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80 Years of Oscars - Best Picture and Director
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Best Director winners, Youngest and Oldest, Foreign Language Films nominated for Best Picture, Directors nominated for foreign lanuage films, Directed two Best Picture nominees in the same year, Two-nominated directors for a movie, Women-directors, Actors and Actresses in Best Picture winners, Does the most nominated movie win?, Most nominations, Best Picture winners with the least Oscars, Best Picture nominees with the least nominations, Movies with the most nominations and no Oscars, When Best Picture and Best Director winners didn't match, All Best Picture winners and more.
The top award at the Academy Awards is Best Picture. The award for the Best Picture winner goes to the producer. Some movies have over ten listed producers. The Academy limits the number to four people. In the first Academy Award ceremony Sunrise won for Unique and Artistic Picture, and Wings won Outstanding Picture (AKA Best Picture). 80 Best Picture movies were voted out of 459 nominated movies. There have been 207 nominated directors, 63 winners (including twice for co-directors). The best do not necessarily win. Not in life, not at the Oscars. Here are a few movies that didn't win Best Picture (but were nominated): Citizen Kane (1941), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Mary Poppins (1964), Star Wars (1977), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Movies that weren't nominated for a single Oscar: King Kong (1933), Duck Soup (1933), Queen Christina (1933), Modern Times (1936), Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), Sullivan's Travels (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), The Searchers (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Touch of Evil (1958), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Harold and Maude (1971), Badlands (1973), The Shining (1981), The Thing (1982), Scarface (1983), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). Here's a partial list of directors who never won an Oscar (*denotes an honorary Oscar): Alfred Hitchcock*, Robert Altman*, Stanley Kramer*, Otto Preminger, King Vidor, Howard Hawks*, Joshua Logan, Edward Dmytryk, Clarence Brown, Alan J. Pakula, Sidney Lumet, Arthur Penn, Herbert Ross, Ridley Scott, David Lynch, James Ivory, Peter Weir, Norman Jewison* and Kenneth Branagh. Stanley Kubrick won his only Oscar for the Visual Effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey. No movie he directed ever won Best Picture.Stanley Donen* was never nominated for an Oscar. A few other directors who have never been nominated for Best Director: Rob Reiner, Tim Burton, David Fincher, Spike Lee, Paul Mazursky, Frank Darabont, Terry Gilliam. And from those who didn't to those who did:
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| Willam Wyler |






Singleton Taurog Welles Mendes Huston Eastwood Polanski Oldest nominees: 79-year-old John Huston for Prizzi's Honor (1985), 78-years-old Charles Crichton for A Fish Called Wanda (1988). Oldest winners: 74-year-old Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby (2004), 69-year-old Roman Polanski for The Pianist (2002). Foreign Language Films nominated for Best Picture 1938 The Grand Illusion (France, there was no foreign language category back then) 1969 Z (won Foreign Language Film, France) 1972 The Emigrants (nominated in the Foreign Language category the previous year, Sweden) 1973 Cries and Whispers (Sweden; first of two foreign films nominated only in the Best Picture category) 1995 Il Postino (Italy submitted The Star Maker to the foreign language category, which was nominated) 1998 Life Is Beautiful (won Foreign Language Film, Italy) 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (won Foreign Language Film, Taiwan) Directors nominated for foreign language films A few directors were nominated a year after the film itself was nominated in the foreign language film category (the rules now forbid that). In any case, no director won for a foreign film. The Oscar for the foreign film category goes to the director. ![]() |
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| Bergman |
- William Wyler who was nominated 12 times as Director, directed 13 Best Picture nominees: Dodsworth (1936), Dead End (1937), Jezebel (1938), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Heiress (1949), Roman Holiday (1953), Friendly Persuasion (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), Funny Girl (1968). He wasn't nominated for directing Dead End, Jezebel and Funny Girl, and was nominated for Detective Story (1951) and The Collector (1965), which weren't nominated for Best Picture.
- Marvin LaRoy directed 8 Best Picture nominees, yet was nominated as director only once! Five Star Final (1932), I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1933), Anthony Adverse (1936), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Random Harvest (1942), Madame Curie (1943), Quo Vadis (1951), Mister Roberts (1955; took over for John Ford). He was only nominated for Random Harvest; he received a special award for the short The House I Live In (1945) and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial award in 1975.
- 5 men directed 7 Best Picture nominated movies: John Ford, David Lean, George Stevens, Henry King and Steven Spielberg, who's likely to move to second place in the future. (Henry King was nominated twice as director.)
Directed two Best Picture nominees in the same year 1933 Frank Borzage directed two of the ten Best Picture nominees: Smilin' Through and A Farewell to Arms. 1936 Jack Conway directed two of ten nominees: Libeled Lady and A Tale of Two Cities. 1938 Michael Curtiz's two of ten: Test Pilot and The Adventures of Robin Hood. 1939 Victor Fleming 2/10: The Wizard of Oz and winner Gone with the Wind. 1940 [1] Alfred Hitchcock: Foreign Correspondent and winner Rebecca. [2] John Ford: The Grapes of Wrath and The Long Voyage Home. (Won Best Director for Grapes.) [3] Sam Wood: Kitty Foyle and Our Town. Down to 5 nominated movies, which makes the achievement even more impressive 1974 Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation and winner The Godfather: Part II. (He won for Adapted Screenplay, producing and directing the latter, and was nominated for Original Screenplay and producing the former.) 1977 Herbert Ross: The Goodbye Girl and The Turning Point. He was nominated for directing and producing Point. 2000 Steven Soderbergh: Traffic and Erin Brockovich. He was nominated as director for both! and won for directing Traffic. Two-nominated directors for a movie 1960 Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins won for West Side Story (won Best Picture) 1978 Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (nominated for Best Picture) 2007 Joel and Ethan Coen won for No Country for Old Men (won Best Picture) Best Picture nominees directed by more than one director, which might explain why they weren't nominated None of them won Best Picture. 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream- William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt 1942 In Which We Serve- David Lean and Noel Coward 1948 The Red Shoes- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1955 Mister Roberts- John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 1962 The Longest Day- Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki 1963 How the West Was Won- John Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall 1974 The Towering Inferno- Irwing Allen and John Guillermin 1991 Beauty and the Beast (animated, and if that's a reason)- Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 2006 Little Miss Sunshine- Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton (they're married) Women-directors Only three women-directors were nominated in the Best Director category: 1975 Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties (nominated for Best Foreign Language Film) 1993 Jane Campion for The Piano (nominated for Best Picture) 2003 Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (nominated for Best Picture) All three were nominated for writing (Original Screenplay), the last two won. Lina is Italian, Jane is from New Zealand and Sofia is the daughter of multiple-Oscar-winner Francis Ford Coppola. Four movies directed by women were also nominated for Best Picture: 1986 Randa Haines for her directorial debut Children of a Lesser God 1990 Penny Marshall for Awakenings 1991 Barbra Streisand for The Prince of Tides, in which she also stars 2006 Valerie Faris for her directorial debut (with husband Jonathan Dayton) Little Miss Sunshine Multiple winning producers The award for the Best Picture winner goes to the producer. Sam Spiegel for On the Waterfront (1954), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962), the last two directed by David Lean. Saul Zaentz for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Amadeus (1984) and The English Patient (1996), the first two directed by Milos Forman.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Bridge on the River Kwai Arthur Freed for An American in Paris (1951) and Gigi (1958), both directed by Vincente Minnelli. Robert Wise for West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965), who also won for directing both. Branko Lustig for Schindler's List (1993) and Gladiator (2000). Albert S. Ruddy for The Godfather (1972) and Million Dollar Baby (2004) Clint Eastwood for Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), who also won for directing both. Women-producers * At least one actress was nominated in 11 out of the 12 nominated movies between 1976-1990:
1973 Julia Philips won for The Sting (with Michael Philips and Tony Bill) 1976 Julia Philips for Taxi Driver (with Michael Philips) 1979 Tamara Asseyev for Norma Rae (with Alex Rose) 1982 Mildred Lewis for Missing (with Edward Lewis) Kathleen Kennedy for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (with Steven Spielberg) 1984 Arlene Donovan for Places in the Heart 1985 Kathleen Kennedy for The Color Purple (with Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones and Frank Marshall) 1987 Sherry Lansing for Fatal Attraction (with Stanley R. Jaffe) 1988 Norma Heyman for Dangerous Liaisons (with Hank Moonjean) 1989 Lili Fini Zanuck for Driving Miss Daisy (with Richard D. Zanuck) 1990 Lisa Weinstein for Ghost 1991 Barbra Streisand for The Prince of Tides (with Andrew Karsch) 1993 Jan Chapman for The Piano 1994 Wendy Finerman won for Forrest Gump (with Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey) Niki Marvin for The Shawshank Redemption 1995 Lindsay Doran for Sense and Sensibility 1996 Jane Scott for Shine 1997 Bridget Johnson and Kristi Zea for As Good As It Gets (with James L. Brooks) 1998 Donna Gogliotti won for Shakespeare in Love (with Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman and David Parfitt) Alison Owen for Elizabeth (with Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan) Elda Ferri for Life Is Beautiful (with Gianluigi Braschi) 1999 Kathleen Kennedy for The Sixth Sense (with Frank Marshall and Barry Mendel) 2000 Leslie Holleran and Kit Golden for Chocolat (with David Brown) Stacey Sher for Erin Brockovich (with Danny DeVito and Michael Shamberg) Laura Bickford for Traffic (with Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz) 2001 Fran Walsh for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (with Peter Jackson and Barrie M. Osborne) 2002 Fran Walsh for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (with Peter Jackson and Barrie M. Osborne) 2003 Fran Walsh won for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (with Peter Jackson and Barrie M. Osborne) ![]() |
| Kathleen Kennedy |
- I believe women-producers is no longer an issue and we can stop counting.
- Clark Gable: It Happened One Night (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Donald Crisp: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Life of Emil Zola (1937) and How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- Jack Hawkins: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Ben-Hur (1959) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Hugh Griffiths: Ben-Hur (1959), Tom Jones (1963) and Oliver! (1968)
John Cazale: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974) and The Deer Hunter (1978). He died in 1978, appearing in just two other movies, which were also nominated for Best Picture: The Conversation (1974) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975).
- John Gielgud: Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Chariots of Fire (1981) and Gandhi (1982)
- Trevor Howard: Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Gandhi (1982)
- Dustin Hoffman: Midnight Cowboy (1968), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Rain Man (1988)
- Bernard Hill: Gandhi (1982), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- Morgan Freeman: Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- Jack Nicholson: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Terms of Endearment (1983) and The Departed (2006) [11 actors]
- Shirley MacLaine: Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Apartment (1960) and Terms of Endearment (1983).
- Talia Shire: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Rocky (1976).
- Diane Keaton: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Annie Hall (1977).
- Meryl Streep: The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Out of Africa (1985). [4 actresses]
Titanic (won 11, including Best Picture) All About Eve (6) 13 nominations (8 movies) Gone with the Wind (8), From Here to Eternity (8) Shakespeare in Love (7) Forrest Gump (6), Chicago (6) Mary Poppins (5), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (5) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (4) 12 nominations (13 movies)
Ben-Hur (11), did not win for Screenplay The English Patient (9) On the Waterfront (8), My Fair Lady (8) Dances with Wolves (7), Schindler's List (7) Mrs. Miniver (6) Gladiator (5) The Song of Bernadette (4), A Streetcar Named Desire (4) Reds (3) Johnny Belinda (1), Becket (1) 11 nominations (21 movies)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (11) West Side Story (10), did not win for screenplay Gandhi (8), Amadeus (8) Out of Africa (7) Oliver! (6), The Godfather: Part II (6) Terms of Endearment (5), Saving Private Ryan (5), The Aviator (5) Sunset Blvd. (3) Julia (3) Rebecca (2), Sergeant York (2), Judgment at Nuremberg (2), A Passage to India (2) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1), The Pride of the Yankees (1), Chinatown (1) The Turning Point, The Color Purple Movies with the most Oscars 11 Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). The first two didn't win for Screenplay (Titanic wasn't even nominated). Bernard Hill appears in Titanic and Rings, two of the three movies to gross over $1 billion world-wide. 10 West Side Story (1960) 9 Gigi (1958), The Last Emperor (1987), The English Patient (1996) The First two won all 9 nominations. Patient didn't win for screenplay. Most nominations without a Best Picture nomination 9 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), won one: Best Supporting Actor The Poseidon Adventure (1972), won two: Best Visual Effects and Song. 8 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), won two: Best Cinematography and Sound Effects Editing. Ragtime (1981). Dreamgirls (2006), won two: Best Supporting Actress and Sound Mixing. Most nominated movie in 2006. 7 Joan of Arc (1948), won two: Best Cinematography and Costume Design. Come to the Stable (1949). Pepe (1960). Hud (1963), won three: Best Actress, Supporting Actor and Cinematography. Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). Hawaii (1966). First Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967). Second Star! (1968). Third Victor/Victoria (1982), won one: Best Score. Fourth movie starring Julie Andrews! Aliens (1986), won two: Best Visual Effects and Sound Effects Editing. Dick Tracy (1990), won three: Best Art Direction, Makeup and Song. Bullets Over Broadway (1994), won one: Best Supporting Actress. Cold Mountain (2003), won one: Best Supporting Actress. Best Picture winners with the least Oscars
Since 1950, won Best Picture and- 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth: Best Director and Screenplay. 1969 Midnight Cowboy: Best Director and Adapted Screenplay. 1972 The Godfather: Best Actor and Adapted Screenplay. 1976 Rocky: Best Director and Editing. 2005 Crash: Best Original Screenplay and Editing. Best Picture nominees with the least nominations Since 1950, nominated for Best Picture and one additional award 1951 Decision Before Dawn: Editing. 1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral: Best Original Screenplay. Nominated for Best Picture and two additional awards 1950 The Father of the Bride: Best Actor and Screenplay. King Solomon's Mines: won both Best Editing and Cinematography. 1952 Ivanhoe: Best Cinematography and Score. 1954 Three Coins in the Fountain: won both Best Cinematography and Song. 1955 Mister Roberts: Best Sound and won Best Supporting Actor. 1957 Twelve Angry Men: Best Director and Adapted Screenplay.
1972 Dilverance: Best Director and Editing. 1974 The Conversation: Best Original Screenplay and Sound. 1978 An Unmarried Woman: Best Actress and Original Screenplay. 1983 The Big Chill: Best Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay. 1984 A Soldier's Story: Best Supporting Actor and Adapted Screenplay. 1989 Field of Dreams: Best Adapted Screenplay and Score. 1990 Awakenings: Best Actor and Adapted Screenplay. Last six were nominated for Screenplay. Movies with the most nominations and no Oscars The Turning Point (1977) and The Color Purple (1985) were both nominated for 11 Oscars, winning none. Point had two Best Actress nominees, Purple had two Supporting Actresses nominees. Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg, wasn't nominated for Best Director. Gangs of New York (2002) did not win any of its 10 nominations. And three movies were 0 for 9: The Little Foxes (1941), Peyton Place (1957) and The Sand Pebbles (1966). Movies with the most Oscar winners Movies with many Oscar winning actors, some won years after the movie's release.
Hamlet (1996) with 9 Oscar winners: Julie Christie, Kate Winslet, Robin Williams, Judi Dench, Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, John Gielgud, John Mills and Best Director winner Richard Attenborough. (And Kenneth Branagh, who's sure to win one day.) How the West Was Won (1963) has 7 Oscar winners and 10 Oscar nominees: James Stewart, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Walter Brennan, Karl Malden and narrator Spencer Tracy; Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Preston, Russ Tamblyn, Raymond Massey, Debbie Reynolds, Carroll Baker, Thelma Ritter, Agnes Moorehead, Carolyn Jones. A Bridge Too Far (1977) has 7 Oscar winners: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford (Oscar for direction) and Maximilian Schell. Special mention to The Player (1992). Aside from Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg and Sydney Pollack (Best Director winner), 10 appear as themselves: Cher, Susan Sarandon, Jack Lemmon, Anjelica Huston, Julia Roberts, Marlee Matlin, James Coburn, Louise Fletcher, Joel Grey and Rod Steiger. Movies with the most acting nominations
32 movies with four or more nominated actors. All of them were nominated for Best Picture, except Othello, I Rememeber Mama and My Man Godfrey.
- Five actors in all four categories (lead actor, lead actress, supporting actor, supporting actress)
- Five actors in three categories






- Four actors in all four categories
- Four actors in three categories
- Four actors in two categories
With five movies in the Best Picture category and five nominees in the Best Director category, there has a been complete correlation between the two categories on four occasions. Steven Spielberg was involved twice, and on the last two occasions the Best Picture winner didn't win Best Director. 1957 David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai), Sidney Lumet (Twelve Angry Men), Billy Wilder (Witness for the Prosecution), Joshua Logan (Sayonara) and Mark Robson (Peyton Place). 1964 George Cukor (My Fair Lady), Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins), Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), Peter Glenville (Becket) and Mihalis Kakogiannis (Zorba the Greek). 1981 Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire), Warren Beatty (Reds), Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) and Louis Malle (Atlantic City). 2005 Paul Haggis (Crash), Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain), Steven Spielberg (Munich), George Clooney (Good Night and Good Luck.) and Bennet Miller (Capote). Movies only nominated for Direction 1928 Speedy (Ted Wilde), Sorrel and Son (Herbert Brenon), Two Arabian Knights (won Lewis Milestone) 1929 Drag and Weary River (Frank Lloyd) ![]() |
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Best Picture winners- Musicals and Westerns Musicals (9 movies)
1929 The Broadway Melody 1944 Going My Way 1951 An American in Paris 1958 Gigi 1961 West Side Story 1964 My Fair Lady 1965 The Sound of Music 1968 Oliver! 2002 Chicago Westerns (3 movies) 1931 Cimarron 1990 Dances with Wolves 1992 Unforgiven When Best Picture and Best Director winners didn't match 2005 Crash directed by Paul Haggis won Best Picture. Ang Lee won Best Director for Brokeback Mountain which was expected to win Best Picture. 2002 Chicago directed by Rob Marshall won Best Picture. It was his film directorial debut. Roman Polanski won Best Director for The Pianist. While Chicago was expected to win Best Picture, Martin Scorsese was considered the favorite to win his first Oscar for Gangs of New York. 2000 Gladiator directed by Ridley Scott won Best Picture. Steven Soderbergh won Best Director for Traffic. He was also nominated for directing Erin Brockovich, first double nominee since Michael Curtiz in 1938 who came out empty-handed. 1998 Shakespeare in Love directed by John Madden won Best Picture. Steven Spielberg won his second Best Director award for Saving Private Ryan 1989 Driving Miss Daisy directed by Bruce Beresford won Best Picture. He wasn't nominated for direction Oliver Stone won Best Director for Born on the Fourth of July, four years after winning for Platoon. 1981 Chariots of Fire directed by Hugh Hudson won Best Picture. Warren Beatty won Best Director for the epic Reds. 1972 The Godfather directed by Francis Ford Coppola won Best Picture, Actor and Screenplay. Bob Fosse won Best Director for Cabaret which won 7 additional Oscars. Coppola was nominated two more times for Best Director in the 70s ('74, '79), on both occasions Fosse was up against him. 1967 In the Heat of the Night directed by Norman Jewison won Best Picture. Mike Nichols won Best Director for The Graduate, the movie's only Oscar. 1956 Around the World in 80 Days directed by Michael Anderson won Best Picture. George Stevens won his second Best Director award for Giant, the movie's only Oscar. 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth directed by Cecil B. DeMille won Best Picture. John Ford won his fourth Best Director award for The Quiet Man. 1951 An American in Paris directed by Vincent Minnelli won Best Picture. George Stevens won Best Director for A Place in the Sun. 1949 All the King's Men directed by Robert Rossen won Best Picture. Joseph L. Mankiewicz won Best Director for A Letter to Three Wives. 1948 Hamlet directed by Laurence Olivier won Best Picture. Olivier won Best Actor. John Huston won Best Director and Best Screenplay for The Treasure of Sierra Madre. 1940 Rebecca directed by Alfred Hitchcock won Best Picture. John Ford won his second Best Director award for The Grapes of Wrath. 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty directed by Frank Lloyd won Best Picture. John Ford won Best Director for The Informer. 1936 The Great Ziegfeld directed by Robert Z. Leonard won Best Picture. Frank Capra won his second Best Director award for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. 1937 The Life of Emil Zola directed by William Dieterle won Best Picture. Leo McCarey won for The Afwul Truth, the movie's only Oscar. 1932 Grand Hotel directed by Edmund Goulding won Best Picture. He wasn't nominated for Best Director Frank Borzage won his second Best Director award for Bad Girl 1931 Cimarron directed by Wesley Ruggles won Best Picture. Norman Taurog won Best Director for Skippy. 1929 The Broadway Melody directed by Harry Beaumont won Best Picture. Frank Lloyd won Best Director for The Divine Lady. 1928 Wings directed by William A. Wellman won Best Picture. He wasn't nominated for Best Director. Frank Borzage won Best Director (Drama) for Seventh Heaven and Lewis Milestone won Best Director (Comedy) for Two Arabian Knights. The only time there were separate categories (no comedy director has ever won since, I'm kidding, sort of). Two men who directed Best Picture winners and didn't win Best Director were later awarded an Oscar for Best Director: Vincente Minnelli won for a different musical, Gigi (1958) which won Best Picture; Francis Ford Coppola won for The Godfather: Part II (1974) which won Best Picture. All Best Picture winners 1928 Wings [director: Willam A. Wellman* (did not win Best Director)] 1929 The Broadway Melody [Harry Beaumont*]
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front [Lewis Milestone] 1931 Cimarron [Wesley Ruggles*] 1932 Grand Hotel [Edmund Goulding*] The only movie to win for its only nomination 1933 Cavalcade [Frank Lloyd] Spans 34 years (1899-1933), based on a Noel Coward play 1934 It Happened One Night [Frank Capra] The first movie to win Best Picture, director, actor, actress and screenplay 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty [Frank Lloyd*] The movie's only Oscar; starring Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Frenchot Tone; Other versions were made: 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris, and in 1984 The Bounty with Mel Gibson, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins, Daniel Day-Lewis and Liam Neeson 1936 The Great Ziegfeld [Robert Z. Leonard*] Biographical movie about Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway musical producer (played by William Powell here, and by Walter Pidegon in 1968's Best Picture nominee Funny Girl) 1937 The Life of Emil Zola [William Dieterle*] 1938 You Can't Take It With You [Frank Capra] 1939 Gone with the Wind [Victor Fleming] First color movie and at 226 minutes the longest one to win Best Picture 1940 Rebecca [Alfred Hitchcock*]
The only Alfred Hitchcock movie to win Best Picture 1941 How Green Was My Valley [John Ford] Only John Ford movie to win Best Picture, not a western 1942 Mrs. Miniver [William Wyler] 1943 Casablanca [Michael Curtiz] 1944 Going My Way [Leo McCarey] 1945 The Lost Weekend [Billy Wilder] 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives [William Wyler] 1947 Gentleman's Agreement [Elia Kazan] 1948 Hamlet [Laurence Olivier*] The only Shakespearean movie to win Best Picture
1949 All the King's Men [Robert Rossen*] 1950 All About Eve [Joseph L. Mankiewicz] First of only two movies with 14 nominations, including 5 for acting 1951 An American in Paris [Vincente Minnelli*] 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth [Cecil B. DeMille*] 1953 From Here to Eternity [Fred Zinnemann] 1954 On the Waterfront [Elia Kazan] 1955 Marty [Delbert Mann] 1956 Around the World in 80 Days [Michael Anderson*] 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai [David Lean] 1958 Gigi [Vincente Minnelli] 1959 Ben-Hur [William Wyler]
1960 The Apartment [Billy Wilder] Last movie entirely in black-and-white to win Best Picture 1961 West Side Story [Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins] First movie directed by two men to win 1962 Lawrence of Arabia [David Lean] Set in the Arab world, no speaking roles for women in the 3 1/2 hour movie 1963 Tom Jones [Tony Richardson] 1964 My Fair Lady [George Cukor] 1965 The Sound of Music [Robert Wise] 1966 A Man for All Seasons [Fred Zinnemann]
1967 In the Heat of the Night [Norman Jewison*] 1968 Oliver! [Carol Reed] Fourth musical to win in the 60's 1969 Midnight Cowboy [John Schlesinger] The only rated X movie to win Best Picture 1970 Patton [Franklin J. Schiffner] 1971 The French Connection [William Friedkin] The last action movie to win until The Departed; sequel made in 1975 1972 The Godfather [Francis Ford Coppola*] 1973 The Sting [George Roy Hill] The second and unfortunately last movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford 1974 The Godfather: Part II [Francis Ford Coppla] First sequel to win Best Picture; Part III was also nominated in 1990 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [Milos Forman] Second of three movies that won Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay 1976 Rocky [John G. Avildsen]
The first sports movie to win Best Picture; 5 sequels made 1977 Annie Hall [Woody Allen] Only Woody Allen to win Best Picture 1978 The Deer Hunter [Michael Cimino] Was up against another Vietnam-themed movie (Coming Home) 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer [Robert Benton] 1980 Ordinary People [Robert Redford] 1981 Chariots of Fire [Hugh Hudson*] 1982 Gandhi [Richard Attenborough] 1983 Terms of Endearment [James L. Brooks] Also won Best Director, Actress, Supporting Actor and Screenplay (5/11); first film of writer-director- producer James L. Brooks, whose Broadcast News (1987) and As Good As It Gets (1997) were both nominated for Best Picture, Actress, Actor, Supporting Actor, Screenplay and Editing 1984 Amadeus [Milos Forman]
Lost Best Editing and Cinematography to The Killing Fields 1985 Out of Africa [Sydney Pollack] 1986 Platoon [Oliver Stone] Stone was nominated in the Original Screenplay category for Platoon and Salvador 1987 The Last Emperor [Bernardo Bertolucci] No actors were nominated for the movie (if there were, they would have lost) 1988 Rain Man [Barry Levinson] 1989 Driving Miss Daisy [Bruce Beresford*] Wasn't nominated for Best Director; last to date based on a play 1990 Dances with Wolves [Kevin Costner] Epic directed by actor Kevin Costner 1991 The Silence of the Lambs [Jonathan Demme] Came out in March, not the end of the year! Prequels and sequel followed 1992 Unforgiven [Clint Eastwood] Third Western to win Best Picture, directed by actor Clint Eastwood 1993 Schindler's List [Steven Spielberg] In the Name of the Father, The Piano, The Fugitive and Remains of the Day had no chance 1994 Forrest Gump [Robert Zemeckis]
1995 Braveheart [Mel Gibson] War epic directed by actor Mel Gibson 1996 The English Patient [Anthony Minghella] 1997 Titanic [James Cameron] Highest grossing movie of all time; 3rd Best Picture in a row that didn't win for screenplay: it wasn't even nominated!; Second picture nominated for 14 awards, and the second to win 11; Cameron's following feature film will come in the end of 2009 1998 Shakespeare in Love [John Madden*] 1999 American Beauty [Sam Mendes] Directorial debut of theater director Sam Mendes, first screenplay by TV writer Alan Ball 2000 Gladiator [Ridley Scott*] First ancient Rome movie in decades, grossed $187 million in the US 2001 A Beautiful Mind [Ron Howard] Second movie in a row to star Russell Crowe, based on actual events 2002 Chicago [Rob Marshall*] First musical to win since 1968's Oliver! 2003 The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King [Peter Jackson] Third in the successful trilogy, third movie to win 11 Oscars, second movie in history to gross over $1 billion 2004 Million Dollar Baby [Clint Eastwood] 2005 Crash [Paul Haggis*] 2006 The Departed [Martin Scorsese] First remake of a foreign movie to win Best Picture 2007 No Country for Old Men [Joel and Ethan Coen] The Coen brothers won as producers, directors and writers, and were also nominated for editing|
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