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The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which are voted on by others within the 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. This award is considered the most important of the Academy Awards, as it is the result of all the acting, writing, producing, and directing put forth for a film. It is usually collected at the podium by the producer(s) and director(s) or the producer(s) alone.

[edit] History

In the first year of the Academy Awards (1927/28, awarded in 1929), 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 retrospectively that the award won by Wings had been the equivalent of that award, with the result that Wings is often erroneously 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 79th Academy Awards ceremony held in 2007 and honoring films of 2006, there have been 458 films nominated for the Best Picture award. Throughout the past 79 years, AMPAS has presented a total of 80 Best Picture awards.

A 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 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).

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.

The Grand Staircase columns at the Kodak Theater 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 first Academy Awards.

[edit] Winners and nominees

In the lists 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. Before 1951, the Best Picture award was given to the production company; from 1951 on, it has gone to the producer. When the film was produced anywhere other than the United States, its country and original title, if applicable, are shown in parentheses.

[edit] 1920s

[edit] 1930s

The name of the award becomes Best Picture

[edit] 1940s

[edit] 1950s

From 1951 on, the individual producer (rather than the production company) receives this award.

[edit] 1960s

[edit] 1970s

[edit] 1980s

[edit] 1990s

[edit] 2000s

[edit] Milestones

Annual Year Film Awards Nom's Milestone
1st 1927 Wings and Sunrise 5 6 the first (and only) silent films to win Best Picture
1st 1927 Wings 2 2 the first war film to win Best Picture
1st 1927 Wings 2 2 the first film to win Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director
1st 1927 Wings 2 2 the first film to win Best Picture without receiving any acting nominations
2nd 1929 The Broadway Melody 1 3 the first sound film to win Best Picture
2nd 1929 The Broadway Melody 1 3 the first musical to win Best Picture
2nd 1929 The Broadway Melody 1 3 the first film to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards
4th 1931 Cimarron 3 7 the first Western to win Best Picture
5th 1932 Grand Hotel 1 1 the first (and only) film to win Best Picture without receiving any other nominations
6th 1933 She Done Him Wrong 0 1 the shortest film to be nominated for Best Picture (1 hour 6 minutes)
6th 1933 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1 2 the first foreign film to be nominated for Best Picture and to win any Academy Award (British)
7th 1934 It Happened One Night 5 5 the first of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture
7th 1934 It Happened One Night 5 5 the first Best Picture nominee to win both Best Actor and Best Actress
7th 1934 It Happened One Night 5 5 the first Best Picture winner to win both Best Actor and Best Actress
7th 1934 It Happened One Night 5 5 the first film to win Best Picture and every other nomination it received
7th 1934 It Happened One Night 5 5 the first comedy to win Best Picture
8th 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty 1 8 the first remake to win Best Picture
8th 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty 1 8 the last film to date to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards
10th 1937 The Life of Emile Zola 3 10 the first biographical picture (biopic) to win Best Picture
11th 1938 Grand Illusion 0 1 the first foreign language film to be nominated for Best Picture (French)
12th 1939 The Wizard of Oz 2 6 the first children's film to be nominated for Best Picture
12th 1939 Gone with the Wind 8 13 the longest film to be nominated for Best Picture (3 hours 54 minutes)
12th 1939 Gone with the Wind 8 13 the longest film to win Best Picture (3 hours 54 minutes)
12th 1939 Gone with the Wind 8 13 the first all-color film to win Best Picture
13th 1940 Rebecca 2 11 the first (and only) thriller to win Best Picture
15th 1942 Mrs. Miniver 6 12 the first Best Picture nominee to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories
15th 1942 Mrs. Miniver 6 12 the first Best Picture winner to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories
18th 1945 The Bells of St. Mary's 1 8 the first sequel to be nominated for Best Picture
18th 1945 The Lost Weekend 4 7 the first of only two films to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or
21st 1948 Hamlet 4 7 the first foreign film to win Best Picture (British)
23rd 1950 All About Eve 6 14 the first of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture
26th 1953 From Here to Eternity 8 13 the last Best Picture winner to date to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories
28th 1955 Marty 4 8 the second of only two films to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or
28th 1955 Marty 4 8 the shortest film to win Best Picture (1 hour 31 minutes)
29th 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days 5 8 the first film to win Best Picture in a year when all nominees were filmed in color
32nd 1959 Ben-Hur 11 12 the first of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture
33rd 1960 The Apartment 5 10 the last black-and-white film before 1993 to win Best Picture
40th 1967 In the Heat of the Night 5 7 the first (and only) mystery to win Best Picture
41st 1968 Oliver! 6 12 the first (and only) G-rated film to win Best Picture
42nd 1969 Midnight Cowboy 3 7 the first (and only) X-rated film to win Best Picture
43rd 1970 Patton 7 10 the first PG-rated film to win Best Picture
44th 1971 A Clockwork Orange 0 4 the last X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture
44th 1971 The French Connection 5 8 the first R-rated film to win Best Picture
45th 1972 Cabaret 8 10 the Best Picture nominee to win the most Academy Awards (8) without winning Best Picture
46th 1973 The Exorcist 2 10 the first horror film to be nominated for Best Picture
47th 1974 The Godfather Part II 6 11 the first sequel to win Best Picture
48th 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 5 9 the second of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture
49th 1976 Rocky 3 10 the first sports film to win Best Picture
54th 1981 Reds 3 12 the last Best Picture nominee to date to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories
60th 1987 The Last Emperor 9 9 the last foreign film to date to win Best Picture (Chinese)
60th 1987 The Last Emperor 9 9 the first PG-13-rated film to win Best Picture
62nd 1989 Driving Miss Daisy 4 9 the last film to date to win Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director
62nd 1989 Driving Miss Daisy 4 9 the last film to date to win Best Picture with a PG-rating or lower
63rd 1990 The Godfather: Part III 0 7 the first of only two trilogies to have all three films nominated for Best Picture
64th 1991 Beauty and the Beast 2 6 the first (and only) animated film to be nominated for Best Picture
64th 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 5 7 the third of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture
64th 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 5 7 the last Best Picture winner to date to win both Best Actor and Best Actress
64th 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 5 7 the first (and only) horror film to win Best Picture
66th 1993 Schindler's List 7 12 the first (and only) black-and-white film after 1960 to win Best Picture
70th 1997 As Good As It Gets 2 7 the last Best Picture nominee to date to win both Best Actor and Best Actress
70th 1997 Titanic 11 14 the second of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture
70th 1997 Titanic 11 14 the second of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture
76th 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 11 11 the 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 the third of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture
76th 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 11 11 the last film to date to win Best Picture and every other nomination it received
76th 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 11 11 the last film to date to win Best Picture without receiving any acting nominations
76th 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 11 11 the first (and only) fantasy film to win Best Picture
76th 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 11 11 the first (and only) threequel to win Best Picture
78th 2005 Crash 3 6 the first (and only) film festival acquisition to win Best Picture
78th 2005 Good Night, and Good Luck. 0 6 the last black-and-white film to date to be nominated for Best Picture
79th 2006 Letters from Iwo Jima 1 4 the last foreign language film to date to be nominated for Best Picture (Japanese)
79th 2006 Dreamgirls 2 8 the first (and only) film to receive the most nominations in a given year without being nominated for Best Picture
79th 2006 The Departed 4 5 the first (and only) remake of a foreign film to win Best Picture

[edit] Superlatives

Category Film Superlative Year Notes
Most Awards Ben-Hur 11 awards (tie) 1959 Awards resulted from 12 nominations.
Most Awards Titanic 11 awards (tie) 1997 Awards resulted from 14 nominations.
Most Awards The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 11 awards (tie) 2003 Awards resulted from 11 nominations.
Most Nominations All About Eve 14 nominations (tie) 1950 Nominations resulted in 6 awards.
Most Nominations Titanic 14 nominations (tie) 1997 Nominations resulted in 11 awards.
Longest Winner Gone with the Wind 3 hours 54 minutes 1939 Received 13 nominations and 8 awards.
Longest Nominee Gone with the Wind 3 hours 54 minutes 1939 Received 13 nominations and 8 awards.
Shortest Winner Marty 1 hour 31 minutes 1955 Received 8 nominations and 4 awards.
Shortest Nominee She Done Him Wrong 1 hour 6 minutes 1933 Received 1 nomination and 0 awards.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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Academy Award for Best Picture: Winners
1920sWings† • Sunrise† • The Broadway Melody†
1930sAll Quiet on the Western Front† • Cimarron† • Grand Hotel† • Cavalcade† • It Happened One Night • Mutiny on the Bounty • The Great Ziegfeld • The Life of Emile Zola • You Can't Take It with You • Gone with the Wind
1940sRebecca • How Green Was My Valley • Mrs. Miniver • Casablanca • Going My Way • The Lost Weekend • The Best Years of Our Lives • Gentleman's Agreement • Hamlet • All the King's Men
1950sAll About Eve • An American in Paris • The Greatest Show on Earth • From Here to Eternity • On the Waterfront • Marty • Around the World in Eighty Days • The Bridge on the River Kwai • Gigi • Ben-Hur
1960sThe Apartment • West Side Story • Lawrence of Arabia • Tom Jones • My Fair Lady • The Sound of Music • A Man for All Seasons • In the Heat of the Night • Oliver! • Midnight Cowboy
1970sPatton • The French Connection • The Godfather • The Sting • The Godfather Part II • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • Rocky • Annie Hall • The Deer Hunter • Kramer vs. Kramer
1980sOrdinary People • Chariots of Fire • Gandhi • Terms of Endearment • Amadeus • Out of Africa • Platoon • The Last Emperor • Rain Man • Driving Miss Daisy
1990sDances with Wolves • The Silence of the Lambs • Unforgiven • Schindler's List • Forrest Gump • Braveheart • The English Patient • Titanic • Shakespeare in Love • American Beauty
2000sGladiator • A Beautiful Mind • Chicago • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King • Million Dollar Baby • Crash • The Departed
†From 1927 to 1933, the Academy Awards did not follow a calendar year.
Winners (1927-1940) • Winners (1941-1960) • Winners (1961-1980) • Winners (1981-2000) • Winners (2001- )
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