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- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsCillian MurphyEmily BluntMatt DamonThe story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.7 Awards:
+ Best Director (Christopher Nolan)
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Cillian Murphy)
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Robert Downey Jr.)
+ Best Editing
+ Best Cinematography
+ Best Soundtrack - 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.7 Awards:
+ Best director (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Michelle Yeoh)
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Jamie Lee Curtis)
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Ke Huy Quan)
+ Best Writing, Original
+ Best Editing - 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.3 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Troy Kotsur)
+ Best Writing, Adaptation - 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.3 Awards:
+ Best Director (Chloé Zhao)
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Frances McDormand) - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Director (Bong Joon-ho)
+ Best International Movie
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay - 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.3 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Mahershala Ali)
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best director (Guillermo del Toro)
+ Best Original Score
+ Best production design - 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.3 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Mahershala Ali)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay - 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.2 Awards:
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Director (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography - 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.3 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Lupita Nyong'o)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay - 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 1979.3 Awards:
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Film Editing - 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Jean Dujardin)
+ Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius)
+ Best Original Score
+ Best Costume Design - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Colin Firth)
+ Best Director (Tom Hooper)
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay - 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.6 Awards:
+ Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow)
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Sound Editing
+ Best Sound Mixing - 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.8 Awards:
+ Best Director (Danny Boyle)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography
+ Best Original Score
+ Best Original Song ("Jai ho")
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Sound Mixing - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Javier Bardem)
+ Best Director (Ethan y Joel Coen)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Director (Martin Scorsese)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Film Editing - DirectorPaul HaggisStarsDon CheadleSandra BullockThandiwe NewtonLos Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.3 Awards:
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay
+ Best Film Editing - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Hilary Swank)
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Morgan Freeman)
+ Best Director (Clint Eastwood) - 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.11 Awards:
+ Best Director (Peter Jackson)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Original Score
+ Best Original Song ("Into the West")
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Costume Design
+ Best Makeup
+ Best Visual Effects
+ Best Sound Mixing - DirectorRob MarshallStarsRenée ZellwegerCatherine Zeta-JonesRichard GereTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.6 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Catherine Zeta-Jones)
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Costume Design
+ Best Film Editing
+ 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Jennifer Connelly)
+ Best Director (Ron Howard)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay - 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Russell Crowe)
+ Best Costume Design
+ Best Effects, Visual Effects
+ Best Sound - DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.5 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Kevin Spacey)
+ Best Director (Sam Mendes)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay Original
+ Best Cinematography - 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.7 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Gwyneth Paltrow)
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Judi Dench)
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay
+ Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Costume Design - 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.11 Awards:
+ Best Director (James Cameron)
+ Best Cinematography
+ Best Music, Original Dramatic Score
+ Best Original Song ("My heart will go on")
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Costume Design
+ Best Effects, Visual Effects
+ Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing
+ Best Sound - 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.9 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Juliette Binoche)
+ Best Director (Anthony Minghella)
+ Best Cinematography
+ Best Music, Original Dramatic Score
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Costume Design
+ Best Sound - 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Director (Mel Gibson)
+ Best Cinematography
+ Best Makeup
+ Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing - 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.6 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Tom Hanks)
+ Best Director (Robert Zemeckis)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Effects, Visual Effects - 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.7 Awards:
+ Best Director (Steven Spielberg)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography
+ Best Original Score
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - 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."4 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Gene Hackman)
+ Best Director (Clint Eastwood)
+ Best Film Editing - 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Jodie Foster)
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Anthony Hopkins)
+ Best Director (Jonathan Demme)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay - 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.7 Awards:
+ Best Director (Kevin Costner)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography
+ Best Original Score
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Sound - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Jessica Tandy)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Makeup - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Dustin Hoffman)
+ Best Director (Barry Levinson)
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay - DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJohn LoneJoan ChenPeter O'TooleBernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.9 Awards:
+ Best Director (Bernardo Bertolucci)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography
+ Best Original Score
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Costume Design
+ Best Sound - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Director (Oliver Stone)
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Sound - 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.7 Awards:
+ Best Director (Sydney Pollack)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography
+ Best Original Score
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Sound - 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.8 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (F. Murray Abraham)
+ Best Director (Milos Forman)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Costume Design
+ Best Makeup
+ Best Sound - DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsShirley MacLaineDebra WingerJack NicholsonFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.5 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Shirley MacLaine)
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Jack Nicholson)
+ Best Director (James L. Brooks)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay - 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.8 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Ben Kingsley)
+ Best Director (Richard Attenborough)
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Costume Design - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay
+ Best Original Score
+ Best Costume design - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Timothy Hutton)
+ Best Director (Robert Redford)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay - 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Dustin Hoffman)
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Meryl Streep)
+ Best Director (Robert Benton)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay - 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Christopher Walken)
+ Best Director (Michael Cimino)
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Sound - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Diane Keaton)
+ Best Director (Woody Allen)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay Original - 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.3 Awards:
+ Best Director (John G. Avildsen)
+ Best Film Editing - 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Jack Nicholson)
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Louise Fletcher)
+ Best Director (Milos Forman)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted - 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.6 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Robert De Niro)
+ Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Music, Original Dramatic Score
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.7 Awards:
+ Best Director (George Roy Hill)
+ Best Writing, Original Screenplay
+ Best Music
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Costume Design - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.3 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Marlon Brando)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay - 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Gene Hackman)
+ Best Director (William Friedkin)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Film Editing - DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.7 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (George C. Scott)
+ Best Director (Franklin J. Schaffner)
+ Best Writing, Original Story and Screenplay
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ 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.3 Awards:
+ Best Director (John Schlesinger)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay - 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Director (Carol Reed)
+ Best Music, Score of a Musical Picture
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Sound - 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Rod Steiger)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Film Editing
+ 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.6 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Paul Scofield)
+ Best Director (Fred Zinnemann)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography, Color
+ Best Costume Design, Color - 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Director (Robert Wise)
+ Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Sound - 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.8 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Rex Harrison)
+ Best Director (George Cukor)
+ Best Cinematography, Color
+ Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
+ Best Costume Design, Color
+ Best Sound - DirectorTony RichardsonStarsAlbert FinneySusannah YorkGeorge DevineThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.4 Awards:
+ Best Director (Tony Richardson)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Music, Score - Substantially Original - 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.7 Awards:
+ Best Director (David Lean)
+ Best Cinematography, Color
+ Best Music, Score - Substantially Original
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
+ Best Sound - 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.10 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Rita Moreno)
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (George Chakiris)
+ Best Director (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins)
+ Best Cinematography, Color
+ Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
+ Best Costume Design, Color
+ 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Director (Billy Wilder)
+ Best Writng, Screenplay Original
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White - 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.11 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Charlton Heston)
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Hugh Griffith)
+ Best Director (William Wyler)
+ Best Cinematography, Color
+ Best Music, Scoring
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
+ Best Costume Design, Color
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Effects, Special Effects
+ Best Sound - 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.9 Awards:
+ Best Director (Vincente Minnelli)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography, Color
+ Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
+ Best Original Song ("Gigi")
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
+ Best Costume Design - 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.7 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Alec Guinness)
+ Best Director (David Lean)
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography
+ Best Music, Scoring
+ Best Film Editing - DirectorMichael AndersonJohn FarrowStarsDavid NivenCantinflasFinlay CurrieA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.5 Awards:
+ Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography, Color
+ Best Music, Scoring
+ Best Film Editing - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Ernest Borgnine)
+ Best Director (Delbert Mann)
+ 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.8 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Marlon Brando)
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Eva Marie Saint)
+ Best Director (Elia Kazan)
+ Best Writing, Story and Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White - 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.8 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Donna Reed)
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Frank Sinatra)
+ Best Director (Fred Zinnemann)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Sound, Recording - 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.2 Awards:
+ Best Writing, Motion Picture Story - 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.6 Awards:
+ Best Writing, Story and Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography, Color
+ Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
+ Best Costume Design, Color - 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.6 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (George Sanders)
+ Best Director (Jospeh L. Mankiewicz)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay
+ Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
+ Best Sound, Recording - 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.3 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Broderick Crawford)
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Mercedes McCambridge) - 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.4 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Laurence Olivier)
+ Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
+ Best Costume Design, Black-and-White - 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.3 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Celeste Holm)
+ Best Director (Elia Kazan) - 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.7 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Fredric March)
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Harold Russell)
+ Best Director (William Wyler)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay
+ Best Music, Scoring
+ Best Film Editing - DirectorBilly WilderStarsRay MillandJane WymanPhillip TerryThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.4 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Ray Milland)
+ Best Director (Billy Wilder)
+ 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.7 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Bing Crosby)
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Barry Fitzgerald)
+ Best Director (Leo McCarey)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay
+ Best Writing, Original Story
+ Best Original Song ("Swinging on a Star") - 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.3 Awards:
+ Best Director (Michael Curtiz)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.6 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Greer Garson)
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Teresa Wright)
+ Best Director (William Wyler)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay
+ 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Donald Crisp)
+ Best Director (John Ford)
+ Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
+ Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White - 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.2 Awards:
+ Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - 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.8 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Vivien Leigh)
+ Best Actress in a Supporting role (Hattie McDaniel)
+ Best Director (Victor Fleming)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay
+ Best Cinematography, Color
+ Best Film Editing
+ Best Art Direction - 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.2 Awards:
+ Best Director (Frank Capra) - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniGale SondergaardJoseph SchildkrautThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.3 Awards:
+ Best Actor in a Supporting role (Joseph Schildkraut)
+ Best Writing, Screenplay - DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyLuise RainerThe ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.3 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Luise Rainer)
+ Best Dance Direction - 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.1 Award
- 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.5 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Claudette Colbert)
+ Best Actor in a Leading role (Clark Gable)
+ Best Director (Frank Capra)
+ Best Writing, Adaptation - 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 1933.3 Awards:
+ Best Director (Frank Lloyd)
+ Best Art Direction - DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsGreta GarboJohn BarrymoreJoan CrawfordA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.1 Award
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRichard DixIrene DunneEstelle TaylorA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.3 Awards:
+ Best Writing, Adaptation
+ Best Art Direction - 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.2 Awards:
+ Best Director (Lewis Milestone) - 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.1 Award
- 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.2 Awards:
+ Best Effects, Engineering Effects - 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.3 Awards:
+ Best Actress in a Leading role (Janet Gaynor)
+ Best Cinematography