Film Year
Best Picture
Academy Award Winners
Director
(* Did not also win Best Director)
Title Screen and
Studio or
Production Company
Should Have Won
(possibly?)
Patton
Franklin J. Schaffner
20th Century Fox
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Little Big Man
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Brewster McCloud
I Never Sang for My Father
The Landlord
Ryan's Daughter
Women in Love
Five Easy
Pieces
or
M*A*S*H
The Godfather Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
Paramount
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Parallax View
Thieves Like Us
Day for Night
Chinatown
Rocky
John G. Avildsen
United Artists
The Front
Carrie
The Last Tycoon
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Robin and Marian
Network
or
All The President's Men
or
Taxi Driver
Chariots of Fire
Hugh Hudson*
The Ladd Co./Warner Bros.
Absence of Malice
Blow Out
Body Heat
Cutter's Way
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Gallipoli
Mommie Dearest
Pennies From Heaven
Ragtime
Reds
or
Raiders of the Lost Ark
or
On Golden Pond
or
Atlantic City
Terms
of Endearment
James L. Brooks
Paramount
Local Hero
A Christmas Story
The Right Stuff
or
The Big Chill
or
Tender Mercies
or
Scarface
Amadeus
Milos Forman
Orion
This is Spinal Tap
Blood Simple
The Killing Fields
or
Once Upon a Time in America
Out of Africa
Sydney Pollack
Universal
Brazil
Ran
Silverado
Brazil
or
The Color Purple
Platoon
Oliver Stone
Orion
'Round Midnight
Salvador
Sid and Nancy
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci
Columbia
Empire of the Sun
House of Games
Empire of the Sun
or
Full Metal Jacket
or
Hope and Glory
Rain Man
Barry Levinson
United Artists
A World Apart
Talk Radio
The Accused
Big
Bird
Bull Durham
A Cry in the Dark
Dominick and Eugene
Hairspray
The Last Temptation of Christ
Married to the Mob
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Dangerous Liaisons
Driving Miss Daisy
Bruce Beresford*
Warner Bros
Do the Right Thing
Henry V
Glory
Henry V
or
Born on the Fourth of July
or
My Left Foot
or
Do the Right Thing
or
Field of Dreams
Dances with Wolves
Kevin Costner
Orion
Miller's Crossing
GoodFellas
or
Miller's Crossing
The Silence
of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme
Orion
Thelma & Louise
An Angel At My Table
Barton Fink
Boys 'N the Hood
Fried Green Tomatoes
Grand Canyon
My Own Private Idaho
JFK
or
Thelma & Louise
Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood
Warner Bros
Hard-Boiled
Malcolm X
The Player
Zentropa (aka
Europa)
The Crying Game
Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg
Universal/Amblin
Short Cuts
The Piano
or
Groundhog Day
Braveheart
Mel Gibson
Paramount
Dead Man Walking
Leaving Las Vegas
Nixon
The Usual Suspects
Clockers
Sense & Sensibility
Se7en
Toy Story
Apollo 13
or
Toy Story
or
Babe
or
Dead Man Walking
or
The Usual Suspects
The English Patient
Anthony Minghella
Miramax
Sling Blade
Trainspotting
Big Night
The Crucible
Emma
Hamlet
Lone Star
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Fargo
or
Trainspotting
Titanic
James Cameron
Paramount/20th Century Fox
The Wings of the Dove
The Sweet Hereafter
Amistad
Boogie Nights
Grosse Pointe Blank
Jackie Brown
My Best Friend's Wedding
Wag the Dog
Waiting for Guffman
L.A. Confidential
Shakespeare in Love
John Madden*
Miramax
The Truman Show
The Big Lebowski
Gods and Monsters
Pleasantville
Primary Colors
Rushmore
The Thin Red Line
or
Saving Private Ryan
American Beauty
Sam Mendes
DreamWorks
Being John Malkovich
The End of the Affair
Magnolia
The Matrix
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Topsy-Turvy
The Matrix
or
The Insider
or
An Ideal Husband
Gladiator
Ridley Scott*
DreamWorks/Universal
Almost Famous
Billy Elliot
Chicken Run
Pollock
Requiem for a Dream
You Can Count on Me
Cast Away
Wonder Boys
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Traffic
or
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Chicago
Rob Marshall*
Miramax
Adaptation
About Schmidt
Far From Heaven
The Pianist
Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood
Warner Bros.
The Passion of the Christ
Fahrenheit 9/11
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Crash
Paul Haggis*
Lions Gate Entertainment
Memoirs of a Geisha
Walk the Line
Pride & Prejudice
King Kong
The Constant Gardener
Cinderella Man
Brokeback Mountain
or
Good Night, and Good Luck
or
Munich
The Departed
Martin Scorsese
Warner Bros.
Dreamgirls
Pan's Labyrinth
Little Children
Pan's Labyrinth
or
The Queen
or
Letters From Iwo Jima
No Country for Old Men
Joel and Ethan Coen
Miramax/Paramount Vantage
American Gangster
Charlie Wilson's War
Hairspray
Into the Wild
Sweeney Todd
Michael Clayton
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle
Fox Searchlight/Warner Bros.
Changeling
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Revolutionary Road
Wall-E
Frost/Nixon
or
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
or
Waltz with Bashir
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
Summit Entertainment
Star Trek
Invictus
Avatar
The King's Speech
Tom Hooper
The Weinstein Company
The Social Network
or
Inception
Argo
Ben Affleck*
Warner Bros.
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hunger Games
The Master
Lincoln
or
Zero Dark Thirty
or
Life of Pi
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen*
Fox Searchlight
August: Osage County
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lee Daniels' The Butler
Saving Mr. Banks
Gravity
or
American Hustle
or
Her
Birdman
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Fox Searchlight
Into the Woods
Foxcatcher
Unbroken
Gone Girl
Interstellar
The Grand Budapest Hotel
or
Boyhood
or
American Sniper
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy*
Open Road Films
Carol
The Danish Girl
The Hateful Eight
Joy
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Straight Outta Compton
The Revenant
or
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro
Fox Searchlight
I, Tonya
Wonder Woman
Blade Runner 2049
Phantom Thread
or
Lady Bird
Green Book
Peter Farrelly*
Universal
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma
or
Bohemian Rhapsody
or
Black Panther
or
BlacKkKlansman
Parasite
Bong Joon Ho
Neon
The Farewell
The Irishman
or
1917
or
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
Nomadland
Chloe Zhao
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Da 5 Bloods
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
One Night in Miami
Mank
or
Minari
or
The Father
CODA
Sian Heder* (not even nominated for Best
Director)
The Power of the Dog
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
A24
All Quiet on the Western Front
Tár
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan
Universal
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Anora
Sean Baker
Neon
All We Imagine as Light
Challengers
Hard Truths
A Real Pain
Sing Sing
The Brutalist
Nickel Boys
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson
Warner Bros.
Sinners
