Academy Award for Best Picture
| Academy Award for Best Picture | |
| Awarded for | Best Motion Picture of the Year |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
| Country | United States |
| First awarded | 1929 (for films released in 1927/1928) |
| First winner | Wings (1927) |
| Currently held by | Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
| Official website | |
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The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible not only to vote on the final ballot, but also to nominate. During the annual Academy Awards ceremony, Best Picture is reserved as the final award presented and, since 1951, is collected at the podium by the film's producers. The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is considered the most important of the Academy Awards, as it is the final result of the collaborative producing, directing, acting, and writing efforts put forth for a film. The Grand Staircase columns at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award's inception 80 years ago. On June 24, 2009 it was announced that the Best Picture nominees would be raised from 5 selected films to 10 selected nominees for the award, starting with the 2010 Academy Award Ceremony.[1]
History
At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there was no Best Picture award. Instead, there were two separate awards, one called Most Outstanding Production, won by the epic Wings, and one called Most Artistic Quality of Production, won by the art film Sunrise. The awards were intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking, and in fact the judges and the studio bosses who sought to influence their decisions paid more attention to the latter - MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who had disliked the realism of King Vidor's The Crowd, pressured the judges not to honor his own studio's film, and to select Sunrise instead. The next year, the Academy instituted a single award called Best Production, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings had been the equivalent of that award, with the result that Wings is often listed as the winner of a sole Best Picture award for the first year. The title of the award was eventually changed to Best Picture for the 1931 awards.
Since 1944, the Academy has restricted nominations to five Best Picture nominees per year. As of the 81st Academy Awards ceremony (for 2008), there have been 464 films nominated for the Best Picture award. Throughout the past 81 years, AMPAS has presented a total of 81 Best Picture awards. Invariably, the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 81 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 59 have also been awarded Best Director.[1] Only three films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated (though only one since the early 1930s): Wings (1927/28), Grand Hotel (1931/32), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). The only two Best Director winners to win for films which did not receive a Best Picture nomination are likewise in the early years: Lewis Milestone (1927/28) and Frank Lloyd (1928/29).
However, beginning in 2010, The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will double the number of Best Picture nominees from five to ten. The expansion is a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and '40s, when anywhere between eight and 12 films were shortlisted (or longlisted). "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize," AMPAS President Sid Ganis said in a press conference. "I can't wait to see what that list of 10 looks like when the nominees are announced in February." .[1]
One point of contention is the lack of consideration of non-English language films for categories other than Best Foreign Language Film. Very few foreign language films have been nominated for any other categories, regardless of artistic merit. To date, only eight foreign language films (and three partly foreign language films) have been nominated for Best Picture: Grand Illusion (French, 1938); Z (French, 1969); The Emigrants (Swedish, 1972); Cries and Whispers (Swedish, 1973); Il Postino (Italian/Spanish, 1995); Life Is Beautiful (Italian, 1998); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Mandarin Chinese, 2000); and Letters from Iwo Jima (Japanese, 2006), which was ineligible for the Best Foreign Language Oscar because it was an American production. The only partly foreign language films to win Best Picture are The Godfather Part II (English/Sicilian, 1974), The Last Emperor (English/Mandarin, 1987) and Slumdog Millionaire (English/Hindi, 2008).
Another point of contention is the recent extreme bias toward 2-plus hour films: Chicago (2002, 112m) is the shortest film to win Best Picture in the past 20 years. It has been criticized for ignoring films that were huge commercial and critical successes such as The Dark Knight and WALL-E. Furthermore, of animated films only Beauty and the Beast and Up have been nominated for the award, and only one comedy (Shakespeare in Love, 1998) has won in the last 30 years.
To date, ten films exclusively financed outside the United States have won Best Picture; all ten were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom. Those films were, in chronological order: Hamlet, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, Oliver!, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, The Last Emperor, and Slumdog Millionaire.
No Best Picture winner is lost, though a few such as All Quiet on the Western Front and Lawrence of Arabia exist only in a form altered from their original, award-winning release form, usually having been edited for reissue (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees such as Tom Jones and Star Wars are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. The 1928 film The Patriot is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost; The Racket was believed lost for many years but a print existed in producer Howard Hughes' archives and it has since been shown on Turner Classic Movies. Wings and Sunrise were the only silent winners of a Best Picture-equivalent award, although a part-silent version of All Quiet on the Western Front was created for foreign-language release and survives.
Winners and nominees
In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Except for the early years (when the Academy used a non-calendar year), the year shown is the one in which the film first premiered in 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 and, if the film-festival premiere is considered, Crash). This is the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited theatrically during 2005 was eligible for consideration for the 2005 Best Picture Oscar, awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article (if any) on that ceremony. Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. For foreign language films, the original title is also shown. Until 1950, the Best Picture award was given to the production company; from 1951 on, it has gone to the producer. The official name of the award has changed several times over the years:
- 1927/28 → 1928/29: Outstanding Picture
- 1929/30 → 1940: Outstanding Production
- 1941 → 1943: Outstanding Motion Picture
- 1944 → 1961: Best Motion Picture
- 1962 → Present: Best Picture
Notes
- A : The official name of the award for 1927-1928 and 1928-1929 called Outstanding Picture
- B : The official name of the award from 1929-1930 to 1940 called Outstanding Production
- C : The official name of the award from 1941 to 1943 called Outstanding Motion Picture
- D : The official name of the award from 1944 to 1961 called Best Motion Picture
- E : The official name of the award from 1962 called Best Picture
- F : There were two categories for "Outstanding Picture" with the other being Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Production where the winner was Sunrise (production company: Fox; producer: William Fox). This category was dropped immediately after the first year of the Academy Award.[6]
- G1 2 3 4 5 : Head of studio
- H1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that A Farewell to Arms came in second, and Little Women third.
- I1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that The Barretts of Wimpole Street came in second, and The House of Rothschild third.
- J1 2 3 : The Academy also announced that The Informer came in second, and Captain Blood third.
- K1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 : Nominated motion picture with non-English dialogue track (AMPAS: foreign language film).[3] Three of which, Z, Life is Beautiful and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[7]
- L : Production company with the most nominations (38) and the most awards (5). Applying only from 1927-1928 to 1950.[4]
- M : Person with the most nominations (6 nominations, 0 awards). Applying only from 1951 to 2008.[4]
- N : Person with the most awards (3 awards, Spiegel 4 nominations, Zaentz 3 nominations). Applying only from 1951 to 2008.[4]
- O1 2 3 : Winner with partly non-English dialogue track (AMPAS: foreign language).[2]
Milestones
Superlatives
Before 1951, the award was for the studio or studios which produced the film. Since then, the award has been to the individual producers credited on the film. Note also that until 1943, there were ten rather than five nominated films per year. As of 2009, there are ten nominated films, once again. The first year in which multiple individuals jointly won was 1973, with three winners for The Sting. The most joint winners was five, for Shakespeare in Love in 1998. After this the Academy imposed a limit of three nominated producers per film; however this may be exceeded in "a rare and extraordinary circumstance", such as in 2008 when Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among four nominees for The Reader.[11]
| Annual | Year | Film | Awards | Noms | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1927-28 | Wings | 2 | 2 | Winner of the first Academy award for Best Picture |
| 1st | 1927-28 | Wings | 2 | 2 | First (and only) silent film to win Best Picture |
| 2nd | 1928-29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First sound film to win Best Picture |
| 2nd | 1928-29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First musical to win Best Picture |
| 2nd | 1928-29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First film to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards |
| 2nd | 1928-29 | The Broadway Melody | 1 | 3 | First winner for Best Picture to receive an acting nomination |
| 3rd | 1929-30 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 2 | 2 | First talkie war film to win Academy Awards |
| 4th | 1930-31 | Cimarron | 3 | 7 | First film to be nominated for every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 4th | 1930-31 | Cimarron | 3 | 7 | First Western to win Best Picture |
| 4th | 1930-31 | Skippy | 1 | 4 | First (and only) film based on a comic book, comic strip, or graphic novel to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 5th | 1931-32 | Grand Hotel | 1 | 1 | First (and only) film to win Best Picture without receiving any other nominations |
| 6th | 1932-33 | She Done Him Wrong | 0 | 1 | Shortest film to be nominated for Best Picture (1 hour 6 minutes) |
| 6th | 1932-33 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1 | 2 | First foreign film to be nominated for Best Picture and to win any Academy Award (British) |
| 7th | 1934 | It Happened One Night | 5 | 5 | First of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 7th | 1934 | It Happened One Night | 5 | 5 | First Best Picture nominee to win both Best Actor and Best Actress |
| 7th | 1934 | It Happened One Night | 5 | 5 | First comedy to win Best Picture |
| 8th | 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1 | 8 | First remake to win Best Picture |
| 8th | 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1 | 8 | Only film to have three performers nominated in the Best Actor category |
| 8th | 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1 | 8 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards |
| 8th | 1935 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 2* | 3 | First Shakespeare adaptation to be nominated for Best Picture (*one of its two Oscars was a write-in winner) |
| 10th | 1937 | A Star Is Born | 1 | 7 | First all-color film nominated for Best Picture |
| 10th | 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola | 3 | 10 | First biographical picture (biopic) to win Best Picture |
| 11th | 1938 | Grand Illusion | 0 | 1 | First foreign language film to be nominated for Best Picture (French) |
| 11th | 1938 | You Can't Take It With You | 2 | 7 | First of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted for the screen from plays which won the Pulitzer Prize |
| 12th | 1939 | The Wizard of Oz | 2 | 6 | First children's film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 12th | 1939 | Gone with the Wind | 8 | 13 | Longest film to win Best Picture (3 hours 54 minutes) |
| 12th | 1939 | Gone with the Wind | 8 | 13 | First all-color film to win Best Picture |
| 13th | 1940 | Rebecca | 2 | 11 | First thriller to win Best Picture |
| 15th | 1942 | Mrs. Miniver | 6 | 12 | First Best Picture nominee to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories |
| 16th | 1943 | The Ox-Bow Incident | 0 | 1 | Last film to date to be nominated for Best Picture and no other award |
| 18th | 1945 | The Bells of St. Mary's | 1 | 8 | First sequel to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 18th | 1945 | The Lost Weekend | 4 | 7 | Only film to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix du Festival International du Film |
| 21st | 1948 | Hamlet | 4 | 7 | First foreign film to win Best Picture (British) |
| 23rd | 1950 | All About Eve | 6 | 14 | First of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture |
| 26th | 1953 | From Here to Eternity | 8 | 13 | Last Best Picture winner to date to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories |
| 26th | 1953 | The Robe | 2 | 5 | First motion picture (and Best Picture nominee) in CinemaScope |
| 28th | 1955 | Marty | 4 | 8 | Only film to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or |
| 28th | 1955 | Marty | 4 | 8 | Shortest film to win Best Picture (1 hour 31 minutes) |
| 28th | 1955 | Marty | 4 | 8 | First (and only) film based on a television movie or mini-series to win Best Picture |
| 29th | 1956 | Around the World in Eighty Days | 5 | 8 | First film to win Best Picture in a year when all nominees were filmed in color |
| 30th | 1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 7 | 8 | Won the Best Film in the BAFTA, Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Circle Award |
| 32nd | 1959 | Ben-Hur | 11 | 12 | First of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture |
| 33rd | 1960 | The Apartment | 5 | 10 | Last black-and-white film before 1993 (and last entirely in B&W) to win Best Picture |
| 34th | 1961 | West Side Story | 10 | 11 | First of only two Best Picture winners to have more than one credited director (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise) |
| 34th | 1961 | West Side Story | 10 | 11 | Most Oscar-winning musical (10 wins) |
| 35th | 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | 7 | 10 | Only Best Picture winner to have credited roles for actors of only one gender |
| 39th | 1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 5 | 13 | First (and only) Best Picture nominee to be nominated for every award category in which it was eligible |
| 40th | 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | 5 | 7 | First (and only) mystery to win Best Picture |
| 41st | 1968 | Oliver! | 6 | 11 | First film with an MPAA rating to win Best Picture |
| 41st | 1968 | Oliver! | 6 | 11 | First (and only) G-rated film to date to win Best Picture |
| 42nd | 1969 | Midnight Cowboy | 3 | 7 | First (and only) X-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 43rd | 1970 | Patton | 7 | 10 | First PG-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 44th | 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 4 | Last X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 44th | 1971 | The French Connection | 5 | 8 | First R-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 45th | 1972 | Cabaret | 8 | 10 | Best Picture nominee to win the most Academy Awards (8) without winning Best Picture |
| 46th | 1973 | The Exorcist | 2 | 10 | First horror film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 47th | 1974 | The Godfather Part II | 6 | 11 | First sequel to win Best Picture. |
| 48th | 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 5 | 9 | Second of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 49th | 1976 | Rocky | 3 | 10 | First sports film to win Best Picture |
| 50th | 1977 | Star Wars | 6 | 10 | First Science fiction film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 50th | 1977 | The Turning Point | 0 | 11 | First of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11 nominations without winning any Academy Awards |
| 53rd | 1980 | Ordinary People | 4 | 6 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without a Best Film Editing nomination. |
| 54th | 1981 | Reds | 3 | 12 | Last Best Picture nominee to date to receive nominations in all four of the acting categories |
| 58th | 1985 | The Color Purple | 0 | 11 | Second of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11 nominations without winning any Academy Awards |
| 58th | 1985 | The Color Purple | 0 | 11 | First PG-13-rated to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 58th | 1985 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1 | 4 | First Independent film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 59th | 1986 | Children of a Lesser God | 1 | 5 | First film directed by a woman (Randa Haines) to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 60th | 1987 | The Last Emperor | 9 | 9 | First PG-13-rated film to win Best Picture |
| 61st | 1988 | Rain Man | 4 | 8 | First (and only) film to win Berlin Golden Bear and Best Picture |
| 62nd | 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | 4 | 9 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director |
| 62nd | 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | 4 | 9 | Second of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted for the screen from plays having won the Pulitzer Prize |
| 62nd | 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | 4 | 9 | Last Best Picture winner to date with a PG rating (or lower) |
| 63rd | 1990 | The Godfather Part III | 0 | 7 | First of only two trilogies to have all three films nominated for Best Picture |
| 64th | 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | 2 | 6 | First animated film to to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 64th | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | 5 | 7 | Third of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 64th | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | 5 | 7 | Last Best Picture winner to date to win both Best Actor and Best Actress |
| 64th | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | 5 | 7 | First horror film to win Best Picture |
| 64th | 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | 5 | 7 | First sequel to win Best Picture without one of its predecessor (Manhunter) also having won or been nominated for Best Picture |
| 66th | 1993 | Schindler's List | 7 | 12 | First (and only) black-and-white film after 1960 to win Best Picture (though with some color sequences) |
| 66th | 1993 | The Fugitive | 1 | 7 | First (and only) film based on a television series to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 67th | 1994 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | 0 | 2 | First (and only) film to be nominated for Best Picture and only one other award after the switch to five nominees in 1944 |
| 70th | 1997 | As Good As It Gets | 2 | 7 | Last Best Picture nominee to date to win both Best Actor and Best Actress |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | Second of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | Second of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | First Best Picture winner to be produced, directed, written, and edited by the same person (James Cameron) |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | First Best Picture winner to gross over US$1,000,000,000, worldwide.[8] |
| 70th | 1997 | Titanic | 11 | 14 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without a screenplay nomination (Adapted or Original) |
| 71st | 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | 7 | 13 | Last comedy to date to win Best Picture |
| 71st | 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | 7 | 13 | Most Oscars without a Best Director win |
| 73rd | 2000 | Traffic | 4 | 5 | Last Best Picture nominee to date to have been based on a television movie or mini-series |
| 73rd | 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 4 | 10 | First (and only) martial arts film to date to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 73rd | 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 4 | 10 | Foreign language film nominated for Best Picture to date with the most number of Academy Award nominations |
| 74th | 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | 4 | 8 | Last biopic to date to win Best Picture |
| 75th | 2002 | Chicago | 6 | 13 | Last musical to date to win Best Picture |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | Second of only two trilogies to have all three films nominated for Best Picture |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | Third of only three films to date to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | Last film to date to win Best Picture and all of its other nominated categories |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | First (and only) film to win more than 10 awards and not receive an acting nomination |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | Last (and only) film to date with ten or more nominations (11) to win in every nomination it received including Best Picture |
| 76th | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 11 | 11 | First (and only) fantasy film to date to win Best Picture |
| 77th | 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | 4 | 7 | Last film to date to be nominated for every major Academy Award, including Best Picture |
| 77th | 2004 | The Aviator | 5 | 11 | Last film to date to win the most Academy Awards (5) in its year without winning Best Picture |
| 78th | 2005 | Crash | 3 | 6 | First (and only) film festival acquisition to win Best Picture |
| 78th | 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | 0 | 6 | Last black-and-white film to date to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 79th | 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 1 | 4 | Last foreign language film to date to be nominated for Best Picture (Japanese) |
| 79th | 2006 | The Departed | 4 | 5 | First (and only) remake of a foreign film to win Best Picture |
| 80th | 2007 | No Country for Old Men | 4 | 8 | Last western to date to win Best Picture |
| 80th | 2007 | No Country for Old Men | 4 | 8 | Last Best Picture winner to date to have more than one credited director (Joel and Ethan Coen) |
| 80th | 2007 | No Country for Old Men | 4 | 8 | First (and only) film of the 2000s decade to gross under $2 million in its opening weekend to win Best Picture |
| 81st | 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | 8 | 10 | Last film to date to win Best Picture without receiving any acting nominations |
| 81st | 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | 8 | 10 | Tied with Gandhi as Best Picture winner with second most Oscars for a British production (behind The English Patient) and second most Oscars for a non-American production (behind The Last Emperor).[9] |
| 81st | 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | 8 | 10 | Second film since Schindler's List (1993) to win Best Picture, Director and Screenplay at the Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Oscars.[10] |
| 82nd | 2009 | Up | TBA | 5 | First computer animated film and second animated film to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 82nd | 2009 | Up | TBA | 5 | Last family film to date to be nominated for Best Picture |
| 82nd | 2009 | District 9 | TBA | 4 | First Mockumentary to be nominated for Best Picture |
| Category | Number | Producer |
|---|---|---|
| Most nominations, pre-1951, company | 41 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Most wins, pre-1951, company | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Most nominations, pre-1951, person | 16 | Hal B. Wallis |
| Most wins, pre-1951, person | 3 | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Most nominations, post-1951, person | 6 | Kathleen Kennedy, Stanley Kramer, Steven Spielberg |
| Most wins, post-1951, person | 3 | Sam Spiegel, Saul Zaentz |
| Most nominations, overall, person | 19 | Hal B. Wallis |
| Most wins, overall, person | 3 | Sam Spiegel, Saul Zaentz, Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Category | Film | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Longest Winner | Gone with the Wind | 3 hours 54 minutes |
| Longest Nominee | Cleopatra | 4 hours 2 minutes |
| Shortest Winner | Marty | 1 hour 31 minutes |
| Shortest Nominee | She Done Him Wrong | 1 hour 6 minutes |
See also
- List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
- List of Academy Award-winning films
- List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
- Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Production
- BAFTA Award for Best Film
- Films considered the greatest ever
- Lists of films
- List of film directors by name
- List of film production companies
- List of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
References
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- ^ a b c d e f "Best Pictures - Facts & Trivia (part 2)". Filmsite.org. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Oscar Trivia". Oscars.org. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ a b c d e "Academy Awards Statistics". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ "Could a toon nab a best picture nomination?". Variety. 2008-11-14. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
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- ^ Variety Staff (2007-03-01). "Best Foreign Film". Variety. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
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- ^ "FILMS WITH 10 OR MORE NOMINATIONS". Academy Award Database. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
- ^ "Trivia for Slumdog Millionaire (2008)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
- ^ Siegel, Tatiana (27 January 2009). "Acad allows 'Reader' 4 producers; Minghella, Pollack to be named as nominees". Variety. Reed Business. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
- The Academy Awards Database (official site; in "Award Category" box, select "Best Picture")
External links
- Oscars.org (official Academy site)
- Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional site)
- The Academy Awards Database (official site)
- Academy Awards Photos and News(People.com)
- Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
- IMDb.com (Internet Movie Database site)
- Link to DVD list of all Best Picture Winners
- Complete list of Academy Award winners by year (1928-present) and by merit
