My Best Picture Winners
This list details the films I feel should have won the Academy Award for Best Picture from the award's inception in 1927/28 through the present. My choices are purely opinion and largely reflect only those movies which I have seen, so my opinions, and subsequently this list, may change as time goes by and I see more films. I have also included whether or not my winner was nominated and/or won the Academy Award for that particular direction as well as the other films/actors/directors I would have nominated alongside my winner. The nominees are listed in PREFERENTIAL ORDER. I do not have the time to write explanations for all of my choices so leave polite, mature feedback/comments and I'll be happy to justify my choices to the best of my ability.
Note: For Nominees, * denotes category nominee and ** denotes category winner for actual Academy Awards.
Note: For Nominees, * denotes category nominee and ** denotes category winner for actual Academy Awards.
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- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.Year: 1927/28
Director: F.W. Murnau
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Unique and Artistic Production, *Actress, Director
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Wings
Nominees: Metropolis; *Seventh Heaven; *The Crowd; **Wings - DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsLillian GishLars HansonMontagu LoveA frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.Year: 1928/29
Director: Victor Sjostrom
Actual Major Category Nominations: None
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Broadway Melody
Nominees: The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc); Steamboat Bill, Jr.; *The Love Parade; *The Patriot - DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsLew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WrayA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.Year: 1929/30
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Director, Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Supporting Actor; *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front
Nominees: Pandora's Box; Animal Crackers; Hell's Angels; *The Divorcee - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence LeeWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.Year: 1930/31
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Actual Major Category Nominations: None
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Cimarron
Nominees: M; *Skippy; Little Caesar; The Public Enemy - DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMiriam HopkinsKay FrancisHerbert MarshallA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.Year: 1931/32
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actual Major Category Nominations: None
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, Actress (2), *Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Grand Hotel
Nominees: Scarface: The Shame of a Nation; *Grand Hotel; *Bad Girl; *Shanghai Express - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsPaul MuniGlenda FarrellHelen VinsonWrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.Year: 1932/33
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture; Actor
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Cavalcade
Nominees: Duck Soup; King Kong; *42nd Street; *The Private Life of Henry VIII - DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.Year: 1934
Director: Frank Capra
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Actress, *Director, *Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: It Happened One Night
Nominees: *The Thin Man; Twentieth Century; The Scarlet Empress; *Imitation of Life - DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenHeather AngelPreston FosterIn 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.Year: 1935
Director: John Ford
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, *Actor, *Director, *Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Mutiny on the Bounty
Nominees: A Night at the Opera; *Top Hat; The 39 Steps; Bride of Frankenstein; Night at the Opera - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsWalter HustonRuth ChattertonPaul LukasA retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.Year: 1936
Director: William Wyler
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Great Ziegfeld
Nominees: My Man Godfrey; Modern Times; *Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; **The Great Ziegfeld - DirectorLeo McCareyStarsVictor MooreBeulah BondiFay BainterAn elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.Year: 1937
Director: Leo McCarey
Actual Major Category Nominations: None
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, Actress, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Life of Emile Zola
Nominees: *The Awful Truth; *A Star Is Born; *Lost Horizon; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinDita ParloPierre FresnayDuring WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.Year: 1938
Director: Jean Renoir
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: You Can't Take It with You
Nominees: *The Adventures of Robin Hood; Bringing Up Baby; The Lady Vanishes; *Pygmalion - DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.Year: 1939
Director: Victor Fleming
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Actress, *Supporting Actress, Supporting Actress, *Director, *Screenplay
My Major Category Nominees: *Picture, Actor, *Actress, *Supporting Actress (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Gone with the Wind
Nominees: *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; *The Wizard of Oz; *Stagecoach; *Wuthering Heights - DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineAn Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.Year: 1940
Director: John Ford
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominees: *Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Rebecca
Nominees: **Rebecca; His Girl Friday; *The Great Dictator; *The Philadelphia Story - DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'Year: 1941
Director: Orson Welles
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, Director, *Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor, *Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: How Green Was My Valley
Nominees: *The Maltese Falcon; **How Green Was My Valley; Sullivan's Travels; *Suspicion - DirectorOrson WellesFred FleckRobert WiseStarsTim HoltJoseph CottenDolores CostelloThe spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.Year: 1942
Director: Orson Welles with Fred Fleck
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Supporting Actress
My Major Category Nominees: *Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Mrs. Miniver
Nominees: *The Pride of the Yankees; *Yankee Doodle Dandy; To Be or Not to Be; The Palm Beach Story - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.Year: 1943
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Actress, *Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Casablanca
Nominees: Shadow of a Doubt; *The Ox-Bow Incident; *Heaven Can Wait; *The More the Merrier - DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.Year: 1944
Director: Billy Wilder
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Actress, Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Going My Way
Nominees: *Meet Me in St. Louis; Lifeboat; The Miracle of Morgan's Creek; *Gaslight - DirectorBilly WilderStarsRay MillandJane WymanPhillip TerryThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.Year: 1945
Director: Billy Wilder
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Lost Weekend
Nominees: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis); Rome, Open City (Roma, citta aperta); The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.Year: 1946
Director: Frank Capra
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, Director
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress; *Director; Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Best Years of Our Lives
Nominees: **The Best Years of Our Lives; Notorious; Brief Encounter; The Big Sleep - DirectorJacques TourneurStarsRobert MitchumJane GreerKirk DouglasA private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.Year: 1947
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actual Major Category Nominations: None
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Gentleman's Agreement
Nominees: *Great Expectations; Black Narcissus; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; Monsieur Verdoux - DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartWalter HustonTim HoltTwo down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.Year: 1948
Director: John Huston
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, *Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Hamlet
Nominees: *The Red Shoes; *Johnny Belinda; Red River; *The Snake Pit - DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.Year: 1949
Director: Carol Reed
Actual Major Category Nominations: Director
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actor, *Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: All the King's Men
Nominees: The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette); *Battleground; Kind Heart and Coronets; *A Letter to Three Wives - DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge SandersA seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.Year: 1950
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actress (2), *Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actress (2), Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: All About Eve
Nominees: *Sunset Boulevard; *Father of the Bride; *Born Yesterday; The Asphalt Jungle - DirectorElia KazanStarsVivien LeighMarlon BrandoKim HunterDisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.Year: 1951
Director: Elia Kazan
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, *Actress, *Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Actress, *Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: An American in Paris
Nominees: Strangers on a Train; *A Place in the Sun; The African Queen; Detective Story - DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.Year: 1952
Director: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
Actual Major Category Nominations: Supporting Actress
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Actress, Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, Director, Original Screenplay
Best Picture Winner: The Greatest Show on Earth
Nominees: *High Noon; *The Quiet Man; The Bad and the Beautiful; The Lavender Hill Mob - DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenDon TaylorOtto PremingerAfter two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.Year: 1953
Director: Billy Wilder
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Actor, Supporting Actor, Director
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: From Here to Eternity
Nominees: **From Here to Eternity; *Roman Holiday; *Shane; Lili - DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.Director: Elia Kazan
Actual: Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor (3), *Supporting Actress, *Director, *Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Supporting Actor (3), *Supporting Actress, *Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: On the Waterfront
Nominees: Rear Window; A Star Is Born; *The Caine Mutiny; Dial M for Murder - DirectorDelbert MannStarsErnest BorgnineBetsy BlairEsther MinciottiA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.Year: 1955
Director: Delbert Mann
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Supporting Actress, Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Marty
Nominees: East of Eden; The Night of the Hunter; *Mister Roberts; Bad Day at Black Rock - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsElizabeth TaylorRock HudsonJames DeanSprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.Year: 1956
Director: George Stevens
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor (2), Supporting Actress, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, Actress, *Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Around the World in Eighty Days
Nominees: The Searchers; The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai); Written on the Wind; Invasion of the Body Snatchers - DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.Year: 1957
Director: David Lean
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Supporting Actor (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Nominees: *12 Angry Men; *Witness for the Prosecution; Sweet Smell of Success; Paths of Glory - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.Year: 1958
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actual Major Category Nominations: None
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Gigi
Nominees: The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet); Touch of Evil; *The Defiant Ones; *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.Year: 1959
Director: Billy Wilder
Actual Major Category Nominations: Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Ben-Hur
Nominees: *Anatomy of a Murder; North by Northwest; **Ben-Hur; *The Diary of Anne Frank - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.Year: 1960
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actual Major Category Nominations: Supporting Actress, Director
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Apartment
Nominees: **The Apartment; Spartacus; *Elmer Gantry; *The Sundowners - DirectorJerome RobbinsRobert WiseStarsNatalie WoodGeorge ChakirisRichard BeymerTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.Year: 1961
Director: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Best Picture Winner: West Side Story
Nominees: *The Hustler; *Judgment at Nuremberg; La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life); *The Guns of Navarone - DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.Year: 1962
Director: David Lean
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actor (2); *Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Lawrence of Arabia
Nominees: *To Kill a Mockingbird; The Manchurian Candidate; The Miracle Worker; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia CardinaleA harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.Year: 1963
Director: Federico Fellini
Actual Major Category Nominations: Director, Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Tom Jones
Nominees: Hud; *America, America; The Great Escape; The Cardinal - 19641h 35mPG8.4 (519K)97MetascoreDirectorStanley KubrickStarsPeter SellersGeorge C. ScottSterling HaydenAn unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.Year: 1964
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Supporting Actor (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: My Fair Lady
Nominees: **My Fair Lady; *Mary Poppins; *Zorba the Greek; Zulu - DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.Year: 1965
Director: David Lean
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Supporting Actor, Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actor (2); Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Sound of Music
Nominees: **The Sound of Music; *Darling; The Hill; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - DirectorMike NicholsStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonGeorge SegalA bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.Year: 1966
Director: Mike Nichols
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, *Actress, Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Actress, *Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: A Man for All Seasons
Nominees: **A Man for All Seasons; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; *Alfie; The Professionals - DirectorMike NicholsStarsDustin HoffmanAnne BancroftKatharine RossA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.Year: 1967
Director: Mike Nichols
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Actress, Supporting Actress, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: In the Heat of the Night
Nominees: *Bonnie and Clyde; Cool Hand Luke; **In the Heat of the Night; *In Cold Blood - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actual Major Category Nominations: Director, Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor (2), Supporting Actor, *Director, Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Oliver!
Nominees: War and Peace (Voyna i mir); The Producers; Once Upon a Time in the West; Rosemary's Baby - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordKatharine RossIn 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.Director: George Roy Hill
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Director, *Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Midnight Cowboy
Nominees: **Midnight Cowboy; The Wild Bunch; *Anne of the Thousand Days; *Z - DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.Year: 1970
Director: William J. Schaffner
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Director, *Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Supporting Actor, *Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Patton
Nominees: *Five Easy Pieces; *MASH; *Love Story; *Airport - DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsTimothy BottomsJeff BridgesCybill ShepherdIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.Year: 1971
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, *Supporting Actor (2), *Supporting Actress (2), Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Supporting Actor (2), *Supporting Actress (3), Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The French Connection
Nominees: **The French Connection; McCabe & Mrs. Miller; *A Clockwork Orange; Dirty Harry - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Year: 1972
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor (3), Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor (2), *Supporting Actor (3), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Godfather
Nominees: *Deliverance; Sleuth; *Sounder; *Cabaret - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.Year: 1973
Director: George Roy Hill
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Director, *Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actor (2), *Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Sting
Nominees: *The Exorcist; *American Graffiti; Badlands; Paper Moon - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.Year: 1974
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actor (3), Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Supporting Actor (2), Supporting Actress (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Godfather Part II
Nominees: *Chinatown; Young Frankenstein; *The Conversation; Blazing Saddles - DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael BerrymanIn the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.Year: 1975
Director: Milos Forman
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Actress, Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Actress, Supporting Actor, Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Nominees: *Dog Day Afternoon; *Jaws; *Nashville; The Man Who Would Be King - DirectorSidney LumetStarsFaye DunawayWilliam HoldenPeter FinchA television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.Year: 1976
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, *Actor (2), *Actress, Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, Director, *Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor (2), *Actress, Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Rocky
Nominees: *All the President's Men; *Taxi Driver; The Outlaw Josey Wales; **Rocky - DirectorGeorge LucasStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherLuke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.Year: 1977
Director: George Lucas
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Supporting Actor, Director, Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Supporting Actor (3), Supporting Actress, *Director, Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Annie Hall
Nominees: **Annie Hall; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Saturday Night Live; The Late Show - DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.Year: 1978
Director: Michael Cimino
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actor (2), Supporting Actress, *Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Deer Hunter
Nominees: *Midnight Express; Days of Heaven; *Coming Home; *Heaven Can Wait - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.Year: 1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Supporting Actor, Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominees: *Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actor (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Kramer vs. Kramer
Nominees: **Kramer vs. Kramer; *Breaking Away; *All That Jazz; Being There - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroCathy MoriartyJoe PesciThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.Year: 1980
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Ordinary People
Nominees: **Ordinary People; *The Elephant Man; Breaker Morant; The Empire Strikes Back - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHarrison FordKaren AllenPaul FreemanIn 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.Year: 1981
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Director
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Supporting Actress, *Director, Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Chariots of Fire
Nominees: Body Heat; *On Golden Pond; Arthur; *Reds - DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.Year: 1982
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actual Major Category Nominations: Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Gandhi
Nominees: *The Verdict; *E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; *Tootsie; Blade Runner - DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsSam ShepardScott GlennEd HarrisThe U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.Year: 1983
Director: Philip Kaufman
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Supporting Actor
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Supporting Actor (3); *Director, Adapted Screenplay Actual Best Picture Winner: Terms of Endearment
Nominees: **Terms of Endearment; *The Big Chill; *Tender Mercies; Silkwood - DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.Year: 1984
Director: Milos Forman
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor (2), Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Amadeus
Nominees: Paris, Texas; *A Soldier's Story; *The Killing Fields; The Natural - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDanny GloverWhoopi GoldbergOprah WinfreyA tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.Year: 1985
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress (2), Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actress, Supporting Actor *Supporting Actress (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Out of Africa
Nominees: Ran; Back to the Future; *Kiss of the Spider Woman; Blood Simple. - DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenTom BerengerWillem DafoeChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.Year: 1986
Director: Oliver Stone
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Supporting Actor (2), *Director, Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Supporting Actor (2); *Director, Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Platoon
Nominees: *A Room with a View; *Hannah and Her Sisters; Blue Velvet; *The Mission - DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsWilliam HurtAlbert BrooksHolly HunterTake two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.Year: 1987
Director: James L. Brooks
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Director, Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Actress, *Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Last Emperor
Nominees: *Hope and Glory; Full Metal Jacket; *Fatal Attraction; The Princess Bride - DirectorCharles CrichtonJohn CleeseStarsJohn CleeseJamie Lee CurtisKevin KlineIn London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.Year: 1988
Director: Charles Crichton
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Supporting Actor, Director, Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actress, *Supporting Actor (2), Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Rain Man
Nominees: *Mississippi Burning; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; *Dangerous Liaisons; Bull Durham - DirectorJim SheridanStarsDaniel Day-LewisBrenda FrickerAlison WhelanChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.Year: 1989
Director: Jim Sheridan
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, *Actor, *Supporting Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Driving Miss Daisy
Nominees: *Field of Dreams; Do the Right Thing; sex, lies, and videotape; When Harry Met Sally... - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroRay LiottaJoe PesciThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.Year: 1990
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, *Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Supporting Actor (2), *Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Dances with Wolves
Nominees: Miller's Crossing; The Grifters; *The Godfather Part III; Reversal of Fortune - DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott GlennA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.Year: 1991
Director: Jonathan Demme
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Silence of the Lambs
Nominees: *Beauty and the Beast; *JFK; Barton Fink; Thelma & Louise - DirectorJames IvoryStarsAnthony HopkinsEmma ThompsonVanessa RedgraveSet in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.Director: James Ivory
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, *Actress, Supporting Actress, Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actress, Supporting Actress (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Unforgiven
Nominees: **Unforgiven; *A Few Good Men; *The Crying Game; The Player - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.Year: 1993
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, *Supporting Actor (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Schindler's List
Nominees: *The Remains of the Day; *The Fugitive; *In the Name of the Father; The Age of Innocence - DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob GuntonOver the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.Year: 1994
Director: Frank Darabont
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor (2), Supporting Actor, Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Forrest Gump
Nominees: *Pulp Fiction; *Quiz Show; Hoop Dreams; Heavenly Creatures - DirectorRon HowardStarsTom HanksBill PaxtonKevin BaconNASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.Year: 1995
Director: Ron Howard
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Braveheart
Nominees: *Sense and Sensibility; Se7en; The Usual Suspects; Dead Man Walking - DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsWilliam H. MacyFrances McDormandSteve BuscemiMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.Year: 1996
Director: Joel Coen
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, *Actress, Supporting Actor, Director, *Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actress, *Supporting Actor (2), *Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The English Patient
Nominees: *Jerry Maguire; Trainspotting; *Secrets & Lies; Hamlet - DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.Year: 1997
Director: Curtis Hanson
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, *Supporting Actress, Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor (2), *Supporting Actor (2), Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Titanic
Nominees: *Good Will Hunting; **Titanic; Boogie Nights; The Wings of the Dove - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.Year: 1998
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, *Director, Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Director, Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Shakespeare in Love
Nominees: *Shakespeare in Love; *The Thin Red Line; The Truman Show; Gods and Monsters - DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.Year: 1999
Director: Sam Mendes
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Actress, *Director, *Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Actress, *Director, Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: American Beauty
Nominees: *The Insider; *The Sixth Sense; *The Green Mile; Being John Malkovich - DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsMichael DouglasBenicio Del ToroCatherine Zeta-JonesA conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.Year: 2000
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, *Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Gladiator
Nominees: **Gladiator; *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Almost Famous; Wonder Boys - DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodIan McKellenOrlando BloomA meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.Year: 2001
Director: Peter Jackson
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Supporting Actor, Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: A Beautiful Mind
Nominees: **A Beautiful Mind; Memento; *Gosford Park; Black Hawk Down - DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodIan McKellenViggo MortensenWhile Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.Year: 2002
Director: Peter Jackson
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Supporting Actor, Director, Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Chicago
Nominees: *Gangs of New York; *The Pianist; Adaptation.; Catch Me If You Can - DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodViggo MortensenIan McKellenGandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.Year: 2003
Director: Peter Jackson
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Nominees: *Lost in Translation; Finding Nemo; *Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World; The Station Agent - DirectorMichel GondryStarsJim CarreyKate WinsletTom WilkinsonWhen their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.Year: 2004
Director: Michel Gondry
Actual Major Category Nominations: Actress, *Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Actress, *Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Million Dollar Baby
Nominees: *The Aviator; *Sideways; The Incredibles; **Million Dollar Baby - DirectorAng LeeStarsJake GyllenhaalHeath LedgerMichelle WilliamsEnnis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.Year: 2005
Director: Ang Lee
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominees: *Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress (2), *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Crash
Nominees: A History of Violence; *Capote; Batman Begins; *Good Night, and Good Luck. - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioMatt DamonJack NicholsonAn undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.Year: 2006
Director: Martin Scosese
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Supporting Actor, *Director, Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor (2), Supporting Actor, *Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Departed
Nominees: Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno); *Letters from Iwo Jima; Children of Men; Casino Royale - DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsTommy Lee JonesJavier BardemJosh BrolinViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.Year: 2007
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
Actual Major Nominations Nominations: *Picture, *Supporting Actor, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Supporting Actor (2), Supporting Actress, *Director, *Adapted Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: No Country for Old Men
Nominees: *There Will Be Blood; The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen); *Juno; *Atonement - DirectorMartin McDonaghStarsColin FarrellBrendan GleesonCiarán HindsAfter a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.Year: 2008
Director: Martin McDonagh
Actual Major Category Nominations: Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor (2), Supporting Actor, Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: Slumdog Millionaire
Nominees: The Dark Knight; **Slumdog Millionaire; WALL-E; Doubt - DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsJeremy RennerAnthony MackieBrian GeraghtyDuring the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.Year: 2009
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, *Director, *Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, *Director, Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Hurt Locker
Nominees: *Up in the Air; *Inglourious Basterds; *Up; *An Education; (500) Days of Summer; *Precious; *A Serious Man; *Avatar; *District 9 - DirectorTom HooperStarsColin FirthGeoffrey RushHelena Bonham CarterThe story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.Year: 2010
Director: Tom Hooper
Actual Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, *Director, *Original Screenplay
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, *Actor, Supporting Actor, Director, *Original Screenplay
Actual Best Picture Winner: The King's Speech
Nominees: *The Social Network; *Black Swan; The Town; *Inception; *Toy Story 3; Blue Valentine, *True Grit; *The Fighter; *127 Hours - DirectorTerrence MalickStarsBrad PittSean PennJessica ChastainThe story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.Year: 2011
Director: Terrence Malick
Actual Major Category Nominations: Picture, Director
My Major Category Nominations: *Picture, Supporting Actor, *Director
Actual Best Picture Winner: The Artist
Nominees: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; **The Artist; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; *Moneyball; Drive; A Separation; *Hugo; Bridesmaids; *The Help