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- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.1929 Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Picture - Unique and Artistic Production
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanHarry d'Abbadie d'ArrastStarsClara BowCharles 'Buddy' RogersRichard ArlenTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.1929 Best Effects - Engineering Effects, Best Picture - Production
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsBessie LoveAnita PageCharles KingA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.1930 Best Picture
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsLew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WrayA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.1930-2 Best Director, Best Picture
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRichard DixIrene DunneEstelle TaylorA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.1931 Best Picture, Best Art Direction, Best Writing - Adaptation
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsGreta GarboJohn BarrymoreJoan CrawfordA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.1932 Best Picture
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsDiana WynyardClive BrookUna O'ConnorA portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.1934 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.1935 Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Writing - Adaptation
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharles LaughtonClark GableFranchot ToneFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.1936 Best Picture
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyLuise RainerThe ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.1937 Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Dance Direction
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniGale SondergaardJoseph SchildkrautThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.1938 Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing - Screenplay
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel BarrymoreThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.1939 Best Picture, Best Director
- DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.1940 Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Writing - Screenplay
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.1941 Best Picture, Best Cinematography - Black-and-White
- DirectorJohn FordStarsWalter PidgeonMaureen O'HaraAnna LeeAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.1942 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration - Black-and-White, Best Cinematography - Black-and-White
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.1943 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography - Black-and-White, Best Writing - Screenplay
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.1944 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing - Screenplay
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsBing CrosbyBarry FitzgeraldFrank McHughWhen young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.1945 Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Music - Original Song, Best Writing - Original Story, Best Writing - Screenplay
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsRay MillandJane WymanPhillip TerryThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.1946 Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Writing - Screenplay
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric MarchThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.1947 Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Writing - Screenplay
- DirectorElia KazanStarsGregory PeckDorothy McGuireJohn GarfieldA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.1948 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress
- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsJohn LauriePrince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.1949 Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Black-and-White, Best Costume Design - Black-and-White
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsBroderick CrawfordJohn IrelandJoanne DruThe rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.1950 Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge SandersA seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.1951 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Costume Design - Black-and-White, Best Sound Recording, Best Writing - Screenplay
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGene KellyLeslie CaronOscar LevantThree friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.1952 Best Picture, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Color, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Costume Design - Color, Best Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Writing - Story and Screenplay
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsJames StewartCharlton HestonBetty HuttonThe dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.1953 Best Picture, Best Writing - Motion Picture Story
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsBurt LancasterMontgomery CliftDeborah KerrAt a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.1954 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography - Black-and-White, Best Sound Recording, Best Writing - Screenplay
- DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.1955 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Black-and-White, Best Cinematography - Black-and-White, Best Film Editing, Best Writing - Story and Screenplay
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsErnest BorgnineBetsy BlairEsther MinciottiA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.1956 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Writing - Screenplay
- DirectorMichael AndersonJohn FarrowStarsDavid NivenCantinflasFinlay CurrieA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.1957 Best Picture, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Writing - Best Screenplay - Adapted
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.1958 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Music Scoring, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorVincente MinnelliCharles WaltersStarsLeslie CaronMaurice ChevalierLouis JourdanWeary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.1959 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Black-and-White or Color, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Costume Design - Black-and-White or Color, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Original Song, Best Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsCharlton HestonJack HawkinsStephen BoydAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.1960 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Color, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Costume Design - Color, Best Special Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Sound
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.1961 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Black-and-White, Best Film Editing, Best Writing - Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
- DirectorJerome RobbinsRobert WiseStarsNatalie WoodGeorge ChakirisRichard BeymerTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.1962 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Color, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Costume Design - Color, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Sound
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.1963 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Color, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Score - Substantially Original, Best Sound
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsAlbert FinneySusannah YorkGeorge DevineThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.1964 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Music - Score - Substantially Original, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsAudrey HepburnRex HarrisonStanley HollowayIn 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.1965 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Color, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Costume Design - Color, Best Music - Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment, Best Sound
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJulie AndrewsChristopher PlummerEleanor ParkerA young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.1966 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment, Best Sound
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsPaul ScofieldWendy HillerRobert ShawThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.1967 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography - Color, Best Costume Design - Color, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsSidney PoitierRod SteigerWarren OatesA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.1968 Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsMark LesterRon MoodyShani WallisAfter being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London.1969 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Music - Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation), Best Sound
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsDustin HoffmanJon VoightSylvia MilesA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.1970 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.1971 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Writing - Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsGene HackmanRoy ScheiderFernando ReyA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.1972 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.1973 Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.1974 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation, Best Writing - Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.1975 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Music - Original Dramatic Score, Best Writing - Screenplay Adapted From Other Material
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael BerrymanIn the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.1976 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Writing - Screenplay Adapted From Other Material
- DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsSylvester StalloneTalia ShireBurt YoungA small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.1977 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonTony RobertsAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.1978 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Writing - Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.1979 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Film Editing, Best Sound
- DirectorRobert BentonStarsDustin HoffmanMeryl StreepJane AlexanderAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.1980 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorRobert RedfordStarsDonald SutherlandMary Tyler MooreJudd HirschThe accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.1981 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorHugh HudsonStarsBen CrossIan CharlesonNicholas FarrellTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.1982 Best Picture, Best Costume Design, Best Music - Original Score, Best Writing - Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsBen KingsleyJohn GielgudRohini HattangadiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.1983 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Writing - Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsShirley MacLaineDebra WingerJack NicholsonFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.1984 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.1985 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup, Best Sound, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorSydney PollackStarsMeryl StreepRobert RedfordKlaus Maria BrandauerIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.1986 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Music - Original Score, Best Sound, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenTom BerengerWillem DafoeChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.1987 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Sound
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJohn LoneJoan ChenPeter O'TooleBernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.1988 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Original Score, Best Sound, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsDustin HoffmanTom CruiseValeria GolinoAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.1989 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Writing - Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsMorgan FreemanJessica TandyDan AykroydAn old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.1990 Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Makeup, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorKevin CostnerStarsKevin CostnerMary McDonnellGraham GreeneLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.1991 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Original Score, Best Sound, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott GlennA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.1992 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan FreemanRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."1993 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Film Editing
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.1994 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Original Score, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksRobin WrightGary SiniseThe history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.1995 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Effects - Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
- DirectorMel GibsonStarsMel GibsonSophie MarceauPatrick McGoohanScottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.1996 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Effects - Sound Effects Editing, Best Makeup
- DirectorAnthony MinghellaStarsRalph FiennesJuliette BinocheWillem DafoeAt the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.1997 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Original Dramatic Score, Best Sound
- DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.1998 Best Director, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Effects - Sound Effects Editing, Best Effects - Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Music - Original Dramatic Score, Best Music - Original Song, Best Sound
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsGwyneth PaltrowJoseph FiennesGeoffrey RushThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.1999 Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Music - Original Musical or Comedy Score, Best Writing - Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.2000 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Writing - Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsRussell CroweJoaquin PhoenixConnie NielsenA former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.2001 Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Costume Design, Best Effects - Visual Effects, Best Sound
- DirectorRon HowardStarsRussell CroweEd HarrisJennifer ConnellyA mathematical genius, John Nash made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a harrowing journey of self-discovery.2002 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
- DirectorRob MarshallStarsRenée ZellwegerCatherine Zeta-JonesRichard GereTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.2003 Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Film Editing
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodViggo MortensenIan McKellenGandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.2004 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, Best Music - Original Song, Best Music - Original Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsHilary SwankClint EastwoodMorgan FreemanFrankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.2005 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor
- DirectorPaul HaggisStarsDon CheadleSandra BullockThandiwe NewtonLos Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.2006 Best Picture, Best Writing - Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioMatt DamonJack NicholsonAn undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.2007 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing
- DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsTommy Lee JonesJavier BardemJosh BrolinViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.2008 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay
- DirectorDanny BoyleLoveleen TandanStarsDev PatelFreida PintoSaurabh ShuklaA teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.2009 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Sound Mixing, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsJeremy RennerAnthony MackieBrian GeraghtyDuring the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.2010 Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing
- DirectorTom HooperStarsColin FirthGeoffrey RushHelena Bonham CarterThe story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.2011 Best Picture
Colin Firth, Best Actor
Tom Hooper, Best Director
David Seidler, Best Original Screenplay - DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsJean DujardinBérénice BejoJohn GoodmanWhen George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.2012 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress
- DirectorBen AffleckStarsBen AffleckBryan CranstonJohn GoodmanActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.2013 Best Picture, Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsChiwetel EjioforMichael Kenneth WilliamsMichael FassbenderIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.2014 Best Picture
Best Actress in A Supporting Role Lupita Nyong'o
Best Writing, John Ridley - DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsMichael KeatonZach GalifianakisEdward NortonA washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.2015 Best Motion Picture of the Year.
Directing / Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Screenplay, Directly for the Screen / Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
Cinematography / Emmanuel Lubezki - DirectorTom McCarthyStarsMark RuffaloMichael KeatonRachel McAdamsThe true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.2016 Best Picture, Original Screenplay
- DirectorBarry JenkinsStarsMahershala AliNaomie HarrisTrevante RhodesA young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.2017 Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsSally HawkinsOctavia SpencerMichael ShannonAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.2018 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Production Design
- DirectorPeter FarrellyStarsViggo MortensenMahershala AliLinda CardelliniA working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.2019 Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoLee Sun-kyunCho Yeo-jeongGreed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.2020 Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, Best International Feature Film
- DirectorChloé ZhaoStarsFrances McDormandDavid StrathairnLinda MayA woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.2021 Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director
- DirectorSian HederStarsEmilia JonesMarlee MatlinTroy KotsurAs a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her passion at Berklee College of Music and her fear of abandoning her parents.2022 Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay
- DirectorDaniel KwanDaniel ScheinertStarsMichelle YeohStephanie HsuJamie Lee CurtisA middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.2023 Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing