Academy award for Best Picture - wikipedia Academy award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Picture Awarded for Best Picture of the Year Country United States Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) First awarded 1929 ( for films released during the 1927 / 1928 film season ) Currently held by The Shape of Water ( 2017 ) Website oscars.org The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ). This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member is eligible to submit a nomination. Best Picture is the final award of the night and is considered the most prestigious honor of the ceremony. The Grand Staircase columns at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award 's inception. As of 2018, there have been 546 films nominated for Best Picture and 90 winners. Contents 1 History 1.1 Category name changes 1.2 Recipients 1.3 Best Picture and Best Director 1.4 Nomination limit increased 1.5 Controversies 1.6 Sequel nominations and winners 1.7 Silent film winners 1.8 Version availability 2 Winners and nominees 2.1 1920s 2.2 1930s 2.3 1940s 2.4 1950s 2.5 1960s 2.6 1970s 2.7 1980s 2.8 1990s 2.9 2000s 2.10 2010s 3 Individuals with multiple wins 4 Individuals with multiple nominations 5 Production companies with multiple nominations and wins 6 Notes 7 See also 8 References 9 External links History Category name changes At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony ( for 1927 and 1928 ), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night : Outstanding Picture and Unique and Artistic Picture, the former being won by the war epic Wings, and the latter by the art film Sunrise. Each award was intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking. The following year, the Academy dropped the Unique and Artistic Picture award, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings was the highest honor that could be awarded. Though the award kept the title Outstanding Picture for the next ceremony, the name underwent several changes over the years as seen below. Since 1962, the award has been simply called Best Picture. 1927 / 28 -- 1928 / 29 : Academy Award for Outstanding Picture 1929 / 30 -- 1940 : Academy Award for Outstanding Production 1941 -- 1943 : Academy Award for Outstanding Motion Picture 1944 -- 1961 : Academy Award for Best Motion Picture 1962 -- present : Academy Award for Best Picture Recipients Until 1950, this award was presented to a representative of the production company. That year the protocol was changed so that the award was presented to all credited producers. This rule was modified in 1998 to apply a limit of three producers receiving the award, after the five producers of Shakespeare in Love had received the award. As of 2014, the `` Special Rules for the Best Picture of the Year Award '' limit recipients to those who meet two main requirements : Those with screen credit of `` producer '' or `` produced by '' those three or fewer producers who have performed the major portion of the producing functions The rules allow `` bona fide team ( s ) of not more than two people to be considered to be a single ' producer ' if the two individuals have had an established producing partnership for at least the previous five years and as a producing team have produced a minimum of five theatrically released feature motion pictures during that time. The Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among the four producers nominated for The Reader. As of 2014 the Producers Branch Executive Committee determines such exceptions, noting they take place only in `` rare and extraordinary circumstance ( s ). '' Steven Spielberg currently holds the record for most nominations at ten, winning one, while Kathleen Kennedy holds the record for most nominations without a win at eight. Sam Spiegel and Saul Zaentz tie for the most wins with three each. As for the time when the Oscar was given to production companies instead, Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer holds the record with five wins and 40 nominations. Best Picture and Best Director The Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been closely linked throughout their history. Of the 90 films that have won Best Picture, 63 have also been awarded Best Director. Only four films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination : Wings ( 1927 / 28 ), Grand Hotel ( 1931 / 32 ), Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 ), and Argo ( 2012 ). The only two Best Director winners to win for films that did not receive a Best Picture nomination were during the early years of the awards : Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Knights ( 1927 / 28 ), and Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady ( 1928 / 29 ). Nomination limit increased On June 24, 2009, AMPAS announced that the number of films to be nominated in the Best Picture award category would increase from five to ten, starting with the 82nd Academy Awards ( 2009 ). The expansion was a throwback to the Academy 's early years in the 1930s and 1940s, when eight to 12 films were nominated each year. `` Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize, '' AMPAS President Sid Ganis said in a press conference. `` I ca n't wait to see what that list of 10 looks like when the nominees are announced in February. '' At the same time, the voting system was switched from first - past - the - post to instant runoff voting ( also known as preferential voting ). Two years after this change, the Academy revised the rule again so that the number of films nominated was between five and ten ; nominated films must earn either 5 % of first - place rankings or 5 % after an abbreviated variation of the single transferable vote nominating process. Bruce Davis, the Academy executive director at the time, said, `` A Best Picture nomination should be an indication of extraordinary merit. If there are only eight pictures that truly earn that honor in a given year, we should n't feel an obligation to round out the number. '' Controversies One point of contention with the award is the lack of consideration of non-English language films for Best Picture. Only nine foreign language films have been nominated in the category : Grand Illusion ( French, 1938 ) ; Z ( French, 1969 ) ; The Emigrants ( Swedish, 1972 ) ; Cries and Whispers ( Swedish, 1973 ) ; The Postman ( Il Postino ) ( Italian / Spanish, 1995 ) ; Life Is Beautiful ( Italian, 1998 ) ; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( Mandarin Chinese, 2000 ) ; Letters from Iwo Jima ( Japanese, 2006, but ineligible for Best Foreign Language Film, as it was an American production ) ; and Amour ( French, 2012 ). Only nine films wholly financed outside the United States have won Best Picture, eight of which were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom. Those films being : Hamlet ( 1948 ), Tom Jones ( 1963 ), A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ), Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ), The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), and The King 's Speech ( 2010 ). The ninth film, The Artist, ( 2011 ) was financed by France. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read La La Land as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the `` Best Actress in a Leading Role '' award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in La La Land moments prior. When the mistake was realized, the show 's producers rushed onstage to correct it ; in the resulting chaos, it was La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz who finally announced that Moonlight was the real winner. Sequel nominations and winners Few sequels have been nominated for Best Picture ; two have won : The Godfather Part II and The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King. Other nominees include The Bells of St. Mary 's, The Godfather Part III, The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers, Toy Story 3, and Mad Max : Fury Road. Another nominee, Broadway Melody of 1936, was a follow - up of sorts to previous winner The Broadway Melody. But, beyond the title and some music, there is no story connection to the earlier film. The Silence of the Lambs was adapted from the sequel novel to Red Dragon. The latter had been adapted for film as Manhunter by a different studio. Best Picture nominee The Lion in Winter features Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, a role he had played previously in the film Becket. But Winter is not a sequel to Becket. Clint Eastwood 's Letters from Iwo Jima was a companion piece to his film Flags of Our Fathers, released earlier the same year. These two films depict the same battle from the different viewpoints of Japanese and United States military forces ; the two films were shot back - to - back. Several musical adaptations based on material previously filmed in non-musical form have won Best Picture, including Gigi, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Oliver !, and Chicago. Silent film winners This article appears to contradict another article. Please see discussion on the linked talk page. ( July 2014 ) The Artist ( with the exception of a single scene of dialogue, and dream sequence with sound effects ) was the first silent film since Wings to win Best Picture. It was the first silent nominee since 1928 's The Patriot. It was the first Best Picture winner to be shot entirely in black - and - white since 1960 's The Apartment. ( Schindler 's List, the 1993 winner, was predominantly black - and - white but it did contain some color sequences ). Version availability No Best Picture winner has been 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. This has usually been due to editing 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 Broadway Melody originally had some sequences photographed in two - color Technicolor. This footage survives only in black and white. The 1928 film The Patriot is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost ( about one - third is extant ). The Racket, also from 1928, was believed lost for many years until a print was found in Howard Hughes ' archives. It has since been restored and shown on Turner Classic Movies. The only surviving complete prints of 1931 's East Lynne and 1934 's The White Parade exist within the UCLA film archive. Winners and nominees In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, 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, however, it may be the year after first release ( as with Casablanca and, if the film - festival premiere is considered, Crash ). This is also 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 on that ceremony. Each individual entry shows the title followed by nominee. Until 1950, the Best Picture award was given to the production company ; from 1951 on, it has gone to the producer or producers. The Academy used the producer credits of the Producers Guild of America ( PGA ) until 1998, when all five producers of Shakespeare in Love made speeches after its win. A three - producer limit has been applied some years since. There was controversy over the exclusion of some PGA - credited producers of Crash and Little Miss Sunshine. The Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously among the four nominated for The Reader. However, now any number of producers on a film can be nominated for Best Picture, should they be deemed eligible. For the first ceremony, three films were nominated for the award. For the following three years, five films were nominated for the award. This was expanded to eight in 1933, to ten in 1934, and to twelve in 1935, before being dropped back to ten in 1937. In 1945 it was further reduced to five. This number remained until 2009, when the limit was raised to ten and later adjusted in 2011, to vary between five and ten. For the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928, and July 31, 1929. Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31. indicates the winner 1920s Year Film Nominees 1927 / 28 ( 1st ) Wings Paramount Famous Lasky The Racket The Caddo Company 7th Heaven Fox 1928 / 29 ( 2nd ) The Broadway Melody Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Alibi Feature Productions Hollywood Revue Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer In Old Arizona Fox The Patriot Paramount Famous Lasky 1930s Year Film Nominees 1929 / 30 ( 3rd ) All Quiet on the Western Front Universal The Big House Cosmopolitan Disraeli Warner Bros. The Divorcee Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer The Love Parade Paramount Famous Lasky 1930 / 31 ( 4th ) Cimarron RKO Radio East Lynne Fox The Front Page The Caddo Company Skippy Paramount Publix Trader Horn Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer 1931 / 32 ( 5th ) Grand Hotel Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Arrowsmith Samuel Goldwyn Productions Bad Girl Fox The Champ Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Five Star Final First National One Hour with You Paramount Publix Shanghai Express Paramount Publix The Smiling Lieutenant Paramount Publix 1932 / 33 ( 6th ) Cavalcade Fox 42nd Street Warner Bros. A Farewell to Arms Paramount I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Warner Bros. Lady for a Day Columbia Little Women RKO Radio The Private Life of Henry VIII London Films She Done Him Wrong Paramount Smilin ' Through Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer State Fair Fox 1934 ( 7th ) It Happened One Night Columbia The Barretts of Wimpole Street Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Cleopatra Paramount Flirtation Walk First National The Gay Divorcee RKO Radio Here Comes the Navy Warner Bros. The House of Rothschild 20th Century Imitation of Life Universal One Night of Love Columbia The Thin Man Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Viva Villa ! Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer The White Parade Jesse L. Lasky ( production company ) 1935 ( 8th ) Mutiny on the Bounty Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Alice Adams RKO Radio Broadway Melody of 1936 Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Captain Blood Cosmopolitan David Copperfield Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer The Informer RKO Radio The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Paramount A Midsummer Night 's Dream Warner Bros. Les Misérables 20th Century Naughty Marietta Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Ruggles of Red Gap Paramount Top Hat RKO Radio 1936 ( 9th ) The Great Ziegfeld Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Anthony Adverse Warner Bros. Dodsworth Samuel Goldwyn Productions Libeled Lady Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Columbia Romeo and Juliet Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer San Francisco Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer The Story of Louis Pasteur Cosmopolitan A Tale of Two Cities Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Three Smart Girls Universal 1937 ( 10th ) The Life of Emile Zola Warner Bros. The Awful Truth Columbia Captains Courageous Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Dead End Samuel Goldwyn Productions The Good Earth Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer In Old Chicago 20th Century - Fox Lost Horizon Columbia One Hundred Men and a Girl Universal Stage Door RKO Radio A Star Is Born Selznick International Pictures 1938 ( 11th ) You Ca n't Take It with You Columbia The Adventures of Robin Hood Warner Bros. - First National Alexander 's Ragtime Band 20th Century - Fox Boys Town Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer The Citadel Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Four Daughters Warner Bros. - First National Grand Illusion Realization D'Art Cinematographique Jezebel Warner Bros. Pygmalion Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Test Pilot Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer 1939 ( 12th ) Gone with the Wind Selznick International Pictures Dark Victory Warner Bros. - First National Goodbye, Mr. Chips Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Love Affair RKO Radio Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Columbia Ninotchka Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Of Mice and Men Hal Roach ( production company ) Stagecoach Walter Wanger ( production company ) The Wizard of Oz Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Wuthering Heights Samuel Goldwyn Productions 1940s Year Film Nominees 1940 ( 13th ) Rebecca Selznick International Pictures All This, and Heaven Too Warner Bros. Foreign Correspondent Walter Wanger ( production company ) The Grapes of Wrath 20th Century - Fox The Great Dictator Charles Chaplin Productions Kitty Foyle RKO Radio The Letter Warner Bros. The Long Voyage Home Argosy - Wanger Our Town Sol Lesser ( production company ) The Philadelphia Story Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer 1941 ( 14th ) How Green Was My Valley 20th Century - Fox Blossoms in the Dust Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Citizen Kane Mercury Here Comes Mr. Jordan Columbia Hold Back the Dawn Paramount The Little Foxes Samuel Goldwyn Productions The Maltese Falcon Warner Bros. One Foot in Heaven Warner Bros. Sergeant York Warner Bros. Suspicion RKO Radio 1942 ( 15th ) Mrs. Miniver Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer The Invaders Ortus Kings Row Warner Bros. The Magnificent Ambersons Mercury The Pied Piper 20th Century - Fox The Pride of the Yankees Samuel Goldwyn Productions Random Harvest Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer The Talk of the Town Columbia Wake Island Paramount Yankee Doodle Dandy Warner Bros. 1943 ( 16th ) Casablanca Warner Bros. For Whom the Bell Tolls Paramount Heaven Can Wait 20th Century - Fox The Human Comedy Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer In Which We Serve Two Cities Films Madame Curie Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer The More the Merrier Columbia The Ox - Bow Incident 20th Century - Fox The Song of Bernadette 20th Century - Fox Watch on the Rhine Warner Bros. 1944 ( 17th ) Going My Way Paramount Double Indemnity Paramount Gaslight Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Since You Went Away Selznick International Pictures Wilson 20th Century - Fox 1945 ( 18th ) The Lost Weekend Paramount Anchors Aweigh Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer The Bells of St. Mary 's Rainbow Productions Mildred Pierce Warner Bros. Spellbound Selznick International Pictures 1946 ( 19th ) The Best Years of Our Lives Samuel Goldwyn Productions Henry V Two Cities Films It 's a Wonderful Life Liberty Films The Razor 's Edge 20th Century - Fox The Yearling Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer 1947 ( 20th ) Gentleman 's Agreement 20th Century - Fox The Bishop 's Wife Samuel Goldwyn Productions Crossfire RKO Radio Great Expectations J. Arthur Rank - Cineguild Miracle on 34th Street 20th Century - Fox 1948 ( 21st ) Hamlet J. Arthur Rank - Two Cities Films Johnny Belinda Warner Bros. The Red Shoes J. Arthur Rank - Archers The Snake Pit 20th Century - Fox The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Warner Bros. 1949 ( 22nd ) All the King 's Men Robert Rossen Productions Battleground Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer The Heiress Paramount A Letter to Three Wives 20th Century - Fox Twelve O'Clock High 20th Century - Fox 1950s Year Film Nominees 1950 ( 23rd ) All About Eve 20th Century - Fox Born Yesterday Columbia Father of the Bride Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer King Solomon 's Mines Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Sunset Boulevard Paramount 1951 ( 24th ) An American in Paris Arthur Freed Decision Before Dawn Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy A Place in the Sun George Stevens Quo Vadis Sam Zimbalist A Streetcar Named Desire Charles K. Feldman 1952 ( 25th ) The Greatest Show on Earth Cecil B. DeMille High Noon Stanley Kramer Ivanhoe Pandro S. Berman Moulin Rouge John Huston, John Woolf and James Woolf The Quiet Man John Ford and Merian C. Cooper 1953 ( 26th ) From Here to Eternity Buddy Adler Julius Caesar John Houseman The Robe Frank Ross Roman Holiday William Wyler Shane George Stevens 1954 ( 27th ) On the Waterfront Sam Spiegel The Caine Mutiny Stanley Kramer The Country Girl William Perlberg Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Jack Cummings Three Coins in the Fountain Sol C. Siegel 1955 ( 28th ) Marty Harold Hecht Love Is a Many - Splendored Thing Buddy Adler Mister Roberts Leland Hayward Picnic Fred Kohlmar The Rose Tattoo Hal B. Wallis 1956 ( 29th ) Around the World in 80 Days Michael Todd Friendly Persuasion William Wyler Giant George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg The King and I Charles Brackett The Ten Commandments Cecil B. DeMille 1957 ( 30th ) The Bridge on the River Kwai Sam Spiegel 12 Angry Men Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose Peyton Place Jerry Wald Sayonara William Goetz Witness for the Prosecution Arthur Hornblow Jr. 1958 ( 31st ) Gigi Arthur Freed Auntie Mame Jack L. Warner Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Lawrence Weingarten The Defiant Ones Stanley Kramer Separate Tables Harold Hecht 1959 ( 32nd ) Ben - Hur Sam Zimbalist Anatomy of a Murder Otto Preminger The Diary of Anne Frank George Stevens The Nun 's Story Henry Blanke Room at the Top John Woolf and James Woolf 1960s Year Film Nominees 1960 ( 33rd ) The Apartment Billy Wilder The Alamo John Wayne Elmer Gantry Bernard Smith Sons and Lovers Jerry Wald The Sundowners Fred Zinnemann 1961 ( 34th ) West Side Story Robert Wise Fanny Joshua Logan The Guns of Navarone Carl Foreman The Hustler Robert Rossen Judgment at Nuremberg Stanley Kramer 1962 ( 35th ) Lawrence of Arabia Sam Spiegel The Longest Day Darryl F. Zanuck The Music Man Morton DaCosta Mutiny on the Bounty Aaron Rosenberg To Kill a Mockingbird Alan J. Pakula 1963 ( 36th ) Tom Jones Tony Richardson America America Elia Kazan Cleopatra Walter Wanger How the West Was Won Bernard Smith Lilies of the Field Ralph Nelson 1964 ( 37th ) My Fair Lady Jack L. Warner Becket Hal B. Wallis Dr. Strangelove or : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick Mary Poppins Walt Disney and Bill Walsh Zorba the Greek Michael Cacoyannis 1965 ( 38th ) The Sound of Music Robert Wise Darling Joseph Janni Doctor Zhivago Carlo Ponti Ship of Fools Stanley Kramer A Thousand Clowns Fred Coe 1966 ( 39th ) A Man for All Seasons Fred Zinnemann Alfie Lewis Gilbert The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming Norman Jewison The Sand Pebbles Robert Wise Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? Ernest Lehman 1967 ( 40th ) In the Heat of the Night Walter Mirisch Bonnie and Clyde Warren Beatty Doctor Dolittle Arthur P. Jacobs The Graduate Lawrence Turman Guess Who 's Coming to Dinner Stanley Kramer 1968 ( 41st ) Oliver ! John Woolf Funny Girl Ray Stark The Lion in Winter Martin Poll Rachel, Rachel Paul Newman Romeo and Juliet Anthony Havelock - Allan and John Brabourne 1969 ( 42nd ) Midnight Cowboy Jerome Hellman Anne of the Thousand Days Hal B. Wallis Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid John Foreman Hello, Dolly ! Ernest Lehman Z Jacques Perrin and Ahmed Rachedi 1970s Year Film Nominees 1970 ( 43rd ) Patton Frank McCarthy Airport Ross Hunter Five Easy Pieces Bob Rafelson and Richard Wechsler Love Story Howard G. Minsky M * A * S * H Ingo Preminger 1971 ( 44th ) The French Connection Philip D'Antoni A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick Fiddler on the Roof Norman Jewison The Last Picture Show Stephen J. Friedman Nicholas and Alexandra Sam Spiegel 1972 ( 45th ) The Godfather Albert S. Ruddy Cabaret Cy Feuer Deliverance John Boorman The Emigrants Bengt Forslund Sounder Robert B. Radnitz 1973 ( 46th ) The Sting Tony Bill, Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips American Graffiti Francis Ford Coppola and Gary Kurtz Cries and Whispers Ingmar Bergman The Exorcist William Peter Blatty A Touch of Class Melvin Frank ( 47th ) The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos Chinatown Robert Evans The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola Lenny Marvin Worth The Towering Inferno Irwin Allen ( 48th ) One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick Dog Day Afternoon Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand Jaws Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown Nashville Robert Altman 1976 ( 49th ) Rocky Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff All the President 's Men Walter Coblenz Bound for Glory Robert F. Blumofe and Harold Leventhal Network Howard Gottfried Taxi Driver Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips 1977 ( 50th ) Annie Hall Charles H. Joffe The Goodbye Girl Ray Stark Julia Richard Roth Star Wars Gary Kurtz The Turning Point Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents 1978 ( 51st ) The Deer Hunter Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall Coming Home Jerome Hellman Heaven Can Wait Warren Beatty Midnight Express Alan Marshall and David Puttnam An Unmarried Woman Paul Mazursky and Tony Ray 1979 ( 52nd ) Kramer vs. Kramer Stanley R. Jaffe All That Jazz Robert Alan Aurthur Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg Breaking Away Peter Yates Norma Rae Tamara Asseyev and Alex Rose 1980s Year Film Nominees 1980 ( 53rd ) Ordinary People Ronald L. Schwary Coal Miner 's Daughter Bernard Schwartz The Elephant Man Jonathan Sanger Raging Bull Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff Tess Claude Berri and Timothy Burrill 1981 ( 54th ) Chariots of Fire David Puttnam Atlantic City Denis Héroux On Golden Pond Bruce Gilbert Raiders of the Lost Ark Frank Marshall Reds Warren Beatty 1982 ( 55th ) Gandhi Richard Attenborough E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy Missing Edward Lewis and Mildred Lewis Tootsie Sydney Pollack and Dick Richards The Verdict Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown ( 56th ) Terms of Endearment James L. Brooks The Big Chill Michael Shamberg The Dresser Peter Yates The Right Stuff Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff Tender Mercies Philip S. Hobel 1984 ( 57th ) Amadeus Saul Zaentz The Killing Fields David Puttnam A Passage to India John Brabourne and Richard B. Goodwin Places in the Heart Arlene Donovan A Soldier 's Story Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary and Patrick Palmer 1985 ( 58th ) Out of Africa Sydney Pollack The Color Purple Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Quincy Jones Kiss of the Spider Woman David Weisman Prizzi 's Honor John Foreman Witness Edward S. Feldman 1986 ( 59th ) Platoon Arnold Kopelson Children of a Lesser God Burt Sugarman and Patrick J. Palmer Hannah and Her Sisters Robert Greenhut The Mission Fernando Ghia and David Puttnam A Room with a View Ismail Merchant ( 60th ) The Last Emperor Jeremy Thomas Broadcast News James L. Brooks Fatal Attraction Stanley R. Jaffe and Sherry Lansing Hope and Glory John Boorman Moonstruck Patrick J. Palmer and Norman Jewison 1988 ( 61st ) Rain Man Mark Johnson The Accidental Tourist Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun and Michael Grillo Dangerous Liaisons Norma Heyman and Hank Moonjean Mississippi Burning Frederick Zollo and Robert F. Colesberry Working Girl Douglas Wick 1989 ( 62nd ) Driving Miss Daisy Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck Born on the Fourth of July A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone Dead Poets Society Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas Field of Dreams Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon My Left Foot Noel Pearson 1990s Year Film Nominees 1990 ( 63rd ) Dances with Wolves Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner Awakenings Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker Ghost Lisa Weinstein The Godfather Part III Francis Ford Coppola Goodfellas Irwin Winkler 1991 ( 64th ) The Silence of the Lambs Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt and Ron Bozman Beauty and the Beast Don Hahn Bugsy Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson and Warren Beatty JFK A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone The Prince of Tides Barbra Streisand and Andrew S. Karsch 1992 ( 65th ) Unforgiven Clint Eastwood The Crying Game Stephen Woolley A Few Good Men David Brown, Rob Reiner and Andrew Scheinman Howards End Ismail Merchant Scent of a Woman Martin Brest 1993 ( 66th ) Schindler 's List Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig The Fugitive Arnold Kopelson In the Name of the Father Jim Sheridan The Piano Jan Chapman The Remains of the Day Mike Nichols, John Calley and Ismail Merchant 1994 ( 67th ) Forrest Gump Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey Four Weddings and a Funeral Duncan Kenworthy Pulp Fiction Lawrence Bender Quiz Show Michael Jacobs, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozik and Robert Redford The Shawshank Redemption Niki Marvin 1995 ( 68th ) Braveheart Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd Jr. and Bruce Davey Apollo 13 Brian Grazer Babe Bill Miller, George Miller and Doug Mitchell The Postman ( Il Postino ) Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Gaetano Daniele Sense and Sensibility Lindsay Doran ( 69th ) The English Patient Saul Zaentz Fargo Ethan Coen Jerry Maguire James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai and Cameron Crowe Secrets & Lies Simon Channing - Williams Shine Jane Scott 1997 ( 70th ) Titanic James Cameron and Jon Landau As Good as It Gets James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson and Kristi Zea The Full Monty Umberto Pasolini Good Will Hunting Lawrence Bender L.A. Confidential Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan and Michael Nathanson 1998 ( 71st ) Shakespeare in Love David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman Elizabeth Alison Owen, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan Life Is Beautiful Elda Ferri and Gianluigi Braschi Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon and Gary Levinsohn The Thin Red Line Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau and Grant Hill 1999 ( 72nd ) American Beauty Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks The Cider House Rules Richard N. Gladstein The Green Mile Frank Darabont and David Valdes The Insider Pieter Jan Brugge and Michael Mann The Sixth Sense Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Barry Mendel 2000s Year Film Nominees 2000 ( 73rd ) Gladiator Douglas Wick, David Franzoni and Branko Lustig Chocolat David Brown, Kit Golden and Leslie Holleran Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon William Kong, Hsu Li - kong and Ang Lee Erin Brockovich Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher Traffic Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Laura Bickford 2001 ( 74th ) A Beautiful Mind Brian Grazer and Ron Howard Gosford Park Robert Altman, Bob Balaban and David Levy In the Bedroom Graham Leader, Ross Katz, and Todd Field The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Barrie M. Osborne Moulin Rouge ! Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann and Fred Baron 2002 ( 75th ) Chicago Martin Richards Gangs of New York Alberto Grimaldi and Harvey Weinstein The Hours Scott Rudin and Robert Fox The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson The Pianist Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde 2003 ( 76th ) The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh Lost in Translation Ross Katz and Sofia Coppola Master and Commander : The Far Side of the World Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Peter Weir and Duncan Henderson Mystic River Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt and Clint Eastwood Seabiscuit Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Gary Ross ( 77th ) Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg The Aviator Michael Mann and Graham King Finding Neverland Richard N. Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower Ray Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin and Howard Baldwin Sideways Michael London 2005 ( 78th ) Crash Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman Brokeback Mountain Diana Ossana and James Schamus Capote Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven Good Night, and Good Luck Grant Heslov Munich Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy and Barry Mendel 2006 ( 79th ) The Departed Graham King Babel Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin and Jon Kilik Letters from Iwo Jima Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz Little Miss Sunshine David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub The Queen Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward 2007 ( 80th ) No Country for Old Men Scott Rudin, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Atonement Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster Juno Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith Michael Clayton Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent and Sydney Pollack There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi and JoAnne Sellar 2008 ( 81st ) Slumdog Millionaire Christian Colson The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin Frost / Nixon Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Eric Fellner Milk Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks The Reader Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris 2009 ( 82nd ) The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro Avatar James Cameron and Jon Landau The Blind Side Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson District 9 Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham An Education Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey Inglourious Basterds Lawrence Bender Precious : Based on the Novel ' Push ' by Sapphire Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel - Magness and Gary Magness A Serious Man Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Up Jonas Rivera Up in the Air Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman 2010s Year Film Nominees ( 83rd ) The King 's Speech Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin 127 Hours Danny Boyle, John Smithson and Christian Colson Black Swan Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy and Brian Oliver The Fighter David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg Inception Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas The Kids Are All Right Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy - Hinte and Celine Rattray The Social Network Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca and Scott Rudin Toy Story 3 Darla K. Anderson True Grit Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, and Scott Rudin Winter 's Bone Alix Madigan and Anne Rosellini 2011 ( 84th ) The Artist Thomas Langmann The Descendants Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Scott Rudin The Help Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan Hugo Graham King and Martin Scorsese Midnight in Paris Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum Moneyball Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt The Tree of Life Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner and Grant Hill War Horse Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy 2012 ( 85th ) Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney Amour Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz Beasts of the Southern Wild Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald Django Unchained Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone Les Misérables Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh Life of Pi Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark Lincoln Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy Silver Linings Playbook Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison 2013 ( 86th ) 12 Years a Slave Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas American Hustle Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon Captain Phillips Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca Dallas Buyers Club Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter Gravity Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman Her Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay Nebraska Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa Philomena Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joey McFarland and Emma Tillinger Koskoff 2014 ( 87th ) Birdman or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance ) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole American Sniper Clint Eastwood, Andrew Lazar, Robert Lorenz, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan Boyhood Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven M. Rales and Jeremy Dawson The Imitation Game Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman Selma Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner The Theory of Everything Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten Whiplash Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster 2015 ( 88th ) Spotlight Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar The Big Short Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Brad Pitt Bridge of Spies Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger Brooklyn Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey Mad Max : Fury Road Doug Mitchell and George Miller The Martian Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam The Revenant Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon Room Ed Guiney 2016 ( 89th ) Moonlight Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner Arrival Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder and David Linde Fences Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington and Todd Black Hacksaw Ridge Bill Mechanic and David Permut Hell or High Water Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn Hidden Figures Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams and Theodore Melfi La La Land Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz and Marc Platt Lion Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder Manchester by the Sea Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck and Kevin J. Walsh 2017 ( 90th ) The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale Call Me by Your Name Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito Darkest Hour Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski Dunkirk Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan Get Out Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele Lady Bird Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O'Neill Phantom Thread JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi The Post Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh Individuals with multiple wins 3 wins Sam Spiegel Saul Zaentz 2 wins Arthur Freed Clint Eastwood Dede Gardner Jeremy Kleiner Branko Lustig Albert S. Ruddy Robert Wise Individuals with multiple nominations 10 nominations Steven Spielberg 9 nominations Scott Rudin 8 nominations Kathleen Kennedy 6 nominations Eric Fellner Stanley Kramer 5 nominations Tim Bevan Francis Ford Coppola Clint Eastwood Dede Gardner Frank Marshall 4 nominations Warren Beatty James L. Brooks David Brown Megan Ellison Ethan Coen Donna Gigliotti Peter Jackson Norman Jewison Jeremy Kleiner Sydney Pollack David Puttnam Sam Spiegel George Stevens Irwin Winkler 3 nominations Lawrence Bender Robert Chartoff Joel Coen Bruce Cohen Christian Colson Michael De Luca Steve Golin Brian Grazer Alejandro González Iñárritu Graham King Stanley Kubrick Robert Lorenz Ismail Merchant Barrie M. Osborne Brad Pitt Hal B. Wallis Fran Walsh Robert Wise John Woolf Saul Zaentz Richard D. Zanuck 2 nominations Buddy Adler Robert Altman Paul Thomas Anderson Kathryn Bigelow Jason Blum Mark Boal John Boorman John Brabourne Lisa Bruce Dana Brunetti James Cameron Iain Canning Ceán Chaffin Cecil B. DeMille Finola Dwyer John Foreman Gray Frederickson Arthur Freed Richard N. Gladstein Jonathan Gordon Jerome Hellman Grant Heslov Grant Hill Ron Howard Stanley R. Jaffe Dan Jinks Ross Katz A. Kitman Ho Arnold Kopelson Kristie Macosko Krieger Gary Kurtz Jon Landau Ang Lee Ernest Lehman Daniel Lupi Branko Lustig Mark Johnson Michael Mann Anthony McCarten Frank McCarthy Barry Mendel Arnon Milchan George Miller Doug Mitchell Patrick J. Palmer Julia Phillips Michael Phillips Marc Platt Amanda Posey Christopher Nolan Fred Roos Albert S. Ruddy Tracey Seaward Ronald L. Schwary Martin Scorsese JoAnne Sellar Michael Shamberg Stacey Sher Emile Sherman Bernard Smith Ray Stark Oliver Stone Emma Thomas Jerry Wald Jack L. Warner Harvey Weinstein Douglas Wick Jams Woolf William Wyler Peter Yates Sam Zimbalist Fred Zinnemann Edward Zwick Production companies with multiple nominations and wins Production Company Nominations Wins Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer 40 5 Fox 20th Century 20th Century - Fox 26 Warner Bros. First National Warner Bros. - First National 25 Paramount Paramount Famous Lasky Paramount Publix 20 Columbia 12 RKO Radio 11 Samuel Goldwyn Productions 8 Selznick International Pictures 5 Universal Two Cities Films J. Arthur Rank - Two Cities Films Cosmopolitan 0 The Caddo Company 0 Walter Wanger ( production company ) 0 Mercury 0 Notes Jump up ^ The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges at the time. Jump up ^ The Academy also announced that A Farewell to Arms came in second, and Little Women third. Jump up ^ The Academy also announced that The Barretts of Wimpole Street came in second, and The House of Rothschild third. Jump up ^ The Academy also announced that The Informer came in second, and Captain Blood third. See also Academy Award portal Book : Academy Awards for Best Picture BAFTA Award for Best Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Film Critics ' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture -- Drama Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture List of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture winners List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees List of presenters of the Academy Award for Best Picture List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture List of Academy Award - winning films List of film production companies List of films considered the best Lists of films References Jump up ^ `` How the Oscar Voting System Works ''. People.com. Retrieved 2018 - 01 - 23. 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Question: who won the oscar for the best picture
Answer: The Shape of Water