Best of the Decade

The following is the average ranking of Oscar winners of each decade by the Twitter followers of And the Runner-Up Is. Followers ranked the winners in the above-the-line categories from each decade.

Results are tallied using a positional voting system, where the winners receive points based on their rank position on each submission, and the winner with the most points overall wins.

1920s and 1930s

BEST PICTURE

  1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  2. It Happened One Night (1934)
  3. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  4. Wings (1928)
  5. Grand Hotel (1932)
  6. You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
  7. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  8. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  9. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
  10. Cavalcade (1933)
  11. The Broadway Melody (1929)
  12. Cimarron (1931)

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Victor Fleming – Gone with the Wind
  2. Lewis Milestone – All Quiet on the Western Front
  3. Frank Capra – It Happened One Night
  4. Leo McCarey – The Awful Truth
  5. John Ford – The Informer
  6. Frank Borzage – 7th Heaven
  7. Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  8. Frank Capra – You Can’t Take It with You
  9. Frank Borzage – Bad Girl
  10. Norman Taurog – Skippy
  11. Frank Lloyd – The Divine Lady
  12. Frank Lloyd – Cavalcade
  13. Lewis Milestone – Two Arabian Knights

BEST ACTOR

  1. Clark Gable – It Happened One Night
  2. Victor McLaglen – The Informer
  3. Charles Laughton – The Private Life of Henry VIII
  4. Fredric March – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  5. Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips 
  6. Wallace Beery – The Champ
  7. Lionel Barrymore – A Free Soul
  8. Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous
  9. Emil Jannings – The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh
  10. Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur
  11. Spencer Tracy – Boys Town
  12. Warner Baxter – In Old Arizona
  13. George Arliss – Disraeli

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Vivien Leigh – Gone with the Wind
  2. Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night
  3. Bette Davis – Jezebel
  4. Janet Gaynor – 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise
  5. Marie Dressler – Min and Bill
  6. Norma Shearer – The Divorcee
  7. Helen Hayes – The Sin of Madelon Claudet
  8. Katharine Hepburn – Morning Glory
  9. Bette Davis – Dangerous
  10. Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld
  11. Luise Rainer – The Good Earth
  12. Mary Pickford – Coquette

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Thomas Mitchell – Stagecoach
  2. Joseph Schildkraut – The Life of Emile Zola
  3. Walter Brennan – Come and Get It
  4. Walter Brennan – Kentucky

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Hattie McDaniel – Gone with the Wind
  2. Fay Bainter – Jezebel
  3. Alice Brady – In Old Chicago
  4. Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse

BEST SCREENPLAY

  1. It Happened One Night – Robert Riskin
  2. Gone with the Wind – Sidney Howard
  3. Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw, W.P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple
  4. The Informer – Dudley Nichols
  5. 7th Heaven – Benjamin Glazer
  6. Little Women – Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason
  7. The Big House – Frances Marion
  8. The Story of Louis Pasteur – Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
  9. The Life of Emile Zola – Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
  10. Bad Girl – Edwin J. Burke
  11. Cimarron – Howard Estabrook
  12. The Patriot – Hans Kraly

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1940s

BEST PICTURE

  1. Casablanca (1943)
  2. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  3. Rebecca (1940)
  4. The Lost Weekend (1945)
  5. Mrs. Miniver (1943)
  6. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  7. Hamlet (1948)
  8. All the King’s Men (1949)
  9. Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
  10. Going My Way (1944)

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Michael Curtiz – Casablanca
  2. John Ford – The Grapes of Wrath
  3. William Wyler – The Best Years of Our Lives
  4. John Huston – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  5. Billy Wilder – The Lost Weekend
  6. John Ford – How Green Was My Valley
  7. William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver
  8. Joseph L. Mankiewicz – A Letter to Three Wives
  9. Elia Kazan – Gentleman’s Agreement
  10. Leo McCarey – Going My Way

BEST ACTOR

  1. Fredric March – The Best Years of Our Lives
  2. Ray Milland – The Lost Weekend
  3. James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy
  4. James Stewart – The Philadelphia Story
  5. Broderick Crawford – All the King’s Men
  6. Ronald Colman – A Double Life
  7. Laurence Olivier – Hamlet
  8. Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine
  9. Gary Cooper – Sergeant York
  10. Bing Crosby – Going My Way

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Olivia de Havilland – The Heiress
  2. Joan Crawford – Mildred Pierce
  3. Ingrid Bergman – Gaslight
  4. Jane Wyman – Johnny Belinda
  5. Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver
  6. Olivia de Havilland – To Each His Own
  7. Joan Fontaine – Suspicion
  8. Jennifer Jones – The Song of Bernadette
  9. Ginger Rogers – Kitty Foyle
  10. Loretta Young – The Farmer’s Daughter

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Walter Huston – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  2. Harold Russell – The Best Years of Our Lives
  3. James Dunn – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  4. Edmund Gwenn – Miracle on 34th Street
  5. Van Heflin – Johnny Eager
  6. Charles Coburn – The More the Merrier
  7. Donald Crisp – How Green Was My Valley
  8. Walter Brennan – The Westerner
  9. Barry Fitzgerald – Going My Way
  10. Dean Jagger – Twelve O’Clock High

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Jane Darwell – The Grapes of Wrath
  2. Claire Trevor – Key Largo
  3. Mercedes McCambridge – All the King’s Men
  4. Mary Astor – The Great Lie
  5. Anne Baxter – The Razor’s Edge
  6. Celeste Holm – Gentleman’s Agreement
  7. Ethel Barrymore – None but the Lonely Heart
  8. Anne Revere – National Velvet
  9. Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver
  10. Katina Paxinou – For Whom the Bell Tolls

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. Citizen Kane – Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
  2. Woman of the Year – Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin
  3. The Seventh Veil – Muriel Box and Sydney Box
  4. Battleground – Robert Pirosh 
  5. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer – Sidney Sheldon
  6. Princess O’Rourke – Norman Krasna
  7. Marie-Louise – Richard Schweizer
  8. The Great McGinty – Preston Sturges
  9. Wilson – Lamar Trotti

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. Casablanca – Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch
  2. The Best Years of Our Lives – Robert E. Sherwood
  3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre – John Huston
  4. The Philadelphia Story – Donald Ogden Stewart
  5. The Lost Weekend – Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
  6. A Letter to Three Wives – Joseph L. Mankiewicz 
  7. Miracle on 34th Street – George Seaton
  8. Mrs. Miniver – Arthur Wimperis, George Foreschel, James Hilton, and Claudine West
  9. Here Comes Mr. Jordan – Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller
  10. Going My Way – Frank Butler and Frank Cavett

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1950s

BEST PICTURE

  1. All About Eve (1950)
  2. On the Waterfront (1954)
  3. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  4. From Here to Eternity (1953)
  5. Marty (1955)
  6. An American in Paris (1951)
  7. Ben-Hur (1959)
  8. Gigi (1958)
  9. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
  10. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve
  2. Elia Kazan – On the Waterfront
  3. David Lean – The Bridge on the River Kwai
  4. George Stevens – A Place in the Sun
  5. Fred Zinnemann – From Here to Eternity
  6. John Ford – The Quiet Man
  7. Delbert Mann – Marty
  8. George Stevens – Giant
  9. William Wyler – Ben-Hur
  10. Vincente Minnelli – Gigi

BEST ACTOR

  1. Marlon Brando – On the Waterfront
  2. Alec Guinness – The Bridge on the River Kwai
  3. Ernest Borgnine – Marty
  4. Gary Cooper – High Noon
  5. Humphrey Bogart – The African Queen
  6. William Holden – Stalag 17
  7. Yul Brynner – The King and I
  8. José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac
  9. David Niven – Separate Tables
  10. Charlton Heston – Ben-Hur

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire
  2. Shirley Booth – Come Back, Little Sheba
  3. Anna Magnani – The Rose Tattoo
  4. Joanne Woodward – The Three Faces of Eve
  5. Audrey Hepburn – Roman Holiday
  6. Susan Hayward – I Want to Live!
  7. Simone Signoret – Room at the Top
  8. Judy Holliday – Born Yesterday
  9. Ingrid Bergman – Anastasia
  10. Grace Kelly – The Country Girl

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. George Sanders – All About Eve
  2. Karl Malden – A Streetcar Named Desire
  3. Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts
  4. Frank Sinatra – From Here to Eternity
  5. Burl Ives – The Big Country
  6. Anthony Quinn – Lust for Life
  7. Red Buttons – Sayonara
  8. Anthony Quinn – Viva Zapata!
  9. Edmond O’Brien – The Barefoot Contessa
  10. Hugh Griffith – Ben-Hur

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Eva Marie Saint – On the Waterfront
  2. Kim Hunter – A Streetcar Named Desire
  3. Dorothy Malone – Written on the Wind
  4. Jo Van Fleet – East of Eden
  5. Wendy Hiller – Separate Tables
  6. Josephine Hull – Harvey
  7. Donna Reed – From Here to Eternity
  8. Shelley Winters – The Diary of Anne Frank
  9. Gloria Grahame – The Bad and the Beautiful
  10. Miyoshi Umeki – Sayonara

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr., and Billy Wilder
  2. On the Waterfront – Budd Schulberg
  3. The Lavender Hill Mob – T.E.B. Clarke
  4. The Defiant Ones – Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith
  5. Pillow Talk – Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin, Clarence Greene, and Russell Rouse
  6. The Red Balloon – Albert Lamorisse
  7. Designing Woman – George Wells
  8. An American in Paris – Alan Jay Lerner
  9. Titanic – Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen and Walter Reisch
  10. Interrupted Melody – Sonya Levien and William Ludwig

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  2. A Place in the Sun – Harry Brown and Michael Wilson
  3. Marty – Paddy Chayefsky
  4. The Bridge on the River Kwai – Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, and Michael Wilson
  5. From Here to Eternity – Daniel Taradash
  6. The Bad and the Beautiful – Charles Schnee
  7. Room at the Top – Neil Paterson 
  8. The Country Girl – George Seaton
  9. Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner
  10. Around the World in 80 Days – John Farrow, S.J. Perelman, and James Poe

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1960s

BEST PICTURE

  1. The Apartment (1960)
  2. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  3. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  4. West Side Story (1961)
  5. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  6. The Sound of Music (1965)
  7. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
  8. My Fair Lady (1964)
  9. Oliver! (1968)
  10. Tom Jones (1963)

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
  2. Billy Wilder – The Apartment
  3. Mike Nichols – The Graduate
  4. Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins – West Side Story
  5. John Schlesinger – Midnight Cowboy
  6. Robert Wise – The Sound of Music
  7. Fred Zinnemann – A Man for All Seasons
  8. George Cukor – My Fair Lady
  9. Carol Reed – Oliver!
  10. Tony Richardson – Tom Jones

BEST ACTOR

  1. Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
  2. Burt Lancaster – Elmer Gantry
  3. Rod Steiger – In the Heat of the Night
  4. Sidney Poitier – Lilies of the Field
  5. Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons
  6. Maximilian Schell – Judgment at Nuremberg
  7. Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady
  8. Lee Marvin – Cat Ballou
  9. John Wayne – True Grit
  10. Cliff Robertson – Charly

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Elizabeth Taylor – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  2. Katharine Hepburn – The Lion in Winter
  3. Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl
  4. Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker
  5. Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins
  6. Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  7. Sophia Loren – Two Women
  8. Patricia Neal – Hud
  9. Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  10. Julie Christie – Darling
  11. Elizabeth Taylor – BUtterfield 8

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Gig Young – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
  2. Melvyn Douglas – Hud
  3. Jack Albertson – The Subject Was Roses
  4. Walter Matthau – The Fortune Cookie
  5. George Chakiris – West Side Story
  6. Martin Balsam – A Thousand Clowns
  7. George Kennedy – Cool Hand Luke
  8. Ed Begley – Sweet Bird of Youth
  9. Peter Ustinov – Spartacus
  10. Peter Ustinov – Topkapi

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Rita Moreno – West Side Story
  2. Sandy Dennis – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  3. Ruth Gordon – Rosemary’s Baby
  4. Patty Duke – The Miracle Worker
  5. Estelle Parsons – Bonnie and Clyde
  6. Shelley Winters – A Patch of Blue
  7. Goldie Hawn – Cactus Flower
  8. Lila Kedrova – Zorba the Greek
  9. Shirley Jones – Elmer Gantry
  10. Margaret Rutherford – The V.I.P.s

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. The Apartment – I.A.L. Diamond and Billy Wilder
  2. The Producers – Mel Brooks
  3. Splendor in the Grass – William Inge
  4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – William Goldman
  5. Divorce Italian Style – Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, and Alfredo Giannetti
  6. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – William Rose
  7. Darling – Frederic Raphael
  8. A Man and a Woman – Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven
  9. How the West Was Won – James R. Webb
  10. Father Goose – Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff, and S.H. Barnett

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird – Horton Foote
  2. The Lion in Winter – James Goldman
  3. Midnight Cowboy – Waldo Salt
  4. In the Heat of the Night – Stirling Silliphant
  5. Judgment at Nuremberg – Abby Mann
  6. A Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt
  7. Elmer Gantry – Richard Brooks
  8. Becket – Edward Anhalt
  9. Doctor Zhivago – Robert Bolt
  10. Tom Jones – John Osborne

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1970s

BEST PICTURE

  1. The Godfather (1972)
  2. The Godfather Part II (1974)
  3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  4. Annie Hall (1977)
  5. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  6. The French Connection (1971)
  7. Rocky (1976)
  8. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  9. The Sting (1973)
  10. Patton (1970)

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather Part II
  2. Bob Fosse – Cabaret
  3. Miloš Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  4. Woody Allen – Annie Hall
  5. Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter
  6. William Friedkin – The French Connection
  7. Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer
  8. John G. Avildsen – Rocky
  9. George Roy Hill – The Sting
  10. Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton

BEST ACTOR

  1. Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  2. Marlon Brando – The Godfather
  3. Peter Finch – Network
  4. Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer
  5. Gene Hackman – The French Connection
  6. George C. Scott – Patton
  7. Jon Voight – Coming Home
  8. Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl
  9. Jack Lemmon – Save the Tiger
  10. Art Carney – Harry and Tonto

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Liza Minnelli – Cabaret
  2. Faye Dunaway – Network
  3. Diane Keaton – Annie Hall
  4. Jane Fonda – Klute
  5. Ellen Burstyn – Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
  6. Louise Fletcher – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  7. Sally Field – Norma Rae
  8. Jane Fonda – Coming Home
  9. Glenda Jackson – Women in Love
  10. Glenda Jackson – A Touch of Class

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Christopher Walken – The Deer Hunter
  2. Robert De Niro – The Godfather Part II
  3. Joel Grey – Cabaret
  4. Ben Johnson – The Last Picture Show
  5. Jason Robards – All the President’s Men
  6. Melvyn Douglas – Being There
  7. John Houseman – The Paper Chase
  8. George Burns – The Sunshine Boys
  9. Jason Robards – Julia
  10. John Mills – Ryan’s Daughter

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer
  2. Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show
  3. Tatum O’Neal – Paper Moon
  4. Maggie Smith – California Suite
  5. Vanessa Redgrave – Julia
  6. Beatrice Straight – Network
  7. Eileen Heckart – Butterflies Are Free
  8. Lee Grant – Shampoo
  9. Helen Hayes – Airport
  10. Ingrid Bergman – Murder on the Orient Express

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. Network – Paddy Chayefsky
  2. Chinatown – Robert Towne
  3. Annie Hall – Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman
  4. Dog Day Afternoon – Frank Pierson
  5. The Sting – David S. Ward
  6. Coming Home – Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt & Nancy Dowd
  7. Breaking Away – Steve Tesich
  8. The Hospital – Paddy Chayefsky
  9. The Candidate – Jeremy Larner
  10. Patton – Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund H. North

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo
  2. The Godfather Part II – Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo
  3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Bo Goldman & Lawrence Hauben
  4. All the President’s Men – William Goldman
  5. The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty
  6. Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton 
  7. M*A*S*H – Ring Lardner Jr.
  8. The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman
  9. Julia – Alvin Sargent
  10. Midnight Express – Oliver Stone

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1980s

BEST PICTURE

  1. Amadeus (1984)
  2. Ordinary People (1980)
  3. Terms of Endearment (1983)
  4. Platoon (1986)
  5. The Last Emperor (1987)
  6. Rain Man (1988)
  7. Gandhi (1982)
  8. Chariots of Fire (1981)
  9. Out of Africa (1985)
  10. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Miloš Forman – Amadeus
  2. Robert Redford – Ordinary People
  3. Warren Beatty – Reds
  4. Oliver Stone – Platoon
  5. James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment
  6. Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor
  7. Oliver Stone – Born on the Fourth of July
  8. Richard Attenborough – Gandhi
  9. Barry Levinson – Rain Man
  10. Sydney Pollack – Out of Africa

BEST ACTOR

  1. Robert De Niro – Raging Bull
  2. F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus
  3. Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot
  4. Ben Kingsley – Gandhi
  5. William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman
  6. Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond
  7. Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man
  8. Michael Douglas – Wall Street
  9. Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies
  10. Paul Newman – The Color of Money

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Meryl Streep – Sophie’s Choice
  2. Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment
  3. Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner’s Daughter
  4. Cher – Moonstruck
  5. Jodie Foster – The Accused
  6. Katharine Hepburn – On Golden Pond
  7. Geraldine Page – The Trip to Bountiful
  8. Sally Field – Places in the Heart
  9. Marlee Matlin – Children of a Lesser God
  10. Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People
  2. Kevin Kline – A Fish Called Wanda
  3. Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment
  4. Denzel Washington – Glory
  5. Michael Caine – Hannah and Her Sisters
  6. Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields
  7. Louis Gossett Jr. – An Officer and a Gentleman
  8. John Gielgud – Arthur
  9. Sean Connery – The Untouchables
  10. Don Ameche – Cocoon

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Dianne Wiest – Hannah and Her Sisters
  2. Olympia Dukakis – Moonstruck
  3. Anjelica Huston – Prizzi’s Honor
  4. Brenda Fricker – My Left Foot
  5. Maureen Stapleton – Reds
  6. Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India
  7. Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously
  8. Jessica Lange – Tootsie
  9. Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard
  10. Geena Davis – The Accidental Tourist

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen
  2. Moonstruck – John Patrick Shanley
  3. Dead Poets Society – Tom Schulman
  4. Witness – William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace & Pamela Wallace
  5. Rain Man – Ronald Bass & Barry Morrow
  6. Melvin and Howard – Bo Goldman
  7. Gandhi – John Briley
  8. Tender Mercies – Horton Foote
  9. Places in the Heart – Robert Benton
  10. Chariots of Fire – Colin Welland

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
  2. Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent
  3. Dangerous Liaisons – Christopher Hampton
  4. Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks
  5. A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  6. On Golden Pond – Ernest Thompson
  7. Missing – Costa-Gavras & Donald E. Stewart
  8. The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci & Mark Peploe
  9. Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry
  10. Out of Africa – Kurt Luedtke

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1990s

BEST PICTURE

  1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  2. Schindler’s List (1993)
  3. American Beauty (1999)
  4. Unforgiven (1992)
  5. Titanic (1997)
  6. Forrest Gump (1994)
  7. Braveheart (1995)
  8. The English Patient (1996)
  9. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
  10. Dances with Wolves (1990)

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Steven Spielberg – Schindler’s List
  2. Jonathan Demme – The Silence of the Lambs
  3. Steven Spielberg – Saving Private Ryan
  4. James Cameron – Titanic
  5. Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven
  6. Sam Mendes – American Beauty
  7. Robert Zemeckis – Forrest Gump
  8. Anthony Minghella – The English Patient
  9. Kevin Costner – Dances with Wolves
  10. Mel Gibson – Braveheart

BEST ACTOR

  1. Anthony Hopkins – The Silence of the Lambs
  2. Tom Hanks – Philadelphia
  3. Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas
  4. Kevin Spacey – American Beauty
  5. Jeremy Irons – Reversal of Fortune
  6. Jack Nicholson – As Good as It Gets
  7. Tom Hanks – Forrest Gump
  8. Geoffrey Rush – Shine
  9. Al Pacino – Scent of a Woman
  10. Roberto Benigni – Life Is Beautiful

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs
  2. Frances McDormand – Fargo
  3. Kathy Bates – Misery
  4. Holly Hunter – The Piano
  5. Hilary Swank – Boys Don’t Cry
  6. Emma Thompson – Howards End
  7. Susan Sarandon – Dead Man Walking
  8. Helen Hunt – As Good as It Gets
  9. Gwyneth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love
  10. Jessica Lange – Blue Sky

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Martin Landau – Ed Wood
  2. Joe Pesci – GoodFellas
  3. Gene Hackman – Unforgiven
  4. Robin Williams – Good Will Hunting
  5. Kevin Spacey – The Usual Suspects
  6. Tommy Lee Jones – The Fugitive
  7. James Coburn – Affliction
  8. Cuba Gooding Jr. – Jerry Maguire
  9. Jack Palance – City Slickers
  10. Michael Caine – The Cider House Rules

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Dianne Wiest – Bullets over Broadway
  2. Whoopi Goldberg – Ghost
  3. Marisa Tomei – My Cousin Vinny
  4. Mercedes Ruehl – The Fisher King
  5. Anna Paquin – The Piano
  6. Juliette Binoche – The English Patient
  7. Angelina Jolie – Girl, Interrupted
  8. Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite
  9. Judi Dench – Shakespeare in Love
  10. Kim Basinger – L.A. Confidential

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. Fargo – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  2. Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
  3. Thelma & Louise – Callie Khouri
  4. American Beauty – Alan Ball
  5. Good Will Hunting – Matt Damon & Ben Affleck
  6. The Usual Suspects – Christopher McQuarrie
  7. The Piano – Jane Campion
  8. The Crying Game – Neil Jordan
  9. Shakespeare in Love – Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
  10. Ghost – Bruce Joel Rubin

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. The Silence of the Lambs – Ted Tally
  2. Schindler’s List – Steven Zaillian
  3. L.A. Confidential – Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland
  4. Sense and Sensibility – Emma Thompson
  5. Howards End – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  6. Gods and Monsters – Bill Condon
  7. Forrest Gump – Eric Roth
  8. Sling Blade – Billy Bob Thornton
  9. Dances with Wolves – Michael Blake
  10. The Cider House Rules – John Irving

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2000s

BEST PICTURE

  1. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  3. The Departed (2006)
  4. The Hurt Locker (2009)
  5. Chicago (2002)
  6. Gladiator (2000)
  7. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  8. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  9. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  10. Crash (2005)

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
  2. Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
  3. Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  4. Martin Scorsese – The Departed
  5. Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
  6. Roman Polanski – The Pianist
  7. Steven Soderbergh – Traffic
  8. Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
  9. Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
  10. Ron Howard – A Beautiful Mind

BEST ACTOR

  1. Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
  2. Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
  3. Sean Penn – Milk
  4. Adrien Brody – The Pianist
  5. Denzel Washington – Training Day
  6. Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
  7. Jamie Foxx – Ray
  8. Sean Penn – Mystic River
  9. Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
  10. Russell Crowe – Gladiator

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Charlize Theron – Monster
  2. Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose
  3. Nicole Kidman – The Hours
  4. Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich
  5. Helen Mirren – The Queen
  6. Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby
  7. Halle Berry – Monster’s Ball
  8. Kate Winslet – The Reader
  9. Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line
  10. Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
  2. Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
  3. Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
  4. Chris Cooper – Adaptation
  5. Benicio del Toro – Traffic
  6. Tim Robbins – Mystic River
  7. Alan Arkin – Little Miss Sunshine
  8. Morgan Freeman – Million Dollar Baby
  9. Jim Broadbent – Iris
  10. George Clooney – Syriana

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Mo’Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
  2. Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago
  3. Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton
  4. Cate Blanchett – The Aviator
  5. Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  6. Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener
  7. Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
  8. Marcia Gay Harden – Pollock
  9. Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind
  10. Renée Zellweger – Cold Mountain

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry & Pierra Bismuth
  2. Almost Famous – Cameron Crowe
  3. Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola
  4. Little Miss Sunshine – Michael Arndt
  5. Juno – Diablo Cody
  6. Talk to Her – Pedro Almodóvar
  7. Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes
  8. Milk – Dustin Lance Black
  9. The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
  10. Crash – Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. Brokeback Mountain –  Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
  2. No Country for Old Men – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  3. The Departed – William Monahan
  4. Sideways – Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
  5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
  6. The Pianist – Ronald Harwood
  7. Traffic – Stephen Gaghan
  8. Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy
  9. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher
  10. A Beautiful Mind – Akiva Goldsman

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

  1. Spirited Away (2002)
  2. WALL-E (2008)
  3. Finding Nemo (2003)
  4. Up (2009)
  5. The Incredibles (2004)
  6. Ratatouille (2007)
  7. Shrek (2001)
  8. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
  9. Happy Feet (2006)

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2010s

BEST PICTURE

  1. Parasite (2019)
  2. Moonlight (2016)
  3. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
  4. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
  5. Spotlight (2015)
  6. The Shape of Water (2017)
  7. Argo (2012)
  8. The Artist (2011)
  9. The King’s Speech (2010)
  10. Green Book (2018)

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Bong Joon-ho – Parasite
  2. Damien Chazelle – La La Land
  3. Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
  4. Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
  5. Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  6. Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
  7. Ang Lee – Life of Pi
  8. Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
  9. Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
  10. Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech

BEST ACTOR

  1. Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
  2. Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
  3. Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
  4. Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
  5. Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
  6. Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
  7. Jean Dujardin – The Artist
  8. Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
  9. Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
  10. Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Natalie Portman – Black Swan
  2. Olivia Colman – The Favourite
  3. Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
  4. Brie Larson – Room
  5. Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  6. Emma Stone – La La Land
  7. Julianne Moore – Still Alice
  8. Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
  9. Renée Zellweger – Judy
  10. Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
  2. Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
  3. Christian Bale – The Fighter
  4. Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  5. Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
  6. Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  7. Christopher Plummer – Beginners
  8. Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
  9. Mahershala Ali – Green Book
  10. Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Viola Davis – Fences
  2. Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
  3. Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
  4. Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
  5. Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
  6. Octavia Spencer – The Help
  7. Allison Janney – I, Tonya
  8. Laura Dern – Marriage Story
  9. Melissa Leo – The Fighter
  10. Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. Parasite – Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won
  2. Her – Spike Jonze
  3. Get Out – Jordan Peele
  4. Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan
  5. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris & Armando Bo
  6. Spotlight – Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer
  7. Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
  8. Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
  9. The King’s Speech – David Seidler
  10. Green Book – Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
  2. Moonlight – Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney
  3. Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory
  4. 12 Years a Slave – John Ridley
  5. BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
  6. Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi
  7. The Big Short – Adam McKay & Charles Randolph
  8. The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
  9. Argo – Chris Terrio
  10. The Imitation Game – Graham Moore

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

  1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
  2. Inside Out (2015)
  3. Toy Story 3 (2010)
  4. Coco (2017)
  5. Zootopia (2016)
  6. Frozen (2013)
  7. Big Hero 6 (2014)
  8. Toy Story 4 (2019)
  9. Rango (2011)
  10. Brave (2012)

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