Best Motion Picture Academy Awards (Oscars)

Wings

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:26:14 GMT

1927-1928 Other Nominees: The Racket Seventh Heaven Milestones: First (and only) silent film to win Best Picture. First war film to win Best Picture. First film to win Best Picture and every other nomination it received. First film to win Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director. First film to win Best Picture without receiving any acting nominations.

The Broadway Melody

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:27:01 GMT

1928-1929 Other Nominees: Alibi The Hollywood Revue of 1929 In Old Arizona The Patriot Milestones: First sound film to win Best Picture. First musical to win Best Picture. First film to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:27:28 GMT

1929-1930 Other Nominees: The Big House Disraeli The Divorcee The Love Parade

Cimarron

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:28:34 GMT

1930-1931 Other Nominees: East Lynne The Front Page Skippy Trader Horn Milestones: First film to be nominated for every major Academy Award, including Best Picture. First Western to win Best Picture.

Grand Hotel

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:28:57 GMT

1931-1932 Other Nominees: Arrowsmith Bad Girl The Champ Five Star Final One Hour with You Shanghai Express The Smiling Lieutenant Milestones: First (and only) film to win Best Picture without receiving any other nominations.

Cavalcade

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:29:25 GMT

1932-1933 Other Nominees: 42nd Street A Farewell to Arms I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Lady for a Day Little Women The Private Life of Henry VIII She Done Him Wrong Smilin' Through State Fair

It Happened One Night

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:29:40 GMT

1934 Other Nominees: The Barretts of Wimpole Street Cleopatra Flirtation Walk The Gay Divorcee Here Comes the Navy The House of Rothschild Imitation of Life One Night of Love The Thin Man Viva Villa! The White Parade Milestones: First of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture. First Best Picture nominee to win both Best Actor and Best Actress. First comedy to win Best Picture.

Mutiny on the Bounty

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:29:57 GMT

1935 Other Nominees Alice Adams Broadway Melody of 1936 Captain Blood David Copperfield The Informer The Lives of a Bengal Lancer A Midsummer Night's Dream Les Misérables Naughty Marietta Ruggles of Red Gap Top Hat Milestones: First remake to win Best Picture. Last film to date to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards.

The Great Ziegfeld

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:30:53 GMT

1936 Other Nominees: Anthony Adverse Dodsworth Libeled Lady Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Romeo and Juliet San Francisco The Story of Louis Pasteur A Tale of Two Cities Three Smart Girls

The Life of Emile Zola

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:31:11 GMT

1937 Other Nominees: The Awful Truth Captains Courageous Dead End The Good Earth In Old Chicago Lost Horizon One Hundred Men and a Girl Stage Door A Star Is Born Milestones: First biographical picture (biopic) to win Best Picture.

You Can't Take It with You

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:31:29 GMT

1938 Other Nominees: The Adventures of Robin Hood Alexander's Ragtime Band Boys Town The Citadel Four Daughters The Grande Illusion (La Grande illusion) Jezebel Pygmalion Test Pilot Milestones: First foreign language film to be nominated for Best Picture (French).

Gone with the Wind

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:31:43 GMT

1939 Other Nominees: Dark Victory Goodbye, Mr. Chips Love Affair Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Ninotchka Of Mice and Men Stagecoach The Wizard of Oz Wuthering Heights Milestones: Longest film to win Best Picture (3 hours 54 minutes). First all-color film to win Best Picture.

Rebecca

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:31:54 GMT

1940 Other Nominees All This, and Heaven Too Foreign Correspondent The Grapes of Wrath The Great Dictator Kitty Foyle The Letter The Long Voyage Home Our Town The Philadelphia Story Milestones: First thriller to win Best Picture.

How Green Was My Valley

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:32:12 GMT

1941 Other Nominees: Blossoms in the Dust Citizen Kane Here Comes Mr. Jordan Hold Back the Dawn The Little Foxes The Maltese Falcon One Foot in Heaven Sergeant York Suspicion

Mrs. Miniver

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:32:28 GMT

1942 Other Nominees: 49th Parallel King's Row The Magnificent Ambersons The Pied Piper The Pride of the Yankees Random Harvest The Talk of the Town Wake Island Yankee Doodle Dandy Milestones: First Best Picture nominee to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories. First Best Picture winner to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories.

Casablanca

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:32:44 GMT

1943 Other Nominees: For Whom the Bell Tolls Heaven Can Wait The Human Comedy In Which We Serve Madame Curie The More the Merrier The Ox-Bow Incident The Song of Bernadette Watch on the Rhine

Going My Way

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:32:58 GMT

1944 Other Nominees Double Indemnity Gaslight Since You Went Away Wilson

The Lost Weekend

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:33:10 GMT

1945 Other Nominees: Anchors Aweigh The Bells of St. Mary's Mildred Pierce Spellbound Milestones: First of only two films to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or.

The Best Years of Our Lives

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:33:31 GMT

1946 Other Nominees: Henry V It's a Wonderful Life The Razor's Edge The Yearling

Gentleman's Agreement

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:33:47 GMT

1947 Other Nominees: The Bishop's Wife Crossfire Great Expectations Miracle on 34th Street

Hamlet

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:35:22 GMT

1948 Other Nominees: Johnny Belinda The Red Shoes The Snake Pit The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Milestones: First foreign film to win Best Picture (British).

All the King's Men

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:35:39 GMT

1949 Other Nominees: Battleground The Heiress A Letter to Three Wives Twelve O'Clock High

All About Eve

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:35:56 GMT

1950 Other Nominees: Born Yesterday Father of the Bride King Solomon's Mines Sunset Boulevard Milestones: First of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

An American in Paris

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:36:14 GMT

1951 Other Nominees: Decision Before Dawn A Place in the Sun Quo Vadis A Streetcar Named Desire

The Greatest Show on Earth

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:36:34 GMT

1952 Other Nominees: High Noon Ivanhoe Moulin Rouge The Quiet Man

From Here to Eternity

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:36:46 GMT

1953 Other Nominees: Julius Caesar The Robe Roman Holiday Shane Milestones: Last Best Picture winner to date to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories.

On the Waterfront

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:37:00 GMT

1954 Other Nominees: The Caine Mutiny The Country Girl Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Three Coins in the Fountain

Marty

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:37:11 GMT

1955 Other Nominees: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Mister Roberts Picnic The Rose Tattoo Milestones: Second of only two films to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or. Shortest film to win Best Picture (1 hour 31 minutes). First (and only) film based on a television movie or mini-series to win Best Picture.

Around the World in 80 Days

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:38:29 GMT

1956 Other Nominees: Friendly Persuasion Giant The King and I The Ten Commandments Milestones: First film to win Best Picture in a year when all nominees were filmed in color.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:39:02 GMT

1957 Other Nominees: Peyton Place Sayonara 12 Angry Men Witness for the Prosecution

Gigi

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:39:14 GMT

1958 Other Nominees: Auntie Mame Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Defiant Ones Separate Tables

Ben-Hur

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:39:29 GMT

1959 Other Nominees: Anatomy of a Murder The Diary of Anne Frank The Nun's Story Room at the Top Milestones: First of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

The Apartment

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:39:46 GMT

1960 Other Nominees: The Alamo Elmer Gantry Sons and Lovers The Sundowners Milestones: Last black-and-white film before 1993 to win Best Picture.

West Side Story

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:40:15 GMT

1961 Other Nominees: Fanny The Guns of Navarone The Hustler Judgment at Nuremberg

Lawrence of Arabia

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:40:30 GMT

1962 Other Nominees: The Longest Day The Music Man Mutiny on the Bounty To Kill a Mockingbird

Tom Jones

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:40:45 GMT

1963 Other Nominees: America, America Cleopatra How the West Was Won Lilies of the Field

My Fair Lady

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:40:57 GMT

1964 Other Nominees: Becket Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Mary Poppins Zorba the Greek

The Sound of Music

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:41:13 GMT

1965 Other Nominees: Darling Doctor Zhivago Ship of Fools A Thousand Clowns Milestones: First G-rated film to win Best Picture.

A Man for All Seasons

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:41:26 GMT

1966 Other Nominees: Alfie The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming The Sand Pebbles Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

In the Heat of the Night

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:41:52 GMT

1967 Other Nominees: Bonnie and Clyde Doctor Dolittle The Graduate Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Milestones: First (and only) mystery to win Best Picture.

Oliver!

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:42:04 GMT

1968 Other Nominees: Funny Girl The Lion in Winter Rachel, Rachel Romeo and Juliet

Midnight Cowboy

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:42:24 GMT

1969 Other Nominees: Anne of the Thousand Days Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Hello, Dolly! Z Milestones: First (and only) X-rated film to win Best Picture.

Patton

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:42:42 GMT

1970 Other Nominees: Airport Five Easy Pieces Love Story MASH Milestones: First PG-rated film to win Best Picture.

The French Connection

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:42:54 GMT

1971 Other Nominees: A Clockwork Orange Fiddler on the Roof The Last Picture Show Nicholas and Alexandra Milestones: First R-rated film to win Best Picture.

The Godfather

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:43:08 GMT

1972 Other Nominees: Cabaret Deliverance Sounder The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)

The Sting

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:43:23 GMT

1973 Other Nominees: American Graffiti The Exorcist A Touch of Class Cries and Whispers

The Godfather Part II

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:43:41 GMT

1974 Other Nominees: Chinatown The Conversation Lenny The Towering Inferno Milestones: First sequel to win Best Picture. First (and only) film in which an actor (Robert De Niro) won an Academy Award by playing the same character (Vito Corleone) as another actor (Marlon Brando) who previously won an Academy Award portraying the same person.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:43:52 GMT

1975 Other Nominees: Barry Lyndon Dog Day Afternoon Jaws Nashville Milestones: Second of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture.

Rocky

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:44:05 GMT

1976 Other Nominees: All the President's Men Bound for Glory Network Taxi Driver Milestones: First sports film to win Best Picture.

Annie Hall

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:44:22 GMT

1977 Other Nominees: The Goodbye Girl Julia Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope The Turning Point