Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 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 Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot. Best Picture is the final award of the night and is considered the most prestigious honor of the ceremony.
The Grand Staircase columns at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, 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 563 films nominated for Best Picture and 92 winners.
History
Category name changes
At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony, 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 '. 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.
- 1927/28–1928/29:
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 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 screen credit 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 Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among the four producers nominated for The Reader. the Producers Branch Executive Committee determines such exceptions, noting they take place only in "rare and extraordinary circumstance."
Steven Spielberg currently holds the record for most nominations at ten, 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
The Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been closely linked throughout their history. Of the 92 films that have won Best Picture, 66 have also been awarded Best Director. Only five films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: Wings, Grand Hotel, Driving Miss Daisy, Argo, and Green Book. 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 Two Arabian Knights, and Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady.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. 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 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 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."At the same time, the voting system was switched from first-past-the-post to instant runoff voting. Two years after this change, 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."
Language and country of origin
Only eleven non-English language films have been nominated in the category: La Grande Illusion ; Z ; The Emigrants ; Cries and Whispers ; ; Life Is Beautiful ; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ; Letters from Iwo Jima ; Amour ; Roma ; and Parasite. 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, Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, The Last Emperor, Slumdog Millionaire, and The King's Speech. The ninth film, The Artist, was financed by France and the tenth film, Parasite, was financed by South Korea.
Genres
Some genres of film have received few or no nominations or awards. Only three animated films have been nominated — Beauty and the Beast, Up and Toy Story 3. 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 two have ever been nominated — Black Panther, and Joker. Only two fantasy films have won — ' and The Shape of Water, although more have been nominated. The Silence of the Lambs is the only horror film to win Best Picture, and only five others have been nominated for Best Picture: The Exorcist, Jaws, The Sixth Sense, Black Swan, and Get Out. No science fiction film has won the award, though eleven films have been nominated: A Clockwork Orange, Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Avatar, District 9, Inception, Gravity, Her, ', The Martian, and Arrival.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, Oliver!, and Chicago.
Sequel nominations and winners
Few sequels have been nominated for Best Picture and just two have won: The Godfather Part II and '. Other nominees include The Bells of St. Mary's, Toy Story 3, and .Another nominee, Broadway Melody of 1936, 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. Best Picture nominee The Lion in Winter features Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, a role he had played previously in the film Becket. But Winter is not a sequel to Becket. Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima was a companion piece to his film Flags of Our Fathers, 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, Black Panther is a continuation on the events that occurred in ' and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Silent film winners
At the 1st Academy Awards, the Best Picture award then named "Academy Award for Outstanding Picture" was presented to the 1927 silent film Wings.The Artist was the first silent 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 shot entirely in black-and-white since 1960's The Apartment..
Version availability
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. This has usually been due to editing for reissue. Other winners and nominees, such as Tom Jones and Star Wars, are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. The Broadway Melody originally had some sequences photographed in two-color Technicolor. This footage survives only in black and white.The 1928 film The Patriot is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost. 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 East Lynne 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 "Best Actress in a Leading Role" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in La La Land moments prior. When the mistake was realized, the show's producers rushed onstage to correct it; in the resulting chaos, it was La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz who finally announced that Moonlight 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, the year shown is the one in which the film first premiered in Los Angeles County, California; normally this is also the year of first release, however, it may be the year after first release. 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 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 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 Little Miss Sunshine. The Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously among the four nominated for The Reader. 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.
1920s
1930s
1940s
| Year | Film | Film Studio |
| 1940 | - | - |
| 1940 | Rebecca | Selznick International Pictures |
| 1940 | All This, and Heaven Too | Warner Bros. |
| 1940 | Foreign Correspondent | Walter Wanger |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1940 | The Great Dictator | Charles Chaplin Productions |
| 1940 | Kitty Foyle | RKO Radio |
| 1940 | The Letter | Warner Bros. |
| 1940 | The Long Voyage Home | Argosy-Wanger |
| 1940 | Our Town | Sol Lesser |
| 1940 | The Philadelphia Story | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1941 | - | - |
| 1941 | How Green Was My Valley | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1941 | Blossoms in the Dust | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1941 | Citizen Kane | Mercury |
| 1941 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | Columbia |
| 1941 | Hold Back the Dawn | Paramount |
| 1941 | The Little Foxes | Samuel Goldwyn Productions |
| 1941 | The Maltese Falcon | Warner Bros. |
| 1941 | One Foot in Heaven | Warner Bros. |
| 1941 | Sergeant York | Warner Bros. |
| 1941 | Suspicion | RKO Radio |
| 1942 | - | - |
| 1942 | Mrs. Miniver | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1942 | The Invaders | Ortus |
| 1942 | Kings Row | Warner Bros. |
| 1942 | The Magnificent Ambersons | Mercury |
| 1942 | The Pied Piper | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1942 | The Pride of the Yankees | Samuel Goldwyn Productions |
| 1942 | Random Harvest | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1942 | The Talk of the Town | Columbia |
| 1942 | Wake Island | Paramount |
| 1942 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Warner Bros. |
| 1943 | - | - |
| 1943 | Casablanca | Warner Bros. |
| 1943 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Paramount |
| 1943 | Heaven Can Wait | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1943 | The Human Comedy | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1943 | In Which We Serve | Two Cities Films |
| 1943 | Madame Curie | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1943 | The More the Merrier | Columbia |
| 1943 | The Ox-Bow Incident | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1943 | The Song of Bernadette | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1943 | Watch on the Rhine | Warner Bros. |
| 1944 | - | - |
| 1944 | Going My Way | Paramount |
| 1944 | Double Indemnity | Paramount |
| 1944 | Gaslight | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1944 | Since You Went Away | Selznick International Pictures |
| 1944 | Wilson | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1945 | - | - |
| 1945 | The Lost Weekend | Paramount |
| 1945 | Anchors Aweigh | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1945 | The Bells of St. Mary's | Rainbow Productions |
| 1945 | Mildred Pierce | Warner Bros. |
| 1945 | Spellbound | Selznick International Pictures |
| 1946 | - | - |
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | Samuel Goldwyn Productions |
| 1946 | Henry V | Two Cities Films |
| 1946 | It's a Wonderful Life | Liberty Films |
| 1946 | The Razor's Edge | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1946 | The Yearling | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1947 | - | - |
| 1947 | Gentleman's Agreement | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1947 | The Bishop's Wife | Samuel Goldwyn Productions |
| 1947 | Crossfire | RKO Radio |
| 1947 | Great Expectations | J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild |
| 1947 | Miracle on 34th Street | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1948 | - | - |
| 1948 | Hamlet | J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films |
| 1948 | Johnny Belinda | Warner Bros. |
| 1948 | The Red Shoes | J. Arthur Rank-Archers |
| 1948 | The Snake Pit | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1948 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Warner Bros. |
| 1949 | - | - |
| 1949 | All the King's Men | Columbia |
| 1949 | Battleground | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1949 | The Heiress | Paramount |
| 1949 | A Letter to Three Wives | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1949 | Twelve O'Clock High | 20th Century-Fox |
1950s
| Year | Film | Film Studio/Producer |
| 1950 | - | - |
| 1950 | All About Eve | 20th Century-Fox |
| 1950 | Born Yesterday | Columbia |
| 1950 | Father of the Bride | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1950 | King Solomon's Mines | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1950 | Sunset Boulevard | Paramount |
| 1951 | - | - |
| 1951 | An American in Paris | Arthur Freed |
| 1951 | Decision Before Dawn | Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy |
| 1951 | A Place in the Sun | George Stevens |
| 1951 | Quo Vadis | Sam Zimbalist |
| 1951 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Charles K. Feldman |
| 1952 | - | - |
| 1952 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 1952 | High Noon | Stanley Kramer |
| 1952 | Ivanhoe | Pandro S. Berman |
| 1952 | Moulin Rouge | John Huston, John Woolf and James Woolf |
| 1952 | The Quiet Man | John Ford and Merian C. Cooper |
| 1953 | - | - |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | Buddy Adler |
| 1953 | Julius Caesar | John Houseman |
| 1953 | The Robe | Frank Ross |
| 1953 | Roman Holiday | William Wyler |
| 1953 | Shane | George Stevens |
| 1954 | - | - |
| 1954 | On the Waterfront | Sam Spiegel |
| 1954 | The Caine Mutiny | Stanley Kramer |
| 1954 | The Country Girl | William Perlberg |
| 1954 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Jack Cummings |
| 1954 | Three Coins in the Fountain | Sol C. Siegel |
| 1955 | - | - |
| 1955 | Marty | Harold Hecht |
| 1955 | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Buddy Adler |
| 1955 | Mister Roberts | Leland Hayward |
| 1955 | Picnic | Fred Kohlmar |
| 1955 | The Rose Tattoo | Hal B. Wallis |
| 1956 | - | - |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | Michael Todd |
| 1956 | Friendly Persuasion | William Wyler |
| 1956 | Giant | George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg |
| 1956 | The King and I | Charles Brackett |
| 1956 | The Ten Commandments | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 1957 | - | - |
| 1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Sam Spiegel |
| 1957 | 12 Angry Men | Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose |
| 1957 | Peyton Place | Jerry Wald |
| 1957 | Sayonara | William Goetz |
| 1957 | Witness for the Prosecution | Arthur Hornblow Jr. |
| 1958 | - | - |
| 1958 | Gigi | Arthur Freed |
| 1958 | Auntie Mame | Jack L. Warner |
| 1958 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Lawrence Weingarten |
| 1958 | The Defiant Ones | Stanley Kramer |
| 1958 | Separate Tables | Harold Hecht |
| 1959 | - | - |
| 1959 | Ben-Hur | Sam Zimbalist |
| 1959 | Anatomy of a Murder | Otto Preminger |
| 1959 | The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens |
| 1959 | The Nun's Story | Henry Blanke |
| 1959 | Room at the Top | John Woolf and James Woolf |
1960s
| Year | Film | Producer |
| 1960 | - | - |
| 1960 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder |
| 1960 | The Alamo | John Wayne |
| 1960 | Elmer Gantry | Bernard Smith |
| 1960 | Sons and Lovers | Jerry Wald |
| 1960 | The Sundowners | Fred Zinnemann |
| 1961 | - | - |
| 1961 | West Side Story | Robert Wise |
| 1961 | Fanny | Joshua Logan |
| 1961 | The Guns of Navarone | Carl Foreman |
| 1961 | The Hustler | Robert Rossen |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer |
| 1962 | - | - |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | Sam Spiegel |
| 1962 | The Longest Day | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| 1962 | The Music Man | Morton DaCosta |
| 1962 | Mutiny on the Bounty | Aaron Rosenberg |
| 1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Alan J. Pakula |
| 1963 | - | - |
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Tony Richardson |
| 1963 | America America | Elia Kazan |
| 1963 | Cleopatra | Walter Wanger |
| 1963 | How the West Was Won | Bernard Smith |
| 1963 | Lilies of the Field | Ralph Nelson |
| 1964 | - | - |
| 1964 | My Fair Lady | Jack L. Warner |
| 1964 | Becket | Hal B. Wallis |
| 1964 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1964 | Mary Poppins | Walt Disney and Bill Walsh |
| 1964 | Zorba the Greek | Michael Cacoyannis |
| 1965 | - | - |
| 1965 | The Sound of Music | Robert Wise |
| 1965 | Darling | Joseph Janni |
| 1965 | Doctor Zhivago | Carlo Ponti |
| 1965 | Ship of Fools | Stanley Kramer |
| 1965 | A Thousand Clowns | Fred Coe |
| 1966 | - | - |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons | Fred Zinnemann |
| 1966 | Alfie | Lewis Gilbert |
| 1966 | The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming | Norman Jewison |
| 1966 | The Sand Pebbles | Robert Wise |
| 1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Ernest Lehman |
| 1967 | - | - |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | Walter Mirisch |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | Warren Beatty |
| 1967 | Doctor Dolittle | Arthur P. Jacobs |
| 1967 | The Graduate | Lawrence Turman |
| 1967 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Stanley Kramer |
| 1968 | - | - |
| 1968 | Oliver! | John Woolf |
| 1968 | Funny Girl | Ray Stark |
| 1968 | The Lion in Winter | Martin Poll |
| 1968 | Rachel, Rachel | Paul Newman |
| 1968 | Romeo and Juliet | Anthony Havelock-Allan and John Brabourne |
| 1969 | - | - |
| 1969 | Midnight Cowboy | Jerome Hellman |
| 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Hal B. Wallis |
| 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | John Foreman |
| 1969 | Hello, Dolly! | Ernest Lehman |
| 1969 | Z | Jacques Perrin and Ahmed Rachedi |
1970s
| Year | Films | Producer |
| 1970 | - | - |
| 1970 | Patton | Frank McCarthy |
| 1970 | Airport | Ross Hunter |
| 1970 | Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson and Richard Wechsler |
| 1970 | Love Story | Howard G. Minsky |
| 1970 | MASH | Ingo Preminger |
| 1971 | - | - |
| 1971 | The French Connection | Philip D'Antoni |
| 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1971 | Fiddler on the Roof | Norman Jewison |
| 1971 | The Last Picture Show | Stephen J. Friedman |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Sam Spiegel |
| 1972 | - | - |
| 1972 | The Godfather | Albert S. Ruddy |
| 1972 | Cabaret | Cy Feuer |
| 1972 | Deliverance | John Boorman |
| 1972 | The Emigrants | Bengt Forslund |
| 1972 | Sounder | Robert B. Radnitz |
| 1973 | - | - |
| 1973 | The Sting | Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, and Julia Phillips |
| 1973 | American Graffiti | Francis Ford Coppola and Gary Kurtz |
| 1973 | Cries and Whispers | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1973 | The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty |
| 1973 | A Touch of Class | Melvin Frank |
| 1974 | - | - |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, and Fred Roos |
| 1974 | Chinatown | Robert Evans |
| 1974 | The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1974 | Lenny | Marvin Worth |
| 1974 | The Towering Inferno | Irwin Allen |
| 1975 | - | - |
| 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz |
| 1975 | Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand |
| 1975 | Jaws | Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown |
| 1975 | Nashville | Robert Altman |
| 1976 | - | - |
| 1976 | Rocky | Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Walter Coblenz |
| 1976 | Bound for Glory | Robert F. Blumofe and Harold Leventhal |
| 1976 | Network | Howard Gottfried |
| 1976 | Taxi Driver | Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips |
| 1977 | - | - |
| 1977 | Annie Hall | Charles H. Joffe |
| 1977 | The Goodbye Girl | Ray Stark |
| 1977 | Julia | Richard Roth |
| 1977 | Star Wars | Gary Kurtz |
| 1977 | The Turning Point | Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents |
| 1978 | - | - |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, and John Peverall |
| 1978 | Coming Home | Jerome Hellman |
| 1978 | Heaven Can Wait | Warren Beatty |
| 1978 | Midnight Express | Alan Marshall and David Puttnam |
| 1978 | An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky and Tony Ray |
| 1979 | - | - |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Stanley R. Jaffe |
| 1979 | All That Jazz | Robert Alan Aurthur |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson, and Tom Sternberg |
| 1979 | Breaking Away | Peter Yates |
| 1979 | Norma Rae | Tamara Asseyev and Alex Rose |
1980s
| Year | Film | Producer |
| 1980 | - | - |
| 1980 | Ordinary People | Ronald L. Schwary |
| 1980 | Coal Miner's Daughter | Bernard Schwartz |
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | Jonathan Sanger |
| 1980 | Raging Bull | Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff |
| 1980 | Tess | Claude Berri and Timothy Burrill |
| 1981 | - | - |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | David Puttnam |
| 1981 | Atlantic City | Denis Héroux |
| 1981 | On Golden Pond | Bruce Gilbert |
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Frank Marshall |
| 1981 | Reds | Warren Beatty |
| 1982 | - | - |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Richard Attenborough |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy |
| 1982 | Missing | Edward Lewis and Mildred Lewis |
| 1982 | Tootsie | Sydney Pollack and Dick Richards |
| 1982 | The Verdict | Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown |
| 1983 | - | - |
| 1983 | Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks |
| 1983 | The Big Chill | Michael Shamberg |
| 1983 | The Dresser | Peter Yates |
| 1983 | The Right Stuff | Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff |
| 1983 | Tender Mercies | Philip S. Hobel |
| 1984 | - | - |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Saul Zaentz |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields | David Puttnam |
| 1984 | A Passage to India | John Brabourne and Richard B. Goodwin |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Arlene Donovan |
| 1984 | A Soldier's Story | Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary, and Patrick Palmer |
| 1985 | - | - |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack |
| 1985 | The Color Purple | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Quincy Jones |
| 1985 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | David Weisman |
| 1985 | Prizzi's Honor | John Foreman |
| 1985 | Witness | Edward S. Feldman |
| 1986 | - | - |
| 1986 | Platoon | Arnold Kopelson |
| 1986 | Children of a Lesser God | Burt Sugarman and Patrick J. Palmer |
| 1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | Robert Greenhut |
| 1986 | The Mission | Fernando Ghia and David Puttnam |
| 1986 | A Room with a View | Ismail Merchant |
| 1987 | - | - |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor | Jeremy Thomas |
| 1987 | Broadcast News | James L. Brooks |
| 1987 | Fatal Attraction | Stanley R. Jaffe and Sherry Lansing |
| 1987 | Hope and Glory | John Boorman |
| 1987 | Moonstruck | Patrick J. Palmer and Norman Jewison |
| 1988 | - | - |
| 1988 | Rain Man | Mark Johnson |
| 1988 | The Accidental Tourist | Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun, and Michael Grillo |
| 1988 | Dangerous Liaisons | Norma Heyman and Hank Moonjean |
| 1988 | Mississippi Burning | Frederick Zollo and Robert F. Colesberry |
| 1988 | Working Girl | Douglas Wick |
| 1989 | - | - |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck |
| 1989 | Born on the Fourth of July | A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone |
| 1989 | Dead Poets Society | Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, and Tony Thomas |
| 1989 | Field of Dreams | Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon |
| 1989 | My Left Foot | Noel Pearson |
1990s
2000s
| Year | Film | Producer |
| 2000 | - | - |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, and Branko Lustig |
| 2000 | Chocolat | David Brown, Kit Golden, and Leslie Holleran |
| 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | William Kong, Hsu Li-kong, and Ang Lee |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, and Stacey Sher |
| 2000 | Traffic | Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, and Laura Bickford |
| 2001 | - | - |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Brian Grazer and Ron Howard |
| 2001 | Gosford Park | Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, and David Levy |
| 2001 | In the Bedroom | Graham Leader, Ross Katz, and Todd Field |
| 2001 | ' | Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Barrie M. Osborne |
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, and Fred Baron |
| 2002 | - | - |
| 2002 | Chicago | Martin Richards |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | Alberto Grimaldi and Harvey Weinstein |
| 2002 | The Hours | Scott Rudin and Robert Fox |
| 2002 | ' | Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, and Peter Jackson |
| 2002 | The Pianist | Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, and Alain Sarde |
| 2003 | - | - |
| 2003 | Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh | |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation | Ross Katz and Sofia Coppola |
| 2003 | ' | Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Peter Weir, and Duncan Henderson |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt, and Clint Eastwood |
| 2003 | Seabiscuit | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Gary Ross |
| 2004 | - | - |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, and Tom Rosenberg |
| 2004 | The Aviator | Michael Mann and Graham King |
| 2004 | Finding Neverland | Richard N. Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower |
| 2004 | Ray | Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, and Howard Baldwin |
| 2004 | Sideways | Michael London |
| 2005 | - | - |
| 2005 | Crash | Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Diana Ossana and James Schamus |
| 2005 | Capote | Caroline Baron, William Vince, and Michael Ohoven |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | Grant Heslov |
| 2005 | Munich | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Barry Mendel |
| 2006 | - | - |
| 2006 | The Departed | Graham King |
| 2006 | Babel | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin, and Jon Kilik |
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Lorenz |
| 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, and Marc Turtletaub |
| 2006 | The Queen | Andy Harries, Christine Langan, and Tracey Seaward |
| 2007 | - | - |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Scott Rudin, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen |
| 2007 | Atonement | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster |
| 2007 | Juno | Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, and Russell Smith |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent, and Sydney Pollack |
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, and JoAnne Sellar |
| 2008 | - | - |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Christian Colson |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Ceán Chaffin |
| 2008 | Frost/Nixon | Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Eric Fellner |
| 2008 | Milk | Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks |
| 2008 | The Reader | Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, and Redmond Morris |
| 2009 | - | - |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro |
| 2009 | Avatar | James Cameron and Jon Landau |
| 2009 | The Blind Side | Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, and Broderick Johnson |
| 2009 | District 9 | Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham |
| 2009 | An Education | Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Lawrence Bender |
| 2009 | Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire | Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and Gary Magness |
| 2009 | A Serious Man | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2009 | Up | Jonas Rivera |
| 2009' | Up in the Air'' | Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, and Jason Reitman |
2010s
Individuals with multiple wins
;3 wins- Sam Spiegel
- Saul Zaentz
- Arthur Freed
- Clint Eastwood
- Dede Gardner
- Jeremy Kleiner
- Branko Lustig
- Albert S. Ruddy
- Robert Wise
Individuals with multiple nominations
- Steven Spielberg
- Scott Rudin
- Kathleen Kennedy
- Eric Fellner
- Dede Gardner
- Stanley Kramer
- Tim Bevan
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Clint Eastwood
- Jeremy Kleiner
- Frank Marshall
- Warren Beatty
- James L. Brooks
- David Brown
- Megan Ellison
- Ethan Coen
- Donna Gigliotti
- Peter Jackson
- Norman Jewison
- Graham King
- Sydney Pollack
- David Puttnam
- Sam Spiegel
- George Stevens
- Irwin Winkler
- Lawrence Bender
- Jason Blum
- Robert Chartoff
- Joel Coen
- Bruce Cohen
- Christian Colson
- Bradley Cooper
- Michael De Luca
- Steve Golin
- Brian Grazer
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- David Heyman
- Stanley Kubrick
- Emma Tillinger Koskoff
- Robert Lorenz
- Ismail Merchant
- Barrie M. Osborne
- Brad Pitt
- Martin Scorsese
- Hal B. Wallis
- Fran Walsh
- Robert Wise
- John Woolf
- Saul Zaentz
- Richard D. Zanuck
- Buddy Adler
- Robert Altman
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Mark Boal
- John Boorman
- John Brabourne
- Lisa Bruce
- Dana Brunetti
- Jim Burke
- James Cameron
- Iain Canning
- Ceán Chaffin
- Peter Chernin
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Finola Dwyer
- John Foreman
- Gray Frederickson
- Arthur Freed
- Richard N. Gladstein
- Jonathan Gordon
- Ed Guiney
- Jerome Hellman
- Grant Heslov
- Grant Hill
- Ron Howard
- Stanley R. Jaffe
- Dan Jinks
- Mark Johnson
- Ross Katz
- A. Kitman Ho
- Arnold Kopelson
- Kristie Macosko Krieger
- Gary Kurtz
- Jon Landau
- Ang Lee
- Ernest Lehman
- Daniel Lupi
- Branko Lustig
- Michael Mann
- Anthony McCarten
- Frank McCarthy
- Barry Mendel
- Arnon Milchan
- George Miller
- Doug Mitchell
- Gil Netter
- Patrick J. Palmer
- Amy Pascal
- Jordan Peele
- Julia Phillips
- Michael Phillips
- Marc Platt
- Amanda Posey
- Sean McKittrick
- Christopher Nolan
- Fred Roos
- Albert S. Ruddy
- Tracey Seaward
- Ronald L. Schwary
- JoAnne Sellar
- Michael Shamberg
- Stacey Sher
- Emile Sherman
- Bernard Smith
- Ray Stark
- Oliver Stone
- Emma Thomas
- Jenno Topping
- Jerry Wald
- Jack L. Warner
- Harvey Weinstein
- Douglas Wick
- James Woolf
- William Wyler
- Peter Yates
- Sam Zimbalist
- Fred Zinnemann
- Edward Zwick
Production companies with multiple nominations and wins
| Production Company | Nominations | Wins |
| 20th Century Studios | 62 | 9 |
| Columbia Pictures | 56 | 12 |
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 40 | 9 |
| Universal Pictures | 34 | 9 |
| Warner Bros. Pictures | 25 | 9 |
| Paramount Pictures | 20 | 11 |
| Searchlight Pictures | 18 | 4 |
| Miramax Films | 15 | 4 |
| DreamWorks | 13 | 4 |
| Walt Disney Studios | 13 | 0 |
| RKO Pictures | 11 | 1 |
| Focus Features | 10 | 0 |
| Plan B Entertainment | 8 | 3 |
| Samuel Goldwyn Productions | 8 | 1 |
| Orion Pictures | 6 | 4 |
| The Weinstein Company | 6 | 2 |
| Selznick International Pictures | 5 | 2 |
| Annapurna Pictures | 5 | 0 |
| A24 | 3 | 1 |
| J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films | 3 | 1 |
| Cosmopolitan | 3 | 0 |
| Netflix | 3 | 0 |
| Pixar Animation Studios | 2 | 0 |
| The Caddo Company | 2 | 0 |
| Walter Wanger | 2 | 0 |
| Mercury | 2 | 0 |