# List of presenters of the Academy Award for Best Picture

Each year, the Academy Award for Best Picture is presented by one or more artists on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture is traditionally the final award presented during the annual ceremonies, as this award represents a culmination of all factors of the filmmaking process. The presenter of the award was kept unannounced until the very moment. Jack Nicholson has presented the award more times than any other individual, at eight times, followed by Audrey Hepburn and Warren Beatty, who have presented the award four times each.

## List of presenters

| Ceremony | Film year | Date of ceremony | Presenter(s) | Best Picture |
| 1st | 1928 | May 16, 1929 | Douglas Fairbanks | Wings |
| 2nd | 1929 | April 3, 1930 | William C. deMille | The Broadway Melody |
| 3rd | 1930 | November 5, 1930 | Louis B. Mayer | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| 4th | 1931 | November 10, 1931 | B. P. Schulberg | Cimarron |
| 5th | 1932 | November 18, 1932 | William LeBaron | Grand Hotel |
| 6th | 1933 | March 16, 1934 | Will Rogers | Cavalcade |
| 7th | 1934 | February 27, 1935 | Irvin S. Cobb | It Happened One Night |
| 8th | 1935 | March 5, 1936 | Frank Capra | Mutiny on the Bounty |
| 9th | 1936 | March 4, 1937 | George Jessel | The Great Ziegfeld |
| 10th | 1937 | March 10, 1938 | Frank Capra (2) | The Life of Emile Zola |
| 11th | 1938 | February 23, 1939 | James Roosevelt | You Can't Take It with You |
| 12th | 1939 | February 29, 1940 | Y. Frank Freeman | Gone with the Wind |
| 13th | 1940 | February 27, 1941 | Mervyn LeRoy | Rebecca |
| 14th | 1941 | February 26, 1942 | David O. Selznick | How Green Was My Valley |
| 15th | 1942 | March 4, 1943 | William Goetz | Mrs. Miniver |
| 16th | 1943 | March 2, 1944 | Sidney Franklin | Casablanca |
| 17th | 1944 | March 15, 1945 | Hal B. Wallis | Going My Way |
| 18th | 1945 | March 7, 1946 | Eric Johnston | The Lost Weekend |
| 19th | 1946 | March 13, 1947 | Eric Johnston (2) | The Best Years of Our Lives |
| 20th | 1947 | March 20, 1948 | Fredric March | Gentleman's Agreement |
| 21st | 1948 | March 24, 1949 | Ethel Barrymore | Hamlet |
| 22nd | 1949 | March 23, 1950 | James Cagney | All the King's Men |
| 23rd | 1950 | March 29, 1951 | Ralph Bunche | All About Eve |
| 24th | 1951 | March 20, 1952 | Danny Kaye | An American in Paris |
| 25th | 1952 | March 19, 1953 | Mary Pickford | The Greatest Show on Earth |
| 26th | 1953 | March 25, 1954 | Cecil B. DeMille | From Here to Eternity |
| 27th | 1954 | March 30, 1955 | Buddy Adler | On the Waterfront |
| 28th | 1955 | March 21, 1956 | Audrey Hepburn | Marty |
| 29th | 1956 | March 27, 1957 | Janet Gaynor | Around the World in 80 Days |
| 30th | 1957 | March 26, 1958 | Gary Cooper | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| 31st | 1958 | April 6, 1959 | Ingrid Bergman | Gigi |
| 32nd | 1959 | April 4, 1960 | Gary Cooper (2) | Ben-Hur |
| 33rd | 1960 | April 17, 1961 | Audrey Hepburn (2) | The Apartment |
| 34th | 1961 | April 9, 1962 | Fred Astaire | West Side Story |
| 35th | 1962 | April 8, 1963 | Olivia de Havilland | Lawrence of Arabia |
| 36th | 1963 | April 13, 1964 | Frank Sinatra | Tom Jones |
| 37th | 1964 | April 5, 1965 | Gregory Peck | My Fair Lady |
| 38th | 1965 | April 18, 1966 | Jack Lemmon | The Sound of Music |
| 39th | 1966 | April 10, 1967 | Audrey Hepburn (3) | A Man for All Seasons |
| 40th | 1967 | April 10, 1968 | Julie Andrews | In the Heat of the Night |
| 41st | 1968 | April 14, 1969 | Sidney Poitier | Oliver! |
| 42nd | 1969 | April 7, 1970 | Elizabeth Taylor | Midnight Cowboy |
| 43rd | 1970 | April 15, 1971 | Steve McQueen | Patton |
| 44th | 1971 | April 10, 1972 | Jack Nicholson | The French Connection |
| 45th | 1972 | March 27, 1973 | Clint Eastwood | The Godfather |
| 46th | 1973 | April 2, 1974 | Elizabeth Taylor (2) | The Sting |
| 47th | 1974 | April 8, 1975 | Warren Beatty | The Godfather Part II |
| 48th | 1975 | March 29, 1976 | Audrey Hepburn (4) | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 49th | 1976 | March 28, 1977 | Jack Nicholson (2) | Rocky |
| 50th | 1977 | April 3, 1978 | Jack Nicholson (3) | Annie Hall |
| 51st | 1978 | April 9, 1979 | John Wayne | The Deer Hunter |
| 52nd | 1979 | April 14, 1980 | Charlton Heston | Kramer vs. Kramer |
| 53rd | 1980 | March 31, 1981 | Lillian Gish | Ordinary People |
| 54th | 1981 | March 29, 1982 | Loretta Young | Chariots of Fire |
| 55th | 1982 | April 11, 1983 | Carol Burnett | Gandhi |
| 56th | 1983 | April 9, 1984 | Frank Capra (3) | Terms of Endearment |
| 57th | 1984 | March 25, 1985 | Laurence Olivier | Amadeus |
| 58th | 1985 | March 24, 1986 | John Huston, Akira Kurosawa, and Billy Wilder | Out of Africa |
| 59th | 1986 | March 30, 1987 | Dustin Hoffman | Platoon |
| 60th | 1987 | April 11, 1988 | Eddie Murphy | The Last Emperor |
| 61st | 1988 | March 29, 1989 | Cher | Rain Man |
| 62nd | 1989 | March 26, 1990 | Warren Beatty (2) and Jack Nicholson (4) | Driving Miss Daisy |
| 63rd | 1990 | March 25, 1991 | Barbra Streisand | Dances with Wolves |
| 64th | 1991 | March 30, 1992 | Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor (3) | The Silence of the Lambs |
| 65th | 1992 | March 29, 1993 | Jack Nicholson (5) | Unforgiven |
| 66th | 1993 | March 21, 1994 | Harrison Ford | Schindler's List |
| 67th | 1994 | March 27, 1995 | Robert De Niro and Al Pacino | Forrest Gump |
| 68th | 1995 | March 25, 1996 | Sidney Poitier (2) | Braveheart |
| 69th | 1996 | March 24, 1997 | Al Pacino (2) | The English Patient |
| 70th | 1997 | March 23, 1998 | Sean Connery | Titanic |
| 71st | 1998 | March 21, 1999 | Harrison Ford (2) | Shakespeare in Love |
| 72nd | 1999 | March 26, 2000 | Clint Eastwood (2) | American Beauty |
| 73rd | 2000 | March 25, 2001 | Michael Douglas | Gladiator |
| 74th | 2001 | March 24, 2002 | Tom Hanks | A Beautiful Mind |
| 75th | 2002 | March 23, 2003 | Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas (2) | Chicago |
| 76th | 2003 | February 29, 2004 | Steven Spielberg | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 77th | 2004 | February 27, 2005 | Dustin Hoffman (2) and Barbra Streisand (2) | Million Dollar Baby |
| 78th | 2005 | March 5, 2006 | Jack Nicholson (6) | Crash |
| 79th | 2006 | February 25, 2007 | Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson (7) | The Departed |
| 80th | 2007 | February 24, 2008 | Denzel Washington | No Country for Old Men |
| 81st | 2008 | February 22, 2009 | Steven Spielberg (2) | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 82nd | 2009 | March 7, 2010 | Tom Hanks (2) | The Hurt Locker |
| 83rd | 2010 | February 27, 2011 | Steven Spielberg (3) | The King's Speech |
| 84th | 2011 | February 26, 2012 | Tom Cruise | The Artist |
| 85th | 2012 | February 24, 2013 | Michelle Obama and Jack Nicholson (8) | Argo |
| 86th | 2013 | March 2, 2014 | Will Smith | 12 Years a Slave |
| 87th | 2014 | February 22, 2015 | Sean Penn | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| 88th | 2015 | February 28, 2016 | Morgan Freeman | Spotlight |
| 89th | 2016 | February 26, 2017 | Warren Beatty (3) and Faye Dunaway | Moonlight |
| 90th | 2017 | March 4, 2018 | Warren Beatty (4) and Faye Dunaway (2) | The Shape of Water |
| 91st | 2018 | February 24, 2019 | Julia Roberts | Green Book |
| 92nd | 2019 | February 9, 2020 | Jane Fonda | Parasite |
| 93rd | 2020 | April 25, 2021 | Rita Moreno | Nomadland |
| 94th | 2021 | March 27, 2022 | Lady Gaga and Liza Minnelli | CODA |
| 95th | 2022 | March 12, 2023 | Harrison Ford (3) | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 96th | 2023 | March 10, 2024 | Al Pacino (3) | Oppenheimer |
| 97th | 2024 | March 2, 2025 | Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan | Anora |