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Best Picture
Held in March each year. The Achievement Awards
actually acknowledge movies which were released in the previous year.
Eg. the 1995 Award for Best Picture was Braveheart. The film was actually
released in 1994
| Best Picture | |||
| Academy Awards Best Picture . This award was originally called Best Production. | |||
| See Also: Movies > Academy Awards | |||
| Year | Other | Names | Film |
| 2009 | 82nd | TBA | |
| 2008 | 81st | TBA | |
| 2007 | 80th | TBA | |
| 2006 | 79th | Warner Bros. - Graham King | The Departed |
| 2005 | 78th | Lions Gate, DEJ Productions, Bob Yari Productions & ApolloProScreen GmbH & Co. Filmproduktion KG (Canada & Germany) - Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman | Crash |
| 2004 | 77th | Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Paul Haggis, Tom Rosenburg | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2003 | 76th | New Line & Warner Bros. - Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of
the King |
| 2002 | 75th | Miramax - Martin Richards | Chicago
* |
| 2001 | 74th | Universal & DreamWorks - Brian Grazer, Ron Howard | A
Beautiful Mind * |
| 2000 | 73rd | Universal & DreamWorks -Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig | Gladiator * |
| 1999 | 72nd | DreamWorks SKG, Jinks/Cohen Company - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks | American
Beauty * |
| 1998 | 71st | Bedford Falls Productions, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures - David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman | Shakespeare
in Love * |
| 1997 | 70th | 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment, Paramount Pictures - James Cameron, Jon Landau | Titanic
* |
| 1996 | 69th | J&M Entertainment, Miramax Films, Tiger Moth Productions - Saul Zaentz | The
English Patient * |
| 1995 | 68th | 20th Century Fox, B. H. Finance C. V., Icon Entertainment International, Paramount Pictures, The Ladd Company - Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey | Braveheart
* |
| 1994 | 67th | Paramount Pictures - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey | Forrest
Gump * |
| 1993 | 66th | Amblin Entertainment, Universal Pictures - Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig | Schindler's
List * |
| 1992 | 65th | Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven
* |
| 1991 | 64th | Orion Pictures Corp. - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman | The
Silence of the Lambs * |
| 1990 | 63rd | Tig Productions, Majestic Films International, Orion Pictures Corp. - Michael Flynn, Kevin Costner | Dances With Wolves * |
| 1989 | 62nd | Majestic Films International, Zanuck Company., Warner Bros. - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck | Driving Miss Daisy * |
| 1988 | 61st | Mirage Entertainment, Star Partners II, United Artists - Mark Johnson | Rain
Man * |
| 1987 | 60th | Hemdale, Columbia - Jeremy Thomas | The
Last Emperor * |
| 1986 | 59th | Hemdale, Orion - Arnold Kopelson | Platoon
* |
| 1985 | 58th | Universal - Sydney Pollack | Out
of Africa * |
| 1984 | 57th | Barrandov Studios - Zaentz, Orion - Saul Zaentz | Amadeus
* |
| 1983 | 56th | Brooks, Paramount - James L. Brooks | Terms of Endearment * |
| 1982 | 55th | Indo-British Films, Columbia - Richard Attenborough | Gandhi * |
| 1981 | 54th | Enigma, The Ladd Company/Warner Bros. - David Puttnam | Chariots of Fire * |
| 1980 | 53rd | Wildwood, Paramount - Ronald L. Schwary | Ordinary People * |
| 1979 | 52nd | Jaffe, Columbia - Stanley R. Jaffe | Kramer vs Kramer * |
| 1978 | 51st | EMI Films/Cimino, Universal - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall | Deer Hunter * |
| 1977 | 50th | Rollins-Joffe, United Artists - Charles H. Joffe | Annie Hall * |
| 1976 | 49th | Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff | Rocky * |
| 1975 | 48th | Fantasy Films, United Artists - Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest * |
| 1974 | 47th | Coppola Company, Paramount - Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos | The Godfather part 2 * |
| 1973 | 46th | Bill/Phillips-Hill, Zanuck/Brown, Universal - Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips | The Sting * |
| 1972 | 45th | Ruddy, Paramount - Albert S. Ruddy | The Godfather * |
| 1971 | 44th | D'Antoni-Schine-Moore, 20th Century-Fox - Philip D'Antoni | The French Connection * |
| 1970 | 43rd | 20th Century-Fox - Frank McCarthy | Patton * |
| 1969 | 42nd | Hellman-Schlesinger, United Artists - Jerome Hellman | Midnight Cowboy * |
| 1968 | 41st | Romulus, Columbia - John Woolf | Oliver * |
| 1967 | 40th | Mirisch, United Artists - Walter Mirisch | In the Heat of the Night * |
| 1966 | 39th | Highland, Columbia - Fred Zinnemann | A Man for all Seasons * |
| 1965 | 38th | Argyle, 20th Century-Fox - Robert Wise | The Sound of Music * |
| 1964 | 37th | Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner | My Fair Lady * |
| 1963 | 36th | Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert - Tony Richardson | Tom Jones * |
| 1962 | 35th | Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia - Sam Spiegel | Lawrence of Arabia * |
| 1961 | 34th | Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists - Robert Wise | West Side Story * |
| 1960 | 33rd | Mirisch, United Artists - Billy Wilder | The Apartment * |
| 1959 | 32nd | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist | Ben Hur * |
| 1958 | 31st | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed | Gigi * |
| 1957 | 30th | Horizon, Columbia - Sam Spiegel | The Bridge on the River Kwai * |
| 1956 | 29th | Todd, United Artists - Michael Todd | Around the World in 80 days * |
| 1955 | 28th | Hecht-Lancaster, United Artists - Harold Hecht | Marty * |
| 1954 | 27th | Horizon-American, Columbia - Sam Spiegel | On The Waterfront * |
| 1953 | 26th | Columbia - Buddy Adler | From Here to Eternity * |
| 1952 | 25th | DeMille, Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille | The Greatest Show on Earth * |
| 1951 | 24th | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed | An American in Paris * |
| From 1951 on, the individual producer (rather than the production company) receives this award. | |||
| 1950 | 23rd | 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck | All About Eve * |
| 1949 | 22nd | Rossen, Columbia - Robert Rossen | All the King's Men * |
| 1948 | 21st | J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, U-I - Laurence Olivier | Hamlet * |
| 1947 | 20th | 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck | Gentleman's Agreement * |
| 1946 | 19th | Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn | The Best Years of our Lives * |
| 1955 | 18th | Paramount - Charles Brackett | The Lost Weekend * |
| 1944 | 17th | Paramount - Leo McCarey | Going My Way * |
| 1943 | 16th | Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis | Casablanca * |
| 1942 | 15th | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin | Mrs Miniver * |
| 1941 | 14th | 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck | How Green Was My Valley * |
| 1940 | 13th | Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick | Rebecca * |
| 1939 | 12th | Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick | Gone With The Wind * |
| 1938 | 11th | Columbia - Frank Capra | You Can't Take It With You * |
| 1937 | 10th | Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke | The Life on Emile Zola * |
| 1936 | 9th | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg | The Great Ziegfeld * |
| 1935 | 8th | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg with Albert Lewin | Mutiny on the Bounty * |
| 1934 | 7th | Columbia - Harry Cohn | It Happened One Night * |
| 1932-1933 | 6th | Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head | Cavalcade * |
| 1931 - 1932 | 5th | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg | Grand Hotel * |
| 1930 - 1931 | 4th | RKO Radio - William LeBaron | Cimarron * |
| 1929 - 1930 | 3rd | Universal - Carl Laemmle Jr. | All Quiet on the Western Front * |
| The name of the award becomes Best Picture. | |||
| 1928 - 1929 | 2nd | The Broadway Melody Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Harry Rapf | The Broadway Melody * |
| 1927 - 1928 | 1st | Paramount Famous Players-Lasky - Lucien Hubbard | Wings * (Best Production) |
| See also Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production, also awarded to a film for 1927-1928 at the 1st Academy Awards. | |||
| See Also: Movies > Academy Awards | |||
