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Academy Award for Best Picture
Awarded for	Best Picture of the Year
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country	United States
First awarded	1929 (for films released in 1927 and 1928)
Currently held by	The Artist (2011)
Official 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 Dolby 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]

Contents   [hide]  1 History 2 Winners and nominees 2.1 1920s 2.2 1930s 2.3 1940s 2.4 1950s 2.5 1960s 2.6 1970s 2.7 1980s 2.8 1990s 2.9 2000s 2.10 2010s 2.11 Notes 3 Milestones 3.1 Milestones related to acting 3.2 Milestones related to country or language 3.3 Milestones related to directing 3.4 Milestones related to genre 3.5 Milestones related to other Academy Awards 3.6 Milestones related to other awards ceremonies 3.7 Milestones related to rating 3.8 Milestones related to sequels, prequels, remakes, and adaptations 3.9 Milestones related to superlatives 3.10 Milestones related to technology 4 Superlatives 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit]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 filmSunrise. 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'sChang) 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 84th Academy Awardsceremony (for 2011), there have been 494 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 84 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 62 have also been awarded Best Director.^[2] 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).^[3] 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."^[3] At the same time, the voting system was switched from first-past-the-post to Alternative Vote (also known as Instant Run-off Vote).^[4] Two years after this change, the Academy adjusted the rule again so the number of films nominated per year were instead between 5 and 10 provided that the film earned 5% of first-place votes during the nomination process. Academy Executive Bruce Davis cited "A Best Picture nomination should be an indication of extraordinary merit. If there are only eight pictures that truly earn that honor in a given year, we shouldn't feel an obligation to round out the number."^[1]

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 bias toward 2-plus hour films: Crash (2005, 112m) is the shortest film to win Best Picture in the past 20 years, with the exception being The Artist which clocks in at 100 minutes. 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 two comedies (Shakespeare in Love, 1998; and The Artist, 2011) have won in the last 30 years.

To date, twelve films exclusively financed outside the United States have won Best Picture; eleven of which 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.The Artist, which was financed by France, is the twelfth Best Picture winner financed outside the United States and the only one of these financed outside of the United Kingdom.

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.

In addition to being the only Best Picture winner to date financed entirely outside of the US or UK, The Artist (with the exception of a single scene of dialogue) was the first silent film since Wings to win Best Picture, although a part-silent version of All Quiet on the Western Front was created for foreign-language release and survives. The Artist was also the first silent nominee (other than the silent version of a nominated talkie) since The Patriot, as well as the first Best Picture winner shot entirely in black-and-white since 1960'sThe Apartment. (Schindler's List, the 1993 winner, was predominantly black-and-white but contained some brief color sequences.)

[edit]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.

[edit]1920s

1927/28^[A] (1st)

Film	Production Company(ies)	Producer(s)
Wings	Paramount, Famous Players-Lasky	Lucien Hubbard
The Racket	Caddo, Paramount	Howard Hughes
Seventh Heaven	Fox	William Fox

1928/29 (2nd)

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

[edit]1930s

1929/30^[B] (3rd)

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

1930/31 (4th)

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

1931/32 (5th)

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

1932/33 (6th)

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]

1934 (7th)

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
It Happened One Night[I]	Columbia	Harry Cohn & Frank Capra
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

1935 (8th)

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

1936 (9th)

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

1937 (10th)

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

1938 (11th)

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

1939 (12th)

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

[edit]1940s

1940 (13th)

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

1941^[C] (14th)

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

1942 (15th)

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

1943 (16th)

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

1944^[D] (17th)

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

1945 (18th)

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

1946 (19th)

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

1947 (20th)

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

1948 (21st)

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

1949 (22nd)

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

[edit]1950s

1950 (23rd)

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

1951 (24th)

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

1952 (25th)

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

1953 (26th)

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

1954 (27th)

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

1955 (28th)

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

1956 (29th)

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

1957 (30th)

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.

1958 (31st)

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

1959 (32nd)

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

[edit]1960s

1960 (33rd)

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

1961 (34th)

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

1962^[E] (35th)

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

1963 (36th)

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

1964 (37th)

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 Pictures	Walt Disney, Bill Walsh
Zorba the Greek	20th Century Fox	Michael Cacoyannis

1965 (38th)

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

1966 (39th)

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

1967 (40th)

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

1968 (41st)

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

1969 (42nd)

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

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1970 (43rd)

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

1971 (44th)

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

1972 (45th)

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

1973 (46th)

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

1974 (47th)

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

1975 (48th)

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

1976 (49th)

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

1977 (50th)

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

1978 (51st)

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

1979 (52nd)

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

[edit]1980s

1980 (53rd)

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

1981 (54th)

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

1982 (55th)

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

1983 (56th)

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

1984 (57th)

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

1985 (58th)

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

1986 (59th)

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

1987 (60th)

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

1988 (61st)

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

1989 (62nd)

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

[edit]1990s

1990 (63rd)

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

1991 (64th)

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Silence of the Lambs	Orion	Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
Beauty and the Beast	Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures	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

1992 (65th)

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

1993 (66th)

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	Jan Chapman
The Remains of the Day	Columbia	Mike Nichols, John Calley, Ismail Merchant

1994 (67th)

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

1995 (68th)

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

1996 (69th)

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

1997 (70th)

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

1998 (71st)

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

1999 (72nd)

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

[edit]2000s

2000 (73rd)

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

2001 (74th)

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

2002 (75th)

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

2003 (76th)

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

2004 (77th)

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

2005 (78th)

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 Independent Pictures	Grant Heslov
Munich	DreamWorks, Universal	Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel

2006 (79th)

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

2007 (80th)

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

2008 (81st)

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

2009 (82nd)

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	Pixar, Walt Disney Pictures	Jonas Rivera
Up in the Air	Paramount	Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman

[edit]2010s

2010 (83rd)

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The King's Speech	The Weinstein Co.	Iain Canning, Emile Sherman andGareth Unwin
Black Swan	Fox Searchlight	Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy and Brian Oliver
The Fighter	Paramount	David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman andMark 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, John Smithson and Christian Colson
The Social Network	Columbia	Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca and Scott Rudin
Toy Story 3	Pixar, Walt Disney Pictures	Darla K. Anderson
True Grit	Paramount	Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Scott Rudin
Winter's Bone	Roadside Attractions	Alix Madigan and Anne Rosellini

2011 (84th)

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Artist	La Petite Reine, ARP Sélection, Weinstein Co.	Thomas Langmann
The Descendants	Fox Searchlight	Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	Warner Bros.	Scott Rudin
The Help	Touchstone, DreamWorks	Brunson Green, Chris Columbus andMichael 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 andBrad Pitt
The Tree of Life	Fox Searchlight	Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner and Grant Hill
War Horse	Touchstone, DreamWorks	Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy

[edit]Notes

A : The official name of the award from 1927/1928 and 1928/1929 wasOutstanding Picture.

B : The official name of the award from 1929/1930 to 1940 wasOutstanding Production.

C : The official name of the award from 1941 to 1943 was Outstanding Motion Picture.

D : The official name of the award from 1944 to 1961 was Best Motion Picture.

E : The official name of the award from 1962 was Best Picture.

F : There were two categories for "Outstanding Picture" with the other being Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Productionwhere the winner was Sunrise (production company: Fox; producer: William Fox). This category was dropped immediately after the first year of the Academy Award.^[5]

G^{1 2 3 4 5} : Head of studio

H^1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that A Farewell to Arms came in second, and Little Women third.

I^1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that The Barretts of Wimpole Street came in second, and The House of Rothschild third.

J^1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that The Informer came in second, and Captain Blood third.

K^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8} : Nominated motion picture with non-English dialogue track (AMPAS: foreign language film).^[6] Three of which, Z, Life is Beautiful and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.^[7]

L : Production company with the most nominations (38) and the most awards (5). Applying only from 1927/1928 to 1950.^[8]

M : Person with the most nominations (6 nominations, 0 awards). Applying only from 1951 to 2008.^[8]

N : Person with the most awards (3 awards, Spiegel 4 nominations, Zaentz 3 nominations). Applying only from 1951 to 2008.^[8]

O^1 2 3 : Winner with partly non-English dialogue track (AMPAS: foreign language).^[9]

[edit]Milestones

Listed below are various milestones for Best Picture that various films and individuals have achieved since the inception of the Academy Awards.

[edit]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 Actorand 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	Most-recent Best Picture winner 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	Most-recent Best Picture nominee to receive nominations in all four of the acting categories
64th	1991	The Silence of the Lambs	5	7	Most-recent Best Picture winner to win both Best Actor and Best Actress
70th	1997	As Good As It Gets	2	7	Most-recent Best Picture nominee 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	Most-recent film to win Best Picture without receiving any acting nominations

[edit]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	Most-recent foreign language film nominated for Best Picture with the most number of Academy Awardnominations
73rd	2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	4	10	First (and only) Mandarin film to be nominated for Best Picture
79th	2006	Letters from Iwo Jima	1	4	Most-recent foreign language film 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).[10]
84th	2011	The Artist	5	10	First production from a non-English speaking country to win Best Picture (French)[11]

[edit]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 andRobert 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	Most-recent film 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	Most-recent Best Picture winner 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)

[edit]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
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 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
73rd	2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	4	10	First (and only) martial arts film to be nominated for Best Picture
75th	2002	Chicago	6	13	Most-recent musical to win Best Picture
76th	2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	11	11	First (and only) fantasy film to win Best Picture
83rd	2010	The King's Speech	4	12	Most-recent biopic to win Best Picture
84th	2011	The Artist	5	10	Most-recent comedy to win Best Picture

[edit]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	Most-recent film to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards
16th	1943	The Ox-Bow Incident	0	1	Most-recent film 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
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
53rd	1980	Ordinary People	4	6	Most-recent film to win Best Picture without a Best Film Editing nomination.
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	Most-recent film 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	Most-recent film to win Best Picture and all of its other nominated categories

[edit]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 thePulitzer 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 Globesfor 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	First of only three 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 Globesfor Best Motion Picture (drama, comedy/musical or foreign film).
82nd	2009	The Hurt Locker	6	9	Second of only three film festival acquisitions to win Best Picture
84th	2011	The Artist	5	10	Most-recent of only three film festival acquisitions to win Best Picture[12]

[edit]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 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	Most-recent 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	Most-recent X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture
44th	1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	2	7	Most-recent 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	Most-recent Best Picture winner with a PG rating
83rd	2010	Toy Story 3	2	5	Most-recent Best Picture nominee with a G rating.
84th	2011	Hugo	5	11	Most-recent Best Picture nominee with a PG rating.

[edit]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	Most-recent Best Picture nominee 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

[edit]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 Awardnominations, 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 billionUS dollars worldwide.[13]
70th	1997	Titanic	11	14	Second of only three films 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 with ten or more nominations (11) to win in every nomination it received including Best Picture
77th	2004	Million Dollar Baby	4	7	Most-recent film to be nominated for every major Academy Award, including Best Picture
82nd	2009	The Hurt Locker	6	9	Lowest-grossing film after 1955 to win Best Picture
84th	2011	Hugo	5	11	Most-recent film to win the most Academy Awards in its year (five) without winning Best Picture (tied with The Artist on the night)

[edit]Milestones related to technology

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
1st	1927/28	Wings	2	2	First (of two) silent films to win Best Picture
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) inCinemaScope
33rd	1960	The Apartment	5	10	Last black-and-white film before 1993 to win Best Picture
64th	1991	Beauty and the Beast	2	6	First (and, to date, only) traditional animated film to be nominated for Best Picture
82nd	2009	Avatar	3	9	First nominee to be entirely filmed using 3D filmtechnology
82nd	2009	Up	2	5	First computer animated film to be nominated for Best Picture
84th	2011	The Artist	5	10	First silent film since 1927/28 to win Best Picture (though with some sound sequences)
84th	2011	The Artist	5	10	Most-recent black-and-white film to win Best Picture

[edit]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	Hal B. Wallis	19 nominations
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 2
Longest Best Picture Nominee	Cleopatra	4 hours and 3 minutes	Note 3
Shortest Best Picture Winner	Marty	1 hour and 31 minutes	Note 4
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, forShakespeare 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.^[14]

Note 2: 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). However, the Extended Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which was released almost a year after the shorter theatrical version of the film won Best Picture, runs 251 minutes (4 hours and 12 minutes).

Note 3: 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 4: After Marty, the second shortest Best Picture winner is Annie Hall (1977) at 93 minutes (1 hour and 33 minutes).

[edit]See also

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• Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture

[edit]References

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14. ^ Siegel, Tatiana (27 January 2009). "Acad allows 'Reader' 4 producers; Minghella, Pollack to be named as nominees". Variety (Reed Business). Retrieved 2009-05-24.

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