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Most Wins By Year |
Note: unless otherwise stated or implied, years are the year the film was made – the Oscars ceremony is invariably held in the following year.
See also The Oscars: Summary, which gives the winners of Best Picture, Best Director and the four acting awards each year, since the first awards in 1929.
Date of the first Oscars ceremony (held in the Blossom Ballroom of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles) | 16 May 1929 | |
Host of the first Oscars ceremony | Douglas Fairbanks Sr. |
The Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards were first presented at the 9th award ceremony, in 1937.
Best Supporting Actor (1937) | Walter Brennan |
Come and Get It |
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Best Supporting Actress (1937) | Gale Sondergaard |
Anthony Adverse |
The 89th Academy Awards Ceremony awarded the films judged by the (American) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be the best of those released in 2016.
In 1968, the ceremony was postponed for 48 hours because of | The assassination of Martin Luther King |
Most Oscars to a single film (11) | 1959 | Ben Hur | |
1997 | Titanic | ||
2003 | Lord of the Rings: Return of the King | ||
Most nominations (14) | 1950 | All About Eve | |
1997 | Titanic |
Last black & white film to win Best Picture, apart from the 1994 and 2012 winners | 1960 | The Apartment | |
Epic war drama: received eight nominations – including Best Actor for Steve McQueen – but won none | 1966 | The Sand Pebbles | |
Last black & white film to win Best Picture (and only the second since The Apartment in 1960) | 2012 | The Artist | |
First animated film to be nominated for Best Picture (Disney, 1991) | 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | |
Nominated for 9 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Writing (Original Screenplay); only won Best Writing | 1941 | Citizen Kane | |
The only X–rated film apart from Midnight Cowboy to be nominated for Best Picture | 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | |
Pixar/Disney animation: inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead, won Best Animated Feature and Best Song (Remember Me) | 2017 | Coco | |
Spielberg film, nominated for 11 Oscars but didn't win any | 1985 | The Color Purple | |
John Voigt and Jane Fonda both won Leading Role Oscars for their roles in | 1978 | Coming Home | |
Best Animated Short Film: stars Donald Duck in a nightmare setting, working at a factory in Nazi Germany; features the song of the same title, recorded previously by Spike Jones | 1944 | Der Fuehrer's Face | |
Martin Scorsese's only Best Director Oscar: also won Best Picture; stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg in Oscar–nominated roles | 2007 | The Departed | |
Title role was turned down by Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and John Travolta, but won an Oscar for Tom Hanks | 1994 | Forrest Gump | |
Starring Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire: won Best Picture, Best Director (Elia Kazan) and Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm) | 1947 | Gentleman's Agreement | |
First sequel to win Best Picture (the first film also won it) | 1974 | The Godfather Part II | |
First colour film to win Best Picture | 1939 | Gone with the Wind | |
The only film to win Best Picture without being nominated in any other category | 1932 | Grand Hotel | |
First non–US (British) film to win Best Picture | 1948 | Hamlet | |
Beat Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon to win five Oscars, including Best Picture (producer Daryl F. Zanuck) and Best Director (John Ford) | 1941 | How Green Was My Valley | |
Film about global warming, presented by former US Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore, which won Best Documentary Feature | 2006 | An Inconvenient Truth | |
Won an Oscar in 1972, 20 years after being made (films are only eligible after being shown in LA, and it wasn't until then) | 1952 | Limelight | |
The only film produced by Walt Disney that was nominated for Best Picture (it didn't win) | 1964 | Mary Poppins | |
The first X–rated film to win Best Picture | 1969 | Midnight Cowboy | |
The only Stephen King novel whose film adaptation has won an Oscar | 1990 | Misery | |
Peter Finch (posthumously), Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight won Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively, for | 1976 | Network | |
Won Best Actor for Henry Fonda and Best Actress for Katharine Hepburn | 1981 | On Golden Pond | |
South Korean black comedy: first foreign language film to win Best Picture; also the first film since 1955 to win both the Cannes Palme d'Or and the Best Picture Oscar | 2019 | Parasite | |
Quentin Tarantino won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and was also nominated for Best Director, for | 1994 | Pulp Fiction | |
The only Hitchcock film to win Best Picture (producer David O. Selznick) | 1940 | Rebecca | |
First winner of Best Animated Feature | 2002 | Shrek | |
Evergreen (Best Original Song Oscar) was written by the star of, and subtitled "Love theme from ... " | 1976 | A Star is Born | |
Won Oscars for Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, but not for Marlon Brando, who was nominated but lost out to Humphrey Bogart (in The African Queen) | 1951 | A Streetcar Named Desire | |
Psychological drama, with Cate Blanchett in the title role (as a world–renowned conductor facing accusations of misconduct): nominated for six Oscars, but won none (losing out to Everything Everywhere All at Once in five, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress) | 2022 | Tár tar | |
1999 Gilbert & Sullivan biopic, directed by Mike Leigh: won two design Oscars | 1951 | Topsy–Turvy | |
The only film to win Oscars for two members of the same family (John Huston Best Director, Walter Huston Best Actor) | 1948 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | |
John Wayne's 138th film, for which he won his only Oscar (Best Actor, playing Rooster Cogburn) | 1969 | True Grit | |
Pixar/Disney: third animated film (after this one and this one) to get a Best Picture nomination | 2010 | Toy Story 3 | |
Pixar/Disney: second animated film (after this one) to get a Best Picture nomination | 2009 | Up | |
The only silent film (and the first film) to win Best Picture | 1927 | Wings |
Received his only Oscar nomination in 1975, aged 75, for The Towering Inferno | Fred Astaire | |
Won the Best Director Oscar in 1977, for Rocky | John G. Avildsen | |
Won an Oscar for the score to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Also shared Oscars for the songs Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head and Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) | Burt Bacharach | |
British photographer (1904–80): won Oscars for Best Costume Design, for Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964), also Best Art Direction for the latter | Cecil Beaton | |
First black recipient of Best Actress (Monster's Ball, 2001) | Halle Berry | |
First female winner of Best Director (The Hurt Locker, 2009) | Kathryn Bigelow | |
Nominated for Best Actor five times in the 1950s, including four consecutive years 1951–4; won in 1954 for On the Waterfront | Marlon Brando | |
Refused a second Best Actor award (for The Godfather) in 1972, in protest against oppression of Native Americans | ||
Youngest ever winner of Best Actor (for The Pianist – 75th Awards, 2003 – aged 29) | Adrien Brody | |
Nominated in every decade from the 1960s to the 'noughties' | Michael Caine | |
Jack Nicholson | ||
Returned to the USA in 1972, for the first time in 20 years, to receive an honorary Oscar for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century" | Charlie Chaplin | |
Won Best Actress in 1966 for Darling – the first Oscar–winning role that included a nude scene | Julie Christie | |
The only winner of three Best (male) Actor awards (see below) | Daniel Day–Lewis | |
Nominated for Best Actress in five consecutive years, 1938–42; won in 1935 (Dangerous) and 1938 (Jezebel) | Bette Davis | |
Nominated posthumously twice | James Dean | |
Won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1998 for eight minutes of screen time in Shakespeare in Love | Judi Dench | |
Individual with most Oscars (22, plus 4 honorary) | Walt Disney | |
The only performer to win an Oscar in a Hitchcock film (Suspicion, 1941) | Joan Fontaine | |
Most Best Director Oscars (4) | John Ford | |
Born in the East End of London, 1904: received seven Best Actress nominations, 1939–60, including five in a row 1941–5 – breaking Bette Davis's record; won only one, in 1942 (for Mrs. Miniver), when she made the longest ever acceptance speech – prompting the Academy to impose a time limit in later years | Greer Garson | |
Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing the medium Oda Mae Brown in Ghost (1990) | Whoopi Goldberg | |
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Star Wars (1977) | Alec Guinness | |
The only person named Oscar ever to win an Oscar | Oscar Hammerstein II | |
Second (after Spencer Tracy) to win Best Actor in successive years (Philadelphia 1994, Forrest Gump 1995) | Tom Hanks | |
The only person to win four Acting Oscars (see below); also held the record for most acting nominations (with 12, between 1933 and 1981), until surpassed by Meryl Streep in 2002 | Katharine Hepburn | |
First British actress to be nominated (for The Importance of Being Earnest, 1938) | Wendy Hiller | |
Became the oldest ever winner of an acting Oscar, in 2021 – aged 83, for the title role in The Father | Anthony Hopkins | |
First person to be nominated posthumously and win (Best Screenplay, for Gone with the Wind) | Sydney Howard | |
Family: three generations won Oscars | Huston | |
First British winner of Best Actor (for The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933) | Charles Laughton | |
First British winner of Best Actress (for Gone with the Wind, 1939) | Vivien Leigh | |
Yorkshire–born actor, won Oscar nominations for The Verdict, Georgy Girl and A Star Is Born | James Mason | |
The only actor to receive three nominations for foreign language films (1963, 1977, 1987) | Marcello Mastroianni | |
First black recipient of an acting Oscar (Gone with the Wind) | Hattie McDaniel | |
Received his only Oscar nomination in 1967, for The Sand Pebbles | Steve McQueen | |
Last winner of the Honorary Juvenile Award (1961, for Pollyanna) | Hayley Mills | |
Italian record producer and composer: Best Original Score for Midnight Express (1978); Best Song for Flashdance...What a Feeling, from Flashdance (1983); Best Song for Take My Breath Away, from Top Gun (1986) | Giorgio Moroder | |
First person ever to refuse an Oscar: Best Writer, for The Informer (1935 film), due to a dispute between the Academy and the Screen Writers' Guild – collected it in 1938 | Dudley Nichols | |
Most nominations for a male actor (12, 1969–2002, 3 awards) | Jack Nicholson | |
Previous record number of nominations for a male actor (10, 1939–78, 1 win) – until surpassed by Jack Nicholson in 2002 | Laurence Olivier | |
Youngest winner in a competitive category (Paper Moon, 1974, aged 10) | Tatum O'Neal | |
Nominated eight times for Best Actor (seven times 1962–82, also 2006) but never won; honorary Oscar 2003; set a new record of 44 years between nominations for the Best Actor Oscar, in 2007; died 2013 | Peter O'Toole | |
Won Best Actor 1993 for Scent of a Woman, after seven unsuccessful nominations (including 3 for Best Supporting Actor); his first four nominations came in four consecutive years 1973–6 (1973 nomination was for Best Supporting Actor) | Al Pacino | |
Won Best Actor twice in the noughties (Mystic River 2004, Milk 2009) | Sean Penn | |
Surname of the only two brothers ever to receive Oscar nominations | Phoenix | |
Replaced Jessica Tandy in 2012 as the oldest Oscar winner (Best Supporting Actor for Beginners – aged 82); but see Anthony Hopkins | Christopher Plummer | |
Also the oldest ever nominee for an acting Oscar, for the role of J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017) – aged 88 | ||
First black recipient of a leading role acting Oscar (Lilies of the Field, 1963) | Sidney Poitier | |
Won 7 Oscars as producer of Tom & Jerry | Fred Quimby | |
Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the title role in Julia (1977 – playing opposite Jane Fonda) | Vanessa Redgrave | |
Returned his Oscar (Best Actor for Patton, 1970) saying he didn't feel he was in competition with other actors. Previously declined a nomination for The Hustler (1961), and when nominated for Anatomy of a Murder (1959) said "The whole thing is a goddamn meat parade. I don't want any part of it." | George C. Scott | |
Most acting nominations (21, up to and including 2018 – 3 awards; most recent nomination was for The Post in 2017) | Meryl Streep | |
Oldest recipient (Best Actress for Driving Miss Daisy, 1989, aged 80), until beaten in 2012; nominated for Best Supporting Actress two years later for Fried Green Tomatoes | Jessica Tandy (80) | |
Youngest recipient (Honorary Junior Award, 1935, aged 6 – first recipient) | Shirley Temple | |
First to win Best Actor in successive years (Captains Courageous 1938, Boys' Town 1939) | Spencer Tracy | |
Famously announced that "The British [were] coming!" on accepting his award (Best Original Screenplay) for Chariots of Fire in 1982 | Colin Welland | |
Nominated for Best Picture (as Producer), Best Director, Best Actor and Best Writing (Original Screenplay), in 1941; only won Best Writing | Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) |
Most of these people are actors – but not all of them.
Note: in this section, the years are the years of the awards.
This section covers every year since 2001, and selected years before then. The second column shows how many Oscars the film won.
1935 | 5 | First film to 'sweep the board' – winning the 'Big Five' Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director (Frank Capra), Best Actor (Clark Gable), Best Actress (Claudette Colbert), Best Adapted Screenplay | It Happened One Night | |
1940 | 10 | Including Best Picture | Gone with the Wind | |
1952 | 4 | Including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh) and both Supporting awards (one of only two films to win three acting awards – see 1977) | A Streetcar Named Desire | |
1954 | 8 | Including Best Picture and Best Director (Fred Zinneman) | From Here to Eternity | |
1959 | 9 | 9 nominations, 9 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Vincente Minnelli) | Gigi | |
1960 | 11 | Including Best Picture | Ben–Hur | |
1962 | 10 | Including Best Picture | West Side Story | |
1963 | 7 | Including Best Picture – the only Best Picture winner with no female speaking roles | Lawrence of Arabia | |
1966 | 5 | Including Best Picture | The Sound of Music | |
5 | Including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score | Doctor Zhivago | ||
1967 | 6 | Including Best Picture | A Man for All Seasons | |
1973 | 7 | Including Best Director and Best Actress – most ever won by a film that didn't win Best Picture | Cabaret | |
1976 | 5 | Second film to 'sweep the board' – winning the 'Big Five' Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Director (Milos Forman), Best Adapted Screenplay | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | |
1977 | 4 | Including Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress (one of only two films to win three acting awards – see 1952) | Network | |
1978 | 7 | None for acting or Directing – or Best Picture | Star Wars | |
1982 | 8 | Including Best Picture | Gandhi | |
1985 | 5 | Including Best Picture, Best Director (James L. Brookes), Best Actress (Shirley McLaine), Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson) | Terms of Endearment | |
1986 | 8 | Including Best Picture, Best Director (Milos Forman), Best Actor (Murray Abraham) | Amadeus | |
1988 | 9 | 9 nominations, 9 awards; including Best Picture and Best Director (Bernardo Bertolucci) | The Last Emperor | |
1991 | 7 | Including Best Picture | Dances with Wolves | |
1992 | 5 | Best Picture, Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Best Actress (Jodie Foster), Best Director (Jonathan Demme), Best Adapted Screenplay | Silence of the Lambs | |
1993 | 4 | Including Best Picture, Director (Clint Eastwood) | Unforgiven | |
1996 | 5 | Including Best Picture and Best Director (Mel Gibson) | Braveheart | |
1997 | 9 | Including Best Picture | The English Patient | |
2 | 9 nominations; only won Best Editing and Best Sound Mixing | Apollo 13 | ||
1998 | 11 | Including Best Picture | Titanic | |
2001 | 5 | Including Best Picture and Best Actor (Kevin Spacey) | American Beauty | |
2002 | 4 | Including Best Picture, Best Director (Ron Howard) | A Beautiful Mind | |
2003 | 6 | First musical since Oliver! (1968) to win Best Picture | Chicago | |
2004 | 11 | 11 nominations, 11 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director – but none for acting | Lord of the Rings: Return of the King | |
2005 | 4 | Best Picture, Best Director (Clint Eastwood – oldest ever winner), Best Actress (Hilary Swank), Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman) | Million Dollar Baby | |
5 | Including Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett) | The Aviator | ||
2006 | 3 | Best Picture, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay | Crash | |
3 | Best Director (Ang Lee), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score | Brokeback Mountain | ||
3 | Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design | Memoirs of a Geisha | ||
3 | Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects | King Kong | ||
2007 | 4 | Including Best Picture and Best Director (Martin Scorsese) | The Departed | |
2008 | 4 | Including Best Picture | No Country for Old Men | |
2009 | 8 | Including Best Picture and Best Director (Danny Boyle) – but none for acting | Slumdog Millionaire | |
2010 | 6 | Including Best Picture and Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow) | The Hurt Locker | |
2011 | 4 | Best Picture, Best Director (Tom Hooper), Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Original Screenplay (David Seidler) | The King's Speech | |
2012 | 5 | Including Best Film, Best Director (Michael Hazanavicius), Best Actor (Jean Dujardin) | The Artist | |
5 | All technical | Hugo | ||
2013 | 4 | Best Director (Ang Lee) and Best Original Score – the others technical | Life of Pi | |
2014 | 7 | Including Best Director (Alfonso Cuaron) and Best Original Score (Steven Price); the rest all technical | Gravity | |
2015 | 4 | Best Film, Best Director (Alejandro Iñárritu), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography | Birdman | |
4 | Best Musical Score (Alexandre Desplat), Best Production Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design | The Grand Budapest Hotel | ||
2016 | 6 | All technical | Mad Max: Fury Road | |
2017 | 6 | Including Best Director (Damien Shazelle), Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Original Song (City of Stars) | La La Land | |
2018 | 4 | Including Best Picture and Best Director (Guillermo del Toro) | The Shape of Water | |
2019 | 4 | Including Best Actor (Rami Malek) | Bohemian Rhapsody | |
2020 | 4 | Including Best Picture, Best Director (Bong Joon–ho) | Parasite | |
2021 | 3 | Best Picture, Best Director (Chloé Zhao) and Best Actress (Frances McDormand) | Nomadland | |
2022 | 6 | Including Best Original Score (Hans Zimmer); the rest all technical | Dune | |
2023 | 7 | Picture, Director ('The Daniels'), Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis), Original Screenply (The Daniels), Film Editing | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
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