabaret

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Diana Ross for the role of "Billie Holiday" in the film Lady Sings the Blues

Maggie Smith for the role of "Augusta Bertram" in the film Travels with My Aunt

Cicely Tyson for the role of "Rebecca Morgan" in the film Sounder

Liv Ullmann for the role of "Kristina Nilsson" in the film The Emigrants

Best Director Bob Fosse, the director of the movie "Cabaret"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

John Boorman, the director of the movie "Deliverance"

Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the movie "The Godfather"

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the director of the movie "Sleuth"

Jan Troell, the director of the movie "The Emigrants"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Candidate Screen Writer(s): Jeremy Larner

44 1971 The French Connection Gene Hackman Jane Fonda

Oscar Academy Awards 44. Academy Awards (1971 Oscars)

Date / Place April 10, 1972 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Lemmon

Most Awarded Movie(s) The French Connection (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Fiddler on the Roof (8), The French Connection (8), The Last Picture Show (8)

Best Picture

The French Connection 5 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Philip D'Antoni Production Company: 20th Century Fox Director: William Friedkin

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Picture Show, Nicholas and Alexandra

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor Gene Hackman for the role of "Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle" in the film The French Connection

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Peter Finch for the role of "Dr. Daniel Hirsh" in the film Sunday Bloody Sunday

Walter Matthau for the role of "Joseph P. Kotcher" in the film Kotch

George C. Scott for the role of "Dr. Herbert Bock" in the film The Hospital

Topol for the role of "Tevye" in the film Fiddler on the Roof

Best Actress Jane Fonda for the role of "Bree Daniels" in the film Klute

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Julie Christie for the role of "Constance Miller" in the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Glenda Jackson for the role of "Alex Greville" in the film Sunday Bloody Sunday

Vanessa Redgrave for the role of "Mary Queen of Scots" in the film Mary Queen of Scots

Janet Suzman for the role of "Empress Alexandra of Russia" in the film Nicholas and Alexandra

Best Director William Friedkin, the director of the movie "The French Connection"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Peter Bogdanovich, the director of the movie "The Last Picture Show"

Norman Jewison, the director of the movie "Fiddler on the Roof"

Stanley Kubrick, the director of the movie "A Clockwork Orange"

John Schlesinger, the director of the movie "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Hospital Screen Writer(s): Paddy Chayefsky

43 1970 Patton George C. Scott Glenda Jackson

Oscar Academy Awards 43. Academy Awards (1970 Oscars)

Date / Place April 15, 1971 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Don Rickles

Most Awarded Movie(s) Patton (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Airport (10), Patton (10)

Best Picture

Patton 7 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Frank McCarthy Production Company: 20th Century Fox Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Airport, Five Easy Pieces, Love Story, MASH

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor George C. Scott for the role of "General George S. Patton, Jr." in the film Patton

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Melvyn Douglas for the role of "Tom Garrison" in the film I Never Sang for My Father

James Earl Jones for the role of "Jack Jefferson" in the film The Great White Hope

Jack Nicholson for the role of "Robert Eroica Dupea" in the film Five Easy Pieces

Ryan O'Neal for the role of "Oliver Barrett IV" in the film Love Story

Best Actress Glenda Jackson for the role of "Gudrun Brangwen" in the film Women in Love

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Jane Alexander for the role of "Eleanor Backman" in the film The Great White Hope

Ali MacGraw for the role of "Jennifer Cavalleri-Barrett" in the film Love Story

Sarah Miles for the role of "Rosy Ryan" in the film Ryan's Daughter

Carrie Snodgress for the role of "Bettina "Tina" Balser" in the film Diary of a Mad Housewife

Best Director Franklin J. Schaffner, the director of the movie "Patton"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Robert Altman, the director of the movie "M*A*S*H"

Federico Fellini, the director of the movie "Fellini Satyricon"

Arthur Hiller, the director of the movie "Love Story"

Ken Russell, the director of the movie "Women in Love"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Patton Screen Writer(s): Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North

42 1969 Midnight Cowboy John Wayne Maggie Smith

Oscar Academy Awards 42. Academy Awards (1969 Oscars)

Date / Place April 7, 1970 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Quincy Jones

Most Awarded Movie(s) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Anne of the Thousand Days (10)

Best Picture

Midnight Cowboy 3 awards and 7 nominations Producer: Jerome Hellman Production Company: United Artists Director: John Schlesinger

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Anne of the Thousand Days, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hello Dolly!, Z

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor John Wayne for the role of "Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn" in the film True Grit

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Richard Burton for the role of "King Henry VIII of England" in the film Anne of the Thousand Days

Dustin Hoffman for the role of "Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" "Rico" Rizzo" in the film Midnight Cowboy

Peter O'Toole for the role of "Arthur Chipping" in the film Goodbye Mr. Chips

Jon Voight for the role of "Joe Buck" in the film Midnight Cowboy

Best Actress Maggie Smith for the role of "Jean Brodie" in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Geneviève Bujold for the role of "Anne Boleyn" in the film Anne of the Thousand Days

Jane Fonda for the role of "Gloria Beatty" in the film They Shoot Horses Don't They?

Liza Minnelli for the role of "Mary Ann 'Pookie' Adams" in the film The Sterile Cuckoo

Jean Simmons for the role of "Mary Wilson" in the film The Happy Ending

Best Director John Schlesinger, the director of the movie "Midnight Cowboy"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Costa Gavras, the director of the movie "Z"

George Roy Hill, the director of the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"

Arthur Penn, the director of the movie "Alice's Restaurant"

Sydney Pollack, the director of the movie "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Screen Writer(s): William Goldman

41 1968 Oliver! Cliff Robertson Katharine Hepburn, Barbra Streisand

Oscar Academy Awards 41. Academy Awards (1968 Oscars)

Date / Place April 14, 1969 / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Gower Champion

Most Awarded Movie(s)

Oliver! (6)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Oliver! (11)

Best Picture

Oliver! 5 awards and 11 nominations Producer: John Woolf Production Company: Romulus Films Director: Carol Reed

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Funny Girl, The Lion in Winter, Rachel Rachel, Romeo and Juliet

Best Actor Cliff Robertson for the role of "Charly Gordon" in the film Charly

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Alan Arkin for the role of "John Singer" in the film The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Alan Bates for the role of "Yakov Bok" in the film The Fixer

Ron Moody for the role of "Fagin" in the film Oliver!

Peter O'Toole for the role of "King Henry II of England" in the film The Lion in Winter

Best Actress Katharine Hepburn, Barbra Streisand for the role of "Eleanor of Aquitaine, Fanny Brice" in the film The Lion in Winter, Funny Girl

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Patricia Neal for the role of "Nettie Cleary" in the film The Subject was Roses

Vanessa Redgrave for the role of "Isadora Duncan" in the film Isadora

Joanne Woodward for the role of "Rachel Cameron" in the film Rachel Rachel

Best Director Carol Reed, the director of the movie "Oliver!"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Anthony Harvey, the director of the movie "The Lion in Winter"

Stanley Kubrick, the director of the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Gillo Pontecorvo, the director of the movie "The Battle of Algiers"

Franco Zeffirelli, the director of the movie "Romeo and Juliet"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Producers Screen Writer(s): Mel Brooks

40 1967 In the Heat of the Night Rod Steiger Katharine Hepburn

Oscar Academy Awards 40. Academy Awards (1967 Oscars)

Date / Place 10 April 1968 / Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s) In the Heat of the Night (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Bonnie and Clyde (10), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (10)

Best Picture

In the Heat of the Night 5 awards and 7 nominations Producer: Walter Mirisch Production Company: United Artists Director: Norman Jewison

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Bonnie and Clyde, Doctor Dolittle, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Best Actor Rod Steiger for the role of "Police Chief Bill Gillespie" in the film In the Heat of the Night

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Warren Beatty for the role of "Clyde Barrow" in the film Bonnie and Clyde

Dustin Hoffman for the role of "Benjamin Braddock" in the film The Graduate

Paul Newman for the role of "Lucas "Cool Hand Luke" Jackson" in the film Cool Hand Luke

Spencer Tracy for the role of "Matt Drayton" in the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Best Actress Katharine Hepburn for the role of "Christina Drayton" in the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Anne Bancroft for the role of "Mrs. Robinson" in the film The Graduate

Faye Dunaway for the role of "Bonnie Parker" in the film Bonnie and Clyde

Edith Evans for the role of "Maggie Ross" in the film The Whisperers

Audrey Hepburn for the role of "Susy Hendrix" in the film Wait Until Dark

Best Director Mike Nichols, the director of the movie "The Graduate"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Richard Brooks, the director of the movie "In Cold Blood"

Norman Jewison, the director of the movie "In the Heat of the Night"

Stanley Kramer, the director of the movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"

Arthur Penn, the director of the movie "Bonnie and Clyde"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Screen Writer(s): William Rose

39 1966 A Man for All Seasons Paul Scofield Elizabeth Taylor

Oscar Academy Awards 39. Academy Awards (1966 Oscars)

Date / Place April 10, 1967 / Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s) A Man for All Seasons (6)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (13)

Best Picture

A Man for All Seasons 6 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Fred Zinnemann Production Company: Columbia Director: Fred Zinnemann

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Alfie, The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming, The Sand Pebbles, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Actor Paul Scofield for the role of "Sir Thomas More" in the film A Man for All Seasons

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Alan Arkin for the role of "Lt. Rozanov" in the film The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming

Richard Burton for the role of "George" in the film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Michael Caine for the role of "Alfie Elkins" in the film Alfie

Steve McQueen for the role of "Jake Holman" in the film The Sand Pebbles

Best Actress Elizabeth Taylor for the role of "Martha" in the film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Anouk Aimée for the role of "Anne Gauthier" in the film A Man and a Woman

Ida Kamińska for the role of "Rozalie Lautmann" in the film The Shop on Main Street

Lynn Redgrave for the role of "Georgina 'Georgy' Parkin" in the film Georgy Girl

Vanessa Redgrave for the role of "Leonie Delt" in the film Morgan!

Best Director Fred Zinnemann, the director of the movie "A Man for All Seasons"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Michelangelo Antonioni, the director of the movie "Blowup"

Richard Brooks, the director of the movie "The Professionals"

Claude Lelouch, the director of the movie "A Man and a Woman"

Mike Nichols, the director of the movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

Best Origial ScreenPlay A Man and a Woman Screen Writer(s): Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven

38 1965 The Sound of Music Lee Marvin Julie Christie

Oscar Academy Awards 38. Academy Awards (1965 Oscars)

Date / Place April 18, 1966 / Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s) Doctor Zhivago (5), The Sound of Music (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Doctor Zhivago (10), The Sound of Music (10)

Best Picture

The Sound of Music 5 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Robert Wise Production Company: 20th Century Fox Director: Robert Wise

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Darling, Doctor Zhivago, Ship of Fools, A Thousand Clowns

Best Actor Lee Marvin for the role of "Kid Shelleen, Tim Strawn" in the film Cat Ballou

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Richard Burton for the role of "Alec Leamas" in the film The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Laurence Olivier for the role of "Othello" in the film Othello

Rod Steiger for the role of "Sol Nazerman" in the film The Pawnbroker

Oskar Werner for the role of "Willie Schumann" in the film Ship of Fools

Best Actress Julie Christie for the role of "Diana Scott" in the film Darling

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Julie Andrews for the role of "Maria von Trapp" in the film The Sound of Music

Samantha Eggar for the role of "Miranda Grey" in the film The Collector

Elizabeth Hartman for the role of "Selina D'Arcy" in the film A Patch of Blue

Simone Signoret for the role of "La Contessa" in the film Ship of Fools

Best Director Robert Wise, the director of the movie "The Sound of Music"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

David Lean, the director of the movie "Doctor Zhivago"

John Schlesinger, the director of the movie "Darling"

Hiroshi Teshigahara, the director of the movie "The Woman in the Dunes"

William Wyler, the director of the movie "The Collector"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Darling Screen Writer(s): Frederic Raphael

37 1964 My Fair Lady Rex Harrison Julie Andrews

Oscar Academy Awards 37. Academy Awards (1964 Oscars)

Date / Place April 5, 1965 / Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s) Mary Poppins (13)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

My Fair Lady (13)

Best Picture

My Fair Lady 8 awards and 12 nominations Producer: Jack L. Warner Production Company: Warner Bros. Director: George Cukor

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Becket, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Mary Poppins, Zorba the Greek

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor Rex Harrison for the role of "Professor Henry Higgins" in the film My Fair Lady

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Richard Burton for the role of "Thomas Becket" in the film Becket

Peter O'Toole for the role of "King Henry II of England" in the film Becket

Anthony Quinn for the role of "Alexis Zorba" in the film Zorba the Greek

Peter Sellers for the role of "Group Captain Lionel Mandrake" in the film Dr. Strangelove

Best Actress Julie Andrews for the role of "Mary Poppins" in the film Mary Poppins

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Anne Bancroft for the role of "Jo Armitage" in the film The Pumpkin Eater

Sophia Loren for the role of "Filumena Marturano" in the film Marriage Italian Style

Debbie Reynolds for the role of "Molly Brown" in the film The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Kim Stanley for the role of "Myra Savage" in the film Séance on a Wet Afternoon

Best Director George Cukor, the director of the movie "My Fair Lady"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Michael Cacoyannis, the director of the movie "Zorba the Greek"

Peter Glenville, the director of the movie "Becket"

Stanley Kubrick, the director of the movie "Dr. Strangelove"

Robert Stevenson, the director of the movie "Mary Poppins"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Father Goose Screen Writer(s): Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff

36 1963 Tom Jones Sidney Poitier Patricia Neal

Oscar Academy Awards 36. Academy Awards (1963 Oscars)

Date / Place April 13, 1964 / Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Host(s) Jack Lemmon

Most Awarded Movie(s) Cleopatra (4), Tom Jones (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Tom Jones (10)

Best Picture

Tom Jones 4 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Tony Richardson Production Company: Woodfall Films Director: Tony Richardson

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

America America, Cleopatra, How the West Was Won, Lilies of the Field

Best Actor Sidney Poitier for the role of "Homer Smith" in the film Lilies of the Field

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Albert Finney for the role of "Tom Jones" in the film Tom Jones

Richard Harris for the role of "Frank Machin" in the film This Sporting Life

Rex Harrison for the role of "Julius Caesar" in the film Cleopatra

Paul Newman for the role of "Hud Bannon" in the film Hud

Best Actress Patricia Neal for the role of "Alma Brown" in the film Hud

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Leslie Caron for the role of "Jane Fossett" in the film The L-Shaped Room

Shirley MacLaine for the role of "Irma La Douce" in the film Irma la Douce

Rachel Roberts for the role of "Margaret Hammond" in the film This Sporting Life

Natalie Wood for the role of "Angie Rossini" in the film Love with the Proper Stranger

Best Director Tony Richardson, the director of the movie "Tom Jones"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Federico Fellini, the director of the movie "8½"

Elia Kazan, the director of the movie "America, America"

Otto Preminger, the director of the movie "The Cardinal"

Martin Ritt, the director of the movie "Hud"

Best Origial ScreenPlay How the West Was Won Screen Writer(s): James Webb

35 1962 Lawrence of Arabia Gregory Peck Anne Bancroft

Oscar Academy Awards 35. Academy Awards (1962 Oscars)

Date / Place April 8, 1963 / Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Host(s) Frank Sinatra

Most Awarded Movie(s) Lawrence of Arabia (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Lawrence of Arabia (10)

Best Picture

Lawrence of Arabia 7 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Sam Spiegel Production Company: Horizon Pictures Director: David Lean

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Longest Day, The Music Man, Mutiny on the Bounty, To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actor Gregory Peck for the role of "Atticus Finch" in the film To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Burt Lancaster for the role of "Robert Franklin Stroud" in the film Birdman of Alcatraz

Jack Lemmon for the role of "Joe Clay" in the film Days of Wine and Roses

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Marcello Mastroianni for the role of "Ferdinando Cefalù" in the film Divorce Italian Style

Peter O'Toole for the role of "T. E. Lawrence" in the film Lawrence of Arabia

Best Actress Anne Bancroft for the role of "Annie Sullivan" in the film The Miracle Worker

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Bette Davis for the role of "Baby Jane Hudson" in the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Katharine Hepburn for the role of "Mary Cavan Tyrone" in the film Long Day's Journey into Night

Geraldine Page for the role of "Alexandra Del Lago" in the film Sweet Bird of Youth

Lee Remick for the role of "Kirsten Arnesen Clay" in the film Days of Wine and Roses

Best Director David Lean, the director of the movie "Lawrence of Arabia"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Pietro Germi, the director of the movie "Divorce, Italian Style"

Robert Mulligan, the director of the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Arthur Penn, the director of the movie "The Miracle Worker"

Frank Perry, the director of the movie "David and Lisa"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Divorce Italian Style Screen Writer(s): Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti

34 1961 West Side Story Maximilian Schell

Sophia Loren

Oscar Academy Awards 34. Academy Awards (1961 Oscars)

Date / Place April 9, 1962 / Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s) West Side Story (10)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Judgment at Nuremberg (11), West Side Story (11)

Best Picture

West Side Story 10 awards and 11 nominations Producer: Robert Wise Production Company: United Artists Director: Robert Wise

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Fanny, The Guns of Navarone, The Hustler, Judgment at Nuremberg

Best Actor Maximilian Schell for the role of "Hans Rolfe" in the film Judgment at Nuremberg

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Charles Boyer for the role of "Cesar" in the film Fanny

Paul Newman for the role of "Eddie Felson" in the film The Hustler

Spencer Tracy for the role of "Chief Judge Dan Haywood" in the film Judgment at Nuremberg

Stuart Whitman for the role of "Jim Fuller" in the film The Mark

Best Actress Sophia Loren for the role of "Cesira" in the film Two Women

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Audrey Hepburn for the role of "Holly Golightly / Lula Mae Barnes" in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's

Piper Laurie for the role of "Sarah Packard" in the film The Hustler

Geraldine Page for the role of "Alma Winemiller" in the film Summer and Smoke

Natalie Wood for the role of "Wilma Dean 'Deanie' Loomis" in the film Splendor in the Grass

Best Director Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, the director of the movie "West Side Story"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Federico Fellini, the director of the movie "La Dolce Vita"

Stanley Kramer, the director of the movie "Judgment at Nuremberg"

Robert Rossen, the director of the movie "The Hustler"

J. Lee Thompson, the director of the movie "The Guns of Navarone"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Splendor in the Grass Screen Writer(s): William Inge

33 1960 The Apartment Burt Lancaster Elizabeth Taylor

Oscar Academy Awards 33. Academy Awards (1960 Oscars)

Date / Place April 17, 1961 / Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Apartment (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Apartment (10)

Best Picture

The Apartment 5 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Billy Wilder Production Company: United Artists Director: Billy Wilder

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Alamo, Elmer Gantry, Sons and Lovers, The Sundowners

Best Actor Burt Lancaster for the role of "Elmer Gantry" in the film Elmer Gantry

Best Actor (Other Nominees) Trevor Howard for the role of "Walter Morel" in the film Sons and Lovers

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Jack Lemmon for the role of "C. C. "Bud" Baxter" in the film The Apartment

Laurence Olivier for the role of "Archie Rice" in the film The Entertainer

Spencer Tracy for the role of "Henry Drummond" in the film Inherit the Wind

Best Actress Elizabeth Taylor for the role of "Gloria Wandrous" in the film BUtterfield 8

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Greer Garson for the role of "Eleanor Roosevelt" in the film Sunrise at Campobello

Deborah Kerr for the role of "Ida Carmody" in the film The Sundowners

Shirley MacLaine for the role of "Fran Kubelik" in the film The Apartment

Melina Mercouri for the role of "Ilya" in the film Never on Sunday

Best Director Billy Wilder, the director of the movie "The Apartment"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Jack Cardiff, the director of the movie "Sons and Lovers"

Jules Dassin, the director of the movie "Never on Sunday"

Alfred Hitchcock, the director of the movie "Psycho"

Fred Zinnemann, the director of the movie "The Sundowners"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Apartment Screen Writer(s): I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder

32 1959 Ben-Hur Charlton Heston

Simone Signoret

Oscar Academy Awards 32. Academy Awards (1959 Oscars)

Date / Place April 4, 1960 / RKO Pantages Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s) Ben-Hur (11)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Ben-Hur (12)

Best Picture

Ben-Hur 11 awards and 12 nominations Producer: Sam Zimbalist Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: William Wyler

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Anatomy of a Murder, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Nun's Story, Room at the Top

Best Actor Charlton Heston for the role of "Judah Ben-Hur" in the film Ben-Hur

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Laurence Harvey for the role of "Joe Lampton" in the film Room at the Top

Jack Lemmon for the role of "Jerry" in the film Some Like It Hot

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Paul Muni for the role of "Dr. Sam Abelman" in the film The Last Angry Man

James Stewart for the role of "Paul Biegler" in the film Anatomy of a Murder

Best Actress Simone Signoret for the role of "Alice Aisgill" in the film Room at the Top

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Doris Day for the role of "Jan Morrow" in the film Pillow Talk

Audrey Hepburn for the role of "Gabrielle van der Mal" in the film The Nun's Story

Katharine Hepburn for the role of "Violet Venable" in the film Suddenly Last Summer

Elizabeth Taylor for the role of "Catherine Holly" in the film Suddenly Last Summer

Best Director William Wyler, the director of the movie "Ben-Hur"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Jack Clayton, the director of the movie "Room at the Top"

George Stevens, the director of the movie "The Diary of Anne Frank"

Billy Wilder, the director of the movie "Some Like It Hot"

Fred Zinnemann, the director of the movie "The Nun's Story"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Pillow Talk Screen Writer(s): Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro

31 1958 Gigi David Niven Susan Hayward

Oscar Academy Awards 31. Academy Awards (1958 Oscars)

Date / Place April 6, 1959 / RKO Pantages Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven, Laurence Olivier

Most Awarded Movie(s) Gigi (9)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Defiant Ones (9), Gigi (9)

Best Picture

Gigi 9 awards and 9 nominations Producer: Arthur Freed Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Vincente Minnelli

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Auntie Mame, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Defiant Ones, Separate Tables

Best Actor David Niven for the role of "Major Angus Pollock" in the film Separate Tables

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Tony Curtis for the role of "John 'Joker' Jackson" in the film The Defiant Ones

Paul Newman for the role of "Brick Pollitt" in the film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Sidney Poitier for the role of "Noah Cullen" in the film The Defiant Ones

Spencer Tracy for the role of "The Old Man" in the film The Old Man and the Sea

Best Actress Susan Hayward for the role of "Barbara Graham" in the film I Want to Live!

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Deborah Kerr for the role of "Sibyl Railton-Bell" in the film Separate Tables

Shirley MacLaine for the role of "Ginnie Moorehead" in the film Some Came Running

Rosalind Russell for the role of "Mame Dennis" in the film Auntie Mame

Elizabeth Taylor for the role of "Margaret "Maggie the Cat" Pollitt" in the film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Best Director Vincente Minnelli, the director of the movie "Gigi"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Richard Brooks, the director of the movie "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

Stanley Kramer, the director of the movie "The Defiant Ones"

Mark Robson, the director of the movie "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness"

Robert Wise, the director of the movie "I Want to Live!"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Defiant Ones Screen Writer(s): Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith

30 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai Alec Guinness Joanne Woodward

Oscar Academy Awards

30. Academy Awards (1957 Oscars)

Date / Place March 26, 1958 / RKO Pantages Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope, Rosalind Russell, David Niven, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Donald Duck (voice of Clarence Nash, by premade animation)

Most Awarded Movie(s)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Sayonara (10)

Best Picture

The Bridge on the River Kwai 7 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Sam Spiegel Production Company: Horizon Pictures Director: David Lean

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

12 Angry Men, Peyton Place, Sayonara, Witness for the Prosecution

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor Alec Guinness for the role of "Lt. Colonel L. Nicholson, D.S.O." in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Marlon Brando for the role of "Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver USAF" in the film Sayonara

Anthony Franciosa for the role of "Polo Pope" in the film A Hatful of Rain

Charles Laughton for the role of "Sir Wilfrid Robarts" in the film Witness for the Prosecution

Anthony Quinn for the role of "Gino" in the film Wild Is the Wind

Best Actress Joanne Woodward for the role of "Eve White / Eve Black / Jane" in the film The Three Faces of Eve

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Deborah Kerr for the role of "Angela" in the film Heaven Knows Mr. Allison

Anna Magnani for the role of "Gioia" in the film Wild Is the Wind

Elizabeth Taylor for the role of "Susanna Drake" in the film Raintree County

Lana Turner for the role of "Constance MacKenzie" in the film Peyton Place

Best Director David Lean, the director of the movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Joshua Logan, the director of the movie "Sayonara"

Sidney Lumet, the director of the movie "12 Angry Men"

Mark Robson, the director of the movie "Peyton Place"

Billy Wilder, the director of the movie "Witness for the Prosecution"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Designing Woman Screen Writer(s): George Wells

29 1956 Around the World in 80 Days Yul Brynner Ingrid Bergman

Oscar Academy Awards 29. Academy Awards (1956 Oscars)

Date / Place March 27, 1957 / RKO Pantages Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; NBC Century Theatre New York City, New York

Host(s) Jerry Lewis, Celeste Holm

Most Awarded Movie(s) Around the World in 80 Days (5), The King and I (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Giant (10)

Best Picture

Around the World in 80 Days 5 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Michael Todd Production Company: United Artists Director: Michael Anderson

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Friendly Persuasion, Giant, The King and I, The Ten Commandments

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor Yul Brynner for the role of "King Mongkut of Siam" in the film The King and I

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

James Dean*[38] for the role of "Jett Rink" in the film Giant

Kirk Douglas for the role of "Vincent van Gogh" in the film Lust for Life

Rock Hudson for the role of "Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr." in the film Giant

Laurence Olivier for the role of "King Richard III of England" in the film Richard III

Best Actress Ingrid Bergman for the role of "Anna Koreff / Anastasia" in the film Anastasia

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Carroll Baker for the role of "Baby Doll Meighan" in the film Baby Doll

Katharine Hepburn for the role of "Lizzie Curry" in the film The Rainmaker

Nancy Kelly for the role of "Christine Penmark" in the film The Bad Seed

Deborah Kerr for the role of "Anna Leonowens" in the film The King and I

Best Director George Stevens, the director of the movie "Giant"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Michael Anderson, the director of the movie "Around the World in 80 Days"

Walter Lang, the director of the movie "The King and I"

King Vidor, the director of the movie "War and Peace"

William Wyler, the director of the movie "Friendly Persuasion"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Red Balloon Screen Writer(s): Albert Lamorisse

28 1955 Marty Ernest Borgnine Anna Magnani

Oscar Academy Awards 28. Academy Awards (1955 Oscars)

Date / Place March 21, 1956 / RKO Pantages Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; NBC Century Theatre New York City, New York

Host(s) Jerry Lewis (Los Angeles); Claudette Colbert (New York); Joseph L. Mankiewicz (New York)

Most Awarded Movie(s) Marty (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (8), Marty (8), The Rose Tattoo (8)

Best Picture

Marty 4 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Harold Hecht Production Company: United Artists Director: Delbert Mann

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Mister Roberts, Picnic, The Rose Tattoo

Best Actor Ernest Borgnine for the role of "Marty Piletti" in the film Marty

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

James Cagney for the role of "Martin Snyder" in the film Love Me or Leave Me

James Dean*[38] for the role of "Cal Trask" in the film East of Eden

Frank Sinatra for the role of "Frankie Machine" in the film The Man with the Golden Arm

Spencer Tracy for the role of "John J. Macreedy" in the film Bad Day at Black Rock

Best Actress Anna Magnani for the role of "Serafina Delle Rose" in the film The Rose Tattoo

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Susan Hayward for the role of "Lillian Roth" in the film I'll Cry Tomorrow

Katharine Hepburn for the role of "Jane Hudson" in the film Summertime

Jennifer Jones for the role of "Han Suyin" in the film Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

Eleanor Parker for the role of "Marjorie Lawrence" in the film Interrupted Melody

Best Director Delbert Mann, the director of the movie "Marty"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Elia Kazan, the director of the movie "East of Eden"

David Lean, the director of the movie "Summertime"

Joshua Logan, the director of the movie "Picnic"

John Sturges, the director of the movie "Bad Day at Black Rock"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Interrupted Melody Screen Writer(s): Sonya Levien, William Ludwig

27 1954 On the Waterfront Marlon Brando Grace Kelly

Oscar Academy Awards 27. Academy Awards (1954 Oscars)

Date / Place 30 March 1955 / RKO Pantages Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; NBC Century Theatre New York City, New York

Host(s) Bob Hope (Hollywood); Thelma Ritter (New York City)

Most Awarded Movie(s) On the Waterfront (8)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

On the Waterfront (12)

Best Picture

On the Waterfront 8 awards and 12 nominations Producer: Sam Spiegel Production Company: Columbia Director: Elia Kazan

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Caine Mutiny, The Country Girl, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Three Coins in the Fountain

Best Actor Marlon Brando for the role of "Terry Malloy" in the film On the Waterfront

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Humphrey Bogart for the role of "Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg" in the film The Caine Mutiny

Bing Crosby for the role of "Frank Elgin" in the film The Country Girl

James Mason for the role of "Norman Maine" in the film A Star Is Born

Dan O'Herlihy for the role of "Robinson Crusoe" in the film Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Best Actress Grace Kelly for the role of "Georgie Elgin" in the film The Country Girl

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Dorothy Dandridge for the role of "Carmen Jones" in the film Carmen Jones

Judy Garland for the role of "Esther Victoria Blodgett / Vicki Lester" in the film A Star is Born

Audrey Hepburn for the role of "Sabrina Fairchild" in the film Sabrina

Jane Wyman for the role of "Helen Phillips" in the film Magnificent Obsession

Best Director Elia Kazan, the director of the movie "On the Waterfront"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Alfred Hitchcock, the director of the movie "Rear Window"

George Seaton, the director of the movie "The Country Girl"

William A. Wellman, the director of the movie "The High and the Mighty"

Billy Wilder, the director of the movie "Sabrina"

Best Origial ScreenPlay On the Waterfront Screen Writer(s): Budd Schulberg

26 1953 From Here to Eternity William Holden Audrey Hepburn

Oscar Academy Awards 26. Academy Awards (1953 Oscars)

Date / Place March 25, 1954 / RKO Pantages Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; NBC Century Theatre New York City, New York

Host(s) Donald O'Connor (Los Angeles); Fredric March (New York City)

Most Awarded Movie(s) From Here to Eternity (8)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

From Here to Eternity (13)

Best Picture

From Here to Eternity 8 awards and 13 nominations Producer: Buddy Adler Production Company: Columbia Director: Fred Zinnemann

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Julius Caesar, The Robe, Roman Holiday, Shane

Best Actor William Holden for the role of "Sgt. J.J. Sefton" in the film Stalag 17

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Marlon Brando for the role of "Mark Antony" in the film Julius Caesar

Richard Burton for the role of "Marcellus Gallio" in the film The Robe

Montgomery Clift for the role of "Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt" in the film From Here to Eternity

Burt Lancaster for the role of "1st Sgt. Milton Warden" in the film From Here to Eternity

Best Actress Audrey Hepburn for the role of "Princess Ann" in the film Roman Holiday

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Leslie Caron for the role of "Lili Daurier" in the film Lili

Ava Gardner for the role of "Eloise "Honey Bear" Kelly" in the film Mogambo

Deborah Kerr for the role of "Karen Holmes" in the film From Here to Eternity

Maggie McNamara for the role of "Patty O'Neill" in the film The Moon Is Blue

Best Director Fred Zinnemann, the director of the movie "From Here to Eternity"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

George Stevens, the director of the movie "Shane"

Charles Walters, the director of the movie "Lili"

Billy Wilder, the director of the movie "Stalag 17"

William Wyler, the director of the movie "Roman Holiday"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Titanic Screen Writer(s): Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, Walter Reisch

25 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth Gary Cooper Shirley Booth

Oscar Academy Awards 25. Academy Awards (1952 Oscars)

Date / Place March 19, 1953 / RKO Pantages Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; NBC International Theatre New York City, New York

Host(s) Bob Hope (Hollywood); Conrad Nagel; Fredric March (New York City)

Most Awarded Movie(s)

The Bad and the Beautiful (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

High Noon (7), Moulin Rouge (7), The Quiet Man (7)

Best Picture

The Greatest Show on Earth 2 awards and 5 nominations Producer: Cecil B. DeMille Production Company: Paramount Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

High Noon, Ivanhoe, Moulin Rouge, The Quiet Man

Best Actor Gary Cooper for the role of "Marshal Will Kane" in the film High Noon

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Marlon Brando for the role of "Emiliano Zapata" in the film Viva Zapata!

Kirk Douglas for the role of "Jonathan Shields" in the film The Bad and the Beautiful

José Ferrer for the role of "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec" in the film Moulin Rouge

Alec Guinness for the role of "Holland" in the film The Lavender Hill Mob

Best Actress Shirley Booth for the role of "Lola Delaney" in the film Come Back, Little Sheba

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Joan Crawford for the role of "Myra Hudson" in the film Sudden Fear

Bette Davis for the role of "Margaret Elliot" in the film The Star

Julie Harris for the role of "Frances 'Frankie' Addams" in the film The Member of the Wedding

Susan Hayward for the role of "Jane Froman" in the film With a Song in My Heart

Best Director John Ford, the director of the movie "The Quiet Man"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Cecil B. DeMille, the director of the movie "The Greatest Show on Earth"

John Huston, the director of the movie "Moulin Rouge"

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the director of the movie "5 Fingers"

Fred Zinnemann, the director of the movie "High Noon"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Lavender Hill Mob Screen Writer(s): T. E. B. Clarke

24 1951 An American in Paris Humphrey Bogart

Vivien Leigh

Oscar Academy Awards 24. Academy Awards (1951 Oscars)

Date / Place March 20, 1952 / RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Host(s) Danny Kaye

Most Awarded Movie(s) An American in Paris (6), A Place in the Sun (6)

Most Nominated Movie(s) A Streetcar Named Desire (12)

Best Picture

An American in Paris 6 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Arthur Freed Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Vincente Minnelli

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Decision Before Dawn, A Place in the Sun, Quo Vadis, A Streetcar Named Desire

Best Actor Humphrey Bogart for the role of "Charlie Allnut" in the film The African Queen

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Marlon Brando for the role of "Stanley Kowalski" in the film A Streetcar Named Desire

Montgomery Clift for the role of "George Eastman" in the film A Place in the Sun

Arthur Kennedy for the role of "Larry Nevins" in the film Bright Victory

Fredric March for the role of "Willy Loman" in the film Death of a Salesman

Best Actress Vivien Leigh for the role of "Blanche DuBois" in the film A Streetcar Named Desire

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Katharine Hepburn for the role of "Rose Sayer" in the film The African Queen

Eleanor Parker for the role of "Mary McLeod" in the film Detective Story

Shelley Winters for the role of "Alice Tripp" in the film A Place in the Sun

Jane Wyman for the role of "Louise Mason" in the film The Blue Veil

Best Director George Stevens, the director of the movie "A Place in the Sun"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

John Huston, the director of the movie "The African Queen"

Elia Kazan, the director of the movie "A Streetcar Named Desire"

Vincente Minnelli, the director of the movie "An American in Paris"

William Wyler, the director of the movie "Detective Story"

Best Origial ScreenPlay An American in Paris Screen Writer(s): Alan Jay Lerner

23 1950 All About Eve José Ferrer Judy Holliday

Oscar Academy Awards 23. Academy Awards (1950 Oscars)

Date / Place March 29, 1951 / RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Host(s) Fred Astaire

Most Awarded Movie(s) All About Eve (6)

Most Nominated Movie(s) All About Eve (14)

Best Picture

All About Eve 6 awards and 14 nominations Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck Production Company: 20th Century Fox Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Born Yesterday, Father of the Bride, King Solomon's Mines, Sunset Boulevard

Best Actor José Ferrer for the role of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in the film Cyrano de Bergerac

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Louis Calhern for the role of "Oliver Wendell Holmes" in the film The Magnificent Yankee

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

William Holden for the role of "Joe Gillis" in the film Sunset Boulevard

James Stewart for the role of "Elwood P. Dowd" in the film Harvey

Spencer Tracy for the role of "Stanley T. Banks" in the film Father of the Bride

Best Actress Judy Holliday for the role of "Emma 'Billie' Dawn" in the film Born Yesterday

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Anne Baxter for the role of "Eve Harrington" in the film All About Eve

Bette Davis for the role of "Margo Channing" in the film All About Eve

Eleanor Parker for the role of "Marie Allen" in the film Caged

Gloria Swanson for the role of "Norma Desmond" in the film Sunset Boulevard

Best Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the director of the movie "All About Eve"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

George Cukor, the director of the movie "Born Yesterday"

John Huston, the director of the movie "The Asphalt Jungle"

Carol Reed, the director of the movie "The Third Man"

Billy Wilder, the director of the movie "Sunset Boulevard"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Sunset Boulevard Screen Writer(s): Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr., Billy Wilder

22 1949 All the King's Men Broderick Crawford

Olivia de Havilland

Oscar Academy Awards 22. Academy Awards (1949 Oscars)

Date / Place March 23, 1950 / RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Host(s) Paul Douglas

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Heiress (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Heiress (8)

Best Picture

All the King's Men 3 awards and 7 nominations Producer: Robert Rossen Production Company: Rossen Director: Robert Rossen

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Battleground, The Heiress, A Letter to Three Wives, Twelve O'Clock High

Best Actor Broderick Crawford for the role of "Willie Stark" in the film All the King's Men

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Kirk Douglas for the role of "Michael "Midge" Kelly" in the film Champion

Gregory Peck for the role of "Brig. General Frank Savage" in the film Twelve O'Clock High

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Richard Todd for the role of "Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan" in the film The Hasty Heart

John Wayne for the role of "Sergeant John M. Stryker" in the film Sands of Iwo Jima

Best Actress Olivia de Havilland for the role of "Catherine Sloper" in the film The Heiress

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Jeanne Crain for the role of "Patricia 'Pinky' Johnson" in the film Pinky

Susan Hayward for the role of "Eloise Winters" in the film My Foolish Heart

Deborah Kerr for the role of "Evelyn Boult" in the film Edward My Son

Loretta Young for the role of "Margaret" in the film Come to the Stable

Best Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the director of the movie "A Letter to Three Wives"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Carol Reed, the director of the movie "The Fallen Idol"

Robert Rossen, the director of the movie "All the King's Men"

William A. Wellman, the director of the movie "Battleground"

William Wyler, the director of the movie "The Heiress"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Battleground Screen Writer(s): Robert Pirosh

21 1948 Hamlet Laurence Olivier Jane Wyman

Oscar Academy Awards 21. Academy Awards (1948 Oscars)

Date / Place March 24, 1949 / The Academy Theater, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Robert Montgomery

Most Awarded Movie(s) Hamlet (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Johnny Belinda (12)

Best Picture

Hamlet 4 awards and 7 nominations Producer: Laurence Olivier Production Company: Two Cities Films Director: Laurence Olivier

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Johnny Belinda, The Red Shoes, The Snake Pit, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Best Actor Laurence Olivier for the role of "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" in the film Hamlet

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Lew Ayres for the role of "Dr. Robert Richardson" in the film Johnny Belinda

Montgomery Clift for the role of "Ralph "Steve" Stevenson" in the film The Search

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Dan Dailey for the role of ""Skid" Johnson" in the film When My Baby Smiles at Me

Clifton Webb for the role of "Lynn Aloysius Belvedere" in the film Sitting Pretty

Best Actress Jane Wyman for the role of "Belinda McDonald" in the film Johnny Belinda

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Ingrid Bergman for the role of "Joan of Arc" in the film Joan of Arc

Olivia de Havilland for the role of "Virginia Stuart Cunningham" in the film The Snake Pit

Irene Dunne for the role of "Martha Hanson" in the film I Remember Mama

Barbara Stanwyck for the role of "Leona Stevenson" in the film Sorry Wrong Number

Best Director John Huston, the director of the movie "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Anatole Litvak, the director of the movie "The Snake Pit"

Jean Negulesco, the director of the movie "Johnny Belinda"

Laurence Olivier, the director of the movie "Hamlet"

Fred Zinnemann, the director of the movie "The Search"

Best Origial ScreenPlay none Screen Writer(s): none

20 1947 Gentleman's Agreement Ronald Colman Loretta Young

Oscar Academy Awards 20. Academy Awards (1947 Oscars)

Date / Place March 20, 1948 / Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Agnes Moorehead, Dick Powell

Most Awarded Movie(s) Gentleman's Agreement (3), Miracle on 34th Street (3)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Gentleman's Agreement (8)

Best Picture

Gentleman's Agreement 3 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck Production Company: 20th Century Fox Director: Elia Kazan

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Bishop's Wife, Crossfire, Great Expectations, Miracle on 34th Street

Best Actor Ronald Colman for the role of "Anthony John" in the film A Double Life

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

John Garfield for the role of "Charlie Davis" in the film Body and Soul

Gregory Peck for the role of "Philip Schuyler Green" in the film Gentleman's Agreement

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

William Powell for the role of "Clarence Day Sr." in the film Life with Father

Michael Redgrave for the role of "Orin Mannon" in the film Mourning Becomes Electra

Best Actress Loretta Young for the role of "Katie Holstrom" in the film The Farmer's Daughter

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Joan Crawford for the role of "Louise Howell" in the film Possessed

Susan Hayward for the role of "Angelica Evans Conway" in the film Smash-Up the Story of a Woman

Dorothy McGuire for the role of "Kathy Lacy" in the film Gentleman's Agreement

Rosalind Russell for the role of "Lavinia Mannon" in the film Mourning Becomes Electra

Best Director Elia Kazan, the director of the movie "Gentleman's Agreement"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

George Cukor, the director of the movie "A Double Life}"

Edward Dmytryk, the director of the movie "Crossfire"

Henry Koster, the director of the movie "The Bishop's Wife"

David Lean, the director of the movie "Great Expectations"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Screen Writer(s): Sidney Sheldon

19 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives Fredric March Olivia de Havilland

Oscar Academy Awards 19. Academy Awards (1946 Oscars)

Date / Place March 13, 1947 / Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Jack Benny

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Best Years of Our Lives (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Best Years of Our Lives (8)

Best Picture

The Best Years of Our Lives 7 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Samuel Goldwyn Production Company: RKO Radio Director: William Wyler

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Henry V, It's a Wonderful Life, The Razor's Edge, The Yearling

Best Actor Fredric March for the role of "Al Stephenson" in the film The Best Years of Our Lives

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Laurence Olivier for the role of "King Henry V of England" in the film Henry V

Larry Parks for the role of "Al Jolson" in the film The Jolson Story

Gregory Peck for the role of "Ezra "Penny" Baxter" in the film The Yearling

James Stewart for the role of "George Bailey" in the film It's a Wonderful Life

Best Actress Olivia de Havilland for the role of "Josephine 'Jody' Norris" in the film To Each His Own

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Celia Johnson for the role of "Laura Jesson" in the film Brief Encounter

Jennifer Jones for the role of "Pearl Chavez" in the film Duel in the Sun

Rosalind Russell for the role of "Elizabeth Kenny" in the film Sister Kenny

Jane Wyman for the role of "Orry Baxter" in the film The Yearling

Best Director William Wyler, the director of the movie "The Best Years of Our Lives"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Clarence Brown, the director of the movie "The Yearling"

Frank Capra, the director of the movie "It's a Wonderful Life"

David Lean, the director of the movie "Brief Encounter"

Robert Siodmak, the director of the movie "The Killers"

Best Origial ScreenPlay The Seventh Veil Screen Writer(s): Muriel Box, Sydney Box

18 1945 The Lost Weekend Ray Milland Joan Crawford

Oscar Academy Awards 18. Academy Awards (1945 Oscars)

Date / Place March 7, 1946 / Grauman's Chinese Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) James Stewart, Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s) The Lost Weekend (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Bells of St. Mary's (8)

Best Picture

The Lost Weekend 4 awards and 7 nominations Producer: Charles Brackett Production Company: Paramount Director: Billy Wilder

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Anchors Aweigh, The Bells of St. Mary's, Mildred Pierce, Spellbound

Best Actor Ray Milland for the role of "Don Birnam" in the film The Lost Weekend

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Bing Crosby for the role of "Father Chuck O'Malley" in the film The Bells of St. Mary's

Gene Kelly for the role of "Joseph Brady" in the film Anchors Aweigh

Gregory Peck for the role of "Father Francis" in the film The Keys of the Kingdom

Cornel Wilde for the role of "Frédéric Chopin" in the film A Song to Remember

Best Actress Joan Crawford for the role of "Mildred Pierce Beragon" in the film Mildred Pierce

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Ingrid Bergman for the role of "Mary Benedict" in the film The Bells of St. Mary's

Greer Garson for the role of "Mary Rafferty" in the film The Valley of Decision

Jennifer Jones for the role of "Singleton" in the film Love Letters

Gene Tierney for the role of "Ellen Berent Harland" in the film Leave Her to Heaven

Best Director Billy Wilder, the director of the movie "The Lost Weekend"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Clarence Brown, the director of the movie "National Velvet"

Alfred Hitchcock, the director of the movie "Spellbound"

Leo McCarey, the director of the movie "The Bells of St. Mary's"

Jean Renoir, the director of the movie "The Southerner"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Marie-Louise Screen Writer(s): Richard Schweizer

17 1944 Going My Way Bing Crosby Ingrid Bergman

Oscar Academy Awards 17. Academy Awards (1944 Oscars)

Date / Place March 15, 1945 / Grauman's Chinese Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) John Cromwell, Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s) Going My Way (7)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Going My Way (10), Wilson (10)

Best Picture

Going My Way 7 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Leo McCarey Production Company: Paramount Director: Leo McCarey

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Since You Went Away, Wilson

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor Bing Crosby for the role of "Father Chuck O'Malley" in the film Going My Way

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Charles Boyer for the role of "Gregory Anton" in the film Gaslight

Barry Fitzgerald for the role of "Father Fitzgibbon" in the film Going My Way

Cary Grant for the role of "Ernie Mott" in the film None but the Lonely Heart

Alexander Knox for the role of "Woodrow Wilson" in the film Wilson

Best Actress Ingrid Bergman for the role of "Paula Alquist Anton" in the film Gaslight

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Claudette Colbert for the role of "Anne Hilton" in the film Since You Went Away

Bette Davis for the role of "Fanny Trellis" in the film Mr. Skeffington

Greer Garson for the role of "Susie 'Sparrow' Parkington" in the film Mrs. Parkington

Barbara Stanwyck for the role of "Phyllis Dietrichson" in the film Double Indemnity

Best Director Leo McCarey, the director of the movie "Going My Way"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Alfred Hitchcock, the director of the movie "Lifeboat"

Henry King, the director of the movie "Wilson"

Otto Preminger, the director of the movie "Laura"

Billy Wilder, the director of the movie "Double Indemnity"

Best Origial ScreenPlay Wilson Screen Writer(s): Lamar Trotti

16 1943 Casablanca Paul Lukas Jennifer Jones

Oscar Academy Awards

16. Academy Awards (1943 Oscars)

Date / Place March 2, 1944 / Grauman's Chinese Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Jack Benny

Most Awarded Movie(s)

The Song of Bernadette (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

The Song of Bernadette (12)

Best Picture

Casablanca 3 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Hal B. Wallis Production Company: Warner Bros. Director: Michael Curtiz

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (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

Best Actor Paul Lukas for the role of "Kurt Muller" in the film Watch on the Rhine

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Humphrey Bogart for the role of "Rick Blaine" in the film Casablanca

Gary Cooper for the role of "Robert Jordan" in the film For Whom the Bell Tolls

Walter Pidgeon for the role of "Pierre Curie" in the film Madame Curie

Mickey Rooney for the role of "Homer Macauley" in the film The Human Comedy

Best Actress Jennifer Jones for the role of "Bernadette Soubirous" in the film The Song of Bernadette

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Jean Arthur for the role of "Constance "Connie" Milligan" in the film The More the Merrier

Ingrid Bergman for the role of "María" in the film For Whom the Bell Tolls

Joan Fontaine for the role of "Tessa Sanger" in the film The Constant Nymph

Greer Garson for the role of "Marie Curie" in the film Madame Curie

Best Director Michael Curtiz, the director of the movie "Casablanca"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Clarence Brown, the director of the movie "The Human Comedy"

Henry King, the director of the movie "The Song of Bernadette"

Ernst Lubitsch, the director of the movie "Heaven Can Wait"

George Stevens, the director of the movie "The More the Merrier"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

Princess O'Rourke Screen Writer(s): Norman Krasna

15 1942 Mrs. Miniver James Cagney Greer Garson

Oscar Academy Awards

15. Academy Awards (1942 Oscars)

Date / Place March 4, 1943 / Coconut Grove, The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s)

Mrs. Miniver (6)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Mrs. Miniver (12)

Best Picture

Mrs. Miniver 6 awards and 12 nominations Producer: Sidney Franklin Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: William Wyler

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (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

Best Actor James Cagney for the role of "George M. Cohan" in the film Yankee Doodle Dandy

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Ronald Colman for the role of "Charles Rainier" in the film Random Harvest

Gary Cooper for the role of "Lou Gehrig" in the film The Pride of the Yankees

Walter Pidgeon for the role of "Clem Miniver" in the film Mrs. Miniver

Monty Woolley for the role of "Howard" in the film The Pied Piper

Best Actress Greer Garson for the role of "Kay Miniver" in the film Mrs. Miniver

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Bette Davis for the role of "Charlotte Vale" in the film Now Voyager

Katharine Hepburn for the role of "Tess Harding" in the film Woman of the Year

Rosalind Russell for the role of "Ruth Sherwood" in the film My Sister Eileen

Teresa Wright for the role of "Eleanor Twitchell Gehrig" in the film The Pride of the Yankees

Best Director William Wyler, the director of the movie "Mrs. Miniver"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Michael Curtiz, the director of the movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

John Farrow, the director of the movie "Wake Island"

Mervyn LeRoy, the director of the movie "Random Harvest"

Sam Wood, the director of the movie "Kings Row"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

Woman of the Year Screen Writer(s): Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr.

14 1941 How Green Was My Valley Gary Cooper Joan Fontaine

Oscar Academy Awards

14. Academy Awards (1941 Oscars)

Date / Place February 26, 1942 / Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s)

How Green Was My Valley (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Sergeant York (11)

Best Picture

How Green Was My Valley 5 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck Production Company: 20th Century Fox Director: John Ford

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (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

Best Actor Gary Cooper for the role of "Sgt. Alvin C. York" in the film Sergeant York

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Cary Grant for the role of "Roger Adams" in the film Penny Serenade

Walter Huston for the role of "Mr. Scratch" in the film The Devil and Daniel Webster

Robert Montgomery for the role of "Joe Pendleton" in the film Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Orson Welles for the role of "Charles Foster Kane" in the film Citizen Kane

Best Actress Joan Fontaine for the role of "Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth" in the film Suspicion

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Bette Davis for the role of "Regina Giddens" in the film The Little Foxes

Olivia de Havilland for the role of "Emmy Brown" in the film Hold Back the Dawn

Greer Garson for the role of "Edna Gladney" in the film Blossoms in the Dust

Barbara Stanwyck for the role of "Katherine 'Sugarpuss' O'Shea" in the film Ball of Fire

Best Director John Ford, the director of the movie "How Green Was My Valley"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Alexander Hall, the director of the movie "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"

Howard Hawks, the director of the movie "Sergeant York"

Orson Welles, the director of the movie "Citizen Kane"

William Wyler, the director of the movie "The Little Foxes"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

Citizen Kane Screen Writer(s): Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles

13 1940 Rebecca James Stewart Ginger Rogers

Oscar Academy Awards

13. Academy Awards (1940 Oscars)

Date / Place February 27, 1941 / Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s)

The Thief of Bagdad (3)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Rebecca (11)

Best Picture

Rebecca 2 awards and 11 nominations Producer: David O. Selznick Production Company: Selznick International Pictures Director: Alfred Hitchcock

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (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

Best Actor James Stewart for the role of "Macaulay "Mike" Connor" in the film The Philadelphia Story

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Charles Chaplin for the role of "Adenoid Hynkel/The Barber" in the film The Great Dictator

Henry Fonda for the role of "Tom Joad" in the film The Grapes of Wrath

Raymond Massey for the role of "Abraham Lincoln" in the film Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Laurence Olivier for the role of "'Maxim' de Winter" in the film Rebecca

Best Actress Ginger Rogers for the role of "Kitty Foyle" in the film Kitty Foyle

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Bette Davis for the role of "Leslie Crosbie" in the film The Letter

Joan Fontaine for the role of "The Second Mrs. de Winter" in the film Rebecca

Katharine Hepburn for the role of "Tracy Lord" in the film The Philadelphia Story

Martha Scott for the role of "Emily Webb" in the film Our Town

Best Director John Ford, the director of the movie "The Grapes of Wrath"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

George Cukor, the director of the movie "The Philadelphia Story"

Alfred Hitchcock, the director of the movie "Rebecca"

Sam Wood, the director of the movie "Kitty Foyle"

William Wyler, the director of the movie "The Letter"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

The Great McGinty Screen Writer(s): Preston Sturges

12 1939 Gone with the Wind Robert Donat Vivien Leigh

Oscar Academy Awards

12. Academy Awards (1939 Oscars)

Date / Place February 29, 1940 / Coconut Grove, The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Hope

Most Awarded Movie(s)

Gone with the Wind (8)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Gone with the Wind (13)

Best Picture

Gone with the Wind 8 awards and 13 nominations Producer: David O. Selznick Production Company: Selznick International Pictures Director: Victor Fleming

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (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

Best Actor Robert Donat for the role of "Charles Edward Chipping" in the film Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Clark Gable for the role of "Rhett Butler" in the film Gone with the Wind

Laurence Olivier for the role of "Heathcliff" in the film Wuthering Heights

Mickey Rooney for the role of "Mickey Moran" in the film Babes in Arms

James Stewart for the role of "Jefferson Smith" in the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Best Actress Vivien Leigh for the role of "Scarlett O'Hara" in the film Gone with the Wind

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Bette Davis for the role of "Judith Traherne" in the film Dark Victory

Irene Dunne for the role of "Terry McKay" in the film Love Affair

Greta Garbo for the role of "Nina Yakushova 'Ninotchka' Ivanoff" in the film Ninotchka

Greer Garson for the role of "Katherine Bridges" in the film Goodbye Mr. Chips

Best Director Victor Fleming, the director of the movie "Gone with the Wind"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Frank Capra, the director of the movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"

John Ford, the director of the movie "Stagecoach"

Sam Wood, the director of the movie "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"

William Wyler, the director of the movie "Wuthering Heights"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

none Screen Writer(s): none

11 1938 You Can't Take It With You Spencer Tracy Bette Davis

Oscar Academy Awards

11. Academy Awards (1938 Oscars)

Date / Place February 23, 1939 / Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) No official host

Most Awarded Movie(s)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (3)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

You Can't Take it With You (7)

Best Picture

You Can't Take It With You 2 awards and 7 nominations Producer: Frank Capra Production Company: Columbia Director: Frank Capra

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Boys Town, The Citadel, Four Daughters, Grand Illusion, Jezebel, Pygmalion, Test Pilot

Best Actor Spencer Tracy for the role of "Father Flanagan" in the film Boys Town

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Charles Boyer for the role of "Pepe le Moko" in the film Algiers

James Cagney for the role of "Rocky Sullivan" in the film Angels with Dirty Faces

Robert Donat for the role of "Dr. Andrew Manson" in the film The Citadel

Leslie Howard for the role of "Professor Henry Higgins" in the film Pygmalion

Best Actress Bette Davis for the role of "Julie Marsden" in the film Jezebel

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Fay Bainter for the role of "Hannah Parmalee" in the film White Banners

Wendy Hiller for the role of "Eliza Doolittle" in the film Pygmalion

Norma Shearer for the role of "Marie Antoinette" in the film Marie Antoinette

Margaret Sullavan for the role of "Patricia 'Pat' Hollmann" in the film Three Comrades

Best Director Frank Capra, the director of the movie "You Can't Take It with You"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Michael Curtiz, the director of the movie "Angels with Dirty Faces"

Michael Curtiz, the director of the movie "Four Daughters"

Norman Taurog, the director of the movie "Boys Town"

King Vidor, the director of the movie "The Citadel"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

none Screen Writer(s): none

10 1937 The Life of Emile Zola Spencer Tracy Luise Rainer

Oscar Academy Awards

10. Academy Awards (1937 Oscars)

Date / Place March 10, 1938 / Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Bob Burns

Most Awarded Movie(s)

The Life of Emile Zola (3)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

The Life of Emile Zola (10)

Best Picture

The Life of Emile Zola 3 awards and 10 nominations Producer: Henry Blanke Production Company: Warner Bros. Director: William Dieterle

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (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

Best Actor Spencer Tracy for the role of "Manuel" in the film Captains Courageous

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Charles Boyer for the role of "Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte" in the film Conquest

Fredric March for the role of "Norman Maine" in the film A Star Is Born

Robert Montgomery for the role of "Danny" in the film Night Must Fall

Paul Muni for the role of "Émile Zola" in the film The Life of Émile Zola

Best Actress Luise Rainer for the role of "O-Lan" in the film The Good Earth

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Irene Dunne for the role of "Lucy Warriner" in the film The Awful Truth

Greta Garbo for the role of "Marguerite Gautier" in the film Camille

Janet Gaynor for the role of "Esther Victoria Blodgett / Vicki Lester" in the film A Star Is Born

Barbara Stanwyck for the role of "Stella Martin Dallas" in the film Stella Dallas

Best Director Leo McCarey, the director of the movie "The Awful Truth"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

William Dieterle, the director of the movie "The Life of Émile Zola"

Sidney Franklin, the director of the movie "The Good Earth"

Gregory La Cava, the director of the movie "Stage Door"

William A. Wellman, the director of the movie "A Star Is Born"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

none Screen Writer(s): none

9 1936 The Great Ziegfeld Paul Muni Luise Rainer

Oscar Academy Awards

9. Academy Awards (1936 Oscars)

Date / Place March 4, 1937 / Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) George Jessel

Most Awarded Movie(s)

Anthony Adverse (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Anthony Adverse (7), Dodsworth, and The Great Ziegfeld (7)

Best Picture

The Great Ziegfeld 3 awards and 7 nominations Producer: Hunt Stromberg Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Robert Z. Leonard

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (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

Best Actor Paul Muni for the role of "Louis Pasteur" in the film The Story of Louis Pasteur

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Gary Cooper for the role of "Longfellow Deeds" in the film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Walter Huston for the role of "Sam Dodsworth" in the film Dodsworth

William Powell for the role of "Godfrey Park" in the film My Man Godfrey

Spencer Tracy for the role of "Father Tim Mullin" in the film San Francisco

Best Actress Luise Rainer for the role of "Anna Held" in the film The Great Ziegfeld

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Irene Dunne for the role of "Theodora Lynn" in the film Theodora Goes Wild

Gladys George for the role of "Carrie Snyder" in the film Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Carole Lombard for the role of "Irene Bullock" in the film My Man Godfrey

Norma Shearer for the role of "Juliet Capulet" in the film Romeo and Juliet

Best Director Frank Capra, the director of the movie "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Gregory La Cava, the director of the movie "My Man Godfrey"

Robert Z. Leonard, the director of the movie "The Great Ziegfeld"

W. S. Van Dyke, the director of the movie "San Francisco"

William Wyler, the director of the movie "Dodsworth"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

none Screen Writer(s): none

8 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty Victor McLaglen

Bette Davis

Oscar Academy Awards

8. Academy Awards (1935 Oscars)

Date / Place March 5, 1936 / Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Frank Capra

Most Awarded Movie(s)

The Informer (4)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Mutiny on the Bounty (8)

Best Picture

Mutiny on the Bounty 1 awards and 8 nominations Producer: Irving Thalberg Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Frank Lloyd

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (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

Best Actor Victor McLaglen for the role of "Gypo Nolan" in the film The Informer

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Clark Gable for the role of "Master's Mate Fletcher Christian" in the film Mutiny on the Bounty

Charles Laughton for the role of "Lieutenant William Bligh Captain" in the film Mutiny on the Bounty

Franchot Tone for the role of "Midshipman Roger Byam" in the film Mutiny on the Bounty

Paul Muni[D] for the role of "Joe Radek" in the film Black Fury

Best Actress Bette Davis for the role of "Joyce Heath" in the film Dangerous

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Elisabeth Bergner for the role of "Gemma Jones" in the film Escape Me Never

Claudette Colbert for the role of "Jane Everest" in the film Private Worlds

Katharine Hepburn for the role of "Alice Adams" in the film Alice Adams

Miriam Hopkins for the role of "Becky Sharp" in the film Becky Sharp

Merle Oberon for the role of "Kitty Vane" in the film The Dark Angel

Best Director John Ford, the director of the movie "The Informer"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Henry Hathaway, the director of the movie "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer"

Frank Lloyd, the director of the movie "Mutiny on the Bounty"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

none Screen Writer(s): none

7 1934 It Happened One Night Clark Gable Claudette Colbert

Oscar Academy Awards

7. Academy Awards (1934 Oscars)

Date / Place February 27, 1935 / Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Irvin S. Cobb

Most Awarded Movie(s)

It Happened One Night (5)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

One Night of Love (6)

Best Picture

It Happened One Night 5 awards and 5 nominations Producer: Harry Cohn Production Company: Columbia Director: Frank Capra

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (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

Best Actor Clark Gable for the role of "Peter Warne" in the film It Happened One Night

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Frank Morgan for the role of "Alessandro - Duke of Florence" in the film The Affairs of Cellini

William Powell for the role of "Nick Charles" in the film The Thin Man

Best Actress Claudette Colbert for the role of "Ellie Andrews" in the film It Happened One Night

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Grace Moore for the role of "Mary Barrett" in the film One Night of Love

Norma Shearer for the role of "Elizabeth Barrett" in the film The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Bette Davis for the role of "Mildred Rogers" in the film Of Human Bondage

Best Director Frank Capra, the director of the movie "It Happened One Night"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Victor Schertzinger, the director of the movie "One Night of Love"

W. S. Van Dyke, the director of the movie "The Thin Man"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

none Screen Writer(s): none

6 1932/33 Cavalcade Charles Laughton

Katharine Hepburn

Oscar Academy Awards

6. Academy Awards (1932/33 Oscars)

Date / Place March 16, 1934 / The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Will Rogers

Most Awarded Movie(s)

Cavalcade (3)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Cavalcade (4), A Farewell to Arms (4), Lady for a Day (4)

Best Picture

Cavalcade 3 awards and 4 nominations Producer: Winfield Sheehan Production Company: Fox Director: Frank Lloyd

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Picture (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

Best Actor Charles Laughton for the role of "King Henry VIII of England" in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Leslie Howard for the role of "Peter Standish" in the film Berkeley Square

Paul Muni for the role of "James Allen" in the film I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Best Actress Katharine Hepburn for the role of "Eva Lovelace" in the film Morning Glory

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

May Robson for the role of "Apple Annie" in the film Lady for a Day

Diana Wynyard for the role of "Jane Marryot" in the film Cavalcade

Best Director Frank Lloyd, the director of the movie "Cavalcade"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Frank Capra, the director of the movie "Lady for a Day"

George Cukor, the director of the movie "Little Women"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

none Screen Writer(s): none

5 1931/32 Grand Hotel Wallace Beery, Fredric March

Helen Hayes

Oscar Academy Awards

5. Academy Awards (1931/32 Oscars)

Date / Place November 18, 1932 / The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Conrad Nagel

Most Awarded Movie(s)

Bad Girl (2), The Champ (2)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Arrowsmith (4), The Champ (4)

Best Picture

Grand Hotel 1 awards and 1 nominations Producer: Irving Thalberg Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Edmund Goulding

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Arrowsmith, Bad Girl, The Champ, Five Star Final, One Hour with You, Shanghai Express, The Smiling Lieutenant

Best Actor Wallace Beery, Fredric March for the role of "Andy "Champ" Purcell, Dr. Henry L. Jekyll/Edward Hyde" in the film The Champ, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Alfred Lunt for the role of "The Actor" in the film The Guardsman

Best Actress Helen Hayes for the role of "Madelon Claudet" in the film The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Marie Dressler for the role of "Emma Thatcher Smith" in the film Emma

Lynn Fontanne for the role of "The Actress" in the film The Guardsman

Best Director Frank Borzage, the director of the movie "Bad Girl"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

King Vidor, the director of the movie "The Champ"

Josef von Sternberg, the director of the movie "Shanghai Express"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

none Screen Writer(s): none

4 1930/31 Cimarron Lionel Barrymore

Marie Dressler

Oscar Academy Awards 4. Academy Awards (1930/31 Oscars)

Date / Place November 10, 1931 / Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Lawrence Grant

Most Awarded Movie(s) Cimarron (3)

Most Nominated Movie(s) Cimarron (7)

Best Picture

Cimarron 3 awards and 7 nominations Producer: William LeBaron Production Company: RKO Radio Director: Wesley Ruggles

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

East Lynne, The Front Page, Skippy, Trader Horn

Best Actor Lionel Barrymore for the role of "Stephen Ashe" in the film A Free Soul

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Jackie Cooper for the role of "Skippy Skinner" in the film Skippy

Richard Dix for the role of "Yancey Cravat" in the film Cimarron

Fredric March for the role of "Tony Cavendish" in the film The Royal Family of Broadway

Adolphe Menjou for the role of "Walter Burns" in the film The Front Page

Best Actress Marie Dressler for the role of "Min Divot" in the film Min and Bill

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Marlene Dietrich for the role of "Mademoiselle Amy Jolly" in the film Morocco

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Irene Dunne for the role of "Sabra Cravat" in the film Cimarron

Ann Harding for the role of "Linda Seton" in the film Holiday

Norma Shearer for the role of "Jan Ashe" in the film A Free Soul

Best Director Norman Taurog, the director of the movie "Skippy"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Clarence Brown, the director of the movie "A Free Soul"

Lewis Milestone, the director of the movie "The Front Page"

Wesley Ruggles, the director of the movie "Cimmaron"

Josef von Sternberg, the director of the movie "Morocco"

Best Origial ScreenPlay none Screen Writer(s): none

3 1929/30 All Quiet on the Western Front George Arliss Norma Shearer

Oscar Academy Awards 3. Academy Awards (1929/30 Oscars)

Date / Place November 5, 1930 / The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Conrad Nagel

Most Awarded Movie(s) All Quiet on the Western Front (2), The Big House (2)

Most Nominated Movie(s) The Love Parade (6)

Best Picture

All Quiet on the Western Front 2 awards and 4 nominations Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr. Production Company: Universal Director: Lewis Milestone

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Big House, Disraeli, The Divorcee, The Love Parade

Best Actor George Arliss for the role of "Benjamin Disraeli" in the film Disraeli

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

George Arliss[B] for the role of "The Raja of Rukh" in the film The Green Goddess

Wallace Beery for the role of "'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt" in the film The Big House

Maurice Chevalier[B] for the role of "Pierre Mirande" in the film The Big Pond

Ronald Colman[B] for the role of "Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond" in the film Bulldog Drummond

Lawrence Tibbett for the role of "Yegor" in the film The Rogue Song

Best Actress Norma Shearer for the role of "Jerry Bernard Martin" in the film The Divorcee

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Nancy Carroll for the role of "Hallie Hobart" in the film The Devil's Holiday

Ruth Chatterton for the role of "Sarah Storm" in the film Sarah and Son

Greta Garbo [A] for the role of "Anna Christie" in the film Anna Christie

Norma Shearer[A] for the role of "Lucia 'Lally' Marlett" in the film Their Own Desire

Gloria Swanson for the role of "Marion Donnell" in the film The Trespasser

Best Director Lewis Milestone, the director of the movie "All Quiet on the Western Front"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Clarence Brown, the director of the movie "Anna Christie"

Clarence Brown, the director of the movie "Romance"

Robert Z. Leonard, the director of the movie "The Divorcee"

Ernst Lubitsch, the director of the movie "The Love Parade"

King Vidor, the director of the movie "Hallelujah"

Best Origial ScreenPlay none Screen Writer(s): none

2 1928/29 The Broadway Melody Warner Baxter Mary Pickford

Oscar Academy Awards 2. Academy Awards (1928/29 Oscars)

Date / Place April 3, 1930 / The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) William C. DeMille

Most Awarded Movie(s) None

Most Nominated Movie(s) In Old Arizona (5), The Patriot (5)

Best Picture

The Broadway Melody 1 awards and 3 nominations Producer: Irving Thalberg Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Harry Beaumont

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

Alibi, Hollywood Revue, In Old Arizona, The Patriot

Best Actor Warner Baxter for the role of "The Cisco Kid" in the film In Old Arizona

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

George Bancroft for the role of "Thunderbolt Jim Lang" in the film Thunderbolt

Chester Morris for the role of "Chick Williams (No. 1065)" in the film Alibi

Paul Muni for the role of "James Dyke" in the film The Valiant

Lewis Stone for the role of "Count Pahlen" in the film The Patriot

Best Actress Mary Pickford for the role of "Norma Besant" in the film Coquette

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Ruth Chatterton for the role of "Jacqueline Floriot" in the film Madame X

Betty Compson for the role of "Carrie" in the film The Barker

Jeanne Eagels *[11] for the role of "Leslie Crosbie" in the film The Letter

Corinne Griffith for the role of "Emma Hamilton" in the film The Divine Lady

Bessie Love for the role of "Hank Mahoney" in the film The Broadway Melody

Best Director Frank Lloyd, the director of the movie "The Divine Lady"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Lionel Barrymore, the director of the movie "Madame X"

Harry Beaumont, the director of the movie "The Broadway Melody"

Irving Cummings, the director of the movie "In Old Arizona"

Frank Lloyd, the director of the movie "Drag"

Frank Lloyd, the director of the movie "Weary River"

Ernst Lubitsch, the director of the movie "The Patriot"

Best Origial ScreenPlay none Screen Writer(s): none

1 1927/28 Wings Emil Jannings Janet Gaynor

Oscar Academy Awards

1. Academy Awards (1927/28 Oscars)

Date / Place May 16, 1929 / Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Host(s) Douglas Fairbanks

Most Awarded Movie(s)

Seventh Heaven (3), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (3)

Most Nominated Movie(s)

Seventh Heaven (5)

Best Picture

Wings 2 awards and 2 nominations Producer: Lucien Hubbard Production Company: Paramount Director: William A. Wellman

Best Picture (Other Nominees)

The Racket, Seventh Heaven

Best Actor Emil Jannings for the role of "Grand Duke Sergius Alexander, August Schilling" in the film The Last Command, The Way of All Flesh

Best Actor (Other Nominees)

Richard Barthelmess for the role of "Nickie Elkins" in the film The Noose and for the role of "Patent Leather Kid" in the film The Patent Leather Kid

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# Year Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress

Best Actress Janet Gaynor for the role of "Diane, Angela, The Wife" in the film 7th Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Best Actress (Other Nominees)

Louise Dresser for the role of "Mrs. Pleznik" in the film A Ship Comes In

Gloria Swanson for the role of "Sadie Thompson" in the film Sadie Thompson

Best Director Frank Borzage (Dramatic), Lewis Milestone (Comedy), the director of the movie "7th Heaven, Two Arabian Knights"

Best Director (Other Nominees)

Herbert Brenon, the director of the movie "Sorrell and Son"

King Vidor, the director of the movie "The Crowd"

Ted Wilde, the director of the movie "Speedy"

Best Origial ScreenPlay

none Screen Writer(s): none

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