This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the

Academy Award for Best Picture The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only categ ...

, its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non-competitive award will be shown in brackets next to the number of competitive wins.

Statistics

''As of March 1, 2016'' * Total number of films: 1,239 * Total number of Best Picture winners: 90 * Total number of awards ceremonies: 90 * Total number of awards associated with a film: 1,948 Competitive + 46 Honorary * Total number of nominations associated with a film: 4,403 * Total number of Oscar Statuettes awarded: 2,810 Competitive + 49 Honorary = 2,859 in total

Superlatives

* Films with the most awards: '' Ben-Hur'' (

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), ''

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'' (

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), and '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (

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) each earned 11 Academy Awards. * Films with the most nominations: ''

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'' (

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), ''

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), and ''

La La Land ''La La Land'' is a 2016 American romantic musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a struggling jazz pianist and an aspiring actress, respectively, who meet and fall in love ...

'' (

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) each earned 14 Academy Award nominations. * Film with the highest clean sweep: '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (

) won all 11 Academy Awards from its 11 nominations. * Films with the most nominations without a single win: '' The Turning Point'' (1977) and ''

The Color Purple ''The Color Purple'' is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.

'' (1985) (11 nominations each) * Film with the most awards without winning Best Picture: ''

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'' (1972) won eight Academy Awards from its ten nominations. It lost Best Picture to ''

The Godfather ''The Godfather'' is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caa ...

'' (1972).

References

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