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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. Full nominee trails are loaded for every ceremony.

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
2013 86th Ceremony
Winner

12 Years a Slave

Brad Pitt | Dede Gardner | Jeremy Kleiner | Steve McQueen | Anthony Katagas

8 other nominees
2012 85th Ceremony
Winner

Argo

Grant Heslov | Ben Affleck | George Clooney

8 other nominees
2011 84th Ceremony
8 other nominees
2010 83rd Ceremony
Winner

The King's Speech

Iain Canning | Emile Sherman | Gareth Unwin

9 other nominees
The Hurt Locker poster

2000s

2009 82nd Ceremony
Winner

The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow | Mark Boal | Nicolas Chartier | Greg Shapiro

9 other nominees
2008 81st Ceremony
4 other nominees
2007 80th Ceremony
Winner

No Country for Old Men

Scott Rudin | Ethan Coen | Joel Coen

4 other nominees
2006 79th Ceremony
4 other nominees
2005 78th Ceremony
Winner

Crash

Paul Haggis | Cathy Schulman

Craft Credits Paul Haggis Cathy Schulman
4 other nominees
2004 77th Ceremony
Winner

Million Dollar Baby

Clint Eastwood | Albert S. Ruddy | Tom Rosenberg

4 other nominees
2003 76th Ceremony
Winner

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Barrie M. Osborne | Peter Jackson | Fran Walsh

4 other nominees
2002 75th Ceremony
4 other nominees
2001 74th Ceremony
Winner

A Beautiful Mind

Brian Grazer | Ron Howard

Craft Credits Brian Grazer Ron Howard
4 other nominees
2000 73rd Ceremony
Winner

Gladiator

Douglas Wick | David Franzoni | Branko Lustig

4 other nominees
American Beauty poster

1990s

1999 72nd Ceremony
Winner

American Beauty

Bruce Cohen | Dan Jinks

Craft Credits Bruce Cohen Dan Jinks
4 other nominees
1998 71st Ceremony
Winner

Shakespeare in Love

David Parfitt | Donna Gigliotti | Harvey Weinstein | Edward Zwick | Marc Norman

4 other nominees
1997 70th Ceremony
Winner

Titanic

James Cameron | Jon Landau

Craft Credits James Cameron Jon Landau
4 other nominees
1995 68th Ceremony
Winner

Braveheart

Mel Gibson | Alan Ladd Jr. | Bruce Davey

4 other nominees
1994 67th Ceremony
Winner

Forrest Gump

Wendy Finerman | Steve Tisch | Steve Starkey

4 other nominees
1993 66th Ceremony
Winner

Schindler's List

Steven Spielberg | Gerald R. Molen | Branko Lustig

4 other nominees
1991 64th Ceremony
Winner

The Silence of the Lambs

Edward Saxon | Kenneth Utt | Ron Bozman

4 other nominees
Driving Miss Daisy poster

1980s

1989 62nd Ceremony
Winner

Driving Miss Daisy

Richard D. Zanuck | Lili Fini Zanuck

4 other nominees
1988 61st Ceremony
4 other nominees
1984 57th Ceremony
4 other nominees
1982 55th Ceremony
Winner

Gandhi

Richard Attenborough

4 other nominees
Kramer vs. Kramer poster

1970s

1979 52nd Ceremony
4 other nominees
1978 51st Ceremony
Winner

The Deer Hunter

Barry Spikings | Michael Deeley | Michael Cimino | John Peverall

4 other nominees
1976 49th Ceremony
Winner

Rocky

Irwin Winkler | Robert Chartoff

4 other nominees
1975 48th Ceremony
Winner

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Saul Zaentz | Michael Douglas

4 other nominees
1974 47th Ceremony
Winner

The Godfather Part II

Francis Ford Coppola | Gray Frederickson | Fred Roos

4 other nominees
1973 46th Ceremony
Winner

The Sting

Tony Bill | Michael Phillips | Julia Phillips

4 other nominees
Midnight Cowboy poster

1960s

Ben-Hur poster

1950s

All the King's Men poster

1940s

1943 16th Ceremony
9 other nominees
1942 15th Ceremony
9 other nominees
1941 14th Ceremony
9 other nominees
1940 13th Ceremony
9 other nominees
Gone with the Wind poster

1930s

1939 12th Ceremony
9 other nominees
1938 11th Ceremony
9 other nominees
1937 10th Ceremony
9 other nominees
1936 9th Ceremony
9 other nominees
1935 8th Ceremony
11 other nominees
1934 7th Ceremony
11 other nominees
1932/33 6th Ceremony
9 other nominees
1931/32 5th Ceremony
7 other nominees
All Quiet on the Western Front poster

1920s

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