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| Academy Award for Best Picture | |
|---|---|
| Description | Best Picture of the Year |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
| First awarded | 1929 (for films released in 1927 and 1928) |
| Currently held by | The King's Speech (2010) |
| Website | oscars.org |
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible not only to vote on the final ballot, but also to nominate. During the annual Academy Awards ceremony, Best Picture is reserved as the final award presented and, since 1951, is collected at the podium by the film's producers. The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is considered the most important of the Academy Awards, as it is the final award presented, and represents all the directing, acting, music composing and writing efforts put forth for a film. The Grand Staircase columns at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award's inception 83 years ago. On June 14, 2011, AMPAS announced that the number of nominees would vary between five and ten films starting with the 2012 ceremony, provided that the film earned 5% of first-place votes during the nomination process.[1]
History
At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there was no Best Picture award. Instead, there were two separate awards, one called Most Outstanding Production, won by the epic Wings, and one called Most Artistic Quality of Production, won by the art film Sunrise. The awards were intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking, and in fact the judges and the studio bosses who sought to influence their decisions paid more attention to the latter - MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who had disliked the realism of King Vidor's The Crowd, another of the nominees (the third was Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's Chang) pressured the judges not to honor his own studio's film, and to select Sunrise instead. The next year, the Academy instituted a single award called Best Production, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings had been the equivalent of that award, with the result that Wings is often listed as the winner of a sole Best Picture award for the first year. The title of the award was eventually changed to Best Picture for the 1931 awards.
From 1944 to 2008, the Academy restricted nominations to five Best Picture nominees per year. As of the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony (for 2010), there have been 485 films nominated for the Best Picture award. Invariably, the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 83 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 61 have also been awarded Best Director.[1] Only three films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated (though only one since the early 1930s): Wings (1927/28), Grand Hotel (1931/32), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). The only two Best Director winners to win for films which did not receive a Best Picture nomination are likewise in the early years: Lewis Milestone (1927/28) and Frank Lloyd (1928/29).
On June 24, 2009, AMPAS announced that the number of films nominated in the Best Picture award category would increase from five to ten, starting with the 82nd Academy Awards (2009).[2] The expansion was a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and 1940s, when anywhere between eight and 12 films were shortlisted (or longlisted). "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize," AMPAS President Sid Ganis said in a press conference. "I can't wait to see what that list of 10 looks like when the nominees are announced in February."[2] At the same time, the voting system was switched from first-past-the-post to Alternative Vote (also known as Instant Run-off Vote).[3]
One point of contention is the lack of consideration of non-English language films for categories other than Best Foreign Language Film. Very few foreign language films have been nominated for any other categories, regardless of artistic merit. To date, only eight foreign language films (and three partly foreign language films) have been nominated for Best Picture: Grand Illusion (French, 1938); Z (French, 1969); The Emigrants (Swedish, 1972); Cries and Whispers (Swedish, 1973); Il Postino (Italian/Spanish, 1995); Life Is Beautiful (Italian, 1998); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Mandarin Chinese, 2000); and Letters from Iwo Jima (Japanese, 2006), which was ineligible for the Best Foreign Language Oscar because it was an American production. The only partly foreign language films to win Best Picture are The Godfather Part II (English/Sicilian, 1974), The Last Emperor (English/Mandarin, 1987) and Slumdog Millionaire (English/Hindi, 2008).
Another point of contention is the recent extreme bias toward 2-plus hour films: Crash (2005, 112m) is the shortest film to win Best Picture in the past 20 years. It has been criticized for ignoring films that were huge commercial and critical successes. Furthermore, no animated film has won the award (Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Disney-Pixar's Up and Toy Story 3 were nominated); no science fiction film has won despite a number of successful nominees; and only one comedy (Shakespeare in Love, 1998) has won in the last 30 years.
To date, eleven films exclusively financed outside the United States have won Best Picture; all eleven were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom. Those films were, in chronological order: Hamlet, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, Oliver!, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, The Last Emperor, Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech
No Best Picture winner has been lost, though a few such as All Quiet on the Western Front and Lawrence of Arabia exist only in a form altered from their original, award-winning release form, usually due to editing for reissue (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees such as Tom Jones and Star Wars are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. The 1928 film The Patriot is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost; The Racket was believed lost for many years but a print existed in producer Howard Hughes' archives and it has since been shown on Turner Classic Movies. Wings and Sunrise were the only silent winners of a Best Picture-equivalent award, although a part-silent version of All Quiet on the Western Front was created for foreign-language release and survives.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Except for the early years (when the Academy used a non-calendar year), the year shown is the one in which the film first premiered in Los Angeles County, California; normally this is also the year of first release, but it may be the year after first release (as with Casablanca and, if the film-festival premiere is considered, Crash). This is the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited theatrically during 2005 was eligible for consideration for the 2005 Best Picture Oscar, awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article (if any) on that ceremony. Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. For foreign language films, the original title is also shown. Until 1950, the Best Picture award was given to the production company; from 1951 on, it has gone to the producer. The official name of the award has changed several times over the years:
- 1927/28 → 1928/29: Outstanding Picture
- 1929/30 → 1940: Outstanding Production
- 1941 → 1943: Outstanding Motion Picture
- 1944 → 1961: Best Motion Picture
- 1962 → Present: Best Picture
For the first ceremony, three films were nominated for the award. For the following three years, five films were nominated for the award. This was expanded to eight in 1933, to ten in 1934, and to twelve in 1935, before being dropped back to ten in 1937. In 1945 it was reduced back to five. This number remained until 2010, when it was once again raised to ten.
For the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929. Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
1920s
| Film | Production Company(ies) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Wings | Paramount, Famous Players-Lasky | Lucien Hubbard |
| The Racket | Caddo, Paramount | Howard Hughes |
| Seventh Heaven | Fox | William Fox |
| Film | Production Company(ies) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Broadway Melody | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[L] | Irving Thalberg & Lawrence Weingarten |
| Alibi | Feature Productions, United Artists | Roland West |
| The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Harry Rapf |
| In Old Arizona | Fox | Winfield Sheehan[G] |
| The Patriot | Paramount | Ernst Lubitsch |
1930s
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Universal | Carl Laemmle, Jr. |
| The Big House | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Irving Thalberg |
| Disraeli | Warner Bros. | Jack Warner, Darryl F. Zanuck |
| The Divorcee | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Robert Z. Leonard |
| The Love Parade | Paramount | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Cimarron | RKO Radio | William LeBaron |
| East Lynne | Fox | Winfield Sheehan[G] |
| The Front Page | Caddo, United Artists | Howard Hughes |
| Skippy | Paramount | Adolph Zukor |
| Trader Horn | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Irving G. Thalberg |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Hotel | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Irving Thalberg |
| Arrowsmith | Goldwyn, United Artists | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Bad Girl | Fox | Winfield Sheehan[G] |
| The Champ | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | King Vidor |
| Five Star Final | First National | Hal B. Wallis |
| One Hour with You | Paramount | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Shanghai Express | Paramount | Adolph Zukor |
| The Smiling Lieutenant | Paramount | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Cavalcade[H] | Fox | Winfield Sheehan[G] |
| A Farewell to Arms[H] | Paramount | Adolph Zukor |
| 42nd Street | Warner Bros. | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | Warner Bros. | Hal B. Wallis |
| Lady for a Day | Columbia | Frank Capra |
| Little Women[H] | RKO Radio | Merian C. Cooper, Kenneth MacGowan |
| The Private Life of Henry VIII | London Films, United Artists | Alexander Korda |
| She Done Him Wrong | Paramount | William LeBaron |
| Smilin' Through | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Irving Thalberg |
| State Fair | Fox | Winfield Sheehan[G] |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| It Happened One Night[I] | Columbia | Harry Cohn |
| The Barretts of Wimpole Street[I] | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Irving Thalberg |
| Cleopatra | Paramount | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Flirtation Walk | First National | Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, Robert Lord |
| The Gay Divorcee | RKO Radio | Pandro S. Berman |
| Here Comes the Navy | Warner Bros. | Lou Edelman |
| The House of Rothschild[I] | 20th Century, United Artists | Darryl F. Zanuck, William Goetz, Raymond Griffith |
| Imitation of Life | Universal | John M. Stahl |
| One Night of Love | Columbia | Harry Cohn, Everett Riskin |
| The Thin Man | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Hunt Stromberg |
| Viva Villa! | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | David O. Selznick |
| The White Parade | Fox | Jesse L. Lasky |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Mutiny on the Bounty[J] | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Irving Thalberg, Albert Lewin |
| Alice Adams | RKO Radio | Pandro S. Berman |
| Broadway Melody of 1936 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | John W. Considine, Jr. |
| Captain Blood[J] | Warner Bros., Cosmopolitan | Hal B. Wallis, Harry Joe Brown, Gordon Hollingshead |
| David Copperfield | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | David O. Selznick |
| The Informer[J] | RKO Radio | Cliff Reid |
| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Paramount | Louis D. Lighton |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Warner Bros. | Henry Blanke |
| Les Misérables | 20th Century, United Artists | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Naughty Marietta | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Hunt Stromberg |
| Ruggles of Red Gap | Paramount | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. |
| Top Hat | RKO Radio | Pandro S. Berman |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Great Ziegfeld | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Hunt Stromberg |
| Anthony Adverse | Warner Bros. | Henry Blanke |
| Dodsworth | Goldwyn, United Artists | Samuel Goldwyn, Merritt Hulbert |
| Libeled Lady | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Lawrence Weingarten |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Columbia | Frank Capra |
| Romeo and Juliet | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Irving Thalberg |
| San Francisco | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | John Emerson, Bernard H. Hyman |
| The Story of Louis Pasteur | Warner Bros. | Henry Blanke |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | David O. Selznick |
| Three Smart Girls | Universal | Joe Pasternak, Charles R. Rogers |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Life of Emile Zola | Warner Bros. | Henry Blanke |
| The Awful Truth | Columbia | Leo McCarey, Everett Riskin |
| Captains Courageous | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Louis Lighton |
| Dead End | Goldwyn, United Artists | Samuel Goldwyn, Merritt Hulbert |
| The Good Earth | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Irving Thalberg, Albert Lewin |
| In Old Chicago | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck, Kenneth MacGowan |
| Lost Horizon | Columbia | Frank Capra |
| One Hundred Men and a Girl | Universal | Charles R. Rogers, Joe Pasternak |
| Stage Door | RKO Radio | Pandro S. Berman |
| A Star Is Born | Selznick International, United Artists | David O. Selznick |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| You Can't Take It With You | Columbia | Frank Capra |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | Warner Bros. | Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke |
| Alexander's Ragtime Band | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck, Harry Joe Brown |
| Boys Town | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | John W. Considine, Jr. |
| The Citadel | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Victor Saville |
| Four Daughters | Warner Bros., First National | Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke |
| Grand Illusion | R. A. O., World Pictures | Frank Rollmer, Albert Pinkovitch |
| Jezebel | Warner Bros. | Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke |
| Pygmalion | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Gabriel Pascal |
| Test Pilot | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Louis Lighton |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Gone with the Wind | Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | David O. Selznick |
| Dark Victory | Warner Bros. | David Lewis |
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Victor Saville |
| Love Affair | RKO Radio | Leo McCarey |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Columbia | Frank Capra |
| Ninotchka | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sidney Franklin |
| Of Mice and Men | Roach, United Artists | Lewis Milestone |
| Stagecoach | United Artists | Walter Wanger |
| The Wizard of Oz | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Wuthering Heights | Goldwyn, United Artists | Samuel Goldwyn |
1940s
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Rebecca | Selznick, United Artists | David O. Selznick |
| All This, and Heaven Too | Warner Bros. | Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, David Lewis |
| Foreign Correspondent | Wanger, United Artists | Walter Wanger |
| The Grapes of Wrath | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck, Nunnally Johnson |
| The Great Dictator | Chaplin, United Artists | Charlie Chaplin |
| Kitty Foyle | RKO Radio | David Hempstead |
| The Letter | Warner Bros. | Hal B. Wallis |
| The Long Voyage Home | Argosy, Wanger, United Artists | John Ford |
| Our Town | Lesser, United Artists | Sol Lesser |
| The Philadelphia Story | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| How Green Was My Valley | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Blossoms in the Dust | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Irving Asher |
| Citizen Kane | RKO Radio | Orson Welles |
| Here Comes Mr. Jordan | Columbia | Everett Riskin |
| Hold Back the Dawn | Paramount | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. |
| The Little Foxes | RKO Radio | Samuel Goldwyn |
| The Maltese Falcon | Warner Bros. | Hal B. Wallis |
| One Foot in Heaven | Warner Bros. | Hal B. Wallis |
| Sergeant York | Warner Bros. | Hal B. Wallis, Jesse L. Lasky |
| Suspicion | RKO Radio | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Mrs. Miniver | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sidney Franklin |
| 49th Parallel | GFD, Columbia | Michael Powell |
| Kings Row | Warner Bros. | Hal B. Wallis |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | Mercury, RKO Radio | Orson Welles |
| The Pied Piper | 20th Century Fox | Nunnally Johnson |
| The Pride of the Yankees | Goldwyn, RKO Radio | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Random Harvest | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sidney Franklin |
| The Talk of the Town | Columbia | George Stevens |
| Wake Island | Paramount | Joseph Sistrom |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy | Warner Bros. | Jack Warner, Hal B. Wallis, William Cagney |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Casablanca | Warner Bros. | Hal B. Wallis |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Paramount | Sam Wood |
| Heaven Can Wait | 20th Century Fox | Ernst Lubitsch |
| The Human Comedy | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Clarence Brown |
| In Which We Serve | United Artists | Noël Coward |
| Madame Curie | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sidney Franklin |
| The More the Merrier | Columbia | George Stevens |
| The Ox-Bow Incident | 20th Century Fox | Lamar Trotti |
| The Song of Bernadette | 20th Century Fox | William Perlberg |
| Watch on the Rhine | Warner Bros. | Hal B. Wallis |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Going My Way | Paramount | Leo McCarey |
| Double Indemnity | Paramount | Joseph Sistrom |
| Gaslight | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. |
| Since You Went Away | Selznick, United Artists | David O. Selznick |
| Wilson | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Lost Weekend | Paramount | Charles Brackett |
| Anchors Aweigh | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Joe Pasternak |
| The Bells of St. Mary's | RKO Radio | Leo McCarey |
| Mildred Pierce | Warner Bros. | Jerry Wald |
| Spellbound | United Artists | David O. Selznick |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Best Years of Our Lives | RKO Radio | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Henry V | United Artists | Laurence Olivier |
| It's a Wonderful Life | RKO Radio | Frank Capra |
| The Razor's Edge | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| The Yearling | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sidney Franklin |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Gentleman's Agreement | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| The Bishop's Wife | RKO Radio | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Crossfire | RKO Radio | Adrian Scott |
| Great Expectations | Rank-Cineguild, U-I | Ronald Neame |
| Miracle on 34th Street | 20th Century Fox | William Perlberg |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Hamlet | J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, Universal International | Laurence Olivier |
| Johnny Belinda | Warner Bros. | Jerry Wald |
| The Red Shoes | Rank Organisation, Powell and Pressburger, Eagle-Lion Films | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| The Snake Pit | 20th Century Fox | Anatole Litvak, Robert Bassler |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Warner Bros. | Henry Blanke |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| All the King's Men | Rossen, Columbia | Robert Rossen |
| Battleground | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Dore Schary |
| The Heiress | Paramount | William Wyler |
| A Letter to Three Wives | 20th Century Fox | Sol C. Siegel |
| Twelve O'Clock High | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
1950s
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| All About Eve | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Born Yesterday | Columbia | S. Sylvan Simon |
| Father of the Bride | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sam Zimbalist |
| King Solomon's Mines | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sam Zimbalist |
| Sunset Boulevard | Paramount | Charles Brackett |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| An American in Paris | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Arthur Freed |
| Decision Before Dawn | 20th Century Fox | Anatole Litvak, Frank McCarthy |
| A Place in the Sun | Paramount | George Stevens |
| Quo Vadis | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sam Zimbalist |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Warner Bros. | Charles K. Feldman |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Greatest Show on Earth | Paramount | Cecil B. DeMille |
| High Noon | United Artists | Stanley Kramer |
| Ivanhoe | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Pandro S. Berman |
| Moulin Rouge | United Artists | John Huston |
| The Quiet Man | Republic | John Ford, Merian C. Cooper |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| From Here to Eternity | Columbia | Buddy Adler |
| Julius Caesar | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | John Houseman |
| The Robe | 20th Century Fox | Frank Ross |
| Roman Holiday | Paramount | William Wyler |
| Shane | Paramount | George Stevens |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| On the Waterfront | Columbia | Sam Spiegel[N] |
| The Caine Mutiny | Columbia | Stanley Kramer |
| The Country Girl | Paramount | William Perlberg |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Jack Cummings |
| Three Coins in the Fountain | 20th Century Fox | Sol C. Siegel |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Marty | United Artists | Harold Hecht |
| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | 20th Century Fox | Buddy Adler |
| Mister Roberts | Warner Bros. | Leland Hayward |
| Picnic | Columbia | Fred Kohlmar |
| The Rose Tattoo | Paramount | Hal B. Wallis |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Around the World in 80 Days | United Artists | Michael Todd |
| Friendly Persuasion | Allied Artists | William Wyler |
| Giant | Warner Bros. | George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg |
| The King and I | 20th Century Fox | Charles Brackett |
| The Ten Commandments | Paramount | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | Columbia | Sam Spiegel |
| Peyton Place | 20th Century Fox | Jerry Wald |
| Sayonara | Warner Bros. | William Goetz |
| 12 Angry Men | United Artists | Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose |
| Witness for the Prosecution | United Artists | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Gigi | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Arthur Freed |
| Auntie Mame | Warner Bros. | Jack L. Warner |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Lawrence Weingarten |
| The Defiant Ones | Kramer, United Artists | Stanley Kramer |
| Separate Tables | United Artists | Harold Hecht |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Ben-Hur | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sam Zimbalist |
| Anatomy of a Murder | Columbia | Otto Preminger |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | 20th Century Fox | George Stevens |
| The Nun's Story | Warner Bros. | Henry Blanke |
| Room at the Top | Continental, British Lion Films | John Woolf, James Woolf |
1960s
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Apartment | United Artists | Billy Wilder |
| The Alamo | United Artists | John Wayne |
| Elmer Gantry | United Artists | Bernard Smith |
| Sons and Lovers | 20th Century Fox | Jerry Wald |
| The Sundowners | Warner Bros. | Fred Zinnemann |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| West Side Story | United Artists | Robert Wise |
| Fanny | Warner Bros. | Joshua Logan |
| The Guns of Navarone | Columbia | Carl Foreman |
| The Hustler | 20th Century Fox | Robert Rossen |
| Judgment at Nuremberg | United Artists | Stanley Kramer |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Lawrence of Arabia | Columbia | Sam Spiegel |
| The Longest Day | 20th Century Fox | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| The Music Man | Warner Bros. | Morton DaCosta |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Aaron Rosenberg |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | U-I | Alan J. Pakula |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Jones | United Artists | Tony Richardson |
| America, America | Warner Bros. | Elia Kazan |
| Cleopatra | 20th Century Fox | Walter Wanger |
| How the West Was Won | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cinerama | Bernard Smith |
| Lilies of the Field | United Artists | Ralph Nelson |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| My Fair Lady | Warner Bros. | Jack L. Warner |
| Becket | Paramount | Hal B. Wallis |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Columbia | Stanley Kubrick |
| Mary Poppins | Walt Disney Productions | Walt Disney, Bill Walsh |
| Zorba the Greek | 20th Century Fox | Michael Cacoyannis |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Sound of Music | 20th Century Fox | Robert Wise |
| Darling | Embassy | Joseph Janni |
| Doctor Zhivago | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Carlo Ponti |
| Ship of Fools | Columbia | Stanley Kramer |
| A Thousand Clowns | United Artists | Fred Coe |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| A Man for All Seasons | Columbia | Fred Zinnemann |
| Alfie | Paramount | Lewis Gilbert |
| The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming | United Artists | Norman Jewison |
| The Sand Pebbles | 20th Century Fox | Robert Wise |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Warner Bros. | Ernest Lehman |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| In the Heat of the Night | United Artists | Walter Mirisch |
| Bonnie and Clyde | Warner Bros., Seven Arts | Warren Beatty |
| Doctor Dolittle | 20th Century Fox | Arthur P. Jacobs |
| The Graduate | Embassy | Lawrence Turman |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Columbia | Stanley Kramer |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Oliver! | Columbia | John Woolf |
| Funny Girl | Columbia | Ray Stark |
| The Lion in Winter | Avco Embassy | Martin Poll |
| Rachel, Rachel | Warner Bros. | Paul Newman |
| Romeo and Juliet | Paramount | Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight Cowboy | United Artists | Jerome Hellman |
| Anne of the Thousand Days | Universal | Hal B. Wallis |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 20th Century Fox | John Foreman |
| Hello, Dolly! | 20th Century Fox | Ernest Lehman |
| Z[K] | Cinema V | Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi |
1970s
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Patton | 20th Century Fox | Frank McCarthy |
| Airport | Universal | Ross Hunter |
| Five Easy Pieces | Columbia | Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler |
| Love Story | Paramount | Howard G. Minsky |
| MASH | 20th Century Fox | Ingo Preminger |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The French Connection | 20th Century Fox | Philip D'Antoni |
| A Clockwork Orange | Warner Bros. | Stanley Kubrick |
| Fiddler on the Roof | United Artists | Norman Jewison |
| The Last Picture Show | Columbia | Stephen J. Friedman |
| Nicholas and Alexandra | Columbia | Sam Spiegel |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Godfather | Paramount | Albert S. Ruddy |
| Cabaret | Allied Artists | Cy Feuer |
| Deliverance | Warner Bros. | John Boorman |
| The Emigrants[K] | Warner Bros. | Bengt Forslund |
| Sounder | 20th Century Fox | Robert B. Radnitz |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Sting | Universal | Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips |
| American Graffiti | Lucasfilm, Universal | Francis Ford Coppola, Gary Kurtz |
| Cries and Whispers[K] | New World Pictures | Ingmar Bergman |
| The Exorcist | Warner Bros. | William Peter Blatty |
| A Touch of Class | Avco Embassy | Melvin Frank |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Godfather Part II[O] | Paramount | Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos |
| Chinatown | Paramount | Robert Evans |
| The Conversation | Paramount | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Lenny | United Artists | Marvin Worth |
| The Towering Inferno | 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. | Irwin Allen |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | United Artists | Saul Zaentz[N], Michael Douglas |
| Barry Lyndon | Warner Bros. | Stanley Kubrick |
| Dog Day Afternoon | Warner Bros. | Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand |
| Jaws | Universal | Richard D. Zanuck |
| Nashville | Paramount | Robert Altman |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky | United Artists | Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff |
| All the President's Men | Warner Bros. | Walter Coblenz |
| Bound for Glory | United Artists | Robert F. Blumofe, Harold Leventhal |
| Network | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists | Howard Gottfried |
| Taxi Driver | Columbia | Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Annie Hall | United Artists | Charles H. Joffe |
| The Goodbye Girl | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros. | Ray Stark |
| Julia | 20th Century Fox | Richard Roth |
| Star Wars | Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox | Gary Kurtz |
| The Turning Point | 20th Century Fox | Herbert Ross, Arthur Laurents |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Deer Hunter | Universal | Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall |
| Coming Home | United Artists | Jerome Hellman |
| Heaven Can Wait | Paramount | Warren Beatty |
| Midnight Express | Columbia | Alan Marshall, David Puttnam |
| An Unmarried Woman | 20th Century Fox | Paul Mazursky, Tony Ray |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Kramer vs. Kramer | Columbia | Stanley R. Jaffe |
| All That Jazz | 20th Century Fox | Robert Alan Aurthur |
| Apocalypse Now | United Artists | Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson, Tom Sternberg |
| Breaking Away | 20th Century Fox | Peter Yates |
| Norma Rae | 20th Century Fox | Tamara Asseyev, Alex Rose |
1980s
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Ordinary People | Paramount | Ronald L. Schwary |
| Coal Miner's Daughter | Universal | Bernard Schwartz |
| The Elephant Man | Paramount | Jonathan Sanger |
| Raging Bull | United Artists | Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff |
| Tess | Columbia | Claude Berri, Timothy Burrill |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Chariots of Fire | The Ladd Company, Warner Bros. | David Puttnam |
| Atlantic City | Paramount | Denis Héroux |
| On Golden Pond | ITC, Universal | Bruce Gilbert |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Lucasfilm, Paramount | Frank Marshall |
| Reds | Paramount | Warren Beatty |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Gandhi | Columbia | Richard Attenborough |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Universal | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy[M] |
| Missing | Universal | Edward Lewis, Mildred Lewis |
| Tootsie | Columbia | Sydney Pollack, Dick Richards |
| The Verdict | 20th Century Fox | Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Terms of Endearment | Paramount | James L. Brooks |
| The Big Chill | Columbia | Michael Shamberg |
| The Dresser | Columbia | Peter Yates |
| The Right Stuff | Warner Bros., The Ladd Company | Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff |
| Tender Mercies | EMI Films, Universal | Philip S. Hobel |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Amadeus | Orion | Saul Zaentz |
| The Killing Fields | Warner Bros. | David Puttnam |
| A Passage to India | Columbia | John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin |
| Places in the Heart | Tri-Star | Arlene Donovan |
| A Soldier's Story | Columbia | Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary, Patrick Palmer |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Out of Africa | Universal | Sydney Pollack |
| The Color Purple | Warner Bros. | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman | Island Alive | David Weisman |
| Prizzi's Honor | 20th Century Fox, ABC Motion Pictures | John Foreman |
| Witness | Paramount | Edward S. Feldman |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Platoon | Orion | Arnold Kopelson |
| Children of a Lesser God | Paramount | Burt Sugarman, Patrick J. Palmer |
| Hannah and Her Sisters | Orion | Robert Greenhut |
| The Mission | Warner Bros. | Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam |
| A Room with a View | Cinecom | Ismail Merchant |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Last Emperor[O] | Columbia | Jeremy Thomas |
| Broadcast News | 20th Century Fox | James L. Brooks |
| Fatal Attraction | Paramount | Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing |
| Hope and Glory | Columbia | John Boorman |
| Moonstruck | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Patrick J. Palmer, Norman Jewison |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Rain Man | United Artists | Mark Johnson |
| The Accidental Tourist | Warner Bros. | Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun, Michael Grillo |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Warner Bros. | Norma Heyman, Hank Moonjean |
| Mississippi Burning | Orion | Frederick Zollo, Robert F. Colesberry |
| Working Girl | 20th Century Fox | Douglas Wick |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Driving Miss Daisy | Warner Bros. | Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck |
| Born on the Fourth of July | Universal | A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone |
| Dead Poets Society | Touchstone Pictures | Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas |
| Field of Dreams | Universal | Lawrence Gordon, Charles Gordon |
| My Left Foot | Miramax | Noel Pearson |
1990s
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Dances with Wolves | Orion | Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner |
| Awakenings | Columbia | Walter F. Parkes, Lawrence Lasker |
| Ghost | Paramount | Lisa Weinstein |
| The Godfather Part III | Paramount | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Goodfellas | Warner Bros. | Irwin Winkler |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Silence of the Lambs | Orion | Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman |
| Beauty and the Beast | Disney | Don Hahn |
| Bugsy | TriStar | Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Warren Beatty |
| JFK | Warner Bros. | A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone |
| The Prince of Tides | Columbia | Barbra Streisand, Andrew S. Karsch |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Unforgiven | Warner Bros. | Clint Eastwood |
| The Crying Game | Miramax | Stephen Woolley |
| A Few Good Men | Columbia, Castle Rock Entertainment | Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman |
| Howards End | Sony Pictures Classics | Ismail Merchant |
| Scent of a Woman | Universal | Martin Brest |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Schindler's List | Universal | Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig |
| The Fugitive | Warner Bros. | Arnold Kopelson |
| In the Name of the Father | Universal | Jim Sheridan |
| The Piano | Miramax | Jane Campion |
| The Remains of the Day | Columbia | Mike Nichols, John Calley, Ismail Merchant |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Forrest Gump | Paramount | Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Gramercy | Duncan Kenworthy |
| Pulp Fiction | Miramax | Lawrence Bender |
| Quiz Show | Hollywood Pictures | Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozick, Robert Redford |
| The Shawshank Redemption | Columbia, Castle Rock Entertainment | Niki Marvin |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Braveheart | Paramount, Icon, 20th Century Fox | Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey |
| Apollo 13 | Universal, Imagine Entertainment | Brian Grazer |
| Babe | Universal | Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell |
| The Postman (Il Postino)[K] | Miramax | Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano Daniele |
| Sense and Sensibility | Columbia | Lindsay Doran |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The English Patient | Miramax | Saul Zaentz |
| Fargo | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Gramercy | Ethan Coen |
| Jerry Maguire | Gracie Films, TriStar | James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai, Cameron Crowe |
| Secrets & Lies | October Films | Simon Channing-Williams |
| Shine | Fine Line Features | Jane Scott |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Titanic | Lightstorm Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Paramount | James Cameron, Jon Landau |
| As Good as It Gets | TriStar | James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi Zea |
| The Full Monty | Fox Searchlight | Umberto Pasolini |
| Good Will Hunting | Miramax | Lawrence Bender |
| L.A. Confidential | Warner Bros. | Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, Michael G. Nathanson |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Shakespeare in Love | Miramax/Universal | David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman |
| Elizabeth | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Gramercy | Shekhar Kapur, Alison Owen, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan |
| Life Is Beautiful[K] | Miramax | Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi |
| Saving Private Ryan | DreamWorks, Paramount | Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn |
| The Thin Red Line | 20th Century Fox | Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| American Beauty | DreamWorks | Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks |
| The Cider House Rules | Miramax | Richard N. Gladstein |
| The Green Mile | Castle Rock Entertainment, Warner Bros. | Frank Darabont, David Valdes |
| The Insider | Touchstone Pictures | Pieter Jan Brugge, Michael Mann |
| The Sixth Sense | Hollywood Pictures | Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, M. Night Shyamalan |
2000s
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Gladiator | DreamWorks, Universal | Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig |
| Chocolat | Miramax | David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon[K] | Sony Pictures Classics | William Kong, Hsu Li Kong, Ang Lee |
| Erin Brockovich | Universal, Columbia | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher |
| Traffic | USA Films | Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Bickford |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| A Beautiful Mind | Universal, DreamWorks | Brian Grazer, Ron Howard |
| Gosford Park | USA Films | Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, David Levy |
| In the Bedroom | Miramax | Graham Leader, Ross Katz, Todd Field |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | New Line Cinema | Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Barrie M. Osborne |
| Moulin Rouge! | 20th Century Fox | Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago | Miramax | Martin Richards |
| Gangs of New York | Miramax | Alberto Grimaldi, Harvey Weinstein |
| The Hours | Paramount, Miramax | Scott Rudin, Robert Fox |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | New Line Cinema | Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson |
| The Pianist | Focus Features | Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | New Line Cinema | Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh |
| Lost in Translation | Focus Features | Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola |
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 20th Century Fox, Miramax, Universal | Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson |
| Mystic River | Warner Bros. | Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt, Clint Eastwood |
| Seabiscuit | Universal, DreamWorks | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gary Ross |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Million Dollar Baby | Warner Bros. | Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg |
| The Aviator | Warner Bros., Miramax | Michael Mann, Graham King |
| Finding Neverland | Miramax | Richard N. Gladstein, Nellie Bellflower |
| Ray | Universal | Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin |
| Sideways | Fox Searchlight | Michael London |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Crash | Lions Gate Entertainment | Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman |
| Brokeback Mountain | Focus Features | Diana Ossana, James Schamus |
| Capote | United Artists | Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven |
| Good Night, and Good Luck | Warner Bros. | Grant Heslov |
| Munich | DreamWorks, Universal | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Departed | Warner Bros. | Graham King |
| Babel | Paramount Vantage | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin, Jon Kilik |
| Letters from Iwo Jima[K] | Warner Bros. | Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Robert Lorenz |
| Little Miss Sunshine | Fox Searchlight | David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub |
| The Queen | Miramax | Andy Harries, Christine Langan, Tracey Seaward |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| No Country for Old Men | Miramax, Paramount Vantage | Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen |
| Atonement | Focus Features | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster |
| Juno | Fox Searchlight | Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith |
| Michael Clayton | Warner Bros. | Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent, Sydney Pollack |
| There Will Be Blood | Paramount Vantage, Miramax | Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Slumdog Millionaire[O] | Fox Searchlight, Warner Bros. | Christian Colson |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Paramount, Warner Bros. | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Cean Chaffin |
| Frost/Nixon | Universal | Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner |
| Milk | Focus Features | Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks |
| The Reader | The Weinstein Co. | Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Hurt Locker | Summit Entertainment | Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro |
| Avatar | Lightstorm Entertainment, 20th Century Fox | James Cameron, Jon Landau |
| The Blind Side | Warner Bros. | Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson |
| District 9 | TriStar | Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham |
| An Education | Sony Pictures Classics | Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey |
| Inglourious Basterds | The Weinstein Co., Universal | Lawrence Bender |
| Precious | Lions Gate Entertainment | Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness |
| A Serious Man | Focus Features | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Up | Disney/Pixar | Jonas Rivera |
| Up in the Air | Paramount | Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman |
2010s
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The King's Speech | The Weinstein Co. | Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin |
| Black Swan | Fox Searchlight | Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy and Brian Oliver |
| The Fighter | Paramount | David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg |
| Inception | Warner Bros. | Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas |
| The Kids Are All Right | Focus Features | Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray |
| 127 Hours | Fox Searchlight | Danny Boyle and Christian Colson |
| The Social Network | Columbia | Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca and Scott Rudin |
| Toy Story 3 | Disney/Pixar | Darla K. Anderson |
| True Grit | Paramount | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Scott Rudin |
| Winter's Bone | Roadside Attractions | Alix Madigan and Anne Rosellini |
| Film | Production company(s) | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Artist | The Weinstein Company | Thomas Langmann |
| The Descendents | Fox Searchlight | Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Warner Bros. | Scott Rudin |
| The Help | Touchstone | Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan |
| Hugo | Paramount | Graham King and Martin Scorsese |
| Midnight in Paris | Sony Pictures Classics | Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum |
| Moneyball | Columbia | Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt |
| The Tree of Life | Fox Searchlight | Nominees to be determined |
| War Horse | Touchstone | Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy |
Notes
- A : The official name of the award for 1928 and 1929 called Outstanding Picture
- B : The official name of the award from 1930 to 1940 called Outstanding Production
- C : The official name of the award from 1941 to 1943 called Outstanding Motion Picture
- D : The official name of the award from 1944 to 1961 called Best Motion Picture
- E : The official name of the award from 1962 called Best Picture
- F : There were two categories for "Outstanding Picture" with the other being Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Production where the winner was Sunrise (production company: Fox; producer: William Fox). This category was dropped immediately after the first year of the Academy Award.[4]
- G1 2 3 4 5 : Head of studio
- H1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that A Farewell to Arms came in second, and Little Women third.
- I1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that The Barretts of Wimpole Street came in second, and The House of Rothschild third.
- J1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that The Informer came in second, and Captain Blood third.
- K1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 : Nominated motion picture with non-English dialogue track (AMPAS: foreign language film).[5] Three of which, Z, Life is Beautiful and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[6]
- L : Production company with the most nominations (38) and the most awards (5). Applying only from 1928 to 1950.[7]
- M : Person with the most nominations (6 nominations, 0 awards). Applying only from 1951 to 2008.[7]
- N : Person with the most awards (3 awards, Spiegel 4 nominations, Zaentz 3 nominations). Applying only from 1951 to 2008.[7]
- O1 2 3 : Winner with partly non-English dialogue track (AMPAS: foreign language).[8]
Milestones
Listed below are various milestones for Best Picture that various films and individuals have achieved since the inception of the Academy Awards.
Milestones related to acting
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd | 1928/29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First winner for Best Picture to receive an acting nomination |
| 7th | 1934 | It Happened One Night | 5 | 5 | First Best Picture nominee to win both Best Actor and Best Actress |
| 15th | 1942 | Mrs. Miniver | 6 | 12 | First Best Picture nominee to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories |
| 26th | 1953 | From Here to Eternity | 8 | 13 | Last Best Picture winner to date to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories |
| 35th | 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | 7 | 10 | Only Best Picture winner to have credited roles for actors of only one gender |
| 54th | 1981 | Reds | 3 | 12 | Last Best Picture nominee to date to receive nominations in all four of the acting categories |
| 64th | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | 5 | 7 | Last Best Picture winner to date to win both Best Actor and Best Actress |
| 70th | 1997 | As Good As It Gets | 2 | 7 | Last Best Picture nominee to date to win both Best Actor and Best Actress |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | First (and only) film to win more than 10 awards (including Best Picture) and not receive an acting nomination |
| 81st | 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | 8 | 10 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without receiving any acting nominations |
Milestones related to country or language
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th | 1932/33 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1 | 2 | First foreign film to be nominated for Best Picture and to win any Academy Award (British) |
| 11th | 1938 | Grand Illusion | 0 | 1 | First foreign language film to be nominated for Best Picture (French) |
| 21st | 1948 | Hamlet | 4 | 7 | First foreign film to win Best Picture (British) |
| 73rd | 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 4 | 10 | Foreign language film nominated for Best Picture to date with the most number of Academy Award nominations |
| 79th | 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 1 | 4 | Last foreign language film to date to be nominated for Best Picture (Japanese) |
| 79th | 2006 | The Departed | 4 | 5 | First (and only) remake of a foreign film to win Best Picture |
| 81st | 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | 8 | 10 | Tied with Gandhi as Best Picture winner with second most Oscars for a British production (behind The English Patient and The Last Emperor both with nine each).[9] |
Milestones related to directing
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34th | 1961 | West Side Story | 10 | 11 | First of only two Best Picture winners to have more than one credited director (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise) |
| 59th | 1986 | Children of a Lesser God | 1 | 5 | First film directed by a woman (Randa Haines) to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 62nd | 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | 4 | 9 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | First Best Picture winner to be produced, directed, written, and edited by the same person (James Cameron) |
| 71st | 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | 7 | 13 | Most Oscars without a Best Director win |
| 80th | 2007 | No Country for Old Men | 4 | 8 | Last Best Picture winner to date to have more than one credited director (Joel and Ethan Coen) |
| 82nd | 2009 | The Hurt Locker | 6 | 9 | First (and only) Best Picture winner directed by a woman (Kathryn Bigelow) |
| 82nd | 2009 | Precious | 2 | 6 | First (and only) Best Picture nominee directed by an African-American (Lee Daniels) |
Milestones related to genre
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1927/28 | Wings | 2 | 2 | First war film to be nominated and win Best Picture |
| 1st | 1927/28 | Wings | 2 | 2 | First (and only) silent film to win Best Picture |
| 2nd | 1928/29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First musical to win Best Picture |
| 4th | 1930/31 | Cimarron | 3 | 7 | First Western to win Best Picture |
| 7th | 1934 | It Happened One Night | 5 | 5 | First comedy to win Best Picture |
| 10th | 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola | 3 | 10 | First biographical picture (biopic) to win Best Picture |
| 12th | 1939 | The Wizard of Oz | 2 | 6 | First children's film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 13th | 1940 | Rebecca | 2 | 11 | First (and only) thriller to win Best Picture |
| 40th | 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | 5 | 7 | First (and only) mystery to win Best Picture |
| 44th | 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 4 | First science fiction film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 46th | 1973 | The Exorcist | 2 | 10 | First horror film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 49th | 1976 | Rocky | 3 | 10 | First sports film to win Best Picture |
| 58th | 1985 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1 | 4 | First Independent film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 64th | 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | 2 | 6 | First animated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 64th | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | 5 | 7 | First (and only) horror film to win Best Picture |
| 71st | 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | 7 | 13 | Last comedy to date to win Best Picture |
| 73rd | 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 4 | 10 | First (and only) martial arts film to date to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 75th | 2002 | Chicago | 6 | 13 | Last musical to date to win (or be nominated for) Best Picture |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | First (and only) fantasy film to date to win Best Picture |
| 83rd | 2010 | The King's Speech | 4 | 12 | Last biopic to date to win Best Picture |
Milestones related to other Academy Awards
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1927/28 | Wings | 2 | 2 | Winner of the first Academy award for Best Picture |
| 2nd | 1928/29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First film to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards |
| 4th | 1930/31 | Cimarron | 3 | 7 | First film to be nominated for every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 5th | 1931/32 | Grand Hotel | 1 | 1 | First (and only) film to win Best Picture without receiving any other nominations |
| 7th | 1934 | It Happened One Night | 5 | 5 | First of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 8th | 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1 | 8 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards |
| 16th | 1943 | The Ox-Bow Incident | 0 | 1 | Last film to date to be nominated for Best Picture and no other award |
| 24th | 1951 | Decision Before Dawn | 0 | 2 | First film to be nominated for Best Picture and only one other award after the switch to five nominees in 1944 |
| 39th | 1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 5 | 13 | First (and only) Best Picture nominee to be nominated for every award category in which it was eligible |
| 53rd | 1980 | Ordinary People | 4 | 6 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without a Best Film Editing nomination. |
| 48th | 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 5 | 9 | Second of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 64th | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | 5 | 7 | Third of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without a screenplay nomination (Adapted or Original) |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | Last film to date to win Best Picture and all of its other nominated categories |
Milestones related to other awards ceremonies
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11th | 1938 | You Can't Take It With You | 2 | 7 | First of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted for the screen from plays which won the Pulitzer Prize |
| 18th | 1945 | The Lost Weekend | 4 | 7 | Only film to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix du Festival International du Film |
| 28th | 1955 | Marty | 4 | 8 | Only film to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or |
| 46th | 1973 | The Sting | 7 | 10 | First of only two films to win Best Picture without being nominated for either of the three Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture (drama, comedy/musical or foreign film). |
| 61st | 1988 | Rain Man | 4 | 8 | First (and only) film to win Berlin Golden Bear and Best Picture |
| 62nd | 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | 4 | 9 | Second of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted for the screen from plays having won the Pulitzer Prize |
| 78th | 2005 | Crash | 3 | 6 | One of only two film festival acquisitions to win Best Picture |
| 78th | 2005 | Crash | 3 | 6 | Second of only two films to win Best Picture without being nominated for either of the three Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture (drama, comedy/musical or foreign film). |
| 82nd | 2009 | The Hurt Locker | 6 | 9 | Second of only two film festival acquisitions to win Best Picture |
Milestones related to rating
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41st | 1968 | Oliver! | 6 | 11 | First film with an MPAA rating to win Best Picture |
| 41st | 1968 | Oliver! | 6 | 11 | First (and only) G-rated film to date to win Best Picture |
| 42nd | 1969 | Midnight Cowboy | 3 | 7 | First (and only) X-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 42nd | 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | 1 | 10 | First M-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 42nd | 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 4 | 7 | Last M-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 43rd | 1970 | Patton | 7 | 10 | First (and only) GP-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 44th | 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 4 | Last X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 44th | 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | 2 | 7 | Last GP-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 44th | 1971 | The French Connection | 5 | 8 | First R-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 46th | 1973 | The Sting | 7 | 10 | First PG-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 58th | 1985 | The Color Purple | 0 | 11 | First PG-13-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 60th | 1987 | The Last Emperor | 9 | 9 | First PG-13-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 62nd | 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | 4 | 9 | Last Best Picture winner to date with a PG rating (or lower) |
| 83rd | 2010 | Toy Story 3 | 2 | 5 | Last Best Picture nominee to date with a G-rating. |
Milestones related to sequels, prequels, remakes, and adaptations
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4th | 1930/31 | Skippy | 1 | 4 | First (and only) film based on a comic book, comic strip, or graphic novel to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 8th | 1935 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 2* | 3 | First Shakespeare adaptation to be nominated for Best Picture (* one of its two Oscars was a write-in winner) |
| 18th | 1945 | The Bells of St. Mary's | 1 | 8 | First sequel to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 28th | 1955 | Marty | 4 | 8 | First (and only) film based on a television film or mini-series to win Best Picture |
| 47th | 1974 | The Godfather Part II | 6 | 11 | First sequel to win Best Picture. |
| 63rd | 1990 | The Godfather Part III | 0 | 7 | First of only two trilogies to have all three films nominated for Best Picture |
| 66th | 1993 | The Fugitive | 1 | 7 | First film based on a television series to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 73rd | 2000 | Traffic | 4 | 5 | Last Best Picture nominee to date to have been based on a television film or mini-series |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | Second of only two trilogies to have all three films nominated for Best Picture, and only one to have the third installment win. |
| 83rd | 2010 | Toy Story 3 | 2 | 5 | Only sequel to be nominated for Best Picture without any of its predecessors being nominated |
Milestones related to superlatives
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th | 1932/33 | She Done Him Wrong | 0 | 1 | Shortest film to be nominated for Best Picture (1 hour 6 minutes) |
| 12th | 1939 | Gone with the Wind | 8 | 13 | Longest film to win Best Picture (3 hours 54 minutes) |
| 23rd | 1950 | All About Eve | 6 | 14 | First of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture |
| 28th | 1955 | Marty | 4 | 8 | Shortest film to win Best Picture (1 hour 31 minutes) |
| 32nd | 1959 | Ben-Hur | 11 | 12 | First of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture |
| 45th | 1972 | Cabaret | 8 | 10 | Best Picture nominee to win the most Academy Awards (8) without winning Best Picture |
| 50th | 1977 | The Turning Point | 0 | 11 | First of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11 nominations without winning any Academy Awards |
| 58th | 1985 | The Color Purple | 0 | 11 | Second of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11 nominations without winning any Academy Awards |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | Second of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | First Best Picture winner to gross more than a billion US dollars worldwide.[10] |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | Second of only three films to date to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | First and only film to date with ten or more nominations (11) to win in every nomination it received including Best Picture |
| 77th | 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | 4 | 7 | Last film to date to be nominated for every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 77th | 2004 | The Aviator | 5 | 11 | Last film to date to win the most Academy Awards (5) in its year without winning Best Picture |
| 82nd | 2009 | The Hurt Locker | 6 | 9 | Lowest-grossing film after 1955 to win Best Picture |
Milestones related to technology
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd | 1928/29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First sound film to win Best Picture |
| 10th | 1937 | A Star Is Born | 1 | 7 | First all-color film nominated for Best Picture |
| 12th | 1939 | Gone with the Wind | 8 | 13 | First all-color film to win Best Picture |
| 18th | 1945 | Anchors Aweigh | 1 | 5 | First live action/traditional animation hybrid film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 26th | 1953 | The Robe | 2 | 5 | First motion picture (and Best Picture nominee) in CinemaScope |
| 33rd | 1960 | The Apartment | 5 | 10 | Last black-and-white film before 1993 (and last entirely in B&W) to win Best Picture |
| 64th | 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | 2 | 6 | First (and only) hand drawn animated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 66th | 1993 | Schindler's List | 7 | 12 | First (and only) black-and-white film after 1960 to win Best Picture (though with some color sequences) |
| 78th | 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | 0 | 6 | Last black-and-white film to date to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 82nd | 2009 | Avatar | 3 | 9 | First nominee to be entirely filmed using 3D film technology |
| 82nd | 2009 | Up | 2 | 5 | First computer animated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
Superlatives
| Category | Record Holder | Record | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most Best Picture Awards by a Studio | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 5 awards | Note 1 |
| Most Best Picture Nominations by a Studio | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 40 nominations | |
| Most Best Picture Awards by a Producer | Sam Spiegel and Saul Zaentz | 3 awards | Note 1 |
| Most Best Picture Nominations by a Producer | Stanley Kramer, Steven Spielberg, and Kathleen Kennedy |
6 nominations | Note 2 |
| Most Best Picture Awards by a Director | William Wyler | 3 awards | |
| Most Best Picture Nominations by a Director | William Wyler | 13 nominations | |
| Best Picture with the Most Awards | Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 awards | |
| Best Picture with the Most Nominations | All About Eve and Titanic | 14 nominations | |
| Longest Best Picture Winner | Gone with the Wind | 3 hours and 54 minutes | Note 3 |
| Longest Best Picture Nominee | Cleopatra | 4 hours and 3 minutes | Note 4 |
| Shortest Best Picture Winner | Marty | 1 hour and 31 minutes | Note 5 |
| Shortest Best Picture Nominee | She Done Him Wrong | 1 hour and 6 minutes |
Note 1: Until the 23rd Academy Awards (1950), Best Picture was awarded to the studio that produced the film. Beginning with the 24th Academy Awards (1951), however, it has been awarded to the individual producers credited on the film. Note also that until 1943, there were ten (rather than five) nominated films per year. As of 2009, there are once again ten nominated films. The first year in which multiple individuals jointly won was 1973, with three winners for The Sting. The greatest number of joint winners was five, for Shakespeare in Love in 1998. After this, the Academy imposed a limit of three nominated producers per film; however, this limit may be exceeded in a "rare and extraordinary circumstance", such as in 2008 when both Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among four nominees for The Reader.[11]
Note 2: Stanley Kramer, Steven Spielberg, and Kathleen Kennedy are the producers who have received the most Best Picture nominations, with six apiece. Neither Kramer nor Kennedy has ever won the Best Picture award; Spielberg won for Schindler's List in 1993.
Note 3: It remains a very close call — a tie, virtually — between the top two "longest" Best Pictures. The total film time (without music) of Gone with the Wind (1939) is almost 221 minutes (3 hours and 41 minutes); with the Overture, Intermission, Entr'acte, and Walkout Music, it reaches 234 minutes (3 hours and 54 minutes). The total film time (without music) of the original Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is just over 222 minutes (3 hours and 42 minutes), slightly longer than Gone with the Wind. Lawrence of Arabia's additional elements extend the film to about 232 minutes (3 hours and 52 minutes). If just counting the film itself, Lawrence of Arabia is the longest of the two contenders. The other longest Best Picture winners are, in order: Ben-Hur (1959) at 212 minutes (3 hours and 32 minutes) and The Lord of Rings: Return of the King (2003) at 201 minutes (3 hours and 21 minutes).
Note 4: The longest film to ever win any Academy Award was Russia's War and Peace (1965) at 414 minutes (6 hours and 54 minutes), winner of Best Foreign Language Film.
Note 5: After Marty, the second shortest Best Picture winner is Annie Hall (1977) at 93 minutes (1 hour and 33 minutes).
See also
- List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
- List of Academy Award-winning films
- List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
- Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Production
- BAFTA Award for Best Film
- Films considered the greatest ever
- Lists of films
- List of film production companies
- List of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
References
- ^ Nikki Finke (2011-06-14). "OSCAR SHOCKER! Academy Builds Surprise & Secrecy Into Best Picture Race: Now There Can Be Anywhere From 5 To 10 Nominees". Deadline Hollywood. MMC. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
- ^ a b Joyce Eng (24 June 2009). "Oscar Expands Best Picture Race to 10 Nominees". TV Guide Online. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
- ^ Poll: Vote on the Oscars Like an Academy Member, Rob Richie, Huffington Post, 16 February 2011
- ^ "Best Pictures - Facts & Trivia (part 1)". Filmsite.org. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ^ "Oscar Trivia". Oscars.org. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ Variety Staff (2007-03-01). "Best Foreign Film". Variety. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b c "Academy Awards Statistics". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ "Best Pictures - Facts & Trivia (part 2)". Filmsite.org. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ "FILMS WITH 10 OR MORE NOMINATIONS". Academy Award Database. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
- ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/oscar/
- ^ Siegel, Tatiana (27 January 2009). "Acad allows 'Reader' 4 producers; Minghella, Pollack to be named as nominees". Variety. Reed Business. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
External links
- Oscars.org (official Academy site)
- Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional site)
- The Academy Awards Database (official site)
