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Academy Award Winners

The 1920s

Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress
1927/28 Wings Frank Borzage
(Seventh Heaven)
Emil Jannings
(The Way of All Flesh,
The Last Command)
Janet Gaynor
(Seventh Heaven,
Street Angel, Sunrise)


1928/29 Broadway Melody Frank Lloyd
(The Divine Lady)
Warner Baxter
(In Old Arizona)
Mary Pickford
(Coquette)


1929/30 All Quiet on the Western Front Lewis Milestone
(All Quiet on the Western Front)
George Arliss
(Disraeli)
Norma Shearer
(The Divorcee)



The 1930s

Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress
1930/31 Cimarron Norman Taurog
(Skippy)
Lionel Barrymore
(A Free Soul)
Marie Dressler
(Min and Bill)


1931/32 Grand Hotel Frank Borzage
(Bad Girl)
Fredric March
(Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
Wallace Beery
(The Champ)
Helen Hayes
(The Sins of Madelon Claudet)


1932/33 Cavalcade Frank Lloyd
(Cavalcade)
Charles Laughton
(The Private Life of Henry VIII)
Katharine Hepburn
(Morning Glory)


1934 It Happened One Night Frank Capra
(It Happened One Night)
Clark Gable
(It Happened One Night)
Claudette Colbert
(It Happened One Night)


1935 Mutiny on the Bounty John Ford
(The Informer)
Victor McLaglen
(The Informer)
Bette Davis
(Dangerous)
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
1936 The Great Ziegfeld Frank Capra
(Mr Deeds Goes to Town)
Paul Muni
(The Story of Louis Pasteur)
Luise Rainer
(The Great Ziegfeld)
Walter Brennan
(Come and Get It)
Gale Sondergaard
(Anthony Adverse)
1937 The Life of Emile Zola Leo McCarey
(The Awful Truth)
Spencer Tracy
(Captains Courageous)
Luise Rainer
(The Good Earth)
Joseph Schildkraut
(The Life of Emile Zola)
Alice Brady
(In Old Chicago)
1938 You Can't Take It With You Frank Capra
(You Can't Take It With You)
Spencer Tracy
(Boys Town)
Bette Davis
(Jezebel)
Walter Brennan
(Kentucky)
Fay Bainter
(Jezebel)
1939 Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming
(Gone with the Wind)
Robert Donat
(Goodbye Mr Chips)
Vivien Leigh
(Gone with the Wind)
Thomas Mitchell
(Stagecoach)
Hattie McDaniel
(Gone with the Wind)

The 1940s

Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
1940 Rebecca John Ford
(The Grapes of Wrath)
James Stewart
(The Philadelphia Story)
Ginger Rogers
(Kitty Foyle)
Walter Brennan
(The Westerner)
Jane Darwell
(The Grapes of Wrath)
1941 How Green Was My Valley John Ford
(How Green Was My Valley)
Gary Cooper
(Sergeant York)
Joan Fontaine
(Suspicion)
Donald Crisp
(How Green Was My Valley)
Mary Astor
(The Great Lie)
1942 Mrs Miniver William Wyler
(Mrs Miniver)
James Cagney
(Yankee Doodle Dandy)
Greer Garson
(Mrs Miniver)
Van Heflin
(Johnny Eager)
Teresa Wright
(Mrs Miniver)
1943 Casablanca Michael Curtiz
(Casablanca)
Paul Lukas
(Watch on the Rhine)
Jennifer Jones
(The Song of Bernadette)
Charles Coburn
(The More the Merrier)
Katina Paxinou
(For Whom the Bell Tolls)
1944 Going My Way Leo McCarey
(Going My Way)
Bing Crosby
(Going My Way)
Ingrid Bergman
(Gaslight)
Barry Fitzgerald
(Going My Way)
Ethel Barrymore
(None But the Lonely Heart)
1945 The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder
(The Lost Weekend)
Ray Milland
(The Lost Weekend)
Joan Crawford
(Mildred Pierce)
James Dunn
(A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
Anne Revere
(National Velvet)
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler
(The Best Years of Our Lives)
Fredric March
(The Best Years of Our Lives)
Olivia De Havilland
(To Each His Own)
Harold Russell
(The Best Years of Our Lives)
Anne Baxter
(The Razor's Edge)
1947 Gentleman's Agreement Elia Kazan
(Gentleman's Agreement)
Ronald Colman
(A Double Life)
Loretta Young
(The Farmer's Daughter)
Edmund Gwenn
(Miracle on 34th Street)
Celeste Holm
(Gentleman's Agreement)
1948 Hamlet John Huston
(The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Laurence Olivier
(Hamlet)
Jane Wyman
(Johnny Belinda)
Walter Huston
(The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Claire Trevor
(Key Largo)
1949 All the King's Men Joseph L Mankiewicz
(A Letter to Three Wives)
Broderick Crawford
(All the King's Men)
Olivia De Havilland
(The Heiress)
Dean Jagger
(Twelve O'Clock High)
Mercedes McCambridge
(All the King's Men)

The 1950s

Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
1950 All About Eve Joseph L Mankiewicz
(All About Eve)
Jose Ferrer
(Cyrano de Bergerac)
Judy Holliday
(Born Yesterday)
George Sanders
(All About Eve)
Josephine Hull
(Harvey)
1951 An American in Paris George Stevens
(A Place in the Sun)
Humphrey Bogart
(The African Queen)
Vivian Leigh
(A Streetcar Named Desire)
Karl Malden
(A Streetcar Named Desire)
Kim Hunter
(A Streetcar Named Desire)
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth John Ford
(The Quiet Man)
Gary Cooper
(High Noon)
Shirley Booth
(Come Back, Little Sheba)
Anthony Quinn
(Viva Zapata!)
Gloria Grahame
(The Bad and the Beautiful)
1953 From Here to Eternity Fred Zinnemann
(From Here to Eternity)
William Holden
(Stalag 17)
Audrey Hepburn
(Roman Holiday)
Frank Sinatra
(From Here to Eternity)
Donna Reed
(From Here to Eternity)
1954 On the Waterfront Elia Kazan
(On the Waterfront)
Marlon Brando
(On the Waterfront)
Grace Kelly
(The Country Girl)
Edmond O'Brien
(The Barefoot Contessa)
Eva Marie Saint
(On the Waterfront)
1955 Marty Delbert Mann
(Marty)
Ernest Borgnine
(Marty)
Anna Magnani
(The Rose Tattoo)
Jack Lemmon
(Mister Roberts)
Jo Van Fleet
(East of Eden)
1956 Around the World in 80 Days George Stevens
(Giant)
Yul Brynner
(The King and I)
Ingrid Bergman
(Anastasia)
Anthony Quinn
(Lust for Life)
Dorothy Malone
(Written on the Wind)
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean
(The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Alec Guinness
(The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Joanne Woodward
(The Three Faces of Eve)
Red Buttons
(Sayonara)
Miyoshi Umeki
(Sayonara)
1958 Gigi Vincente Minnelli
(Gigi)
David Niven
(Separate Tables)
Susan Hayward
(I Want to Live)
Burl Ives
(The Big Country)
Wendy Hiller
(Separate Tables)
1959 Ben-Hur William Wyler
(Ben-Hur)
Charlton Heston
(Ben-Hur)
Simone Signoret
(Room at the Top)
Hugh Griffith
(Ben-Hur)
Shelley Winters
(The Diary of Anne Frank)

The 1960s

Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
1960 The Apartment Billy Wilder
(The Apartment)
Burt Lancaster
(Elmer Gantry)
Elizabeth Taylor
(Butterfield 8)
Peter Ustinov
(Spartacus)
Shirley Jones
(Elmer Gantry)
1961 West Side Story Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise
(West Side Story)
Maximilian Schell
(Judgment at Nuremberg)
Sophia Loren
(Two Women)
George Chakiris
(West Side Story)
Rita Moreno
(West Side Story)
1962 Lawrence of Arabia David Lean
(Lawrence of Arabia)
Gregory Peck
(To Kill a Mockingbird)
Anne Bancroft
(The Miracle Worker)
Ed Begley
(Sweet Bird of Youth)
Patty Duke
(The Miracle Worker)
1963 Tom Jones Tony Richardson
(Tom Jones)
Sidney Poitier
(Lilies of the Field)
Patricia Neal
(Hud)
Melvyn Douglas
(Hud)
Margaret Rutherford
(The VIPs)
1964 My Fair Lady George Cukor
(My Fair Lady)
Rex Harrison
(My Fair Lady)
Julie Andrews
(Mary Poppins)
Peter Ustinov
(Topkapi)
Lila Kedrova
(Zorba the Greek)
1965 The Sound of Music Robert Wise
(The Sound of Music)
Lee Marvin
(Cat Ballou)
Julie Christie
(Darling)
Martin Balsam
(A Thousand Clowns)
Shelley Winters
(A Patch of Blue)
1966 A Man for All Seasons Fred Zinnemann
(A Man for All Seasons)
Paul Scofield
(A Man for All Seasons)
Elizabeth Taylor
(Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Walter Matthau
(The Fortune Cookie)
Sandy Dennis
(Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
1967 In the Heat of the Night Mike Nichols
(The Graduate)
Rod Steiger
(In the Heat of the Night)
Katharine Hepburn
(Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
George Kennedy
(Cool Hand Luke)
Estelle Parsons
(Bonnie and Clyde)
1968 Oliver! Carol Reed
(Oliver!)
Cliff Robertson
(Charly)
Katharine Hepburn
(The Lion in Winter)
Barbra Streisand
(Funny Girl)
Jack Albertson
(The Subject was Roses)
Ruth Gordon
(Rosemary's Baby)
1969 Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger
(Midnight Cowboy)
John Wayne
(True Grit)
Maggie Smith
(The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
Gig Young
(They Shoot Horses, Don't They?')
Goldie Hawn
(Cactus Flower)

The 1970s

Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
1970 Patton Franklin Schaffner
(Patton)
George C Scott
(Patton)
Glenda Jackson
(Women in Love)
John Mills
(Ryan's Daughter)
Helen Hayes
(Airport)
1971 The French Connection William Friedkin
(The French Connection)
Gene Hackman
(The French Connection)
Jane Fonda
(Klute)
Ben Johnson
(The Last Picture Show)
Cloris Leachman
(The Last Picture Show)
1972 The Godfather Bob Fosse
(Cabaret)
Marlon Brando
(The Godfather)
Liza Minnelli
(Cabaret)
Joel Grey
(Cabaret)
Eileen Heckart
(Butterflies are Free)
1973 The Sting George Roy Hill
(The Sting)
Jack Lemmon
(Save the Tiger)
Glenda Jackson
(A Touch of Class)
John Houseman
(The Paper Chase)
Tatum O'Neal
(Paper Moon)
1974 The Godfather, Part II Francis Ford Coppola
(The Godfather, Part II)
Art Carney
(Harry and Tonto)
Ellen Burstyn
(Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
Robert De Niro
(The Godfather, Part II)
Ingrid Bergman
(Murder on the Orient Express)
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Milos Forman
(One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Jack Nicholson
(One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Louise Fletcher
(One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
George Burns
(The Sunshine Boys)
Lee Grant
(Nashville)
1976 Rocky John G Avildsen
(Rocky)
Peter Finch
(Network)
Faye Dunaway
(Network)
Jason Robards
(All the President's Men)
Beatrice Straight
(Network)
1977 Annie Hall Woody Allen
(Annie Hall)
Richard Dreyfuss
(The Goodbye Girl)
Diane Keaton
(Annie Hall)
Jason Robards
(Julia)
Vanessa Redgrave
(Julia)
1978 The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino
(The Deer Hunter)
Jon Voight
(Coming Home)
Jane Fonda
(Coming Home)
Christopher Walken
(The Deer Hunter)
Maggie Smith
(California Suite)
1979 Kramer vs Kramer Robert Benton
(Kramer vs Kramer)
Dustin Hoffman
(Kramer vs Kramer)
Sally Field
(Norma Rae)
Melvyn Douglas
(Being There)
Meryl Streep
(Kramer vs Kramer)

The 1980s

Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
1980 Ordinary People Robert Redford
(Ordinary People)
Robert De Niro
(Raging Bull)
Sissy Spacek
(Coal Miner's Daughter)
Timothy Hutton
(Ordinary People)
Mary Steenburgen
(Melvin & Howard)
1981 Chariots of Fire Warren Beatty
(Reds)
Henry Fonda
(On Golden Pond)
Katharine Hepburn
(On Golden Pond)
John Gielgud
(Arthur)
Maureen Stapleton
(Reds)
1982 Gandhi Richard Attenborough
(Gandhi)
Ben Kingsley
(Gandhi)
Meryl Streep
(Sophie's Choice)
Louis Gossett, Jr
(An Officer and a Gentleman)
Jessica Lange
(Tootsie)
1983 Terms of Endearment James L Brooks
(Terms of Endearment)
Robert Duvall
(Tender Mercies)
Shirley Maclaine
(Terms of Endearment)
Jack Nicholson
(Terms of Endearment)
Linda Hunt
(The Year of Living Dangerously)
1984 Amadeus Milos Forman
(Amadeus)
F Murray Abraham
(Amadeus)
Sally Field
(Places in the Heart)
Haing S Ngor
(The Killing Fields)
Peggy Ashcroft
(A Passage to India)
1985 Out of Africa Sydney Pollack
(Out of Africa)
William Hurt
(Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Geraldine Page
(The Trip to Bountiful)
Don Ameche
(Cocoon)
Anjelica Huston
(Prizzi's Honor)
1986 Platoon Oliver Stone
(Platoon)
Paul Newman
(The Color of Money)
Marlee Matlin
(Children of a Lesser God)
Michael Caine
(Hannah and Her Sisters)
Dianne Wiest
(Hannah and Her Sisters)
1987 The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci
(The Last Emperor)
Michael Douglas
(Wall Street)
Cher
(Moonstruck)
Sean Connery
(The Untouchables)
Olympia Dukakis
(Moonstruck)
1988 Rain Man Barry Levinson
(Rain Man)
Dustin Hoffman
(Rain Man)
Jodie Foster
(The Accused)
Kevin Kline
(A Fish Called Wanda)
Geena Davis
(The Accidental Tourist)
1989 Driving Miss Daisy Oliver Stone
(Born on the Fourth of July)
Daniel Day-Lewis
(My Left Foot)
Jessica Tandy
(Driving Miss Daisy)
Denzel Washington
(Glory)
Brenda Fricker
(My Left Foot)

The 1990s

Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
1990 Dances with Wolves Kevin Costner
(Dances with Wolves)
Jeremy Irons
(Reversal of Fortune)
Kathy Bates
(Misery)
Joe Pesci
(Goodfellas)
Whoopi Goldberg
(Ghost)
1991 The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme
(The Silence of the Lambs)
Anthony Hopkins
(The Silence of the Lambs)
Jodie Foster
(The Silence of the Lambs)
Jack Palance
(City Slickers)
Mercedes Ruehl
(The Fisher King)
1992 Unforgiven Clint Eastwood
(Unforgiven)
Al Pacino
(Scent of a Woman)
Emma Thompson
(Howards End)
Gene Hackman
(Unforgiven)
Marisa Tomei
(My Cousin Vinny)
1993 Schindler's List Steven Spielberg
(Schindler's List)
Tom Hanks
(Philadelphia)
Holly Hunter
(The Piano)
Tommy Lee Jones
(The Fugitive)
Anna Paquin
(The Piano)
1994 Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis
(Forrest Gump)
Tom Hanks
(Forrest Gump)
Jessica Lange
(Blue Sky)
Martin Landau
(Ed Wood)
Dianne Wiest
(Bullets Over Broadway)
1995 Braveheart Mel Gibson
(Braveheart)
Nicolas Cage
(Leaving Las Vegas)
Susan Sarandon
(Dead Man Walking)
Kevin Spacey
(The Usual Suspects)
Mira Sorvino
(Mighty Aphrodite)
1996 The English Patient Anthony Minghella
(The English Patient)
Geoffrey Rush
(Shine)
Frances McDormand
(Fargo)
Cuba Gooding, Jr
(Jerry Maguire)
Juliette Binoche
(The English Patient)
1997 Titanic James Cameron
(Titanic)
Jack Nicholson
(As Good as It Gets)
Helen Hunt
(As Good as It Gets)
Robin Williams
(Good Will Hunting)
Kim Basinger
(LA Confidential)
1998 Shakespeare in Love Steven Spielberg
(Saving Private Ryan)
Roberto Benigni
(Life is Beautiful)
Gwyneth Paltrow
(Shakespeare in Love)
James Coburn
(Affliction)
Judi Dench
(Shakespeare in Love)
1999 American Beauty Sam Mendes
(American Beauty)
Kevin Spacey
(American Beauty)
Hilary Swank
(Boys Don't Cry)
Michael Caine
(The Cider House Rules)
Angelina Jolie
(Girl, Interrupted)

The 2000s

Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
2000 Gladiator Stephen Soderbergh
(Traffic)
Russell Crowe
(Gladiator)
Julia Roberts
(Erin Brockovich)
Benicio Del Toro
(Traffic)
Marcia Gay Harden
(Pollock)
2001 A Beautiful Mind Ron Howard
(A Beautiful Mind)
Denzel Washington
(Training Day)
Halle Berry
(Monster's Ball)
Jim Broadbent
(Iris)
Jennifer Connelly
(A Beautiful Mind)
2002 Chicago Roman Polanski
(The Pianist)
Adrien Brody
(The Pianist)
Nicole Kidman
(The Hours)
Chris Cooper
(Adaptation)
Catherine Zeta-Jones
(Chicago)
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Peter Jackson
(The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
Sean Penn
(Mystic River)
Charlize Theron
(Monster)
Tim Robbins
(Mystic River)
Renee Zellweger
(Cold Mountain)
2004 Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood
(Million Dollar Baby)
Jamie Foxx
(Ray)
Hilary Swank
(Million Dollar Baby)
Morgan Freeman
(Million Dollar Baby)
Cate Blanchett
(The Aviator)
2005 Crash Ang Lee
(Brokeback Mountain)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Capote)
Reese Witherspoon
(Walk the Line)
George Clooney
(Syriana)
Rachel Weisz
(The Constant Gardener)


Last updated: 5 Mar 2006


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