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Best Picture Dossier

The Academy Awards top category, built as a living historical file: every winner, every ceremony trail, and the films that keep pulling readers deeper into the ledger.

Latest Winner One Battle after Another
Span 1927/28-2025
Nominations 621
Ceremonies 98

One Battle after Another

Most recent winning record: 98th ceremony (2025). Adam Somner | Sara Murphy | Paul Thomas Anderson

One Battle after Another poster Latest winner

2025Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers

Best Picture Through the Eras

98 ceremonies, 98 winners, 523 other nominees across the full Academy Awards span. Fast view shows every winner and keeps older nominee trails linked through each ceremony ledger.

One Battle after Another poster

2020s

2025 98th Ceremony
Winner

One Battle after Another

Adam Somner | Sara Murphy | Paul Thomas Anderson

9 other nominees
2024 97th Ceremony
Winner

Anora

Alex Coco | Samantha Quan | Sean Baker

9 other nominees
2023 96th Ceremony
Winner

Oppenheimer

Emma Thomas | Charles Roven | Christopher Nolan

9 other nominees
2022 95th Ceremony
Winner

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Kwan | Daniel Scheinert | Jonathan Wang

9 other nominees
2021 94th Ceremony
Winner

CODA

Philippe Rousselet | Fabrice Gianfermi | Patrick Wachsberger

9 other nominees
2020 93rd Ceremony
Winner

Nomadland

Frances McDormand | Peter Spears | Mollye Asher | Dan Janvey | Chloé Zhao

7 other nominees
Parasite poster

2010s

2019 92nd Ceremony
Winner

Parasite

Kwak Sin Ae | Bong Joon Ho

Craft Credits Kwak Sin Ae Bong Joon Ho
8 other nominees
2018 91st Ceremony
Winner

Green Book

Jim Burke | Charles B. Wessler | Brian Currie | Peter Farrelly | Nick Vallelonga

7 other nominees
2017 90th Ceremony
Winner

The Shape of Water

Guillermo del Toro | J. Miles Dale

8 other nominees
2016 89th Ceremony
Winner

Moonlight

Adele Romanski | Dede Gardner | Jeremy Kleiner

8 other nominees
2015 88th Ceremony
Winner

Spotlight

Michael Sugar | Steve Golin | Nicole Rocklin | Blye Pagon Faust

7 other nominees
2014 87th Ceremony
Winner

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Alejandro G. Iñárritu | John Lesher | James W. Skotchdopole

7 other nominees
The Hurt Locker poster

2000s

American Beauty poster

1990s

Driving Miss Daisy poster

1980s

Kramer vs. Kramer poster

1970s

Midnight Cowboy poster

1960s

Ben-Hur poster

1950s

All the King's Men poster

1940s

Gone with the Wind poster

1930s

All Quiet on the Western Front poster

1920s

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