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ACADEMY AWARDS BEST PICTURE* WINNERS (*originally known as Best Production) 1960 - Present Part 2 |
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Facts & Trivia (1) | Facts & Trivia (2) | Genre Biases | Winners Chart (part 1) | Winners Chart (part 2)
20th Century Best Pictures (ranked) (part 1) | 20th Century Best Pictures (ranked) (part 2)
Best Pictures (through 2022) Ranked | Best Picture Milestones (multi-sections)
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Academy Award Winners |
(* Did not also win Best Director) |
Studio or Production Company |
Best Picture |
(possibly?) |
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The Apartment | Billy Wilder |
 United Artists |
Psycho Spartacus |
Psycho |
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West Side Story | Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins |
 United Artists |
Breakfast at Tiffany's Splendor in the Grass The Misfits |
The Hustler |
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Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean |
 Columbia |
The Manchurian
Candidate (1962) Ride the High Country Long Day's Journey Into Night The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Miracle Worker |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Tom Jones | Tony Richardson |
United Artists |
Hud The Birds The Haunting |
The Birds or America America |
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My Fair Lady | George Cukor |
Warner Bros |
A Hard Day's Night The Servant A Shot in the Dark |
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
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The Sound of Music | Robert Wise |
 20th Century Fox |
Repulsion | Darling or Repulsion |
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A Man for All Seasons | Fred Zinnemann |
Columbia |
Blow-Up Cul-de-Sac |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison* |
 United Artists |
Chimes at Midnight/Falstaff Point Blank Two for the Road Camelot Cool Hand Luke In Cold Blood Up the Down Staircase Wait Until Dark |
Bonnie and Clyde or The Graduate |
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Oliver! | Carol Reed |
Columbia |
2001: A Space Odyssey Rosemary's Baby Petulia |
2001: A Space Odyssey or The Lion in Winter |
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Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger |
 United Artists |
The Wild Bunch Easy Rider Once Upon a Time in the West Medium Cool They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
The Wild Bunch or Easy Rider |
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Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner |
 20th Century Fox |
The Ballad of Cable Hogue Little Big Man Diary of a Mad Housewife Brewster McCloud I Never Sang for My Father The Landlord Ryan's Daughter Women in Love |
Five Easy
Pieces or M*A*S*H |
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The French Connection | William Friedkin |
 20th Century Fox |
McCabe & Mrs.
Miller Dirty Harry Klute Macbeth Walkabout |
A Clockwork
Orange or McCabe & Mrs. Miller or The Last Picture Show |
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The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola* |
 Paramount |
Play It Again, Sam | Deliverance |
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The Sting | George Roy Hill |
 Universal |
The Last Detail Last Tango in Paris The Long Goodbye Mean Streets Paper Moon Serpico The Way We Were O Lucky Man! The Paper Chase Save the Tiger |
American
Graffiti or Cries and Whispers or The Exorcist or Paper Moon |
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The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola |
 Paramount |
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Parallax View Thieves Like Us Day for Night |
Chinatown |
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Milos Forman |
 United Artists |
The Man Who Would Be King | Nashville |
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Rocky | John G. Avildsen |
 United Artists |
The Front Carrie The Last Tycoon The Outlaw Josey Wales Robin and Marian |
Network or All The President's Men or Taxi Driver |
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Annie Hall | Woody Allen |
United Artists |
Close Encounters
of the Third Kind Three Women |
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The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino |
Universal |
Days of
Heaven Go Tell the Spartans Interiors |
Coming Home or An Unmarried Woman |
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Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton |
 Columbia |
Being There Manhattan ...and Justice for All The Black Stallion The China Syndrome The Electric Horseman Escape from Alcatraz Hair 10 |
Apocalypse Now or All That Jazz or Manhattan |
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Ordinary People | Robert Redford |
Paramount |
The Empire Strikes Back The Long Riders Melvin and Howard Urban Cowboy Stardust Memories Return of the Secaucus 7 |
Raging Bull |
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Chariots of Fire | Hugh Hudson* |
The Ladd Co./Warner Bros. |
Absence of Malice Blow Out Body Heat Cutter's Way The French Lieutenant's Woman Gallipoli Mommie Dearest Pennies From Heaven Ragtime |
Reds or Raiders of the Lost Ark or On Golden Pond or Atlantic City |
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Gandhi | Richard Attenborough |
 Columbia |
Blade Runner Moonlighting |
Blade Runner or Tootsie or E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial |
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Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks |
 Paramount |
Local Hero A Christmas Story |
The Right Stuff or The Big Chill or Tender Mercies or Scarface |
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Amadeus | Milos Forman |
 Orion |
This is Spinal Tap Blood Simple |
The Killing Fields or Once Upon a Time in America |
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Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack |
 Universal |
Brazil Ran Silverado |
Brazil or The Color Purple |
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Platoon | Oliver Stone |
 Orion |
'Round Midnight Salvador Sid and Nancy |
Hannah and Her Sisters |
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The Last Emperor | Bernardo Bertolucci |
Columbia |
Empire of the Sun House of Games |
Empire of the Sun or Full Metal Jacket or Hope and Glory |
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Rain Man | Barry Levinson |
 United Artists |
A World Apart Talk Radio The Accused Big Bird Bull Durham A Cry in the Dark Dominick and Eugene Hairspray The Last Temptation of Christ Married to the Mob Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Dangerous Liaisons |
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Driving Miss Daisy | Bruce Beresford* |
 Warner Bros |
Do the Right Thing Henry V Glory |
Henry V or Born on the Fourth of July or My Left Foot or Do the Right Thing or Field of Dreams |
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Dances with Wolves | Kevin Costner |
 Orion |
Miller's Crossing | GoodFellas or Miller's Crossing |
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The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme |
 Orion |
Thelma & Louise An Angel At My Table Barton Fink Boys 'N the Hood Fried Green Tomatoes Grand Canyon My Own Private Idaho |
JFK or Thelma & Louise |
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Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood |
 Warner Bros |
Hard-Boiled Malcolm X The Player Zentropa (aka Europa) |
The Crying Game |
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Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg |
 Universal/Amblin |
Short Cuts | The Piano or Groundhog Day |
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Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis |
 Paramount |
Bullets Over Broadway Hoop Dreams |
Pulp Fiction or The Shawshank Redemption |
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Braveheart | Mel Gibson |
 Paramount |
Dead Man Walking Leaving Las Vegas Nixon The Usual Suspects Clockers Sense & Sensibility Se7en Toy Story |
Apollo 13 or Toy Story or Babe or Dead Man Walking or The Usual Suspects |
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The English Patient | Anthony Minghella |
 Miramax |
Sling Blade Trainspotting Big Night The Crucible Emma Hamlet Lone Star The People vs. Larry Flynt |
Fargo or Trainspotting |
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Titanic | James Cameron |
 Paramount/20th Century Fox |
The Wings of the Dove The Sweet Hereafter Amistad Boogie Nights Grosse Pointe Blank Jackie Brown My Best Friend's Wedding Wag the Dog Waiting for Guffman |
L.A. Confidential |
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Shakespeare in Love | John Madden* |
 Miramax |
The Truman Show The Big Lebowski Gods and Monsters Pleasantville Primary Colors Rushmore |
The Thin Red Line or Saving Private Ryan |
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American Beauty | Sam Mendes |
 DreamWorks |
Being John Malkovich The End of the Affair Magnolia The Matrix The Talented Mr. Ripley Topsy-Turvy |
The Matrix or The Insider or An Ideal Husband |
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Gladiator | Ridley Scott* |
 DreamWorks/Universal |
Almost Famous Billy Elliot Chicken Run Pollock Requiem for a Dream You Can Count on Me Cast Away Wonder Boys O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Traffic or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
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A Beautiful Mind | Ron Howard |
 DreamWorks/ Universal |
Amelie Black Hawk Down Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Iris Legally Blonde Memento (2000) The Others The Royal Tenenbaums |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring or Gosford Park or Memento (2000) |
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Chicago | Rob Marshall* |
 Miramax |
Adaptation About Schmidt Far From Heaven |
The Pianist |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Peter Jackson |
  New Line Cinema |
Cold Mountain Whale Rider |
Lost in Translation or Mystic River |
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Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood |
 Warner Bros. |
The Passion of the Christ Fahrenheit 9/11 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
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Crash | Paul Haggis* |
 Lions Gate Entertainment |
Memoirs of a Geisha Walk the Line Pride & Prejudice King Kong The Constant Gardener Cinderella Man |
Brokeback Mountain or Good Night, and Good Luck or Munich |
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The Departed | Martin Scorsese |  Warner Bros. |
Dreamgirls Pan's Labyrinth Little Children |
Pan's Labyrinth or The Queen or Letters From Iwo Jima |
| No Country for Old Men | Joel and Ethan Coen |  Miramax/Paramount Vantage |
American Gangster Charlie Wilson's War Hairspray Into the Wild Sweeney Todd |
Michael Clayton | |
| Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle |  Fox Searchlight/Warner Bros. |
Changeling The Dark Knight Doubt Revolutionary Road Wall-E |
Frost/Nixon or The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or Waltz with Bashir |
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| The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow |  Summit Entertainment |
Star Trek Invictus |
Avatar | |
| The King's Speech | Tom Hooper |  The Weinstein Company |
The Social Network or Inception |
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| The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |  The Weinstein Company |
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Bridesmaids Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 |
Hugo or The Tree of Life or The Descendants |
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| Argo | Ben Affleck* |  Warner Bros. |
The Dark Knight Rises The Hunger Games The Master |
Lincoln or Zero Dark Thirty or Life of Pi |
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| 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen* |  Fox Searchlight |
August: Osage County Inside Llewyn Davis Lee Daniels' The Butler Saving Mr. Banks |
Gravity or American Hustle or Her |
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| Birdman | Alejandro González Iñárritu |  Fox Searchlight |
Into the Woods Foxcatcher Unbroken Gone Girl Interstellar |
The Grand Budapest Hotel or Boyhood or American Sniper |
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| Spotlight | Tom McCarthy* |  Open Road Films |
Carol The Danish Girl The Hateful Eight Joy Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens Straight Outta Compton |
The Revenant or Mad Max: Fury Road |
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| Moonlight | Barry Jenkins* |  A24/Plan B Entertainment |
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Jackie |
La La Land or Manchester By the Sea |
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| The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro |  Fox Searchlight |
I, Tonya Wonder Woman Blade Runner 2049 |
Phantom Thread | |
| Green Book | Peter Farrelly* |  Universal |
Mary Poppins Returns | Roma or Bohemian Rhapsody or Black Panther or BlacKkKlansman |
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| Parasite | Bong Joon Ho |  Neon |
The Farewell | The Irishman or 1917 or Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood |
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| Nomadland | Chloe Zhao |  Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Da 5 Bloods Ma Rainey's Black Bottom One Night in Miami |
Mank or The Father |
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| CODA | Sian Heder* (not even nominated for Best Director) |  Apple Original Films |
The Power of the Dog | ||
| Everything Everywhere All at Once | Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |  A24 |
All Quiet on the Western Front | ||
| Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan |  Universal |
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