indicated by an asterisk (*)
1927/28 (1st) OUTSTANDING PICTURE *
Paramount Famous Lasky -- Wings
1928/29 (2nd) OUTSTANDING PICTURE * Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -- The Broadway Melody [NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners (*) were revealed during the awards banquet on April 3, 1930.] 1929/30 (3rd) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION *
All Quiet on the Western Front -- Universal
1930/31 (4th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION *
Cimarron -- RKO Radio
1931/32 (5th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION *
Grand Hotel -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1932/33 (6th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION *
Cavalcade -- Fox
1934 (7th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION *
It Happened One Night -- Columbia
1935 (8th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION *
Mutiny on the Bounty -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1936 (9th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION *
The Great Ziegfeld -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1937 (10th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION *
The Life of Emile Zola -- Warner Bros.
1938 (11th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION *
You Can't Take It with You -- Columbia
1939 (12th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION *
Gone with the Wind -- Selznick International Pictures
1940 (13th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION *
Rebecca -- Selznick International Pictures
1941 (14th) OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE *
How Green Was My Valley -- 20th Century-Fox
1942 (15th) OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE *
Mrs. Miniver -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1943 (16th) OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE *
Casablanca -- Warner Bros.
1944 (17th) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
Going My Way -- Paramount
1945 (18th) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
The Lost Weekend -- Paramount
1946 (19th) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
The Best Years of Our Lives -- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
1947 (20th) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
Gentleman's Agreement -- 20th Century-Fox
1948 (21st) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
Hamlet -- J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
1949 (22nd) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
All the King's Men -- Robert Rossen Productions
1950 (23rd) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
All about Eve -- 20th Century-Fox
1951 (24th) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
An American in Paris -- Arthur Freed, Producer
1952 (25th) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
The Greatest Show on Earth -- Cecil B. DeMille, Producer
1953 (26th) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
From Here to Eternity -- Buddy Adler, Producer
1954 (27th) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
On the Waterfront -- Sam Spiegel, Producer
1955 (28th)
BEST MOTION PICTURE *
Marty -- Harold Hecht, Producer
1956 (29th) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
Around the World in 80 Days -- Michael Todd, Producer
1957 (30th) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
The Bridge on the River Kwai -- Sam Spiegel, Producer
1958 (31st) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
Gigi -- Arthur Freed, Producer
1959 (32nd) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
Ben-Hur -- Sam Zimbalist, Producer
1960 (33rd) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
The Apartment -- Billy Wilder, Producer
1961 (34th) BEST MOTION PICTURE *
West Side Story -- Robert Wise, Producer
1962 (35th) BEST PICTURE *
Lawrence of Arabia -- Sam Spiegel, Producer
1963 (36th) BEST PICTURE *
Tom Jones -- Tony Richardson, Producer
1964 (37th) BEST PICTURE *
My Fair Lady -- Jack L. Warner, Producer
1965 (38th) BEST PICTURE *
The Sound of Music -- Robert Wise, Producer
1966 (39th) BEST PICTURE *
A Man for All Seasons -- Fred Zinnemann, Producer
1967 (40th) BEST PICTURE *
In the Heat of the Night -- Walter Mirisch, Producer
1968 (41st) BEST PICTURE *
Oliver! -- John Woolf, Producer
1969 (42nd) BEST PICTURE *
Midnight Cowboy -- Jerome Hellman, Producer
1970 (43rd) BEST PICTURE *
Patton -- Frank McCarthy, Producer
1971 (44th) BEST PICTURE *
The French Connection -- Philip D'Antoni, Producer
1972 (45th) BEST PICTURE *
The Godfather -- Albert S. Ruddy, Producer
1973 (46th) BEST PICTURE *
The Sting -- Tony Bill, Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, Producers
1974 (47th) BEST PICTURE * 1975 (48th) BEST PICTURE *
The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola, Producer; Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos, Co-Producers
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas, Producers
1976 (49th) BEST PICTURE *
Rocky -- Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers
1977 (50th) BEST PICTURE *
Annie Hall -- Charles H. Joffe, Producer
1978 (51st) BEST PICTURE *
The Deer Hunter Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall, Producers
1979 (52nd) BEST PICTURE *
Kramer vs. Kramer -- Stanley R. Jaffe, Producer
1980 (53rd) BEST PICTURE *
Ordinary People -- Ronald L. Schwary, Producer
1981 (54th) BEST PICTURE *
Chariots of Fire -- David Puttnam, Producer
1982 (55th) BEST PICTURE *
Gandhi -- Richard Attenborough, Producer
1983 (56th) BEST PICTURE
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Terms of Endearment -- James L. Brooks, Producer
1984 (57th) BEST PICTURE *
Amadeus -- Saul Zaentz, Producer
1985 (58th) BEST PICTURE *
Out of Africa -- Sydney Pollack, Producer
1986 (59th) BEST PICTURE *
Platoon -- Arnold Kopelson, Producer
1987 (60th) BEST PICTURE *
The Last Emperor -- Jeremy Thomas, Producer
1988 (61st) BEST PICTURE *
Rain Man -- Mark Johnson, Producer
1989 (62nd) BEST PICTURE * 1990 (63rd) BEST PICTURE * 1991 (64th) BEST PICTURE * 1992 (65th) BEST PICTURE * 1993 (66th) BEST PICTURE * 1994 (67th) BEST PICTURE *
Driving Miss Daisy Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck, Producers
Dances With Wolves Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner, Producers
The Silence of the Lambs Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt and Ron Bozman, Producers
Unforgiven -- Clint Eastwood, Producer
Schindler's List Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig, Producers
Forrest Gump – - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey, Producers
1995 (68th) BEST PICTURE *
Braveheart -- Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr. and Bruce Davey, Producers
1996 (69th) BEST PICTURE *
The English Patient -- Saul Zaentz, Producer
1997 (70th) BEST PICTURE *
Titanic -- James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
1998 (71st) BEST PICTURE * Shakespeare in Love David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman, Producers 1999 (72nd) BEST PICTURE *
American Beauty -- Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, Producers
2000 (73rd) BEST PICTURE *
Gladiator -- Douglas Wick, David Franzoni and Branko Lustig, Producers
2001 (74th) BEST PICTURE *
A Beautiful Mind -- Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, Producers
2002 (75th) BEST PICTURE *
Chicago -- Martin Richards, Producer
2003 (76th) BEST PICTURE * 2004 (77th) BEST PICTURE * 2005 (78th) BEST PICTURE *
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Producers
Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg, Producers
Crash Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers