Academy Award for Best Picture

With the Oscar for best picture, the producers of the film are excellent. In general, three persons can be nominated as a producer of a film. From the 80th ceremony of the Oscars more than three persons may be nominated as a producer under certain circumstances. By 1936, the awards went to the production company.

The number of nominees for the Oscars was first raised in 2010 from five to ten to allow fantasy or animated films such as Top nominated in this category. After two implementation was chosen for the Oscars in 2012 that in the future between five and ten films will be nominated. Be nominated films that have received at least five percent of the votes of the most popular in the preselection film.

Films have qualified in the following year of its publication for an Oscar. The table below shows the winners after the year of the award are ordered.

1929-1930

1931-1940

1941-1950

1951-1960

1961-1970

1971-1980

1981-1990

1991-2000

2001-2010

Since 2011

Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for The Descendants - family and other matters Incredibly Close Scott Rudin for Extremely Loud & Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan for The Help Graham King and Martin Scorsese for Hugo Cabret Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum for Midnight in Paris Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt to win for The Arts - Moneyball Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad and Grant Hill for The Tree of Life Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy for companions

82nd Academy Awards Up (2009 film) 84th Academy Awards 1st Academy Awards Wings (1927 film) The Racket (1928 film) 2nd Academy Awards The Broadway Melody Alibi (1929 film) In Old Arizona The Hollywood Revue of 1929 The Patriot (1928 film) 3rd Academy Awards The Love Parade Disraeli (disambiguation)#Works about Benjamin Disraeli 4th Academy Awards Cimarron (1931 film) East Lynne (1931 film) Trader Horn (1931 film) The Front Page (1931 film) 5th Academy Awards Bad Girl (1931 film) The Champ (1931 film) Shanghai Express (film) One Hour with You Arrowsmith (Film) 6th Academy Awards Cavalcade (1933 film) State Fair (1933 film) The Private Life of Henry VIII Smilin' Through (1932 film) A Farewell to Arms (1932 film) She Done Him Wrong Little Women (1933 film) 7th Academy Awards It Happened One Night The House of Rothschild Flirtation Walk The White Parade The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 film) Viva Villa! Cleopatra (1934 film) The Gay Divorcee Here Comes the Navy 8th Academy Awards Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) Les Misérables (1935 film) Broadway Melody of 1936 David Copperfield (1935 film) The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Ruggles of Red Gap Alice Adams (Film) Top Hat A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film) 9th Academy Awards Hunt Stromberg Henry Blanke The Story of Louis Pasteur Anthony Adverse Frank Capra Mr. Deeds Goes to Town San Francisco (1936 film) Samuel Goldwyn Joe Pasternak David O. Selznick A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film) Lawrence Weingarten Irving Thalberg Romeo and Juliet (1936 film) 10th Academy Awards The Life of Emile Zola Pandro S. Berman Lost Horizon (1937 film) Louis D. Lighton Captains Courageous (1937 film) Dead End (1937 film) Leo McCarey The Awful Truth A Star Is Born (1937 film) Albert Lewin The Good Earth (film) Darryl F. Zanuck Kenneth Macgowan In Old Chicago 11th Academy Awards Boys Town (film) Test Pilot (film) Gabriel Pascal Victor Saville The Citadel (film) Hal B. Wallis Harry Joe Brown 12th Academy Awards Gone with the Wind (film) Sidney Franklin (director) Mervyn LeRoy David Lewis (producer) Love Affair (1939 film) Lewis Milestone Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film) Walter Wanger 13th Academy Awards Rebecca (1940 film) Charlie Chaplin The Long Voyage Home Sol Lesser Our Town (1940 film) Joseph L. Mankiewicz The Philadelphia Story (film) The Letter (1940 film) Foreign Correspondent (film) Jack Warner Nunnally Johnson 14th Academy Awards Irving Asher Arthur Hornblow, Jr. Hold Back the Dawn Jesse L. Lasky Sergeant York (film) Alfred Hitchcock Suspicion (1941 film) The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) 15th Academy Awards Mrs. Miniver (film) Random Harvest (film) The Pied Piper (1942 film) Wake Island (Film) George Stevens Kings Row William Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy The Magnificent Ambersons (film) 16th Academy Awards Casablanca (Film) Clarence Brown And the Band Played On (film) Noël Coward In Which We Serve Madame Curie (film) Ernst Lubitsch William Perlberg The Song of Bernadette (film) Lamar Trotti The Ox-Bow Incident Sam Wood 17th Academy Awards Gaslight (1944 film) Since You Went Away Wilson (Film) 18th Academy Awards Charles Brackett The Lost Weekend (film) The Bells of St. Mary's Jerry Wald 19th Academy Awards The Best Years of Our Lives The Yearling (film) Henry V (1944 film) The Razor's Edge (1946 film) 20th Academy Awards Gentleman's Agreement Ronald Neame Great Expectations (1946 film) Miracle on 34th Street Adrian Scott Crossfire (film) 21st Academy Awards Hamlet (1948 film) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) Anatole Litvak Robert Bassler The Snake Pit Emeric Pressburger The Red Shoes (1948 film) 22nd Academy Awards Robert Rossen All the King's Men (1949 film) Dore Schary Battleground (film) The Heiress Twelve O'Clock High 23rd Academy Awards Father of the Bride (1950 film) S. Sylvan Simon Born Yesterday (1950 film) Sam Zimbalist 24th Academy Awards Arthur Freed Charles K. Feldman A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film) Frank McCarthy (producer) 25th Academy Awards Cecil B. DeMille Merian C. Cooper The Quiet Man John Huston Moulin Rouge (1952 film) 26th Academy Awards Buddy Adler John Houseman Julius Caesar (1953 film) Frank Ross (producer) The Robe (film) Roman Holiday 27th Academy Awards Sam Spiegel On the Waterfront Jack Cummings (director) The Caine Mutiny (film) 28th Academy Awards Harold Hecht Marty (Film) Leland Hayward Fred Kohlmar Picnic (1955 film) Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film) Giant (1956 film) 30th Academy Awards Henry Fonda Reginald Rose William Goetz Sayonara Peyton Place (film) 31st Academy Awards Gigi (1958 film) Separate Tables (film) The Defiant Ones 32nd Academy Awards Ben-Hur (1959 film) Anatomy of a Murder The Nun's Story (film) The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film) John and James Woolf Room at the Top (1959 film) 33rd Academy Awards The Apartment Bernard Smith (editor) John Wayne Fred Zinnemann The Sundowners 34th Academy Awards Robert Wise West Side Story (Film) Carl Foreman The Guns of Navarone (film) Joshua Logan Fanny (1961 film) 35th Academy Awards Lawrence of Arabia (film) Morton DaCosta The Music Man (1962 film) Alan J. Pakula Aaron Rosenberg Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) 36th Academy Awards Tony Richardson Ralph Nelson Lilies of the Field (1963 film) How the West Was Won (film) Cleopatra (1963 film) 37th Academy Awards My Fair Lady (Film) Zorba the Greek (film) Bill Walsh (producer) Mary Poppins (Film) Stanley Kubrick Becket (1964 film) 38th Academy Awards Fred Coe Darling (1965 film) Ship of Fools (film) Carlo Ponti Doctor Zhivago (film) 39th Academy Awards Lewis Gilbert The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming Ernest Lehman The Sand Pebbles (film) 40th Academy Awards In the Heat of the Night (film) Warren Beatty Bonnie and Clyde (film) Arthur P. Jacobs Lawrence Turman 41st Academy Awards Oliver (Film) Ray Stark Funny Girl (Film) Rachel, Rachel Martin Poll Anthony Havelock-Allan Romeo and Juliet (1968 film) 42nd Academy Awards Jerome Hellman Midnight Cowboy John Foreman (producer) Hello, Dolly! (Film) Jacques Perrin Ahmed Rachedi (film director) 43rd Academy Awards Ross Hunter Airport (1970 film) Howard G. Minsky Love Story (1970 film) Ingo Preminger Bob Rafelson 44th Academy Awards The Last Picture Show Fiddler on the Roof (film) 45th Academy Awards Albert S. Ruddy The Godfather John Boorman Deliverance Cy Feuer Cabaret (1972 film) Bengt Forslund The Emigrants (film) Robert B. Radnitz 46th Academy Awards Tony Bill Michael Phillips (producer) Julia Phillips The Sting The Exorcist (film) Melvin Frank Francis Ford Coppola Gary Kurtz American Graffiti 47th Academy Awards Fred Roos Irwin Allen The Towering Inferno The Conversation Robert Evans (producer) Chinatown (1974 film) Marvin Worth Lenny (Film) 48th Academy Awards Saul Zaentz Michael Douglas Robert Altman Nashville (Film) Martin Bregman Barry Lyndon Richard D. Zanuck David Brown (producer) 49th Academy Awards Irwin Winkler Robert Chartoff Rocky Harold Leventhal Bound for Glory (film) Network (Film) Taxi Driver 50th Academy Awards Charles H. Joffe Herbert Ross Arthur Laurents The Turning Point (1977 film) Julia (1977 film) The Goodbye Girl Barry Spikings Michael Deeley Michael Cimino Alan Marshall (producer) David Puttnam An Unmarried Woman 52nd Academy Awards Stanley R. Jaffe Kramer vs. Kramer Apocalypse Now Peter Yates 53rd Academy Awards Ordinary People Tess (Film) The Elephant Man (film) 54th Academy Awards Reds (film) On Golden Pond (1981 film) Atlantic City (1980 film) Frank Marshall (film producer) Gandhi (Film) Dick Richards Tootsie Kathleen Kennedy (film producer) 56th Academy Awards James L. Brooks Tender Mercies Michael Shamberg The Dresser 57th Academy Awards Amadeus (Film) Places in the Heart 58th Academy Awards Out of Africa (film) Edward S. Feldman Witness (1985 film) Prizzi's Honor The Color Purple (film) 59th Academy Awards Arnold Kopelson Platoon (Film) The Mission (1986 film) Ismail Merchant 60th Academy Awards Jeremy Thomas The Last Emperor Sherry Lansing 61st Academy Awards Mark Johnson (producer) Norma Heyman Hank Moonjean Lawrence Kasdan The Accidental Tourist (film) Douglas Wick 62nd Academy Awards Lawrence Gordon (producer) Charles Gordon (producer) Paul Junger Witt Oliver Stone 63rd Academy Awards Jim Wilson (producer) Kevin Costner Walter F. Parkes Lawrence Lasker 64th Academy Awards Edward Saxon Kenneth Utt Barry Levinson Bugsy 65th Academy Awards Clint Eastwood Unforgiven Martin Brest Scent of a Woman (1992 film) Rob Reiner Andrew Scheinman Howards End (film) Stephen Woolley The Crying Game 66th Academy Awards Gerald R. Molen Branko Lustig The Piano The Fugitive (1993 film) John Calley Jim Sheridan In the Name of the Father (film) 67th Academy Awards Steve Tisch Steve Starkey Forrest Gump Lawrence Bender Pulp Fiction Quiz Show (film) Duncan Kenworthy The Shawshank Redemption 68th Academy Awards Bruce Davey Braveheart Mario Cecchi Gori Vittorio Cecchi Gori Il Postino: The Postman Sense and Sensibility (film) Brian Grazer Apollo 13 (Film) Bill Miller (film producer) Babe (film) 69th Academy Awards The English Patient (film) Laurence Mark Cameron Crowe 70th Academy Awards James Cameron Jon Landau (film producer) Arnon Milchan Curtis Hanson L.A. Confidential (Film) The Full Monty 71st Academy Awards David Parfitt Donna Gigliotti Harvey Weinstein Edward Zwick Marc Norman Shakespeare in Love The Thin Red Line (1998 film) Alison Owen Eric Fellner Tim Bevan Elizabeth (Film) Ian Bryce Mark Gordon Saving Private Ryan 72nd Academy Awards Bruce Cohen Dan Jinks American Beauty (Film) The Cider House Rules (film) Pieter Jan Brugge The Insider (film) Barry Mendel David Valdes The Green Mile (Film) 73rd Academy Awards David Franzoni Gladiator (2000 film) Danny DeVito Stacey Sher Erin Brockovich (Film) William Kong Hsu Li-Kong Ang Lee 74th Academy Awards Bob Balaban Gosford Park Baz Luhrmann Moulin Rouge! Peter Jackson Barrie M. Osborne Ross Katz Todd Field In the Bedroom 75th Academy Awards Martin Richards (producer) Chicago (2002 film) Alberto Grimaldi Gangs of New York Alain Sarde The Pianist (2002 film) 76th Academy Awards Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Sofia Coppola Lost in Translation (film) Gary Ross Robert Lorenz Mystic River (Film) 77th Academy Awards Tom Rosenberg Million Dollar Baby Nellie Bellflower Ray (Film) Michael London Sideways 78th Academy Awards Paul Haggis Cathy Schulman Crash (2004 film) William Vince Michael Ohoven Capote (Film) Grant Heslov Diana Ossana James Schamus Brokeback Mountain Steve Golin Babel (Film) David T. Friendly Little Miss Sunshine The Queen (film) No Country for Old Men (film) Paul Webster (producer) Atonement (film) Mason Novick Juno (Film) Michael Clayton (film) There Will Be Blood 81st Academy Awards Christian Colson Frost/Nixon (film) Milk (Film) Anthony Minghella Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin The Reader (2008 film) Mark Boal Carolynne Cunningham An Education Inglourious Basterds Lee Daniels A Serious Man Jonas Rivera Ivan Reitman Jason Reitman 83rd Academy Awards Iain Canning Gareth Unwin Danny Boyle 127 Hours David Hoberman The Fighter Emma Thomas Inception Gary Gilbert The Social Network Darla K. Anderson Toy Story 3 True Grit (2010 film) Thomas Langmann The Artist (Film) Jim Burke (film producer) Jim Taylor (writer) Chris Columbus (filmmaker) The Help (Film) Hugo (film) The Tree of Life (film) George Clooney Argo (2012 film) Beasts of the Southern Wild Django Unchained Stefan Arndt Veit Heiduschka Michael Katz (producer) Amour (2012 film) Lincoln (2012 film) Debra Hayward Cameron Mackintosh Jonathan Gordon Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty 12 Years a Slave (film) American Hustle Captain Phillips (film) Robbie Brenner Dallas Buyers Club David Heyman Gravity (Film) Her (film) Nebraska (film) Steve Coogan Philomena (Film) Joey McFarland The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Sound Editing Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Best Assistant Director Academy Award for Best Story Academy Award for Best Dance Direction
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