Favorite Oscar wins by category
A list of my all-time favorites in every Oscar category.
Edit: No Live Action Short Films or Documentary Short Subjects, because I've seen way too few of them.
Edit: No Live Action Short Films or Documentary Short Subjects, because I've seen way too few of them.
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- 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.Best Picture - Saul Zaents & Michael Douglas (producers)
Runners-up: The Godfather, Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather: Part II, The Departed, The Deer Hunter. - 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.Best Director - Francis Ford Coppola
Runners-up: David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia), Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Martin Scorsese (The Departed). - DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.Best Actor - Marlon Brando
Runners-up: Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Laurence Olivier (Hamlet), Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood). - DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsMeryl StreepKevin KlinePeter MacNicolSophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.Best Actress - Meryl Streep
Runners-up: Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire), Frances McDormand (Fargo), Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs). - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroRay LiottaJoe PesciThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.Best Supporting Actor - Joe Pesci
Runners-up: Frank Sinatra (From Here to Eternity), Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds), Gig Young (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?). - DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsRyan O'NealTatum O'NealMadeline KahnDuring the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.Best Supporting Actress - Tatum O'Neal
Runners-up: Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny), Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Mercedes McCambridge (All the King's Men). - 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.Best Original Screenplay - Quentin Tarantino; stories by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
Runners-up: Fargo, Citizen Kane, Lost in Translation. - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Best Adapted Screenplay - Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola; based on the novel by Mario Puzo
Runners-up: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Godfather: Part II, Casablanca. - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsRyan O'NealMarisa BerensonPatrick MageeAn Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.Best Cinematography - cinematography by John Alcott
Runners-up: Days of Heaven, Cries and Whispers, Lawrence of Arabia. - DirectorOliver StoneStarsKevin CostnerGary OldmanJack LemmonNew Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.Best Film Editing - edited by Joe Hutshing & Pietro Scalia
Runners-up: Jaws, Raging Bull, Star Wars. - DirectorGeorge LucasStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherLuke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.Best Music, Original Score - music by John Williams
Runners-up: The Right Stuff, Lawrence of Arabia, Schindler's List. - DirectorSteve GordonStarsDudley MooreLiza MinnelliJohn GielgudAlcoholic billionaire playboy Arthur Bach must marry a woman he does not love, or he will be cut off from his $750,000,000 fortune. But when Arthur falls in love with a poor waitress, he must decide if he wants to choose love or money.Best Original Song - "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do", by Christopher Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager & Peter Allen.
Runners-up: "Over the Rainbow" (The Wizard of Oz), "Streets of Philadelphia" (Philadelphia), "Things Have Changed" (Wonder Boys). - DirectorWarren BeattyStarsWarren BeattyMadonnaAl PacinoThe comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.Best Art Direction - production design by Richard Sylbert
Runners-up: The Last Emperor, Gone with the Wind, Cleopatra. - DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.Best Costume Design - costumes by Theodor Pistek
Runners-up: Barry Lyndon, Fanny and Alexander, Ran. - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeff GoldblumGeena DavisJohn GetzA brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.Best Makeup - make-up design by Chris Walas & Stephan Dupuis
Runners-up: The Fellowship of the Ring, Dracula, The Grand Budapest Hotel. - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.Best Sound - sound mixers: Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs & Nat Boxer
Runners-up: Amadeus, Star Wars, Les Misérables. - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHarrison FordKaren AllenPaul FreemanIn 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.Sound editing - Ben Burtt & Richard L. Anderson
Runners-up: Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future. - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.Best Visual Effects - visual effects by Stanley Kubrick
Runners-up: Jurassic Park, The Two Towers, Star Wars. - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBertil GuvePernilla AllwinKristina AdolphsonTwo young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.Best Foreign Language Film - Sweden, directed by Ingmar Bergman
Runners-up: 8 1/2, The Lives of Others, Day for Night. - DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsDaveigh ChaseSuzanne PleshetteMiyu IrinoDuring her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.Best Animated Feature - directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Runners-up: Toy Story 3, WALL-E, Toy Story 4. - DirectorEzra EdelmanStarsKareem Abdul-JabbarMike AlbaneseMuhammad AliA chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.Best Documentary Feature - directed by Ezra Edelman
Runners-up: The Fog of War, Bowling for Columbine, Woodstock. - DirectorNick ParkStarsPeter SallisPeter HawkinsGromit butts heads with a mysterious penguin lodger, who hatches a sinister scheme involving the ex-NASA Techno Trousers that have been modified by Wallace for walkies.Best Animated Short Film - directed by Nick Park
Runners-up: A Close Shave, For the Birds, Three Little Pigs. - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.Best Music Treatment (Song Score or Adaptation Score) - Marvin Hamlisch
Runners-up: Barry Lyndon, Let It Be, My Fair Lady.
*semi-retired, not awarded since 1984* - 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.Best Story - story by Lewis R. Foster
Runners-up: Miracle on 34th Street, Roman Holiday, The Search.
*retired award*