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{{short description|Annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}
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{{Infobox award
| name = Academy Award for Best Picture
| image = Sean Baker and Samantha Quan.jpg
| caption = The 2025 recipients: [[Sean Baker]], [[Samantha Quan]] (pictured); and [[Alex Coco]]
| awarded_for = Best Motion Picture of the Year
| presenter = [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS)
| country = United States
| year = {{start date and age|1929|5|16}} (for films released during the [[1927 in film|1927]]/[[1928 in film|1928]] film season)
| holder_label = Most recent winner
| holder = ''[[Anora]]'' ([[97th Academy Awards|2024]])
| website = {{official URL}}
}}
The '''Academy Award for Best Picture''' is one of the [[Academy Awards]] (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the [[Film producer|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.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://people.com/movies/how-oscar-nominations-work-inside-voting-system-academy-award/|title=How the Oscar Voting System Works|magazine=People.com|access-date=January 23, 2018|archive-date=January 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124070525/http://people.com/movies/how-oscar-nominations-work-inside-voting-system-academy-award/|url-status=live}}</ref> The Best Picture category is traditionally the final award of the night and is widely considered the most prestigious honor of the ceremony.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/27/14734370/oscars-la-la-land-best-picture-2017|title=Oscars 2017: La La Land didn't win Best Picture. But should it have?|date=February 27, 2017|publisher=Vox|access-date=January 23, 2018|archive-date=February 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227051817/https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/27/14734370/oscars-la-la-land-best-picture-2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=gaffe>{{cite news|url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/awards/oscars/oscars-2017-moonlight-wins-best-picture-not-la-la-land-after-warren-beatty-gaffe/news-story/c05dda27f90acea2fc5557921728a887|title=Moonlight wins Best Picture, not La La Land, after Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway gaffe|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=January 23, 2018|archive-date=December 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202184538/https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/awards/oscars/oscars-2017-moonlight-wins-best-picture-not-la-la-land-after-warren-beatty-gaffe/news-story/c05dda27f90acea2fc5557921728a887|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/oscar-best-pictures-of-21st-century-ranked-best-worst-1201902864/|title=The Best Picture Winners of the 21st Century|work=Indiewire|access-date=January 23, 2018|archive-date=January 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122054328/https://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/oscar-best-pictures-of-21st-century-ranked-best-worst-1201902864/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Grand Staircase columns at the [[Dolby Theatre]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles, California|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.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/05/01/oscars-dolby-theater/|title=The Oscars home is now the Dolby Theatre|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=May 24, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505044628/http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/05/01/oscars-dolby-theater/|archive-date=May 5, 2012}}</ref> There have been 611 films nominated for Best Picture and 97 winners.<ref name="data">{{cite web|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120701144137/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 1, 2012 |title=Academy Awards Database – Best Picture Winners and Nominees |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=May 24, 2012 }}</ref>

==History==
===Category name changes===
At the [[1st Academy Awards]] ceremony held in 1929 (for films made in 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: "Outstanding Picture" and "Unique and Artistic Picture", the former being won by the war epic ''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]'', and the latter by the art film ''[[Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans|Sunrise]]''. Each award was intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking. In particular, ''[[The Jazz Singer]]'' was disqualified from both awards, since its use of [[synchronized sound]] made the film a ''[[sui generis]]'' item that would have unfairly competed against either category, and the Academy granted the film an honorary award instead.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Block | first1 = Alex Ben | last2 = Wilson | first2 = Lucy Autrey | title = George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success | publisher = HarperCollins | location = New York | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-0-06-177889-6 | url = https://archive.org/details/georgelucassbloc00alex |pages=110–113}}</ref>

The following year, the Academy dropped the ''Unique and Artistic Picture'' award, deciding retroactively that the award won by ''Wings'' was the highest honor that could be awarded, and allowed synchronized sound films to compete for the award.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/326478/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans#articles-reviews|title=Why SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS is Essential|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=May 24, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405101632/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/326478/Sunrise-A-Song-of-Two-Humans/articles.html|archive-date=April 5, 2012}}</ref> 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''.<ref name="data"/>

* [[1st Academy Awards|1927/28]]–[[2nd Academy Awards|1928/29]]: Academy Award for Outstanding Picture
* [[3rd Academy Awards|1929/30]]–[[13th Academy Awards|1940]]: Academy Award for Outstanding Production
* [[14th Academy Awards|1941]]–[[16th Academy Awards|1943]]: Academy Award for Outstanding Motion Picture
* [[17th Academy Awards|1944]]–[[34th Academy Awards|1961]]: Academy Award for Best Motion Picture
* [[35th Academy Awards|1962]]–present: Academy Award for Best Picture

===Recipients===
Until 1950, this award was presented to a representative of the production company. That year the protocol was changed so that the award was presented to all credited producers. This rule was modified in 1999 to apply a maximum limit of three producers receiving the award, after the five producers of ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' had received the award.<ref name="Associated Press">{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/Oscars-2005/Who-gets-the-Oscar/2005/02/03/1107409980177.html|title=Who gets the Oscar?|agency=Associated Press|date=February 4, 2005|work=Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=October 23, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924194423/http://www.smh.com.au/news/Oscars-2005/Who-gets-the-Oscar/2005/02/03/1107409980177.html|archive-date=September 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="bbc1408671">{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1408671.stm|title=Academy restricts Oscar winners|date=June 26, 2001|publisher=BBC|access-date=October 23, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214183006/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1408671.stm|archive-date=December 14, 2013}}</ref><ref name="McNary2008">{{cite journal |last=McNary |first=Dave |date=January 21, 2008 |title=PGA avoids credit limit |journal=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/news/pga-avoids-credit-limit-1117979406/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024204140/http://variety.com/2008/film/news/pga-avoids-credit-limit-1117979406/ |archive-date=October 24, 2013 }}</ref>

{{as of|2020}}, the "Special Rules for the Best Picture of the Year Award" limit recipients to those who meet two main requirements:<ref name="rule16">{{cite web| url= https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/92aa_rules.pdf| title= 92ND ACADEMY AWARDS OF MERIT|publisher= Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | year= 2019 | access-date=April 26, 2020|page=23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424163237/https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/92aa_rules.pdf | archive-date=April 24, 2019 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* Those with [[motion picture credits|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 rules allow a {{lang|la|bona fide}} team of not more than two people to be considered a single "producer" if the two individuals have had an established producing partnership as determined by the [[Producers Guild of America]] Producing Partnership Panel. Final determination of the qualifying producer nominees for each nominated picture will be made by the Producers Branch Executive Committee, including the right to name any additional qualified producer as a nominee.<ref name="rule16"/>

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 (2008 film)|The Reader]]''.<ref name="Yamato">{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009498-reader/news/1793050/academy_makes_exceptions_for_pollack_minghella/ |title=Academy Makes Exceptions for Pollack, Minghella Does this mean more Oscar sympathy for surprise nominee The Reader? |last=Yamato |first=Jen |date=January 27, 2009 |work=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=October 18, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131027072805/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009498-reader/news/1793050/academy_makes_exceptions_for_pollack_minghella/ |archive-date=October 27, 2013}}</ref> {{as of|2014}} the Producers Branch Executive Committee determines such exceptions, noting they take place only in "rare and extraordinary circumstance[s]."<ref name="rule16"/>

[[Steven Spielberg]] currently holds the record for most nominations at thirteen, winning one, while [[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|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. During the time when the Oscar was given to production companies instead, [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] received the most, with five wins and 40 nominations.

===Best Picture and Best Director===
The Academy Awards for Best Picture and [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] have been closely linked throughout their history. Of the 97 films that have won Best Picture, 70 have also been awarded Best Director. Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: ''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]'' directed by [[William A. Wellman]] (1927/28), ''[[Grand Hotel (1932 film)|Grand Hotel]]'' directed by [[Edmund Goulding]] (1931/32), ''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]'' directed by [[Bruce Beresford]] (1989), ''[[Argo (2012 film)|Argo]]'' directed by [[Ben Affleck]] (2012), ''[[Green Book (film)|Green Book]]'' directed by [[Peter Farrelly]] (2018), and ''[[CODA (2021 film)|CODA]]'' directed by [[Sian Heder]] (2021). 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]]'' (1927/28), and [[Frank Lloyd]] for ''[[The Divine Lady]]'' (1928/29).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmsite.org/bestdirs1.html|title=Best Director Facts – Trivia (Part 2)|publisher=Filmsite|access-date=November 13, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901210327/http://www.filmsite.org/bestdirs1.html|archive-date=September 1, 2009}}</ref>

===Nomination limit increased===
On June 24, 2009, the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS) announced that the number of films to be nominated in the Best Picture award category would increase from 5 to 10, starting with the [[82nd Academy Awards]] (2009).<ref name="10noms">{{cite news|author=Joyce Eng |title=Oscar Expands Best Picture Race to 10 Nominees |url=https://www.tvguide.com/Movie-News/Oscar-Expands-Best-1007223.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121208200429/http://www.tvguide.com/Movie-News/Oscar-Expands-Best-1007223.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 8, 2012 |work=TV Guide Online |date=June 24, 2009 |access-date=June 24, 2009 }}</ref> 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]]'' and ''[[WALL-E]]'' (both 2008) (and, in previous years, other blockbusters and popular films) not being nominated for Best Picture.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Buchanan|first=Kyle|date=January 22, 2020|title=10 Years Later, an Oscar Experiment That Actually Worked|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/movies/expanded-best-picture-oscar.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122200021/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/movies/expanded-best-picture-oscar.html |archive-date=January 22, 2020 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=June 5, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Rogers|first=Nathaniel|date=July 18, 2018|title=How a Dark Knight Best Picture snub forced the Oscars to change|url=https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/18/17585878/dark-knight-oscars-best-picture|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=Polygon|language=en|archive-date=July 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718193222/https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/18/17585878/dark-knight-oscars-best-picture|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Phipps|first=Keith|date=January 30, 2020|title=A Decade Ago, the Oscars Looked Down on Superhero Movies. Now One Might Win Best Picture.|url=https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/1/30/21114274/superhero-movies-oscars-joker-dark-knight-black-panther|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=The Ringer|language=en|archive-date=January 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131154326/https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/1/30/21114274/superhero-movies-oscars-joker-dark-knight-black-panther|url-status=live}}</ref> Officially, the Academy said the rule change was a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and 1940s, when 8 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."<ref name="10noms" />

At the same time, the voting system was switched from [[first-past-the-post]] to [[Instant-runoff voting|instant runoff voting]] (also known as preferential voting).<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-richie/poll-oscars-irv_b_824246.html Poll: Vote on the Oscars Like an Academy Member] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112164350/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-richie/poll-oscars-irv_b_824246.html |date=November 12, 2012 }}, Rob Richie, Huffington Post, February 16, 2011</ref> In 2011, the Academy revised the rule again so that the number of films nominated was between 5 and 10; nominated films must earn either 5% of first-place rankings or 5% after an abbreviated variation of the [[single transferable vote]] nominating process.<ref name="Rule Change">{{cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/new-best-picture-rules-could-discard-hundreds-ballots-or-more-28412|title=New Best Picture Rules Could Discard Large Number of Oscar Ballots (Exclusive)|author=Steve Pond|date=June 22, 2011|publisher=The Wrap|access-date=January 19, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304233702/http://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/new-best-picture-rules-could-discard-hundreds-ballots-or-more-28412|archive-date=March 4, 2014}}</ref> 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."<ref name="5to10">{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2011/06/oscar-academy-builds-surprise-into-best-picture-race-140014/ |title=OSCAR SHOCKER! Academy Builds Surprise & Secrecy Into Best Picture Race: Now There Can Be Anywhere From 5 To 10 Nominees |author=Nikki Finke |date=June 14, 2011 |work=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=MMC |access-date=June 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723021022/http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/oscar-academy-builds-surprise-into-best-picture-race/ |archive-date=July 23, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> This system lasted until 2021, when the Academy reverted back to a set number of ten nominees from the [[94th Academy Awards]] onward.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/06/oscars-changes-rules-ten-best-picture-nominees-1234784121/|title=Oscars: Academy Sets Rules And Regulations For 94th Awards; 10 Best Picture Nominees, Plus Changes In Music And Sound Categories|author=Pete Hammond|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=June 30, 2021|access-date=January 13, 2021|archive-date=June 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630180725/https://deadline.com/2021/06/oscars-changes-rules-ten-best-picture-nominees-1234784121/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Language and country of origin===
Nineteen non-[[English language]] films have been nominated in the category: ''[[La Grande Illusion]]'' (French, 1938); ''[[Z (1969 film)|Z]]'' (French, 1969); ''[[The Emigrants (film)|The Emigrants]]'' (Swedish, 1972); ''[[Cries and Whispers]]'' (Swedish, 1973); ''[[Il Postino: The Postman|The Postman (Il Postino)]]'' (Italian/Spanish, 1995); ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'' (Italian, 1998); ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' ([[Standard Chinese|Mandarin Chinese]], 2000); ''[[Letters from Iwo Jima]]'' (Japanese, 2006, but ineligible for [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] because it was an American production); ''[[Amour (2012 film)|Amour]]'' (French, 2012); [[Roma (2018 film)|''Roma'']] (Spanish/Mixtec, 2018); ''[[Parasite (2019 film)|Parasite]]'' (Korean, 2019); ''[[Minari (film)|Minari]]'' (Korean, 2020, but ineligible for Best International Feature Film because it was an American production);<ref name="filmsite2">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmsite.org/bestpics1.html|title=Best Pictures – Facts & Trivia (part 2)|publisher=Filmsite.org|access-date=November 13, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109122738/http://www.filmsite.org/bestpics1.html|archive-date=January 9, 2010}}</ref> ''[[Drive My Car (film)|Drive My Car]]'' (Japanese/Korean/Mandarin Chinese/German/[[Korean Sign Language]], 2021), ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' (German, 2022), ''[[Anatomy of a Fall]]'' (French, 2023), ''[[Past Lives (film)|Past Lives]]'' (Korean, 2023, but ineligible for Best International Feature Film because it was an American production), ''[[The Zone of Interest (film)|The Zone of Interest]]'' (German/Polish/Yiddish, 2023), ''[[Emilia Pérez]]'' (Spanish, 2024), and ''[[I'm Still Here (2024 film)|I'm Still Here]]'' (Portuguese, 2024). ''Parasite'' became the first film not in English to win Best Picture.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shoard|first=Catherine|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/10/parasite-first-foreign-language-film-to-win-best-picture-oscar|title=Parasite makes Oscars history as first foreign language film to win best picture|date=February 10, 2020|work=The Guardian|access-date=February 10, 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=March 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323173436/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/10/parasite-first-foreign-language-film-to-win-best-picture-oscar|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-03-15/2021-oscars-nominations-minari-everything-to-know "Everything to Know about Nominee 'Minari'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127070506/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-03-15/2021-oscars-nominations-minari-everything-to-know |date=January 27, 2022 }} (March 15, 2021). ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. Retrieved July 11, 2021.</ref>

Ten films wholly financed outside the United States have won Best Picture, eight of which were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom: ''[[Hamlet (1948 film)|Hamlet]]'' (1948), ''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]'' (1963), ''[[A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)|A Man for All Seasons]]'' (1966), ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'' (1981), ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' (1982), ''[[The Last Emperor]]'' (1987), ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'' (2008), and ''[[The King's Speech]]'' (2010). The ninth film, ''[[The Artist (film)|The Artist]]'' (2011), was financed in France, and the tenth film, ''[[Parasite (2019 film)|Parasite]]'' (2019), was financed in South Korea.<ref name="genre">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmsite.org/bestpics2.html|title=Best Pictures – Genre Biases|publisher=Filmsite.org|access-date=November 13, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110054846/http://www.filmsite.org/bestpics2.html|archive-date=January 10, 2010}}</ref>

===Rating===
Since 1968, most Best Picture winners have been rated R under the [[Motion Picture Association]]'s [[Motion Picture Association film rating system|rating system]]. ''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]'' is the only G-rated film and ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]'' is the only X-rated film (what is categorized as an NC-17 film today), so far, to win Best Picture; they won in back-to-back years, 1968 and 1969. The latter has since been changed to an R rating. Eleven films have won with a PG rating: the first was ''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]'' (1970) and the most recent was ''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]'' (1989). Eleven more films have won with a PG-13 rating (which was introduced in 1984): the first was ''[[The Last Emperor]]'' (1987) and the most recent was ''[[CODA (2021 film)|CODA]]'' (2021). For unrated films, ''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]'' (1985) is the first film to not be rated by the MPA and be nominated Best Picture, though no unrated films have won Best Picture.

===Genres and mediums===
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Three animated films have been nominated for Best Picture: ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' (1991), ''[[Up (2009 film)|Up]]'' (2009), and ''[[Toy Story 3]]'' (2010). The latter two were nominated after the Academy expanded the number of nominees, but none have won.

No comic book film has won, although three have been nominated: ''[[Skippy (film)|Skippy]]'' (1931), ''[[Black Panther (film)|Black Panther]]'' (2018), and ''[[Joker (2019 film)|Joker]]'' (2019).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bibbiani |first=William |date=January 20, 2023 |title=The First Best Picture Oscar Nominee Based On A Comic Was In 1931 |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/1174271/the-first-best-picture-oscar-nominee-based-on-a-comic-was-in-1931/ |access-date=September 12, 2023 |website=/Film |language=en-US |archive-date=June 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614174015/https://www.slashfilm.com/1174271/the-first-best-picture-oscar-nominee-based-on-a-comic-was-in-1931/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Two fantasy films have won: ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' (2003) and ''[[The Shape of Water]]'' (2017), although more have been nominated.

''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'' (1991) is the only horror/thriller film to win Best Picture. Six others have been nominated: ''[[The Exorcist]]'' (1973), ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' (1975), ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' (1999), ''[[Black Swan (film)|Black Swan]]'' (2010), ''[[Get Out]]'' (2017), and ''[[The Substance]]'' (2024).

Several science-fiction films have been nominated for Best Picture, though ''[[Everything Everywhere All at Once]]'' (2022) was the first one to win.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spry |first=Jeff |date=March 14, 2023 |title='Everything Everywhere All At Once' is now the most celebrated sci-fi film in Oscar history |url=https://www.space.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-most-celebrated-oscars-sci-fi-film |access-date=September 12, 2023 |website=[[Space.com]] |language=en |archive-date=September 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923013345/https://www.space.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-most-celebrated-oscars-sci-fi-film |url-status=live }}</ref>

''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' (1997) is the only [[disaster film]] to win Best Picture, though other such films have been nominated, including ''[[Airport (1970 film)|Airport]]'' (1970) and ''[[The Towering Inferno]]'' (1974).

No documentary has been nominated for Best Picture, although ''[[Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness]]'' was nominated in the ''Unique and Artistic Picture'' category at the 1927/28 awards. A [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film|Best Documentary Feature]] category was introduced in 1941.

Several musical adaptations based on material previously filmed in non-musical form have won Best Picture, including ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'', ''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]'', ''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'', ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]'', ''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]'', and ''[[Chicago (2002 film)|Chicago]]''.

Several [[epic film|epics]] or historical epic films have won Best Picture, including the first recipient ''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]''. Others include ''[[Cimarron (1931 film)|Cimarron]]'', ''[[Cavalcade (1933 film)|Cavalcade]]'', ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'', ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'', ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'', ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'', ''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]'', ''[[The Godfather]]'', ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'', ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'', ''[[The Last Emperor]]'', ''[[Dances With Wolves]]'', ''[[Schindler's List]]'', ''[[Forrest Gump]]'', ''[[Braveheart]]'', ''[[The English Patient (film)|The English Patient]]'', ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'', ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]'', ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'', and ''[[Oppenheimer (film)|Oppenheimer]]''.

Several [[War film|war films]] have been nominated for Best Picture, with ''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]'', ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]'', ''[[From Here to Eternity]]'', ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'', ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'', ''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]'', ''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]'' and ''[[The Hurt Locker]]'' being some of the many winners.

===Sequel nominations and winners===
Ten films that were presented as direct sequels have been nominated for Best Picture: ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]'' (1945; the sequel to the 1944 winner, ''[[Going My Way]]''), ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'' (1974), ''[[The Godfather Part III]]'' (1990), ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]'' (2002), ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' (2003), ''[[Toy Story 3]]'' (2010), ''[[Mad Max: Fury Road]]'' (2015)'', [[Avatar: The Way of Water]]'' (2022), ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]'' (2022), and ''[[Dune: Part Two]]'' (2024).

''Toy Story 3'', ''Mad Max: Fury Road'', and ''Top Gun: Maverick'' are the only sequels to be nominated without any predecessors being nominated. ''The Godfather Part II'' and ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' are the only sequels to have won the award, and their respective trilogies are the only series to have three films nominated. [[The Godfather (film series)|''The Godfather'' series]] is the only film series with multiple Best Picture winners, with the [[The Godfather|first film]] winning the award for 1972 and the [[The Godfather Part II|second film]] winning the award for 1974.<ref name="filmsite2" />

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, the two films have mutually independent stories. ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'' was adapted from the sequel novel to ''[[Red Dragon (novel)|Red Dragon]]''. The latter had been adapted for film as ''[[Manhunter (film)|Manhunter]]'' by a different studio, and the two films have different casts and creative teams and were not presented as a series.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 27, 2022 |title=The only sequels to have won Best Picture Oscars |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-only-sequels-to-have-won-best-picture-oscars/ |access-date=January 22, 2023 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US |archive-date=January 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122071930/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-only-sequels-to-have-won-best-picture-oscars/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Conversely, 2024's ''[[Wicked (2024 film)|Wicked]]'' uses iconography and characters who appeared in 1939's ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' and other ''Oz'' films, but is not a direct prequel to any film. 

''[[The Lion in Winter (1968 film)|The Lion in Winter]]'' features [[Peter O'Toole]] as [[Henry II of England|King Henry II]], a role he had played previously in the film ''[[Becket (1964 film)|Becket]]'', but ''The Lion in Winter'' is not a sequel to ''Becket''. Similarly, ''[[The Queen (2006 film)|The Queen]]'' features [[Michael Sheen]] as [[Tony Blair]], a role he had played previously in the television film ''[[The Deal (2003 film)|The Deal]]''. [[Christine Langan]], producer of both productions, described ''The Queen'' as not being a direct sequel, only that it reunited the same creative team.<ref>Wells, Matt (August 30, 2004). "[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/aug/30/media.arts Helen Mirren poised for royal role] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307163813/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/aug/30/media.arts |date=7 March 2016 }}". Guardian Unlimited (Guardian News and Media). Retrieved on January 15, 2022.</ref>

[[Clint Eastwood]]'s ''[[Letters from Iwo Jima]]'' was a companion piece to his film ''[[Flags of Our Fathers (film)|Flags of Our Fathers]]'' that was released earlier the same year. These two films depict the same battle from the different viewpoints of Japanese and United States military forces; the two films were shot back-to-back.

In addition, ''[[Black Panther (film)|Black Panther]]'' is a continuation of the events that occurred in ''[[Captain America: Civil War]]'' and the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]].

===Remake nominations and winners===
Along similar lines to sequels, there have been few nominees and winners that are either remakes or adaptations of the same source materials or subjects.

''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'', which won Best Picture of 1959, is a remake of the [[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film)|1925 silent film with a similar title]] and both were adapted from [[Lew Wallace]]'s 1880 novel ''[[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ]]''. ''[[The Departed]]'', which won Best Picture of 2006, is a remake of the 2002 [[Hong Kong cinema|Hong Kong]] film ''[[Infernal Affairs]]'' and is the first remake of a non-English language or international film to win.

Other nominees include 1963's ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]'' about the [[Cleopatra|titular last queen of Egypt]] following the [[Cleopatra (1934 film)|1934 version]], 2018's ''[[A Star Is Born (2018 film)|A Star is Born]]'' following the [[A Star Is Born (1937 film)|1937 film of the same name]], and 2019's ''[[Little Women (2019 film)|Little Women]]'' following the [[Little Women (1933 film)|1933 film of the same name]] with both being adaptations of the [[Little Women|1868 novel]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/greta-gerwigs-adaptation-brings-little-women-oscar-noms-tally-14-1268988/|title=Oscars: Greta Gerwig's Adaptation Brings 'Little Women' Noms Tally to 14|first1=Jordan|last1=Wilson|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=January 13, 2020|access-date=March 26, 2022|archive-date=March 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318173856/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/greta-gerwigs-adaptation-brings-little-women-oscar-noms-tally-14-1268988/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[True Grit (2010 film)|True Grit]]'', which was nominated for Best Picture at the [[83rd Academy Awards]], is the second adaptation of [[Charles Portis]]'s [[True Grit (novel)|1968 novel]] following the [[True Grit (1969 film)|1969 film of the same name]].

Four of the nominees for the [[94th Academy Awards|94th ceremony]] were based on source material previously made into films: ''[[CODA (2021 film)|CODA]]'', ''[[Dune (2021 film)|Dune]]'', ''[[Nightmare Alley (2021 film)|Nightmare Alley]]'', and ''[[West Side Story (2021 film)|West Side Story]]''. The 2021 version of ''West Side Story'' became the second adaptation of the same source material for a previous Best Picture winner to be nominated for the same award after 1962's ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/movies/oscars-best-picture-remakes.html|title=Four Best Picture Contenders Are Remakes. Does That Matter to Oscar Voters?|first=Ben|last=Zauzmer|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 25, 2022|access-date=March 26, 2022|archive-date=March 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326185243/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/movies/oscars-best-picture-remakes.html|url-status=live}}</ref> For that same ceremony, ''CODA'' became the second remake of a non-English-language or international film to win.

The 2022 German-language ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' is the second adaptation of the [[All Quiet on the Western Front|1929 novel]] after the [[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|1930 English-language film]], and the third adaptation of the same source material of a previous Best Picture winner.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wise |first=Damon |date=January 24, 2023 |title=Edward Berger's 'All Quiet On The Western Front' Continues Remarkable Awards-Season Run With Oscar Noms Haul |url=https://deadline.com/2023/01/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-9-nominations-1235238643/ |access-date=January 25, 2023 |website=Deadline |language=en-US |archive-date=January 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125014030/https://deadline.com/2023/01/2023-oscars-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-9-nominations-1235238643/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Silent film winners===
[[File:Wings (1927).webm|left|thumb|''Wings'' (1927), winner of the first Oscar for Best Picture]]
At the [[1st Academy Awards]], the Best Picture award (then named "Academy Award for Outstanding Picture") was presented to the 1927 [[silent film]] ''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]''.

''[[The Artist (film)|The Artist]]'' (2011) was the first essentially silent (with the exception of a single scene of dialogue, and a dream sequence with sound effects) film since ''Wings'' to win Best Picture. It was the first silent nominee since 1928's ''[[The Patriot (1928 film)|The Patriot]]'' and the first Best Picture winner to be produced entirely in [[black-and-white]] since 1960's ''[[The Apartment]]''. (''[[Schindler's List]]'', the 1993 winner, was predominantly black-and-white but contains some color sequences.)<ref name="genre" />

===Version availability===
No Best Picture winner has been [[lost film|lost]], though a few such as ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' and ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|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 (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees, such as ''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]'' (prior to its 2018 reissues by [[The Criterion Collection]] and the [[British Film Institute]]) and ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]'', are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. ''[[The Broadway Melody]]'' originally had some sequences photographed in [[Technicolor#Process 3|two-color Technicolor]]. This footage survives only in black and white.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3068 |title=The Broadway Melody |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=July 7, 2014 |quote="The Technicolor footage for this sequence has since been lost, and only a black-and-white version is now available." |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714220955/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3068 |archive-date=July 14, 2014 }}</ref>

The 1928 film ''[[The Patriot (1928 film)|The Patriot]]'' is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost (about one-third is extant).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/mostwanted/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001033156/http://www.oscars.org/mostwanted/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 1, 2012 |title=Oscar's Most Wanted |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=May 24, 2012}}</ref> ''[[The Racket (1928 film)|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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/Racket1928.html|title=The Racket – Progressive Silent Film List|publisher=Silent Era|access-date=May 24, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331231944/http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/Racket1928.html|archive-date=March 31, 2012}}</ref> The only surviving complete prints of 1931's ''[[East Lynne (1931 film)|East Lynne]]'' and 1934's ''[[The White Parade]]'' exist within the [[UCLA]] film archive.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/73829/east-lynne#trivia|title=East Lynne Trivia|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=May 24, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215055955/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/73829/East-Lynne/trivia.html|archive-date=December 15, 2013}}</ref>

===Diversity standards===
The Academy has established a set of "representation and inclusion standards", called Academy Aperture 2025, which a film is now required to satisfy in order to compete in the Best Picture category, starting with the [[96th Academy Awards]] for films released in 2023.<ref name="standards">{{cite web |date=August 2022 |title=Representation and Inclusion Standards |url=https://www.oscars.org/awards/representation-and-inclusion-standards |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215073102/https://www.oscars.org/awards/representation-and-inclusion-standards |archive-date=February 15, 2023 |access-date=February 15, 2023 |website=Oscars.org}}</ref><ref>[https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/09/08/910928503/new-diversity-standards-for-best-picture-oscar-nominees-starting-in-2024 New Diversity Standards For Best Picture Oscar Nominees, Starting In 2024] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204135656/https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/09/08/910928503/new-diversity-standards-for-best-picture-oscar-nominees-starting-in-2024 |date=February 4, 2024 }}, NPR, September 8, 2020</ref> There are four general standards, of which a film must satisfy two to be considered for Best Picture: (a) on-screen representation, themes and narratives; (b) creative leadership and project team; (c) industry access and opportunities; and (d) audience development.<ref name="standards" /> As explained by [[Vox (website)|Vox]], the standards "basically break down into two big buckets: standards promoting more inclusive representation and standards promoting more inclusive employment".<ref name="wilkinson">{{cite web |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Alissa |date=September 9, 2020 |title=The Oscars' new rules for Best Picture nominees, explained |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/9/9/21429083/oscars-best-picture-rules-diversity-inclusion |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215073105/https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/9/9/21429083/oscars-best-picture-rules-diversity-inclusion |archive-date=February 15, 2023 |access-date=February 15, 2023 |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]}}</ref> The standards are intended to provide greater opportunities for employment, in cast, crew, studio apprenticeships and internships, and development, marketing, publicity, and distribution executives, among underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, women, LGBTQ+ people, and persons with [[Disabilities affecting intellectual abilities|cognitive]] or [[Physical disability|physical disabilities]], or who are [[Deafness|deaf or hard of hearing]].<ref name="standards" /><ref>[https://deadline.com/2021/02/coming-soon-film-academys-inclusion-standards-form-1234697847/ Coming Soon: The Film Academy’s “Inclusion Standards” Form] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702065127/https://deadline.com/2021/02/coming-soon-film-academys-inclusion-standards-form-1234697847/ |date=July 2, 2023 }}, Deadline Hollywood, February 22, 2021</ref>

These standards only apply to the Best Picture category and do not affect a film's eligibility in other Oscar categories.<ref name="standards" /> For the [[94th Academy Awards|94th]] and [[95th Academy Awards]] (films released in 2021 and 2022), filmmakers were required to submit a confidential Academy Inclusion Standards form to be considered for Best Picture but were not required to fulfill the standards.<ref name="wilkinson" />

===2016 ceremony mistake===
At the [[89th Academy Awards]] on February 26, 2017, 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 "[[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress in a Leading Role]]" award, which [[Emma Stone]] had won for her role in ''La La Land''. While accepting the award, ''La La Land'' producer [[Jordan Horowitz]], who was given the correct envelope, realized the mistake and announced that ''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]'' had won the award.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/moonlight-wins-best-picture-mistake-presenter-warren-beatty/story?id=45769592|title='Moonlight' wins best picture after 'La La Land' mistakenly announced|last2=Edison Hayden|last1=Rothman|first2=Michael|first1=Michael|date=February 27, 2017|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|access-date=February 27, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227052424/http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/moonlight-wins-best-picture-mistake-presenter-warren-beatty/story?id=45769592|archive-date=February 27, 2017}}</ref>

== Criticisms and controversies ==

=== ''High Noon'' and ''The Greatest Show on Earth'' ===
{{Further information|The Greatest Show on Earth (film)#Oscar controversy}}
In 2013, the selection of ''The Greatest Show on Earth'' rather than ''[[High Noon]]'' at the [[25th Academy Awards]] was listed by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' among the 10 most controversial Best Picture races.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/02/20/oscar-robbery-10-controversial-best-picture-races/slide/1953-high-noon-vs-the-greatest-show-on-earth/ |title=Oscar Robbery: 10 Controversial Best-Picture Races |date=February 20, 2013}}</ref> Retrospectively, ''The Greatest Show on Earth'' has been considered by some to be one of the worst Best Picture winners in history.<ref>{{cite web |last=WENN |date=February 25, 2005 |title=Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" Voted Worst Oscar Winner |url=http://www.hollywood.com/news/Mel_Gibsons_Braveheart_Voted_Worst_Oscar_Winner/2435436 |access-date=December 28, 2024 |archive-date=February 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203230603/http://www.hollywood.com/news/Mel_Gibsons_Braveheart_Voted_Worst_Oscar_Winner/2435436 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Diversity criticisms ===
{{Further information|Brokeback Mountain#Best Picture controversy|Crash (2004 film)#Oscar controversy|Green Book (film)#Criticism from Shirley's relatives}}

In general, the awardees of that category have been criticized for disproportionately recognizing films about white men over those of women or non-white people.<ref>{{cite web |title=The 2015 Oscar nominations in two words: 'Racist,' 'Sexist' |website=[[Los Angeles Daily News]] |date=January 15, 2015 |url=http://www.dailynews.com/events/20150115/the-2015-oscar-nominations-in-two-words-racist-sexist |access-date=December 28, 2024 |archive-date=August 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818185239/http://www.dailynews.com/events/20150115/the-2015-oscar-nominations-in-two-words-racist-sexist |url-status=live }}</ref> In opposition, the Academy's decision to favor Best Picture winning films with depiction of race relations among people of color—most primarily ''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]'', ''[[Crash (2004 film)|Crash]]'', and ''[[Green Book (film)|Green Book]]'', all of which were directed by white filmmakers—led to significant backlash over racism against the Academy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sharf |first=Zack |date=2023-03-10 |title=21 Controversial Oscar Winners: Why 'Green Book,' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and More Ignited Backlash |url=https://variety.com/lists/oscars-controversial-winners/driving-miss-daisy-2/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2005, ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' losing the Best Picture to ''[[Crash (2004 film)|Crash]]'' was heavily criticized, with some critics such as [[Kenneth Turan]] accusing the Academy members of homophobia and benefitting from making a non-groundbreaking choice in ''Crash'',<ref>{{cite news |last=Turan |first=Kenneth |date=March 5, 2006 |title=Breaking no ground: Why 'Crash' won, why 'Brokeback' lost and how the Academy chose to play it safe |url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/oscars/env-turan5mar05,0,5359042.story |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060326203621/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/oscars/env-turan5mar05%2C0%2C5359042.story |archive-date=March 26, 2006 |access-date=May 23, 2009 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |authorlink=Kenneth Turan}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=April 16, 2009 |title=Maybe Crash's upset at the Oscars shouldn't have been such a surprise? |url=http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2009/04/maybe-crashs-upset-at-the-oscars-shouldnt-have-been-such-a-surprise.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113010233/http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2009/04/maybe-crashs-upset-at-the-oscars-shouldnt-have-been-such-a-surprise.html |archive-date=January 13, 2012 |access-date=May 23, 2009 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> considered as one of the most notable Oscars upsets.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Horn |first1=John |last2=King |first2=Susan |date=March 6, 2006 |title='Crash' Named Best Picture in Upset Over 'Brokeback' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-06-et-oscarmain6-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328053830/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-06-et-oscarmain6-story.html |archive-date=March 28, 2022 |access-date=January 16, 2023 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Zauzmer |first=Ben |date=April 23, 2021 |title=The Math Behind Oscars' Biggest Best Picture Upsets Ever |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/oscar-upsets-biggest-ever-4171178/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117004824/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/oscar-upsets-biggest-ever-4171178/ |archive-date=January 17, 2023 |access-date=January 16, 2023 |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bleiler |first=David |date=March 10, 2006 |title=Did Homophobia Steal 'Brokeback' Oscar? |url=http://articles.philly.com/2006-03-10/news/25415538_1_british-film-awards-10-best-lists-directors-guild |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003220456/http://articles.philly.com/2006-03-10/news/25415538_1_british-film-awards-10-best-lists-directors-guild |archive-date=October 3, 2015 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |website=Philly}}</ref> After announcing the award, presenter [[Jack Nicholson]] was caught on camera mouthing the word "whoa" out of apparent surprise at the result.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 31, 2011 |title=Crash Wins Best Picture: 2006 Oscars |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfQs7WbVse8 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818162327/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfQs7WbVse8 |archive-date=August 18, 2023 |access-date=August 15, 2023 |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> The film's use of moral quandary as a storytelling medium was widely reported as ironic, since many saw it as the "safe" alternative to ''Brokeback Mountain'', which is about a [[gay]] relationship (the other nominees, ''[[Good Night, and Good Luck]]'', ''[[Capote (film)|Capote]]'', and ''[[Munich (2005 film)|Munich]]'' also tackle heavy subjects of [[McCarthyism]], homosexuality, and [[terrorism]], respectively).<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Sullivan |first=Kevin P. |date=March 2, 2018 |title=Why 'Crash' beat 'Brokeback Mountain' for Best Picture |url=https://ew.com/oscars/2018/03/02/crash-brokeback-mountain-best-picture-oscars/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112213819/https://ew.com/oscars/2018/03/02/crash-brokeback-mountain-best-picture-oscars/ |archive-date=January 12, 2023 |access-date=January 12, 2023 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref>

Though there have been exceptions like [[Barry Jenkins]]'s ''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]'', films like ''[[Precious (film)|Precious]]'' and ''[[Get Out]]'' have been seen as potentially being shut out of the Best Picture race because of older and white Academy voters choosing not to see them.<ref>{{cite news |last=Buchanan |first=Kyle |author2=Stacey Wilson Hunt |author3=Chris Lee |date=Feb 2018 |title=We Polled New Oscar Voters: How Are They Changing the Way the Academy Thinks? |url=http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/how-new-oscar-voters-are-changing-the-way-the-academy-thinks.html |access-date=January 9, 2020 |work=[[New York (magazine)|Vulture]]}}</ref> From 2018 onwards, the Academy made an effort to add more younger, female, non-white, and non-American voters, and to create a non-voting "emeritus" status for people who had not worked in the film industry after a certain length of time, in order to diversify and rejuvenate their voter bloc.

=== ''Saving Private Ryan'' and ''Shakespeare in Love'' ===
{{Further information|Saving Private Ryan#Accolades|Shakespeare in Love#Oscar controversy}}
[[File:Harvey_Weinstein_Césars_2014_(cropped)_(centered).jpg|thumb|Weinstein (pictured in 2014).|251x251px]]
''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' was immediately pegged as a favorite for the category by many members and fans of Spielberg's films, but it lost to ''[[Shakespeare in Love]].'' The Academy's decision was widely criticized.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Susman, Gary |date=February 20, 2013 |title=Oscar Robbery: 10 Controversial Best Picture Races |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/02/20/oscar-robbery-10-controversial-best-picture-races/slide/1999-saving-private-ryan-vs-shakespeare-in-love/ |access-date=May 21, 2015 |magazine=Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Hyman |first=Nick |date=February 22, 2011 |title=The Least Deserving Best Picture Winners Since 1990 |url=https://www.metacritic.com/feature/least-deserving-oscar-winners-and-snubs |access-date=May 21, 2015 |website=Metacritic |archive-date=March 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323191647/http://www.metacritic.com/feature/least-deserving-oscar-winners-and-snubs |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Dockterman |first=Eliana |title=The 12 Most Controversial Best Picture Oscar Winners of All Time |url=https://time.com/4239180/oscars-best-picture-controversy/ |access-date=2020-02-12 |magazine=Time |language=en-us}}</ref> The choice was seen as one of the biggest upsets in the awards history, and led to [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]] executives (including Terry Press) and many industry pundits accusing [[Miramax|Miramax Films]] and one of the ''Shakespeare in Love'' producers, [[Harvey Weinstein]], of winning due to their award campaign's negative messaging against ''Saving Private Ryan'' rather than their own film's merits. Press stated that Weinstein and Miramax "tried to get everybody to believe that ''Saving Private Ryan'' was all in the first 15 minutes".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weinstein |first=Harvey |date=2017-02-26 |title=Harvey Weinstein On Oscar Races & The Truth Behind 'Shakespeare In Love' Vs 'Saving Private Ryan' |url=https://deadline.com/2017/02/harvey-weinstein-oscar-lion-shakespeare-in-love-saving-private-ryan-warren-beatty-1201999291/ |access-date=2020-02-10 |website=Deadline |language=en |archive-date=December 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241228120252/https://deadline.com/2017/02/harvey-weinstein-oscar-lion-shakespeare-in-love-saving-private-ryan-warren-beatty-1201999291/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Keegan">{{Cite magazine |last=Keegan |first=Rebecca |date=8 December 2017 |title=Shakespeare in Love and Harvey Weinstein's Dark Oscar Victory |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/shakespeare-in-love-and-harvey-weinsteins-dark-oscar-victory |access-date=2020-02-10 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601180729/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/shakespeare-in-love-and-harvey-weinsteins-dark-oscar-victory |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Animated films in Best Picture category ===
[[File:Annie_Awards_Jeffrey_Katzenberg.jpg|thumb|255x255px|Katzenberg (pictured in 2006) was responsible for ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and The Beast]]'' being nominated in the Best Picture category.]]

The category of [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature|Best Animated Feature]] was created for the [[74th Academy Awards]] to ensure the recognition of animated films; prior to its creation, the only animated film ever nominated for Best Picture was 1991's ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]].'' However, the award has since received criticism on the grounds that it discourages animated films from being eligible to win Best Picture. While the Academy rules allow for a film to be nominated in both categories,<ref name="rule07">{{cite web |title=Rule Seven: Special Rules for the Animated Feature Film Award |url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/rule07.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605174517/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/rule07.html |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |access-date=April 26, 2011 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref> only two animated films (''[[Up (2009 film)|Up]]'' and ''[[Toy Story 3]]'') have been nominated for Best Picture since the creation of the two categories.

A prominent example was the 2001 film ''[[Shrek]];'' DreamWorks and producer [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]] campaigned heavily for the film to be awarded Best Picture, but it was not nominated in the category despite receiving nominations for a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy]], [[Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture|PGA Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture]], [[BAFTA Award for Best Film]], and [[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture|Critics' Choice Awards for Best Picture]] (and was the first animated film nominated in the latter three categories).<ref name="screenrant2">{{cite web |date=February 7, 2017 |title=15 Amazing Animated Movies That Were Snubbed By The Oscars |url=http://screenrant.com/academy-awards-best-animated-movies-biggest-oscar-snubs/?view=all |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404131022/http://screenrant.com/academy-awards-best-animated-movies-biggest-oscar-snubs/?view=all |archive-date=April 4, 2017 |access-date=April 4, 2017 |website=[[Screen Rant]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite news |date=December 20, 2001 |title=Golden Globes: 2002 winners in full |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1721758.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215050207/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1721758.stm |archive-date=December 15, 2013 |access-date=October 10, 2013 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Golden Globes |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/shrek |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122190646/https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/shrek |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |access-date=December 16, 2020}}</ref> Similarly, the 2008 film ''[[WALL-E]]'' received many accolades and garnered speculation that it might be nominated for Best Picture, but it was instead nominated for six categories, tying with ''Beauty and the Beast'' as the most nominated animated films in Oscar history, and won the award for Best Animated Feature Film.<ref>{{cite web |title=The 2008 Top Tens |url=http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2009/top_ten/00scoreboard.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531131508/http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2009/top_ten/00scoreboard.htm |archive-date=May 31, 2009 |access-date=May 27, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Keegan Winters |first=Rebecca |date=July 7, 2008 |title=Can WALL-E Win Best Picture? |url=http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1820824,00.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413132749/http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1820824,00.html |archive-date=April 13, 2014 |access-date=April 9, 2014 |newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Bandyk |first=Matthew |date=January 22, 2009 |title=Academy Awards Controversy: Wall-E Gets Snubbed For Best Picture Oscar |url=http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/risky-business/2009/01/22/academy-awards-controversy-wall-e-gets-snubbed-for-best-picture-oscar |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717180938/http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/risky-business/2009/01/22/academy-awards-controversy-wall-e-gets-snubbed-for-best-picture-oscar |archive-date=July 17, 2011 |access-date=April 9, 2014 |newspaper=US News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Breznican |first=Anthony |date=July 2, 2008 |title=Is the best-picture Oscar within WALL-E's reach? |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-07-01-wall-e-oscar_N.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125030613/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-07-01-wall-e-oscar_N.htm |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |access-date=April 9, 2014 |newspaper=[[USA Today]]}}</ref> Other animated films that garnered Best Picture speculation but were ultimately not nominated include ''[[Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kruske |first=Kyle |date=2023-01-05 |title=Every Animated Film Nominated for Best Picture (and a Few that Should've Been) |url=https://movieweb.com/every-animated-film-nominated-for-best-picture/ |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=MovieWeb |language=en |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311162954/https://movieweb.com/every-animated-film-nominated-for-best-picture/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The Boy and the Heron]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Boy And The Heron & Suzume Eligible For Best Picture Category In Oscars 2024 |url=https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64393210/ |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> and ''[[Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse]]''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Davis |first=Clayton |date=2023-06-02 |title=Why 'Across the Spider-Verse,' 'The Dark Knight' of Animated Films, Should Be a Best Picture Oscar Contender |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-best-picture-oscar-contender-1235631185/ |access-date=2024-07-09 |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=December 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241228120252/https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-best-picture-oscar-contender-1235631185/ |url-status=live }}</ref> with the former two films winning Best Animated Feature Film at back-to-back ceremonies.

=== ''Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'' nomination ===
{{Further information|Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (film)#Best Picture nomination controversy}}

Critics and audiences criticized ''[[Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (film)|Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close]]''<nowiki/>'s nomination for Best Picture, with some calling the film one of the worst Best Picture nominees ever.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=Xan |date=February 23, 2012 |title=Oscars 2012: Is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close the worst best picture nominee ever? &#124; Film |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/feb/23/oscars-extremely-loud-incredibly-close |access-date=2012-07-07 |work=The Guardian |location=London |archive-date=October 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022165904/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/feb/23/oscars-extremely-loud-incredibly-close |url-status=live }}</ref> Chris Krapek of ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' wrote very negatively about the film's nomination, calling the film "not only the worst reviewed Best Picture nominee of the last 10 years, [but] easily the worst film of 2011".<ref>{{cite news |date=February 22, 2012 |title=Chris Krapek: Extremely Loud Oscar Angst |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-krapek/extremely-loud-oscar-angs_b_1291485.html |access-date=2012-07-07 |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |archive-date=September 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913200300/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-krapek/extremely-loud-oscar-angs_b_1291485.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]'' Magazine's Adam Vitcavage called the film's consensus for a Best Picture nominee "certainly the worst for at least 28 years",<ref>{{cite web |date=2012-01-25 |title=Is Extremely Loud the Worst-Reviewed Oscar-Nominated Movie in History? |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/01/examining-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-closes-osc.html |access-date=2012-07-07 |publisher=Pastemagazine.com |archive-date=March 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322223516/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/01/examining-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-closes-osc.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and David Gritten of [[The Telegraph (UK)|''The Telegraph'']] called the nomination "mysterious".<ref>{{cite news |last=Gritten |first=David |date=January 27, 2012 |title=Oscars 2012: The mystery of the ninth Oscar nomination for best film |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9042051/Oscars-2012-The-mystery-of-the-ninth-Oscar-nomination-for-best-film.html |access-date=2012-07-07 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}</ref>

=== ''Emilia Pérez'' nomination ===
The nomination of ''[[Emilia Pérez]]'' for Best Picture, among other categories, was heavily criticized. Critics took issue with the film's portrayal of trans characters,<ref>{{Cite web |last=GLAAD |date=2024-11-15 |title="Emilia Pérez" is Not Good Trans Representation {{!}} GLAAD |url=https://glaad.org/emilia-perez-is-not-good-trans-representation/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=glaad.org |language=en-US}}</ref> and its portrayal of [[Culture of Mexico|Mexican culture]], including director [[Jacques Audiard]]'s claims about the [[Spanish language]] being "a language of developing countries, it's a language of countries of few means, of poor people, of migrants."<ref>{{Cite web |last=|first= |title=Oscars 2025: The 'Emilia Pérez' controversy explained |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/oscars-2025-emilia-perez-controversy-explained/story?id=119163111#:~:text=In%20November,%20GLAAD%20compiled%20commentary,step%20backward%20for%20trans%20representation.%22 |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |language=en}}</ref>

[[Karla Sofía Gascón]], who plays the titular role, accused the team of fellow Best Picture nominee ''[[I'm Still Here (2024 film)|I'm Still Here]]'' (as well as its lead, fellow [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] nominee [[Fernanda Torres]]) of running a [[smear campaign]] against her and ''Emilia Pérez'',<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Mier |first=Tomás |date=2025-01-30 |title=Karla Sofía Gascón Takes Back Claim That Fernanda Torres' Team Speaks 'Badly' About Her |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/karla-sofia-gascon-takes-back-claim-fernanda-torres-team-spoke-badly-about-her-1235250763/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> which is explicitly against AMPAS's rules of campaigning.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Feinberg |first=Scott |date=2024-04-22 |title=Oscars: Film Academy Updates Rules and Campaign Protocols, Announces Changes to Special Awards |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-2025-changes-rules-special-awards-campaigns-1235878854/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref> The accusations were found to be baseless and itself perceived as an attempt to smear Torres's and ''I'm Still Here''<nowiki/>'s reputation. As attention grew around Gascón, a series of [[Tweet (social media)|tweets]] in which she made several bigoted comments, of racist and islamophobic nature,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vary |first=Adam B. |date=2025-01-30 |title='Emilia Pérez' Star Karla Sofía Gascón Under Fire Over Tweets About Muslims, George Floyd, Oscars Diversity |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/karla-sofia-gascon-tweets-muslims-george-floyd-backlash-emilia-perez-1236291448/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> were unearthed by Canadian journalist Sarah Hagi.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Davis |first=Clayton |date=2025-02-01 |title=Journalist Who Uncovered Karla Sofía Gascón's Racist Tweets Explains Why She Looked for Them: 'I'm Not a Studio Plant' |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/awards/journalist-sarah-hagi-discovered-karla-sofia-gascon-tweets-1236293396/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> The majority of Oscar pundits agreed that they marked the end of ''Emilia Pérez''<nowiki/>'s, the year's most nominated film, chances of winning Best Picture.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-01 |title=Will Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón's offensive X posts derail the Oscar favourite's chances? |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250131-will-offensive-x-posts-derail-an-oscars-favourite-emilia-perez |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Winners and nominees==
In the list below, winners are listed first in the gold row, followed by the other nominees.<ref name="data" /> Except for the early years (when the Academy used a non-calendar year), the year shown is the one in which the film first premiered in [[Los Angeles County, California]]; normally this is also the year of first release, but it may be the year after first release (as with ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' and, if the film-festival premiere is considered, ''[[Crash (2004 film)|Crash]]'' and ''[[The Hurt Locker]]''). 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 [[Academy Awards|Oscar]], awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in [[Bracket|parentheses]] after the awards year, linked to the article on that ceremony. Each individual entry shows the title followed by nominee.

Until 1950, the Best Picture award was given to the production company; from 1951 on, it has gone to the producer or producers. The Academy used the producer credits of the [[Producers Guild of America]] (PGA) until 1998, when all five producers of ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' made speeches after its win.<ref name="Associated Press"/><ref name="bbc1408671"/> A three-producer limit has been applied some years since.<ref name="bbc1408671"/><ref name="McNary2008"/> There was controversy over the exclusion of some PGA-credited producers of ''[[Crash (2004 film)|Crash]]'' and ''[[Little Miss Sunshine]]''.<ref name="McNary2008" /> The Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when [[Anthony Minghella]] and [[Sydney Pollack]] were posthumously among the four nominated for ''[[The Reader (2008 film)|The Reader]]''.<ref name="Yamato"/> 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; it was adjusted from 2011 to 2020 to vary between five and ten, but has been a full ten since 2022.

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. This has been the rule every year since except 2020, when the end date was extended to February 28, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2021, which was correspondingly limited to March 1 to December 31.

Since 2023, the category's winners and nominees from the 1927/28 and 1928/29 ceremonies have entered the [[public domain]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Preserved Projects| url=http://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=wings&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All| website=Academy Film Archive| access-date=January 12, 2025| archive-date=October 6, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006204939/https://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=wings&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All| url-status=live}}</ref>

{{legend|#FAEB86|indicates the winner}}

===1920s===
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|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%"| Year of Film Release
! width="40%"| Film
! width="55%"| Film Studio
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="3" |[[1928 in film|1927/28]]<br />{{small|[[1st Academy Awards|(1st)]]}}
| '''''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]'''''
| '''[[Famous Players–Lasky]] {{small|([[Lucien Hubbard]], [[Jesse L. Lasky]], [[B. P. Schulberg]], & [[Adolph Zukor]], producers)}}'''
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[7th Heaven (1927 film)|7th Heaven]]''
| [[Fox Film|Fox]]{{small| ([[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]], producer)}}
|-
| ''[[The Racket (1928 film)|The Racket]]''
| The Caddo Company {{small|([[Howard Hughes]], producer)}}
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1929 in film|1928/29]]<br />{{small|[[2nd Academy Awards|(2nd)]]}}<br />{{efn|The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of {{lang|la|de facto}} nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges at the time.}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Broadway Melody]]'''''
| '''[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] {{small|([[Irving Thalberg]] & [[Lawrence Weingarten]], producers)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Alibi (1929 film)|Alibi]]''
| [[United Artists|Feature Productions]] {{small|([[Roland West]], producer)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Hollywood Revue]]''
| [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] {{small|([[Irving Thalberg]] & [[Harry Rapf]], producers)}}
|-
| ''[[In Old Arizona]]''
| [[Fox Film|Fox]] {{small|([[Winfield Sheehan]], producer)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Patriot (1928 film)|The Patriot]]''
| [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount Famous Lasky]]
|}

===1930s===
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{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size:1.00em; line-height:1.5em;"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%"| Year of Film Release
! width="40%"| Film
! width="55%"| Film Studio/Producer(s)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1930 in film|1929/30]]<br />{{small|[[3rd Academy Awards|(3rd)]]}}
| '''''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]'''''
| '''[[Universal Pictures|Universal]] {{small|([[Carl Laemmle Jr.]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[The Big House (1930 film)|The Big House]]''
|  Cosmopolitan {{small|([[Irving Thalberg]], producer)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Disraeli (1929 film)|Disraeli]]''
| [[Warner Bros.]] {{small|([[Jack L. Warner]] & [[Darryl F. Zanuck]], producers)}}
|-
| ''[[The Divorcee]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer {{small|([[Robert Z. Leonard]], producer)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Love Parade]]''
| Paramount Famous Lasky {{small|([[Ernst Lubitsch]], producer)}}
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1931 in film|1930/31]]<br />{{small|[[4th Academy Awards|(4th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Cimarron (1931 film)|Cimarron]]'''''
| '''[[RKO Pictures|RKO Radio]] {{small|([[William LeBaron]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[East Lynne (1931 film)|East Lynne]]''
| Fox 
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Front Page (1931 film)|The Front Page]]''
| The Caddo Company {{small|([[Howard Hughes]] & [[Lewis Milestone]], producers)}}
|-
| ''[[Skippy (film)|Skippy]]''
| Paramount Publix {{small|([[Jesse L. Lasky]], [[B. P. Schulberg]], & [[Adolph Zukor]], producers)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Trader Horn (1931 film)|Trader Horn]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer {{small|([[Irving Thalberg]], producer)}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="8" |[[1932 in film|1931/32]]<br />{{small|[[5th Academy Awards|(5th)]]}}
| '''''[[Grand Hotel (1932 film)|Grand Hotel]]'''''
| '''Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer {{small|([[Irving Thalberg]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Arrowsmith (film)|Arrowsmith]]''
| Samuel Goldwyn Productions {{small|([[Samuel Goldwyn]], producer)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Bad Girl (1931 film)|Bad Girl]]''
| Fox 
|-
| ''[[The Champ (1931 film)|The Champ]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer {{small|([[King Vidor]], producer)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Five Star Final]]''
| First National {{small|(Hal B. Wallis, producer)}}
|-
| ''[[One Hour with You]]''
| Paramount Publix {{small|([[Ernst Lubitsch]], producer)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Shanghai Express (film)|Shanghai Express]]''
| Paramount Publix {{small|([[Adolph Zukor]], producer)}}
|-
| ''[[The Smiling Lieutenant]]''
| Paramount Publix {{small|(Ernst Lubitsch, producer)}}
|-
! rowspan="11" style="text-align:center" |[[1933 in film|1932/33]]<br />{{small|[[6th Academy Awards|(6th)]]}}<br />{{efn|The Academy also announced that ''A Farewell to Arms'' came in second, and ''Little Women'' third.}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Cavalcade (1933 film)|Cavalcade]]'''''
| '''Fox {{small|([[Frank Lloyd]] & [[Winfield Sheehan]], producers)}}'''
|-
| ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)|A Farewell to Arms]]''
| Paramount
|-
| ''[[I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Lady for a Day]]''
| [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]
|-
| ''[[Little Women (1933 film)|Little Women]]''
| RKO Radio
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Private Life of Henry VIII]]''
| [[London Films]]
|-
| ''[[She Done Him Wrong]]''
| Paramount
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Smilin' Through (1932 film)|Smilin' Through]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[State Fair (1933 film)|State Fair]]''
| Fox
|-
! rowspan="13" style="text-align:center" |[[1934 in film|1934]]<br />{{small|[[7th Academy Awards|(7th)]]}}<br />{{efn|The Academy also announced that ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' came in second, and ''The House of Rothschild'' third.}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[It Happened One Night]]'''''
| '''Columbia {{small|([[Frank Capra]] & [[Harry Cohn]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 film)|The Barretts of Wimpole Street]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Cleopatra (1934 film)|Cleopatra]]''
| Paramount
|-
| ''[[Flirtation Walk]]''
| First National
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Gay Divorcee]]''
| RKO Radio
|-
| ''[[Here Comes the Navy]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The House of Rothschild]]''
| [[Twentieth Century Pictures|20th Century]]
|-
| ''[[Imitation of Life (1934 film)|Imitation of Life]]''
| Universal
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[One Night of Love]]''
| Columbia
|-
| ''[[The Thin Man (film)|The Thin Man]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Viva Villa!]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[The White Parade]]''
| Jesse L. Lasky (production company)
|-
! rowspan="13" style="text-align:center" |[[1935 in film|1935]]<br />{{small|[[8th Academy Awards|(8th)]]}}<br />{{efn|The Academy also announced that ''The Informer'' came in second, and ''Captain Blood'' third.}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]'''''
| '''Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer {{small|([[Frank Lloyd]] & [[Irving Thalberg]], producers)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Alice Adams (1935 film)|Alice Adams]]''
| RKO Radio
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Broadway Melody of 1936]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[Captain Blood (1935 film)|Captain Blood]]''
| Cosmopolitan
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[David Copperfield (1935 film)|David Copperfield]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[The Informer (1935 film)|The Informer]]''
| RKO Radio
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film)|The Lives of a Bengal Lancer]]''
| Paramount
|-
| ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Les Misérables (1935 film)|Les Misérables]]''
| 20th Century
|-
| ''[[Naughty Marietta (film)|Naughty Marietta]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Ruggles of Red Gap]]''
| Paramount
|-
| ''[[Top Hat]]''
| RKO Radio
|-
! rowspan="11" style="text-align:center" |[[1936 in film|1936]]<br />{{small|[[9th Academy Awards|(9th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Great Ziegfeld]]'''''
| '''Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer {{small|([[Hunt Stromberg]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Anthony Adverse]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Dodsworth (film)|Dodsworth]]''
| Samuel Goldwyn Productions {{small|([[Samuel Goldwyn]], producer)}}
|-
| ''[[Libeled Lady]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Mr. Deeds Goes to Town]]''
| Columbia
|-
| ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[San Francisco (1936 film)|San Francisco]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[The Story of Louis Pasteur]]''
| Cosmopolitan
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)|A Tale of Two Cities]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[Three Smart Girls]]''
| Universal
|-
! rowspan="11" style="text-align:center" |[[1937 in film|1937]]<br />{{small|[[10th Academy Awards|(10th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Life of Emile Zola]]'''''
| '''Warner Bros. {{small|([[Henry Blanke]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[The Awful Truth]]''
| Columbia
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Captains Courageous (1937 film)|Captains Courageous]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[Dead End (1937 film)|Dead End]]''
| Samuel Goldwyn Productions {{small|([[Samuel Goldwyn]], producer)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Good Earth (film)|The Good Earth]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[In Old Chicago]]''
| [[20th Century Fox|20th Century-Fox]]
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Lost Horizon (1937 film)|Lost Horizon]]''
| Columbia
|-
| ''[[One Hundred Men and a Girl]]''
| Universal
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Stage Door]]''
| RKO Radio
|-
| ''[[A Star Is Born (1937 film)|A Star Is Born]]''
| [[Selznick International Pictures]]
|-
! rowspan="11" style="text-align:center" |[[1938 in film|1938]]<br />{{small|[[11th Academy Awards|(11th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[You Can't Take It with You (film)|You Can't Take It with You]]'''''
| '''Columbia {{small|([[Frank Capra]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood]]''
| Warner Bros.-First National
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)|Alexander's Ragtime Band]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|-
| ''[[Boys Town (film)|Boys Town]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Citadel (1938 film)|The Citadel]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[Four Daughters (1938 film)|Four Daughters]]''
| Warner Bros.-First National
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[La Grande Illusion|Grand Illusion]]''
| [[Réalisation d'art cinématographique|Réalisation d'art Cinématographique]]
|-
| ''[[Jezebel (1938 film)|Jezebel]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Pygmalion (1938 film)|Pygmalion]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[Test Pilot (film)|Test Pilot]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
! rowspan="11" style="text-align:center" |[[1939 in film|1939]]<br />{{small|[[12th Academy Awards|(12th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'''''
| '''Selznick International Pictures {{small|([[David O. Selznick]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Dark Victory]]''
| Warner Bros.-First National
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[Love Affair (1939 film)|Love Affair]]''
| RKO Radio
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]''
| Columbia
|-
| ''[[Ninotchka]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Of Mice and Men (1939 film)|Of Mice and Men]]''
| Hal Roach (production company)
|-
| ''[[Stagecoach (1939 film)|Stagecoach]]''
| Walter Wanger (production company)
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[Wuthering Heights (1939 film)|Wuthering Heights]]''
| Samuel Goldwyn Productions
|}

===1940s===
{{sticky header}}
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size:1.00em; line-height:1.5em;"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year of Film Release
! width="40%" | Film
! width="55%" | Film Studio
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="10" |[[1940 in film|1940]]<br />{{small|[[13th Academy Awards|(13th)]]}}
| '''''[[Rebecca (1940 film)|Rebecca]]'''''
| '''Selznick International Pictures {{small|([[David O. Selznick]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[All This, and Heaven Too]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Foreign Correspondent (film)|Foreign Correspondent]]''
| Walter Wanger (production company)
|-
| ''[[The Grapes of Wrath (film)|The Grapes of Wrath]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Great Dictator]]''
| [[Charles Chaplin Productions]]
|-
| ''[[Kitty Foyle (film)|Kitty Foyle]]''
| RKO Radio
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Letter (1940 film)|The Letter]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-
| ''[[The Long Voyage Home]]''
| [[Argosy Pictures|Argosy]]-[[Walter Wanger Productions|Wanger]]
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Our Town (1940 film)|Our Town]]''
| [[Sol Lesser Productions|Sol Lesser (production company)]]
|-
| ''[[The Philadelphia Story (film)|The Philadelphia Story]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
! rowspan="11" style="text-align:center" |[[1941 in film|1941]]<br />{{small|[[14th Academy Awards|(14th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[How Green Was My Valley (film)|How Green Was My Valley]]'''''
| '''20th Century-Fox {{small|([[Darryl F. Zanuck]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Blossoms in the Dust]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Citizen Kane]]''
| Mercury
|-
| ''[[Here Comes Mr. Jordan]]''
| Columbia
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Hold Back the Dawn]]''
| Paramount
|-
| ''[[The Little Foxes (film)|The Little Foxes]]''
| Samuel Goldwyn Productions {{small|([[Samuel Goldwyn]], producer)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)|The Maltese Falcon]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-
| ''[[One Foot in Heaven]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Sergeant York (film)|Sergeant York]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-
| ''[[Suspicion (1941 film)|Suspicion]]''
| RKO Radio
|-
! rowspan="11" style="text-align:center" |[[1942 in film|1942]]<br />{{small|[[15th Academy Awards|(15th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Mrs. Miniver]]'''''
| '''Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer {{small|([[Sidney Franklin (director)|Sidney Franklin]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[49th Parallel (film)|49th Parallel]]''<ref>Listed in AMPAS records under the title [https://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/getresults?query=%7B%22FilmTitle%22%3A%22the%20invaders%22%2C%22Sort%22%3A%222-Film%20Title-Alpha%22%2C%22AwardShowNumberFrom%22%3A0%2C%22AwardShowNumberTo%22%3A0%2C%22Search%22%3A30%7D ''The Invaders''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925053302/https://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/getresults?query=%7B%22FilmTitle%22:%22the%20invaders%22,%22Sort%22:%222-Film%20Title-Alpha%22,%22AwardShowNumberFrom%22:0,%22AwardShowNumberTo%22:0,%22Search%22:30%7D |date=September 25, 2022 }}.</ref>
| Ortus
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Kings Row]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-
| ''[[The Magnificent Ambersons (film)|The Magnificent Ambersons]]''
| Mercury
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Pied Piper (1942 film)|The Pied Piper]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|-
| ''[[The Pride of the Yankees]]''
| Samuel Goldwyn Productions {{small|([[Samuel Goldwyn]], producer)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Random Harvest (film)|Random Harvest]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[The Talk of the Town (1942 film)|The Talk of the Town]]''
| Columbia
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Wake Island (film)|Wake Island]]''
| Paramount
|-
| ''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-
! rowspan="11" style="text-align:center" |[[1943 in film|1943]]<br />{{small|[[16th Academy Awards|(16th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'''''
| '''Warner Bros. {{small|([[Hal B. Wallis]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]''
| Paramount
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)|Heaven Can Wait]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|-
| ''[[The Human Comedy (film)|The Human Comedy]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[In Which We Serve]]''
| [[Two Cities Films]]
|-
| ''[[Madame Curie (film)|Madame Curie]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The More the Merrier]]''
| Columbia
|-
| ''[[The Ox-Bow Incident]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Song of Bernadette (film)|The Song of Bernadette]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|-
| ''[[Watch on the Rhine]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1944 in film|1944]]<br />{{small|[[17th Academy Awards|(17th)]]}} <br />
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Going My Way]]'''''
| '''Paramount {{small|([[Leo McCarey]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Double Indemnity]]''
| Paramount
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Gaslight (1944 film)|Gaslight]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[Since You Went Away]]''
| Selznick International Pictures {{small|([[David O. Selznick]], producer)}}
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Wilson (1944 film)|Wilson]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1945 in film|1945]]<br />{{small|[[18th Academy Awards|(18th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Lost Weekend]]'''''
| '''Paramount {{small|([[Charles Brackett]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Anchors Aweigh (film)|Anchors Aweigh]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]''
| Rainbow Productions
|-
| ''[[Mildred Pierce (film)|Mildred Pierce]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Spellbound (1945 film)|Spellbound]]''
| Selznick International Pictures {{small|([[David O. Selznick]], producer)}}
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1946 in film|1946]]<br />{{small|[[19th Academy Awards|(19th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]'''''
| '''Samuel Goldwyn Productions {{small|([[Samuel Goldwyn]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Henry V (1944 film)|Henry V]]''
| Two Cities Films
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]''
| Liberty Films
|-
| ''[[The Razor's Edge (1946 film)|The Razor's Edge]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Yearling (1946 film)|The Yearling]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1947 in film|1947]]<br />{{small|[[20th Academy Awards|(20th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Gentleman's Agreement]]'''''
| '''20th Century-Fox {{small|([[Darryl F. Zanuck]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[The Bishop's Wife]]''
| Samuel Goldwyn Productions {{small|([[Samuel Goldwyn]], producer)}}
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Crossfire (film)|Crossfire]]''
| RKO Radio
|-
| ''[[Great Expectations (1946 film)|Great Expectations]]''
| J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Miracle on 34th Street]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1948 in film|1948]]<br />{{small|[[21st Academy Awards|(21st)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Hamlet (1948 film)|Hamlet]]'''''
| '''J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films {{small|([[Laurence Olivier]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Johnny Belinda (1948 film)|Johnny Belinda]]''
| Warner Bros.
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Red Shoes (1948 film)|The Red Shoes]]''
| J. Arthur Rank-Archers
|-
| ''[[The Snake Pit]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)|The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]''
| Warner Bros.
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1949 in film|1949]]<br />{{small|[[22nd Academy Awards|(22nd)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[All the King's Men (1949 film)|All the King's Men]]'''''
| '''Columbia {{small|([[Robert Rossen]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Battleground (film)|Battleground]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Heiress (film)|The Heiress]]''
| Paramount
|-
| ''[[A Letter to Three Wives]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Twelve O'Clock High]]''
| 20th Century-Fox
|}

===1950s===
{{sticky header}}
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size:1.00em; line-height:1.5em;"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%"| Year of Film Release
! width="40%"| Film
! width="55%"| Film Studio/Producer(s)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1950 in film|1950]]<br />{{small|[[23rd Academy Awards|(23rd)]]}}
| '''''[[All About Eve]]'''''
| '''20th Century-Fox {{small|([[Darryl F. Zanuck]], producer)}}'''
|-
| ''[[Born Yesterday (1950 film)|Born Yesterday]]''
| Columbia
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Father of the Bride (1950 film)|Father of the Bride]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|-
| ''[[King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)|King Solomon's Mines]]''
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Sunset Boulevard (film)|Sunset Boulevard]]''
| Paramount
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1951 in film|1951]]<br />{{small|[[24th Academy Awards|(24th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[An American in Paris (film)|An American in Paris]]'''''
| '''[[Arthur Freed]]'''
|-
| ''[[Decision Before Dawn]]''
| [[Anatole Litvak]] and [[Frank McCarthy (producer)|Frank McCarthy]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Place in the Sun (1951 film)|A Place in the Sun]]''
| [[George Stevens]]
|-
| ''[[Quo Vadis (1951 film)|Quo Vadis]]''
| [[Sam Zimbalist]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]''
| [[Charles K. Feldman]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1952 in film|1952]]<br />{{small|[[25th Academy Awards|(25th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Greatest Show on Earth (film)|The Greatest Show on Earth]]'''''
| '''[[Cecil B. DeMille]]'''
|-
| ''[[High Noon]]''
| [[Stanley Kramer]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Ivanhoe (1952 film)|Ivanhoe]]''
| [[Pandro S. Berman]]
|-
| ''[[Moulin Rouge (1952 film)|Moulin Rouge]]'' 
| [[John and James Woolf]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Quiet Man]]''
| [[John Ford]] and [[Merian C. Cooper]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1953 in film|1953]]<br />{{small|[[26th Academy Awards|(26th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[From Here to Eternity]]'''''
| '''[[Buddy Adler]]'''
|-
| ''[[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|Julius Caesar]]''
| [[John Houseman]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Robe (film)|The Robe]]''
| [[Frank Ross (producer)|Frank Ross]]
|-
| ''[[Roman Holiday]]''
| [[William Wyler]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Shane (film)|Shane]]''
| [[George Stevens]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1954 in film|1954]]<br />{{small|[[27th Academy Awards|(27th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[On the Waterfront]]'''''
| '''[[Sam Spiegel]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)|The Caine Mutiny]]''
| [[Stanley Kramer]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Country Girl (1954 film)|The Country Girl]]''
| [[William Perlberg]]
|-
| ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]''
| [[Jack Cummings (director)|Jack Cummings]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Three Coins in the Fountain (film)|Three Coins in the Fountain]]''
| [[Sol C. Siegel]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1955 in film|1955]]<br />{{small|[[28th Academy Awards|(28th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Marty (film)|Marty]]'''''
| '''[[Harold Hecht]]'''
|-
| ''[[Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film)|Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing]]''
| [[Buddy Adler]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Mister Roberts (1955 film)|Mister Roberts]]''
| [[Leland Hayward]]
|-
| ''[[Picnic (1955 film)|Picnic]]''
| [[Fred Kohlmar]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Rose Tattoo (film)|The Rose Tattoo]]''
| [[Hal B. Wallis]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1956 in film|1956]]<br />{{small|[[29th Academy Awards|(29th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)|Around the World in 80 Days]]'''''
| '''[[Mike Todd|Michael Todd]]'''
|-
| ''[[Friendly Persuasion (1956 film)|Friendly Persuasion]]''
| [[William Wyler]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Giant (1956 film)|Giant]]''
| [[George Stevens]] and [[Henry Ginsberg]]
|-
| ''[[The King and I (1956 film)|The King and I]]''
| [[Charles Brackett]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]''
| [[Cecil B. DeMille]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1957 in film|1957]]<br />{{small|[[30th Academy Awards|(30th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'''''
| '''[[Sam Spiegel]]'''
|-
| ''[[12 Angry Men (1957 film)|12 Angry Men]]''
| [[Henry Fonda]] and [[Reginald Rose]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Peyton Place (film)|Peyton Place]]''
| [[Jerry Wald]]
|-
| ''[[Sayonara]]''
| [[William Goetz]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Witness for the Prosecution (1957 film)|Witness for the Prosecution]]''
| [[Arthur Hornblow Jr.]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1958 in film|1958]]<br />{{small|[[31st Academy Awards|(31st)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'''''
| '''[[Arthur Freed]]'''
|-
| ''[[Auntie Mame (film)|Auntie Mame]]''
| [[Jack L. Warner]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]''
| [[Lawrence Weingarten]]
|-
| ''[[The Defiant Ones]]''
| [[Stanley Kramer]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Separate Tables (film)|Separate Tables]]''
| [[Harold Hecht]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1959 in film|1959]]<br />{{small|[[32nd Academy Awards|(32nd)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'''''
| '''[[Sam Zimbalist]]'''
|-
| ''[[Anatomy of a Murder]]''
| [[Otto Preminger]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]''
| [[George Stevens]]
|-
| ''[[The Nun's Story (film)|The Nun's Story]]''
| [[Henry Blanke]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Room at the Top (1959 film)|Room at the Top]]''
| [[John and James Woolf]]
|}

===1960s===
{{sticky header}}
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size:1.00em; line-height:1.5em;"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%"| Year of Film Release
! width="40%"| Film
! width="55%"| Producer(s)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1960 in film|1960]]<br />{{small|[[33rd Academy Awards|(33rd)]]}}
| '''''[[The Apartment]]'''''
| '''[[Billy Wilder]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Alamo (1960 film)|The Alamo]]''
| [[John Wayne]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]''
| [[Bernard Smith (editor)|Bernard Smith]]
|-
| ''[[Sons and Lovers (film)|Sons and Lovers]]''
| [[Jerry Wald]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Sundowners (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]''
| [[Fred Zinnemann]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1961 in film|1961]]<br />{{small|[[34th Academy Awards|(34th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]'''''
| '''[[Robert Wise]]'''
|-
| ''[[Fanny (1961 film)|Fanny]]''
| [[Joshua Logan]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]''
| [[Carl Foreman]]
|-
| ''[[The Hustler]]''
| [[Robert Rossen]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Judgment at Nuremberg]]''
| [[Stanley Kramer]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1962 in film|1962]]<br />{{small|[[35th Academy Awards|(35th)]]}} <br />
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'''''
| '''[[Sam Spiegel]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]''
| [[Darryl F. Zanuck]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Music Man (1962 film)|The Music Man]]''
| [[Morton DaCosta]]
|-
| ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]''
| [[Aaron Rosenberg]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird (film)|To Kill a Mockingbird]]''
| [[Alan J. Pakula]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1963 in film|1963]]<br />{{small|[[36th Academy Awards|(36th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]'''''
| '''[[Tony Richardson]]'''
|-
| ''[[America America]]''
| [[Elia Kazan]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]''
| [[Walter Wanger]]
|-
| ''[[How the West Was Won (film)|How the West Was Won]]''
| [[Bernard Smith (editor)|Bernard Smith]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Lilies of the Field (1963 film)|Lilies of the Field]]''
| [[Ralph Nelson]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1964 in film|1964]]<br />{{small|[[37th Academy Awards|(37th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'''''
| '''[[Jack L. Warner]]'''
|-
| ''[[Becket (1964 film)|Becket]]''
| [[Hal B. Wallis]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Dr. Strangelove|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]''
| [[Stanley Kubrick]]
|-
| ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]''
| [[Walt Disney]] and [[Bill Walsh (producer)|Bill Walsh]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Zorba the Greek (film)|Zorba the Greek]]''
| [[Michael Cacoyannis]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1965 in film|1965]]<br />{{small|[[38th Academy Awards|(38th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]'''''
| '''[[Robert Wise]]'''
|-
| ''[[Darling (1965 film)|Darling]]''
| [[Joseph Janni]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Doctor Zhivago (film)|Doctor Zhivago]]''
| [[Carlo Ponti]]
|-
| ''[[Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools]]''
| [[Stanley Kramer]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Thousand Clowns]]''
| [[Fred Coe]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1966 in film|1966]]<br />{{small|[[39th Academy Awards|(39th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)|A Man for All Seasons]]'''''
| '''[[Fred Zinnemann]]'''
|-
| ''[[Alfie (1966 film)|Alfie]]''
| [[Lewis Gilbert]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming]]''
| [[Norman Jewison]]
|-
| ''[[The Sand Pebbles (film)|The Sand Pebbles]]''
| [[Robert Wise]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''
| [[Ernest Lehman]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1967 in film|1967]]<br />{{small|[[40th Academy Awards|(40th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[In the Heat of the Night (film)|In the Heat of the Night]]'''''
| '''[[Walter Mirisch]]'''
|-
| ''[[Bonnie and Clyde (film)|Bonnie and Clyde]]''
| [[Warren Beatty]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Doctor Dolittle (1967 film)|Doctor Dolittle]]''
| [[Arthur P. Jacobs]]
|-
| ''[[The Graduate]]''
| [[Lawrence Turman]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]]''
| [[Stanley Kramer]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1968 in film|1968]]<br />{{small|[[41st Academy Awards|(41st)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]'''''
| '''[[John and James Woolf|John Woolf]]'''
|-
| ''[[Funny Girl (film)|Funny Girl]]''
| [[Ray Stark]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Lion in Winter (1968 film)|The Lion in Winter]]''
| [[Martin Poll]]
|-
| ''[[Rachel, Rachel]]''
| [[Paul Newman]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]''
| [[Anthony Havelock-Allan]] and [[John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne|John Brabourne]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1969 in film|1969]]<br />{{small|[[42nd Academy Awards|(42nd)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Midnight Cowboy]]'''''
| '''[[Jerome Hellman]]'''
|-
| ''[[Anne of the Thousand Days]]''
| [[Hal B. Wallis]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''
| [[John Foreman (producer)|John Foreman]]
|-
| ''[[Hello, Dolly! (film)|Hello, Dolly!]]''
| [[Ernest Lehman]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Z (1969 film)|Z]]''
| [[Jacques Perrin]] and [[Ahmed Rachedi (film director)|Ahmed Rachedi]]
|}

===1970s===
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{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size:1.00em; line-height:1.5em;"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%"| Year of Film Release
! width="40%"| Film
! width="55%"| Producer(s)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1970 in film|1970]]<br />{{small|[[43rd Academy Awards|(43rd)]]}}
| '''''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]'''''
| '''[[Frank McCarthy (producer)|Frank McCarthy]]'''
|-
| ''[[Airport (1970 film)|Airport]]''
| [[Ross Hunter]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Five Easy Pieces]]''
| [[Bob Rafelson]] and Richard Wechsler
|-
| ''[[Love Story (1970 film)|Love Story]]''
| [[Howard G. Minsky]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[M*A*S*H (film)|M*A*S*H]]''
| [[Ingo Preminger]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1971 in film|1971]]<br />{{small|[[44th Academy Awards|(44th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The French Connection (film)|The French Connection]]'''''
| '''[[Philip D'Antoni]]'''
|-
| ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''
| [[Stanley Kubrick]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Fiddler on the Roof (film)|Fiddler on the Roof]]''
| [[Norman Jewison]]
|-
| ''[[The Last Picture Show]]''
| [[Stephen J. Friedman (producer)|Stephen J. Friedman]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Nicholas and Alexandra]]''
| [[Sam Spiegel]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1972 in film|1972]]<br />{{small|[[45th Academy Awards|(45th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Godfather]]'''''
| '''[[Albert S. Ruddy]]'''
|-
| ''[[Cabaret (1972 film)|Cabaret]]''
| [[Cy Feuer]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Deliverance]]''
| [[John Boorman]]
|-
| ''[[The Emigrants (film)|The Emigrants]]''
| [[Bengt Forslund]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Sounder (film)|Sounder]]''
| [[Robert B. Radnitz]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1973 in film|1973]]<br />{{small|[[46th Academy Awards|(46th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Sting]]'''''
| '''[[Tony Bill]], [[Michael Phillips (producer)|Michael Phillips]], and [[Julia Phillips]]'''
|-
| ''[[American Graffiti]]''
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]] and [[Gary Kurtz]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Cries and Whispers]]''
| [[Ingmar Bergman]]
|-
| ''[[The Exorcist]]''
| [[William Peter Blatty]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Touch of Class (film)|A Touch of Class]]''
| [[Melvin Frank]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1974 in film|1974]]<br />{{small|[[47th Academy Awards|(47th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Godfather Part II]]'''''
| '''[[Francis Ford Coppola]], [[Gray Frederickson]], and [[Fred Roos]]'''
|-
| ''[[Chinatown (1974 film)|Chinatown]]''
| [[Robert Evans]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Conversation]]''
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
|-
| ''[[Lenny (film)|Lenny]]''
| [[Marvin Worth]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Towering Inferno]]''
| [[Irwin Allen]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1975 in film|1975]]<br />{{small|[[48th Academy Awards|(48th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'''''
| '''[[Michael Douglas]] and [[Saul Zaentz]]'''
|-
| ''[[Barry Lyndon]]''
| [[Stanley Kubrick]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Dog Day Afternoon]]''
| [[Martin Bregman]] and [[Martin Elfand]]
|-
| ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]''
| [[Richard D. Zanuck]] and [[David Brown (producer)|David Brown]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Nashville (film)|Nashville]]''
| [[Robert Altman]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1976 in film|1976]]<br />{{small|[[49th Academy Awards|(49th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Rocky]]'''''
| '''[[Irwin Winkler]] and [[Robert Chartoff]]'''
|-
| ''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]''
| [[Walter Coblenz]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Bound for Glory (1976 film)|Bound for Glory]]''
| [[Robert F. Blumofe]] and [[Harold Leventhal]]
|-
| ''[[Network (1976 film)|Network]]''
| [[Howard Gottfried]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Taxi Driver]]''
| [[Michael Phillips (producer)|Michael Phillips]] and [[Julia Phillips]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1977 in film|1977]]<br />{{small|[[50th Academy Awards|(50th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Annie Hall]]'''''
| '''[[Charles H. Joffe]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Goodbye Girl]]''
| [[Ray Stark]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Julia (1977 film)|Julia]]''
| Richard Roth
|-
| ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''
| [[Gary Kurtz]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Turning Point (1977 film)|The Turning Point]]''
| [[Herbert Ross]] and [[Arthur Laurents]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1978 in film|1978]]<br />{{small|[[51st Academy Awards|(51st)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Deer Hunter]]'''''
| '''[[Barry Spikings]], [[Michael Deeley]], [[Michael Cimino]], and [[John Peverall]]'''
|-
| ''[[Coming Home (1978 film)|Coming Home]]''
| [[Jerome Hellman]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)|Heaven Can Wait]]''
| [[Warren Beatty]]
|-
| ''[[Midnight Express (film)|Midnight Express]]''
| [[Alan Marshall (producer)|Alan Marshall]] and [[David Puttnam]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[An Unmarried Woman]]''
| [[Paul Mazursky]] and [[Anthony Ray (producer)|Anthony Ray]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1979 in film|1979]]<br />{{small|[[52nd Academy Awards|(52nd)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Kramer vs. Kramer]]'''''
| '''[[Stanley R. Jaffe]]'''
|-
| ''[[All That Jazz (film)|All That Jazz]]''
| [[Robert Alan Aurthur]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]], [[Fred Roos]], [[Gray Frederickson]], and Tom Sternberg
|-
| ''[[Breaking Away]]''
| [[Peter Yates]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Norma Rae]]''
| Tamara Asseyev and Alex Rose
|}

===1980s===
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{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size:1.00em; line-height:1.5em;"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%"| Year of Film Release
! width="40%"| Film
! width="55%"| Producer(s)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1980 in film|1980]]<br />{{small|[[53rd Academy Awards|(53rd)]]}}
| '''''[[Ordinary People]]'''''
| '''[[Ronald L. Schwary]]'''
|-
| ''[[Coal Miner's Daughter (film)|Coal Miner's Daughter]]''
| [[Bernard Schwartz (producer)|Bernard Schwartz]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Elephant Man (1980 film)|The Elephant Man]]''
| [[Jonathan Sanger]]
|-
| ''[[Raging Bull]]''
| [[Irwin Winkler]] and [[Robert Chartoff]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Tess (1979 film)|Tess]]''
| [[Claude Berri]] and Timothy Burrill
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1981 in film|1981]]<br />{{small|[[54th Academy Awards|(54th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|| '''''[[Chariots of Fire]]'''''
| '''[[David Puttnam]]'''
|-
| ''[[Atlantic City (1980 film)|Atlantic City]]''
| [[Denis Héroux]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[On Golden Pond (1981 film)|On Golden Pond]]''
| Bruce Gilbert
|-
| ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''
| [[Frank Marshall (filmmaker)|Frank Marshall]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Reds (film)|Reds]]''
| [[Warren Beatty]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1982 in film|1982]]<br />{{small|[[55th Academy Awards|(55th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'''''
| '''[[Richard Attenborough]]'''
|-
| ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]''
| [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Missing (1982 film)|Missing]]''
| [[Edward Lewis (producer)|Edward Lewis]] and Mildred Lewis
|-
| ''[[Tootsie]]''
| [[Sydney Pollack]] and [[Dick Richards]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Verdict]]''
| [[Richard D. Zanuck]] and [[David Brown (producer)|David Brown]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1983 in film|1983]]<br />{{small|[[56th Academy Awards|(56th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Terms of Endearment]]'''''
| '''[[James L. Brooks]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Big Chill (film)|The Big Chill]]''
| [[Michael Shamberg]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Dresser (1983 film)|The Dresser]]''
| [[Peter Yates]]
|-
| ''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]''
| [[Irwin Winkler]] and [[Robert Chartoff]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Tender Mercies]]''
| Philip S. Hobel
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1984 in film|1984]]<br />{{small|[[57th Academy Awards|(57th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]'''''
| '''[[Saul Zaentz]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Killing Fields (film)|The Killing Fields]]''
| [[David Puttnam]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Passage to India (film)|A Passage to India]]''
| [[John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne|John Brabourne]] and [[Richard Goodwin (producer)|Richard Goodwin]]
|-
| ''[[Places in the Heart]]''
| [[Arlene Donovan]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Soldier's Story]]''
| [[Norman Jewison]], [[Ronald L. Schwary]], and Patrick J. Palmer
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1985 in film|1985]]<br />{{small|[[58th Academy Awards|(58th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'''''
| '''[[Sydney Pollack]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Color Purple (1985 film)|The Color Purple]]''
| [[Steven Spielberg]], [[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]], [[Frank Marshall (filmmaker)|Frank Marshall]], and [[Quincy Jones]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985 film)|Kiss of the Spider Woman]]''
| [[David Weisman]]
|-
| ''[[Prizzi's Honor]]''
| [[John Foreman (producer)|John Foreman]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Witness (1985 film)|Witness]]''
| [[Edward S. Feldman]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1986 in film|1986]]<br />{{small|[[59th Academy Awards|(59th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]'''''
| '''[[Arnold Kopelson]]'''
|-
| ''[[Children of a Lesser God (film)|Children of a Lesser God]]''
| [[Burt Sugarman]] and Patrick J. Palmer
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Hannah and Her Sisters]]''
| [[Robert Greenhut]]
|-
| ''[[The Mission (1986 film)|The Mission]]''
| [[Fernando Ghia]] and [[David Puttnam]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]''
| [[Ismail Merchant]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1987 in film|1987]]<br />{{small|[[60th Academy Awards|(60th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Last Emperor]]'''''
| '''[[Jeremy Thomas]]'''
|-
| ''[[Broadcast News (film)|Broadcast News]]''
| [[James L. Brooks]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Fatal Attraction]]''
| [[Stanley R. Jaffe]] and [[Sherry Lansing]]
|-
| ''[[Hope and Glory (film)|Hope and Glory]]''
| [[John Boorman]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Moonstruck]]''
| Patrick J. Palmer and [[Norman Jewison]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1988 in film|1988]]<br />{{small|[[61st Academy Awards|(61st)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Rain Man]]'''''
| '''[[Mark Johnson (producer)|Mark Johnson]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Accidental Tourist (film)|The Accidental Tourist]]''
| [[Lawrence Kasdan]], [[Charles Okun]], and Michael Grillo
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Dangerous Liaisons]]''
| [[Norma Heyman]] and [[Hank Moonjean]]
|-
| ''[[Mississippi Burning]]''
| [[Frederick Zollo]] and [[Robert F. Colesberry]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Working Girl]]''
| [[Douglas Wick]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1989 in film|1989]]<br />{{small|[[62nd Academy Awards|(62nd)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]'''''
| '''[[Richard D. Zanuck]] and [[Lili Fini Zanuck]]'''
|-
| ''[[Born on the Fourth of July (film)|Born on the Fourth of July]]''
| [[A. Kitman Ho]] and [[Oliver Stone]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Dead Poets Society]]''
| [[Steven Haft]], [[Paul Junger Witt]], and [[Tony Thomas (producer)|Tony Thomas]]
|-
| ''[[Field of Dreams]]''
| [[Lawrence Gordon (producer)|Lawrence Gordon]] and [[Charles Gordon (producer)|Charles Gordon]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[My Left Foot]]''
| [[Noel Pearson (producer)|Noel Pearson]]
|}

===1990s===
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{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size:1.00em; line-height:1.5em;"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year of Film Release
! width="40%" | Film
! width="55%" | Producer(s)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1990 in film|1990]]<br />{{small|[[63rd Academy Awards|(63rd)]]}}
| '''''[[Dances With Wolves]]'''''
| '''[[Jim Wilson (producer)|Jim Wilson]] and [[Kevin Costner]]'''
|-
| ''[[Awakenings]]''
| [[Walter F. Parkes]] and [[Lawrence Lasker]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]''
| Lisa Weinstein
|-
| ''[[The Godfather Part III]]''
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Goodfellas]]''
| [[Irwin Winkler]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1991 in film|1991]]<br />{{small|[[64th Academy Awards|(64th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'''''
| '''[[Edward Saxon]], [[Kenneth Utt]], and [[Ron Bozman]]'''
|-
| ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]''
| [[Don Hahn]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Bugsy]]''
| [[Mark Johnson (producer)|Mark Johnson]], [[Barry Levinson]] and [[Warren Beatty]]
|-
| ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]''
| [[A. Kitman Ho]] and [[Oliver Stone]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Prince of Tides]]''
| [[Barbra Streisand]] and [[Andrew Karsch]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1992 in film|1992]]<br />{{small|[[65th Academy Awards|(65th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Unforgiven]]'''''
| '''[[Clint Eastwood]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Crying Game]]''
| [[Stephen Woolley]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Few Good Men]]''
| [[David Brown (producer)|David Brown]], [[Rob Reiner]], and [[Andrew Scheinman]]
|-
| ''[[Howards End (film)|Howards End]]''
| [[Ismail Merchant]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Scent of a Woman (1992 film)|Scent of a Woman]]''
| [[Martin Brest]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1993 in film|1993]]<br />{{small|[[66th Academy Awards|(66th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Schindler's List]]'''''
| '''[[Steven Spielberg]], [[Gerald R. Molen]], and [[Branko Lustig]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive]]''
| [[Arnold Kopelson]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[In the Name of the Father]]''
| [[Jim Sheridan]]
|-
| ''[[The Piano]]''
| [[Jan Chapman]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Remains of the Day (film)|The Remains of the Day]]''
| [[Mike Nichols]], [[John Calley]], and [[Ismail Merchant]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1994 in film|1994]]<br />{{small|[[67th Academy Awards|(67th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Forrest Gump]]'''''
| '''[[Wendy Finerman]], [[Steve Tisch]], and [[Steve Starkey]]'''
|-
| ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]''
| [[Duncan Kenworthy]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''
| [[Lawrence Bender]]
|-
| ''[[Quiz Show (film)|Quiz Show]]''
| [[Michael Jacobs (producer)|Michael Jacobs]], [[Julian Krainin]], [[Michael Nozik]], and [[Robert Redford]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''
| [[Niki Marvin]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1995 in film|1995]]<br />{{small|[[68th Academy Awards|(68th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Braveheart]]'''''
| '''[[Mel Gibson]], [[Alan Ladd Jr.]], and [[Bruce Davey]]'''
|-
| ''[[Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo 13]]''
| [[Brian Grazer]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Babe (film)|Babe]]''
| [[Bill Miller (film producer)|Bill Miller]], [[George Miller (filmmaker)|George Miller]], and [[Doug Mitchell (film producer)|Doug Mitchell]]
|-
| ''[[Il Postino: The Postman]]''
| [[Mario Cecchi Gori]], [[Vittorio Cecchi Gori]], and [[Gaetano Daniele]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Sense and Sensibility (1995 film)|Sense and Sensibility]]''
| [[Lindsay Doran]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1996 in film|1996]]<br />{{small|[[69th Academy Awards|(69th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The English Patient (film)|The English Patient]]'''''
| '''[[Saul Zaentz]]'''
|-
| ''[[Fargo (1996 film)|Fargo]]''
| [[Coen brothers|Ethan Coen]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Jerry Maguire]]''
| [[James L. Brooks]], [[Laurence Mark]], [[Richard Sakai]], and [[Cameron Crowe]]
|-
| ''[[Secrets & Lies (film)|Secrets & Lies]]''
| [[Simon Channing Williams]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Shine (film)|Shine]]''
| [[Jane Scott (film producer)|Jane Scott]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1997 in film|1997]]<br />{{small|[[70th Academy Awards|(70th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'''''
| '''[[James Cameron]] and [[Jon Landau (film producer)|Jon Landau]]'''
|-
| ''[[As Good as It Gets]]''
| [[James L. Brooks]], Bridget Johnson, and [[Kristi Zea]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Full Monty]]''
| [[Uberto Pasolini]]
|-
| ''[[Good Will Hunting]]''
| [[Lawrence Bender]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]''
| [[Curtis Hanson]], [[Arnon Milchan]], and [[Michael Nathanson (film executive)|Michael Nathanson]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1998 in film|1998]]<br />{{small|[[71st Academy Awards|(71st)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'''''
| '''[[David Parfitt]], [[Donna Gigliotti]], [[Harvey Weinstein]], [[Edward Zwick]], and [[Marc Norman]]'''
|-
| ''[[Elizabeth (film)|Elizabeth]]''
| [[Alison Owen]], [[Eric Fellner]] and [[Tim Bevan]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]''
| [[Elda Ferri]] and [[Gianluigi Braschi]]
|-
| ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''
| [[Steven Spielberg]], [[Ian Bryce]], [[Mark Gordon (producer)|Mark Gordon]], and [[Gary Levinsohn]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|The Thin Red Line]]''
| Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, and [[Grant Hill (producer)|Grant Hill]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[1999 in film|1999]]<br />{{small|[[72nd Academy Awards|(72nd)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[American Beauty (1999 film)|American Beauty]]'''''
| '''[[Bruce Cohen]] and [[Dan Jinks]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Cider House Rules (film)|The Cider House Rules]]''
| [[Richard N. Gladstein]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Green Mile (film)|The Green Mile]]''
| [[Frank Darabont]] and [[David Valdes]]
|-
| ''[[The Insider (film)|The Insider]]''
| [[Pieter Jan Brugge]] and [[Michael Mann]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Sixth Sense]]''
| [[Frank Marshall (filmmaker)|Frank Marshall]], [[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]], and [[Barry Mendel]]
|}

===2000s===
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{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size:1.00em; line-height:1.5em;"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%"| Year of Film Release
! width="40%"| Film
! width="55%"| Producer(s)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2000 in film|2000]]<br />{{small|[[73rd Academy Awards|(73rd)]]}}
| '''''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]'''''
| '''[[Douglas Wick]], [[David Franzoni]], and [[Branko Lustig]]'''
|-
| ''[[Chocolat (2000 film)|Chocolat]]''
| [[David Brown (producer)|David Brown]], Kit Golden, and Leslie Holleran
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''
| [[William Kong]], [[Hsu Li-kong]], and [[Ang Lee]]
|-
| ''[[Erin Brockovich (film)|Erin Brockovich]]''
| [[Danny DeVito]], [[Michael Shamberg]], and [[Stacey Sher]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Traffic (2000 film)|Traffic]]''
| [[Edward Zwick]], [[Marshall Herskovitz]], and [[Laura Bickford]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[2001 in film|2001]]<br />{{small|[[74th Academy Awards|(74th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[A Beautiful Mind (film)|A Beautiful Mind]]'''''
| '''[[Brian Grazer]] and [[Ron Howard]]'''
|-
| ''[[Gosford Park]]''
| [[Robert Altman]], [[Bob Balaban]], and David Levy
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[In the Bedroom]]''
| Graham Leader, [[Ross Katz]], and [[Todd Field]]
|-
| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
| [[Peter Jackson]], [[Fran Walsh]], and [[Barrie M. Osborne]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Moulin Rouge!]]''
| Martin Brown, [[Baz Luhrmann]], and [[Fred Baron (producer)|Fred Baron]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[2002 in film|2002]]<br />{{small|[[75th Academy Awards|(75th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Chicago (2002 film)|Chicago]]'''''
| '''[[Martin Richards (producer)|Martin Richards]]'''
|-
| ''[[Gangs of New York]]''
| [[Alberto Grimaldi]] and [[Harvey Weinstein]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Hours (film)|The Hours]]''
| [[Scott Rudin]] and [[Robert Fox (producer)|Robert Fox]]
|-
| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]''
| [[Barrie M. Osborne]], [[Fran Walsh]], and [[Peter Jackson]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Pianist (2002 film)|The Pianist]]''
| [[Roman Polanski]], Robert Benmussa, and [[Alain Sarde]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[2003 in film|2003]]<br />{{small|[[76th Academy Awards|(76th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'''''
| '''[[Barrie M. Osborne]], [[Peter Jackson]], and [[Fran Walsh]]'''
|-
| ''[[Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation]]''
| [[Ross Katz]] and [[Sofia Coppola]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World]]''
| [[Samuel Goldwyn Jr.]], [[Peter Weir]], and [[Duncan Henderson]]
|-
| ''[[Mystic River (film)|Mystic River]]''
| [[Robert Lorenz]], Judie G. Hoyt, and [[Clint Eastwood]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Seabiscuit (film)|Seabiscuit]]''
| [[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]], [[Frank Marshall (filmmaker)|Frank Marshall]], and [[Gary Ross]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[2004 in film|2004]]<br />{{small|[[77th Academy Awards|(77th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Million Dollar Baby]]'''''
| '''[[Clint Eastwood]], [[Albert S. Ruddy]], and [[Tom Rosenberg]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]''
| [[Michael Mann]] and [[Graham King]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Finding Neverland (film)|Finding Neverland]]''
| [[Richard N. Gladstein]] and [[Nellie Bellflower]]
|-
| ''[[Ray (film)|Ray]]''
| [[Taylor Hackford]], [[Stuart Benjamin]], and [[Howard Baldwin]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Sideways]]''
| [[Michael London]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[2005 in film|2005]]<br />{{small|[[78th Academy Awards|(78th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Crash (2004 film)|Crash]]'''''
| '''[[Paul Haggis]] and [[Cathy Schulman]]'''
|-
| ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]''
| [[Diana Ossana]] and [[James Schamus]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Capote (film)|Capote]]''
| [[Caroline Baron]], [[William Vince]], and [[Michael Ohoven]]
|-
| ''[[Good Night, and Good Luck]]''
| [[Grant Heslov]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Munich (2005 film)|Munich]]''
| [[Steven Spielberg]], [[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]], and [[Barry Mendel]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[2006 in film|2006]]<br />{{small|[[79th Academy Awards|(79th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Departed]]'''''
| '''[[Graham King]]'''
|-
| ''[[Babel (film)|Babel]]''
| [[Alejandro González Iñárritu]], [[Steve Golin]], and [[Jon Kilik]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Letters from Iwo Jima]]''
| [[Clint Eastwood]], [[Steven Spielberg]], and [[Robert Lorenz]]
|-
| ''[[Little Miss Sunshine]]''
| [[David T. Friendly]], [[Peter Saraf]], and [[Marc Turtletaub]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Queen (2006 film)|The Queen]]''
| [[Andy Harries]], [[Christine Langan]], and [[Tracey Seaward]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[2007 in film|2007]]<br />{{small|[[80th Academy Awards|(80th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[No Country for Old Men]]'''''
| '''[[Scott Rudin]], [[Coen brothers|Joel Coen]], and [[Coen brothers|Ethan Coen]]'''
|-
| ''[[Atonement (2007 film)|Atonement]]''
| [[Tim Bevan]], [[Eric Fellner]], and [[Paul Webster (producer)|Paul Webster]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Juno (film)|Juno]]''
| [[Lianne Halfon]], [[Mason Novick]], and Russell Smith
|-
| ''[[Michael Clayton (film)|Michael Clayton]]''
| [[Jennifer Fox (film producer)|Jennifer Fox]], Kerry Orent, and [[Sydney Pollack]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[There Will Be Blood]]''
| [[Paul Thomas Anderson]], [[Daniel Lupi]], and [[JoAnne Sellar]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" |[[2008 in film|2008]]<br />{{small|[[81st Academy Awards|(81st)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'''''
| '''[[Christian Colson]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]''
| [[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]], [[Frank Marshall (filmmaker)|Frank Marshall]], and [[Ceán Chaffin]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Frost/Nixon (film)|Frost/Nixon]]''
| [[Ron Howard]], [[Brian Grazer]], and [[Eric Fellner]]
|-
| ''[[Milk (2008 American film)|Milk]]''
| [[Bruce Cohen]] and [[Dan Jinks]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Reader (2008 film)|The Reader]]''
| [[Anthony Minghella]], [[Sydney Pollack]], [[Donna Gigliotti]], and [[Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin|Redmond Morris]]
|-
! rowspan="11" style="text-align:center" |[[2009 in film|2009]]<br />{{small|[[82nd Academy Awards|(82nd)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Hurt Locker]]'''''
| '''[[Kathryn Bigelow]], [[Mark Boal]], [[Nicolas Chartier]], and [[Greg Shapiro (producer)|Greg Shapiro]]'''
|-
| ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]''
| [[James Cameron]] and [[Jon Landau (film producer)|Jon Landau]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Blind Side (film)|The Blind Side]]''
| Gil Netter, [[Andrew Kosove]], and [[Broderick Johnson]]
|-
| ''[[District 9]]''
| [[Peter Jackson]] and [[Carolynne Cunningham]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[An Education]]''
| [[Finola Dwyer]] and [[Amanda Posey]]
|-
| ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''
| [[Lawrence Bender]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Precious (film)|Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire]]''
| [[Lee Daniels]], Sarah Siegel-Magness, and [[Gary Magness]]
|-
| ''[[A Serious Man]]''
| [[Coen brothers|Joel Coen]] and [[Coen brothers|Ethan Coen]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Up (2009 film)|Up]]''
| [[Jonas Rivera]]
|-
| ''[[Up in the Air (2009 film)|Up in the Air]]''
| [[Daniel Dubiecki]], [[Ivan Reitman]], and [[Jason Reitman]]
|}

===2010s===
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{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size:1.00em; line-height:1.5em;"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%"| Year of Film Release
! width="40%"| Film
! width="55%"| Producer(s)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="10" |[[2010 in film|2010]]<br />{{small|[[83rd Academy Awards|(83rd)]]}}
| '''''[[The King's Speech]]'''''
| '''[[Iain Canning]], [[Emile Sherman]], and [[Gareth Unwin]]'''
|-
| ''[[Black Swan (film)|Black Swan]]''
| [[Scott Franklin (producer)|Scott Franklin]], [[Mike Medavoy]], and [[Brian Oliver (producer)|Brian Oliver]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Fighter]]''
| [[David Hoberman]], [[Todd Lieberman]], and [[Mark Wahlberg]]
|-
| ''[[Inception]]''
| [[Christopher Nolan]] and [[Emma Thomas]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Kids Are All Right (film)|The Kids Are All Right]]''
| [[Gary Gilbert]], [[Jeff Levy-Hinte]], and [[Celine Rattray]]
|-
| ''[[127 Hours]]''
| [[Danny Boyle]], [[John Smithson]], and [[Christian Colson]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Social Network]]''
| [[Dana Brunetti]], [[Ceán Chaffin]], [[Michael De Luca]], and [[Scott Rudin]]
|-
| ''[[Toy Story 3]]''
| [[Darla K. Anderson]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[True Grit (2010 film)|True Grit]]''
| [[Coen brothers|Joel Coen]], [[Coen brothers|Ethan Coen]], and [[Scott Rudin]]
|-
| ''[[Winter's Bone]]''
| [[Alix Madigan]] and [[Anne Rosellini]]
|-
! rowspan="10" style="text-align:center" |[[2011 in film|2011]]<br />{{small|[[84th Academy Awards|(84th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Artist (film)|The Artist]]'''''
| '''[[Thomas Langmann]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Descendants]]''
| [[Jim Burke (film producer)|Jim Burke]], [[Alexander Payne]], and [[Jim Taylor (writer)|Jim Taylor]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (film)|Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close]]''
| [[Scott Rudin]]
|-
| ''[[The Help (film)|The Help]]''
| [[Brunson Green]], [[Chris Columbus (filmmaker)|Chris Columbus]], and [[Michael Barnathan]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Hugo (film)|Hugo]]''
| [[Graham King]] and [[Martin Scorsese]]
|-
| ''[[Midnight in Paris]]''
| [[Letty Aronson]] and [[Stephen Tenenbaum]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Moneyball (film)|Moneyball]]''
| [[Michael De Luca]], [[Rachael Horovitz]], and [[Brad Pitt]]
|-
| ''[[The Tree of Life (film)|The Tree of Life]]''
| [[Sarah Green (film producer)|Sarah Green]], [[Bill Pohlad]], [[Dede Gardner]], and [[Grant Hill (producer)|Grant Hill]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[War Horse (film)|War Horse]]''
| [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]]
|-
! rowspan="10" style="text-align:center" |[[2012 in film|2012]]<br />{{small|[[85th Academy Awards|(85th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Argo (2012 film)|Argo]]'''''
| '''[[Grant Heslov]], [[Ben Affleck]], and [[George Clooney]]'''
|-
| ''[[Amour (2012 film)|Amour]]''
| [[Margaret Ménégoz]], [[Stefan Arndt]], [[Veit Heiduschka]], and [[Michael Katz (producer)|Michael Katz]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Beasts of the Southern Wild]]''
| Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, and Michael Gottwald
|-
| ''[[Django Unchained]]''
| [[Stacey Sher]], [[Reginald Hudlin]], and [[Pilar Savone]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Life of Pi (film)|Life of Pi]]''
| Gil Netter, [[Ang Lee]], and [[David Womark]]
|- 
| ''[[Lincoln (film)|Lincoln]]''
| [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Les Misérables (2012 film)|Les Misérables]]''
| [[Tim Bevan]], [[Eric Fellner]], [[Debra Hayward]], and [[Cameron Mackintosh]]
|-
| ''[[Silver Linings Playbook]]''
| [[Donna Gigliotti]], [[Bruce Cohen]], and Jonathan Gordon
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Zero Dark Thirty]]''
| [[Mark Boal]], [[Kathryn Bigelow]], and [[Megan Ellison]]
|-
! rowspan="10" style="text-align:center" |[[2013 in film|2013]]<br />{{small|[[86th Academy Awards|(86th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[12 Years a Slave (film)|12 Years a Slave]]'''''
| '''[[Brad Pitt]], [[Dede Gardner]], [[Jeremy Kleiner]], [[Steve McQueen (director)|Steve McQueen]], and [[Anthony Katagas]]'''
|-
| ''[[American Hustle]]''
| [[Charles Roven]], [[Richard Suckle]], [[Megan Ellison]], and Jonathan Gordon
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Captain Phillips (film)|Captain Phillips]]''
| [[Scott Rudin]], [[Dana Brunetti]], and [[Michael De Luca]]
|-
| ''[[Dallas Buyers Club]]''
| [[Robbie Brenner]] and [[Rachel Winter]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Gravity (2013 film)|Gravity]]''
| [[Alfonso Cuarón]] and [[David Heyman]]
|-
| ''[[Her (2013 film)|Her]]''
| [[Megan Ellison]], [[Spike Jonze]], and [[Vincent Landay]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Nebraska (film)|Nebraska]]''
| [[Albert Berger]] and [[Ron Yerxa]]
|-
| ''[[Philomena (film)|Philomena]]''
| [[Gabrielle Tana]], [[Steve Coogan]], and [[Tracey Seaward]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)|The Wolf of Wall Street]]''
| [[Martin Scorsese]], [[Leonardo DiCaprio]], [[Joey McFarland]], and [[Emma Tillinger Koskoff]]
|-
! rowspan="9" style="text-align:center" |[[2014 in film|2014]]<br />{{small|[[87th Academy Awards|(87th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Birdman (film)|Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)]]'''''
| '''[[Alejandro González Iñárritu]], [[John Lesher (producer)|John Lesher]], and [[James W. Skotchdopole]]'''
|-
| ''[[American Sniper]]''
| [[Clint Eastwood]], [[Andrew Lazar]], [[Robert Lorenz]], [[Bradley Cooper]], and [[Peter Morgan (producer)|Peter Morgan]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Boyhood (2014 film)|Boyhood]]''
| [[Richard Linklater]] and [[Cathleen Sutherland]]
|-
| ''[[The Grand Budapest Hotel]]''
| [[Wes Anderson]], [[Scott Rudin]], [[Steven Rales]], and [[Jeremy Dawson (producer)|Jeremy Dawson]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Imitation Game]]''
| [[Nora Grossman]], [[Ido Ostrowsky]], and [[Teddy Schwarzman]]
|-
| ''[[Selma (film)|Selma]]''
| [[Christian Colson]], [[Oprah Winfrey]], [[Dede Gardner]], and [[Jeremy Kleiner]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Theory of Everything (2014 film)|The Theory of Everything]]''
| [[Tim Bevan]], [[Eric Fellner]], [[Lisa Bruce]], and [[Anthony McCarten]]
|-
| ''[[Whiplash (2014 film)|Whiplash]]''
| [[Jason Blum]], [[Helen Estabrook]], and [[David Lancaster (filmmaker)|David Lancaster]]
|-
! rowspan="9" style="text-align:center" |[[2015 in film|2015]]<br />{{small|[[88th Academy Awards|(88th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Spotlight (film)|Spotlight]]'''''
| '''[[Blye Pagon Faust]], [[Steve Golin]], [[Nicole Rocklin]], and [[Michael Sugar]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Big Short (film)|The Big Short]]''
| [[Dede Gardner]], [[Jeremy Kleiner]], and [[Brad Pitt]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Bridge of Spies (film)|Bridge of Spies]]''
| [[Steven Spielberg]], [[Marc Platt (producer)|Marc Platt]], and [[Kristie Macosko Krieger]]
|-
| ''[[Brooklyn (film)|Brooklyn]]''
| [[Finola Dwyer]] and [[Amanda Posey]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Mad Max: Fury Road]]''
| [[Doug Mitchell (film producer)|Doug Mitchell]] and [[George Miller (filmmaker)|George Miller]]
|-
| ''[[The Martian (film)|The Martian]]''
| [[Simon Kinberg]], [[Ridley Scott]], [[Michael Schaefer (producer)|Michael Schaefer]], and [[Mark Huffam]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Revenant (2015 film)|The Revenant]]''
| [[Arnon Milchan]], [[Steve Golin]], [[Alejandro González Iñárritu]], [[Mary Parent]], and [[Keith Redmon]]
|-
| ''[[Room (2015 film)|Room]]''
| [[Ed Guiney]]
|-
! rowspan="10" style="text-align:center" |[[2016 in film|2016]]<br />{{small|[[89th Academy Awards|(89th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]'''''
| '''[[Adele Romanski]], [[Dede Gardner]], and [[Jeremy Kleiner]]'''
|-
| ''[[Arrival (film)|Arrival]]''
| [[Shawn Levy]], [[Dan Levine]], [[Aaron Ryder]], and [[David Linde]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Fences (film)|Fences]]''
| [[Scott Rudin]], [[Denzel Washington]], and [[Todd Black]]
|-
| ''[[Hacksaw Ridge]]''
| [[Bill Mechanic]] and [[David Permut]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Hell or High Water (film)|Hell or High Water]]''
| [[Carla Hacken]] and [[Julie Yorn]]
|-
| ''[[Hidden Figures]]''
| [[Donna Gigliotti]], [[Peter Chernin]], [[Jenno Topping]], [[Pharrell Williams]], and [[Theodore Melfi]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[La La Land]]''
| [[Fred Berger (producer)|Fred Berger]], [[Jordan Horowitz]], and [[Marc Platt (producer)|Marc Platt]]
|- 
| ''[[Lion (2016 film)|Lion]]''
| [[Emile Sherman]], [[Iain Canning]], and [[Angie Fielder]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Manchester by the Sea (film)|Manchester by the Sea]]''
| [[Matt Damon]], [[Kimberly Steward]], [[Chris Moore (film producer)|Chris Moore]], [[Lauren Beck]], and [[Kevin J. Walsh (film producer)|Kevin J. Walsh]]
|-
! rowspan="10" style="text-align:center" |[[2017 in film|2017]]<br />{{small|[[90th Academy Awards|(90th)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[The Shape of Water]]'''''
| '''[[Guillermo del Toro]] and [[J. Miles Dale]]'''
|-
| ''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]''
| [[Peter Spears]], [[Luca Guadagnino]], [[Emilie Georges]], and [[Marco Morabito]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Darkest Hour (film)|Darkest Hour]]''
| [[Tim Bevan]], [[Eric Fellner]], [[Lisa Bruce]], [[Anthony McCarten]], and [[Douglas Urbanski]]
|-
| ''[[Dunkirk (2017 film)|Dunkirk]]''
| [[Emma Thomas]] and [[Christopher Nolan]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Get Out]]''
| [[Sean McKittrick]], [[Jason Blum]], [[Edward H. Hamm Jr.]], and [[Jordan Peele]]
|-
| ''[[Lady Bird (film)|Lady Bird]]''
| [[Scott Rudin]], [[Eli Bush]], and [[Evelyn O'Neill]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Phantom Thread]]''
| [[JoAnne Sellar]], [[Paul Thomas Anderson]], [[Megan Ellison]], and [[Daniel Lupi]]
|- 
| ''[[The Post (film)|The Post]]''
| [[Amy Pascal]], [[Steven Spielberg]], and [[Kristie Macosko Krieger]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri]]''
| [[Graham Broadbent]], [[Peter Czernin]], and [[Martin McDonagh]]
|-
! rowspan="9" style="text-align:center" |[[2018 in film|2018]]<br />{{small|[[91st Academy Awards|(91st)]]}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
| '''''[[Green Book (film)|Green Book]]'''''
| '''[[Jim Burke (film producer)|Jim Burke]], [[Charles B. Wessler]], Brian Currie, [[Peter Farrelly]], and [[Nick Vallelonga]]'''
|-
| ''[[Black Panther (film)|Black Panther]]''
| [[Kevin Feige]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[BlacKkKlansman]]''
| [[Sean McKittrick]], [[Jason Blum]], Raymond Mansfield, [[Jordan Peele]], and [[Spike Lee]]
|-
| ''[[Bohemian Rhapsody (film)|Bohemian Rhapsody]]''
| [[Graham King]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Favourite]]''
| Ceci Dempsey, [[Ed Guiney]], Lee Magiday, and [[Yorgos Lanthimos]]
|-
| ''[[Roma (2018 film)|Roma]]''
| [[Gabriela Rodríguez (producer)|Gabriela Rodríguez]] and [[Alfonso Cuarón]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Star Is Born (2018 film)|A Star Is Born]]''
| [[Bill Gerber]], [[Bradley Cooper]], and [[Lynette Howell Taylor]]
|- 
| ''[[Vice (2018 film)|Vice]]''
| [[Dede Gardner]], [[Jeremy Kleiner]], [[Adam McKay]], and [[Kevin Messick]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="9" |[[2019 in film|2019]]<br />{{small|[[92nd Academy Awards|(92nd)]]}}
| '''''[[Parasite (2019 film)|Parasite]]'''''
| '''[[Kwak Sin-ae]] and [[Bong Joon-ho]]'''
|- 
| ''[[Ford v Ferrari]]''
| [[Peter Chernin]], [[Jenno Topping]], and [[James Mangold]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Irishman]]''
| [[Martin Scorsese]], [[Robert De Niro]], [[Jane Rosenthal]], and [[Emma Tillinger Koskoff]]
|- 
| ''[[Jojo Rabbit]]''
| [[Carthew Neal]], [[Taika Waititi]], and [[Chelsea Winstanley]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Joker (2019 film)|Joker]]''
| [[Todd Phillips]], [[Bradley Cooper]], and [[Emma Tillinger Koskoff]]
|- 
| ''[[Little Women (2019 film)|Little Women]]''
| [[Amy Pascal]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Marriage Story]]''
| [[Noah Baumbach]] and [[David Heyman]]
|- 
| ''[[1917 (2019 film)|1917]]''
| [[Sam Mendes]], [[Pippa Harris]], Jayne-Ann Tenggren, and Callum McDougall
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Once Upon a Time in Hollywood]]''
| [[David Heyman]], [[Shannon McIntosh (filmmaker)|Shannon McIntosh]], and [[Quentin Tarantino]]
|}

===2020s===
{{sticky header}}
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size:1.00em; line-height:1.5em;"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="2%"| Year of Film Release
! width="40%"| Film
! width="55%"| Producer(s)
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="8" |[[2020 in film|2020]]<br />{{small|[[93rd Academy Awards|(93rd)]]}}
| '''''[[Nomadland]]'''''
| '''[[Frances McDormand]], [[Peter Spears]], [[Mollye Asher]], Dan Janvey, and [[Chloé Zhao]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Father (2020 film)|The Father]]''
| [[David Parfitt]], [[Jean-Louis Livi]], and [[Philippe Carcassonne]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Judas and the Black Messiah]]''
| [[Shaka King]], Charles D. King, and [[Ryan Coogler]]
|-
|''[[Mank]]''
| [[Ceán Chaffin]], [[Eric Roth]], and [[Douglas Urbanski]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Minari]]''
| [[Christina Oh]]
|-
| ''[[Promising Young Woman]]''
| Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, [[Emerald Fennell]], and Josey McNamara
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Sound of Metal]]''
| Bert Hamelinck and Sacha Ben Harroche
|-
| ''[[The Trial of the Chicago 7]]''
| [[Marc Platt (producer)|Marc Platt]] and [[Stuart M. Besser]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="10" |[[2021 in film|2021]]<br />{{small|[[94th Academy Awards|(94th)]]}}
| '''''[[CODA (2021 film)|CODA]]'''''
| '''[[Philippe Rousselet]], Fabrice Gianfermi, and Patrick Wachsberger'''
|-
| ''[[Belfast (film)|''Belfast'']]''
| Laura Berwick, [[Kenneth Branagh]], Becca Kovacik, and Tamar Thomas
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Don't Look Up]]''
| [[Adam McKay]] and [[Kevin Messick]]
|-
| ''[[Drive My Car (film)|Drive My Car]]''
| Teruhisa Yamamoto
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Dune (2021 film)|Dune]]''
| [[Mary Parent]], [[Denis Villeneuve]], and [[Cale Boyter]]
|-
| ''[[King Richard (film)|King Richard]]''
| [[Tim White (American producer)|Tim White]], [[Trevor White (producer)|Trevor White]], and [[Will Smith]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Licorice Pizza]]''
| [[Sara Murphy (film producer)|Sara Murphy]], [[Adam Somner]], and [[Paul Thomas Anderson]]
|-
| ''[[Nightmare Alley (2021 film)|Nightmare Alley]]''
| [[Guillermo del Toro]], [[J. Miles Dale]], and [[Bradley Cooper]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Power of the Dog (film)|The Power of the Dog]]''
| [[Jane Campion]], [[Tanya Seghatchian]], [[Emile Sherman]], [[Iain Canning]], and [[Roger Frappier]]
|-
| ''[[West Side Story (2021 film)|West Side Story]]''
| [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[Kristie Macosko Krieger]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="10" |[[2022 in film|2022]]<br />{{small|[[95th Academy Awards|(95th)]]}}
| '''''[[Everything Everywhere All at Once]]'''''
| '''[[Daniels (directors)|Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert]], and [[Jonathan Wang]]'''
|- 
| ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]''
| [[Malte Grunert]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Avatar: The Way of Water]]''
| [[James Cameron]] and [[Jon Landau (film producer)|Jon Landau]]
|-
| ''[[The Banshees of Inisherin]]''
| [[Graham Broadbent]], [[Peter Czernin]], and [[Martin McDonagh]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Elvis (2022 film)|Elvis]]''
| [[Baz Luhrmann]], [[Catherine Martin (designer)|Catherine Martin]], [[Gail Berman]], Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss
|-
| ''[[The Fabelmans]]''
| [[Kristie Macosko Krieger]], [[Steven Spielberg]], and [[Tony Kushner]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Tár]]''
| [[Todd Field]], [[Alexandra Milchan]], and Scott Lambert
|-
| ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]''
| [[Tom Cruise]], [[Christopher McQuarrie]], [[David Ellison]], and [[Jerry Bruckheimer]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Triangle of Sadness]]''
| Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober
|-
| ''[[Women Talking (film)|Women Talking]]''
| [[Dede Gardner]], [[Jeremy Kleiner]], and [[Frances McDormand]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="10" |[[2023 in film|2023]]<br />{{small|[[96th Academy Awards|(96th)]]}}
| '''''[[Oppenheimer (film)|Oppenheimer]] '''''
| '''[[Emma Thomas]], [[Charles Roven]], and [[Christopher Nolan]]'''
|-
| ''[[American Fiction (film)|American Fiction]]''
| Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, [[Cord Jefferson]], and Jermaine Johnson
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Anatomy of a Fall]]''
| [[Marie-Ange Luciani]] and [[David Thion]]
|-
| ''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]''
| [[David Heyman]], [[Margot Robbie]], [[Tom Ackerley]], and [[Robbie Brenner]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Holdovers]]''
| [[Mark Johnson (producer)|Mark Johnson]]
|-
| ''[[Killers of the Flower Moon (film)|Killers of the Flower Moon]]''
| [[Dan Friedkin]], [[Bradley Thomas (producer)|Bradley Thomas]], [[Martin Scorsese]], and [[Daniel Lupi]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Maestro (2023 film)|Maestro]]''
| [[Bradley Cooper]], [[Steven Spielberg]], [[Fred Berner]], Amy Durning, and [[Kristie Macosko Krieger]]
|-
| ''[[Past Lives (film)|Past Lives]]''
| [[David Hinojosa]], [[Christine Vachon]], and [[Pamela Koffler]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Poor Things (film)|Poor Things]]''
| [[Ed Guiney]], [[Andrew Lowe (producer)|Andrew Lowe]], [[Yorgos Lanthimos]], and [[Emma Stone]]
|-
| ''[[The Zone of Interest (film)|The Zone of Interest]]''
| [[James Wilson (producer)|James Wilson]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="10" |[[2024 in film|2024]]<br />{{small|[[97th Academy Awards|(97th)]]}}
| '''''[[Anora]]'''''
| '''[[Alex Coco]], [[Samantha Quan]], and [[Sean Baker]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Brutalist]]''
| Nick Gordon, Brian Young, [[Andrew Morrison (filmmaker)|Andrew Morrison]], [[D.J. Gugenheim]], and [[Brady Corbet]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[A Complete Unknown]]''
| [[Fred Berger (producer)|Fred Berger]], [[James Mangold]], and Alex Heineman
|- 
| ''[[Conclave (film)|Conclave]]''
| [[Tessa Ross]], [[Juliette Howell]], and [[Michael Jackman (producer)|Michael A. Jackman]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[Dune: Part Two]]''
| [[Mary Parent]], [[Cale Boyter]], [[Tanya Lapointe]], and [[Denis Villeneuve]]
|- 
| ''[[Emilia Pérez]]''
| [[Pascal Caucheteux]] and [[Jacques Audiard]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[I'm Still Here (2024 film)|I'm Still Here]]''
| Maria Carlota Bruno and [[Rodrigo Teixeira (producer)|Rodrigo Teixeira]]
|-
| ''[[Nickel Boys]]''
| [[Dede Gardner]], [[Jeremy Kleiner]], and [[Joslyn Barnes]]
|- style="background:#eee;"
| ''[[The Substance]]''
| [[Coralie Fargeat]], [[Tim Bevan]], and [[Eric Fellner]]
|-
| ''[[Wicked (2024 film)|Wicked]]''
| [[Marc Platt (producer)|Marc Platt]]
|}

== Age superlatives ==
{| class="wikitable"
! scope="col" |Record
! scope="col" |Producer
! scope="col" |Film
! scope="col" |Age
|-
|Oldest winner
|[[Saul Zaentz]]
|''[[The English Patient (film)|The English Patient]]''
|76 years, 24 days
|-
|Oldest nominee
|[[Clint Eastwood]]
|''[[American Sniper]]''
|84 years, 229 days
|-
|Youngest winner
| rowspan="2" |[[Carl Laemmle Jr.]]
| rowspan="2" |''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]''
|22 years, 191 days
|-
|Youngest nominee
|22 years, 144 days
|}

==Individuals with multiple wins==
{{col-begin}}
{{col-break}}
;3 wins<ref name="facts" />
* [[Sam Spiegel]] 
* [[Saul Zaentz]]

{{col-break}}

;2 wins<ref name="facts" />
* [[Clint Eastwood]]
* [[Arthur Freed]]
* [[Dede Gardner]]
* [[Jeremy Kleiner]]
* [[Branko Lustig]]
* [[Albert S. Ruddy]]
* [[Robert Wise]]
{{col-end}}

==Individuals with multiple nominations==

{{col-begin}}
{{col-break}}

;13 nominations<ref name="facts">{{cite web|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/Help/Statistics?file=Pic-Facts.pdf|title=BEST PICTURE FACTS: MOST NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS|access-date=January 13, 2020|publisher=oscars.org|archive-date=April 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425112515/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/Help/Statistics?file=Pic-Facts.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tapp |first=Tom |date=February 8, 2022 |title=Steven Spielberg Receives Record 11th Producing Nomination & 8th Directing Nomination For 'West Side Story' |url=https://deadline.com/2022/02/best-director-oscar-steven-spielberg-eight-times-1234928428/ |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |access-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-date=March 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307112402/https://deadline.com/2022/02/best-director-oscar-steven-spielberg-eight-times-1234928428/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Steven Spielberg]]

;9 nominations<ref name="facts" />
* [[Scott Rudin]]

;8 nominations<ref name="facts" />
* [[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]]
* [[Dede Gardner]]

;7 nominations<ref name="facts" />
* [[Eric Fellner]]
* [[Jeremy Kleiner]]

;6 nominations<ref name="facts" />
* [[Tim Bevan]]
* [[Stanley Kramer]]

;5 nominations<ref name="facts" />
* [[Bradley Cooper]]
* [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
* [[Clint Eastwood]]
* [[Frank Marshall (filmmaker)|Frank Marshall]]
* [[Kristie Macosko Krieger]]

;4 nominations<ref name="facts" />
* [[Warren Beatty]]
* [[James L. Brooks]]
* [[David Brown (producer)|David Brown]]
* [[Coen brothers|Ethan Coen]]
* [[Megan Ellison]]
* [[Donna Gigliotti]]
* [[Peter Jackson]]
* [[Norman Jewison]]
* [[Graham King]]
* [[Marc Platt (producer)|Marc Platt]]
* [[Sydney Pollack]]
* [[David Puttnam]]
* [[Martin Scorsese]]
* [[Sam Spiegel]] 
* [[George Stevens]] 
* [[Irwin Winkler]]

{{col-break}}

;3 nominations
* [[Paul Thomas Anderson]]
* [[Lawrence Bender]]
* [[Jason Blum]]
* [[James Cameron]]
* [[Iain Canning]]
* [[Ceán Chaffin]]
* [[Robert Chartoff]]
* [[Coen brothers|Joel Coen]]
* [[Bruce Cohen]]
* [[Christian Colson]]
* [[Michael De Luca]]
* [[Steve Golin]]
* [[Alejandro González Iñárritu]]
* [[Brian Grazer]]
* [[Ed Guiney]]
* [[David Heyman]]
* [[Mark Johnson (producer)|Mark Johnson]]
* [[Stanley Kubrick]]
* [[Jon Landau (film producer)|Jon Landau]]
* [[Robert Lorenz]]
* [[Daniel Lupi]]
* [[Ismail Merchant]]
* [[Christopher Nolan]]
* [[Barrie M. Osborne]]
* Patrick J. Palmer
* [[Mary Parent]]
* [[Brad Pitt]]
* [[Emile Sherman]]
* [[Emma Thomas]]
* [[Emma Tillinger Koskoff]]
* [[Hal B. Wallis]]
* [[Fran Walsh]]
* [[Robert Wise]]
* [[Saul Zaentz]]
* [[Richard D. Zanuck]]

{{col-break}}

;2 nominations
* [[Buddy Adler]]
* [[Robert Altman]]
* [[Fred Berger (producer)|Fred Berger]]
* [[Kathryn Bigelow]]
* [[Mark Boal]]
* [[John Boorman]]
* [[Cale Boyter]]
* [[John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne|John Brabourne]]
* [[Robbie Brenner]]
* [[Graham Broadbent]]
* [[Lisa Bruce]]
* [[Dana Brunetti]]
* [[Jim Burke (film producer)|Jim Burke]]
* [[Peter Chernin]]
* [[Alfonso Cuarón]]
* [[Peter Czernin]]
* [[J. Miles Dale]]
* [[Guillermo del Toro]]
* [[Cecil B. DeMille]]
* [[Finola Dwyer]] 
* [[Todd Field]]
* [[John Foreman (producer)|John Foreman]]
* [[Gray Frederickson]]
* [[Arthur Freed]]
* [[Richard N. Gladstein]]
* Jonathan Gordon
* [[Jerome Hellman]]
* [[Grant Heslov]]
* [[Grant Hill (producer)|Grant Hill]]
* [[Ron Howard]]
* [[Stanley R. Jaffe]]
* Dan Janvey
* [[Dan Jinks]]
* [[Ross Katz]]
* [[A. Kitman Ho]]
* [[Arnold Kopelson]]
* [[Gary Kurtz]]
* [[Yorgos Lanthimos]]
* [[Ang Lee]]
* [[Ernest Lehman]]
* [[Baz Luhrmann]]
* [[Branko Lustig]]
* [[Michael Mann]]
* [[Anthony McCarten]]
* [[Frank McCarthy (producer)|Frank McCarthy]]
* [[Martin McDonagh]]
* [[Frances McDormand]]
* [[Adam McKay]]
* [[Barry Mendel]]
* [[Kevin Messick]]
* [[Arnon Milchan]]
* [[George Miller (filmmaker)|George Miller]]
* [[Doug Mitchell (film producer)|Doug Mitchell]]
* Gil Netter
* [[David Parfitt]]
* [[Amy Pascal]]
* [[Jordan Peele]]
* [[Julia Phillips]]
* [[Michael Phillips (producer)|Michael Phillips]]
* [[Amanda Posey]]
* [[Sean McKittrick]]
* [[Fred Roos]]
* [[Charles Roven]]
* [[Albert S. Ruddy]]
* [[Tracey Seaward]]
* [[Ronald L. Schwary]]
* [[JoAnne Sellar]]
* [[Michael Shamberg]]
* [[Stacey Sher]]
* [[Bernard Smith (editor)|Bernard Smith]]
* [[Peter Spears]]
* [[Ray Stark]]
* [[Oliver Stone]]
* [[Jenno Topping]]
* [[Douglas Urbanski]]
* [[Denis Villeneuve]]
* [[Jerry Wald]]
* [[Jack L. Warner]]
* [[Harvey Weinstein]]
* [[Douglas Wick]]
* [[John and James Woolf|James Woolf]]
* [[John and James Woolf|John Woolf]]
* [[William Wyler]]
* [[Peter Yates]]
* [[Sam Zimbalist]]
* [[Fred Zinnemann]]
* [[Edward Zwick]]

{{col-end}}

==Production companies and distributors with multiple nominations and wins==

Columbia Pictures and United Artists have the most wins with 12, while 20th Century Fox has the most nominations with 64.

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! scope="col" | Production company/distributor
! scope="col" | Nominations
! scope="col" | Wins
|-
|[[Columbia Pictures]]
| 56
| 12
|-
|[[United Artists]]
| 48
| 12
|-
|[[Paramount Pictures]]
| 22
| 11
|- 
| [[Universal Pictures]]
| 37
| 10
|-
|[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]
| 40
| 9
|- 
|[[Warner Bros. Pictures]]
| 28
| 9
|-
|[[20th Century Studios|20th Century Fox]]
| 64
| 8
|-
|[[Searchlight Pictures|Fox Searchlight Pictures]]
|23
|5
|-
|[[Miramax|Miramax Films]]
|21
|4
|-
|[[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]]
|15
|4
|-
|[[Orion Pictures]]
|9
|4
|- 
|[[Plan B Entertainment]]
| 9
| 3
|-
|[[Regency Enterprises]]
|8
|2
|-
| [[A24]]
| 8
| 2
|- 
|[[The Weinstein Company]]
|6
|2
|- 
|[[Selznick International Pictures]]
| 5
| 2
|- 
|[[Neon (company)|Neon]]
|4
|2
|-
|[[RKO Pictures]]
| 11
| 1
|-
|[[Samuel Goldwyn Productions]]
| 8
| 1
|-
| [[Lionsgate Films]]
|5
|1
|-
|[[Apple TV+]]
|2
|1<ref>{{cite news |url=https://sonycine.com/articles/shot-on-venice-apple-tv-s-coda-wins-academy-award-for-best-picture/ |title=Shot on VENICE: Apple TV's CODA Wins Academy Award for Best Picture |date=28 March 2022 |access-date=13 January 2025 |work=Sony Cine}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wired.com/story/oscars-streaming-services/ |title=Apple TV+ Just Won Best Picture. Everything Is Different Now |date=27 March 2022 |access-date=13 January 2025 |work=[[Wired.com]] |archive-date=January 8, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250108183703/https://www.wired.com/story/oscars-streaming-services/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|- 
| [[Two Cities Films|J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films]]
| 3
| 1
|- 
|[[New Line Cinema]]
| 3
| 1
|-
|[[Frances McDormand|Hear/Say Productions]]
|2
|1
|-
|[[Summit Entertainment]]
|2
|1
|-
|[[Focus Features]]
|19
|0
|-
|[[Netflix]]
| 10<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-movies-nominated-for-best-picture-oscar-list-2022-2 |title=8 Netflix movies have been nominated for the best picture Oscar since the streamer broke into the race in 2018 |first=Travis |last=Clark |date=29 January 2023 |access-date=13 January 2025 |work=[[Business Insider]] |archive-date=January 9, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250109205813/https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-movies-nominated-for-best-picture-oscar-list-2022-2 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://screenrant.com/netflix-movies-oscars-best-picture-nominees-ranked/ |title=Netflix's 9 Best Picture Oscar Nominated Movies, Ranked Worst To Best |first=Ben |last=Protheroe |date=16 February 2024 |access-date=13 January 2025 |work=[[Screen Rant]] |archive-date=February 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240225145557/https://screenrant.com/netflix-movies-oscars-best-picture-nominees-ranked/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| 0
|-
|[[Sony Pictures Classics]]
| 9
| 0
|-
|[[Touchstone Pictures]]
|6
|0
|- 
|[[Annapurna Pictures]]
|5
|0
|-
|[[Walt Disney Pictures]]
|4
|0
|-
| [[Cosmopolitan Productions]] 
| 3
| 0
|- 
|[[Amazon MGM Studios]]
| 3
| 0
|-
|[[Pixar|Pixar Animation Studios]]
| 2
| 0
|-
|[[Hollywood Pictures]]
|2
|0
|- 
| [[Howard Hughes|The Caddo Company]]
| 2
| 0
|- 
| [[Walter Wanger|Walter Wanger Productions]]
| 2
| 0
|- 
| [[Mercury Theatre|Mercury]]
| 2
| 0
|}

==See also==
{{div-col}}
* [[Academy Aperture 2025]]
* [[BAFTA Award for Best Film]]
* [[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture]]
* [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
* [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
* [[Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture]]
* [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Film]]
* [[Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture]]
* [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture]]
* [[List of presenters of the Academy Award for Best Picture]]
* [[List of Academy Award–nominated films]]
* [[List of Academy Award–winning films]]
* [[List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees]]
* [[List of film production companies]]
* [[List of films considered the best]]
* [[Lists of films]]
* [[List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees]]
{{div-col-end}}

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==External links==
* [http://www.oscars.org/ Oscars.org] (official Academy site)
* [http://www.oscar.com/ Oscar.com] (official ceremony site)
* [http://www.oscars.org/oscars/awards-databases-0 The Academy Awards Database] (official site)

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