Motion Pictures

Academy Awards (Oscars), 2007

category

winner

Motion picture of the year

No Country for Old Men (US; Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen, producers)

Director

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, US)

Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood, US)

Actress

Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose, France/UK/Czech Republic)

Supporting actor

Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, US)


Supporting actress

Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, US)

Foreign-language film

The Counterfeiters (Austria/Germany; Stefan Ruzowitzky, director)

Animated feature

Ratatouille (US; Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava, directors)

Animated short

Peter & the Wolf (UK/Poland/Norway; Suzie Templeton, director)

Live-action short

The Mozart of Pickpockets (France; Philippe Pollet-Villard, director)

Documentary feature

Taxi to the Dark Side (US; Alex Gibney, director)

Documentary short

Freeheld (US; Cynthia Wade, director)

Cinematography

Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood, US)

Art direction

Dante Ferretti, art direction; Francesca Lo Schiavo, set decoration (Sweeney

Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, US/UK)

Film editing

Christopher Rouse (The Bourne Ultimatum, US/Germany)

Costume design

Alexandra Byrne (Elizabeth: The Golden Age, UK/France/Germany)

Makeup

Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald (La Vie en rose, France/UK/Czech Republic)

Original score

Dario Marianelli (Atonement, UK/France)

Original song

“Falling Slowly,” Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (Once, Ireland)

Sound mixing

Scott Millan, David Parker, and Kirk Francis (The Bourne Ultimatum,

 

US/Germany)

Sound editing

Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg (The Bourne Ultimatum, US/Germany)

Visual effects

Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, and Trevor Wood (The Golden

 

Compass, US/UK)

Screenplay, adaptation

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, US)

Screenplay, original

Diablo Cody (Juno, US/Canada/Hungary)

Academy Awards (Oscars), 1928-2007

best picture

best picture (continued)

best picture (continued)

1928

Wings

1952

The Greatest Show on

1974

The Godfather Part II

1929

The Broadway Melody

Earth

1975

One Flew Over the

1930

All Quiet on the Western

1953

From Here to Eternity

Cuckoo’s Nest

Front

1954

On the Waterfront

1976

Rocky

1931

Cimarron

1955

Marty

1977

Annie Hall

1932

Grand Hotel

1956

Around the World in

1978

The Deer Hunter

1933

Cavalcade

 

80 Days

1979

Kramer vs. Kramer

1934

It Happened One Night

1957

The Bridge on the River

1980

Ordinary People

1935

Mutiny on the Bounty

 

Kwai

1981

Chariots of Fire

1936

The Great Ziegfeld

1958

Gigi

1982

Gandhi

1937

The Life of Emile Zola

1959

Ben-Hur

1983

Terms of Endearment

1938

You Can:t Take It with You

1960

The Apartment

1984

Amadeus

1939

Gone with the Wind

1961

West Side Story

1985

Out of Africa

1940

Rebecca

1962

Lawrence of Arabia

1986

Platoon

1941

How Green Was My Valley

1963

Tom Jones

1987

The Last Emperor

1942

Mrs. Miniver

1964

My Fair Lady

1988

Rain Man

1943

Casablanca

1965

The Sound of Music

1989

Driving Miss Daisy

1944

Going My Way

1966

A Man for All Seasons

1990

Dances with Wolves

1945

The Lost Weekend

1967

In the Heat of the Night

1991

The Silence of the Lambs

1946

The Best Years of Our Lives

1968

Oliver!

1992

Unforgiven

1947

Gentleman’s Agreement

1969

Midnight Cowboy

1993

Schindler:s List

1948

Hamlet

1970

Patton

1994

Forrest Gump

1949

All the King’s Men

1971

The French Connection

1995

Braveheart

1950

All About Eve

1972

The Godfather

1996

The English Patient

1951

An American in Paris

1973

The Sting

1997

Titanic

best picture (continued)

best picture (continued)

best picture (continued)

1998 Shakespeare in Love

2002 Chicago

2005 Crash

1999 American Beauty

2003 The Lord of the Rings:

2006 The Departed

2000 Gladiator

The Return of the King

2007 No Country for Old Men

2001 A Beautiful Mind

2004 Million Dollar Baby

 

best actor

best actor (continued)

1928

Emil Jannings (The Last Command; The Way

1986

Paul Newman (The Color of Money)

 

of All Flesh)

1987

Michael Douglas (Wall Street)

1929

Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona)

1988

Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man)

1930

George Arliss (Disraeli)

1989

Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot)

1931

Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)

1990

Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune)

1932

Wallace Beery (The Champ); Fredric March

1991

Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)

 

(Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) (tied)

1992

Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman)

133

Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry

1993

Tom Hanks (Philadelphia)

 

VIII)

1994

Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)

1934

Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)

1995

Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)

1935

Victor McLaglen (The Informer)

1996

Geoffrey Rush (Shine)

1936

Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)

1997

Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets)

1937

Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)

1998

Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful)

1938

Spencer Tracy (Boys Town)

1999

Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)

1939

Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)

2000

Russell Crowe (Gladiator)

1940

James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)

2001

Denzel Washington (Training Day)

1941

Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)

2002

Adrien Brody (The Pianist)

1942

James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)

2003

Sean Penn (Mystic River)

1943

Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)

2004

Jamie Foxx(Ray)

1944

Bing Crosby (Going My Way)

2005

Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)

1945

Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)

2006

Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)

1946

Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives)

2007

Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

1947

Ronald Colman (A Double Life)

 

 

1948

Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)

best actress

1949

Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men)

1928

Janet Gaynor (7th Heaven; Street Angel;

1950

Jose Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac)

 

Sunrise)

1951

Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen)

1929

Mary Pickford (Coquette)

1952

Gary Cooper (High Noon)

1930

Norma Shearer (The Divorcee)

1953

William Holden (Stalag 17)

1931

Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)

1954

Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)

1932

Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)

1955

Ernest Borgnine (Marty)

1933

Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)

1956

Yul Brynner (The King and I)

1934

Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)

1957

Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)

1935

Bette Davis (Dangerous)

1958

David Niven (Separate Tables)

1936

Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)

1959

Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)

1937

Luise Rainer (The Good Earth)

1960

Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)

1938

Bette Davis (Jezebel)

1961

Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)

1939

Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind)

1962

Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)

1940

Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)

1963

Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)

1941

Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)

1964

Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady)

1942

Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver)

1965

Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou)

1943

Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette)

1966

Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)

1944

Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)

1967

Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night)

1945

Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)

1968

Cliff Robertson (Charly)

1946

Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own)

1969

John Wayne (True Grit)

1947

Loretta Young (The Farmer’s Daughter)

1970

George C. Scott (Patton) (declined)

1948

Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)

1971

Gene Hackman (The French Connection)

1949

Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress)

1972

Marlon Brando (The Godfather) (declined)

1950

Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)

1973

Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger)

1951

Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)

1974

Art Carney (Harry and Tonto)

1952

Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba)

1975

Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo‘s

1953

Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)

 

Nest)

1954

Grace Kelly (The Country Girl)

1976

Peter Finch (Network) (posthumously)

1955

Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo)

1977

Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl)

1956

Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)

1978

Jon Voight (Coming Home)

1957

Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)

1979

Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)

1958

Susan Hayward (I Want to Live!)

1980

Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)

1959

Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)

1981

Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)

1960

Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8)

1982

Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)

1961

Sophia Loren (Two Women)

1983

Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)

1962

Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker)

1984

F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus)

1963

Patricia Neal (Hud)

1985

William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)

1964

Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins)

best actress (continued)

best supporting actor (continued)

1965

Julie Christie (Darling)

1953

Frank Sinatra (From Here to Eternity)

1966

Elizabeth Taylor (Who’s Afraid of Virginia

1954

Edmond O ‘ Brien (The Barefoot Contessa)

 

Woolf?)

1955

Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts)

1967

Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who’s Coming to

1956

Anthony Quinn (Lust for Life)

 

Dinner)

1957

Red Buttons (Sayonara)

1968

Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter);

1958

Burl Ives (The Big Country)

 

Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) (tied)

1959

Hugh Griffith (Ben-Hur)

1969

Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)

1960

Peter Ustinov (Spartacus)

1970

Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)

1961

George Chakiris (West Side Story)

1971

Jane Fonda (Klute)

1962

Ed Begley (Sweet Bird of Youth)

1972

Liza Minnelli (Cabaret)

1963

Melvyn Douglas (Hud)

1973

Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class)

1964

Peter Ustinov (Topkapi)

1974

Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn’t Live Here

1965

Martin Balsam (A Thousand Clowns)

 

Anymore)

1966

Walter Matthau (The Fortune Cookie)

1975

Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the

1967

George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke)

 

Cuckoo’s Nest)

1968

Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses)

1976

Faye Dunaway (Network)

1969

Gig Young (They Shoot Horses, Don t They?)

1977

Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)

1970

John Mills (Ryan’s Daughter)

1978

Jane Fonda (Coming Home)

1971

Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)

1979

Sally Field (Norma Rae)

1972

Joel Grey (Cabaret)

1980

Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s Daughter)

1973

John Houseman (The Paper Chase)

1981

Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond)

1974

Robert De Niro (The Godfather Part II)

1982

Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)

1975

George Burns (The Sunshine Boys)

1983

Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)

1976

Jason Robards (All the President’s Men)

1984

Sally Field (Places in the Heart)

1977

Jason Robards (Julia)

1985

Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful)

1978

Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter)

1986

Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God)

1979

Melvyn Douglas (Being There)

1987

Cher (Moonstruck)

1980

Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People)

1988

Jodie Foster (The Accused)

1981

John Gielgud (Arthur)

1989

Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy)

1982

Louis Gossett, Jr. (An Officer and a

1990

Kathy Bates (Misery)

 

Gentleman)

1991

Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)

1983

Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment)

1992

Emma Thompson (Howards End)

1984

Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields)

1993

Holly Hunter (The Piano)

1985

Don Ameche (Cocoon)

1994

Jessica Lange (Blue Sky)

1986

Michael Caine (Hannah and Her Sisters)

1995

Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking)

1987

Sean Connery (The Untouchables)

1996

Frances McDormand (Fargo)

1988

Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda)

1997

Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets)

1989

Denzel Washington (Glory)

1998

Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)

1990

Joe Pesci (Goodfellas)

1999

Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry)

1991

Jack Palance (City Slickers)

2000

Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich)

1992

Gene Hackman (Unforgiven)

2001

Halle Berry (Monsters Ball)

1993

Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive)

2002

Nicole Kidman (The Hours)

1994

Martin Landau (Ed Wood)

2003

Charlize Theron (Monster)

1995

Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects)

2004

Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby)

1996

Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Jerry Maguire)

2005

Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)

1997

Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting)

2006

Helen Mirren (The Queen)

1998

James Coburn (Affliction)

2007

Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)

1999

Michael Caine (The Cider House Rules)

 

 

2000

Benicio Del Toro (Traffic)

best supporting actor

2001

Jim Broadbent (Iris)

1936

Walter Brennan (Come and Get It)

2002

Chris Cooper (Adaptation)

1937

Joseph Schildkraut (The Life of Emile Zola)

2003

Tim Robbins (Mystic River)

1938

Walter Brennan (Kentucky)

2004

Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby)

1939

Thomas Mitchell (Stagecoach)

2005

George Clooney (Syriana)

1940

Walter Brennan (The Westerner)

2006

Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)

1941

Donald Crisp (How Green Was My Valley)

2007

Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

1942

Van Heflin (Johnny Eager)

 

 

1943

Charles Coburn (The More the Merrier)

best supporting actress

1944

Barry Fitzgerald (Going My Way)

1936

Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse)

1945

James Dunn (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

1937

Alice Brady (In Old Chicago)

1946

Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives)

1938

Fay Bainter (Jezebel)

1947

Edmund Gwenn (Miracle on 34th Street)

1939

Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind)

1948

Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra

1940

Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath)

 

Madre)

1941

Mary Astor (The Great Lie)

1949

Dean Jagger (Twelve O Clock High)

1942

Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver)

1950

George Sanders (All About Eve)

1943

Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls)

1951

Karl Malden (A Streetcar Named Desire)

1944

Ethel Barrymore (None but the Lonely Heart)

1952

Anthony Quinn (Viva Zapata!)

1945

Anne Revere (National Velvet)

best supporting actress

foreign language film (american titles)

1946

Anne Baxter (The Razor’s Edge)

1951

Rashomon (Japan)

1947

Celeste Holm (Gentleman’s Agreement)

1952

Forbidden Games (France)

1948

Claire Trevor (Key Largo)

1953

not awarded

1949

Mercedes McCambridge (All the King’s Men)

1954

Gate of Hell (Japan)

1950

Josephine Hull (Harvey)

1955

Samurai, the Legend of Musashi (Japan)

1951

Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire)

1956

La Strada (Italy)

1952

Gloria Grahame (The Bad and the Beautiful)

1957

The Nights of Cabiria (Italy)

1953

Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity)

1958

My Uncle (France)

1954

Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront)

1959

Black Orpheus (France)

1955

Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden)

1960

The Virgin Spring (Sweden)

1956

Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind)

1961

Through a Glass Darkly (Sweden)

1957

Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara)

1962

Sundays and Cybele (France)

1958

Wendy Hiller (Separate Tables)

1963

Federico Fellini’s 8% (Italy)

1959

Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank)

1964

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Italy)

1960

Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry)

1965

The Shop on Main Street (Czechoslovakia)

1961

Rita Moreno (West Side Story)

1966

A Man and a Woman (France)

1962

Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker)

1967

Closely Watched Trains (Czechoslovakia)

1963

Margaret Rutherford (The V.I.P.s)

1968

War and Peace (USSR)

1964

Lila Kedrova (Zorba the Greek)

1969

Z (Algeria)

1965

Shelley Winters (A Patch of Blue)

1970

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

1966

Sandy Dennis (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

 

(Italy)

1967

Estelle Parsons (Bonnie and Clyde)

1971

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italy)

1968

Ruth Gordon (Rosemary’s Baby)

1972

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

1969

Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower)

 

(France)

1970

Helen Hayes (Airport)

1973

Day for Night (France)

1971

Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show)

1974

Amarcord (Italy)

1972

Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free)

1975

Dersu Uzala (USSR)

1973

Tatum O ‘ Neal (Paper Moon)

1976

Black and White in Color (Ivory Coast)

1974

Ingrid Bergman (Murder on the Orient Express)

1977

Madame Rosa (France)

1975

Lee Grant (Shampoo)

1978

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (France)

1976

Beatrice Straight (Network)

1979

The Tin Drum (West Germany)

1977

Vanessa Redgrave (Julia)

1980

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (USSR)

1978

Maggie Smith (California Suite)

1981

Mephisto (Hungary)

1979

Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer)

1982

To Begin Again (Spain)

1980

Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard)

1983

Fanny & Alexander (Sweden)

1981

Maureen Stapleton (Reds)

1984

Dangerous Moves (Switzerland)

1982

Jessica Lange (Tootsie)

1985

The Official Story (Argentina)

1983

Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)

1986

The Assault (The Netherlands)

1984

Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India)

1987

Babette s Feast (Denmark)

1985

Anjelica Huston (Prizzi’s Honor)

1988

Pelle the Conqueror (Denmark)

1986

Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters)

1989

Cinema Paradiso (Italy)

1987

Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck)

1990

Journey of Hope (Switzerland)

1988

Geena Davis (The Accidental Tourist)

1991

Mediterraneo (Italy)

1989

Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot)

1992

Indochine (France)

1990

Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost)

1993

Belle Epoque (Spain)

1991

Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King)

1994

Burnt by the Sun (Russia)

1992

Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny)

1995

Antonia‘s Line (The Netherlands)

1993

Anna Paquin (The Piano)

1996

Kolya (Czech Republic)

1994

Dianne Wiest (Bullets over Broadway)

1997

Character (The Netherlands)

1995

Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite)

1998

Life Is Beautiful (Italy)

1996

Juliette Binoche (The English Patient)

1999

All About My Mother (Spain)

1997

Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential)

2000

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Taiwan)

1998

Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love)

2001

No Man’s Land (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

1999

Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted)

2002

Nowhere in Africa (Germany)

2000

Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock)

2003

The Barbarian Invasions (Canada)

2001

Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind)

2004

The Sea Inside (Spain)

2002

Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago)

2005

Tsotsi (South Africa)

2003

Renee Zellweger (Cold Mountain)

2006

The Lives of Others (Germany)

2004

Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)

2007

The Counterfeiters (Austria)

2005

Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)

 

2006

Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)

directing

2007

Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

1928

Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights); Frank Borzage (7th Heaven)

foreign language film (american titles)

1929

Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady)

1947

Shoe-Shine (Italy)

1930

Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western

1948

Monsieur Vincent (France)

 

Front)

1949

The Bicycle Thief (Italy)

1931

Norman Taurog (Skippy)

1950

The Walls of Malapaga (France/Italy)

1932

Frank Borzage (Bad Girl)

directing

directing

1933

Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade)

1997

James Cameron (Titanic)

1934

Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)

1998

Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)

1935

John Ford (The Informer)

1999

Sam Mendes (American Beauty)

1936

Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)

2000

Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)

1937

Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth)

2001

Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)

1938

Frank Capra (You Can’t Take It with You)

2002

Roman Polanski (The Pianist)

1939

Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)

2003

Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The

1940

John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)

 

Return of the King)

1941

John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)

2004

Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)

1942

William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)

2005

Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)

1943

Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)

2006

Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

1944

Leo McCarey (Going My Way)

2007

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (No Country for Old

1945

Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)

 

Men)

1946

William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives)

 

 

1947

Elia Kazan (Gentleman’s Agreement)

screenplay, adaptation1

1948

John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra

1928

Benjamin Glazer (7th Heaven)

 

Madre)

1929

Hans Kraly (The Patriot)

1949

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three

1931

Howard Estabrook (Cimarron)

 

Wives)

1932

Edwin Burke (Bad Girl)

1950

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve)

1933

Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason (Little

1951

George Stevens (A Place in the Sun)

 

Women)

1952

John Ford (The Quiet Man)

1934

Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night)

1953

Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity)

1935

Dudley Nichols (The Informer)2(declined)

1954

Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)

1936

Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney (The Story of

1955

Delbert Mann (Marty)

 

Louis Pasteur)2

1956

George Stevens (Giant)

1937

Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza

1957

David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai)

 

Herczeg (The Life ofEmile Zola)2

1958

Vincente Minnelli (Gigi)

1938

George Bernard Shaw, W.P. Lipscomb, Cecil

1959

William Wyler (Ben-Hur)

 

Lewis, Ian Dalrymple (Pygmalion)2

1960

Billy Wilder (The Apartment)

1939

Sidney Howard (Gone with the Wind)2

1961

Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins (West Side

1940

Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia

 

Story

 

Story)2

1962

David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)

1941

Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller (Here

1963

Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)

 

Comes Mr. Jordan)2

1964

George Cukor (My Fair Lady)

1942

George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine

1965

Robert Wise (The Sound of Music)

West, Arthur Wimperis (Mrs. Miniver)2

1966

Fred Zinnemann (A Man for All Seasons)

1943

Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard

1967

Mike Nichols (The Graduate)

Koch (Casablanca)2

1968

Carol Reed (Oliver!)

1944

Frank Butler, Frank Cavett (Going My Way)2

1969

John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy)

1945

Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder (The Lost

1970

Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton)

Weekend)2

1971

William Friedkin (The French Connection)

1946

Robert E. Sherwood (The Best Years of Our

1972

Bob Fosse (Cabaret)

Lives)2

1973

George Roy Hill (The Sting)

1947

George Seaton (Miracle on 34th Street)2

1974

Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part II)

1948

John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra

1975

Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s

Madre)2

 

Nest)

1949

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three

1976

John G. Avildsen (Rocky)

Wives)2

1977

Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

1950

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve)2

1978

Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)

1951

Michael Wilson, Harry Brown (A Place in the

1979

Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)

Sun)2

1980

Robert Redford (Ordinary People)

1952

Charles Schnee (The Bad and the Beautiful)2

1981

Warren Beatty (Reds)

1953

Daniel Taradash (From Here to Eternity)2

1982

Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)

1954

George Seaton (The Country Girl)2

1983

James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)

1955

Paddy Chayefsky (Marty)2

1984

Milos Forman (Amadeus)

1956

James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman

1985

Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa)

(Around the World in 80 Days)

1986

Oliver Stone (Platoon)

1957

Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman

1987

Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor)

(The Bridge on the River Kwai)

1988

Barry Levinson (Rain Man)

1958

Alan Jay Lerner (Gigi)

1989

Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July)

1959

Neil Paterson (Room at the Top)

1990

Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)

1960

Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry)

1991

Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)

1961

Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg)

1992

Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)

1962

Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird)

1993

Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List)

1963

John Osborne (Tom Jones)

1994

Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)

1964

Edward Anhalt (Becket)

1995

Mel Gibson (Braveheart)

1965

Robert Bolt (Doctor Zhivago)

1996

Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)

1966

Robert Bolt (a Man for All Seasons)

screenplay, adaptation1

screenplay, original1

1967

Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night)

1939

Lewis R. Foster (Mr. Smith Goes to

1968

James Goldman (The Lion in Winter)

 

Washington)3

1969

Waldo Salt (Midnight Cowboy)

1940

Benjamin Glazer, John S. Toldy (Arise, My

1970

Ring Lardner, Jr. (M*A*S*H)

 

Love)3; Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty’

1971

Ernest Tidyman (The French Connection)

1941

Harry Segall (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)3;

1972

Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola (The

 

Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles (Citi

 

Godfather)

 

zen Kane)5

1973

William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist)

1942

Emeric Pressburger (Forty-Ninth Parallel)3;

1974

Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo (The

 

Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner, Jr. (Woman o;

 

Godfather Part II)

 

the Year)5

1975

Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman (One Flew

1943

William Saroyan (The Human Comedy)3; Nor

 

Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)

 

man Krasna (Princess O’Rourke)5

1976

William Goldman (All the President’s Men)

1944

Leo McCarey (Going My Way)3; Lamar Trotti

1977

Alvin Sargent (Julia)

 

(Wilson)5

1978

Oliver Stone (Midnight Express)

1945

Charles G. Booth (The House on 92nd Street)

1979

Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)

 

Richard Schweizer (Marie-Louise)5

1980

Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People)

1946

Clemence Dane (Vacation from Marriage)3;

1981

Ernest Thompson (On Golden Pond)

 

Muriel Box, Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil)5

1982

Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart (Missing)

197

Valentine Davies (Miracle on 34th Street)3;

1983

James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)

 

Sidney Sheldon (The Bachelor and the

1984

Peter Shaffer (Amadeus)

 

Bobby-Soxer)5

1985

Kurt Luedtke (Out of Africa)

1948

Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler (The

1986

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (A Room with a View)

 

Search)5

1987

Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci (The

1949

Douglas Morrow (The Stratton Story)3; Robe

 

Last Emperor)

 

Pirosh (Battleground)5

1988

Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons)

1950

Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt (Panic in the

1989

Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy)

 

Streets)3; Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M

1990

Michael Blake (Dances with Wolves)

 

Marshman, Jr. (Sunset Blvd.)5

1991

Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs)

1951

Paul Dehn, James Bernard (Seven Days to

1992

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Howards End)

 

Noon)3; Alan Jay Lerner (An American in Paris

1993

Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List)

1952

Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank

1994

Eric Roth (Forrest Gump)

 

Cavett (The Greatest Show on Earth)3;

1995

Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility)

 

T.E.B. Clarke (The Lavender Hill Mob)5

1996

Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade)

1953

Dalton Trumbo6 (as Ian McLellan Hunter,

1997

Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson (L.A.

 

Roman Holiday)3; Charles Brackett, Walter

 

Confidential)

 

Reisch, Richard L. Breen (Titanic)5

1998

Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters)

1954

Philip Yordan (Broken Lance)3; Budd Schul-

1999

John Irving (The Cider House Rules)

 

berg (On the Waterfront)53

2000

Stephen Gaghan (Traffic)

1955

Daniel Fuchs (Love Me or Leave Me)3;

2001

Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind)

 

William Ludwig, Sonya Levien (Interrupted

2002

Ronald Harwood (The Pianist)

 

Melody)5

2003

Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter

1956

Dalton Trumbo6 (as Robert Rich, The Brave

 

Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The

 

One)3; Albert Lamorisse (The Red Balloon)

 

Return of the King)

1957

George Wells (Designing Woman)

2004

Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor (Sideways)

1958

Nedrick Young6 (as Nathan E. Douglas),

2005

Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana (Brokeback

 

Harold Jacob Smith (The Defiant Ones)

 

Mountain)

959

Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley

2006

William Monahan (The Departed)

 

Shapiro, Maurice Richlin (Pillow Talk)

2007

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (No Country for Old

1960

Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond (The Apartment)

 

Men)

1961

William Inge (Splendor in the Grass)

 

 

1962

Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro

screenplay, original1

 

Germi (Divorce—Italian Style)

1928

Ben Hecht (Underworld)3; Joseph Farnham

1963

James R. Webb (How the West Was Won)

 

(The Fair Co-E; Laugh, Clown, Laug;

1964

S.H. Barnett, Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff

 

Telling the World)4

 

(Father Goose)

1930

Frances Marion (The Big House)

1965

Frederic Raphael (Darling)

1931

John Monk Saunders (The Dawn Patrol)3

1966

Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven (A Man

1932

Frances Marion (The Champ)3

 

and a Woman)

1933

Robert Lord (One Way Passage)3

1967

William Rose (Guess Who’s Coming to

1934

Arthur Caesar (Manhattan Melodrama)3

 

Dinner)

135

Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur (The

1968

Mel Brooks (The Producers)

 

Scoundrel)3

1969

William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the

1936

Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney (The Story

 

Sundance Kid)

 

of Louis Pasteur)3

1970

Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North

1937

William A. Wellman, Robert Carson (A Star

 

(Patton)

 

Is Born)3

1971

Paddy Chayefsky (The Hospital)

1938

Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary (Boys Town)3

1972

Jeremy Larner (The Candidate)

 

 

1973

David S. Ward (The Sting)

screenplay, original1 (continued)

cinematography (continued)

1974

Robert Towne (Chinatown)

1945

Harry Stradling (The Picture of Dorian Gray)7;

1975

Frank Pierson (Dog Day Afternoon)

 

Leon Shamroy (Leave Her to Heaven)8

1976

Paddy Chayefsky (Network)

1946

Arthur Miller (Anna and the King ofSiam)7;

1977

Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (Annie Hall)

 

Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, Arthur

1978

Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones

 

Arling (The Yearling)8

 

(Coming Home

1947

Guy Green (Great Expectations)7; Jack Cardiff

1979

Steve Tesich (Breaking Away)

 

(Black Narcissus)8

1980

Bo Goldman (Melvin and Howard)

1948

William Daniels (The Naked City)7; Joseph

1981

Colin Welland (Chariots of Fire)

 

Valentine, William V. Skall, Winton Hoch

1982

John Briley (Gandhi)

 

(Joan of Arc)8

1983

Horton Foote (Tender Mercies)

1949

Paul C. Vogel (Battleground)7; Winton Hoch

1984

Robert Benton (Places in the Heart)

 

(She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)8

1985

Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela

1950

Robert Krasker (The Third Man)7; Robert

 

Wallace (Witness)

 

Surtees (King Solomon’s Mines)8

1986

Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters)

1951

William C. Mellor (A Place in the Sun)7; Alfred

1987

John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck)

 

Gilks, John Alton (An American in Paris)8

1988

Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow (Rain Man)

1952

Robert Surtees (The Bad and the Beautiful)7;

1989

Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society)

 

Winton C. Hoch, Archie Stout (The Quiet Man)8

1990

Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost)

1953

Burnett Guffey (From Here to Eternity)7; Loyal

1991

Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise)

 

Griggs (Shane)8

1992

Neil Jordan (The Crying Game)

1954

Boris Kaufman (On the Waterfront)7; Milton

1993

Jane Campion (The Piano)

 

Krasner (Three Coins in the Fountain)8

1994

Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction)

1955

James Wong Howe (The Rose Tattoo)7;

1995

Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects)

 

Robert Burks (To Catch a Thief)8

1996

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (Fargo)

1956

Joseph Ruttenberg (Somebody Up There

1997

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting)

 

Likes Me)7; Lionel Lindon (Around the World

1998

Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare

 

in 80 Days)8

 

in Love)

1957

Jack Hildyard (The Bridge on the River Kwai)

1999

Alan Ball (American Beauty)

1958

Sam Leavitt (The Defiant Ones)7; Joseph

2000

Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous)

 

Ruttenberg (Gigi)8

2001

Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park)

1959

William C. Mellor (The Diary of Anne Frank)7;

2002

Pedro Almodovar (Talk to Her)

 

Robert L. Surtees (Ben-Hur)8

2003

Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)

1960

Freddie Francis (Sons and Lovers)7; Russell

2004

Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the

 

Metty (Spartacus)8

 

Spotless Mind

1961

Eugen Shuftan (The Hustler)7; Daniel L. Fapp

2005

Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco (Crash)

 

(West Side Story)8

2006

Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine)

1962

Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz (The Longest

2007

Diablo Cody (Juno)

 

Day)7; Fred A. Young (Lawrence of Arabia)8

 

 

1963

James Wong Howe (Hud)7; Leon Shamroy

cinematography

 

(Cleopatra)8

1928

Charles Rosher, Karl Struss (Sunrise)

1964

Walter Lassally (Zorba the Greek)7; Harry

1929

Clyde De Vinna (White Shadows in the South

 

Stradling (My Fair Lady)8

 

Seas)

1965

Ernest Laszlo (Ship of Fools)7; Freddie Young

1930

Joseph T. Rucker, Willard Van Der Veer (With

 

(Doctor Zhivago)8

 

Byrd at the South Pole)

1966

Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia

1931

Floyd Crosby (Tabu)

 

Woolf?)7; Ted Moore (A Man for All Seasons)8

1932

Lee Garmes (Shanghai Express

1967

Burnett Guffey (Bonnie and Clyde)

1933

Charles Bryant Lang, Jr. (A Farewell to Arms)

1968

Pasqualino De Santis (Romeo and Juliet)

1934

Victor Milner (Cleopatra)

1969

Conrad Hall (Butch Cassidy and the

1935

Hal Mohr (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

 

Sundance Kid)

1936

Gaetano Gaudio (Anthony Adverse)

1970

Freddie Young (Ryan’s Daughter)

1937

Karl Freund (The Good Earth)

1971

Oswald Morris (Fiddler on the Roof)

1938

Joseph Ruttenberg (The Great Waltz)

1972

Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret)

1939

Gregg Toland (Wuthering Heights)7; Ernest

1973

Sven Nykvist (Cries and Whispers)

 

Haller, Ray Rennahan (Gone with the Wind)8

1974

Fred Koenekamp, Joseph Biroc (The

1940

George Barnes (Rebecca)7; Georges Perinal

 

Towering Inferno)

 

(The Thief of Bagdad)8

1975

John Alcott (Barry Lyndon)

1941

Arthur Miller (How Green Was My Valley)7;

1976

Haskell Wexler (Bound for Glory)

 

Ernest Palmer, Ray Rennahan (Blood and

1977

Vilmos Zsigmond (Close Encounters of the

 

Sand)8

 

Third Kind)

1942

Joseph Ruttenberg (Mrs. Miniver)7; Leon

1978

Nestor Almendros (Days of Heaven)

 

Shamroy (The Black Swan)8

1979

Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now)

1943

Arthur Miller (The Song of Bernadette)7; Hal

1980

Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet (Tess)

 

Mohr, W. Howard Greene (The Phantom of

1981

Vittorio Storaro (Reds)

 

the Opera)8

1982

Billy Williams, Ronnie Taylor (Gandhi)

1944

Joseph LaShelle (Laura)7; Leon Shamroy

1983

Sven Nykvist (Fanny & Alexander)

 

(Wilson)

1984

Chris Menges (The Killing Fields)

 

 

1985

David Watkin (Out of Africa)

cinematography

visual effects’

1986

Chris Menges (The Mission)

1972

L.B. Abbott, A.D. Flowers (The Poseidon

1987

Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor)

 

Adventure)

1988

Peter Biziou (Mississippi Burning)

1974

Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, Albert

1989

Freddie Francis (Glory)

 

Whitlock (Earthquake)

1990

Dean Semler (Dances with Wolves)

1975

Albert Whitlock, Glen Robinson (The

1991

Robert Richardson (JFK)

 

Hindenburg)

1992

Philippe Rousselot (A River Runs Through It)

1976

Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Frank Van

1993

Janusz Kaminski (Schindler:s List)

 

der Veer (King Kong); L.B. Abbott, Glen

1994

John Toll (Legends of the Fall)

 

Robinson, Matthew Yuricich (Logan’s Run)

1995

John Toll (Braveheart)

1977

John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund,

1996

John Seale (The English Patient)

 

Grant McCune, Robert Blalack (Star Wars)

1997

Russell Carpenter (Titanic)

1978

Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy

1998

Janusz Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan)

 

Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic

1999

Conrad L. Hall (American Beauty)

 

(Superman)

2000

Peter Pau (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

1979

H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson,

2001

Andrew Lesnie (The Lord of the Rings: The

 

Nick Allder, Denys Ayling (Alien)

 

Fellowship of the Ring)

1980

Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis

2002

Conrad L. Hall (Road to Perdition)

 

Muren, Bruce Nicholson (The Empire

2003

Russell Boyd (Master and Commander: The

 

Strikes Back)

 

Far Side of the World)

1981

Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson,

2004

Robert Richardson (The Aviator)

 

Joe Johnston (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

2005

Dion Beebe (Memoirs of a Geisha)

1982

Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren, Kenneth F.

2006

Guillermo Navarro (Pan’s Labyrinth)

 

Smith (E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial)

2007

Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)

1983

Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston,

 

 

 

Phil Tippet (Return of the Jedi)

visual

effects9

1984

Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Lorne

1939

Fred Sersen (The Rains Came)

 

Peterson, George Gibbs (Indiana Jones

1940

Lawrence Butler (The Thief of Bagdad)

 

and the Temple of Doom)

1941

Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings (I Wanted

1985

`Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar,

 

Wings)

 

David Berry (Cocoon)

1942

Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, William L.

1986

Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richard-

 

Pereira (Reap the Wild Wind)

 

son, Suzanne Benson (Aliens)

1943

Fred Sersen (Crash Dive)

1987

Dennis Muren, William George, Harley

1944

A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, Warren

 

Jessup, Kenneth Smith (Innerspace)

 

Newcombe (Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo)

1988

Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward

1945

John P. Fulton (Wonder Man)

 

Jones, George Gibbs (Who Framed Roger

1946

Thomas Howard (Blithe Spirit)

 

Rabbit)

1947

A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe

1989

John Bruno, Dennis Muren, HoytYeatman,

 

(Green Dolphin Street)

Dennis Skotak (The Abyss)

948

Paul Eagler, J. McMillan Johnson, Russell

1990

Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, Alex

 

Shearman, Clarence Slifer (Portrait of

 

Funke (Total Recall)

 

Jennie)

1991

Robert Skotak (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

1949

Mighty Joe Young

1992

Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Doug Smythe,

1950

Destination Moon

 

Tom Woodruff, Jr. (Death Becomes Her)

1951

When Worlds Collide

1993

Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett,

1952

Plymouth Adventure

 

Michael Lantieri (Jurassic Park)

1953

The War of the Worlds

1994

Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen

1954

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

 

Rosenbaum, Allen Hall (Forrest Gump)

1955

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

1995

Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal

1956

John Fulton (The Ten Commandments)

 

Scanlan, John Cox (Babe)

1958

Tom Howard (tom thumb)

1996

Volker Engel, Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney,

1959

A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert MacDonald

 

Joseph Viskocil (Independence Day)

(Ben-Hur)

1997

Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L.

1960

Gene Warren, Tim Baar (The Time Machine)

 

Fisher, Michael Kanfer (Titanic)

1961

Bill Warrington (The Guns of Navarone)

1998

Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robert-

1962

Robert MacDonald (The Longest Day)

 

son, Kevin Mack (What Dreams May Come)

1963

Emil Kosa, Jr. (Cleopatra)

1999

John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, Jon

1964

Peter Ellenshaw, Hamilton Luske, Eustace

 

Thum (The Matrix)

 

Lycett (Mary Poppins)

2000

John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, Rob

1965

John Stears (Thunderball)

 

Harvey (Gladiator)

1966

Art Cruickshank (Fantastic Voyage)

2001

Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard

1967

L.B. Abbott (Doctor Dolittle)

 

Taylor, Mark Stetson (The Lord of the Rings:

1968

Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)

 

The Fellowship of the Ring)

1969

Robbie Robertson (Marooned)

2002

Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook,

1970

A.D. Flowers, L.B. Abbott (Tora! Tora! Tora!)

Alex Funke (The Lord of the Rings: The

1971

Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee

Two Towers)

 

(Bedknobs and Broomsticks)

 

visual effects8

original score

2003

Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook,

1948

Brian Easdale (The Red Shoes)

 

Alex Funke (The Lord of the Rings: The

1949

Aaron Copland (The Heiress)

 

Return of the King)

1950

Franz Waxman (Sunset Blvd.)

2004

John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony

1951

Franz Waxman (A Place in the Sun)

 

LaMolinara, John Frazier (Spider-Man 2)

1952

Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon)

2005

Joe Letteri, Brian Van’t Hul, Christian Rivers,

1953

Bronislau Kaper(Lili)

 

Richard Taylor (King Kong)

1954

Dimitri Tiomkin (The High and Mighty)

2006

John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen

1955

Alfred Newman (Love Is a Many-Splendored

 

Hall (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’

 

Thing)

 

Chest)

1956

Victor Young (Around the World in 80 Days)

2007

Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Be Morris,

1957

Malcolm Arnold (The Bridge on the River

 

Trevor Wood (The Golden Compass)

 

Kwai)10

 

 

1958

Dimitri Tiomkin (The Old Man and The Sea)

makeu

1959

Miklos Rozsa (Ben-Hur)

1981

Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London)

1960

Ernest Gold (Exodus)

1982

Sarah Monzani, Michele Burke (Quest for Fire)

1961

Henry Mancini (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

1984

Paul LeBlanc, Dick Smith (Amadeus)

1962

Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia)

1985

Michael Westmore, Zoltan Elek (Mask)

1963

John Addison (Tom Jones)

1986

Chris Walas, Stephan Dupuis (The Fly)

1964

Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman

1987

Rick Baker (Harry and the Hendersons)

 

(Mary Poppins)

1988

Ve Neill, Steve La Porte, Robert Short

1965

Maurice Jarre (DoctorZhivago)

 

(Beetlejuice)

1966

John Barry (Born Free)

1989

Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber, Kevin Haney

1967

Elmer Bernstein (Thoroughly Modern Millie)

 

(Driving Miss Daisy)

1968

John Barry (The Lion in Winter)11; John Green

1990

John Caglione, Jr., Doug Drexler (Dick Tracy)

 

(Oliver!)12

1991

Stan Winston, Jeff Dawn (Terminator 2:

1969

Burt Bacharach (Butch Cassidy and the

 

Judgment Day)

 

Sundance Kid)11; Lennie Hayton, Lionel

1992

Greg Cannom, Michele Burke, Matthew W.

 

Newman (Hello, Dolly!)12

 

Mungle (Bram Stoker’s Dracula)

1970

Francis Lai (Love Story); The Beatles (Let

1993

Greg Cannom, Ve Neill, Yolanda Toussieng

 

It Be)13

 

(Mrs. Doubtfire)

1971

Michel Legrand (Summer of’42)

199

Rik Baker, Ve Neill, Yolanda Toussieng (Ed

1972

Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch, Larry

 

Wood)

 

Russell (Limelight)

1995

Peter Frampton, Paul Pattison, Lois Burwell

1973

Marvin Hamlisch (The Way We Were)

 

(Braveheart)

1974

Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola (The Godfather

1996

Rick Baker, David LeRoy Anderson (The Nutt

 

Part II)

 

Professor)

1975

John Williams (Jaws)

1997

Rick Baker, David LeRoy Anderson (Men in

1976

Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen)

 

Black)

1977

John Williams (Star Wars)

1998

Jenny Shircore (Elizabeth)

1978

Giorgio Moroder (Midnight Express)

1999

Christine Blundell, Trefor Proud (Topsy-Turvy)

1979

Georges Delerue (A Little Romance)

2000

Rick Baker, Gail Ryan (Dr. Seuss’ How the

1980

Michael Gore (Fame)

 

Grinch Stole Christmas)

1981

Vangelis (Chariots of Fire)

2001

Peter Owen, Richard Taylor (The Lord of the

1982

John Williams (E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial);

 

Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)

 

Henry Mancini, Leslie Bricusse

2002

John Jackson, Beatrice Alba (Frida)

 

(Victor/Victoria )13

2003

Richard Taylor, Peter King (The Lord of the

1983

Bill Conti (The Right Stuff); Michel Legrand,

 

Rings: The Return of the King)

 

Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman (Yentl)13

2004

Valli O’Reilly, Bill Corso (Lemony Snicket’s A

1984

Maurice Jarre (A Passage to India); Prince

 

Series of Unfortunate Events)

 

(Purple Rain)13

2005

Howard Berger, Tami Lane (The Chronicles of

1985

John Barry (Out of Africa)

 

Narnia:The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)

1986

Herbie Hancock (‘Round Midnight)

2006

David Martf, Montse Ribe (Pan’s Labyrinth)

1987

Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, CongSu

2007

Didier Lavergne, Jan Archibald (La Vie en Ros)

 

(The Last Emperor)

 

 

1988

Dave Grusin (The Milagro Beanfield War)

original score

1989

Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid)

1938

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The Adventures of

1990

John Barry (Dances with Wolves)

 

Robin Hood)

1991

Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast)

1939

Herbert Stothart (The Wizard of Oz)

1992

Alan Menken (Aladdin)

1940

Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington

1993

John Williams (Schindler’s List)

 

(Pinocchio)

1994

Hans Zimmer (The Lion King)

1941

Bernard Herrmann (All That Money Can Buy)

1995

Luis Enrique Bacalov (The Postman [Il

1942

Max Steiner (Now, Voyager)

 

Postino])11; Alan Menken, Stephen

1943

Alfred Newman (The Song of Bernadette)

 

Schwartz (Pocahontas)14

1944

Max Steiner (Since You Went Away)

1996

Gabriel Yared (The English Patient)11; Rachel

1945

Miklos Rozsa (Spellbound)

 

Portman (Emma)14

1946

Hugo Friedhofer (The Best Years of Our Lives)

1997

James Horner (Titanic)11; Anne Dudley (The

1947

Miklos Rozsa (A Double Life)

Full Monty)14

original score (continued)

original song (continued)

1998

Nicola Piovani (Life Is Beautiful)11; Stephen

1958

Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner, “Gigi”

 

Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love)14

 

(Gigi)

1999

John Corigliano (The Red Violin)

1959

James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, “High

2000

Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

 

Hopes” (A Hole in the Head)

2001

Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings: The

1960

Manos Hadjidakis, “Never on Sunday”

 

Fellowship of the Ring)

 

(Never on Sunday)

2002

Elliot Goldenthal (Frida)

1961

Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer, “Moon River”

2003

Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings: The

 

(Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

 

Return of the King)

1962

Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer, “Days of

2004

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (Finding Neverland)

 

Wine and Roses” (Days of Wine and

2005

Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain)

 

Roses)

2006

Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel)

1963

James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, “Call Me Ir

2007

Dario Marianelli (Atonement)

 

responsible” (Papa’s Delicate Condition)

 

 

1964

Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman,

original son

 

“Chim Chim Cher-ee” (Mary Poppins)

1934

Con Conrad, Herb Magidson, “The

1965

Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster,

 

Continental” (The Gay Divorcee)

 

“The Shadow of Your Smile” (The Sand-

1935

Harry Warren, Al Dubin, “Lullaby of Broad

 

piper)

 

way” (Gold Diggers of 1935)

1966

John Barry, Don Black, “Born Free” (Born

1936

Jerome Ken, Dorothy Fields, “The Way Yo

 

Free)

 

Look Tonight” (Swing Time)

1967

Leslie Bricusse, “Talk to the Animals”

1937

Harry Owens, “Sweet Leilani” (Waiiki

 

(Doctor Dolittle)

 

Wedding)

1968

Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn

138

Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin, “Thanks for the

 

Bergman, “The Windmills of Your Mind”

 

Memory” (The Big Broadcast of 138)

 

(The Thomas Crown Affair)

1939

Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, “Over the Rain-

1969

Burt Bacharach, Hal David, “Raindrops Keep

 

bow” (The Wizard of Oz)

Fallin’ On My Head” (Butch Cassidy and the

1940

Leigh Harline, Ned Washington, “When You

Sundance Kid)

 

Wish Upon a Star” (Pinocchio)

1970

Fred Karlin, Robb Royer(as Robb Wilson),

191

Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, “The

 

James Griffin (as Arthur James), “For All

 

Last Time I Saw Paris” (Lady Be Good)

 

We Know” (Lovers and Other Strangers)

1942

Irving Berlin, “White Christmas” (Holiday

1971

Isaac Hayes, “Theme from Shaft” (Shaft)

 

Inn)

1972

Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn, “The Morning

1943

Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, “You’ll Never

 

After” (The Poseidon Adventure)

 

Know” (Hello, Frisco, Hello)

1973

Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman, Marilyn

h-* CD

James Van Heusen, Johnny Burke, “Swinging

 

Bergman, “The Way We Were” (The Way We

 

on a Star” (Going My Wa)

 

Were)

1945

Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, “It

1974

Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn, “We May Never

 

Might As Well Be Spring” (State Fair)

 

Love Like This Again” (The Towering

146

Harry Warren, ohny Mercer, “On the Atchi

Inferno)

 

son, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (The

19 75

Keith Carradine, “I’m Easy” (Nashville)

 

Harvey Girls)

1976

Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams, “Evergreen

1947

Allie Wrubel, Ray Gilbert, “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah”

(Love Theme from A Star is Born)” (A Star

 

(Song of the South)

Is Born)

1948

Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, “Buttons and

1977

Joseph Brooks, “You Light Up My Life” (You

 

Bows” (The Paleface)

Light Up My Life)

1949

Frank Loesser, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”

1978

Paul Jabara, “Last Dance” (Thank God It’s

 

(Neptune’s Daughter)

Friday)

1950

Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, “Mona Lisa”

1979

David Shire, Norman Gimbel, “It Goes Like It

 

(Captain Carey, U.S.A.)

Goes” (Norma Rae)

195

Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer, “In The

1980

Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford, “Fame” (Fame)

 

Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (Here

1981

Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christo-

 

Comes the Groom)

pher Cross, Peter Allen, “Arthur’s Theme

952

Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington, “High

(Best That You Can Do)” (Arthur)

 

Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’)”

1982

Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Will Jen

 

(High Noon)

nings, “Up Where We Belong” (An Officer

1953

Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster, “Secret

and a Gentleman)

 

Love” (Calamity Jane)

1983

Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Irene Cara,

1954

Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, “Three Coins in the

“Flashdance…What a Feeling” (Flashdance)

 

Fountain” (Three Coins in the Fountain)

1984

Stevie Wonder, “I Just Called To Say I Love

1955

Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster, “Love Is

You” (The Woman in Red)

 

a Many-Splendored Thing” (Love Is a Many-

1985

Lionel Richie, “Say You, Say Me” (White

 

Splendored Thing)

Nights)

1956

Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, “Whatever Will Be,

1986

Giorgio Moroder, Tom Whitlock, “Take My

 

Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)” (The Man Who

Breath Away” (Top Gun)

 

Knew Too Much)

1987

Franke Previte, John DeNicola, Donald

1957

James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, “All the

Markowitz, “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life”

 

Way” (The Joker Is Wild)

(Dirty Dancing)

original song

original song

1988

Carly Simon, “Let the River Run” (Working Girl)

1999

Phil Collins, “You’ll Be in My Heart” (Tarzan)

1989

Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, “Under the

2000

Bob Dylan, “Things Have Changed” (Wonder

 

Sea” (The Little Mermaid)

 

Boys)

1990

Stephen Sondheim, “Sooner or Later (I Al

2001

Randy Newman, “If I Didn’t Have You”

 

ways Get My Man)” (Dick Tracy)

 

(Monsters, Inc.)

1991

Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, “Beauty and

2002

Eminem, Jeff Bass, Luis Resto, “Lose Your-

 

the Beast” (Beauty an the Beast)

 

self” (8 Mile)

1992

Alan Menken, Tim Rice, “A Whole New

2003

Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, Annie Lennox,

 

World” (Aladdin)

 

“Into the West” (The Lord of the Rings:

1993

Bruce Springsteen, “Streets of Philadelphia”

 

The Return of the King)

 

(Philadelphia

2004

Jorge Drexler, “Al otro lado del rio” (The

1994

Elton John, Tim Rice, “Can You Feel the Love

 

Motorcycle Diaries)

 

Tonight” (The Lion King)

2005

Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, Paul Beau

1995

Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, “Colors o

 

regard, “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp”

 

the Wind” (Pocahantas)

 

(Hustle & Flow)

1996

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, “You Must

006

Melissa Etheridge, “I Need To Wake Up” (An

 

Love Me” (Evita)

 

Inconvenient Truth)

1997

James Horner, Will Jennings, “My Heart Will

2007

Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova, “Falling

 

Go On” (Titanic)

 

Slowly” (Once)

1998

Stephen Schwartz, “When You Believe” (The

 

 

 

Prince of Egypt)

 

 

1The current screenplay categories were adopted for the 1957 awards. Until then, various separate writing awards were given for silent-film title writing, screenplay, story and screenplay, and motion picture story. 2Screenplay (for script only). 3Motion picture story (for narrative only; also called original story). 4Title writing. 5Story and screenplay (for narrative and script; also called original screenplay). 6Actual winner was blacklisted at the time of the award and the honored work was attributed to another name or person; pseudonym or nominal winner is listed in parentheses. 7Black and white. 8Color. 9Until 1963, both visual and sound effects were honored as special effects. Only those recipients honored for visual effects are listed here. 10Scoring. 11Drama or not a musical. 12Musical 13Song score. “Musical or comedy.

Founded as the Utah/US Film Festival in Salt Lake City in 1978, the exhibition has traditionally focused on documentary and dramatic works from outside the Hollywood mainstream. It came under the auspices

American Grand Jury Prize, drama

Frozen River (US; director, Courtney Hunt)

American Grand Jury Prize, documentary Trouble the Water (US; directors, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal)

World Cinema Jury Prize, drama

Ping-pongkingen (King of Ping Pong) (Sweden; director, Jens Jonsson)

World Cinema Jury Prize, documentary

Man on Wire (UK; director, James Marsh)

Audience Award, drama

The Wackness (US; director, Jonathan Levine)

Audience Award, documentary

Fields of Fuel (US; director, Josh Tickell)

World Cinema Audience Award, drama

Captain Abu Raed (Jordan; director, Amin Matalqa)

World Cinema Audience Award,

Man on Wire (UK; director, James Marsh)

documentary

 

Directing Award, drama

Lance Hammer (Ballast, US)

Directing Award, documentary

Nanette Burstein (American Teen, US)

World Cinema Directing Award, drama

Anna Melikyan (Rusalka [Mermaid], Russia)

World Cinema Directing Award,

Nino Kirtadze (Durakovo: Le Village des fous

documentary

[Durakovo: Village of Fools], France)

Cinematography Award, drama

Lol Crawley (Ballast, US)

Cinematography Award, documentary

Phillip Hunt and Steven Sebring (Patti Smith: Dream of Life, US)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

Alex Rivera and David Riker (Sleep Dealer, US/Mexico)

Special Jury Prize, documentary

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (US; director, Lisa F.

 

Jackson)

Special Jury Prize, drama (ensemble)

Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, and Brad Henke

 

(Choke, US)

Special Jury Prize, drama (the spirit

Chusy Haney-Jardine (Anywhere, USA, US)

of independence)

 

World Cinema Special Jury Prize,

Parpados Azules (Blue Eyelids) (Mexico; director, Ernesto Contreras)

drama

 

Sundance Film Festival, 2008

Jury Prize, short filmmaking

My Olympic Summer (US; director, Daniel Robin); Sikumi (On the Ice),

 

(US; director, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean)

Sundance/NHK International

Huacho (Chile; director, Alejandro Fernandez Almendras); Here

Filmmakers Award

(US; director, Braden King); Apoptosis (Japan; director, Aiko Nagatsu);

 

The Happiest Girl in the World (Romania; director, Radu Jude)

Alfred P. Sloan Prize

Sleep Dealer (US/Mexico; director, Alex Rivera)

Golden Globes, 2008

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of non-US film critics working in Hollywood, began awarding prizes for outstanding American motion pictures and acting in 1944 and created the Golden Globe Award in 1945. Over the years the prizes have expanded from recognizing only motion pictures and acting to include directing (1946), screenwriting and film music scoring (1947), foreign-language films (1950), and television (1955), as well as a number of other categories of achievement. Prize: globe encircled by a strip of motion picture film, in gold.

Golden Globes/Hollywood Foreign Press Association Web site: <www.hfpa.org>.

Film

 

Drama

Atonement (director, Joe Wright)

Musical/comedy

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

 

(director, Tim Burton)

Director

Julian Schnabel (Le Scaphandre et le papillon [The Diving

 

Bell and the Butterfly])

Actress, drama

Julie Christie (Away from Her)

Actor, drama

Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Actress, musical/coedy

Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose)

Actor, musical/comedy

Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of

 

Fleet Street)

Animated feature film

Ratatouille (directors, Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava)

Foreign-language film

Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the

 

Butterfly) (France/US; director, Julian Schnabel)

Supporting actress

Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)

Supporting actor

Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

Screenplay

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men)

Original score

Dario Marianelli (Atonement)

Original song

“Guaranteed” (Into the Wild); music and lyrics, Eddie Vedder

Television

 

Drama series

Mad Men, Lionsgate/AMC

Actress, drama series

Glenn Close (Damages)

Actor, drama series

Jon Hamm (Mad Men)

Musical/comedy series

Extras, BBC/HBO

Actress, musical/comedy series

Tina Fey (30 Rock)

Actor, musical/comedy series

David Duchovny (Californication)

Miniseries/movie made for TV

Longford, Granada/Channel 4/HBO Films

Actress, miniseries/movie made for TV

Queen Latifah (Life Support)

Actor, miniseries/movie made for TV

Jim Broadbent (Longford)

Supporting actress, series/miniseries/movie

Samantha Morton (Longford)

Supporting actor, series/miniseries/movie

Jeremy Piven (Entourage)

Toronto International Film Festival, 2007

Founded in 1976, the Toronto International Film Festival is one of North America’s best-attended exhibitions and a frequent forum for the premiere of major feature films. The festival, held in September, awards

Canadian feature film

My Winnipeg (director, Guy Maddin)

Canadian first feature

Continental, un film sans fusil (director, Stephane LaFleur)

Canadian short

Pool (director, Christopher Chan Fui Chong)

FIPRESCI Prize

La zona (Mexico; director, Rodrigo Pla)

People’s Choice Award

Eastern Promises (UK/Canada/US; director, David Cronenberg)

Discovery Award

Cochochi (Mexico/UK/Canada; directors, Israel Cardenas

 

and Laura Amelia Guzman)

Artistic Innovation Award

Encarnacion (Argentina; director, Anahf Berneri)

Established in 1946, the Cannes International Film Festival is among the best known and most influential film exhibitions in the world. A nine-member feature-film jury and a four-member short-film and Cinefondation jury give awards to the best film (Palme d’Or) and other outstanding films (special jury prizes) in their respective categories. The Grand Prix goes to the feature film judged the most original.

Berlin International Film Festival, 2008

The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), held annually since its founding in West Berlin in 1951, comprises some 20 separate competitions and juries emphasizing aspects of both worldwide and German cinema, each with their own prizes. The International Jury, made up of film-industry figures from across the globe, selects the winners of the Golden and Silver Bears, the festival’s top awards.

Golden Bear

Tropa de elite (The Elite Squad) (Brazil; director, Jose Padilha)

Jury Grand Prize (Silver Bear)

Standard Operating Procedure (US; director, Errol Morris)

Silver Bear, director

Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, US)

Silver Bear, actress

Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky, UK)

Silver Bear, actor

Reza Najie (Avaze gonjeshk-ha [The Song of the Sparrows], Iran)

Silver Bear, script

Wang Xiaoshuai (Zuoyou [In Love We Trust], China)

Silver Bear, film music

Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood, US)

Alfred Bauer Prize for a work of

Te acuerdas de Lake Tahoe? (Lake Tahoe) (Mexico; director,

particular innovation

Fernando Eimbcke)

Ecumenical Jury Prizes

Competition: Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (I’ve Loved You So Long)

 

(France; director, Philippe Claudel); Panorama: Boy A (UK; director,

 

John Crowley); Forum: Corridor #8 (Bulgaria; director, Boris Despodo

FIPRESCI Awards

Competition: Te acuerdas de Lake Tahoe? (Lake Tahoe) (Mexico;

 

director, Fernando Eimbcke); Panorama: Rusalka (Mermaid),

 

(Russia; director, Anna Melikyan); Forum: Shahida-Brides of Allah

 

(Israel; director, Natalie Assouline)

US National Film Registry

The US Library of Congress established the National Film Preservation Board in 1988 with the goal of identifying “culturally, historically, or aesthetically important” American films. The board selects 25 films

Abbott and Costello Meet

All My Babies (1953)

An American in Paris (1951)

Frankenstein (1948)

All Quiet on the Western Front

Annie Hall (1977)

Adam’s Rib (1949)

(1930)

Antonia: A Portrait of the

The Adventures of Robin Hood

All That Heaven Allows (1955)

Woman (1974)

(1938)

All That Jazz (1979)

The Apartment (1960)

The African Queen (1951)

All the King’s Men (1949)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Alien (1979)

America, America (1963)

Applause (1929)

All About Eve (1950)

American Graffiti (1973)

Atlantic City (1980)

The Awful Truth (1937)

Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)

From the Manger to the

Baby Face (1933)

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Cross (1912)

Back to the Future (1985)

Dances with Wolves (1990)

Fuji (1974)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1953)

Daughter of Shanghai (1937)

Fury (1936)

Badlands (1973)

Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Garlic Is As Good As Ten

The Band Wagon (1953)

David Holzman’s Diary (1968)

Mothers (1980)

The Bank Dick (1940)

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The General (1927)

The Battle of San Pietro (1945)

(1951)

Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950)

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Days of Heaven (1978)

Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)

Ben-Hur (1926)

Dead Birds (1964)

Giant (1956)

Ben-Hur (1959)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Gigi (1958)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Destry Rides Again (1939)

Glimpse of the Garden (1957)

Big Business (1929)

Detour (1946)

The Godfather (1972)

The Big Parade (1925)

Dickson Experimental Sound

The Godfather, Part II (1974)

The Big Trail (1930)

Film (1894-95)

Going My Way (1944)

The Big Sleep (1946)

D.O.A. (1950)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

The Gold Rush (1925)

The Black Pirate (1926)

The Docks of New York (1928)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

The Black Stallion (1979)

Dodsworth (1936)

Goodfellas (1990)

Blacksmith Scene (1893)

Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)

The Graduate (1967)

Blade Runner (1982)

Don’t Look Back (1967)

Grand Hotel (1932)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Double Indemnity (1944)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Blood of Jesus (1941)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I

Grass: A Nation’s Battle for

The Blue Bird (1918)

Learned To Stop Worrying and

Life (1925)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Love the Bomb (1964)

The Great Dictator (1940)

Boyzn the Hood (1991)

Dracula (1931)

The Great Train Robbery (1903)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Drums of Winter (1988)

Greed (1924)

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Duck Amuck (1953)

Groundhog Day (1993)

(1957)

Duck and Cover (1951)

Gun Crazy (1949)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Duck Soup (1933)

Gunga Din (1939)

Broken Blossoms (1919)

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

H2O (1929)

A Bronx Morning (1931)

Early Abstractions #1-5, 7,10

Halloween (1978)

The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act

(1939-56)

Hands Up (1929)

of Man (1975)

Easy Rider (1969)

Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)

Bullitt (1968)

Eaux d’Artifice (1953)

Harold and Maude (1971)

Butch Cassidy and the

El Norte (1983)

The Heiress (1949)

Sundance Kid (1969)

Empire (1964)

Hell’s Hinges (1916)

Cabaret (1972)

The Emperor Jones (1933)

High Noon (1952)

The Cameraman (1928)

The Endless Summer (1966)

High School (1968)

Carmen Jones (1954)

Enter the Dragon (1973)

Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel

Casablanca (1942)

Eraserhead (1977)

Footage (1937)

Castro Street (1966)

Evidence of the Film (1913)

His Girl Friday (1940)

Cat People (1942)

The Exploits of Elaine (1914)

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Chan Is Missing (1982)

The Fall of the House of

Hoop Dreams (1994)

The Cheat (1915)

Usher (1928)

Hoosiers (1986)

The Chechahcos (1924)

Fantasia (1940)

Hospital (1970)

Chinatown (1974)

Fargo (1996)

The Hospital (1971)

Chulas Fronteras (1976)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

The House I Live In (1945)

Citizen Kane (1941)

(1982)

The House in the Middle (1954)

The City (1939)

Fatty’s Tintype Tangle (1915)

House of Usher (1960)

City Lights (1931)

Film Portrait (1970)

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Civilization (1916)

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

How the West Was Won (1962)

Clash of the Wolves (1925)

Flash Gordon (series) (1936)

The Hunters (1957)

Close Encounters of the

Flesh and the Devil (1927)

The Hustler (1961)

Third Kind (1977)

Footlight Parade (1933)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain

Cologne: From the Diary of Ray

Force of Evil (1948)

Gang (1932)

and Esther (1939)

The Forgotten Frontier (1931)

The Immigrant (1917)

Commandment Keeper Church,

42nd Street (1933)

Imitation of Life (1934)

Beaufort, South Carolina, May

The Four Horsemen of

In a Lonely Place (1950)

1940 (1940)

the Apocalypse (1921)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

The Conversation (1974)

Fox Movietone News: Jenkins

In the Land of the Head

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Orphanage Band (1928)

Hunters (1914)

The Cool World (1963)

Frank Film (1973)

In the Street (1948-52)

Cops (1922)

Frankenstein (1931)

Intolerance (1916)

A Corner in Wheat (1909)

Freaks (1932)

Invasion of the Body

The Court Jester (1956)

The French Connection (1971)

Snatchers (1956)

The Crowd (1928)

The Freshman (1925)

It (1927)

The Curse of Quon Gwon

From Here to Eternity (1953)

It Happened One Night (1934)

(1916-17)

From Stump to Ship (1930)

The Italian (1915)

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Popeye the Sailor Meets

Jailhouse Rock (1957)

Melody Ranch (1940)

Sindbad the Sailor (1936)

Jam Session (1942)

The Memphis Belle: A Story of a

Porky in Wackyland (1938)

Jammin’ the Blues (1944)

Flying Fortress (1944)

Power of the Press (1928)

Jaws (1975)

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Powers of Ten (1978)

Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1959)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

President McKinley

The Jazz Singer (1927)

Mighty Like a Moose (1926)

Inauguration Footage (1901)

Jeffries-Johnson World’s Champi

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Primary (1960)

onship Boxing Contest (1910)

The Miracle of Morgan’s

Princess Nicotine; or, The

Kannapolis, NC (1941)

Creek (1944)

Smoke Fairy (1909)

Killer of Sheep (1977)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

The Prisoner ofZenda (1937)

King: A Filmed Record…

Miss Lulu Bett (1921)

The Producers (1968)

Montgomery to Memphis (1970)

Modern Times (1936)

Psycho (1960)

King Kong (1933)

Modesta (1956)

The Public Enemy (1931)

The Kiss (1896)

Mom and Dad (1944)

Pull My Daisy (1958)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Morocco (1930)

Punch Drunks (1934)

Knute Rockne, All American

Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)

Pups Is Pups (Our Gang) (1930)

(1940)

A Movie (1958)

Raging Bull (1980)

Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

Mr. Smith Goes to

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

The Lady Eve (1941)

Washington (1939)

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Lady Helen’s Escapade (1909)

Multiple Sidosis (1970)

Rear Window (1954)

Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)

The Music Box (1932)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Lambchops (1929)

The Music Man (1962)

Red Dust (1932)

The Land Beyond the

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Red River (1948)

Sunset (1912)

My Man Godfrey (1936)

Regeneration (1915)

Lassie Come Home (1943)

The Naked City (1948)

Reminiscences of a Journey to

The Last Command (1928)

The Naked Spur (1953)

Lithuania (1971-72)

The Last of the Mohicans (1920)

Nanookofthe North (1922)

Republic Steel Strike Riot

The Last Picture Show (1971)

Nashville (1975)

Newsreel Footage (1937)

Laura (1944)

National Lampoon’s

Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Animal House (1978)

Ride the High Country (1962)

The Learning Tree (1969)

National Velvet (1944)

Rip Van Winkle (1896)

Let’s All Go to the Lobby (1957)

Naughty Marietta (1935)

The River (1937)

Letter from an Unknown

Network (1976)

Road to Morocco (1942)

Woman (1948)

A Night at the Opera (1935)

Rocky (1976)

The Life and Death of 9413: A

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Hollywood Extra (1928)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

(1975)

The Life and Times of Rosie the

Ninotchka (1939)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Riveter (1980)

North by Northwest (1959)

Rose Hobart (1936)

The Life ofEmile Zola (1937)

Nostalgia (1971)

Sabrina (1954)

Little Caesar (1930)

Nothing but a Man (1964)

Safety Last (1923)

Little Fugitive (1953)

Notorious (1946)

Salesman (1969)

Little Miss Marker (1934)

Now, Voyager (1942)

Salome (1922)

The Living Desert (1953)

The Nutty Professor (1963)

Salt of the Earth (1954)

The Lost World (1925)

OffOn (1968)

San Francisco Earthquake and

Louisiana Story (1948)

Oklahoma! (1955)

Fire, April 18,1906 (1906)

Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Scarface (1932)

Love Me Tonight (1932)

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s

Schindler’s List (1993)

Magical Maestro (1952)

Nest (1975)

The Searchers (1956)

The Magnificent

One Froggy Evening (1955)

Serene Velocity (1970)

Ambersons (1942)

Our Day (1938)

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

The Making of an American

Out of the Past (1947)

The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)

(1920)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Seven Brides for Seven

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Brothers (1954)

The Man Who Shot Liberty

Pass the Gravy (1928)

Seventh Heaven (1927)

Valance (1962)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Patton (1970)

Shadows (1959)

Manhatta (1921)

The Pearl (1948)

Shaft (1971)

Manhattan (1979)

Peege (1972)

Shane (1953)

March of Time: Inside Nazi

Peter Pan (1924)

She Done Him Wrong (1933)

Germany (1938)

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

Marian Anderson: The Lincoln

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Sherman’s March (1986)

Memorial Concert (1939)

Pinocchio (1940)

Shock Corridor (1963)

Marty (1955)

A Place in the Sun (1951)

The Shop Around the

M*A*S*H (1970)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Corner (1940)

Master Hands (1936)

The Plow That Broke the

Show Boat (1936)

Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913)

Plains (1936)

Show People (1928)

Mean Streets (1973)

Point of Order (1964)

Siege (1940)

Medium Cool (1969)

The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Sky High (1922)

Gus Visser and His Singing

12 Angry Men (1957)

Snow White (1933)

Duck (1925)

Twelve O’Clock High (1949)

Snow White and the

There It Is (1928)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Seven Dwarfs (1937)

The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

Unforgiven (1992)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

The Thin Blue Line (1988)

Verbena Tragica (1939)

The Son of the Sheik (1926)

The Thin Man (1934)

Vertigo (1958)

The Sound of Music (1965)

The Thing from Another

The Wedding March (1928)

St. Louis Blues (1929)

World (1951)

West Side Story (1961)

Stagecoach (1939)

Think of Me First as a Person

Westinghouse Works (1904)

A Star Is Born (1954)

(1960-75)

What’s Opera, Doc? (1957)

Star Theatre (1901)

This Is Cinerama (1952)

Where Are My Children? (1916)

Star Wars (1977)

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

White Heat (1949)

Steamboat Willie (1928)

Three Little Pigs (1933)

Why Man Creates (1968)

The Sting (1973)

Through Navajo Eyes

Why We Fight (series) (1943-45)

Stormy Weather (1943)

(series) (1966)

Wild and Woolly (1917)

Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

A Time for Burning (1966)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

A Time out of War (1954)

Wild River (1960)

The Strong Man (1926)

Tin Toy (1988)

Will Success Spoil Rock

Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

To Be or Not To Be (1942)

Hunter? (1957)

Sunrise (1927)

To Fly (1976)

The Wind (1928)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Wings (1927)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Tol’able David (1921)

Within Our Gates (1920)

Swing Time (1936)

Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)

(1969-71)

Woman of the Year (1942)

Tabu (1931)

Tootsie (1982)

A Woman Under the

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Top Hat (1935)

Influence (1974)

Collapse (1940)

Topaz (1945)

The Women (1939)

The Tall T (1957)

Touch of Evil (1958)

Woodstock (1970)

Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

Toy Story (1995)

Wuthering Heights (1939)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Traffic in Souls (1913)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)

Trance and Dance in Bali (1952)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Treasure of the Sierra

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Tess of the Storm Country (1914)

Madre (1948)

Zapruder Film of Kennedy

Tevye (1939)

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Assassination (1963)

Theodore Case Sound Test:

Tulips Shall Grow (1942)

 

Worldwide Top-Grossing Films (Actual US Dollars)

10

Jurassic Park

1993

11

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005

12

Spider-Man 3

2007

13

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2002

14

The Lord of the Rings:

2001

 

The Fellowship of the Ring

 

15

Finding Nemo

2003

16

Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of

2005

 

the Sit

 

17

Spider-Man

2002

18

Independence Day

1996

19

Shrek the Third

2007

20

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

1982

1

Titanic

1997

2

The Lord of the Rings:

2003

 

The Return of the King

 

3

Pirates of the Caribbean:

2006

 

Dead Man’s Chest

 

4

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

2001

5

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s

2007

 

End

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6

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2007

7

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002

8

Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom

1999

 

Menace

9

Shrek 2

2004

Top US Video Rentals and Sales, 2007

Data reflect DVD rentals and sales.

 

rentals

sales

1

The Departed

Transformers

2

The Pursuit of Happyness

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

3

Blood Diamond

Happy Feet

4

Shooter

Shrek the Third

5

Wild Hogs

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

6

Night at the Museum

300

 

rentals

sales

7

Deja Vu

Ratatouille

8

The Guardian

Night at the Museum

9

Premonition

Spider-Man 3

10

The Illusionist

The Departed

11

Casino Royale

The Bourne Ultimatum

12

The Holiday

Wild Hogs

13

Ghost Rider

Planet Earth (The Complete Series)

14

Knocked Up

Open Season

15

The Good Shepherd

The Simpsons Movie

16

The Prestige

Live Free or Die Hard

17

Norbit

Superbad

18

Because I Said So

Casino Royale

19

Stranger than Fiction

Knocked Up

20

Man of the Year

The Pursuit of Happyness

US Top-Grossing Films in Constant US Dollars (Estimated)

Admissions—the number of tickets sold to a movie—tell a different story from the raw dollars earned. While recent films have made hundreds of millions of dollars, only 2 of the top 10 films in terms of attendance were released after 1980. Includes reissues. Source: Exhibitor Relations Co., Inc.

 

 

admissions

2008 us dollars actual us dollars

1

Gone with the Wind (1939)

202,044,600

1,430,476,000

198,676,459

2

Star Wars (1977)

178,119,600

1,261,086,000

460,998,007

3

The Sound of Music (1965)

142,415,400

1,008,300,000

158,671,368

4

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

141,854,300

1,004,328,000

434,949,459

5

The Ten Commandments (1956)

131,000,000

927,480,000

65,500,000

6

Titanic (1997)

128,345,900

908,688,000

600,788,188

7

Jaws (1975)

128,078,800

906,798,000

260,000,000

8

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

124,135,500

878,879,000

111,721,910

9

The Exorcist (1973)

110,568,700

782,826,000

232,671,011

10

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

109,000,000

771,720,000

178,028,683

US Top-Grossing Film Openings

As of 20 Jul 2008. Table lists the largest box-office receipts over the first three days of theatrical release in the United States.

 

actual us dollars

 

actual us dollars

1

The Dark Knight (2008)

158,411,483

12

Iron Man (2008)

98,618,668

2

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

151,116,516

13

Harry Potter and the Prisoner

93,687,367

3

Pirates of the Caribbean:

135,634,554

 

of Azkaban (2004)

 

 

Dead Man’s Chest (2006)

 

14

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

91,774,413

4

Shrek the Third (2007)

121,629,270

15

Harry Potter and the

90,294,621

5

Spider-Man (2002)

114,844,116

Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

 

6

Pirates of the Caribbean:

114,732,820

16

Harry Potter and the Chamber

88,357,488

 

At World’s End (2007)

 

 

of Secrets (2002)

 

7

Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge

108,45,841

17

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

88156,227

 

of the Sith (2005)

 

18

X2: X-Men United (2003)

85,558,731

8

Shrek 2 (2004)

108,037,878

19

The Passion of the Christ

83,848,082

9

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

102,750,665

 

(2004)

 

10

Harry Potter and the Goblet

02,335,066

20

Star Wars: Episode II—Attack

80,027,814

 

of Fire (2005

 

 

of the Clones (2002)

 

11

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

100,137,835

 

 

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