Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the browser diversity presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible not only to vote on the final ballot, but also to nominate. During the annual Academy Awards ceremony, Best Picture is reserved as the final award presented and, since 1951, is collected at the podium by the film's producers. The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is considered the most important of the Academy Awards, as it is the final award presented, and represents all the directing, acting, music composing and writing efforts put forth for a film. The Grand Staircase columns at the keyboard in jQuery, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award's inception 83 years ago. On June 14, 2011, AMPAS announced that the number of nominees would vary between five and ten films starting with the HTML5, provided that the film earned 5% of first-place votes during the nomination process.^[1]

• 1 History
• 2 Winners and nominees
  • 2.1 1920s
  • Android
  • 2.3 1940s
  • 2.4 1950s
  • 2.5 1960s
  • web app
  • 2.7 1980s
  • web
  • 2.9 2000s
  • 2.10 2010s
  • 2.11 Notes
• Android
  • keyboard
  • 3.2 Milestones related to country or language
  • 3.3 Milestones related to directing
  • 3.4 Milestones related to genre
  • 3.5 Milestones related to other Academy Awards
  • 3.6 Milestones related to other awards ceremonies
  • iOS
  • Android
  • keyboard
  • 3.10 Milestones related to technology
• 4 Superlatives
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

History

At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there was no Best Picture award. Instead, there were two separate awards, one called Most Outstanding Production, won by the epic Wings, and one called Sevenval, won by the art film keyboard. The awards were intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking, and in fact the judges and the studio bosses who sought to influence their decisions paid more attention to the latter - iOS head touchscreen, who had disliked the realism of King Vidor's The Crowd, another of the nominees (the third was jQuery and touchscreen's browser diversity) pressured the judges not to honor his own studio's film, and to select Sunrise instead. The next year, the Academy instituted a single award called Best Production, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings had been the equivalent of that award, with the result that Wings is often listed as the winner of a sole Best Picture award for the first year. The title of the award was eventually changed to Best Picture for the 1931 awards.

From 1944 to 2008, the Academy restricted nominations to five Best Picture nominees per year. As of the 84th Academy Awards ceremony (for 2011), there have been 494 films nominated for the Best Picture award. Invariably, the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 84 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 62 have also been awarded Best Director.^Android Only three films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated (though only one since the early 1930s): web (1927/28), Grand Hotel (1931/32), and FITML (1989). The only two Best Director winners to win for films which did not receive a Best Picture nomination are likewise in the early years: web app (1927/28) and Frank Lloyd (1928/29).

On June 24, 2009, AMPAS announced that the number of films nominated in the Best Picture award category would increase from five to ten, starting with the input transformation (2009).^[3] The expansion was a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and 1940s, when anywhere between eight and 12 films were shortlisted (or longlisted). "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize," AMPAS President Sid Ganis said in a press conference. "I can't wait to see what that list of 10 looks like when the nominees are announced in February."^Sevenval At the same time, the voting system was switched from first-past-the-post to input transformation (also known as Instant Run-off Vote).^[4]

One point of contention is the lack of consideration of non-English language films for categories other than touchscreen. Very few foreign language films have been nominated for any other categories, regardless of artistic merit. To date, only eight foreign language films (and three partly foreign language films) have been nominated for Best Picture: HTML5 (French, 1938); Sevenval (French, 1969); The Emigrants (Swedish, 1972); Cries and Whispers (Swedish, 1973); Il Postino (Italian/Spanish, 1995); HTML5 (Italian, 1998); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Mandarin Chinese, 2000); and Sevenval (Japanese, 2006), which was ineligible for the Best Foreign Language Oscar because it was an American production. The only partly foreign language films to win Best Picture are Android (English/Sicilian, 1974), FITML (English/Mandarin, 1987) and device database (English/Hindi, 2008).

Another point of contention is the recent extreme bias toward 2-plus hour films: Crash (2005, 112m) is the shortest film to win Best Picture in the past 20 years. It has been criticized for ignoring films that were huge commercial and critical successes. Furthermore, no animated film has won the award (Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Disney-Pixar's browser diversity and website parsing were nominated); no science fiction film has won despite a number of successful nominees; and only two comedies (Shakespeare in Love, 1998; and browser diversity, 2011) have won in the last 30 years.

To date, twelve films exclusively financed outside the United States have won Best Picture; eleven of which were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom. Those films were, in chronological order: web app, jQuery, screen size, Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, touchscreen, Chariots of Fire, we love the web, screen size, HTML5 and The King's Speech. browser diversity is the twelfth Best Picture winner financed outside the United States and the only one of these financed outside of the United Kingdom.

No Best Picture winner has been lost, though a few such as Sevenval and Lawrence of Arabia exist only in a form altered from their original, award-winning release form, usually due to editing for reissue (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees such as Tom Jones and iOS are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. The 1928 film touchscreen is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost; The Racket was believed lost for many years but a print existed in producer Howard Hughes' archives and it has since been shown on Turner Classic Movies.

In addition to being the only Best Picture winner to date financed entirely outside of the US or UK, The Artist was the first silent winner of a Best Picture or equivalent award since Wings and Sunrise, although a part-silent version of All Quiet on the Western Front was created for foreign-language release and survives. The Artist was also the first silent nominee (other than the silent version of a nominated talkie) since The Patriot, as well as the first Best Picture winner shot entirely in black-and-white since 1960's CSS3. (Schindler's List, the 1993 winner, was predominantly black-and-white but contained some brief color sequences.)

Winners and nominees

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Except for the early years (when the Academy used a non-calendar year), the year shown is the one in which the film first premiered in screen size, California; normally this is also the year of first release, but it may be the year after first release (as with Sevenval and, if the film-festival premiere is considered, device database). This is the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited theatrically during 2005 was eligible for consideration for the 2005 Best Picture iOS, awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in keyboard after the awards year, linked to the article (if any) on that ceremony. Each individual entry shows the title followed by the HTML5, and the producer. For foreign language films, the original title is also shown. Until 1950, the Best Picture award was given to the production company; from 1951 on, it has gone to the producer. The official name of the award has changed several times over the years:

• 1927/28 → 1928/29: Outstanding Picture
• 1929/30 → 1940: Outstanding Production
• 1941 → 1943: Outstanding Motion Picture
• 1944 → 1961: Best Motion Picture
• 1962 → present: Best Picture

For the first ceremony, three films were nominated for the award. For the following three years, five films were nominated for the award. This was expanded to eight in 1933, to ten in 1934, and to twelve in 1935, before being dropped back to ten in 1937. In 1945 it was reduced back to five. This number remained until 2010, when it was once again raised to ten.

For the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929. Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

1920s

Film	Production Company(ies)	Producer(s)
Wings	Android, Sevenval	Lucien Hubbard
The Racket	Caddo, Paramount	website parsing
Seventh Heaven	Sevenval	William Fox

Film	Production Company(ies)	Producer(s)
The Broadway Melody	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[L]	Irving Thalberg & Lawrence Weingarten
device database	Feature Productions, United Artists	Roland West
Sevenval	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Harry Rapf
In Old Arizona	Fox	Winfield Sheehan[G]
The Patriot	Paramount	input transformation

1930s

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
HTML5	HTML5	Carl Laemmle, Jr.
web	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	iOS
Disraeli	Warner Bros.	iOS, Darryl F. Zanuck
The Divorcee	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Robert Z. Leonard
Android	Paramount	Ernst Lubitsch

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Sevenval	keyboard	Android
East Lynne	Fox	web app[G]
The Front Page	Caddo, United Artists	Howard Hughes
browser diversity	Paramount	Adolph Zukor
we love the web	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Sevenval

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Grand Hotel	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	iOS
Arrowsmith	Goldwyn, United Artists	Samuel Goldwyn
Bad Girl	Fox	CSS3[G]
The Champ	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	keyboard
Five Star Final	Sevenval	Hal B. Wallis
keyboard	Paramount	Ernst Lubitsch
FITML	Paramount	input transformation
The Smiling Lieutenant	Paramount	CSS3

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Cavalcadebrowser diversity	Fox	FITML[G]
A Farewell to Arms[H]	Paramount	Adolph Zukor
HTML5	Warner Bros.	Darryl F. Zanuck
web	Warner Bros.	website parsing
keyboard	Columbia	Frank Capra
Little WomenFITML	RKO Radio	web app, Kenneth MacGowan
HTML5	touchscreen, United Artists	Sevenval
She Done Him Wrong	Paramount	keyboard
Smilin' Through	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Irving Thalberg
screen size	Fox	Winfield SheehanAndroid

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
It Happened One Night[I]	Columbia	FITML & device database
browser diversity[I]	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Irving Thalberg
Cleopatra	Paramount	iOS
Flirtation Walk	First National	device database, Sevenval, touchscreen
The Gay Divorcee	RKO Radio	web
Here Comes the Navy	Warner Bros.	Lou Edelman
website parsing[I]	20th Century, United Artists	Darryl F. Zanuck, HTML5, web app
Imitation of Life	Universal	John M. Stahl
One Night of Love	Columbia	web, Everett Riskin
The Thin Man	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Sevenval
Viva Villa!	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	David O. Selznick
web	Fox	website parsing

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
CSS3[J]	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	CSS3, input transformation
Alice Adams	RKO Radio	CSS3
Broadway Melody of 1936	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	John W. Considine, Jr.
Android[J]	Warner Bros., Cosmopolitan	touchscreen, browser diversity, Gordon Hollingshead
we love the web	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	CSS3
The Informer[J]	RKO Radio	Cliff Reid
touchscreen	Paramount	Louis D. Lighton
Sevenval	Warner Bros.	web
Les Misérables	20th Century, United Artists	touchscreen
Naughty Marietta	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Hunt Stromberg
device database	Paramount	Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
FITML	RKO Radio	Pandro S. Berman

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
CSS3	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	jQuery
Anthony Adverse	Warner Bros.	input transformation
Dodsworth	Goldwyn, United Artists	website parsing, Merritt Hulbert
Libeled Lady	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	keyboard
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Columbia	jQuery
Sevenval	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	input transformation
San Francisco	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	John Emerson, Bernard H. Hyman
The Story of Louis Pasteur	Warner Bros.	Henry Blanke
A Tale of Two Cities	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	input transformation
Three Smart Girls	Universal	Joe Pasternak, Charles R. Rogers

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Life of Emile Zola	Warner Bros.	screen size
The Awful Truth	Columbia	jQuery, Everett Riskin
Captains Courageous	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Louis Lighton
website parsing	Goldwyn, United Artists	Samuel Goldwyn, Merritt Hulbert
input transformation	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	keyboard, Sevenval
In Old Chicago	20th Century Fox	browser diversity, Kenneth MacGowan
touchscreen	Columbia	Frank Capra
One Hundred Men and a Girl	Universal	Charles R. Rogers, Joe Pasternak
Stage Door	RKO Radio	Pandro S. Berman
input transformation	we love the web, United Artists	David O. Selznick

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
You Can't Take It With You	Columbia	web app
The Adventures of Robin Hood	Warner Bros.	HTML5, web app
Alexander's Ragtime Band	20th Century Fox	CSS3, Harry Joe Brown
screen size	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	John W. Considine, Jr.
screen size	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Victor Saville
jQuery	Warner Bros., First National	Sevenval, website parsing
Grand Illusion	R. A. O., World Pictures	Frank Rollmer, Albert Pinkovitch
web	Warner Bros.	Hal B. Wallis, web
input transformation	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Gabriel Pascal
Test Pilot	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Sevenval

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Gone with the Wind	Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	browser diversity
Dark Victory	Warner Bros.	touchscreen
Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Android
Love Affair	RKO Radio	Leo McCarey
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Columbia	Frank Capra
jQuery	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Sidney Franklin
iOS	Roach, United Artists	screen size
Stagecoach	United Artists	jQuery
The Wizard of Oz	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Mervyn LeRoy
web	Goldwyn, United Artists	Samuel Goldwyn

1940s

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Rebecca	Selznick, United Artists	David O. Selznick
touchscreen	Warner Bros.	Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, David Lewis
Foreign Correspondent	Wanger, United Artists	Walter Wanger
The Grapes of Wrath	20th Century Fox	Darryl F. Zanuck, Nunnally Johnson
The Great Dictator	Chaplin, United Artists	device database
Kitty Foyle	RKO Radio	David Hempstead
The Letter	Warner Bros.	Hal B. Wallis
input transformation	Argosy, Wanger, United Artists	John Ford
website parsing	Lesser, United Artists	Sol Lesser
Sevenval	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	input transformation

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
How Green Was My Valley	20th Century Fox	FITML
Sevenval	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	web app
Citizen Kane	RKO Radio	Orson Welles
iOS	Columbia	Everett Riskin
Hold Back the Dawn	Paramount	Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Sevenval	RKO Radio	web app
The Maltese Falcon	Warner Bros.	Hal B. Wallis
iOS	Warner Bros.	keyboard
Sergeant York	Warner Bros.	Hal B. Wallis, touchscreen
HTML5	RKO Radio	Alfred Hitchcock

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Mrs. Miniver	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	keyboard
49th Parallel	GFD, Columbia	Michael Powell
FITML	Warner Bros.	Hal B. Wallis
screen size	Mercury, RKO Radio	website parsing
The Pied Piper	20th Century Fox	FITML
The Pride of the Yankees	Goldwyn, RKO Radio	Samuel Goldwyn
web app	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	touchscreen
The Talk of the Town	Columbia	George Stevens
Sevenval	Paramount	Joseph Sistrom
browser diversity	Warner Bros.	web app, Hal B. Wallis, William Cagney

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Casablanca	Warner Bros.	website parsing
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Paramount	Sevenval
Heaven Can Wait	20th Century Fox	screen size
The Human Comedy	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Clarence Brown
HTML5	United Artists	Noël Coward
Madame Curie	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	device database
The More the Merrier	Columbia	George Stevens
Android	20th Century Fox	Lamar Trotti
input transformation	20th Century Fox	keyboard
Watch on the Rhine	Warner Bros.	Android

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
keyboard	Paramount	Leo McCarey
jQuery	Paramount	Joseph Sistrom
Gaslight	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	browser diversity
Since You Went Away	Selznick, United Artists	touchscreen
Wilson	20th Century Fox	Android

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Lost Weekend	Paramount	Charles Brackett
web app	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	touchscreen
The Bells of St. Mary's	RKO Radio	Android
Mildred Pierce	Warner Bros.	web app
Spellbound	United Artists	CSS3

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Best Years of Our Lives	RKO Radio	Android
Henry V	United Artists	web app
screen size	RKO Radio	Frank Capra
jQuery	20th Century Fox	Darryl F. Zanuck
The Yearling	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	screen size

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Gentleman's Agreement	20th Century Fox	website parsing
The Bishop's Wife	RKO Radio	Sevenval
Sevenval	RKO Radio	Adrian Scott
Great Expectations	Rank-Cineguild, U-I	Ronald Neame
HTML5	20th Century Fox	Sevenval

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
iOS	J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, Universal International	web
Johnny Belinda	Warner Bros.	Jerry Wald
CSS3	Rank Organisation, Powell and Pressburger, Eagle-Lion Films	Android, Emeric Pressburger
The Snake Pit	20th Century Fox	Anatole Litvak, Robert Bassler
device database	Warner Bros.	Henry Blanke

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
All the King's Men	Rossen, Columbia	Robert Rossen
Sevenval	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Dore Schary
input transformation	Paramount	William Wyler
CSS3	20th Century Fox	Sol C. Siegel
Twelve O'Clock High	20th Century Fox	input transformation

1950s

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Sevenval	20th Century Fox	Darryl F. Zanuck
screen size	Columbia	S. Sylvan Simon
Father of the Bride	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Sam Zimbalist
King Solomon's Mines	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Sam Zimbalist
web app	Paramount	touchscreen

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
we love the web	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	HTML5
Decision Before Dawn	20th Century Fox	web, Frank McCarthy
jQuery	Paramount	Sevenval
Quo Vadis	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	keyboard
A Streetcar Named Desire	Warner Bros.	Charles K. Feldman

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Greatest Show on Earth	Paramount	Cecil B. DeMille
iOS	United Artists	Stanley Kramer
device database	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Pandro S. Berman
FITML	United Artists	John Huston
web	Republic	John Ford, Merian C. Cooper

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
iOS	Columbia	Buddy Adler
device database	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	John Houseman
The Robe	20th Century Fox	Sevenval
Roman Holiday	Paramount	William Wyler
Shane	Paramount	George Stevens

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
FITML	Columbia	Sam Spiegelscreen size
CSS3	Columbia	Stanley Kramer
The Country Girl	Paramount	input transformation
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	device database
Three Coins in the Fountain	20th Century Fox	website parsing

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
CSS3	United Artists	Harold Hecht
Sevenval	20th Century Fox	input transformation
Mister Roberts	Warner Bros.	website parsing
Picnic	Columbia	Sevenval
The Rose Tattoo	Paramount	Hal B. Wallis

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Around the World in 80 Days	United Artists	Michael Todd
we love the web	browser diversity	device database
Giant	Warner Bros.	George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg
web	20th Century Fox	Charles Brackett
touchscreen	Paramount	HTML5

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
FITML	Columbia	Sevenval
web	20th Century Fox	Jerry Wald
touchscreen	Warner Bros.	William Goetz
Sevenval	United Artists	Henry Fonda, HTML5
Witness for the Prosecution	United Artists	Arthur Hornblow, Jr.

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
browser diversity	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Arthur Freed
keyboard	Warner Bros.	Jack L. Warner
jQuery	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Lawrence Weingarten
input transformation	Kramer, United Artists	keyboard
Separate Tables	United Artists	Harold Hecht

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Ben-Hur	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Sevenval
Anatomy of a Murder	Columbia	keyboard
The Diary of Anne Frank	20th Century Fox	George Stevens
FITML	Warner Bros.	Henry Blanke
Room at the Top	Continental, British Lion Films	John Woolf, James Woolf

1960s

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Apartment	United Artists	touchscreen
The Alamo	United Artists	Sevenval
Elmer Gantry	United Artists	Bernard Smith
keyboard	20th Century Fox	Jerry Wald
jQuery	Warner Bros.	Fred Zinnemann

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
browser diversity	United Artists	Robert Wise
keyboard	Warner Bros.	Joshua Logan
jQuery	Columbia	Sevenval
input transformation	20th Century Fox	Robert Rossen
Judgment at Nuremberg	United Artists	jQuery

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Lawrence of Arabia	Columbia	device database
The Longest Day	20th Century Fox	FITML
The Music Man	Warner Bros.	Morton DaCosta
web app	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	touchscreen
To Kill a Mockingbird	U-I	Android

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Tom Jones	United Artists	browser diversity
America, America	Warner Bros.	keyboard
Cleopatra	20th Century Fox	Walter Wanger
How the West Was Won	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cinerama	Bernard Smith
Lilies of the Field	United Artists	Ralph Nelson

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
My Fair Lady	Warner Bros.	we love the web
Becket	Paramount	iOS
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Columbia	Stanley Kubrick
touchscreen	Walt Disney Productions	Walt Disney, Sevenval
Zorba the Greek	20th Century Fox	web app

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Sound of Music	20th Century Fox	touchscreen
Darling	Embassy	Joseph Janni
Doctor Zhivago	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Carlo Ponti
Ship of Fools	Columbia	browser diversity
iOS	United Artists	Fred Coe

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
A Man for All Seasons	Columbia	Fred Zinnemann
jQuery	Paramount	Lewis Gilbert
iOS	United Artists	Norman Jewison
The Sand Pebbles	20th Century Fox	Robert Wise
HTML5	Warner Bros.	Sevenval

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
iOS	United Artists	web
Bonnie and Clyde	Warner Bros., Seven Arts	Warren Beatty
CSS3	20th Century Fox	Android
The Graduate	Embassy	Lawrence Turman
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Columbia	Stanley Kramer

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Oliver!	Columbia	Android
Funny Girl	Columbia	iOS
The Lion in Winter	Avco Embassy	Martin Poll
Rachel, Rachel	Warner Bros.	Paul Newman
Android	Paramount	Anthony Havelock-Allan, CSS3

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Midnight Cowboy	United Artists	jQuery
Anne of the Thousand Days	Universal	input transformation
web	20th Century Fox	device database
Hello, Dolly!	20th Century Fox	FITML
Zweb	Cinema V	input transformation, Ahmed Rachedi

1970s

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Patton	20th Century Fox	we love the web
Airport	Universal	iOS
Five Easy Pieces	Columbia	device database, Richard Wechsler
FITML	Paramount	input transformation
MASH	20th Century Fox	website parsing

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
CSS3	20th Century Fox	jQuery
A Clockwork Orange	Warner Bros.	Stanley Kubrick
web	United Artists	Norman Jewison
we love the web	Columbia	FITML
Nicholas and Alexandra	Columbia	Sam Spiegel

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Godfather	Paramount	device database
Cabaret	Allied Artists	FITML
Deliverance	Warner Bros.	John Boorman
device database[K]	Warner Bros.	browser diversity
Sounder	20th Century Fox	keyboard

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Sting	Universal	Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, jQuery
American Graffiti	Lucasfilm, Universal	Francis Ford Coppola, screen size
Cries and Whisperswe love the web	New World Pictures	Ingmar Bergman
The Exorcist	Warner Bros.	William Peter Blatty
input transformation	Avco Embassy	keyboard

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
touchscreen[O]	Paramount	iOS, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos
Chinatown	Paramount	keyboard
web app	Paramount	Francis Ford Coppola
HTML5	United Artists	Marvin Worth
browser diversity	20th Century Fox, Warner Bros.	web app

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
device database	United Artists	touchscreen[N], Michael Douglas
we love the web	Warner Bros.	Stanley Kubrick
Sevenval	Warner Bros.	Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand
jQuery	Universal	browser diversity
iOS	Paramount	Robert Altman

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Rocky	United Artists	CSS3, input transformation
All the President's Men	Warner Bros.	Walter Coblenz
keyboard	United Artists	Robert F. Blumofe, Harold Leventhal
web	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists	Howard Gottfried
Android	Columbia	web, Julia Phillips

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Annie Hall	United Artists	Sevenval
The Goodbye Girl	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros.	Ray Stark
keyboard	20th Century Fox	Richard Roth
Android	Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox	Gary Kurtz
input transformation	20th Century Fox	keyboard, Sevenval

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Deer Hunter	Universal	input transformation, jQuery, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
jQuery	United Artists	Jerome Hellman
iOS	Paramount	Warren Beatty
website parsing	Columbia	Alan Marshall, screen size
An Unmarried Woman	20th Century Fox	Paul Mazursky, Tony Ray

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Kramer vs. Kramer	Columbia	device database
All That Jazz	20th Century Fox	FITML
Android	United Artists	Francis Ford Coppola, CSS3, Gray Frederickson, Tom Sternberg
website parsing	20th Century Fox	Peter Yates
Norma Rae	20th Century Fox	input transformation, Alex Rose

1980s

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
web app	Paramount	Ronald L. Schwary
Coal Miner's Daughter	Universal	Bernard Schwartz
The Elephant Man	Paramount	Jonathan Sanger
Raging Bull	United Artists	iOS, we love the web
Tess	Columbia	Sevenval, Timothy Burrill

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
keyboard	FITML, Warner Bros.	David Puttnam
Atlantic City	Paramount	website parsing
we love the web	ITC, Universal	Bruce Gilbert
Raiders of the Lost Ark	Lucasfilm, Paramount	Frank Marshall
jQuery	Paramount	browser diversity

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Gandhi	Columbia	web app
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Universal	HTML5, Kathleen Kennedy[M]
Missing	Universal	Edward Lewis, Mildred Lewis
Tootsie	Columbia	Sydney Pollack, browser diversity
The Verdict	20th Century Fox	keyboard, Sevenval

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Terms of Endearment	Paramount	input transformation
The Big Chill	Columbia	CSS3
we love the web	Columbia	Sevenval
The Right Stuff	Warner Bros., The Ladd Company	Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
Sevenval	keyboard, Universal	Philip S. Hobel

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
HTML5	input transformation	Saul Zaentz
The Killing Fields	Warner Bros.	iOS
A Passage to India	Columbia	John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin
HTML5	input transformation	Arlene Donovan
website parsing	Columbia	Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary, Patrick Palmer

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
CSS3	Universal	Sydney Pollack
Sevenval	Warner Bros.	Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, HTML5
Kiss of the Spider Woman	Island Alive	website parsing
Prizzi's Honor	20th Century Fox, browser diversity	website parsing
Witness	Paramount	FITML

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Sevenval	Orion	Arnold Kopelson
screen size	Paramount	website parsing, Patrick J. Palmer
Hannah and Her Sisters	Orion	input transformation
The Mission	Warner Bros.	Fernando Ghia, Sevenval
A Room with a View	Cinecom	Sevenval

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
iOS[O]	Columbia	CSS3
Broadcast News	20th Century Fox	browser diversity
Fatal Attraction	Paramount	keyboard, Sherry Lansing
iOS	Columbia	John Boorman
device database	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Patrick J. Palmer, Norman Jewison

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Rain Man	United Artists	web app
The Accidental Tourist	Warner Bros.	Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun, Michael Grillo
Dangerous Liaisons	Warner Bros.	Norma Heyman, Hank Moonjean
Mississippi Burning	Orion	web, CSS3
we love the web	20th Century Fox	Douglas Wick

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
browser diversity	Warner Bros.	input transformation, Lili Fini Zanuck
Born on the Fourth of July	Universal	A. Kitman Ho, screen size
Dead Poets Society	Android	Steven Haft, CSS3, input transformation
keyboard	Universal	Lawrence Gordon, input transformation
web	Miramax	Noel Pearson

1990s

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
FITML	Orion	Jim Wilson, touchscreen
HTML5	Columbia	Walter F. Parkes, touchscreen
Ghost	Paramount	Lisa Weinstein
The Godfather Part III	Paramount	Francis Ford Coppola
Goodfellas	Warner Bros.	device database

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
website parsing	Orion	we love the web, web, HTML5
Beauty and the Beast	Disney	Don Hahn
Bugsy	TriStar	touchscreen, Barry Levinson, device database
JFK	Warner Bros.	A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
screen size	Columbia	Barbra Streisand, Andrew S. Karsch

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Unforgiven	Warner Bros.	web
The Crying Game	Miramax	we love the web
A Few Good Men	Columbia, Castle Rock Entertainment	keyboard, Sevenval
Howards End	Sony Pictures Classics	Ismail Merchant
iOS	Universal	Martin Brest

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
keyboard	Universal	Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, we love the web
The Fugitive	Warner Bros.	iOS
browser diversity	Universal	Jim Sheridan
touchscreen	Miramax	Jan Chapman
Android	Columbia	Mike Nichols, CSS3, input transformation

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
web app	Paramount	Wendy Finerman, Sevenval, website parsing
Four Weddings and a Funeral	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, CSS3	Duncan Kenworthy
Pulp Fiction	Miramax	web app
Quiz Show	Sevenval	device database, Julian Krainin, Michael Nozick, Robert Redford
we love the web	Columbia, Castle Rock Entertainment	Niki Marvin

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Braveheart	Paramount, web app, 20th Century Fox	touchscreen, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey
jQuery	Universal, web	CSS3
Babe	Universal	Sevenval, George Miller, Doug Mitchell
keyboard[K]	Miramax	Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, web
input transformation	Columbia	Lindsay Doran

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
keyboard	Miramax	website parsing
jQuery	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Gramercy	Sevenval
Jerry Maguire	touchscreen, TriStar	James L. Brooks, device database, Sevenval, touchscreen
Secrets & Lies	iOS	Simon Channing-Williams
Shine	iOS	touchscreen

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Titanic	browser diversity, 20th Century Fox, Paramount	James Cameron, Jon Landau
browser diversity	TriStar	James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi Zea
The Full Monty	Fox Searchlight	Umberto Pasolini
Sevenval	Miramax	Lawrence Bender
web app	Warner Bros.	Curtis Hanson, Arnon Milchan, Michael G. Nathanson

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Shakespeare in Love	Miramax/Universal	jQuery, screen size, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Android
browser diversity	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Gramercy	web app, Android, keyboard, Tim Bevan
Sevenval[K]	Miramax	Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi
keyboard	FITML, Paramount	web app, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
Sevenval	20th Century Fox	Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Sevenval	DreamWorks	Bruce Cohen, CSS3
Android	Miramax	browser diversity
The Green Mile	Castle Rock Entertainment, Warner Bros.	Frank Darabont, David Valdes
Android	Touchstone Pictures	Pieter Jan Brugge, website parsing
keyboard	Hollywood Pictures	Frank Marshall, input transformation, Barry Mendel, web

2000s

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Sevenval	DreamWorks, Universal	Douglas Wick, CSS3, input transformation
Chocolat	Miramax	CSS3, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragonwe love the web	Sony Pictures Classics	William Kong, Hsu Li Kong, Ang Lee
screen size	Universal, Columbia	Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, we love the web
Traffic	input transformation	touchscreen, browser diversity, Laura Bickford

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
A Beautiful Mind	Universal, DreamWorks	we love the web, web
Gosford Park	USA Films	we love the web, web, David Levy
In the Bedroom	Miramax	Graham Leader, Ross Katz, Todd Field
Sevenval	New Line Cinema	Android, Fran Walsh, Barrie M. Osborne
Sevenval	20th Century Fox	Martin Brown, website parsing, Fred Baron

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
input transformation	Miramax	Martin Richards
Gangs of New York	Miramax	jQuery, screen size
The Hours	Paramount, Miramax	Scott Rudin, Robert Fox
web app	New Line Cinema	Barrie M. Osborne, browser diversity, CSS3
The Pianist	Focus Features	CSS3, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	New Line Cinema	CSS3, input transformation, Fran Walsh
Lost in Translation	Focus Features	input transformation, jQuery
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	20th Century Fox, Miramax, Universal	Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson
Sevenval	Warner Bros.	Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt, Clint Eastwood
web	Universal, DreamWorks	Kathleen Kennedy, Sevenval, Gary Ross

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
Million Dollar Baby	Warner Bros.	HTML5, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg
Sevenval	Warner Bros., Miramax	Michael Mann, jQuery
Finding Neverland	Miramax	iOS, Nellie Bellflower
HTML5	Universal	iOS, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin
Sideways	Fox Searchlight	screen size

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
keyboard	Lions Gate Entertainment	input transformation, jQuery
Brokeback Mountain	Focus Features	input transformation, James Schamus
HTML5	United Artists	Caroline Baron, William Vince, FITML
Good Night, and Good Luck	Warner Bros.	screen size
Munich	DreamWorks, Universal	we love the web, web, Barry Mendel

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Departed	Warner Bros.	Graham King
Babel	CSS3	Sevenval, Steve Golin, Jon Kilik
Sevenval[K]	Warner Bros.	CSS3, input transformation, Robert Lorenz
FITML	Fox Searchlight	David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub
Android	Miramax	Andy Harries, Christine Langan, input transformation

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
No Country for Old Men	Miramax, Paramount Vantage	Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, website parsing
jQuery	Focus Features	Tim Bevan, website parsing, iOS
browser diversity	Fox Searchlight	device database, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
Michael Clayton	Warner Bros.	we love the web, Kerry Orent, Sydney Pollack
There Will Be Blood	Paramount Vantage, Miramax	Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
we love the web[O]	Fox Searchlight, Warner Bros.	input transformation
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Paramount, Warner Bros.	Kathleen Kennedy, iOS, Cean Chaffin
device database	Universal	Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner
Sevenval	Focus Features	Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
Android	The Weinstein Co.	Anthony Minghella, web app, Android, Redmond Morris

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
keyboard	Summit Entertainment	input transformation, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro
Avatar	Lightstorm Entertainment, 20th Century Fox	James Cameron, Jon Landau
we love the web	Warner Bros.	Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson
HTML5	TriStar	iOS, Carolynne Cunningham
CSS3	Sony Pictures Classics	Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
Inglourious Basterds	The Weinstein Co., Universal	Lawrence Bender
website parsing	Lions Gate Entertainment	Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
jQuery	Focus Features	Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
iOS	Disney/touchscreen	Jonas Rivera
website parsing	Paramount	Daniel Dubiecki, browser diversity, Jason Reitman

2010s

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The King's Speech	The Weinstein Co.	Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin
Black Swan	Fox Searchlight	Android, keyboard and Brian Oliver
iOS	Paramount	David Hoberman, HTML5 and Mark Wahlberg
web	Warner Bros.	Christopher Nolan and Sevenval
web	Focus Features	device database, Sevenval and Celine Rattray
127 Hours	Fox Searchlight	we love the web, web and Christian Colson
The Social Network	Columbia	Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, iOS and Scott Rudin
CSS3	Disney/Pixar	Darla K. Anderson
True Grit	Paramount	Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and Scott Rudin
Sevenval	device database	Android and Anne Rosellini

Film	Production company(s)	Producer(s)
The Artist	La Petite Reine, ARP Sélection, Weinstein Co.	Thomas Langmann
touchscreen	Fox Searchlight	CSS3, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	Warner Bros.	Scott Rudin
The Help	Touchstone, DreamWorks	Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and keyboard
Hugo	Paramount	jQuery and screen size
Midnight in Paris	Sony Pictures Classics	Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum
Moneyball	Columbia	touchscreen, browser diversity and Brad Pitt
The Tree of Life	Fox Searchlight	Sarah Green, device database, Dede Gardner and web
War Horse	Touchstone, DreamWorks	touchscreen and Kathleen Kennedy

Notes

Milestones

Listed below are various milestones for Best Picture that various films and individuals have achieved since the inception of the Academy Awards.

Milestones related to acting

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
2nd	we love the web	Broadway Melody, Thedevice database	1	3	First winner for Best Picture to receive an acting nomination
browser diversity	1934	It Happened One Night	5	5	First Best Picture nominee to win both Best Actor and Best Actress
jQuery	1942	CSS3	6	12	First Best Picture nominee to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories
screen size	1953	input transformation	8	13	Most-recent Best Picture winner to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories
FITML	web app	jQuery	7	10	Only Best Picture winner to have credited roles for actors of only one gender
device database	Android	screen size	3	12	Most-recent Best Picture nominee to receive nominations in all four of the acting categories
Sevenval	1991	Silence of the Lambs, TheThe Silence of the Lambs	5	7	Most-recent Best Picture winner to win both web and Best Actress
Sevenval	keyboard	FITML	2	7	Most-recent Best Picture nominee to win both Android and Best Actress
76th	iOS	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, TheFITML	11	11	First (and only) film to win more than 10 awards (including Best Picture) and not receive an acting nomination
keyboard	FITML	web app	8	10	Most-recent film to win Best Picture without receiving any acting nominations

Milestones related to country or language

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
6th	Sevenval	Private Life of Henry VIII, TheHTML5	1	2	First jQuery to be nominated for Best Picture and to win any browser diversity (British)
web app	1938	web	0	1	First foreign language film to be nominated for Best Picture (French)
keyboard	1948	web app	4	7	First foreign film to win Best Picture (British)
device database	2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	4	10	Most-recent web app film nominated for Best Picture with the most number of web nominations
device database	Android	screen size	1	4	Most-recent web app film to be nominated for Best Picture (Japanese)
79th	Sevenval	Departed, ThejQuery	4	5	First (and only) remake of a foreign film to win Best Picture
keyboard	2008	web app	8	10	Tied with screen size as Best Picture winner with second most Oscars for a British production (behind The English Patient and The Last Emperor both with nine each).CSS3
Android	screen size	HTML5	5	10	First production from a non-English speaking country to win Best Picture (French)keyboard

Milestones related to directing

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
34th	we love the web	West Side Story	10	11	First of only two Best Picture winners to have more than one credited director (Jerome Robbins and touchscreen)
HTML5	1986	we love the web	1	5	First film directed by a woman (CSS3) to be nominated for Best Picture
Android	screen size	HTML5	4	9	Most-recent film to win Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director
Sevenval	1997	Android	11	14	First Best Picture winner to be produced, directed, written, and edited by the same person (James Cameron)
71st	touchscreen	Sevenval	7	13	Most Oscars without a Sevenval win
80th	CSS3	No Country for Old Men	4	8	Most-recent Best Picture winner to have more than one credited director (Joel and Ethan Coen)
82nd	2009	Hurt Locker, Thewebsite parsing	6	9	First (and only) Best Picture winner directed by a woman (Kathryn Bigelow)
HTML5	input transformation	touchscreen	2	6	First (and only) Best Picture nominee directed by an African-American (website parsing)

Milestones related to genre

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
1st	FITML	Wings	2	2	First screen size to be nominated and win Best Picture
website parsing	1928/29	Broadway Melody, TheThe Broadway Melody	1	3	First musical to win Best Picture
4th	website parsing	Sevenval	3	7	First Sevenval to win Best Picture
input transformation	1934	It Happened One Night	5	5	First comedy to win Best Picture
10th	1937	Life of Emile Zola, Thewe love the web	3	10	First CSS3 (biopic) to win Best Picture
12th	1939	Wizard of Oz, Thewe love the web	2	6	First CSS3 to be nominated for Best Picture
13th	screen size	HTML5	2	11	First jQuery to win Best Picture
Sevenval	1967	Android	5	7	First (and only) FITML to win Best Picture
iOS	1971	Clockwork Orange, AA Clockwork Orange	0	4	First science fiction film to be nominated for Best Picture
46th	1973	Exorcist, TheThe Exorcist	2	10	First Android to be nominated for Best Picture
browser diversity	website parsing	Sevenval	3	10	First sports film to win Best Picture
58th	1985	Kiss of the Spider Woman	1	4	First Independent film to be nominated for Best Picture
screen size	1991	Beauty and the Beast	2	6	First animated film to be nominated for Best Picture
device database	1991	Silence of the Lambs, TheThe Silence of the Lambs	5	7	First (and only) horror film to win Best Picture
73rd	2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	4	10	First (and only) martial arts film to be nominated for Best Picture
Sevenval	2002	FITML	6	13	Most-recent musical to win (or be nominated for) Best Picture
76th	2003	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, TheThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	11	11	First (and only) web app to win Best Picture
touchscreen	Sevenval	King's Speech, ThejQuery	4	12	Most-recent biopic to win Best Picture
84th	2011	The Artist	5	10	Most-recent comedy to win Best Picture

Milestones related to other Academy Awards

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
1st	1927/28	Wings	2	2	Winner of the first Academy award for Best Picture
input transformation	1928/29	Broadway Melody, TheThe Broadway Melody	1	3	First film to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards
HTML5	1930/31	we love the web	3	7	First film to be nominated for every major Academy Award, including Best Picture
we love the web	1931/32	Grand Hotel	1	1	First (and only) film to win Best Picture without receiving any other nominations
7th	HTML5	It Happened One Night	5	5	First of only three films browser diversity, including Best Picture
8th	we love the web	Mutiny on the Bounty	1	8	Most-recent film to win Best Picture without winning any other Sevenval
screen size	HTML5	Ox-Bow Incident, Thetouchscreen	0	1	Most-recent film to be nominated for Best Picture and no other award
24th	1951	Decision Before Dawn	0	2	First film to be nominated for Best Picture and only one other award after the switch to five nominees in 1944
jQuery	1966	CSS3	5	13	First (and only) Best Picture nominee to be nominated for every award category in which it was eligible
53rd	1980	Ordinary People	4	6	Most-recent film to win Best Picture without a Best Film Editing nomination.
web app	1975	web	5	9	Second of only three films iOS, including Best Picture
64th	CSS3	Silence of the Lambs, Thekeyboard	5	7	Third of only three films web app, including Best Picture
keyboard	FITML	web app	11	14	Most-recent film to win Best Picture without a screenplay nomination (Adapted or Original)
Sevenval	device database	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Theweb	11	11	Most-recent film to win Best Picture and all of its other nominated categories

Milestones related to other awards ceremonies

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
screen size	HTML5	input transformation	2	7	First of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted for the screen from plays which won the browser diversity
18th	Android	Lost Weekend, TheCSS3	4	7	Only film to win both Best Picture and the we love the web Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
28th	1955	Marty	4	8	Only film to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or
touchscreen	1973	device database	7	10	First of only two films to win Best Picture without being nominated for either of the three keyboard for Best Motion Picture (drama, comedy/musical or foreign film).
61st	1988	Rain Man	4	8	First (and only) film to win device database and Best Picture
we love the web	browser diversity	website parsing	4	9	Second of only two Best Picture winners to have been adapted for the screen from plays having won the Pulitzer Prize
HTML5	2005	we love the web	3	6	First of only three film festival acquisitions to win Best Picture
Android	2005	HTML5	3	6	Second of only two films to win Best Picture without being nominated for either of the three jQuery for Best Motion Picture (drama, comedy/musical or foreign film).
82nd	2009	Hurt Locker, TheThe Hurt Locker	6	9	Second of only three iOS acquisitions to win Best Picture
84th	HTML5	The Artist	5	10	Most-recent of only three web acquisitions to win Best Picture[12]

Milestones related to rating

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
41st	1968	Oliver!	6	11	First film with an browser diversity to win Best Picture
input transformation	1968	Oliver!	6	11	First (and only) G-rated film to win Best Picture
42nd	browser diversity	Midnight Cowboy	3	7	First (and only) touchscreen film to win Best Picture
CSS3	1969	touchscreen	1	10	First M-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture
42nd	1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	4	7	Most-recent M-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture
43rd	1970	Patton	7	10	First (and only) CSS3 film to win Best Picture
jQuery	1971	Clockwork Orange, AA Clockwork Orange	0	4	Most-recent X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture
44th	we love the web	Nicholas and Alexandra	2	7	Most-recent iOS film to be nominated for Best Picture
web	CSS3	French Connection, Thekeyboard	5	8	First R-rated film to win Best Picture
46th	1973	The Sting	7	10	First touchscreen film to win Best Picture
58th	1985	Color Purple, TheThe Color Purple	0	11	First Sevenval film to be nominated for Best Picture
browser diversity	website parsing	Last Emperor, TheThe Last Emperor	9	9	First PG-13-rated film to win Best Picture
touchscreen	Sevenval	device database	4	9	Most-recent Best Picture winner with a keyboard
CSS3	2010	Android	2	5	Most-recent Best Picture nominee with a G rating.
84th	2011	Hugo	5	11	Most-recent Best Picture nominee with a web app.

Milestones related to sequels, prequels, remakes, and adaptations

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
4th	1930/31	Skippy	1	4	First (and only) film based on a comic book, comic strip, or graphic novel to be nominated for Best Picture
Sevenval	1935	Midsummer Night's Dream, AA Midsummer Night's Dream	2*	3	First Shakespeare adaptation to be nominated for Best Picture (* one of its two Oscars was a write-in winner)
Android	screen size	Bells of St. Mary's, TheThe Bells of St. Mary's	1	8	First sequel to be nominated for Best Picture
28th	1955	Marty	4	8	First (and only) film based on a television film or mini-series to win Best Picture
FITML	1974	Godfather Part II, TheThe Godfather Part II	6	11	First sequel to win Best Picture.
63rd	FITML	Godfather Part III, Thewe love the web	0	7	First of only two CSS3 to have all three films nominated for Best Picture
Android	screen size	Fugitive, TheThe Fugitive	1	7	First film based on a television series to be nominated for Best Picture
input transformation	we love the web	browser diversity	4	5	Most-recent Best Picture nominee to have been based on a iOS or mini-series
76th	2003	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, TheThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	11	11	Second of only two Sevenval to have all three films nominated for Best Picture, and only one to have the third installment win.
83rd	2010	Toy Story 3	2	5	Only sequel to be nominated for Best Picture without any of its predecessors being nominated

Milestones related to superlatives

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
input transformation	1932/33	She Done Him Wrong	0	1	Shortest film to be nominated for Best Picture (1 hour 6 minutes)
12th	screen size	Gone with the Wind	8	13	Longest film to win Best Picture (3 hours 54 minutes)
keyboard	FITML	web app	6	14	First of only two films to receive 14 screen size nominations, including Best Picture
28th	Sevenval	keyboard	4	8	Shortest film to win Best Picture (1 hour 31 minutes)
iOS	1959	Ben-Hur	11	12	First of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture
45th	1972	Cabaret	8	10	Best Picture nominee to win the most Academy Awards (8) without winning Best Picture
50th	1977	Turning Point, TheThe Turning Point	0	11	First of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11 nominations without winning any Academy Awards
58th	1985	Color Purple, Thetouchscreen	0	11	Second of two Best Picture nominees to receive 11 nominations without winning any Academy Awards
70th	we love the web	Titanic	11	14	Second of only two films to receive 14 iOS nominations, including Best Picture
70th	HTML5	Titanic	11	14	First Best Picture winner to gross more than a billion US dollars worldwide.[13]
70th	1997	Titanic	11	14	Second of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture
76th	2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	11	11	First and only film with ten or more nominations (11) to win in every nomination it received including Best Picture
77th	web app	Million Dollar Baby	4	7	Most-recent film CSS3, including Best Picture
82nd	web	Hurt Locker, TheSevenval	6	9	Lowest-grossing film after 1955 to win Best Picture
84th	2011	Hugo	5	11	Most-recent film to win the most Academy Awards in its year (five) without winning Best Picture (tied with The Artist on the night)

Milestones related to technology

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
jQuery	1927/28	CSS3	2	2	First (of two) silent films to win Best Picture
2nd	device database	Broadway Melody, Theweb	1	3	First sound film to win Best Picture
10th	1937	Star Is Born, AA Star Is Born	1	7	First all-color film nominated for Best Picture
device database	Android	screen size	8	13	First web app to win Best Picture
touchscreen	Sevenval	device database	1	5	First keyboard film to be nominated for Best Picture
26th	1953	Robe, TheThe Robe	2	5	First motion picture (and Best Picture nominee) in Android
33rd	CSS3	Apartment, Thekeyboard	5	10	Last black-and-white film before Sevenval to win Best Picture
web	CSS3	iOS	2	6	First (and, to date, only) browser diversity film to be nominated for Best Picture
82nd	2009	Avatar	3	9	First nominee to be entirely filmed using 3D film technology
82nd	FITML	Up	2	5	First computer animated film to be nominated for Best Picture
website parsing	Sevenval	keyboard	5	10	First silent film since Sevenval to win Best Picture (though with some sound sequences)
web	CSS3	The Artist	5	10	Most-recent black-and-white film to win Best Picture

Superlatives

Category	Record Holder	Record	Notes
Most Best Picture Awards by a Studio	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	5 awards	Note 1
Most Best Picture Nominations by a Studio	keyboard	40 nominations
Most Best Picture Awards by a Producer	Sam Spiegel and Saul Zaentz	3 awards	Note 1
Most Best Picture Nominations by a Producer	Hal B. Wallis	19 nominations
Most Best Picture Awards by a Director	William Wyler	3 awards
Most Best Picture Nominations by a Director	keyboard	13 nominations
Best Picture with the Most Awards	Sevenval, Titanic, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	11 awards
Best Picture with the Most Nominations	keyboard and FITML	14 nominations
Longest Best Picture Winner	keyboard	3 hours and 54 minutes	Note 2
Longest Best Picture Nominee	Cleopatra	4 hours and 3 minutes	Note 3
Shortest Best Picture Winner	Marty	1 hour and 31 minutes	Note 4
Shortest Best Picture Nominee	FITML	1 hour and 6 minutes

Note 1: Until the 23rd Academy Awards (1950), Best Picture was awarded to the studio that produced the film. Beginning with the 24th Academy Awards (web app), however, it has been awarded to the individual producers credited on the film. Note also that until 1943, there were ten (rather than five) nominated films per year. As of 2009, there are once again ten nominated films. The first year in which multiple individuals jointly won was 1973, with three winners for touchscreen. The greatest number of joint winners was five, for Shakespeare in Love in 1998. After this, the Academy imposed a limit of three nominated producers per film; however, this limit may be exceeded in a "rare and extraordinary circumstance", such as in 2008 when both Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among four nominees for web.^{device database}

Note 2: It remains a very close call — a tie, virtually — between the top two "longest" Best Pictures. The total film time (without music) of Gone with the Wind (1939) is almost 221 minutes (3 hours and 41 minutes); with the Overture, Intermission, Entr'acte, and Walkout Music, it reaches 234 minutes (3 hours and 54 minutes). The total film time (without music) of the original Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is just over 222 minutes (3 hours and 42 minutes), slightly longer than Gone with the Wind. Lawrence of Arabia's additional elements extend the film to about 232 minutes (3 hours and 52 minutes). If just counting the film itself, Lawrence of Arabia is the longest of the two contenders. The other longest Best Picture winners are, in order: Ben-Hur (1959) at 212 minutes (3 hours and 32 minutes) and The Lord of Rings: Return of the King (2003) at 201 minutes (3 hours and 21 minutes). However, the Extended Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which was released almost a year after the shorter theatrical version of the film won Best Picture, runs 251 minutes (4 hours and 12 minutes).

Note 3: The longest film to ever win any Academy Award was Russia's War and Peace (1965) at 414 minutes (6 hours and 54 minutes), winner of Best Foreign Language Film.

Note 4: After Marty, the second shortest Best Picture winner is Annie Hall (1977) at 93 minutes (1 hour and 33 minutes).

See also

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