Useful Notes / Academy Award Winners

Best Picture

• Sunrise (1927/28) (Unique and Artistic Production)
• Wings (1927/28)
• The Broadway Melody (1928/29)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/30)
• Cimarron (1930/31)
• Grand Hotel (1931/32)
• Cavalcade (1932/33)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
• The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
• The Life of Émile Zola (1937)
• You Can't Take It With You (1938)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• Rebecca (1940)
• How Green Was My Valley (1941)
• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• Casablanca (1943)
• Going My Way (1944)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
• Hamlet (1948)
• All the King's Men (1949)
• All About Eve (1950)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• Marty (1955)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Gigi (1958)
• Ben Hur (1959)
• The Apartment (1960)
• West Side Story (1961) (1961)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Tom Jones (1963)
• My Fair Lady (1964)
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• A Man for All Seasons (1966)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• Oliver! (1968)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• Patton (1970)
• The French Connection (1971)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Sting (1973)
• The Godfather Part II (1974)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Rocky (1976)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
• Ordinary People (1980)
• Chariots of Fire (1981)
• Gandhi (1982)
• Terms of Endearment (1983)
• Amadeus (1984)
• Out of Africa (1985)
• Platoon (1986)
• The Last Emperor (1987)
• Rain Man (1988)
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
• Dances with Wolves (1990)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Braveheart (1995)
• The English Patient (1996)
• Titanic (1997)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• American Beauty (1999)
• Gladiator (2000)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• Chicago (2002)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Crash (2005)
• The Departed (2006)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• The Hurt Locker (2009)
• The King's Speech (2010)
• The Artist (2011)
• Argo (2012)
• 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
• Spotlight (2015)
• Moonlight (2016)
• The Shape of Water (2017)
• Green Book (2018)
• Parasite (2019)
• Nomadland (2020/21)
• CODA (2021)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Best Director

• Frank Borzage (1927/28, Dramatic; 1931/32)
• Lewis Milestone (1927/28, Comedy; 1929/30)
• Frank Lloyd (1928/29, 1932/33)
• Norman Taurog (1930/31)
• Frank Capra (1934, 1936, 1938)
• John Ford (1935, 1940, 1941, 1952)
• Leo McCarey (1937, 1944)
• Victor Fleming (1939)
• William Wyler (1942, 1946, 1959)
• Michael Curtiz (1943)
• Billy Wilder (1945, 1960)
• Elia Kazan (1947, 1954)
• John Huston (1948)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949, 1950)
• George Stevens (1951, 1956)
• Fred Zinnemann (1953, 1966)
• Delbert Mann (1955)
• David Lean (1957, 1962)
• Vincente Minnelli (1958)
• Robert Wise (1961 [with Jerome Robbins]; 1965)
• Jerome Robbins (1961 [with Robert Wise])
• Tony Richardson (1963)
• George Cukor (1964)
• Mike Nichols (1967)
• Carol Reed (1968)
• John Schlesinger (1969)
• Franklin J Schaffner (1970)
• William Friedkin (1971)
• Bob Fosse (1972)
• George Roy Hill (1973)
• Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
• Miloš Forman (1975, 1984)
• John G Avildsen (1976)
• Woody Allen (1977)
• Michael Cimino (1978)
• Robert Benton (1979)
• Robert Redford (1980)
• Warren Beatty (1981)
• Richard Attenborough (1982)
• James L. Brooks (1983)
• Sydney Pollack (1985)
• Oliver Stone (1986, 1989)
• Bernardo Bertolucci (1987)
• Barry Levinson (1988)
• Kevin Costner (1990)
• Jonathan Demme (1991)
• Clint Eastwood (1992, 2004)
• Steven Spielberg (1993, 1998)
• Robert Zemeckis (1994)
• Mel Gibson (1995)
• Anthony Minghella (1996)
• James Cameron (1997)
• Sam Mendes (1999)
• Steven Soderbergh (2000)
• Ron Howard (2001)
• Roman Polański (2002)
• Peter Jackson (2003)
• Ang Lee (2005, 2012)
• Martin Scorsese (2006)
• The Coen Brothers (2007)
• Danny Boyle (2008)
• Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
• Tom Hooper (2010)
• Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
• Alfonso Cuarón (2013, 2018)
• Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014, 2015)
• Damien Chazelle (2016)
• Guillermo del Toro (2017)
• Bong Joon-ho (2019)
• Chloé Zhao (2020/21)
• Jane Campion (2021)
• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)

Best Actor

• Emil Jannings (1927/28)
• Warner Baxter (1928/29)
• George Arliss (1929/30)
• Lionel Barrymore (1930/31)
• Wallace Beery (1930/31; tie)^* Fredric March received one more vote than Wallace Beery. Academy rules at that time considered such a close margin to be a tie, so both March and Beery received the award. Under current Academy rules, however, dual awards are given only for exact ties.
• Fredric March (1930/31; tie)^* Fredric March received one more vote than Wallace Beery. Academy rules at that time considered such a close margin to be a tie, so both March and Beery received the award. Under current Academy rules, however, dual awards are given only for exact ties.
• Charles Laughton (1932/33)
• Clark Gable (1934)
• Victor McLaglen (1935)
• Paul Muni (1936)
• Spencer Tracy (1937, 1938)
• Robert Donat (1939)
• Jimmy Stewart (1940)
• Gary Cooper (1941, 1952)
• James Cagney (1942)
• Paul Lukas (1943)
• Bing Crosby (1944)
• Ray Milland (1945)
• Fredric March (1946)
• Ronald Colman (1947)
• Laurence Olivier (1948)
• Broderick Crawford (1949)
• José Ferrer (1950)
• Humphrey Bogart (1951)
• William Holden (1953)
• Marlon Brando (1954, 1972)^* Refused the 1972 award
• Ernest Borgnine (1955)
• Yul Brynner (1956)
• Alec Guinness (1957)
• David Niven (1958)
• Charlton Heston (1959)
• Burt Lancaster (1960)
• Maximilian Schell (1961)
• Gregory Peck (1962)
• Sidney Poitier (1963)
• Rex Harrison (1964)
• Lee Marvin (1965)
• Paul Scofield (1966)
• Rod Steiger (1967)
• Cliff Robertson (1968)
• John Wayne (1969)
• George C. Scott (1970)^* Refused the award
• Gene Hackman (1971)
• Jack Lemmon (1973)
• Art Carney (1974)
• Jack Nicholson (1975, 1997)
• Peter Finch (1976)^* First actor to be awarded posthumously
• Richard Dreyfuss (1977)
• Jon Voight (1978)
• Dustin Hoffman (1979, 1988)
• Robert De Niro (1980)
• Henry Fonda (1981)
• Ben Kingsley (1982)
• Robert Duvall (1983)
• F. Murray Abraham (1984)
• William Hurt (1985)
• Paul Newman (1986)
• Michael Douglas (1987)
• Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, 2007, 2012)
• Jeremy Irons (1990)
• Anthony Hopkins (1991, 2020/21)
• Al Pacino (1992)
• Tom Hanks (1993, 1994)
• Nicolas Cage (1995)
• Geoffrey Rush (1996)
• Roberto Benigni (1998)
• Kevin Spacey (1999)
• Russell Crowe (2000)
• Denzel Washington (2001)
• Adrien Brody (2002)
• Sean Penn (2003, 2008)
• Jamie Foxx (2004)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
• Forest Whitaker (2006)
• Jeff Bridges (2009)
• Colin Firth (2010)
• Jean Dujardin (2011)
• Matthew McConaughey (2013)
• Eddie Redmayne (2014)
• Leonardo DiCaprio (2015)
• Casey Affleck (2016)
• Gary Oldman (2017)
• Rami Malek (2018)
• Joaquin Phoenix (2019)
• Will Smith (2021)
• Brendan Fraser (2022)

Best Actress

• Janet Gaynor (1927/28)
• Mary Pickford (1928/29)
• Norma Shearer (1929/30)
• Marie Dressler (1930/31)
• Helen Hayes (1931/32)
• Katharine Hepburn (1932/33, 1967, 1968, 1981)^* 1968 award tied with Barbra Streisand
• Claudette Colbert (1934)
• Bette Davis (1935, 1938)
• Luise Rainer (1936, 1937)
• Vivien Leigh (1939, 1951)
• Ginger Rogers (1940)
• Joan Fontaine (1941)
• Greer Garson (1942)
• Jennifer Jones (1943)
• Ingrid Bergman (1944, 1956)
• Joan Crawford (1945)
• Olivia de Havilland (1946, 1949)
• Loretta Young (1947)
• Jane Wyman (1948)
• Judy Holliday (1950)
• Shirley Booth (1952)
• Audrey Hepburn (1953)
• Grace Kelly (1954)
• Anna Magnani (1955)
• Joanne Woodward (1957)
• Susan Hayward (1958)
• Simone Signoret (1959)
• Elizabeth Taylor (1960, 1966)
• Sophia Loren (1961)
• Anne Bancroft (1962)
• Patricia Neal (1963)
• Julie Andrews (1964)
• Julie Christie (1965)
• Barbra Streisand (1968)^* Tied with Katharine Hepburn
• Maggie Smith (1969)
• Glenda Jackson (1970, 1973)
• Jane Fonda (1971, 1978)
• Liza Minnelli (1972)
• Ellen Burstyn (1974)
• Louise Fletcher (1975)
• Faye Dunaway (1976)
• Diane Keaton (1977)
• Sally Field (1979, 1984)
• Sissy Spacek (1980)
• Meryl Streep (1982, 2011)
• Shirley MacLaine (1983)
• Geraldine Page (1985)
• Marlee Matlin (1986)
• Cher (1987)
• Jodie Foster (1988, 1991)
• Jessica Tandy (1989)
• Kathy Bates (1990)
• Emma Thompson (1992)
• Holly Hunter (1993)
• Jessica Lange (1994)
• Susan Sarandon (1995)
• Frances McDormand (1996, 2017, 2020/21)
• Helen Hunt (1997)
• Gwyneth Paltrow (1998)
• Hilary Swank (1999, 2004)
• Julia Roberts (2000)
• Halle Berry (2001)
• Nicole Kidman (2002)
• Charlize Theron (2003)
• Reese Witherspoon (2005)
• Helen Mirren (2006)
• Marion Cotillard (2007)
• Kate Winslet (2008)
• Sandra Bullock (2009)
• Natalie Portman (2010)
• Jennifer Lawrence (2012)
• Cate Blanchett (2013)
• Julianne Moore (2014)
• Brie Larson (2015)
• Emma Stone (2016)
• Olivia Colman (2018)
• Renée Zellweger (2019)
• Jessica Chastain (2021)
• Michelle Yeoh (2022)

Best Supporting Actor

• Walter Brennan (1936, 1938, 1940)
• Joseph Schildkraut (1937)
• Thomas Mitchell (1939)
• Donald Crisp (1941)
• Van Heflin (1942)
• Charles Coburn (1943)
• Barry Fitzgerald (1944)
• James Dunn (1945)
• Harold Russell (1946)
• Edmund Gwenn (1947)
• Walter Huston (1948)
• Dean Jagger (1949)
• George Sanders (1950)
• Karl Malden (1951)
• Anthony Quinn (1952, 1956)
• Frank Sinatra (1953)
• Edmond O Brien (1954)
• Jack Lemmon (1955)
• Red Buttons (1957)
• Burl Ives (1958)
• Hugh Griffith (1959)
• Peter Ustinov (1960, 1964)
• George Chakiris (1961)
• Ed Begley (1962)
• Melvyn Douglas (1963, 1979)
• Martin Balsam (1965)
• Walter Matthau (1966)
• George Kennedy (1967)
• Jack Albertson (1968)
• Gig Young (1969)
• John Mills (1970)
• Ben Johnson (1971)
• Joel Grey (1972)
• John Houseman (1973)
• Robert De Niro (1974)
• George Burns (1975)
• Jason Robards (1976, 1977)
• Christopher Walken (1978)
• Timothy Hutton (1980)
• John Gielgud (1981)
• Louis Gossett Jr. (1982)
• Jack Nicholson (1983)
• Haing S. Ngor (1984)
• Don Ameche (1985)
• Michael Caine (1986, 1999)
• Sean Connery (1987)
• Kevin Kline (1988)
• Denzel Washington (1989)
• Joe Pesci (1990)
• Jack Palance (1991)
• Gene Hackman (1992)
• Tommy Lee Jones (1993)
• Martin Landau (1994)
• Kevin Spacey (1995)
• Cuba Gooding Jr. (1996)
• Robin Williams (1997)
• James Coburn (1998)
• Benicio del Toro (2000)
• Jim Broadbent (2001)
• Chris Cooper (2002)
• Tim Robbins (2003)
• Morgan Freeman (2004)
• George Clooney (2005)
• Alan Arkin (2006)
• Javier Bardem (2007)
• Heath Ledger (2008)^* Second actor to be awarded posthumously
• Christoph Waltz (2009, 2012)
• Christian Bale (2010)
• Christopher Plummer (2011)
• Jared Leto (2013)
• J. K. Simmons (2014)
• Mark Rylance (2015)
• Mahershala Ali (2016, 2018)
• Sam Rockwell (2017)
• Brad Pitt (2019)
• Daniel Kaluuya (2020/21)
• Troy Kotsur (2021)
• Ke Huy Quan (2022)

Best Supporting Actress

• Gale Sondergaard (1936)
• Alice Brady (1937)
• Fay Bainter (1938)
• Hattie McDaniel (1939)
• Jane Darwell (1940)
• Mary Astor (1941)
• Teresa Wright (1942)
• Katina Paxinou (1943)
• Ethel Barrymore (1944)
• Anne Revere (1945)
• Anne Baxter (1946)
• Celeste Holm (1947)
• Claire Trevor (1948)
• Mercedes Mc Cambridge (1949)
• Josephine Hull (1950)
• Kim Hunter (1951)
• Gloria Grahame (1952)
• Donna Reed (1953)
• Eva Marie Saint (1954)
• Jo Van Fleet (1955)
• Dorothy Malone (1956)
• Miyoshi Umeki (1957)
• Wendy Hiller (1958)
• Shelley Winters (1959, 1965)
• Shirley Jones (1960)
• Rita Moreno (1961)
• Patty Duke (1962)
• Margaret Rutherford (1963)
• Lila Kedrova (1964)
• Sandy Dennis (1966)
• Estelle Parsons (1967)
• Ruth Gordon (1968)
• Goldie Hawn (1969)
• Helen Hayes (1970)
• Cloris Leachman (1971)
• Eileen Heckart (1972)
• Tatum O'Neal (1973)
• Ingrid Bergman (1974)
• Lee Grant (1975)
• Beatrice Straight (1976)
• Vanessa Redgrave (1977)
• Maggie Smith (1978)
• Meryl Streep (1979)
• Mary Steenburgen (1980)
• Maureen Stapleton (1981)
• Jessica Lange (1982)
• Linda Hunt (1983)
• Peggy Ashcroft (1984)
• Anjelica Huston (1985)
• Dianne Wiest (1986, 1994)
• Olympia Dukakis (1987)
• Geena Davis (1988)
• Brenda Fricker (1989)
• Whoopi Goldberg (1990)
• Mercedes Ruehl (1991)
• Marisa Tomei (1992)
• Anna Paquin (1993)
• Mira Sorvino (1995)
• Juliette Binoche (1996)
• Kim Basinger (1997)
• Judi Dench (1998)
• Angelina Jolie (1999)
• Marcia Gay Harden (2000)
• Jennifer Connelly (2001)
• Catherine Zeta-Jones (2002)
• Renée Zellweger (2003)
• Cate Blanchett (2004)
• Rachel Weisz (2005)
• Jennifer Hudson (2006)
• Tilda Swinton (2007)
• Penélope Cruz (2008)
• Mo'Nique (2009)
• Melissa Leo (2010)
• Octavia Spencer (2011)
• Anne Hathaway (2012)
• Lupita Nyong'o (2013)
• Patricia Arquette (2014)
• Alicia Vikander (2015)
• Viola Davis (2016)
• Allison Janney (2017)
• Regina King (2018)
• Laura Dern (2019)
• Youn Yuh-jung (2020/21)
• Ariana DeBose (2021)
• Jamie Lee Curtis (2022)

Best Original Screenplay

• Cameron Crowe for Almost Famous (2000)
• Julian Fellowes for Gosford Park (2001)
• Pedro Almodóvar for Talk to Her (2002)
• Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003)
• Charlie Kaufman^note with Pierre Bismuth and Michel Gondry for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco for Crash (2005)
• Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
• Diablo Cody for Juno (2007)
• Dustin Lance Black for Milk (2008)
• Mark Boal for Zero Dark Thirty (2009)
• David Seidler for The King's Speech (2010)
• Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris (2011)
• Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained (2012)
• Spike Jonze for Her (2013)
• Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., Nicolás Giacobone & Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
• Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer for Spotlight (2015)
• Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea (2016)
• Jordan Peele for Get Out (2017)
• Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly & Nick Vallelonga for Green Book (2018)
• Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won for Parasite (2019)
• Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman (2020/2021)
• Kenneth Branagh for Belfast (2021)
• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Stephen Gaghan for Traffic (2000), based on the novel Traffik by Simon Moore
• Akiva Goldsman for A Beautiful Mind (2001), based on the novel by Sylvia Nasar
• Ronald Harwood for The Pianist (2002), based on the memoir by Władysław Szpilman
• Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor for Sideways (2004), based on the novel by Rex Pickett
• Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana for Brokeback Mountain (2005), based on the short story by Annie Proulx
• William Monahan for The Departed (2006), based on the film Infernal Affairs written by Felix Chong & Alan Mak
• The Coen Brothers for No Country for Old Men (2007), based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy
• Simon Beaufoy for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), based on the novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup
• Geoffrey S. Fletcher for Precious (2009), based on the novel Push'' by Sapphire
• Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network (2010), based on The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
• Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne & Jim Rash for The Descendants (2011), based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
• Chris Terrio for Argo (2012), based on the book The Master of Disguise by Tony Mendez & the article "The Great Escape" by Joshuah Bearman
• John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave (2013), based on the memoir by Solomon Northup
• Graham Moore for The Imitation Game (2014), based on Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• Adam McKay & Charles Randolph for The Big Short (2015), based on the book by Michael Lewis
• Barry Jenkins^note with Tarell Alvin McCraney for Moonlight (2016), based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by McCraney
• James Ivory for Call Me by Your Name (2017), based on the novel by André Aciman
• Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel & Kevin Willmott for BlacKkKlansman (2018), based on the memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
• Taika Waititi for Jojo Rabbit (2019), based on Caging Skies by Christine Leunens
• Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller for The Father (2020/2021), based on the play Le Père by Zeller
• Sian Heder for CODA (2021), based on the film La Famille Bélier by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg and Éric Lartigau
• Sarah Polley for Women Talking (2022), based on the novel by Miriam Towes

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