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- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRoy ScheiderRobert ShawRichard DreyfussWhen a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.3 Wins: Best Original Music Score, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing.
1 Nod: Best Picture. - DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.8 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actress (Leigh), Best Supporting Actress (McDaniel), Best Director (Fleming), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design.
5 Nods: Best Actor (Gable), Best Supporting Actress (de Havilland), Best Original Music Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects. - DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob GuntonOver the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.7 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Freeman), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Musical Score, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.11 Wins: Best Picture, Best Director (Cameron), Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Original Song ("My Heart Will Go On").
3 Nods: Best Actress (Winslet), Best Supporting Actress (Stuart), Best Makeup. - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksRobin WrightGary SiniseThe history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.6 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Hanks), Best Director (Zemeckis), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects.
7 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Sinise), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Makeup, Best Original Music Score. - DirectorJohn MaddenStarsGwyneth PaltrowJoseph FiennesGeoffrey RushThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.7 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actress (Paltrow), Best Supporting Actress (Dench), Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Original Comedy Music Score.
6 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Rush), Best Director (Madden), Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup. - DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsNicole KidmanEwan McGregorJohn LeguizamoA poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.2 Wins: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design.
6 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actress (Kidman), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, Best Sound. - DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.5 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Spacey), Best Director (Mendes), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography.
3 Nods: Best Actress (Bening), Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score. - DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael BerrymanIn the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.5 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Nicholson), Best Actress (Fletcher), Best Director (Forman), Best Adapted Screenplay.
4 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Dourif), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Music Score. - DirectorRob MarshallStarsRenée ZellwegerCatherine Zeta-JonesRichard GereTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.6 Wins: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Zeta-Jones), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Sound.
7 Nods: Best Actress (Zellweger), Best Supporting Actor (Reilly), Best Supporting Actress (Latifah), Best Director (Marshall), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Song ("I Move On"). - DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsMichael KeatonZach GalifianakisEdward NortonA washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.4 Wins: Best Picture, Best Director (González Iñárritu), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography.
5 Nods: Best Actor (Keaton), Best Supporting Actor (Norton), Best Supporting Actress (Stone), Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing. - DirectorRidley ScottStarsRussell CroweJoaquin PhoenixConnie NielsenA former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.5 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Crowe), Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects.
7 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Phoenix), Best Director (Scott), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration. - DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTom HanksMichael Clarke DuncanDavid MorseA tale set on death row, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the lead guard, Paul Edgecombe, recognizes John's gift, he tries to help stave off the condemned man's execution.4 Nods: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Clarke Duncan), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsBruce WillisHaley Joel OsmentToni ColletteMalcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.6 Nods: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Osment), Best Supporting Actress (Collette), Best Director (Night Shyamalan), Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing.
- DirectorPaul HaggisStarsDon CheadleSandra BullockThandiwe NewtonLos Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.3 Wins: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing.
3 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Dillon), Best Director (Haggis), Best Original Song ("In the Deep"). - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsSean PennTim RobbinsKevin BaconThe tragic murder of a 19-year-old girl reunites three childhood friends still living in Boston--the victim's gangster father, a detective, and the disturbed man they both suspect of killing her.2 Wins: Best Actor (Penn), Best Supporting Actor (Robbins).
4 Nods: Best Picture, Best Supporting (Harden), Best Director (Eastwood), Best Adapted Screenplay. - DirectorDavid FincherStarsBen AffleckRosamund PikeNeil Patrick HarrisWith his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.1 Nod: Best Actress (Pike).
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.4 Nods: Best Picture, Best Director (Kubrick), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.5 Wins: Best Director (Spielberg), Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing.
6 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Hanks), Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Makeup, Best Original Dramatic Score. - DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott GlennA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.5 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Foster), Best Director (Demme), Best Adapted Screenplay.
2 Nods: Best Sound, Best Film Editing. - DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsMorgan FreemanJessica TandyDan AykroydAn old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.4 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actress (Tandy), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Makeup.
5 Nods: Best Actor (Freeman), Best Supporting Actor (Aykroyd), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing. - DirectorJon AvnetStarsKathy BatesJessica TandyMary Stuart MastersonEvelyn, an ordinary housewife, visits a nursing home and befriends the old lady Ninny. Together, they bond over stories from the past about two intrepid women of Whistle Stop Cafe.2 Nods: Best Supporting Actress (Tandy), Best Adapted Screenplay.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsEllen BurstynJared LetoJennifer ConnellyThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..1 Nod: Best Actress (Burstyn).
- DirectorMel GibsonStarsMel GibsonSophie MarceauPatrick McGoohanScottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.5 Wins: Best Picture, Best Director (Gibson), Best Cinematography, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Makeup.
5 Nods: Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score. - DirectorNicholas RayStarsJames DeanNatalie WoodSal MineoA rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.3 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Mineo), Best Supporting Actress (Wood), Best Screenplay Writing.
- DirectorRandal KleiserStarsJohn TravoltaOlivia Newton-JohnStockard ChanningGood girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?1 Nod: Best Original Song ("Hopelessly Devoted To You").
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.3 Wins: Best Picture, Best Director (Curtiz), Best Writing.
5 Nods: Best Actor (Bogart), Best Supporting Actor (Rains), Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Musical Score. - DirectorKimberly PeirceStarsHilary SwankChloë SevignyPeter SarsgaardA young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.1 Win: Best Actress (Swank).
1 Nod: Best Supporting Actress (Sevigny). - DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsNatalie PortmanMila KunisVincent CasselNina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.1 Win: Best Actress (Portman).
4 Nods: Best Picture, Best Director (Aronofsky), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing. - DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.3 Wins: Best Original Song ("Over the Rainbow"), Best Original Music Score, Juvenile Award (Garland).
4 Nods: Best Picture, Best Color Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Special Effects. - DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.2 Nods: Best Supporting Actress (Hagen), Best Musical Score.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge SandersA seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.6 Wins: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Sanders), Best Director (Mankiewicz), Best Screenplay Writing, Best Black-and-White Costume Design, Best Sound Recording.
8 Nods: Best Actress (Davis), Best Actress (Baxter), Best Supporting Actress (Ritter), Best Supporting Actress (Holm), Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score. - DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBette DavisOlivia de HavillandJoseph CottenAn aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.7 Nods: Best Supporting Actress (Moorehead), Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Black-and-White Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Song ("Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte"), Best Substantially Original Music Score.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.1 Win: Best Original Screenplay.
6 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Travolta), Best Supporting Actor (Jackson), Best Supporting Actress (Thurman), Best Director (Tarantino), Best Film Editing. - DirectorGary TrousdaleKirk WiseStarsPaige O'HaraRobby BensonJesse CortiA prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love.2 Wins: Best Original Music Score, Best Original Song ("Beauty and the Beast").
4 Nods: Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Original Song ("Belle"), Best Original Song ("Be Our Guest"). - DirectorRon ClementsJohn MuskerStarsScott WeingerRobin WilliamsLinda LarkinA kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.2 Wins: Best Original Music Score, Best Original Song ("A Whole New World").
3 Nods: Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Original Song ("Friend Like Me"). - DirectorRon ClementsJohn MuskerStarsJodi BensonSamuel E. WrightRene AuberjonoisA mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.2 Wins: Best Original Music Score, Best Original Song ("Under the Sea").
1 Nod: Best Original Song ("Kiss the Girl"). - DirectorRoger AllersRob MinkoffStarsMatthew BroderickJeremy IronsJames Earl JonesLion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.2 Wins: Best Original Music Score, Best Original Song ("Can You Feel the Love Tonight").
2 Nods: Best Original Song ("Circle of Life"), Best Original Song ("Hakuna Matata"). - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsBrad PittDiane KrugerEli RothIn Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.1 Win: Best Supporting Actor (Waltz).
7 Nods: Best Picture, Best Director (Tarantino), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing. - DirectorRobert WiseStarsJulie AndrewsChristopher PlummerEleanor ParkerA young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.5 Wins: Best Picture, Best Director (Wise), Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Musical Score.
5 Nods: Best Actress (Andrews), Best Supporting Actress (Wood), Best Color Cinematography, Best Color Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Color Costume Design. - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.4 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Foster), Best Original Music Score.
- DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.5 Wins: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Walken), Best Director (Cimino), Best Sound, Best Film Editing.
4 Nods: Best Actor (De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Streep), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography. - DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'1 Win: Best Original Screenplay.
8 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Welles), Best Director (Welles), Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Sound Recording, Best Film Editing, Best Dramatic Music Score. - DirectorJames MangoldStarsRussell CroweChristian BaleBen FosterA small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.2 Nods: Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan FreemanRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."4 Wins: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Hackman), Best Director (Eastwood), Best Film Editing.
5 Nods: Best Actor (Eastwood), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Sound. - DirectorAdrian LyneStarsMichael DouglasGlenn CloseAnne ArcherA married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.6 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actress (Close), Best Supporting Actress (Archer), Best Director (Lyne), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsMichael DouglasSharon StoneGeorge DzundzaA violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.2 Nods: Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.7 Wins: Best Picture, Best Director (Spielberg), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score.
5 Nods: Best Actor (Neeson), Best Supporting Actor (Fiennes), Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Makeup. - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsAudrey HepburnRex HarrisonStanley HollowayIn 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.8 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Harrison), Best Director (Cukor), Best Color Cinematography, Best Color Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Color Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Musical Score.
4 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Holloway), Best Supporting Actress (Cooper), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing. - DirectorJerome RobbinsRobert WiseStarsNatalie WoodGeorge ChakirisRichard BeymerTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.10 Wins: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Chakiris), Best Supporting Actress (Moreno), Best Director (Wise/Robbins), Best Color Cinematography, Best Color Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Color Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Musical Score.
1 Nod: Best Adapted Screenplay. - DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsAudrey HepburnGeorge PeppardPatricia NealA young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.2 Wins: Best Original Song ("Moon River"), Best Musical Score.
3 Nods: Best Actress (Hepburn), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Color Art Direction-Set Decoration. - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGregory PeckAudrey HepburnEddie AlbertA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.3 Wins: Best Actress (Hepburn), Best Screenplay Writing, Best Black-and-White Costume Design.
7 Nods: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Albert), Best Director (Wyler), Best Screenplay Writing, Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Film Editing. - DirectorBilly WilderStarsHumphrey BogartAudrey HepburnWilliam HoldenA playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.1 Win: Best Black-and-White Costume Design.
5 Nods: Best Actress (Hepburn), Best Director (Wilder), Best Screenplay Writing, Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration. - DirectorStanley DonenStarsAudrey HepburnFred AstaireKay ThompsonAn impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.4 Nods: Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsBrad PittAnthony HopkinsAidan QuinnIn the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.1 Win: Best Cinematography.
2 Nods: Best Sound, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration. - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsHilary SwankClint EastwoodMorgan FreemanFrankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.4 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actress (Swank), Best Supporting Actor (Freeman), Best Director (Eastwood).
3 Nods: Best Actor (Eastwood), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing. - DirectorPatty JenkinsStarsCharlize TheronChristina RicciBruce DernBased on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.1 Win: Best Actress (Theron).
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.6 Wins: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (De Niro), Best Director (Ford Coppola), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Original Dramatic Score.
5 Nods: Best Actor (Pacino), Best Supporting Actor (Gazzo), Best Supporting Actor (Strasberg), Best Supporting Actress (Shire), Best Costume Design. - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroSharon StoneJoe PesciIn Las Vegas, two best friends - a casino executive and a mafia enforcer - compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.1 Nod: Best Actress (Stone).
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJohn WayneKim DarbyGlen CampbellA drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.1 Win: Best Actor (Wayne).
1 Nod: Best Original Song ("True Grit"). - DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsJeff BridgesMatt DamonHailee SteinfeldA stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.10 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Bridges), Best Supporting Actress (Steinfeld), Best Director (Coen/Coen), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Art Direction.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczRouben MamoulianStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonRex HarrisonQueen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.4 Wins: Best Color Cinematography, Best Color Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Color Costume Design, Best Visual Effects.
5 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Harrison), Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Substantially Original Music Score. - DirectorElia KazanStarsVivien LeighMarlon BrandoKim HunterDisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.4 Wins: Best Actress (Leigh), Best Supporting Actor (Malden), Best Supporting Actress (Hunter), Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration.
8 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando), Best Director (Kazan), Best Screenplay Writing, Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Best Black-and-White Costume Design, Best Sound Recording, Best Musical Scoring. - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHenry FondaGeorge BrentIn 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.2 Wins: Best Actress (Davis), Best Supporting Actress (Bainter).
3 Nods: Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Scoring. - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude RainsA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.1 Win: Best Original Story.
10 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Stewart), Best Supporting Actor (Carey), Best Supporting Actor (Rains), Best Director (Capra), Best Screenplay Writing, Best Art Direction, Best Sound Recording, Best Film Editing, Best Musical Scoring. - DirectorSam WoodSidney FranklinStarsRobert DonatGreer GarsonTerry KilburnAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.1 Win: Best Actor (Donat).
6 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actress (Garson), Best Director (Wood), Best Screenplay Writing, Best Sound Recording, Best Film Editing. - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.5 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Stewart), Best Director (Capra), Best Sound Recording, Best Film Editing.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel BarrymoreThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.2 Wins: Best Picture, Best Director (Capra).
5 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Byington), Best Screenplay Writing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Recording, Best Film Editing. - DirectorW.S. Van DykeJulien DuvivierStarsNorma ShearerTyrone PowerJohn BarrymoreThe tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.4 Nods: Best Actress (Shearer), Best Supporting Actor (Morley), Best Art Direction, Best Original Music Score.
- DirectorRobert BentonStarsDustin HoffmanMeryl StreepJane AlexanderAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.5 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Hoffman), Best Actress (Streep), Best Director (Benton), Best Adapted Screenplay.
4 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Henry), Best Supporting Actress (Alexander), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing. - DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonTony RobertsAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.4 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actress (Keaton), Best Director (Allen), Best Original Screenplay.
1 Nod: Best Actor (Allen). - DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsShirley MacLaineDebra WingerJack NicholsonFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.5 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actress (MacLaine), Best Supporting Actor (Nicholson), Best Director (Brooks), Best Adapted Screenplay.
6 Nods: Best Actress (Winger), Best Supporting Actor (Lithgow), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score. - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMerle OberonLaurence OlivierDavid NivenA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.1 Win: Best Black-and-White Cinematography.
7 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Olivier), Best Supporting Actress (Fitzgerald), Best Director (Wyler), Best Screenplay Writing, Best Art Direction, Best Original Music Score. - DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsLeonard WhitingOlivia HusseyJohn McEneryWhen two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.2 Wins: Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design.
2 Nods: Best Picture, Best Director (Zeffirelli) - DirectorHugh HudsonStarsBen CrossIan CharlesonNicholas FarrellTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.4 Wins: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Original Music Score.
3 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Holm), Best Director (Hudson), Best Film Editing. - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsCharlton HestonJack HawkinsStephen BoydAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.11 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Heston), Best Supporting Actor (Griffith), Best Director (Wyler), Best Color Cinematography, Best Color Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Color Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Special Effects, Best Musical Scoring.
1 Nod: Best Adapted Screenplay. - DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio CantariniWhen an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.3 Wins: Best Actor (Benigni), Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Foreign Language Film.
4 Nods: Best Picture, Best Director (Benigni), Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing. - DirectorWoody AllenStarsCate BlanchettAlec BaldwinPeter SarsgaardA New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks like a million dollars but isn't bringing money, peace or love.1 Win: Best Actress (Blanchett).
2 Nods: Best Supporting Actress (Hawkins), Best Director (Allen). - DirectorShekhar KapurStarsCate BlanchettLiz GilesRod CulbertsonThe early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.1 Win: Best Makeup.
6 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actress (Blanchett), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score. - DirectorStephen DaldryStarsKate WinsletRalph FiennesBruno GanzPost-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.1 Win: Best Actress (Winslet).
4 Nods: Best Picture, Best Director (Daldry), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography. - DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsDustin HoffmanTom CruiseValeria GolinoAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.4 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Hoffman), Best Director (Levinson), Best Original Screenplay.
4 Nods: Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score. - DirectorCameron CroweStarsTom CruiseCuba Gooding Jr.Renée ZellwegerWhen a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.1 Win: Best Supporting Actor (Gooding Jr.).
4 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Cruise), Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing. - DirectorSam MendesStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletChristopher FitzgeraldA young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.3 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Shannon), Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.7 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Guinness), Best Director (Lean), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Musical Scoring.
1 Nod: Best Supporting Actor (Hayakawa). - DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsGene HackmanRoy ScheiderFernando ReyA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.5 Wins: Best Picture, Best Actor (Hackman), Best Director (Friedkin), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing.
3 Nods: Best Supporting Actor (Scheider), Best Cinematography, Best Sound. - DirectorAndrew StantonStarsBen BurttElissa KnightJeff GarlinIn the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.1 Win: Best Animated Film.
5 Nods: Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song ("Down to Earth"), Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing. - DirectorPete DocterDavid SilvermanLee UnkrichStarsBilly CrystalJohn GoodmanMary GibbsIn order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, two monsters realize things may not be what they think.1 Win: Best Original Song ("If I Didn't Have You").
3 Nods: Best Animated Film, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing. - DirectorAndrew AdamsonVicky JensonStarsMike MyersEddie MurphyCameron DiazA mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back.1 Win: Best Animated Film.
1 Nod: Best Adapted Screenplay. - DirectorLes ClarkClyde GeronimiEric LarsonStarsMary CostaBill ShirleyEleanor AudleyAfter being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.1 Nod: Best Musical Scoring.
- DirectorWilliam CottrellDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsAdriana CaselottiHarry StockwellLucille La VerneExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.1 Win: Honorary Award (Disney).
1 Nod: Best Music Score. - DirectorSamuel ArmstrongNorman FergusonWilfred JacksonStarsSterling HollowayEdward BrophyHerman BingRidiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.1 Win: Best Musical Scoring.
1 Nod: Best Original Song ("Baby Mine"). - DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsEllen BurstynMax von SydowLinda BlairWhen a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.2 Wins: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound.
8 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actress (Burstyn), Best Supporting Actor (Miller), Best Supporting Actress (Blair), Best Director (Friedkin), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Film Editing. - DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsMickey RourkeMarisa TomeiEvan Rachel WoodA faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.2 Nods: Best Actor (Rourke), Best Supporting Actress (Tomei).
- DirectorTodd FieldStarsTom WilkinsonSissy SpacekNick StahlA New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.5 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Wilkinson), Best Actress (Spacek), Best Supporting Actress (Tomei), Best Adapted Screenplay.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsGregory PeckSusan HaywardRaymond MasseyAfter King David sees the beautiful Bathsheba bathing from the palace roof, he enters into an adulterous affair which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.5 Nods: Best Story and Screenplay Writing, Best Color Cinematography, Best Color Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Color Costume Design, Best Musical Scoring.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsHedy LamarrVictor MatureGeorge SandersWhen strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.2 Wins: Best Color Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Color Costume Design.
3 Nods: Best Color Cinematography, Best Special Effects, Best Musical Scoring. - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMontgomery CliftElizabeth TaylorShelley WintersA poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.6 Wins: Best Director (Stevens), Best Screenplay Writing, Best Black-and-White Cinematography, Best Black-and-White Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Musical Scoring.
3 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Clift), Best Actress (Winters). - DirectorCurtis BernhardtBusby BerkeleyStarsJane WymanCharles LaughtonJoan BlondellLouise Mason is a young widow who fills her empty life with the task of becoming a children's nurse. As the years pass, and the widow tries to find her own place in life, her young charges, the children of various employers, grow and soon find themselves ready to face the world. When it seems that she will be alone, the nurse finds that her 'children' have ideas of their own in regards to helping their beloved mentor.2 Nods: Best Actress (Wyman), Best Supporting Actress (Blondell).
- DirectorAnthony AsquithLeslie HowardStarsLeslie HowardWendy HillerWilfrid LawsonA phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.1 Win: Best Screenplay Writing.
3 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Howard), Best Actress (Hiller). - DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineAn Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.2 Wins: Best Supporting Actress (Darwell), Best Director (Ford).
5 Nods: Best Picture, Best Actor (Fonda), Best Screenplay Writing, Best Sound Recording, Best Film Editing.