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The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry.

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held on 16 May 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honour outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928. It was hosted by actor Douglas Fairbanks and director William C. deMille.
[[File:Oscars-png-download-png.png|center|thumb|Oscars statuette]]
'''The statuette''' - the official name of the Oscar statuette is the Academy Award of Merit. Made of gold-plated Britannia metal on a black metal base, it is 13.5in (34cm) tall and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes. The five spokes each represent the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians. MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy. Mexican actor Emilio ‘El Indio’ Fernandez posed naked to create what today is known as the ‘Oscar’. The statuettes were cast, moulded, and polished by Chicago's R. S. Owens & Company, who lost the Oscars statuettes contract to its New York rival, Polich Tallix in 2016. It was named by Margaret Herrick, the Academy librarian, who remarked in 1931 (upon seeing the statuettes), "Why it looks like my Uncle Oscar!".

In 2002, the Dolby Theatre (formerly known as the Kodak Theatre) became the current venue of the presentation.

The official Oscars after-party is the Governors Ball.

The Academy Honorary Award, instituted in 1950 and previously called the Special Award, is given annually by the Board of Governors.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically at the Governors Awards ceremonies to "creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production". First awarded in 1938.

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is awarded periodically at the Governors Awards ceremonies for an individual's "outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes". First awarded in 1957’.

== Chronological ==
Note – all dates are the years when the awards ceremonies took place, honouring the films of the previous year.

Tables contain ‘Big 4’ awards and selected additional awards.

Best Picture was known as Outstanding Picture (1929), Outstanding Production (1930-1940). Outstanding Motion Picture (1941-1943), Best Motion Picture (1944-1961), Best Picture (1962-)

=== 1920s ===
'''1929''' – 1st Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Wings''

''Sunrise''
|-
|Best Director
|Lewis  Milestone (''Two Arabian Knights'')

Frank  Borzage (''7th Heaven'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Emil Jannings (''The  Last Command'' and ''The Way of All  Flesh'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Janet Gaynor (''7th  Heaven'', ''Street Angel'' and ''Sunrise'')
|}
The awards ceremony honoured the best films from August 1927 to July 1928 and took place in May 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Douglas Fairbanks and William C. deMille. Winners were announced three months ahead of the ceremony.

There were two film awards. ''Wings'' was Outstanding Picture and ''Sunrise'' was Unique and Artistic Picture.

Warner Bros received a special honorary award “for producing ''The Jazz Singer'' (1927), the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry."

There were two director awards. Lewis Milestone won the Osar for Best Directing (Comedy Picture) and Frank Borzage won the Oscar for Best Directing (Dramatic Picture).

The rumour alleging Rin Tin Tin won the most votes in the Best Actor category is an urban legend.

=== 1930s ===
'''1930''' – 2nd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Broadway  Melody''
|-
|Best Director
|Frank Lloyd (''The  Divine Lady'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Warner Baxter (''In  Old Arizona'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Mary Pickford (''Coquette'')
|}
The awards ceremony honoured the best films from August 1928 to July 1929 and took place in April 1930 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by William C. deMille. This is the only year in which no film won more than one Oscar.

''The Broadway Melody'' was the first talkie to win Best Picture.

'''1931''' – 3rd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''All Quiet on the  Western Front''
|-
|Best Director
|Lewis Milestone (''All Quiet on the Western Front'')
|-
|Best Actor
|George Arliss (''Disraeli'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Norma Shearer (''The  Divorcee'')
|}
The awards ceremony honoured the best films from August 1929 to July 1930 and took place in November 1930 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by Conrad Nagel.

Best Sound Recording award was introduced.

George Arliss was the first British actor to win an Academy Award.

''All Quiet on the Western Front'' was the first screen adaptation of a novel to win Best Picture.

'''1932''' – 4th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Cimarron''
|-
|Best Director
|Norman Taurog (''Skippy'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Lionel Barrymore (''A  Free Soul'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Marie Dressler (''Min  and Bill'')
|}
The awards ceremony honoured the best films released between August 1930, and July 1931 and took place in November 1931 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Lawrence Grant.

''Cimarron'' was the first Western to win the Best Picture award. The next Western to win Best Picture was ''Dances with Wolves''.

Lionel Barrymore became the first person to be nominated in multiple categories, having been nominated for Best Director in 1930.

Nine-year-old Jackie Cooper was the first child actor to receive a nomination, for ''Skippy''.

'''1933''' – 5th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Grand Hotel''
|-
|Best Director
|Frank Borzage (''Bad  Girl'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Wallace Beery (''The  Champ'')

Fredric March (''Dr.  Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Helen Hayes (''The  Sin of Madelon Claudet'')
|}
The awards ceremony honoured the best films released between August 1931, and July 1932 and took place in November 1932 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by Lionel Barrymore and Conrad Nagel.

Short film awards were introduced.

''Grand Hotel'' is the only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without it or its participants being nominated in any other category.

There was a tie for Best Actor, a unique event in Academy history.

'''1934''' – 6th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Cavalcade''
|-
|Best Director
|Frank Lloyd (''Cavalcade'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Charles Laughton (''The  Private Life of Henry VIII'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Katharine Hepburn (''Morning  Glory'')
|}
The awards ceremony honoured the best films from August 1932 to December 1933 and took place in March 1934 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by Will Rogers.

Walt Disney became the first person to win consecutive Academy Awards, winning Best Short Subject, Cartoon after having won the same award in 1933

Diana Wynyard was the first British actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role in ''Cavalcade''.

'''1935''' – 7th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''It Happened One Night''
|-
|Best Director
|Frank Capra (''It  Happened One Night'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Clark  Gable (''It Happened One Night'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Claudette  Colbert (''It Happened One Night'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Original Song
|''The  Continental''  (''The Gay Divorcee'')
|}
The awards ceremony honoured the best films from 1934 and took place in February 1935 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Irvin S. Cobb. As of this ceremony, the Academy's award eligibility period coincided with the calendar year.

''It Happened One Night'' was the first film to win Oscars for Best Actor and Actress. It was the first film ever to win the ‘Big Five’ Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay).

Best Original Song and Best Original Score award categories were introduced.

Six-year-old Shirley Temple became the first child star to be honoured with a miniature Juvenile Oscar.

'''1936''' – 8th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Mutiny  on the Bounty''
|-
|Best Director
|John Ford (''The Informer'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Victor McLaglen (''The  Informer'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Bette Davis (''Dangerous'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Lullaby of Broadway'' (''Gold Diggers of 1935'')
|-
|Best Adapted  Screenplay
|''The Informer'' – Dudley Nichols
|}
Took place in March 1936 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Frank Capra.

First year in which the awards were called "Oscars".

''Mutiny on the Bounty'' became the only film to receive three nominations for Best Actor (Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone).

Dudley Nichols was the first person to refuse an Oscar. He boycotted the ceremony because of ongoing conflicts between the Academy and the Writer's Guild.

'''1937''' – 9th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Great Ziegfield''
|-
|Best Director
|Frank Capra (''Mr.  Deeds Goes to Town'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Paul Muni (''The  Story of Louis Pasteur'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Luise Rainer (''The  Great Ziegfeld'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Walter Brennan (''Come  and Get It'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Gale Sondergaard (''Anthony  Adverse'')
|}
Took place in March 1937 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by George Jessel.

This year marked the introduction of the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories.

Luise Rainer played Anna Held, who is the first real life person to be portrayed in a role which would win the Academy Award for Best Actress.

'''1938''' – 10th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Life of Emile Zola''
|-
|Best Director
|Leo McCarey (''The  Awful Truth'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Spencer Tracy (''Captains  Courageous'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Luise Rainer (''The  Good Earth'')
|}
Took place in March 1938 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Bob Burns.

Luise Rainer became the first actress to win two Academy Awards.

''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' received only one nomination, for Best Original Score.

Edgar Bergen was given an Academy Honorary Award (in the form of a wooden Oscar statuette with a movable mouth) for his ventriloquist’s dummy named Charlie McCarthy.

'''1939''' – 11th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''You Can’t Take It with  You''
|-
|Best Director
|Frank Capra (''You  Can’t Take It with You'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Spencer Tracy (''Boys  Town'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Bette Davis (''Jezebel'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Walter Brennan (''Kentucky'')
|-
|Best Adapted  Screenplay
|''Pygmalion'' – George Bernard Shaw
|}
Took place in February 1939 at the Biltmore Hotel with no host.

George Bernard Shaw's win made him the first person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award.

Erich Korngold's Academy Award for his score to ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' marked the first time an Oscar was awarded to the composer rather than the head of the studio music department.

Frank Capra became the first person to win three Best Director awards.

=== 1940s ===
'''1940''' – 12th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Gone with the Wind''
|-
|Best Director
|Victor Fleming (''Gone with the Wind'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Robert Donat (''Goodbye,  Mr. Chips'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Vivien Leigh (''Gone with the Wind'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best  Supporting Actress
|Hattie  McDaniel (''Gone with the  Wind'')
|-
|Best  Screenplay
|''Gone  with the Wind''  – Sidney Howard
|-
|Best  Original Song
|''Over  the Rainbow''  (''The Wizard of Oz'')
|}
Took place in February 1940 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by Bob Hope - first of nineteen times he hosted the event.

''Gone with the Wind'' had 13 nominations and won eight Oscars. Longest Best Picture winner (234 minutes). Hattie McDaniel was the first black actress to win an Oscar.

''Gone with the Wind'' was the first colour film to win Best Picture.

Academy Juvenile Award was presented to Judy Garland for ''The Wizard of Oz''.

Introduction of Best Visual Effects category.

Sidney Howard was the first posthumous winner of an Oscar, for writing ''Gone with the Wind''.

'''1941''' – 13th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Rebecca''
|-
|Best Director
|John Ford (''The  Grapes of Wrath'')
|-
|Best Actor
|James Stewart (''The  Philadelphia Story'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Ginger Rogers (''Kitty  Foyle'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Walter Brennan (''The  Westerner'')
|-
|Best Original song
|''When You Wish Upon a  Star'' (''Pinocchio'')
|-
|Best Original Screenplay
|''The Great McGinty'' – Preston  Sturges
|}
Took place in February 1941 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Bob Hope.

First year that sealed envelopes were used to keep the names of the winners secret.

Alfred Hitchcock won his only Best Picture Oscar for ''Rebecca''.

Walter Brennan won his third Best Supporting Actor award.

''Pinocchio'' was the first animated feature film to win competitive Oscars, for Best Original Score and Best Original Song.

Best Original Screenplay was introduced at this ceremony.

'''1942''' – 14th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''How Green Was My  Valley''
|-
|Best Director
|John Ford (''How  Green Was My Valley'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Gary Cooper (''Sergeant  York'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Joan Fontaine (''Suspicion'')
|}
Took place in February 1942 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Citizen Kane was nominated for nine awards but won only one, for Best Original Screenplay

''Sergeant York'' was nominated for eleven awards and won two (Best Actor and Best Film Editing)

Joan Fontaine is the only actress to ever win the Best Actress Oscar in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (''Suspicion''). This is the only Oscar-winning performance in a Hitchcock film.

Sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland were both nominated for Best Actress.

'''1943''' – 15th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Mrs. Miniver''
|-
|Best Director
|William Wyler (''Mrs.  Miniver'')
|-
|Best Actor
|James Cagney (''Yankee  Doodle Dandy'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Greer Garson (''Mrs. Miniver'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Original Song
|''White Christmas'' (''Holiday Inn'')
|}
Took place in March 1943 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Greer Garson holds the record for the longest acceptance speech, at five minutes and 30 seconds.

Irving Berlin presented himself with an Oscar after opening the envelope for Best Original Song and seeing that ''White Christmas'' had won.

James Cagney won his only Oscar for his role in ''Yankee Doodle Dandy.''

Best Documentary Feature Film was introduced, and there was a four-way tie including John Ford’s ''The Battle of Midway'', filmed on the island of Midway during the battle and Frank Capra’s ''Prelude to War''.

'''1944''' – 16th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Casablanca''
|-
|Best Director
|Michael Curtiz (''Casablanca'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Paul Lukas (''Watch  on the Rhine'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Jennifer Jones (''The  Song of Bernadette'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Short Film –  Cartoons
|''The Yankee Doodle  Mouse'' – Fred Quimby
|}
Took place in March 1944 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Jack Benny hosted the event and it lasted less than 30 minutes.

Michael Curtiz won his only Oscar for Best Director for ''Casablanca.''

''The Yankee Doodle Mouse'' was the first of seven Oscars won by Tom and Jerry cartoons.

'''1945''' – 17th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Going My Way''
|-
|Best Director
|Leo McCarey (''Going  My Way'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Bing Crosby (''Going  My Way'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Ingrid Bergman (''Gaslight'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Ethel Barrymore (''None  but the Lonely Heart'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Swinging on a Star'' (''Going My Way'')
|}
Took place in March 1945 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and was hosted by Bob Hope and John Cromwell. It was first time the complete awards ceremony was broadcast nationally on the radio.

'''1946''' – 18th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Lost Weekend''
|-
|Best Director
|Billy Wilder (''The  Lost Weekend'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Ray Milland (''The  Lost Weekend'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Joan Crawford (''Mildred  Pierce'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Original Song
|''It Might as Well Be  Spring'' (''State Fair'')
|}
Took place in March 1946 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and was hosted by Bob Hope and James Stewart.

Joan Crawford was absent from the ceremony.

''It Might as Well Be Spring'' won an Oscar for Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

'''1947''' – 19th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Best Years of Our  Lives''
|-
|Best Director
|William Wyler (''The  Best Years of Our Lives'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Fredric March (''The  Best Years of Our Lives'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Olivia de Havilland (''To  Each his Own'')
|}
Took place in March 1947 at the Shrine Auditorium and was hosted by Jack Benny.

'''1948''' – 20th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Gentleman’s Agreement''
|-
|Best Director
|Elia Kazan (''Gentleman’s  Agreement'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Ronald Colman (''A  Double Life'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Loretta Young (''The Farmer’s  Daughter'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Edmund Gwenn (''Miracle  on 34th Street'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah'' (''Song of the South'')
|}
Took place in March 1948 at the Shrine Auditorium and was hosted by Agnes Moorehead and Dick Powell.

'''1949''' – 21st Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Hamlet''
|-
|Best Director
|John Huston (''The  Treasure of the Sierra Madre'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Laurence  Olivier (''Hamlet'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Jane Wyman (''Johnny  Belinda'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Walter Huston (''The  Treasure of the Sierra Madre'')
|}
Took place in March 1949 at the Academy Theatre and was hosted by Robert Montgomery.

Laurence Olivier was the first person to win an Oscar for Best Actor in a film which he also directed, for ''Hamlet''.

''Hamlet'' was the first British film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Walter Huston was the father of John Huston.

Academy Award for Best Costume Design was first given. Initially, separate award categories were established for black-and-white films and colour films. The two categories merged in 1967.

=== 1950s ===
'''1950''' – 22nd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''All the King’s Men''
|-
|Best Director
|Joseph L. Manciewicz (''A  Letter to Three Wives'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Broderick Crawford (''All  the King’s Men'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Olivia de Havilland (''The  Heiress'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Baby, It’s Cold  Outside'' (''Neptune’s  Daughter'')
|}
Took place in March 1950 at the Pantages Theatre and was hosted by Paul Douglas.

'''1951''' – 23rd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''All About Eve''
|-
|Best Director
|Joseph L. Manciewicz (''All About  Eve'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Jose Ferrer (''Cyrano  de Bergerac'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Judy Holliday (''Born  Yesterday'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|George Sanders (''All  About Eve'')
|}
Took place in March 1951 at the Pantages Theatre and was hosted by Fred Astaire.

''All About Eve'' was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture. It is the only film in Oscar history to date to receive four female acting nominations, two for Best Actress (Bette Davis and Anne Baxter) and two for Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter).

'''1952''' – 24th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''An American in Paris''
|-
|Best Director
|George Stevens (''A  Place in the Sun'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Humphrey Bogart (''The  African Queen'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Vivien Leigh (''A  Streetcar Named Desire'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Karl Malden (''A  Streetcar Named Desire'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Kim Hunter (''A  Streetcar Named Desire'')
|}
Took place in March 1952 at the Pantages Theatre and was hosted by Danny Kaye.

None of the actors in ''An American in Paris'' were nominated for awards.

''A Streetcar Named Desire'' became the first film to win three acting awards.

Humphrey Bogart won his only Oscar for Best Actor.

'''1953''' – 25th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Greatest Show on Earth''
|-
|Best Director
|John Ford (''The  Quiet Man'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Gary Cooper (''High  Noon'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Shirley Booth (''Come  Back, Little Sheba'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Anthony Quinn (''Viva  Zapata!'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''The Ballad of High  Noon'' (aka ''Do Not  Forsake Me, O My Darlin''') (''High Noon'')
|}
Taking place in March 1953 it was televised for the first time and there were two simultaneous award ceremonies in Hollywood (Pantages Theatre) and New York (NBC International Theatre). They were hosted by Bob Hope (in Hollywood), Conrad Nagel (as master of ceremonies) and Fredric March (in New York).

Dimitri Tiomkin won an Oscar for Best Original Song for ''High Noon.''

'''1954''' – 26th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''From Here to Eternity''
|-
|Best Director
|Fred Zinnemann (''From  Here to Eternity'')
|-
|Best Actor
|William Holden (''Stalag  17'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Audrey Hepburn (''Roman  Holiday'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Frank Sinatra (''From  Here to Eternity'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Donna Reed (''From  Here to Eternity'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Secret Love'' (''Calamity  Jane'')
|}
Taking place in March 1954 there were two simultaneous award ceremonies in Hollywood (Pantages Theatre) and New York (NBC Century Theatre). They were hosted by Donald O’Connor (in Hollywood) and Fredric March (in New York).

''Secret Love'' was sung by Doris Day.

Frank Sinatra won his only Oscar.

William Holden’s acceptance speech was “Thank you. Thank you”

'''1955''' – 27th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''On the Waterfront''
|-
|Best Director
|Elia Kazan (''On the  Waterfront'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Marlon Brando (''On  the Waterfront'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Grace Kelly (''The  Country Girl'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Eva Marie Saint (''On  the Waterfront'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Three Coins in the  Fountain'' (''Three Coins in  the Fountain)''
|}
Taking place in March 1955 there were two simultaneous award ceremonies in Hollywood (Pantages Theatre) and New York (NBC Century Theatre). They were hosted by Bob Hope (in Hollywood) and Thelma Ritter (in New York).

Sammy Cahn won an Academy Award for the lyrics for ''Three Coins in the Fountain.''

On the Waterfront won 8 Oscars. Three actors were nominated for the Best Supporting Actor.

Dorothy Dandridge was the first African-American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in ''Carmen Jones.''

'''1956''' – 28th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Marty''
|-
|Best Director
|Delbart Mann (''Marty'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Ernst Borgnine (''Marty'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Anna Magnani (''The  Rose Tattoo'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Jack Lemmon (''Mister  Roberts'')
|}
Taking place in March 1956 at the Pantages Theatre and NBC Century Theatre. They were hosted by Jerry Lewis (in Hollywood) and Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (in New York).

Marty is the shortest Best Picture winner (94 minutes).

James Dean became the first actor to receive a posthumous nomination, for ''East of Eden''.

'''1957''' – 29th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Around the World in 80  Days''
|-
|Best Director
|George Stevens (''Giant'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Yul Brynner (''The  King and I'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Ingrid Bergman (''Anastasia'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Anthony Quinn (''Lust  for Life'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Que Sera, Sera'' (''The Man  Who Knew Too Much'')
|-
|Best  Documentary Feature
|''The  Silent World''
|}
Took place in March 1957 at the Pantages Theatre and NBC Century Theatre and was hosted by Jerry Lewis and Celeste Holm.

Anthony Quinn played Paul Gauguin and was on screen for only eight minutes.

''Que Sera, Sera'' was sung by Doris Day and became her ‘theme song’.

''The Silent World'' was co-directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle.

Best Foreign Language Film was introduced.

'''1958''' – 30th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Bridge on the  River Kwai''
|-
|Best Director
|David Lean (''The  Bridge on the River Kwai'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Alec Guinness (''The  Bridge on the River Kwai'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Joanne Woodward (''The  Three Faces of Eve'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Red Buttons (''Sayonara'')
|}
Took place in March 1958 at the Pantages Theatre and had multiple hosts - Bob Hope, David Niven, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Rosalind Russell and Donald Duck ( voiced by Clarence Nash).

'''1959''' – 31st Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Gigi''
|-
|Best Director
|Vincente Minnelli (''Gigi'')
|-
|Best Actor
|David Niven (''Separate  Tables'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Susan Hayward (''I  Want to Live!'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Burl Ives (''The Big  Country'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''Gigi'' – Andre Previn
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Gigi'' (''Gigi'')
|-
|Best Adapted  Screenplay
|''Gigi'' – Alan Jay Lerner
|}
Took place in April 1959 at the Pantages Theatre and had multiple hosts - Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven (see below) and Laurence Olivier.

''Gigi'' won all nine awards it was nominated for.

The song ''Gigi'' was written by Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (words).

David Niven won the Academy Award with his only nomination for an Oscar. Appearing on-screen for only 16 minutes in the film, this remains the briefest performance ever to win a Best Actor Oscar.

David Niven is the only actor to host an Oscars where he won an award.

=== 1960s ===
'''1960''' – 32nd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Ben-Hur''
|-
|Best Director
|William Wyler (''Ben-Hur'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Charlton Heston (''Ben-Hur'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Simone Signoret (''Room  at the Top'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Hugh Griffith (''Ben-Hur'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Shelley Winters (''The  Diary of Anne Frank'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''High Hopes'' (''A Hole in the Head'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''Porgy and Bess'' – Andre Previn and Ken Darby
|}
Took place in April 1960 at the Pantages Theatre and was hosted by Bob Hope.

''Ben-Hur'' received 12 Oscar nominations and won 11.

'''1961''' – 33rd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Apartment''
|-
|Best Director
|Billy Wilder (''The  Apartment'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Burt Lancaster (''Elmer  Gantry'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Elizabeth Taylor (''BUtterfield  8'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Peter Ustinov (''Spartacus'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Never on Sunday'' (''Never on Sunday'')
|}
Took place in April 1961 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Billy Wilder won three Oscars for ''The Apartment.''

''Never on a Sunday'' was the first Best Song from a foreign language film.

Gary Cooper received an Academy Honorary Award "for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry". Too ill to accept in person, he died 4 weeks later.

For ''Pollyanna'' Hayley Mills received the last Academy Juvenile Award to be presented. In future juveniles contested the main award categories.

'''1962''' – 34th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''West Side Story''
|-
|Best Director
|Jerome Robbins and  Robert Wise (''West Side Story'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Maximilian Schell (''Judgment  at Nuremberg'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Sophia Loren (''Two Women'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|George Chakiris (''West Side Story'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Rita Moreno (''West Side Story'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Moon River'' (''Breakfast at Tiffany's'')
|}
Took place in April 1962 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Sophia Loren became the first artist to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance, performing in Italian.

''West Side Story'' was the first musical to win 10 Oscars.

''Moon River'' was composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics written by Johnny Mercer. It was performed by Audrey Hepburn.

Thelma Ritter received her sixth nomination for Best Supporting Actress for ''Birdman of Alcatraz'', the most nominations for an actress in this category.

'''1963''' – 35th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Lawrence of Arabia''
|-
|Best Director
|David Lean (''Lawrence  of Arabia'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Gregory Peck (''To  Kill a Mockingbird'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Anne Bancroft (''The  Miracle Worker'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Patty Duke (''The  Miracle Worker'')
|}
Took place in April 1963 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Frank Sinatra.

Omar Sharif had his only Oscar nomination for ''Lawrence of Arabia''.

''Lawrence of Arabia'' had no female speaking roles.

Patty Duke made the shortest acceptance speech in Oscars’ history – “Thank You”.

Bette Davis became the first person to secure ten Academy Award nominations for acting.

''The Miracle Worker'' won two acting awards without being nominated for Best Picture (first time).

'''1964''' – 36th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Tom Jones''
|-
|Best Director
|Tony Richardson (''Tom  Jones'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Sidney Poitier (''Lilies  of the Field'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Patricia Neal (''Hud'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Melvyn Douglas (''Hud'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Margaret Rutherford (''The  V.I.P.s'')
|-
|Best Foreign Language  Film
|''8 ½'' (Federico Fellini, Italy)
|-
|Best Adapted  Screenplay
|''Tom Jones'' – John Osborne
|}
Took place in April 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Jack Lemmon.

Sidney Poitier became the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

''Hud'' won two acting awards without being nominated for Best Picture (second and last time - see also ''The Miracle Worker'' in 1963).

'''1965''' – 37th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''My Fair Lady''
|-
|Best Director
|George Cukor (''My  Fair Lady'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Rex Harrison (''My  Fair Lady'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Julie Andrews (''Mary  Poppins'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Peter Ustinov (''Topkapi'')
|-
|Best Original Song 
|''Chim Chim Cher-ee'' (''Mary Poppins'')
|-
|Best Sound Effects
|''Goldfinger'' –  Norman Wanstall
|-
|Best Costume Design
|Cecil Beaton (''My  Fair Lady'')
|}
Took place in April 1965 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope.

''Mary Poppins'' was Walt Disney’s only nomination for Best Picture Oscar

''Goldfinger'' was the first James Bond film to win an Oscar

'''1966''' – 38th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Sound of Music''
|-
|Best Director
|Robert Wise (''The  Sound of Music'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Lee Marvin (''Cat  Ballou'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Julie Christie (''Darling'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Shelley Winters (''A  Patch of Blue'')
|-
|Best Adapted Screenplay
|''Doctor Zhivago'' – Robert Bolt
|-
|Best Visual Effects
|''Thunderball'' – John Stears
|}
Took place in April 1966 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope.

William Wyler received the last of his record 12 Best Director nominations for ''The Collector''.

'''1967''' – 39th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''A Man for All Seasons''
|-
|Best Director
|Fred Zinnemann (''A  Man for All Seasons'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Paul Scofield (''A  Man for All Seasons'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Elizabeth Taylor (''Who’s  Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Walter Matthau (''The  Fortune Cookie'')
|-
|Best Adapted  Screenplay
|''A Man for All Seasons'' – Robert Bolt
|}
Took place in April 1967 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Sisters Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave were both nominated for Best Actress.

'''1968''' – 40th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''In the Heat of the  Night''
|-
|Best Director
|Mike Nichols (''The  Graduate'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Rod Steiger (''In the  Heat of the Night'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Katharine Hepburn (''Guess  Who’s Coming to Dinner'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|George Kennedy (''Cool  Hand Luke'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Talk to the Animals'' (''Doctor Dolittle'')
|}
Took place in April 1968 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope. The ceremony was postponed for 2 days following the assassination of Martin Luther King jr.

This was the first and only time that three different films were nominated for the five major categories (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay): ''Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.''

'''1969''' – 41st Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Oliver!''
|-
|Best Director
|Carol Reed (''Oliver!'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Cliff Robertson (''Charly'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Katharine Hepburn (''The  Lion in Winter'')

Barbra Streisand (''Funny  Girl'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Foreign Language  Film
|''War and Peace'' (Sergei Bondarchuk, Russia)
|-
|Best Original Song
|''The Windmills of Your  Mind'' (''The Thomas Crown  Affair'')
|}
Took place in April 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

This was the only time there has been a tie for Best Actress award.

''Young Americans'' won the award for Best Documentary Feature Film but became the only film to have its Oscar revoked as it had premiered in 1967. The Oscar was subsequently awarded to ''Journey into Self''.

''War and Peace'' was in four parts, with a total running time of 431 minutes.

=== 1970s ===
'''1970''' – 42nd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Midnight Cowboy''
|-
|Best Director
|John Schlesinger (''Midnight  Cowboy'')
|-
|Best Actor
|John Wayne (''True  Grit'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Maggie Smith (''The  Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Goldie Hawn (''Cactus  Flower'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|“Raindrops Keep  Fallin' on My Head” from ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''
|-
|Best Original  Screenplay
|''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' –  William Goldman
|}
Took place in April 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

''Midnight Cowboy'' is the only X-rated film to win Best Picture Oscar.

''Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head'' was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. The version by B. J. Thomas reached No. 1 on singles charts in the United States.

''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' set an Oscar record by receiving nine nominations without one for Best Picture.

'''1971''' – 43rd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Patton''
|-
|Best Director
|Franklin J. Schaffner  (''Patton'')
|-
|Best Actor
|George  C. Scott (''Patton'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Glenda Jackson (''Women  in Love'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|John Mills (''Ryan’s  Daughter'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Helen Hayes (''Airport'')
|}
Took place in April 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

George C. Scott became the first actor to refuse an Oscar.

Helen Hayes became the first actress to win Oscars in both lead and supporting categories.

'''1972''' – 44th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The French Connection''
|-
|Best Director
|William Friedkin (''The  French Connection'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Gene Hackman (''The  French Connection'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Jane Fonda (''Klute'')
|}
Took place in April 1972 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., and Jack Lemmon.

''A Clockwork Orange'' was the last X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture.

'''1973''' – 45th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Godfather''
|-
|Best Director
|Bob Fosse (''Cabaret'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Marlon Brando (''The  Godfather'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Liza Minnelli (''Cabaret'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Original Score
|''Limelight'' (Charlie Chaplin)
|}
Took place in March 1973 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson.

''Cabaret'' won the most Oscars (eight) without winning Best Picture.

Bob Fosse became the only person to ever win an Oscar (for ''Cabaret''), a Tony and an Emmy in the same year.

Marlon Brando turned down as Oscar for ''The Godfather'' due to mistreatment and mis-portrayal of Native Americans by Hollywood, and sent Apache actress Sacheen Littlefeather to explain why he did not accept the Oscar.

Charlie Chaplin received his only competitive Oscar. ''Limelight'' was produced in 1952 but was not seen in Los Angeles until its re-release in 1972.

'''1974''' – 46th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Sting''
|-
|Best Director
|George Roy Hill (''The  Sting'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Jack Lemmon (''Save  the Tiger'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Glenda Jackson (''A  Touch of Class'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actress
|Tatum O’Neal (''Paper  Moon'')
|}
Took place in April 1974 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston, and David Niven.

Jack Lemmon was the first previous winner of a Best Supporting Actor Oscar to win the Best Actor award.

Tatum O'Neal is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, which she won at age 10 for her performance in ''Paper Moon'' opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal.

Julia Philips was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Picture for ''The Sting''.

'''1975''' – 47th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Godfather Part II''
|-
|Best Director
|Francis Ford Coppola (''The  Godfather Part II'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Art Carney (''Harry  and Tonto'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Ellen Burstyn (''Alice  Doesn’t Live Here Anymore'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Robert De Niro (''The  Godfather Part II'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Ingrid Bergman (''Murder  on the Orient Express'')
|}
Took place in April 1975 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra.

''The Godfather Part II'' had three Best Supporting Actor nominations, the last film to receive three nominations in a single acting category.

Fred Astaire received his only Oscar nomination for ''The Towering Inferno''.

'''1976''' – 48th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''One Flew Over the  Cuckoo’s Nest''
|-
|Best Director
|Milos Forman (''One  Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Jack Nicholson (''One  Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Louise Fletcher (''One  Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|George Burns (''The  Sunshine Boys'')
|-
|Best Adapted  Screenplay
|''One Flew Over the  Cuckoo’s Nest''
|}
Took place in March 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly.

''One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest'' won all five major categories.

George Burns, aged 80, was the oldest acting winner at the time.

'''1977''' – 49th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Rocky''
|-
|Best Director
|John G. Avildsen (''Rocky'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Peter Finch (''Network'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Fay Dunaway (''Network'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Jason Robards (''All  the President’s Men'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Beatrice Straight (''Network'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Evergreen'' (''A Star Is  Born'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''The Omen'' – Jerry Goldsmith
|-
|Best Adapted  Screenplay
|''All the President’s  Men'' – William Goldman
|}
Took place in March 1977 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty.

''Network'' became the second film, after ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', to win three acting Oscars.

Peter Finch became the first actor to win a posthumous award.

Beatrice Straight set a record for the shortest performance ever (6 minutes) to win an acting Oscar.

Lina Wertmuller became the first woman nominated for Best Director, for ''Seven Beauties''.

Barbra Streisand became the first woman to be honored as a composer, for ''Evergreen''.

Jerry Goldsmith won his only Oscar, from 18 Academy Award nominations.

'''1978''' – 50th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Annie Hall''
|-
|Best Director
|Woody Allen (''Annie  Hall'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Richard Dreyfuss (''The  Goodbye Girl'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Diane Keaton (''Annie  Hall'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Jason Robards (''Julia'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Vanessa Redgrave (''Julia'')
|}
Took place in April 1978 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Bob Hope, his final time as host.

Jason Robards won his second consecutive Best Supporting Actor award.

Woody Allen received his only acting Oscar nomination, for ''Annie Hall''.

Alec Guinness received the only ''Star Wars'' acting Oscar nomination.

''The Turning Point'' received 11 nominations with no wins.

'''1979''' – 51st Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Deer Hunter''
|-
|Best Director
|Michael Cimino (''The  Deer Hunter'')
|-
|Best Actor
|John Voight (''Coming  Home'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Jane Fonda (''Coming  Home'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Christopher Walken (''The  Deer Hunter'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Maggie Smith (''California  Suite'')
|}
Took place in April 1979 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Johnny Carson for the first time.

Laurence Olivier became the first actor to secure ten Academy Award nominations for acting.

Jack Warden was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing the character Max Corkle in ''Heaven Can Wait''. James Gleason had been nominated for the same award for playing the same character in ''Here Comes Mr Jordan'' (''Heaven Can Wait'' was a remake) at the 1942 award ceremony.

=== 1980s ===
'''1980''' – 52nd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Kramer vs. Kramer''
|-
|Best Director
|Robert Benton (''Kramer  vs. Kramer'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Dustin Hoffman (''Kramer  vs. Kramer'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Sally Field (''Norma  Rae'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Meryl Streep (''Kramer  vs. Kramer'')
|-
|Best Foreign Language  Film
|''The Tin Drum'' (Volker Schlondorff, Germany)
|-
|Best Visual Effects
|''Alien''
|}
Took place in April 1980 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Johnny Carson.

At age eight, Best Supporting Actor nominee Justin Henry (''Kramer vs. Kramer'') became the youngest person nominated for an Oscar.

H. R. Giger was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for ''Alien''.

'''1981''' – 53rd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Ordinary People''
|-
|Best Director
|Robert Redford (''Ordinary  People'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Robert De Niro (''Raging  Bull'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Sissy Spacek (''Coal Miner’s  Daughter'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Timothy Hutton (''Ordinary  People'')
|}
Took place in April 1981 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Johnny Carson. It had been postponed for a day due to the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

Timothy Hutton is the youngest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, aged 20.

'''1982''' – 54th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Chariots of Fire''
|-
|Best Director
|Warren Beatty (''Reds'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Henry Fonda (''On  Golden Pond'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Katharine Hepburn (''On  Golden Pond'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|John Gielgud (''Arthur'')
|}
Took place in April 1982 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Johnny Carson.

Katharine Hepburn became the first and only performer to win four competitive acting Oscars.

76-year-old Henry Fonda won the Best Actor Award.

Academy Award for Best Makeup was introduced, following complaints that the makeup work in ''The Elephant Man'' the previous year was not honoured.

'''1983''' – 55th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Gandhi''
|-
|Best Director
|Richard Attenborough (''Gandhi'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Ben Kingsley (''Gandhi'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Meryl Streep (''Sophie’s  Choice'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Louis Gossett (''An  Officer and a Gentleman'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Jessica Lange (''Tootsie'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Up Where We Belong'' (''An Officer and a Gentleman'')
|}
Took place in April 1983 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau.

Louis Gossett became the first African-American actor to win Best Supporting Actor.

'''1984''' – 56th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Terms of Endearment''
|-
|Best Director
|James L. Brooks (''Terms  of Endearment'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Robert Duvall (''Tender  Mercies'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Shirley MacLaine (''Terms  of Endearment'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Jack Nicholson (''Terms  of Endearment'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Linda Hunt (''The Year of Living  Dangerously'')
|-
|Best Foreign Language Film
|''Fanny and Alexander'' (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Flashdance… What  a Feeling'' (''Flashdance'')
|}
Took place in April 1984 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Johnny Carson.

Linda Hunt was the first person to win an Oscar for portraying a character of the opposite sex, as Billy Kwan.

Irene Cara became the first black woman to win an Oscar in a non-acting category for the song ''Flashdance''.

'''1985''' – 57th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Amadeus''
|-
|Best Director
|Milos Forman (''Amadeus'')
|-
|Best Actor
|F. Murray Abraham (''Amadeus'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Sally Field (''Places  in the Heart'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Peggy Ashcroft (''A  Passage to India'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''Purple Rain'' – Prince
|-
|Best Original Song
|''I Just Called to Say I  Love You'' (''Woman in Red'')
|}
Took place in March 1985 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Jack Lemmon.

'''1986''' – 58th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Out of Africa''
|-
|Best Director
|Sydney Pollack (''Out  of Africa'')
|-
|Best Actor
|William Hurt (''Kiss  of the Spider Woman'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Geraldine Page (''The  Trip to Bountiful'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Don Ameche (''Cocoon'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Anjelica Huston (''Prizzi’s  Honor'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Say You, Say Me'' (''White Nights'')
|}
Took place in March 1986 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, and Robin Williams.

''The Color Purple'' failed to win any of its eleven nominations.

Anjelica Huston became the first third-generation Oscar winner after her father, John and grandfather Walter.

'''1987''' – 59th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Platoon''
|-
|Best Director
|Oliver Stone (''Platoon'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Paul Newman (''The  Colour of Money'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Marlee  Matlin (''Children of a Lesser God'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Michael  Caine (''Hannah and Her Sisters'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Dianne  Wiest (''Hannah and Her Sisters'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Take  My Breath Away''  (''Top Gun'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''Round Midnight''  – Herbie Hancock
|}
Took place in March 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Chevy Chase, Paul Hogan, and Goldie Hawn.

Marlee Matlin was the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, and the youngest Best Actress winner

Herbie Hancock was the first black person to win an Oscar for Best Original Score.

'''1988''' – 60th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Last Emperor''
|-
|Best Director
|Bernardo Bertolucci (''The Last Emperor'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Michael Douglas (''Wall  Street'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Cher (''Moonstruck'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Sean Connery (''The  Untouchables'')
|-
|Best Supporting Actress
|Olympia Dukakis (''Moonstruck'')
|-
|Best Foreign Language  Film
|''Babette’s Feast'' (Gabriel Axel, Denmark)
|-
|Best Original Song
|''(I’ve Had) The Time of  My Life'' (''Dirty Dancing'')
|-
|Best  Original Score
|''The Last Emperor -'' David Byrne, Cong Su, and Ryuichi Sakamoto
|}
Took place in April 1988 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles and was hosted by Chevy Chase.

''The Last Emperor'' won all nine awards it was nominated for.

Sean Connery won his only Oscar.

'''1989''' – 61st Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Rain Man''
|-
|Best Director
|Barry Levinson (''Rain  Man'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Dustin Hoffman (''Rain  Man'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Jodie Foster (''The  Accused'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Kevin Kline (''A Fish  Called Wanda'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Geena Davis (''The  Accidental Tourist'')
|-
|Best Animated Short  Film
|''Tin Toy''
|}
Took place in March 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. There was no host.

''Tin Toy'' was the first Oscar won by Pixar

=== 1990s ===
'''1990''' – 62nd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Driving Miss Daisy''
|-
|Best Director
|Oliver Stone (''Born  on the Fourth of July'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Daniel Day-Lewis (''My  Left Foot'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Jessica Tandy (''Driving  Miss Daisy'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Denzel Washington (''Glory'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Brenda Fricker (''My Left  Foot'')
|-
|Best Foreign Language  Film
|''Cinema Paradiso'' (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy)
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Under the Sea'' (''The Little Mermaid'')
|}
Took place in March 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with Billy Crystal hosting the show for the first time.

''Driving Miss Daisy'' won Best Picture without receiving a nomination for Best Director.

Jessica Tandy became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress, aged 80.

Brenda Fricker became the first Irish actress to win an Oscar.

'''1991''' – 63rd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Dances with Wolves''
|-
|Best Director
|Kevin Costner (''Dances  with Wolves'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Jeremy Irons (''Reversal  of Fortune'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Kathy Bates (''Misery'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Joe Pesci (''Goodfellas'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Whoopi Goldberg (''Ghost'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Sooner or Later (I  Always Get My Man)'' (''Dick Tracy'')
|-
|Best Animated Short  Film
|''Creature Comforts'' – Nick Park
|}
Took place in March 1991 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and was hosted by Billy Crystal.

Whoopi Goldberg was the second African-American woman to win the Best Supporting Actress award.

First Academy Award win for Nick Park.

Stephen Sondheim won his only Oscar for the song in ''Dick Tracy''.

'''1992''' – 64th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Silence of the  Lambs''
|-
|Best Director
|Jonathan Demme (''The  Silence of the Lambs'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Anthony Hopkins (''The  Silence of the Lambs'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Jodie Foster (''The  Silence of the Lambs'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Jack Palance (''City  Slickers'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''Beauty and the Beast'' – Alan Menken
|}
Took place in March 1992 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles and was hosted by Billy Crystal.

''The Silence of the Lambs'' won all five major categories.

''Beauty and the Beast'' was the first full-length animated film nominated for an Oscar.

John Singleton was the first African-American to be nominated for Best Director, for ''Boys n The Hood''.

Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon were both nominated for Best Actress for ''Thelma and Louise''.

Jack Palance won an Oscar 38 years after his last nomination for ''Shane''.

'''1993''' – 65th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Unforgiven''
|-
|Best Director
|Clint Eastwood (''Unforgiven'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Al Pacino (''Scent of  a Woman'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Emma Thompson (''Howards  End'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Gene Hackman (''Unforgiven'')
|-
|Best Supporting Actress
|Marisa Tomei (''My  Cousin Vinny'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''A  Whole New World''  (''Aladdin'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''Aladdin'' – Alan Menken
|}
Took place in March 1993 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles and was hosted by Billy Crystal.

Al Pacino’s only win at the Academy Awards.

''A Whole New World'' – was composed by Alan Menken with lyrics by Tim Rice.

'''1994''' – 66th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Schindler’s List''
|-
|Best Director
|Steven Spielberg (''Schindler’s  List'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Tom Hanks (''Philadelphia'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Holly Hunter (''The  Piano'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Tommy Lee Jones (''The  Fugitive'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Anna Paquin (''The  Piano'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Streets of  Philadelphia'' (''Philadelphia'')
|}
Took place in March 1994 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles and was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.

''Schindler’s List'' was the last black and white film to win Best Picture before The Artist.

Anna Paquin was aged 11.

''Streets of Philadelphia'' was the only Oscar won by Bruce Springsteen.

'''1995''' – 67th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Forrest Gump''
|-
|Best Director
|Robert Zemeckis (''Forrest  Gump'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Tom Hanks (''Forrest  Gump'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Jessica Lange (''Blue  Sky'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Martin Landau (''Ed  Wood'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Dianne Wiest (''Bullets  Over Broadway'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Can You Feel the Love  Tonight'' (''The Lion King'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''The Lion King'' – Hans Zimmer
|-
|Best Live Action Short  Film
|''Franz Kafka's It's a  Wonderful Life'' – Peter Capaldi
|}
Took place in March 1995 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and was hosted by David Letterman.

''Can You Feel the Love Tonight'' was composed by Elton John with lyrics by Tim Rice

'''1996''' – 68th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Braveheart''
|-
|Best Director
|Mel Gibson (''Braveheart'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Nicolas Cage (''Leaving  Las Vegas'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Susan Sarandon (''Dead  Man Walking'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Keven Spacey (''The Usual  Suspects'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Colours of the Wind'' (''Pocahontas'')
|-
|Best Adapted  Screenplay
|''Sense and Sensibility'' – Emma Thompson
|}
Took place in March 1996 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles and was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.

Emma Thompson became the first person to win Oscars for both acting and screenwriting.

'''1997''' – 69th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The English Patient''
|-
|Best Director
|Anthony Minghella (''The  English Patient'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Geoffrey Rush (''Shine'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Frances McDormand (''Fargo'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Cuba Gooding Jr. (''Jerry  Maguire'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Juliette Binoche (''The  English Patient'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''You Must Love Me'' (''Evita'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''Emma'' – Rachel Portman
|}
Took place in March 1997 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and was hosted by Billy Crystal.

''The English Patient'' is the only film to win the Oscar for Best Picture which was based on a novel that won the Booker Prize.

Rachel Portman became the first female winner for composing a musical score.

''You Must Love Me'' was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Tim Rice.

'''1998''' – 70th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Titanic''
|-
|Best Director
|James Cameron (''Titanic'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Jack Nicholson (''As  Good as it Gets'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Helen Hunt (''As Good  as it Gets'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Robin Williams (''Good  Will Hunting'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Kim Basinger (''L.A.  Confidential'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''Titanic'' – James Horner
|-
|Best Original Song
|''My Heart Will Go On'' (''Titanic'')
|}
Took place in March 1998 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and was hosted by Billy Crystal.

The oldest actor to be nominated for an Oscar is Gloria Stewart, who was 87 when she was nominated for her role in ''Titanic''.

''Titanic'' tied ''All About Eve'' for the most Oscar nominations (14), and won 11, tying ''Ben-Hur'' for the most Oscars won by a single film.

''As Good as It Gets'' is the most recent film to win both lead acting awards.

'''1999''' – 71st Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Shakespeare in Love''
|-
|Best Director
|Steven Spielberg (''Saving  Private Ryan'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Roberto Benigni (''Life  is Beautiful'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Gwyneth Paltrow (''Shakespeare  in Love'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|James Coburn (''Affliction'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Judi Dench (''Shakespeare  in Love'')
|-
|Best Foreign Language  Film
|''Life is Beautiful'' (Roberto  Benigni, Italy)
|}
Took place in March 1999 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles and was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.

''Life is Beautiful'' received seven nominations, the most for a foreign language film.

For portraying Queen Elizabeth I, Cate Blanchett (''Elizabeth'') and Judi Dench (''Shakespeare in Love'') became the first pair of actresses to earn acting nominations in the same year for portraying the same character in different films.

Judi Dench was on screen for 8 minutes in ''Shakespeare in Love''.

=== 2000s ===
'''2000''' – 72nd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''American Beauty''
|-
|Best Director
|Sam Mendes (''American  Beauty'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Kevin Spacey (''American  Beauty'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Hilary Swank (''Boys  Don’t Cry'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Michael Caine (''The  Cider House Rules'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Angelina Jolie (''Girl,  Interrupted'')
|-
|Best Foreign Language  Film
|''All About My Mother'' (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
|-
|Best Original Song
|''You’ll Be in My Heart'' (''Tarzan'')
|}
Took place in March 2000 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and was hosted by Billy Crystal.

Angelina Jolie and John Voight became the second father-daughter Oscar acting winners, after Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda.

Haley Joel Osment, aged11, received a nomination in Best Supporting Actor for his role in ''The Sixth Sense''.

Phil Collins won the Oscar for ''You’ll Be in My Heart''.

'''2001''' – 73rd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Gladiator''
|-
|Best Director
|Steven Soderbergh (''Traffic'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Russell Crowe (''Gladiator'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Julia Roberts (''Erin  Brockovich)''
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Benicio del Toro (''Traffic'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Marcia Gay Harden (''Pollock'')
|-
|Best Foreign Language  Film
|''Crouching Tiger,  Hidden Dragon'' (Ang Lee, Taiwan)
|-
|Best  Original Song
|''Things Have Changed'' (''Wonder Boys'')
|}
Took place in March 2001 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and was hosted by Steve Martin.

''Gladiator'' became the first film to win Best Picture without a directing or screenwriting win since ''All the King's Men''.

Bob Dylan won an Oscar for ''Things Have Changed'' and in 2016 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature thus joining G B Shaw in receiving these awards.

'''2002''' – 74th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''A Beautiful Mind''
|-
|Best Director
|Ron Howard (''A  Beautiful Mind'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Denzel Washington (''Training  Day'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Halle Berry (''Monster’s  Ball'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Jim Broadbent (''Iris'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Jennifer Connelly (''A  Beautiful Mind'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature Film
|''Shrek''
|-
|Best Original Song
|''If I Didn’t Have You'' (''Monsters. Inc'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''The Lord of the Rings:  The Fellowship of the Ring'' –  Howard Shore
|}
Took place in March 2002 at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.

Denzel Washington is the second African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, following Sidney Poitier.

Halle Berry became the first black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Nominated for their performances as the title character in ''Iris'', Judi Dench and Kate Winslet became the second pair of actresses nominated for portraying the same character in the same film, following Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart in ''Titanic''.

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film was first awarded.

'''2003''' – 75th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Chicago''
|-
|Best Director
|Roman Polanski (''The  Pianist'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Adrien  Brody (''The  Pianist'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Nicole Kidman (''The  Hours'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Chris Cooper  (Adaptation)
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Catherine Zeta-Jones (''Chicago'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature Film
|''Spirited Away'' – Studio Ghibli
|-
|Best Documentary Film
|''Bowling for  Columbine'' – Michael Moore
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Lose Yourself'' (''8 Mile)''
|}
Took place in March 2003 at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Steve Martin.

''Chicago'' became the first musical film to win Best Picture since ''Oliver!''

Adrien Brody became the youngest actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor, aged 29.

''Spirited Away'' is the only hand drawn animated film and non-English-language animated film to win Best Animated Feature Film.

''Lose Yourself'' became the first hip hop song to win the Best Original Song award.

'''2004''' – 76th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Lord of the Rings:  The Return of the King''
|-
|Best Director
|Peter Jackson (''The  Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Sean Penn (''Mystic  River'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Charlize Theron (''Monster'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Tim Robbins (''Mystic  River'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Renee Zellweger (''Cold  Mountain'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''Finding Nemo''
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Into the West'' (''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the  King'')
|}
Took place in February 2004 at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Billy Crystal.

With eleven awards (from 11 nominations) ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' tied with ''Ben-Hur'' and ''Titanic'' as the most awarded films in Oscar history.

Best Actress nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes (''The Whale'') was aged 13.

''Into the West'' was sung by Annie Lennox and composed by Howard Shore.

'''2005''' – 77th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Million Dollar Baby''
|-
|Best Director
|Clint Eastwood (''Million Dollar Baby'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Jamie Foxx (''Ray'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Hilary Swank (''Million Dollar Baby'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Morgan Freeman (''Million Dollar Baby'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Cate Blanchett (''The  Aviator'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''The Incredibles''
|}
Took place in February 2005 at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Chris Rock.

Clint Eastwood, aged 74, became the oldest winner of the Best Director award.

Cate Blanchett portrayed a previous Oscar winner Katherine Hepburn in ''The Aviator''.

'''2006''' – 78th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Crash''
|-
|Best Director
|Ang Lee (''Brokeback  Mountain'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Philip Seymour Hoffman  (''Capote'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Reese Witherspoon (''Walk  the Line'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|George Clooney (''Syriana'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Rachel Weisz (''The  Constant Gardener'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''Wallace & Gromit:  The Curse of the Were-Rabbit''
|-
|Best Documentary  Feature
|''March of the Penguins''
|-
|Best Foreign Language  Film
|''Tsotsi'' (Gavin Hood, South Africa)
|}
Took place in March 2006 at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Jon Stewart.

Ang Lee became the first non-Caucasian winner of the Best Director award.

Paul Haggis became the first person in the history of the Academy Awards to write two back-to-back Best Picture winners, for ''Crash'' and the previous year's winner, ''Million Dollar Baby''.

'''2007''' – 79th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Departed''
|-
|Best Director
|Martin Scorsese (''The  Departed'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Forest Whitaker (''The  Last King of Scotland'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Helen Mirren (''The  Queen'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Alan Arkin (''Little  Miss Sunshine'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Jennifer Hudson (''Dreamgirls'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature Film
|''Happy Feet''
|-
|Best Foreign Language  Film
|''The Lives of Others'' (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany)
|-
|Best Documentary Feature
|''An Inconvenient Truth''
|}
Took place in February 2007 at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.

Martin Scorsese won his only Oscar for ''The Departed''.

Peter O’Toole was nominated for Best Actor for the eighth time.

'''2008''' – 80th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''No Country for Old Men''
|-
|Best Director
|Joel Coen and Ethan  Coen (''No Country for Old Men'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Daniel Day-Lewis (''There  Will Be Blood'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Marianne Cotillard (''La  Vie en Rose'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Javier Bardem (''No  Country for Old Men'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Tilda Swinton (''Michael Clayton'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''Ratatouille''
|-
|Best Foreign Language  Film
|''The Counterfeiters'' (Stefan Ruzowitzky, Austria)
|}
Took place in February 2008 at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Jon Stewart.

Marianne Cotillard became the first actress to win an Oscar for a performance in French.

'''2009''' – 81st Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Slumdog Millionaire''
|-
|Best Director
|Danny Boyle (''Slumdog  Millionaire'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Sean Penn (''Milk'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Kate Winslet (''The  Reader'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Heath Ledger (''The  Dark Knight'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Penelope Cruz (''Vicky  Cristina Barcelona'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''WALL-E''
|-
|Best Documentary  Feature
|''Man on Wire''
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Jai Ho'' (''Slumdog Millionaire'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''Slumdog Millionaire'' – A.R. Rahman
|}
Took place in February 2009 at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Hugh Jackman.

''Slumdog Millionaire'' was the first film with an entirely non-white cast to win Best Picture.

''Jai Ho'' was composed by A.R. Rahman.

Heath Ledger became the second actor to receive a posthumous Oscar, following Peter Finch for his performance in ''Network''.

''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' had thirteen nominations.

=== 2010s ===
'''2010''' – 82nd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Hurt Locker''
|-
|Best Director
|Kathryn Bigelow (''The  Hurt Locker'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Jeff Bridges (''Crazy  Heart'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Sandra Bullock (''The  Blind Side'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Christoph Waltz (''Inglorious  Basterds'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Mo’Nique (''Precious:  Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''Up''
|}
Took place in March 2010 at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.

Kathryn Bigelow became the first female to win the Oscar for Best Director.

For the first time since the 1944 ceremony, 10 films were nominated for Best Picture.

'''2011''' – 83rd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The King’s Speech''
|-
|Best Director
|Tom Hooper (''The King’s  Speech'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Colin Firth (''The  King’s Speech'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Natalie Portman (''Black  Swan'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Christian Bale (''The  Fighter'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Melissa Leo (''The  Fighter'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''Toy Story 3''
|-
|Best Original Song
|''We Belong Together (Toy  Story 3'')
|}
Took place in February 2011 at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway.

''Toy Story 3'' became the third animated film to be nominated for Best Picture, following ''Beauty and the Beast'' and ''Up''.

''We Belong Together'' was composed by Randy Newman.

'''2012''' – 84th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Artist''
|-
|Best Director
|Michel Hazanavicus (''The  Artist'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Jean Dujardin (''The  Artist'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Meryl Streep (''The  Iron Lady'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Christopher  Plummer (''Beginners'')
|-
|Best Supporting Actress
|Octavia  Spencer (''The Help'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature Film
|''Rango''
|-
|Best Foreign Language Film
|''A  Separation''  (Asghar Farhadi, Iran)
|}
Took place in February 2012 at the Hollywood and Highland Center Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Billy Crystal.

''The Artist'' was only the second silent film to collect an Oscar for Best Picture, after ''Wings''.

Jean Dujardin became the first French actor to win an Oscar.

Christopher Plummer, aged 82, became the oldest person to win an Oscar.

'''2013''' – 85th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Argo''
|-
|Best Director
|Ang Lee (''Life of Pi'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Daniel Day-Lewis (''Lincoln'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Jennifer Lawrence (''Silver  Linings Playbook'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Christoph Waltz (''Django  Unchained'')
|-
|Best Supporting Actress
|Anne Hathaway (''Les Miserables'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature Film
|''Brave''
|-
|Best Foreign Language Film
|''Amour'' (Michael Haneke, Austria)
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Skyfall'' (''Skyfall'')
|}
Took place in February 2013 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Seth MacFarlane.

''Argo'' won Best Picture without a nomination for Best Director.

Daniel Day-Lewis became the first actor to win three Best Actor awards.

Quvenzhane Wallis, aged 9, became the youngest nominee for Best Actress, for ''Beasts of the Southern Wild''.

''Fresh Guacamole'' was nominated for Animated Short Film. At one minute 41 seconds it is the shortest film to ever be nominated for an Oscar.

Best Sound Editing was a tie between ''Zero Dark Thirty'' and ''Skyfall''. Sixth occurrence of a tie in Oscar history.

The name of the Best Makeup category was changed to Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

'''2014''' – 86th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''12 Years a Slave''
|-
|Best Director
|Alfonso Cuaron (''Gravity'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Matthew McConaughey (''Dallas  Buyers Club'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Cate Blanchett (''Blue  Jasmine'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Jared Leto (''Dallas  Buyers Club'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Lupita Nyong’o (''12  Years a Slave'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''Frozen''
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Let It Go'' (''Frozen'')
|}
Took place in March 2014 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.

The Best Picture win made Steve McQueen the first black British producer to ever receive the award.

John Travolta mispronounced Idina Menzel (the singer of ''Let It Go'') at the awards ceremony, calling her "Adele Dazeem".

'''2015''' – 87th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Birdman''
|-
|Best Director
|Alejandro G. Inarritu  (''Birdman'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Eddie Redmayne (''The  Theory of Everything'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Julianne Moore (''Still  Alice'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|J. K. Simmons (''Whiplash'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Patricia Arquette (''Boyhood'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature Film
|''Big Hero 6''
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Glory'' (''Selma'')
|}
Took place in February 2015 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Neil Patrick Harris.

Alejandro G. Inarritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win the Best Director award.

Aged 84, Robert Duvall became the oldest male acting nominee at the time, for ''The Judge''.

'''2016''' – 88th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Spotlight''
|-
|Best Director
|Alejandro G. Inarritu  (''The Revenant'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Leonardo DiCaprio (''The  Revenant'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Brie Larson (''Room'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Mark Rylance (''Bridge  of Spies'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Alicia Vikander (''The  Danish Girl'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature Film
|''Inside Out''
|-
|Best Foreign Language Film
|''Son of Saul'' (Laszlo Nemes, Hungary)
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Writing’s on the Wall'' (''Spectre'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''The Hateful Eight'' – Ennio Morricone
|}
Took place in February 2016 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Chris Rock.

Aged 87, Ennio Morricone won his only Oscar.

'''2017''' – 89th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Moonlight''
|-
|Best Director
|Damien Chazelle (''La  La Land'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Casey Affleck (''Manchester  by the Sea'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Emma Stone (''La La  Land'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Mahershala Ali (''Moonlight'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Viola Davis (''Fences'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature Film
|''Zootopia''
|-
|Best Foreign Language Film
|''The Salesman'' (Asghar Farhadi, Iran)
|-
|Best Original Song
|''City of Stars'' (''La La Land'')
|-
|Best Documentary  Feature
|''O.J.: Made in America''
|}
Took place in February 2017 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

''Moonlight'' was the first film with an all-black cast to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Damien Chazelle became the youngest winner of the Best Director award.

''La La Land'' received 14 nominations.

Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar.

''O.J.: Made in America'' became the longest film to win an Academy Award. It is a five-part documentary lasting 467 minutes.

Faye Dunaway announced ''La La Land'' as the winner of Best Picture after being given the wrong envelope by Brian Cullinan of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

'''2018''' – 90th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''The Shape of Water''
|-
|Best Director
|Guillermo del Toro (''The  Shape of Water'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Gary Oldman (''Darkest  Hour'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Frances McDormand (''Three  Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Sam Rockwell (''Three  Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Allison Janney (''I,  Tonya'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature Film
|''Coco''
|-
|Best Foreign Language Film
|''A Fantastic Woman'' (Sebastian Lelio, Chile)
|-
|Best Adapted  Screenplay
|''Call Me by  Your Name'' – James Ivory
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Remember Me'' (''Coco'')
|-
|Best Animated Short  Film
|''Dear Basketball''
|}
Took place in March 2018 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

Aged 88, Christopher Plummer became the oldest ever performer nominated for a competitive Oscar, for ''All the Money in the World''.

James Ivory became the oldest ever Oscar winner, aged 89.

Meryl Streep received her 21st acting nomination.

Kobe Bryant became the first professional athlete to win an Academy Award, for ''Dear Basketball''.

'''2019''' – 91st Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Green Book''
|-
|Best Director
|Alfonso Cuaron (''Roma'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Rami Malek (''Bohemian  Rhapsody'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Olivia Colman (''The Favourite'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Mahershala Ali (''Green  Book'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Regina King (''If  Beale Street Could Talk'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature Film
|''Spider-Man: Into the  Spider-Verse''
|-
|Best Foreign Language Film
|''Roma'' (Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico)
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Shallow'' (''A Star is Born'')
|}
Took place in February 2019 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood with no host.

Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone were both nominated for Best Supporting Actress, for ''The Favourite''.

Lady Gaga and Mark Ronson won Oscars for ''Shallow''.

''Black Panther'' was the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture.

=== 2020s ===
'''2020''' – 92nd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Parasite''
|-
|Best Director
|Bong Joon-ho (''Parasite'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Joaquin Phoenix (''Joker'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Renee Zellweger (''Judy'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Brad Pitt (''Once  Upon a Time in Hollywood'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Laura Dern (''Marriage  Story'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''Toy Story 4''
|-
|Best International  Feature Film
|''Parasite'' (South Korea, Bong Joon-ho)
|-
|Best Original Song
|''(I’m Gonna) Love Me  Again'' (''Rocketman'')
|}
Took place in February 2020 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood with no host.

''Parasite'' became the first non-English language film to win Best Picture.

Bong Joon-ho won Oscars for Best Picture, Director, and Original Screenplay, and also accepted the award for Best International Feature Film on behalf of South Korea.

'''2021''' – 93rd Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Nomadland''
|-
|Best Director
|Chloe Zhao (''Nomadland'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Anthony Hopkins (''The  Father'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Frances McDormand (''Nomadland'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Daniel Kaluuya (''Judas  and the Black Messiah'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Youn Yuh-yung (''Minari'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''Soul''
|-
|Best International  Feature Film
|''Another Round'' (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark)
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Fight for You'' (''Judas and the Black Messiah'')
|}
Took place in April 2021 at the Union Station, Los Angeles with no host. The ceremony was held in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chloe Zhao became the first woman of colour to win Best Director.

At age 83, Anthony Hopkins was the oldest performer to ever win a competitive acting Oscar.

As a producer of ''Nomadland'', Frances McDormand was the first person in history to win Oscars for both acting and producing for the same film.

Glenn Close received her eighth unsuccessful acting nomination.

'''2022''' – 94th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''CODA''
|-
|Best Director
|Jane Campion (''The  Power of the Dog'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Will Smith (''King  Richard'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Jessica Chastain (''The  Eyes of Tammy Faye'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Troy Kotsur (''CODA'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Ariana DeBose (''West  Side Story'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''Encanto''
|-
|Best International  Feature Film
|''Drive My Car'' (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan)
|-
|Best Original  Screenplay
|Kenneth Branagh (''Belfast'')
|-
|Best Original Song
|''No Time to Die'' (''No Time to Die'')
|-
|Best Original Score
|''Dune'' – Hans Zimmer
|}
Took place in March 2022 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes.

''CODA'' became the first Best Picture winner to be distributed via a streaming platform (Apple TV+) and the first one starring a primarily deaf cast.

''The Power of the Dog'' became the first film to win Best Director as its sole award since ''The Graduate''.

Kenneth Branagh became the first person to have been nominated in seven different categories.

''No Time to Die'' was written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell. Third consecutive James Bond theme to win the Academy Award.

''Drive My Car'' was the first Japanese film to receive a Best Picture nomination.

During the Oscars ceremony, Will Smith walked onto the stage and smacked host Chris Rock across the cheek after Rock made a joke at the expense of Jada Pinkett Smith.

'''2023''' – 95th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Everything Everywhere  All at Once''
|-
|Best Director
|Daniel Kwan and Daniel  Scheinert (''Everything Everywhere All at Once'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Brendan Fraser (''The  Whale'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Michelle Yeoh (''Everything  Everywhere All at Once'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Ke Huy Quan (''Everything  Everywhere All at Once'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Jamie Lee Curtis (''Everything  Everywhere All at Once'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''Guillermo del Toro's  Pinocchio''
|-
|Best International  Feature Film
|''All Quiet on the Western  Front'' (Edward Berger, Germany)
|-
|Best Documentary Feature Film
|''Navalny''
|-
|Best Animated Short  Film
|''The Boy, the Mole, the  Fox and the Horse''
|}
Took place in March 2023 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

''Everything Everywhere All at Once'' won 7 awards from 11 nominations.

''All Quiet on the Western Front'' won 4 awards.

Michelle Yeoh became the first woman who identifies as Asian nominated in the Best Actress category.

''Everything Everywhere All at Once'' became the third film, after ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' and ''Network'', to win three acting Oscars.

Alfonso Cuaron became the second person to be nominated in seven different Oscar categories, following Kenneth Branagh.

Independent studio A24 won a total of nine awards.

'''2024''' – 96th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Oppenheimer''
|-
|Best Director
|Christopher Nolan (''Oppenheimer'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Cillian Murphy (''Oppenheimer'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Emma Stone (''Poor  Things'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Robert Downey Jr. (''Oppenheimer'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Da'Vine Joy Randolph (''The  Holdovers'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''The Boy and the Heron''
|-
|Best International  Feature Film
|''The Zone of Interest'' (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
|-
|Best Documentary  Feature Film
|''20 Days in Mariupol''
|-
|Best Original  Screenplay
|''Anatomy of a Fall'' – Justine Triet
|-
|Best Original Song
|''What Was I Made For?'' (''Barbie'')
|}
Took place in March 2024 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

''Oppenheimer'' won seven awards from 13 nominations.

''Poor Things'' won four awards.

Lily Gladstone became the first Native American actress to be nominated, for her role in ''Killers of the Flower Moon''.

'''2025''' – 97th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''Anora''
|-
|Best Director
|Sean Baker (''Anora'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Adrian Brody (''The  Brutalist'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Mikey Madison (''Anora'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Kieran Culkin (''A  Real Pain'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Zoe Saldana (''Emilia  Perez'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''Flow''
|-
|Best International  Feature Film
|''I’m Still Here''
|-
|Best Documentary  Feature Film
|''No Other Land''
|}
Took place in March 2025 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Conan O’Brien.

Emilia Perez received 13 nominations, the most for a non-English-language film in Oscars history.

Karla Sofía Gascon became the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for an acting category, for her role in Emilia Perez.

Sean Baker became the first person to receive four Oscars for the same film.

'''2026''' – 98th Awards
{| class="wikitable"
|Best Picture
|''One Battle After  Another''
|-
|Best Director
|Paul Thomas Anderson (''One  Battle After Another'')
|-
|Best Actor
|Michael B. Jordan (''Sinners'')
|-
|Best Actress
|Jessie Buckley (''Hamnet'')
|-
|
|
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|Sean Penn (''One  Battle After Another'')
|-
|Best Supporting  Actress
|Amy Madigan (''Weapons'')
|-
|Best Animated Feature  Film
|''KPop Demon Hunters''
|-
|Best International  Feature Film
|''Sentimental Value''
|-
|Best Documentary  Feature Film
|''Mr Nobody Against  Putin''
|-
|Best Original Song
|''Golden'' (''KPop Demon Hunters'')
|-
|Best Casting
|Cassandra Kulukundis (''One  Battle After Another'')
|}
Took place in March 2026 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and was hosted by Conan O’Brien.

''Sinners'' received sixteen nominations, the most in the history of the Academy Awards.

''One Battle After Another'' received thirteen nominations and won six Oscars.

Warner Bros. studio won eleven Oscars.

Jessie Buckley became the first Irish actress to win the award for Best Actress.

The Academy Award for Best Casting is the first new Oscar category introduced since Best Animated Feature in 2001.

Autumn Arkapaw won the Oscar for Best Cinematography, becoming the first ever female winner. This had been the last remaining category never won by a woman.

<u>Films nominated for Best Picture in 2026</u>
{| class="wikitable"
|Film
|Director
|Awards
|Plot
|-
|''Bugonia''
|Yorgos Lanthimos
|
|Two  conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company,  convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
|-
|''F1''
|Joseph Kosinski
|Best Sound
|A Formula One driver  comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver.
|-
|''Frankenstein''
|Guillermo del Toro
|Best Production Design

Best Costume Design

Best Makeup and  Hairstyling
|Dr. Victor  Frankenstein brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that  ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
|-
|''Hamnet''
|Chloe Zhao
|Best Actress
|William Shakespeare and his spouse, Agnes Hathaway, mourn the  passing of their son Hamnet, who died at the age of eleven. Based on the novel ''Hamnet'' by Maggie  O’Farrell.
|-
|''Marty Supreme''
|Josh Safdie
|
|Marty Mauser, a table  tennis player with a dream of becoming world champion, goes to hell and back  in pursuit of greatness.
|-
|''One Battle After  Another''
|Paul Thomas Anderson
|Best Picture

Best Director

Best Supporting Actor

Best Adapted  Screenplay

Best Casting

Best Film Editing
|When their enemy  resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue  the daughter of one of their own. Based on the novel ''Vineland'' by  Thomas Pynchon.
|-
|''The Secret Agent''
|Kleber Mendonca Filho
|
|Amid the political  turmoil of 1977 Brazil, a technology expert is forced into hiding and seeks  help from the underground resistance as he tries to flee the country with his  young son.
|-
|''Sentimental Value''
|Joachim Trier
|Best International  Feature Film
|Sisters Nora and Agnes  reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned  director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his  comeback film.
|-
|''Sinners''
|Ryan Coogler
|Best Actor

Best Original  Screenplay

Best Cinematography

Best Original Score
|Trying to leave their  troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again,  only to be confronted by supernatural evil.
|-
|''Train Dreams''
|Clint Bentley
|
|Robert Grainier, a  logger and railroad worker, leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in America  of the early 20th Century. Based on the novella ''Train Dreams'' by Denis  Johnson.
|}

== Records ==
{| class="wikitable"
|Most awards won  by a film
|11 – ''Ben-Hur'',  ''Titanic'', and ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''
|-
|Most nominations  received by a film
|16 – ''Sinners''
|-
|Most awards won  by a person
|22 – Walt Disney
|-
|Most awards for  Best Actress
|4 – Katharine  Hepburn, all for Best Actress: ''Morning  Glory'', ''Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner'',  ''The Lion in Winter'', and ''On Golden Pond''
|-
|Most awards for  Best Actor
|3 – Daniel  Day-Lewis: ''My Left Foot'', ''There Will Be Blood'', and ''Lincoln''
|-
|Most awards for  Best Supporting Actor
|3 – Walter Brennan: ''Come and Get It'', ''Kentucky'', and ''The Westerner''
|-
|Most awards for  Best Supporting Actress
|2 – Shelley  Winters and Dianne Wiest
|-
|Actor with most  total nominations for acting
|12 – Jack  Nicholson
|-
|Actress with most  total nominations for acting
|21 – Meryl Streep
|-
|Most nominations  for an actor without a win
|8 – Peter O'Toole
|-
|Most nominations  for an actress without a win
|8 – Glenn Close
|-
|Most awards for  directing
|4 – John Ford: ''The  Informer'', ''The Grapes of Wrath'', ''How Green Was My Valley'', and  ''The Quiet Man''
|-
|Most nominations  for directing
|12 – William  Wyler
|-
|Most awards for  film music composition and songwriting
|9 – Alfred Newman
|-
|Most awards for  art direction
|11 – Cedric  Gibbons
|-
|Most awards for  costume design
|8 – Edith Head
|-
|Most awards for  visual effects
|8 – Dennis Muren
|-
|Most awards for  makeup
|7 – Rick Baker
|-
|Most awards won  by a country for Best Foreign Language Film
|14 – Italy
|-
|Winners of the  Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay
|3 – ''It Happened One Night'', ''One Flew Over the  Cuckoo’s Nest'', and ''The Silence of the Lambs''
|-
|Youngest winner  of an acting award
|Tatum O’Neal, age  10
|-
|Youngest nominee  for an acting award
|Justin Henry, age  8
|-
|Youngest Best  Actress winner
|Marlee Martin,  age 21
|-
|Youngest Best  Actor winner
|Adrien Brody, age  29
|-
|Youngest Best  Director winner
|Damien Chazelle,  age 32
|-
|Oldest Best Actor  winner
|Anthony Hopkins,  age 83
|-
|Oldest Best  Actress winner
|Jessica Tandy,  age 80
|-
|Oldest nominee  for an acting award
|Christopher  Plummer, age 88
|-
|Oldest Best  Director winner
|Clint Eastwood,  age 74
|-
|Most consecutive  awards
|8 – Walt Disney
|-
|Most consecutive  awards for Best Director
|2 – John Ford,  Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Alejandro G. Inarritu
|-
|Most consecutive  awards for Best Actor
|2 – Spencer Tracy  and Tom Hanks
|-
|Most consecutive  awards for Best Actress
|2 – Luise Rainer  and Katharine Hepburn
|-
|Most Oscars  without winning Best Picture
|8 – ''Cabaret''
|-
|Most nominations  without winning Best Picture
|14 – ''La La  Land''
|-
|Most nominations  with no wins
|11 – ''Turning  Point'' and ''The Colour Purple''
|-
|Most honorary  awards
|5 – Bob Hope
|}

== Trivia ==
Ingrid Bergman won Oscars for ''Anastasia'', ''Gaslight'', and ''Murder on the Orient Express.''

Jack Nicholson won Oscars for ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest'', ''As Good as It Gets'', and ''Terms of Endearment.''

Meryl Streep won Oscars for ''Kramer vs. Kramer'', ''Sophie’s Choice'', and ''The Iron Lady.''

Most nominations – Walt Disney (59), John Williams (53), Alfred Newman (45).

''Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King took home all 11 awards for which it was nominated.''

Most nominations for Best Director – William Wyler (12), Martin Scorsese (9), Billy Wilder (8).

Kenneth Branagh has been nominated for eight Academy Awards (one win), in seven different categories.

Edith Head won eight Academy Awards, more than any other woman.

Richard Burton had 7 Oscar nominations but no wins.

Amy Adams has 6 Oscar nominations but no wins to date.

Deborah Kerr had 6 Oscar nominations but no wins.

Sandy Powell is a costume designer nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design fifteen times, winning three awards for ''Shakespeare in Love'', ''The Aviator'', and ''The Young Victoria.''

John Williams has won five Academy Awards. He is the only person in the history of the Academy Awards to have received nominations in seven consecutive decades.

Alfred Newman has won nine Academy Awards.

Actors who have won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor – Jack Lemmon, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Nero, Kevin Spacey and Denzel Washington.

Actresses who have won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress – Ingrid Bergman, Helen Hayes, Jessica Lange, Maggie Smith, and Meryl Streep.

Sound re-recording mixer Kevin O'Connell held the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, until he finally won his first Academy Award for ''Hacksaw Ridge'', having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss.

The Huston family produced three generations of Oscar winners: Walter Huston was named Best Supporting Actor for his role in ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''; John Huston was awarded Best Director/Adapted Screenplay for the same movie, and Anjelica Huston received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in ''Prizzi's Honour.''

Only two married couples have won Oscars for acting roles: Laurence Olivier (''Hamlet'') and Vivian Leigh (''A Streetcar Named Desire''); and Joanne Woodward (The ''Three Faces of Eve'') and Paul Newman (''The Color of Money'').

The only sisters to have won Oscars are Joan Fontaine (''Suspicion'') and Olivia de Havilland (''To Each His Own'' and ''The Heiress'').

Lionel and Ethel Barrymore are the only brother and sister to win Academy Awards for acting.

Alfred Hitchcock was nominated five times, but never won an Oscar for Best Director.

Nora Ephron is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for ''Silkwood'', ''When Harry Met Sally…'' and ''Sleepless in Seattle.''

George C. Scott and Marlon Brando are the only two actors to have turned down an Oscar.

Peter O'Toole is the only actor to refuse an honorary Oscar.

James Dean was the first person to be nominated posthumously for an Oscar and the only person to be nominated posthumously for two Oscars.

Maurice Jarre received three Academy Awards and was nominated a total of eight times, all in the category of Best Original Score. He won Oscars for ''Lawrence of Arabia'', ''Doctor Zhivago'', and ''A Passage to India.''

James Horner won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score (''Titanic'') and Best Original Song (''My Heart Will Go On''), and was nominated for Oscars an additional eight times.

Georgio Moroder has won three Academy Awards: Best Original Score for ''Midnight Express''; Best Song for ''Flashdance...What a Feeling'', from the film ''Flashdance''; and Best Song for ''Take My Breath Away'', from ''Top Gun.''

Gary Cooper received five Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning twice for ''Sergeant York'' and ''High Noon.''

Greta Garbo was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for ''Anna Christie'' – ‘Garbo talks’, ''Romance'', ''Camille'', and ''Ninotchka'' (1939) – ‘Garbo laughs’.

''The Godfather: Part II'' and ''Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' are the only sequels to win Best Picture.

Charles Laughton, Robert Shaw and Richard Burton were all nominated for acting Oscars for playing Henry VIII.

Cate Blanchett (twice) and Judi Dench were both nominated for acting Oscars for playing Elizabeth I.

Six people have been nominated for playing the same character twice: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth I); Bing Crosby (Father Chuck O'Malley); Paul Newman ('Fast' Eddie Felson); Peter O'Toole (Henry II); Al Pacino (Michael Corleone); and Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa).

''Laurence Olivier and Roberto Benigni are the only people to have won Best Actor in a film they directed: Olivier for Hamlet and Benigni for Life Is Beautiful.''

Liza Minnelli is the only Oscar winner whose parents (Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli) also both won Academy Awards.

''Woody'' Allen has been nominated 24 times and won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director (''Annie Hall''). He has 16 screenwriting Academy Award nominations, more than any other writer, and the most awards with three (for ''Annie Hall'', ''Hannah and Her Sisters'', and ''Midnight in Paris'').

Alan Menken is best known for his scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores for ''The Little Mermaid'', ''Beauty and the Beast'', ''Aladdin'', and ''Pocahontas'' have each won him two Academy Awards.

Haing S. Ngor (''The Killing Fields'') and Harold Russell (''The Best Years of Our Lives'') are the only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award in an acting category.

Three actors have won an Oscar for playing a British Prime Minister – George Arliss (Benjamin Disraeli), Meryl Streep (Margaret Thatcher) and Gary Oldman (Winston Churchill).

Films to win Best Picture without a Best Director nomination – ''Grand Hotel'', ''Driving Miss Daisy'', ''Argo'', ''Green Book'', and ''CODA.''

Film producer Saul Zaentz received the Best Picture Oscar for ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', ''Amadeus'', and ''The English Patient.''

Film composer Victor Young was nominated 21 times without winning.

''Star Wars'' has the most nominations for a film series, with 38, and has won 10 Oscars.

Billie Eilish was the first person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award.

Quvenzhane Wallis was the first person born in the 21st century to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the only person to win an Oscar (Best Adapted Screenplay for ''A Room with a View'' and ''Howards End'') and a Booker Prize.

Max Steiner was an Austrian composer nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three for Best Original Score: ''The Informer'', ''Since You Went Away'' and ''Now, Voyager.''

Alexandre Desplat has been nominated 11 times for Best Original Score, winning twice, for ''Grand Budapest Hotel'' and ''The Shape of Water.''

Norma and Douglas Shearer were the first siblings to win Academy Awards. Douglas won seven Oscars for Sound and Visual Effects.

Winners of Palme d’Or and Best Picture Oscar – ''The Lost Weekend'', ''Marty'', and ''Parasite.''

Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro both won awards for portrayals of Vito Corleone.

Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix both won awards for portrayals of The Joker.

Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose both won awards for portrayals of Anita from ''West Side Story.''

Marilyn Monroe never received an Oscar nomination.

Films that won Best Picture but no other awards – ''The Broadway Melody'', ''Grand Hotel'', and ''Mutiny on the Bounty.''

Pixar has earned 23 Academy Awards, with 11 films winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. ''Up'' and ''Toy Story 3'' were also nominated for Best Picture.

''The most frequent host is Bob Hope with 19 appearances, followed by Billy Crystal with nine.''

Between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Special/Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States. For the 1956 Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created. In 2020 the award was renamed as the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

The Academy Award for the Best Film in a Foreign Language is the only Oscar awarded to an entire country.

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honour only the screenplay.

To qualify for Best Picture, a film needs to be at least 40 minutes long.