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This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture , its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non ...
Earliest-born Oscar winner by birth year. George Arliss, ... 20 years, 103 days The Picture of Dorian Gray: ... Longest time span between first and last nomination.
The Oscar statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, [18] is given to winners of each year's awards. Made of gold-plated bronze on a black metal base, it is 13.5 in (34.3 cm) tall, weighs 8.5 lb (3.9 kg) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.
Academy Award voters love actors who take on historical figures, much like last year's best actor award winner.. Cillian Murphy won the Oscar for best actor for his role as theoretical physicist J ...
Out of the 20 acting nominations, 13 were first-time nominees. Colman Domingo from "Sing Sing" was the only one from this year's field to be nominated for two straight years. The winners in each ...
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and ...
However, in recent years, it has shifted towards being presented by previous years’ Best Actor winners instead. The Best Actor award has been presented 97 times, to 86 actors. The first winner was German actor Emil Jannings for his roles in The Last Command (1928) and The Way of All Flesh (1927). [ 1 ]
Films receiving the most Academy Award nominations per ceremony. With only one exception – Dreamgirls – every film on this list above was nominated for Best Picture. Films receiving the most Academy Awards and the most Academy Award nominations per ceremony. A total of 69 films appear on both lists above. That is, there are 69 films that ...