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The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which are voted on by others within the industry.

In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Except for the early years (when the Academy used a non-calendar year), the year shown is the one in which the film first premiered in Los Angeles County, California; normally this is also the year of first release, but it may be the year after first release (as with Casablanca and, if you count its film-festival premiere, Crash). This is the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited theatrically during 2005 was eligible for consideration for the 2005 Best Picture Oscar, awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the Wikipedia article (if any) on that ceremony.

Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. Before 1951, the Best Picture award was given to the production company; from 1951 on, it has gone to the producer. When the film was produced anywhere other than the United States, its country and original title, if applicable, are shown in parentheses.

This award was originally called Best Production.

A point of contention is the lack of consideration for non-English language films for other categories than the Best Foreign Language Film category: very few foreign films have been nominated for any of the other categories, regardless of artistic merit. Thus the Academy Award for Best Picture is practically the "Academy Award for English-language Best Picture". (As of 2005, only seven foreign language films have been nominated for Best Picture : Grand Illusion in 1938 ; Z in 1969 ; The Emigrants in 1972 ; Cries and Whispers in 1973 ; Il Postino in 1995 ; Life Is Beautiful in 1998 ; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2000)

1920s

Best Production

Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production also known as "Best Artistic Quality of Production" was only presented in the first year. (Most Best Picture lists omit this award, as it was the "Best Production" award that evolved into Best Picture instead.)

Best Production

1930s

The name of the award becomes Best Picture

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

See also

Academy Award
Academy Award of Merit : Current Awards
Best Picture | Best Leading Actor | Best Leading Actress | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress
Best Animated Feature | Best Art Direction | Best Cinematography | Best Costume Design | Best Director
Best Documentary Feature | Best Documentary Short Subject | Best Film Editing | Best Foreign Language Film | Best Makeup
Best Original Score | Best Original Song | Best Animated Short Film | Best Live Action Short Film | Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing | Best Visual Effects | Best Adapted Screenplay | Best Original Screenplay
Academy Award of Merit : Retired awards
Best Assistant Director | Best Dance Direction | Best Director of a Comedy Picture
Best Director of a Dramatic Picture | Best Engineering Effects | Best Short Film - Color
Best Short Film - Live Action - 2 Reels | Best Short Film - Novelty | Best Original Story
Best Title Writing | Best Unique and Artistic Quality of Production
Special Awards : Current Awards
Academy Honorary Award | Academy Special Achievement Award | Academy Award, Scientific or Technical
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Special Awards : Retired Awards
Academy Juvenile Award
Academy Award for Best Picture: Winners

1920s • Wings†  • Sunrise†  • The Broadway Melody†
1930s • All Quiet on the Western Front†  • Cimarron†  • Grand Hotel†  • Cavalcade†  • It Happened One Night  • Mutiny on the Bounty  • The Great Ziegfeld  • The Life of Emile Zola  • You Can't Take It with You  • Gone with the Wind
1940s • Rebecca  • How Green Was My Valley  • Mrs. Miniver  • Casablanca  • Going My Way  • The Lost Weekend  • The Best Years of Our Lives  • Gentleman's Agreement  • Hamlet  • All the King's Men
1950s • All About Eve  • An American in Paris  • The Greatest Show on Earth  • From Here to Eternity  • On the Waterfront  • Marty  • Around the World in Eighty Days  • The Bridge on the River Kwai  • Gigi  • Ben-Hur
1960s • The Apartment  • West Side Story  • Lawrence of Arabia  • Tom Jones  • My Fair Lady  • The Sound of Music  • A Man for All Seasons  • In the Heat of the Night  • Oliver!  • Midnight Cowboy
1970s • Patton  • The French Connection  • The Godfather  • The Sting  • The Godfather Part II  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  • Rocky  • Annie Hall  • The Deer Hunter  • Kramer vs. Kramer
1980s • Ordinary People  • Chariots of Fire  • Gandhi  • Terms of Endearment  • Amadeus  • Out of Africa  • Platoon  • The Last Emperor  • Rain Man  • Driving Miss Daisy
1990s • Dances with Wolves  • The Silence of the Lambs  • Unforgiven  • Schindler's List  • Forrest Gump  • Braveheart  • The English Patient  • Titanic  • Shakespeare in Love  • American Beauty
2000s • Gladiator  • A Beautiful Mind  • Chicago  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  • Million Dollar Baby  • Crash
†From 1927–1933, the Academy Awards did not follow a calendar year.

Winners (1927-1940) | Winners (1941-1960) | Winners (1961-1980) | Winners (1981-2000) | Winners (2001- )

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