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The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Award for Best Picture of Merit presented annually by the Awarded for Best Picture of the Year Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts Picture category is the only category in which every member and Sciences of the Academy is eligible not only to vote on the final ballot, Country but also to nominate. During the annual Academy Awards ceremony, Best Picture is reserved as the final award First awarded 1929 (for released in 1927 presented and, since 1951, is collected at the podium by the and 1928) 's producers. The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is considered the most important of the Academy Currently The King's Speech (2010) Awards, as it is the final award presented, and represents all held by the directing, acting, and writing efforts put forth for a film. Official http://www.oscars.org The Grand Staircase columns at the Kodak Theatre in Los website 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 82 years ago. 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 (2009).[1]

Contents

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

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_…3.6 Milestones related to other awards ceremonies 1/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 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

History

At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there was no Best Picture award. Instead, there were two separate awards, one called Most Outstanding Production, won by the epic Wings, and one called Most Artistic Quality of Production, won by the art film Sunrise. The awards were intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior , 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 's The Crowd, another of the nominees (the third was Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's Chang) pressured the judges not to honor his own studio's film, and to select Sunrise instead. The next year, the Academy instituted a single award called Best Production, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings had been the equivalent of that award, with the result that Wings is often listed as the winner of a sole Best Picture award for the first year. The title of the award was eventually changed to Best Picture for the 1931 awards.

From 1944 to 2008, the Academy restricted nominations to five Best Picture nominees per year. As of the ceremony (for 2010), there have been 484 films nominated for the Best Picture award. Throughout the past 83 years, AMPAS has presented a total of 84 Best Picture awards. Invariably, the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 83 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 61 have also been awarded Best Director.[1] (http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/statistics/bestpixdirdiff.html) 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 (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: (1927/28) and Frank Lloyd (1928/29).

However, in 2009, The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced that the number of Best Picture nominees would be increased from five to ten. The expansion was a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and '40s, 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."[1] At the same time, the voting system was switched from first-past-the-post to Alternative Vote (also known as Instant Run-off Vote).[2]

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

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 2/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 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 Part II (English/Sicilian, 1974), (English/Mandarin, 1987) and (English/Hindi, 2008).

Another point of contention is the recent extreme bias toward 2-plus hour films: Crash (2005, 112m) is the shortest film to win Best Picture in the past 20 years. It has been criticized for ignoring films that were huge commercial and critical successes. Furthermore, no animated film has won the award (Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Disney- 's Up and Toy Story 3 were nominated), and only one comedy (, 1998) has won in the last 30 years.

To date, eleven films exclusively financed outside the United States have won Best Picture; all eleven were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom. Those films were, in chronological order: Hamlet, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, Oliver!, , Gandhi, The Last Emperor, Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech

No Best Picture winner has been lost, though a few such as All Quiet on the Western Front and Lawrence of Arabia exist only in a form altered from their original, award-winning release form, usually due to editing for reissue (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees such as Tom Jones and 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 . Wings and Sunrise were the only silent winners of a Best Picture-equivalent award, although a part-silent version of All Quiet on the Western Front was created for foreign-language release and survives. Winners and nominees

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Except for the early years (when the Academy used a non-calendar year), the year shown is the one in which the film first premiered in County, ; 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 , 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 each were nominated for two separate awards similar to the Best Picture Award.

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 3/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… For the following three years, five films were nominated for the award. This was expanded to eight in 1933, to ten in 1934, and to twelve in 1935, before being dropped back to ten in 1937. In 1945 it was reduced back to five. This number remained until 2010, when it was once again raised to ten.

For the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929. Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

1920s

1927/28[A] (1st) Film Production company(s) 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(s) Producer(s) & Lawrence Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[L] Weingarten Feature Productions, United Alibi Roland West Artists The Revue of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Harry Rapf 1929 In Old Arizona Fox Winfield Sheehan[G] The Patriot Paramount

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)

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 4/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Cimarron RKO Radio William LeBaron East Lynne Fox Winfield Sheehan[G] The Front Page Caddo, Howard Hughes Skippy Paramount 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 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 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] 42nd Street Warner Bros. Darryl F. Zanuck A Farewell to Arms[H] Paramount Adolph Zukor I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis Lady for a Day Columbia Little Women[H] RKO Radio Merian C. Cooper, Kenneth MacGowan The Private Life of Henry VIII 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

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 5/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… The Barretts of Wimpole Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving Thalberg Street[I] 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 20th Century, United Darryl F. Zanuck, William Goetz, Raymond The House of Rothschild[I] Artists Griffith Imitation of Life Universal John M. Stahl One Night of Love Columbia Harry Cohn, Everett Riskin The Thin Man Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 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, Alice Adams RKO Radio Pandro S. Berman Broadway Melody of 1936 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer John W. Considine, Jr. Warner Bros., Hal B. Wallis, Harry Joe Brown, Gordon Captain Blood[J] Cosmopolitan Hollingshead David Copperfield Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer David O. Selznick The Informer[J] RKO Radio Cliff Reid The Lives of a Bengal Paramount Louis D. Lighton Lancer A Midsummer Night's Warner Bros. Henry Blanke Dream 20th Century, United Les Misérables Darryl F. Zanuck Artists 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 …wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 6/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Warner Bros. Henry Blanke Dodsworth Goldwyn, United Artists Samuel Goldwyn, Merritt Hulbert Libeled Lady Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Columbia Frank Capra Romeo and Juliet Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving Thalberg 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) 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 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 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

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 7/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Test 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 Wanger The Wizard of Oz Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Mervyn LeRoy Wuthering Heights Goldwyn, United Artists Samuel Goldwyn

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 Kitty Foyle RKO Radio David Hempstead The Letter Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis The Long Voyage Home Argosy, Wanger, United Artists Our Town Lesser, United Artists The 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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Irving Asher Citizen Kane RKO Radio Here Comes Mr. Jordan Columbia Everett Riskin

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 8/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Hold Back the Dawn Paramount Arthur Hornblow, Jr. 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

1942 (15th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Mrs. Miniver Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sidney Franklin 49th Parallel GFD, Columbia Kings Row Warner Bros. Hal B. Wallis The Magnificent Ambersons Mercury, RKO Radio Orson Welles The Pied Piper 20th Century Fox Nunnally Johnson Goldwyn, RKO Radio Samuel Goldwyn Random Harvest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sidney Franklin The Talk of the Town Columbia 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 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) Paramount Leo McCarey

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 9/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 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 Anchors Aweigh Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Joe Pasternak The Bells of St. Mary's RKO Radio Leo McCarey Mildred Pierce Warner Bros. 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 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 Miracle on 34th Street 20th Century Fox William Perlberg

1948 (21st) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, Universal Hamlet Laurence Olivier International Johnny Belinda Warner Bros. Jerry Wald The Red Shoes Rank Organisation, Powell and Pressburger, Eagle- Michael Powell, Emeric Lion Films Pressburger

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 10/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… The Snake Pit 20th Century Fox Anatole Litvak, Robert Bassler The Treasure of the Sierra Warner Bros. Henry Blanke Madre

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 A Letter to Three Wives 20th Century Fox Sol C. Siegel Twelve O'Clock High 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck

1950s

1950 (23rd) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) 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 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 Ivanhoe Pandro S. Berman Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 11/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Moulin Rouge United Artists The Quiet Man Republic John Ford, Merian C. Cooper

1953 (26th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Columbia 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) Columbia [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)

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 12/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 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 , 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 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 Columbia The Diary of Anne Frank 20th Century Fox George Stevens The Nun's Story Warner Bros. Henry Blanke Room at the Top Continential, John Woolf, James Woolf

1960s

1960 (33rd) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) United Artists The Alamo United Artists Elmer Gantry United Artists Bernard Smith Sons and Lovers 20th Century Fox Jerry Wald The Sundowners Warner Bros.

1961 (34th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) United Artists Fanny Warner Bros. Joshua Logan …wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 13/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… The Guns of Navarone Columbia 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. 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) Production (s) company(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 Columbia the Bomb Walt Disney, Bill Mary Poppins Productions 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

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 14/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 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 The Sand Pebbles 20th Century Fox Robert Wise Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Warner Bros.

1967 (40th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) In the Heat of the Night United Artists Bonnie and Clyde Warner Bros., Seven Arts Doctor Dolittle 20th Century Fox Arthur P. Jacobs Embassy Lawrence Turman Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Columbia Stanley Kramer

1968 (41st) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Oliver! Columbia John Woolf Columbia The Lion in Winter Avco Embassy Martin Poll Rachel, Rachel Warner Bros. Romeo and Juliet Paramount Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne

1969 (42nd) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) 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 [K] Cinema V Z Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi

1970s

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 15/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 1970 (43rd) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Patton 20th Century Fox Frank McCarthy Airport Universal 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 United Artists Norman Jewison The Last Picture Show Columbia Stephen J. Friedman 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. The Emigrants[K] Warner Bros. Bengt Forslund Sounder 20th Century Fox Robert B. Radnitz

1973 (46th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Universal Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips , Universal , Gary Kurtz Cries and Whispers[K] Warner Bros. A Touch of Class Avco Embassy Melvin Frank

1974 (47th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) The Godfather Part Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Paramount II[O] Roos

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 16/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Chinatown Paramount Paramount Francis Ford Coppola Lenny United Artists Marvin Worth 20th Century Fox, Warner The Towering Inferno Irwin Allen Bros.

1975 (48th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest United Artists [N], Barry Lyndon Warner Bros. Stanley Kubrick Dog Day Afternoon Warner Bros. Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand Universal Richard D. Zanuck Nashville Paramount

1976 (49th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) United Artists , 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 Columbia Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips

1977 (50th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Hall United Artists Charles H. Joffe 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 , Arthur Laurents

1978 (51st) Production Film Producer(s) company(s) Barry Spikings, , , John Universal Peverall Coming Home United Artists Jerome Hellman Heaven Can Wait Paramount Warren Beatty …wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 17/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Midnight Express Columbia Alan Marshall, An Unmarried 20th Century Fox Paul Mazursky, Tony Ray Woman

1979 (52nd) Production Film Producer(s) company(s) Kramer vs. Columbia Stanley R. Jaffe Kramer All That Jazz 20th Century Fox Robert Alan Aurthur Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson, Tom United Artists Sternberg Breaking Away 20th Century Fox Peter Yates Norma Rae 20th Century Fox Tamara Asseyev, Alex Rose

1980s

1980 (53rd) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Paramount Ronald L. Schwary Coal Miner's Daughter Universal Bernard Schwartz The Elephant Man Paramount David Lynch United Artists Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff Tess Columbia Claude Berri, Timothy Burrill

1981 (54th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Chariots of Fire , Warner Bros. David Puttnam Atlantic City Paramount Denis Héroux On Golden Pond ITC, Universal Bruce Gilbert Lucasfilm, Paramount Frank Marshall Reds Paramount Warren Beatty

1982 (55th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Gandhi Columbia

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Universal , Kathleen Kennedy[M]

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 18/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Missing Universal , Mildred Lewis Columbia , Dick Richards 20th Century Fox Richard D. Zanuck,

1983 (56th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) 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) 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 Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, The Color Purple Warner Bros. Kiss of the Spider Island Alive David Weisman Woman 20th Century Fox, ABC Motion Prizzi's Honor John Foreman Pictures 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

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 19/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 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, Hope and Glory Columbia John Boorman Moonstruck Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Patrick J. Palmer, Norman Jewison

1988 (61st) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) United Artists Mark Johnson The Accidental Tourist Warner Bros. , Charles Okun, Michael Grillo Dangerous Liaisons Warner Bros. Norma Heyman, Hank Moonjean Orion Frederick Zollo, Robert F. Colesberry Working Girl 20th Century Fox

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, Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas Universal Lawrence Gordon, Charles Gordon My Left Foot Noel Pearson

1990s

1990 (63rd) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Orion Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner Awakenings Columbia Walter F. Parkes, Lawrence Lasker Ghost Paramount Lisa Weinstein

The Godfather Part III Paramount Francis Ford Coppola Warner Bros. Irwin Winkler

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 20/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 1991 (64th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) The Silence of the Lambs Orion Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman Beauty and the Beast Disney Don Hahn TriStar Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Warren Beatty JFK Warner Bros. A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone The Prince of Tides Columbia , Andrew S. Karsch

1992 (65th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Warner Bros. The Crying Game Miramax Stephen Woolley Columbia, Castle Rock Entertainment , Andrew Scheinman Howards End 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 The Remains of the Day Columbia , , Ismail Merchant

1994 (67th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Paramount Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey Four Weddings and a PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Duncan Kenworthy Funeral Gramercy Miramax Lawrence Bender Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozick, Quiz Show

The Shawshank Columbia, Castle Rock Niki Marvin Redemption Entertainment

1995 (68th)

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 21/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Paramount, Icon, 20th Century Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey Fox Apollo 13 Universal, Babe Universal Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano Il Postino[K] Miramax Daniele Sense and Columbia Lindsay Doran Sensibility

1996 (69th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) The English Miramax Saul Zaentz Patient PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Fargo Ethan Coen Gramercy James L. Brooks, , Richard Sakai, Jerry Maguire , TriStar Crowe Secrets & Lies October Films Simon Channing-Williams Shine Jane Scott

1997 (70th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Lightstorm Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Titanic , Jon Landau Paramount As Good as It James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi TriStar Gets Zea The Full Fox Searchlight Umberto Pasolini Monty Good Will Miramax Lawrence Bender Hunting L.A. , Arnon Milchan, Michael G. Warner Bros. Confidential Nathanson

1998 (71st) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Shakespeare David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward in Love Miramax/Universal Zwick,

PolyGram Filmed

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 22/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Elizabeth Entertainment, Gramercy Shekhar Kapur, Alison Owen, , Life Is Miramax Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi Beautiful[K] Saving Private DreamWorks, Paramount Steven Spielberg, , , Ryan The Thin Red 20th Century Fox Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill Line

1999 (72nd) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) American Beauty DreamWorks , The Cider House Miramax Richard N. Gladstein Rules Castle Rock Entertainment, The Green Mile Frank Darabont, David Valdes Warner Bros. The Insider Touchstone Pictures Pieter Jan Brugge, Michael Mann Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, M. Hollywood Pictures Night Shyamalan

2000s

2000 (73rd) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) DreamWorks, Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Gladiator Universal Lustig Chocolat Miramax David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran Crouching Tiger, Hidden Classics William Kong, Hsu Li Kong, Dragon[K] Erin Brockovich Universal, Columbia Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Traffic USA Films Bickford

2001 (74th) Production Film Producer(s) company(s) Universal, A Beautiful Mind Brian Grazer, DreamWorks Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, David USA Films Levy

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 23/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… In the Bedroom Miramax Graham Leader, Ross Katz, Todd Field : The Fellowship of , , Barrie M. the Ring Osborne Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Fred Moulin Rouge! 20th Century Fox Baron

2002 (75th) Production Film Producer(s) company(s) Chicago Miramax Martin Richards Gangs of Miramax Alberto Grimaldi, Harvey Weinstein The Hours Paramount, Miramax , Robert Fox The Lord of the Rings: The Two Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter New Line Cinema Towers Jackson , Robert Benmussa, Alain The Pianist Sarde

2003 (76th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema the King Fran Walsh Lost in Translation Focus Features Ross Katz, Master and Commander: The Far Side 20th Century Fox, Miramax, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., , of the World Universal Duncan Henderson Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt, Clint Mystic River Warner Bros. Eastwood Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Seabiscuit Universal, DreamWorks

2004 (77th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) 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 , Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin Sideways Fox Searchlight Michael London

2005 (78th)

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 24/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Lions Gate Crash , Cathy Schulman Entertainment Focus Features , James Schamus Capote United Artists Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven Good Night, and Good Warner Bros. Luck Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Munich DreamWorks, Universal Mendel

2006 (79th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Warner Bros. Graham King Babel 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 , Christine Langan, Tracey Seaward

2007 (80th) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) No Country for Old Miramax, Paramount Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Men Vantage 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 , Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Paramount Vantage, Miramax Sellar

2008 (81st) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) Fox Searchlight, Slumdog Millionaire[O] Christian Colson Warner Bros. The Curious Case of Paramount, Warner Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Cean Chaffin Benjamin Button Bros. Frost/Nixon Universal Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner Milk Focus Features Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks , Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, The Reader The Weinstein Co. Redmond Morris

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 25/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 2009 (82nd) Film Production company(s) Producer(s) , , Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro Lightstorm Entertainment, James Cameron, Jon Landau 20th Century Fox Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick The Blind Side Warner Bros. Johnson TriStar Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey The Weinstein Co., Inglourious Basterds Lawrence Bender Universal Precious: Based on the Novel Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Lions Gate Entertainment "Push" by Sapphire Magness A Serious Man Focus Features Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Up Disney/Pixar Jonas Rivera Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, Jason Up in the Air Paramount Reitman

2010s

2010 (83rd) Production Film Producer(s) company(s) The King's Speech The Weinstein Co. Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin Black Swan Fox Searchlight Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy and Brian Oliver Paramount , Todd Lieberman and Inception Warner Bros. and Emma Thomas The Kids Are All Focus Features Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray Right Fox Searchlight Danny Boyle and Christian Colson Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, and Scott Columbia Rudin Toy Story 3 Disney/Pixar Darla K. Anderson True Grit Paramount Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Scott Rudin Winter's Bone Alix Madigan and Anne Rosellini

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 26/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Notes

A : The official name of the award for 1928 and 1929 called Outstanding Picture B : The official name of the award from 1930 to 1940 called Outstanding Production C : The official name of the award from 1941 to 1943 called Outstanding Motion Picture D : The official name of the award from 1944 to 1961 called Best Motion Picture E : The official name of the award from 1962 called Best Picture F : There were two categories for "Outstanding Picture" with the other being Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Production where the winner was Sunrise (production company: Fox; producer: William Fox). This category was dropped immediately after the first year of the Academy Award.[3] G1 2 3 4 5 : Head of studio H1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that A Farewell to Arms came in second, and Little Women third. I1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that The Barretts of Wimpole Street came in second, and The House of Rothschild third. J1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that The Informer came in second, and Captain Blood third. K1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 : Nominated motion picture with non-English dialogue track (AMPAS: foreign language film).[4] Three of which, Z, Life is Beautiful and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[5] L : Production company with the most nominations (38) and the most awards (5). Applying only from 1928 to 1950.[6] M : Person with the most nominations (6 nominations, 0 awards). Applying only from 1951 to 2008.[6] N : Person with the most awards (3 awards, Spiegel 4 nominations, Zaentz 3 nominations). Applying only from 1951 to 2008.[6] O1 2 3 : Winner with partly non-English dialogue track (AMPAS: foreign language).[7] Milestones

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

Milestones related to acting

Annual Year Film Awards Noms Milestone

First winner for Best Picture to receive an acting 2nd 1929 The Broadway Melody 1 3 nomination First Best Picture nominee to win both Best Actor 7th 1934 5 5 and Best Actress First Best Picture nominee to receive nominations 15th 1942 Mrs. Miniver 6 12 in all of the four acting categories Last Best Picture winner to date to receive 26th 1953 From Here to Eternity 8 13 nominations in all of the four acting categories Only Best Picture winner to have credited roles …wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 27/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 35th 1962 Lawrence of Arabia 7 10 for actors of only one gender Last Best Picture nominee to date to receive 54th 1981 Reds 3 12 nominations in all four of the acting categories The Silence of the Last Best Picture winner to date to win both Best 64th 1991 5 7 Lambs Actor and Best Actress Last Best Picture nominee to date to win both 70th 1997 As Good As It Gets 2 7 Best Actor and Best Actress

First (and only) film to win more than 10 awards The Lord of the Rings: 76th 2003 11 11 (including Best Picture) and not receive an acting The Return of the King nomination Last film to date to win Best Picture without 81st 2008 Slumdog Millionaire 8 10 receiving any acting nominations

Milestones related to country or language

Annual Year Film Awards Noms Milestone

The Private First foreign film to be nominated for Best Picture and to win 6th 1933 Life of 1 2 any Academy Award (British) Henry VIII Grand First foreign language film to be nominated for Best Picture 11th 1938 0 1 Illusion (French) 21st 1948 Hamlet 4 7 First foreign film to win Best Picture (British) Crouching Tiger, Foreign language film nominated for Best Picture to date with 73rd 2000 Hidden 4 10 the most number of Academy Award nominations Dragon

Letters from Last foreign language film to date to be nominated for Best 79th 2006 1 4 Iwo Jima Picture (Japanese) The 79th 2006 4 5 First (and only) remake of a foreign film to win Best Picture Departed Tied with Gandhi as Best Picture winner with second most Slumdog 81st 2008 8 10 Oscars for a British production (behind Millionaire and The Last Emperor both with nine each).[8]

Milestones related to directing

Annual Year Awards Noms Film Milestone

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 28/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… West Side First of only two Best Picture winners to have more than 34th 1961 10 11 Story one credited director ( and Robert Wise) Children of a First film directed by a woman (Randa Haines) to be 59th 1986 1 5 Lesser God nominated for Best Picture Driving Miss Last film to date to win Best Picture without being 62nd 1989 4 9 Daisy nominated for Best Director First Best Picture winner to be produced, directed, written, 70th 1997 Titanic 11 14 and edited by the same person (James Cameron) Shakespeare 71st 1998 7 13 Most Oscars without a Best Director win in Love No Country Last Best Picture winner to date to have more than one 80th 2007 4 8 for Old Men credited director (Joel and Ethan Coen) The Hurt First (and only) Best Picture winner directed by a woman 82nd 2009 6 9 Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) First (and only) Best Picture nominee directed by an 82nd 2009 Precious 2 6 African-American (Lee Daniels)

Milestones related to genre

Annual Year Film Awards Noms Milestone

1927- First war film to be nominated and win 1st Wings 2 2 28 Best Picture 1927- First (and only) to win Best 1st Wings 2 2 28 Picture 1928- 2nd The Broadway Melody 1 3 First musical to win Best Picture 29 1930- 4th Cimarron 3 7 First Western to win Best Picture 31 7th 1934 It Happened One Night 5 5 First comedy to win Best Picture First biographical picture (biopic) to win 10th 1937 The Life of Emile Zola 3 10 Best Picture First children's film to be nominated for 12th 1939 The Wizard of Oz 2 6 Best Picture 13th 1940 Rebecca 2 11 First thriller to win Best Picture First (and only) mystery to win Best 40th 1967 In the Heat of the Night 5 7 Picture First to be nominated 44th 1971 A Clockwork Orange 0 4 for Best Picture

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 29/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 46th 1973 The Exorcist 2 10 First to be nominated for Best Picture 49th 1976 Rocky 3 10 First sports film to win Best Picture First to be nominated for 58th 1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman 1 4 Best Picture First animated film to be nominated for 64th 1991 Beauty and the Beast 2 6 Best Picture First (and only) horror film to win Best 64th 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 5 7 Picture 71st 1998 Shakespeare in Love 7 13 Last comedy to date to win Best Picture Crouching Tiger, Hidden First (and only) martial arts film to date to 73rd 2000 4 10 Dragon be nominated for Best Picture 74th 2001 A Beautiful Mind 4 8 Last biopic to date to win Best Picture Last musical to date to win (or be 75th 2002 Chicago 6 13 nominated for) Best Picture The Lord of the Rings: The First (and only) to date to win 76th 2003 11 11 Return of the King Best Picture

Milestones related to other Academy Awards

Annual Year Film Awards Noms Milestone

1927- Winner of the first Academy award for Best 1st Wings 2 2 28 Picture 1928- First film to win Best Picture without winning any 2nd The Broadway Melody 1 3 29 other Academy Awards 1930- First film to be nominated for every major 4th Cimarron 3 7 31 Academy Award, including Best Picture 1931- First (and only) film to win Best Picture without 5th Grand Hotel 1 1 32 receiving any other nominations First of only three films to win every major 7th 1934 It Happened One Night 5 5 Academy Award, including Best Picture Last film to date to win Best Picture without 8th 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty 1 8 winning any other Academy Awards Last film to date to be nominated for Best Picture 16th 1943 The Ox-Bow Incident 0 1 and no other award First film to be nominated for Best Picture and 24th 1951 Decision Before Dawn 0 2 only one other award after the switch to five nominees in 1944

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 30/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Who's Afraid of First (and only) Best Picture nominee to be 39th 1966 5 13 Virginia Woolf? nominated for every award category in which it was eligible Last film to date to win Best Picture without a 53rd 1980 Ordinary People 4 6 Best Film Editing nomination. One Flew Over the Second of only three films to win every major 48th 1975 5 9 Cuckoo's Nest Academy Award, including Best Picture The Silence of the Third of only three films to win every major 64th 1991 5 7 Lambs Academy Award, including Best Picture Last film to date to win Best Picture without a 70th 1997 Titanic 11 14 screenplay nomination (Adapted or Original) The Lord of the Rings: Last film to date to win Best Picture and all of its 76th 2003 11 11 The Return of the King other nominated categories

Milestones related to other awards ceremonies

Annual Year Film Awards Noms Milestone

You Can't First of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted for 11th 1938 Take It 2 7 the screen from plays which won the Pulitzer Prize With You The Lost Only film to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival 18th 1945 4 7 Weekend Grand Prix du Festival International du Film Only film to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival 28th 1955 Marty 4 8 Palme d'Or First of only two films to win Best Picture without being 46th 1973 The Sting 7 10 nominated for either of the three Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture (drama, comedy/musical or foreign film). 61st 1988 Rain Man 4 8 First (and only) film to win Golden Bear and Best Picture Driving Second of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted 62nd 1989 4 9 Miss Daisy for the screen from plays having won the Pulitzer Prize 78th 2005 Crash 3 6 One of only two film festival acquisitions to win Best Picture Second of only two films to win Best Picture without being 78th 2005 Crash 3 6 nominated for either of the three Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture (drama, comedy/musical or foreign film). The Hurt 82nd 2009 6 9 Second of only two film festival acquisitions to win Best Picture Locker

Milestones related to rating

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 31/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Annual Year Film Awards Noms Milestone 41st 1968 Oliver! 6 11 First film with an MPAA rating to win Best Picture First (and only) G-rated film to date to win Best 41st 1968 Oliver! 6 11 Picture 42nd 1969 Midnight Cowboy 3 7 First (and only) X-rated film to win Best Picture 43rd 1970 Patton 7 10 First PG-rated film to win Best Picture A Clockwork 44th 1971 0 4 Last X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture Orange The French 44th 1971 5 8 First R-rated film to win Best Picture Connection First PG-13-rated to be nominated for Best 58th 1985 The Color Purple 0 11 Picture 60th 1987 The Last Emperor 9 9 First PG-13-rated film to win Best Picture Last Best Picture winner to date with a PG rating 62nd 1989 Driving Miss Daisy 4 9 (or lower)

Milestones related to sequels, prequels, remakes and adaptations

Annual Year Film Awards Noms Milestone

First (and only) film based on a comic book, comic 1930- 4th Skippy 1 4 strip, or graphic novel to be nominated for Best 31 Picture First Shakespeare adaptation to be nominated for A Midsummer 8th 1935 2* 3 Best Picture (*one of its two Oscars was a write-in Night's Dream winner) The Bells of St. 18th 1945 1 8 First sequel to be nominated for Best Picture Mary's First (and only) film based on a television movie or 28th 1955 Marty 4 8 mini-series to win Best Picture The Godfather Part 47th 1974 6 11 First sequel to win Best Picture. II The Godfather Part First of only two trilogies to have all three films 63rd 1990 0 7 III nominated for Best Picture First film based on a television series to be 66th 1993 The Fugitive 1 7 nominated for Best Picture Last Best Picture nominee to date to have been 73rd 2000 Traffic 4 5 based on a television movie or mini-series

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 32/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… The Lord of the Second of only two trilogies to have all three films 76th 2003 11 11 Rings: The Return of nominated for Best Picture, and only one to have the King the third installment win. First (and only) remake of an (Infernal 79th 2006 The Departed 4 5 Affairs) to win Best Picture Only sequel to be nominated for Best Picture 83rd 2010 Toy Story 3 2 5 without any of its predecessors being nominated

Milestones related to superlatives

Annual Year Film Awards Noms Milestone

1932- Shortest film to be nominated for Best Picture (1 6th She Done Him Wrong 0 1 33 hour 6 minutes) Longest film to win Best Picture (3 hours 54 12th 1939 Gone with the Wind 8 13 minutes) First of only two films to receive 14 Academy 23rd 1950 All About Eve 6 14 Award nominations, including Best Picture Shortest film to win Best Picture (1 hour 31 28th 1955 Marty 4 8 minutes) First of only three films to win 11 Academy 32nd 1959 Ben-Hur 11 12 Awards, including Best Picture Best Picture nominee to win the most Academy 45th 1972 Cabaret 8 10 Awards (8) without winning Best Picture 50th 1977 0 11 First of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11 The Turning Point nominations without winning any Academy Awards Second of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11 58th 1985 The Color Purple 0 11 nominations without winning any Academy Awards Second of only two films to receive 14 Academy 70th 1997 Titanic 11 14 Award nominations, including Best Picture First Best Picture winner to gross over 70th 1997 Titanic 11 14 US$1,000,000,000, worldwide.[9] The Lord of the Third of only three films to date to win 11 76th 2003 Rings: The Return of 11 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture the King The Lord of the First (and only) film to date with ten or more 76th 2003 Rings: The Return of 11 11 nominations (11) to win in every nomination it the King received including Best Picture Last film to date to be nominated for every major 77th 2004 Million Dollar Baby 4 7 Academy Award, including Best Picture

…wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 33/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… 77th 2004 The Aviator 5 11 Last film to date to win the most Academy Awards (5) in its year without winning Best Picture 82nd 2009 The Hurt Locker 6 9 Lowest-grossing film after 1955 to win Best Picture

Milestones related to technology

Annual Year Film Awards Noms Milestone

1928- The Broadway 2nd 1 3 First sound film to win Best Picture 29 Melody 10th 1937 A Star Is Born 1 7 First all-color film nominated for Best Picture Gone with the 12th 1939 8 13 First all-color film to win Best Picture Wind First motion picture (and Best Picture nominee) in 26th 1953 The Robe 2 5 CinemaScope Last black-and-white film before 1993 (and last entirely 33rd 1960 The Apartment 5 10 in B&W) to win Best Picture Beauty and the First and only hand drawn animated film to be nominated 64th 1991 2 6 Beast for Best Picture First (and only) black-and-white film after 1960 to win 66th 1993 Schindler's List 7 12 Best Picture (though with some color sequences) Good Night, Last black-and-white film to date to be nominated for 78th 2005 0 6 and Good Luck Best Picture 82nd 2009 9 First nominee to be entirely filmed using 3D technology First computer animated film to be nominated for Best 82nd 2009 Up 2 5 Picture

Superlatives

Category Record Holder Record Notes

Most Best Picture Awards by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 5 awards Note 1 Studio

Most Best Picture Nominations by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 40 nominations Studio

Most Best Picture Awards by a Sam Spiegel and Saul Zaentz 3 awards Note 1 Producer

Stanley Kramer, Steven Most Best Picture Nominations by a Spielberg, 6 nominations Note 2 …wikipedia.org/…/Academy_Award_for_… 34/37 3/4/2011 Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikip… Producer and Kathleen Kennedy Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The Best Picture with the Most Awards Lord of the Rings: The 11 awards Return of the King Best Picture with the Most All About Eve and Titanic 14 nominations Nominations

3 hours and 54 Longest Best Picture Winner Gone with the Wind Note 3 minutes

4 hours and 3 Longest Best Picture Nominee Cleopatra Note 4 minutes

1 hour and 31 Shortest Best Picture Winner Marty Note 5 minutes

1 hour and 6 Shortest Best Picture Nominee She Done Him Wrong minutes

Note 1: Until the 23rd Academy Awards (1950), Best Picture was awarded to the studio that produced the film. Beginning with the 24th Academy Awards (1951), however, it has been awarded to the individual producers credited on the film. Note also that until 1943, there were ten (rather than five) nominated films per year. As of 2009, there are once again ten nominated films. The first year in which multiple individuals jointly won was 1973, with three winners for The Sting. The greatest number of joint winners was five, for Shakespeare in Love in 1998. After this, the Academy imposed a limit of three nominated producers per film; however, this limit may be exceeded in a "rare and extraordinary circumstance", such as in 2008 when both Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among four nominees for The Reader.[10]

Note 2: Stanley Kramer, Steven Spielberg, and Kathleen Kennedy are the producers who have received the most Best Picture nominations, with six apiece. Neither Kramer nor Kennedy has ever won the Best Picture award; Spielberg won for Schindler's List in 1993.

Note 3: It remains a very close call — a tie, virtually — between the top two "longest" Best Pictures. The total film time (without music) of Gone with the Wind (1939) is almost 221 minutes (3 hours and 41 minutes); with the Overture, Intermission, Entr'acte, and Walkout Music, it reaches 234 minutes (3 hours and 54 minutes). The total film time (without music) of the original Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is just over 222 minutes (3 hours and 42 minutes), slightly longer than Gone with the Wind. Lawrence of Arabia's additional elements extend the film to about 232 minutes (3 hours and 52 minutes). If just counting the film itself, Lawrence of Arabia is the longest of the two contenders. The other longest Best Picture winners are, in order: Ben-Hur (1959) at 212 minutes (3 hours and 32 minutes) and The Lord of Rings: Return of the King (2003) at 201 minutes (3 hours and 21 minutes).

Note 4: The longest movie to ever win any Academy Award was Russia's War and Peace (1965) at 414 minutes (6 hours and 54 minutes), winner of Best Foreign Language Film.

Note 5: After Marty, the second shortest Best Picture winner is (1977) at 93 minutes (1 hour and 33 minutes).

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List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees List of Academy Award-winning films List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Production BAFTA Award for Best Film Films considered the greatest ever Lists of films List of film production companies List of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture

References

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