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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 category in which every member of the Oscars is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot. The Best Picture category is often the final award of the night and is widely considered as the most prestigious honor of the ceremony. The Grand Staircase columns at the
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, 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. There have been 581 films nominated for Best Picture and 94 winners.


History


Category name changes

At the
1st Academy Awards The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from 1 August 1927 to 31 July 1928 and took place on May 1 ...
ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: ''Outstanding Picture'' and '' Unique and Artistic Picture,'' the former being won by the war epic '' Wings'', and the latter by the art film '' Sunrise''. Each award was intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking. The following year, the Academy dropped the ''Unique and Artistic Picture'' award, and decided retroactively that the award won by ''Wings'' was the highest honor that could be awarded. Although the award kept the title ''Outstanding Picture'' for the next ceremony, the name underwent several changes over the years as seen below. Since 1962, the award has been simply called ''Best Picture''. * 1927/281928/29: Academy Award for Outstanding Picture * 1929/30
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: Academy Award for Outstanding Production *
1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...
: Academy Award for Outstanding Motion Picture *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...
: Academy Award for Best Motion Picture *
1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...
–present: Academy Award for Best Picture


Recipients

Until 1950, this award was presented to a representative of the production company. That year the protocol was changed so that the award was presented to all credited producers. This rule was modified in 1999 to apply a maximum limit of three producers receiving the award, after the five producers of '' Shakespeare in Love'' had received the award. , the "Special Rules for the Best Picture of the Year Award" limit recipients to those who meet two main requirements: * Those with
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of "producer" or "produced by", explicitly excluding those with the screen credit "executive producer, co-producer, associate producer, line producer, or produced in association with" * those three or fewer producers who have performed the major portion of the producing functions The rules allow team of not more than two people shall be considered to be a single “producer” if the two individuals have had an established producing partnership as determined by the Producers Guild of America Producing Partnership Panel. Final determination of the qualifying producer nominees for each nominated picture will be made by the Producers Branch Executive Committee, including the right to name any additional qualified producer as a nominee. The Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when Anthony Minghella and
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were posthumously included among the four producers nominated for ''
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.'' the Producers Branch Executive Committee determines such exceptions, noting they take place only in "rare and extraordinary circumstance "
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currently holds the record for most nominations at eleven, winning one, while Kathleen Kennedy holds the record for most nominations without a win at eight. Sam Spiegel and Saul Zaentz tie for the most wins with three each. As for the time when the Oscar was given to production companies instead, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer holds the record with five wins and 40 nominations.


Best Picture and Best Director

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have been closely linked throughout their history. Of the 94 films that have won Best Picture, 67 have also been awarded Best Director. Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: '' Wings'' directed by
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(1927/28), ''
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'' directed by Edmund Goulding (1931/32), ''
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'' directed by Bruce Beresford (1989), ''
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'' directed by Ben Affleck (2012), '' Green Book'' directed by Peter Farrelly (2018), and ''
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'' (2021) directed by Sian Heder. The only two Best Director winners to win for films that did not receive a Best Picture nomination were during the early years of the awards: Lewis Milestone for ''
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'' (1927/28), and Frank Lloyd for '' The Divine Lady'' (1928/29).


Nomination limit increased

On June 24, 2009, AMPAS announced that the number of films to be nominated in the Best Picture award category would increase from five to ten, starting with the 82nd Academy Awards (2009). Although the Academy never officially said so, many commenters noted the expansion was likely in part a response to public criticism of '' The Dark Knight'' (2008) (and, in previous years, other blockbusters and popular films) not being nominated for Best Picture. Officially, the Academy said the rule change was a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and 1940s, when eight to 12 films were nominated each year. "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
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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." At the same time, the voting system was switched from first-past-the-post to instant runoff voting (also known as preferential voting). In 2011, the Academy revised the rule again so that the number of films nominated was between five and ten; nominated films must earn either 5% of first-place rankings or 5% after an abbreviated variation of the single transferable vote nominating process. Bruce Davis, the Academy executive director at the time, said, "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." This system lasted until 2021, when the Academy reverted back to a set number of ten nominees from the 94th Academy Awards onward.


Language and country of origin

Only thirteen non- English language films have been nominated in the category: '' La Grande Illusion'' (French, 1938); '' Z'' (French, 1969); '' The Emigrants'' (Swedish, 1972); ''
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'' (Swedish, 1973); '' The Postman (Il Postino)'' (Italian/Spanish, 1995); '' Life Is Beautiful'' (Italian, 1998); ''
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'' ( Mandarin Chinese, 2000); ''
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'' (Japanese, 2006, but ineligible for
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, as it was an American production); '' Amour'' (French, 2012); ''Roma'' (Spanish/Mixtec, 2018); '' Parasite'' (Korean, 2019); '' Minari'' (Korean, 2020, but ineligible for
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, as it was an American production), and '' Drive My Car'' (Japanese, 2021). ''Parasite'' became the first film not in English to win Best Picture. Only ten films wholly financed outside the United States have won Best Picture, eight of which were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom: '' Hamlet'' (1948), ''
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'' (1963), '' A Man for All Seasons'' (1966), '' Chariots of Fire'' (1981), '' Gandhi'' (1982), '' The Last Emperor'' (1987), '' Slumdog Millionaire'' (2008), and '' The King's Speech'' (2010). The ninth film, '' The Artist'' (2011), was financed in France and the tenth film, '' Parasite'' (2019), was financed in South Korea.


Rating

Since 1968, most Best Picture winners have been R-rated. ''Oliver!'' is the only G-rated film and '' Midnight Cowboy'' is the only X-rated (now NC-17) film, so far, to win Best Picture. The latter has since been downgraded to an R rating. Only eleven films have won with a PG rating, the first was ''
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'' and the last was ''
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''. Only nine films have won with a PG-13 rating, the first was '' The Last Emperor'' and the last was ''
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''.


Genres

Some genres of film (or mediums in the case of an animation) have received few or no nominations or awards. Only three animated films have been nominated — '' Beauty and the Beast'' (1991), '' Up'' (2009) and '' Toy Story 3'' (2010). The latter two were nominated after the Academy expanded the number of nominees, but none have won. No comic book or superhero film has won, and only three have ever been nominated — ''
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'' (2018), and '' Joker'' (2019). Only two fantasy films have won — '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (2003) and ''
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'' (2017), although more have been nominated. '' The Silence of the Lambs'' (1991) is the only horror film to win Best Picture, and only five others have been nominated for Best Picture: '' The Exorcist'' (1973), ''
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'' (1975), '' The Sixth Sense'' (1999), ''
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'' (2010), and '' Get Out'' (2017). No science fiction film has won the award, although several films have been nominated, including ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Mad Max: Fury Road'', ''
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''. No documentary feature has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although '' Chang'' was nominated in the "Unique and Artistic Production" category at the 1927/28 awards. Several musical adaptations based on material previously filmed in non-musical form have won Best Picture, including '' Gigi'', '' West Side Story'', '' My Fair Lady'', '' The Sound of Music'', ''
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'', and '' Chicago''. Several epics or historical epic films have won Best Picture, including the first recipient '' Wings''. Others include '' Cimarron'', '' Cavalcade'', '' Gone with the Wind'', '' The Bridge on the River Kwai'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', and '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''.


Sequel nominations and winners

Few sequels have been nominated for Best Picture and just two have won: '' The Godfather Part II'' (the film before that, '' The Godfather'', also won the award; the third film in the installment '' The Godfather Part III'', was nominated as well but did not win the award) and '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (the films before that, '' Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' and '' Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' were both nominated for the award but did not win). Other nominees include '' The Bells of St. Mary's'' (the sequel to the 1944 winner, '' Going My Way''), '' The Queen'' (sequel to the 2003 television film, '' The Deal''), '' Toy Story 3,'' and '' Mad Max: Fury Road.'' Another nominee, ''
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,'' was a follow-up of sorts to previous winner '' The Broadway Melody.'' But, beyond the title and some music, there is no story connection to the earlier film. '' The Silence of the Lambs'' was adapted from the sequel novel to '' Red Dragon.'' The latter had been adapted for film as '' Manhunter'' by a different studio. ''
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'' features
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as King Henry II, a role he had played previously in the film ''
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'', but ''Winter'' is not a sequel to ''Becket''.
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'' that was released earlier the same year. These two films depict the same battle from the different viewpoints of Japanese and United States military forces; the two films were shot back-to-back. In addition, ''
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Remake nominations and winners

Along similar lines to sequels, there have been few winners that are either remakes or adaptations of the same source materials or subjects. 1959's ''
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'' is a remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title and both were adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel '' Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ''. 2006's '' The Departed'' is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film '' Infernal Affairs'' and was the first remake of a non-English language or international film to win. Other nominees include 1963's ''
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'' about the title last queen of Egypt following the 1934 version, 2018's '' A Star is Born'' following the 1937 film of the same name, and 2019's ''
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'' following the 1933 film of the same name with both being adaptations of the 1868 novel. 2010's '' True Grit'' was the second adaptation of
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's 1968 novel following the 1969 film of the same name. Four of the nominees for the 94th ceremony were based on source material previously made into films: ''
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'', '' Nightmare Alley'', and '' West Side Story''. 2021's ''West Side Story'' became the second adaptation of the same source material for a previous Best Picture winner to be nominated for the same award after 1962's '' Mutiny on the Bounty''. For that same ceremony, ''CODA'' became the second remake of a non-English language or international film to win.


Silent film winners

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, the Best Picture award then named "Academy Award for Outstanding Picture" was presented to the 1927 silent film '' Wings''. '' The Artist'' (2011) was the first essentially silent (with the exception of a single scene of dialogue, and a dream sequence with sound effects) film since '' Wings'' to win Best Picture. It was the first silent nominee since 1928's '' The Patriot''. It was the first Best Picture winner to be produced entirely in black-and-white since 1960's '' The Apartment.'' ('' Schindler's List'', the 1993 winner, was predominantly black-and-white but it did contain some color sequences).


Version availability

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, though a few such as ''
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'' exist only in a form altered from their original, award-winning release form. This has usually been due to editing for reissue (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees, such as ''Tom Jones'' (prior to its 2018 reissues by The Criterion Collection and the British Film Institute) and ''
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,'' are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. '' The Broadway Melody'' originally had some sequences photographed in
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. This footage survives only in black and white. The 1928 film '' The Patriot'' is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost (about one-third is extant). '' The Racket'', also from 1928, was believed lost for many years until a print was found in Howard Hughes' archives. It has since been restored and shown on Turner Classic Movies. The only surviving complete prints of 1931's ''
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'' and 1934's '' The White Parade'' exist within the UCLA film archive.


Ceremony mistake

In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenter Faye Dunaway read '' La La Land'' as the winner of the award. However, she and Warren Beatty had mistakenly been given the duplicate envelope for the "
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" award, which
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had won for her role in ''La La Land'' moments prior. In the resulting chaos, it was ''La La Land'' producer Jordan Horowitz who finally announced—two minutes and twenty-seven seconds later—that ''
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'' was the real winner.


Winners and nominees

In the list below, winners are listed first in the gold row, 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
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; normally this is also the year of first release, however, it may be the year after first release (as with ''
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'' and, if the film-festival premiere is considered, '' Crash''). This is also 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 on that ceremony. Each individual entry shows the title followed by nominee. Until 1950, the Best Picture award was given to the production company; from 1951 on, it has gone to the producer or producers. The Academy used the producer credits of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) until 1998, when all five producers of '' Shakespeare in Love'' made speeches after its win. A three-producer limit has been applied some years since. There was controversy over the exclusion of some PGA-credited producers of '' Crash'' and ''
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''. The Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when Anthony Minghella and
Sydney Pollack Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 movies or shows and produced over 44 films. For his film ''Out ...
were posthumously among the four nominated for ''
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''. However, now any number of producers on a film can be nominated for Best Picture, should they be deemed eligible. 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 further reduced to five. This number remained until 2009, when the limit was raised to ten and later adjusted in 2011, to vary between five and 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.


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Individuals with multiple wins

;3 wins * Sam Spiegel * Saul Zaentz ;2 wins *
Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series '' Rawhide'', he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "''Doll ...
* Arthur Freed * Dede Gardner *
Jeremy Kleiner Jeremy Kleiner (born 1976/1977) is an American film producer. He and his fellow producers won two Academy Awards for Best Picture for the 2013 film ''12 Years a Slave'' and the 2016 film ''Moonlight''. Biography Kleiner was born to a Jewish fa ...
* Branko Lustig *
Albert S. Ruddy Albert Stotland Ruddy (born March 28, 1930) is a Canadian-American film and television producer. He is known for producing ''The Godfather'' (1972) and '' Million Dollar Baby'' (2004), both of which won him the Academy Award for Best Picture, as ...
* Robert Wise


Individuals with multiple nominations

;11 nominations *
Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, 1946) is an American director, writer, and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Spie ...
;9 nominations * Scott Rudin ;8 nominations * Kathleen Kennedy ;6 nominations * Eric Fellner * Dede Gardner *
Stanley Kramer Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous "message picture, message films" (he would call his movies ''heavy dramas'') and a libera ...
;5 nominations * Tim Bevan *
Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; ; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Coppola is the recipient of five A ...
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Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series '' Rawhide'', he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "''Doll ...
*
Jeremy Kleiner Jeremy Kleiner (born 1976/1977) is an American film producer. He and his fellow producers won two Academy Awards for Best Picture for the 2013 film ''12 Years a Slave'' and the 2016 film ''Moonlight''. Biography Kleiner was born to a Jewish fa ...
* Frank Marshall ;4 nominations * Warren Beatty *
James L. Brooks James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of Gracie Films. His television and film work includes ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'', ''Taxi'', ''The Simpsons'', '' Broadcast News'', ''As G ...
* David Brown *
Ethan Coen Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957),State of Minnesota. ''Minnesota Birth Index, 1935–2002''. Minnesota Department of Health. collectively known as the Coen brothers (), are American film ...
* Bradley Cooper *
Megan Ellison Margaret Elizabeth Ellison (born January 31, 1986) is an American film producer and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Annapurna Pictures, established in 2011. She produced the films ''Zero Dark Thirty'' (2012), ''Her'' (2013), ''American Hustl ...
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Donna Gigliotti Donna Gigliotti is an American film producer. She is best known for producing ''Shakespeare in Love'', ''Hidden Figures'', ''Silver Linings Playbook'' and ''The Reader''. Gigliotti started her professional career as an assistant to Martin Scors ...
*
Peter Jackson Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of the ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy (2001–2003) and the ''Hobbit'' trilogy ( ...
* Norman Jewison * Graham King *
Sydney Pollack Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 movies or shows and produced over 44 films. For his film ''Out ...
* David Puttnam * Sam Spiegel * George Stevens * Irwin Winkler ;3 nominations * Paul Thomas Anderson * Lawrence Bender * Jason Blum * Iain Canning * Ceán Chaffin *
Robert Chartoff Robert Irwin Chartoff (August 26, 1933 – June 10, 2015) was an American film producer and philanthropist. Early life and education Chartoff was born on August 26, 1933 in New York City, the son of Bessie and William Chartoff. His family was J ...
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Joel Coen Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957),State of Minnesota. ''Minnesota Birth Index, 1935–2002''. Minnesota Department of Health. collectively known as the Coen brothers (), are American film ...
*
Bruce Cohen Bruce L. Cohen (born September 23, 1961) is a film, television, and theater producer. Biography Cohen was born to a Jewish family and raised in Falls Church, Virginia.Christian Colson Christian Colson (born 15 September 1968) is a British film producer. He is best known as the producer of the 2008 film ''Slumdog Millionaire'', for which he received numerous awards including the Academy Award for Best Picture, Golden Globe ...
* Michael De Luca * Steve Golin * Brian Grazer *
David Heyman David Jonathan Heyman (born 26 July 1961) is a British film producer and the founder of Heyday Films. Heyman secured the rights to the ''Harry Potter'' film series in 1999 and went on to produce all eight installments of the franchise. He als ...
* Alejandro González Iñárritu *
Emma Tillinger Koskoff Emma Tillinger Koskoff (born 1972) is an American film producer. She is best known for her collaborations with Martin Scorsese, including acting as a producer on his films ''The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film), The Wolf of Wall Street'' (2013), ' ...
* Kristie Macosko Krieger *
Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films, almost all of which are adaptations of nove ...
* Robert Lorenz * Ismail Merchant *
Barrie M. Osborne Barrie Mitchell Osborne (born February 7, 1944) is an American film producer, production manager and director. Biography The son of Hertha Schwarz and William Osborne, Barrie was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle, New York wh ...
*
Brad Pitt William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. ...
* Marc Platt * Martin Scorsese * Emile Sherman * Hal B. Wallis * Fran Walsh * Robert Wise * Saul Zaentz *
Richard D. Zanuck Richard Darryl Zanuck (December 13, 1934 – July 13, 2012) was an American film producer. His 1989 film ''Driving Miss Daisy'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Zanuck was also instrumental in launching the career of director Steven Spielb ...
;2 nominations * Buddy Adler *
Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and is considered an enduring figure from the New H ...
* Kathryn Bigelow * Mark Boal *
John Boorman Sir John Boorman (; born 18 January 1933) is a British film director, best known for feature films such as ''Point Blank'' (1967), ''Hell in the Pacific'' (1968), ''Deliverance'' (1972), ''Zardoz'' (1974), '' Exorcist II: The Heretic'' (1977), ...
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John Brabourne John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, (9 November 1924 – 23 September 2005), professionally known as John Brabourne, was a British peer, television producer and Oscar-nominated film producer. Married to the eldest daughter of the 1st ...
* Lisa Bruce * Dana Brunetti * Jim Burke *
James Cameron James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker. A major figure in the post-New Hollywood era, he is considered one of the industry's most innovative filmmakers, regularly pushing the boundaries of cinematic capability w ...
*
Peter Chernin Peter Chernin (born May 29, 1951) is an American businessman and investor. He is the chairman and CEO of TCG (company), The Chernin Group (TCG), which he founded in 2010. TCG manages, operates and invests in businesses in the media, entertainment, ...
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Alfonso Cuarón Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ( , ; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. He is known for directing films in a variety of genres including the family drama ''A Little Princess (1995 film), A Little Princess'' (1995), the romantic drama ''Gre ...
*
J. Miles Dale J. Miles Dale (born 1961) is a Canadian producer and director of film and television, best known for producing the critically acclaimed film, ''The Shape of Water'', for which he won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards ...
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Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez (; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and actor. He directed the Academy Award–winning fantasy films ''Pan's Labyrinth'' (2006) and ''The Shape of Water'' (2017), winning the Academy Awards for Be ...
* Cecil B. DeMille *
Finola Dwyer Finola Dwyer (born 10 July 1963) is a UK-based New Zealand film producer and editor, best known for her films ''An Education'' and ''Brooklyn'', produced with frequent collaborator Amanda Posey. Career In 2015, Dwyer produced an historical dra ...
* John Foreman *
Gray Frederickson Gray Frederickson (July 21, 1937 – November 20, 2022) was an American film producer. Frequent collaborators and history Frederickson was a long-time producer for Francis Ford Coppola and worked out of a studio alongside Greg Mellott out of O ...
* Arthur Freed *
Richard N. Gladstein Richard N. Gladstein (born June 4, 1961) is a two-time Academy Award nominated film producer. His production company is FilmColony. He served as the Dean of the American Film Institute Conservatory from 2017 to 2018. Biography Gladstein was b ...
* Jonathan Gordon *
Ed Guiney Ed Guiney is an Irish-American producer who co-founded film and drama production company Element Pictures with Andrew Lowe in 2001. Element has offices in Dublin, Belfast and London and works across production, distribution and exhibition. As join ...
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Jerome Hellman Jerome Hellman (September 4, 1928 – May 26, 2021) was an American film producer. He is best known for being the 42nd recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture for ''Midnight Cowboy'' (1969). His 1978 film '' Coming Home'' was nominated f ...
* Grant Heslov *
Grant Hill Grant Henry Hill (born October 5, 1972) is an American former professional basketball player who is a co-owner and executive of the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended Duke University and is widely considere ...
* Ron Howard * Stanley R. Jaffe * Dan Janvey *
Dan Jinks Dan Jinks is an American film and television producer. In February 2010, Jinks launched his own film and television production company, the Dan Jinks Company.
* Mark Johnson * Ross Katz *
A. Kitman Ho Alexander Kitman Ho (; born 1950), known as A. Kitman Ho, is an American film producer. He was born in Hong Kong, and emigrated with his family to the United States when he was 5 years old. He grew up in New York City's Chinatown neighborhood ...
* Arnold Kopelson * Gary Kurtz * Jon Landau * Ang Lee * Ernest Lehman * Daniel Lupi * Branko Lustig * Michael Mann * Anthony McCarten * Frank McCarthy * Adam McKay * Barry Mendel * Kevin Messick * Arnon Milchan * George Miller * Doug Mitchell * Gil Netter * Patrick J. Palmer *
Mary Parent Mary Parent (born 1968) is an American film producer, and former studio executive. In February 2011, she co-founded Disruption Entertainment, a company with a first-look deal at Paramount Pictures. She was formerly the Chairperson of Metro Goldw ...
* David Parfitt * Amy Pascal *
Jordan Peele Jordan Haworth Peele (born February 21, 1979) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is best known for his film and television work in the comedy and horror genres. Peele's breakout role came in 2003, when he was hired as a cast membe ...
* Julia Phillips * Michael Phillips * Amanda Posey *
Sean McKittrick Sean McKittrick (born March 20, 1975) is American film producer. He is best known for his works ''Donnie Darko'', ''Southland Tales'', for which he was nominated for Palme d'Or at 2006 Cannes Film Festival, and ''Get Out'', which earned him man ...
* Christopher Nolan * Fred Roos *
Albert S. Ruddy Albert Stotland Ruddy (born March 28, 1930) is a Canadian-American film and television producer. He is known for producing ''The Godfather'' (1972) and '' Million Dollar Baby'' (2004), both of which won him the Academy Award for Best Picture, as ...
* Tracey Seaward *
Ronald L. Schwary Ronald Louis Schwary (May 23, 1944 – July 2, 2020) was an Academy Award winning American producer and director. Films that he was either producer or executive producer include ''Ordinary People'' for which he won an Academy Award for Best Pictu ...
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JoAnne Sellar JoAnne R. Sellar (born 1963) is an English film producer.de Winter, Helen (October 31, 2008)A Dark Day: Producer JoAnne Sellar on River Phoenix and ''Dark Blood.'' '' Focus Features'' She has collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thoma ...
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Michael Shamberg Michael Shamberg (born 1945?) is an American film producer and former Time–Life correspondent. Life and career His credits include ''Erin Brockovich'', ''A Fish Called Wanda'', '' Garden State'', ''Gattaca'', ''Pulp Fiction'' and '' The Big ...
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Stacey Sher Stacey Sher (born November 30, 1962) is an American film producer. Early life Sher was born to a Jewish family in New York City and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She graduated and got her bachelor's degree from University of Southern Cal ...
* Bernard Smith *
Peter Spears Peter Spears (born November 29, 1965) is an American actor and filmmaker. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Overland Park, Kansas. Spears is best known for winning an Oscar for producing ''Nomadland'' at the 93rd Academy Awards ...
* Ray Stark *
Oliver Stone William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of '' Midnight Express'' (1978), and wrote the gangster film remake '' Sc ...
* Emma Thomas * Jenno Topping *
Douglas Urbanski Douglas Urbanski is an American film producer and occasional film actor. He is a twice Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe Nominated and BAFTA-winning motion picture producer. Life and career Urbanski was born in Somerville, New Jersey. In addition t ...
* Jerry Wald *
Jack L. Warner Jack Leonard Warner (born Jacob Warner; August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Warner's career spanned some ...
* Harvey Weinstein *
Douglas Wick Douglas Wick is an American film producer whose work includes producing ''Gladiator'', ''Stuart Little'', and ''Memoirs of a Geisha''. Life and career Wick is the son of actress Mary Jane (Woods) and United States Information Agency director ...
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James Woolf Sir John Woolf (15 March 1913, London – 28 June 1999, London) and his brother James Woolf (2 March 1920, London – 30 May 1966, Beverly Hills, California) were British film producers. John and James founded the production companies Romulus Fil ...
* John Woolf * William Wyler * Peter Yates *
Sam Zimbalist Sam Zimbalist (March 31, 1901 – November 4, 1958) was a Russian Empire born American film producer and film editor. Early life Born to a Ukrainian Jewish family, he arrived to the US in August 1914. He began his career at 16 as an office b ...
* Fred Zinnemann *
Edward Zwick Edward M. Zwick (born October 8, 1952) is an American filmmaker and producer of film and television. He has worked primarily in the comedy drama and historical drama, epic historical film genres, including ''About Last Night (1986 film), About L ...


Production companies with multiple nominations and wins


Note

* Only three film studios held the most records; Columbia Pictures holds the most wins with 12, 20th Century Studios holds the most nominations with 62, and Focus Features holds the most nominations without a win with 10.


See also

* BAFTA Award for Best Film *
Golden Pyramid Award The Golden Pyramid Award is the highest prize for best film in the international competition of the Cairo International Film Festival, hosted annually in Cairo, Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transc ...
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Independent Spirit Award for Best Film The Independent Spirit Award for Best Film (or Best Feature) is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards, presented to recognize the best in independent filmmaking, it was first awarded in 1985 with Martin Scorsese's film '' After Hours'' being ...
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture * Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama * Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy *
Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture The Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, also known as the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, is one of the annual awards given by the Producers Guild of America from 1989 ...
* Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture *
List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees This is a list of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees. This list is current as of the 94th Academy Awards ceremony. Best Picture Best Director Best Original Screenplay Best Actor in a Leading Role Best Actress in a Le ...
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List of presenters of the Academy Award for Best Picture Each year, the Academy Award for Best Picture is presented by one or more artists on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture is traditionally the final award presented during the annual ceremonies, as this award r ...
* List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees *
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture The Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture is an award given out at the annual Golden Raspberry Awards to the worst film of the past year. Over the 39 ceremonies that have taken place, there have been 202 films nominated for Worst Picture and 42 ...
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List of Academy Award-winning films This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award ...
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List of films considered the best This is a list of films considered the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public. Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. Voting systems differ, and some surveys suffer ...
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Lists of films This is a list of "film lists". Index By what: : By title By when: : By year By where: : By country By type: : By source : By genre : By topic Production: : By cost : By length : By location By production: : By production company : By copyright ...
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Academy Aperture 2025 Academy Aperture 2025 is a new diversity standard for Best Picture nominees created by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that is set to begin in 2024. Deadline Hollywood described this as a "plan to require that Best Picture contender ...


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External links


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