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Motion Picture Academy Awards (1927-1999) |
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| Year | Best Picture | Best Performance - Actor | Best Performance - Actress | Best Director |
| 1927-28 | "Wings" | Emil Jannings | Janet Gaynor | Frank Borzage |
| "The Way of All Flesh" | "Seventh Heaven" | "Seventh Heaven" | ||
| "The Last Command" | "Street Angel" | |||
| "Sunrise" | ||||
| 1928-29 | "Broadway Melody" | Warner Baxter | Mary Pickford | Frank Lloyd |
| "In Old Arizona" | "Coquette" | "The Divine Lady" | ||
| Ernst Lubitsch | ||||
| "The Patriot" | ||||
| 1929-30 | "All Quiet on the Western Front" | George Arliss | Norma Shearer | Lewis Milestone |
| "Disraeli" | "The Divorcee" | "All Quiet on the Western Front" | ||
| 1930-31 | "Cimarron" | Lionel Barrymore | Marie Dressler | Norman Taurog |
| "A Free Soul" | "Min and Bill" | "Skippy" | ||
| 1931-32 | "Grand Hotel" | Fredric March | Helen Hayes | Frank Borzage |
| "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" | "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" | "Bad Girl" | ||
| Wallace Beery | ||||
| "The Champ" | ||||
| 1932-33 | "Cavalcade" | Charles Laughton | Katharine Hepburn | Frank Lloyd |
| "The Private Life of Henry VIII" | "Morning Glory" | "Cavalcade" | ||
| 1934 | "It Happened One Night" | Clark Gable | Claudette Colbert | Frank Capra |
| "It Happened One Night" | "It Happened One Night" | "It Happened One Night" | ||
| 1935 | "Mutiny on the Bounty" | Victor McLaglen | Bette Davis | John Ford |
| "The Informer" | "Dangerous" | "The Informer" | ||
| 1936 | "The Great Ziegfeld" | Paul Muni | Luise Rainer | Frank Capra |
| "The Story of Louis Pasteur" | "The Great Ziegfeld" | "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" | ||
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola" | Spencer Tracy | Luise Rainer | Leo McCarey |
| "Captains Courageous" | "The Good Earth" | "The Awful Truth" | ||
| 1938 | "You Can"t Take It with You" | Spencer Tracy | Bette Davis | Frank Capra |
| "Boys Town" | "Jezebel" | "You Can"t Take It with You" | ||
| 1939 | "Gone with the Wind" | Robert Donat | Vivien Leigh | Victor Fleming |
| "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" | "Gone with the Wind" | "Gone with the Wind" | ||
| 1940 | "Rebecca" | James Stewart | Ginger Rogers | John Ford |
| "The Philadelphia Story" | "Kitty Foyle" | "The Grapes of Wrath" | ||
| 1941 | "How Green Was My Valley" | Gary Cooper | Joan Fontaine | John Ford |
| "Sergeant York" | "Suspicion" | "How Green Was My Valley" | ||
| 1942 | "Mrs. Miniver" | James Cagney | Greer Garson | William Wyler |
| "Yankee Doodle Dandy" | "Mrs. Miniver" | "Mrs. Miniver" | ||
| 1943 | "Casablanca" | Paul Lukas | Jennifer Jones | Michael Curtiz |
| "Watch on the Rhine" | "The Song of Bernadette" | "Casablanca" | ||
| 1944 | "Going My Way" | Bing Crosby | Ingrid Bergman | Leo McCarey |
| "Going My Way" | "Gaslight" | "Going My Way" | ||
| 1945 | "The Lost Weekend" | Ray Milland | Joan Crawford | Billy Wilder |
| "The Lost Weekend" | "Mildred Pierce" | "The Lost Weekend" | ||
| 1946 | "The Best Years of Our Lives" | Fredric March | Olivia de Havilland | William Wyler |
| "The Best Years of Our Lives" | "To Each His Own" | "The Best Years of Our Lives" | ||
| 1947 | "Gentleman"s Agreement" | Ronald Colman | Loretta Young | Elia Kazan |
| "A Double Life" | "The Farmer"s Daughter" | "Gentleman"s Agreement" | ||
| 1948 | "Hamlet" | Laurence Olivier | Jane Wyman | John Huston |
| "Hamlet" | "Johnny Belinda" | "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" | ||
| 1949 | "All the King"s Men" | Broderick Crawford | Olivia de Havilland | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| "All the King"s Men" | "The Heiress" | "A Letter to Three Wives" | ||
| 1950 | "All About Eve" | José Ferrer | Judy Holliday | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| "Cyrano de Bergerac" | "Born Yesterday" | "All About Eve" | ||
| 1951 | "An American in Paris" | Humphrey Bogart | Vivien Leigh | George Stevens |
| "The African Queen" | "A Streetcar Named Desire" | "A Place in the Sun" | ||
| 1952 | "The Greatest Show on Earth" | Gary Cooper | Shirley Booth | John Ford |
| "High Noon" | "Come Back, Little Sheba" | "The Quiet Man" | ||
| 1953 | "From Here to Eternity" | William Holden | Audrey Hepburn | Fred Zinnemann |
| "Stalag 17" | "Roman Holiday" | "From Here to Eternity" | ||
| 1954 | "On the Waterfront" | Marlon Brando | Grace Kelly | Elia Kazan |
| "On the Waterfront" | "The Country Girl" | "On the Waterfront" | ||
| 1955 | "Marty" | Ernest Borgnine | Anna Magnani | Delbert Mann |
| "Marty" | "The Rose Tattoo" | "Marty" | ||
| 1956 | "Around the World in 80 Days" | Yul Brynner | Ingrid Bergman | George Stevens |
| "The King and I" | "Anastasia" | "Giant" | ||
| 1957 | "The Bridge on the River Kwai" | Alec Guinness | Joanne Woodward | David Lean |
| "The Bridge on the River Kwai" | "The Three Faces of Eve" | "The Bridge on the River Kwai" | ||
| 1958 | "Gigi" | David Niven | Susan Hayward | Vincente Minnelli |
| "Separate Tables" | "I Want to Live!" | "Gigi" | ||
| 1959 | "Ben-Hur" | Charlton Heston | Simone Signoret | William Wyler |
| "Ben-Hur" | "Room at the Top" | "Ben-Hur" | ||
| 1960 | "The Apartment" | Burt Lancaster | Elizabeth Taylor | Billy Wilder |
| "Elmer Gantry" | "Butterfield 8" | "The Apartment" | ||
| 1961 | "West Side Story" | Maximilian Schell | Sophia Loren | Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins |
| "Judgment at Nuremberg" | "Two Women" | "West Side Story" | ||
| 1962 | "Lawrence of Arabia" | Gregory Peck | Anne Bancroft | David Lean |
| "To Kill a Mockingbird" | "The Miracle Worker" | "Lawrence of Arabia" | ||
| 1963 | "Tom Jones" | Sidney Poitier | Patricia Neal | Tony Richardson |
| "Lilies of the Field" | "Hud" | "Tom Jones" | ||
| 1964 | "My Fair Lady" | Rex Harrison | Julie Andrews | George Cukor |
| "My Fair Lady" | "Mary Poppins" | "My Fair Lady" | ||
| 1965 | "The Sound of Music" | Lee Marvin | Julie Christie | Robert Wise |
| "Cat Ballou" | "Darling" | "The Sound of Music" | ||
| 1966 | "A Man for All Seasons" | Paul Scofield | Elizabeth Taylor | Fred Zinnemann |
| "A Man for All Seasons" | "Who"s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" | "A Man for All Seasons" | ||
| 1967 | "In the Heat of the Night" | Rod Steiger | Katharine Hepburn | Mike Nichols |
| "In the Heat of the Night" | "Guess Who"s Coming to Dinner" | "The Graduate" | ||
| 1968 | "Oliver!" | Cliff Robertson | Katharine Hepburn (tie) | Sir Carol Reed |
| "Charly" | "The Lion in Winter" | "Oliver!" | ||
| Barbra Streisand (tie) | ||||
| "Funny Girl" | ||||
| 1969 | "Midnight Cowboy" | John Wayne | Maggie Smith | John Schlesinger |
| "True Grit" | "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" | "Midnight Cowboy" | ||
| 1970 | "Patton" | George C. Scott | Glenda Jackson | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| "Patton" | "Women in Love" | "Patton" | ||
| 1971 | "The French Connection" | Gene Hackman | Jane Fonda | William Friedkin |
| "The French Connection" | "Klute" | "The French Connection" | ||
| 1972 | "The Godfather" | Marlon Brando | Liza Minnelli | Bob Fosse |
| "The Godfather" | "Cabaret" | "Cabaret" | ||
| 1973 | "The Sting" | Jack Lemmon | Glenda Jackson | George Roy Hill |
| "Save the Tiger" | "A Touch of Class" | "The Sting" | ||
| 1974 | "The Godfather Part II" | Art Carney | Ellen Burstyn | Francis Ford Coppola |
| "Harry and Tonto" | "Alice Doesn"t Live Here Anymore" | "The Godfather Part II" | ||
| 1975 | "One Flew over the Cuckoo"s Nest" | Jack Nicholson | Louise Fletcher | Milos Forman |
| "One Flew over the Cuckoo"s Nest" | "One Flew over the Cuckoo"s Nest " | "One Flew over the Cuckoo"s Nest" | ||
| 1976 | "Rocky" | Peter Finch | Faye Dunaway | John G. Avildsen |
| "Network" | "Network" | "Rocky" | ||
| 1977 | "Annie Hall" | Richard Dreyfuss | Diane Keaton | Woody Allen |
| "The Goodbye Girl" | "Annie Hall" | "Annie Hall" | ||
| 1978 | "The Deer Hunter" | Jon Voight | Jane Fonda | Michael Cimino |
| "Coming Home" | "Coming Home" | "The Deer Hunter" | ||
| 1979 | "Kramer vs. Kramer" | Dustin Hoffman | Sally Field | Robert Benton |
| "Kramer vs. Kramer" | "Norma Rae" | "Kramer vs. Kramer" | ||
| 1980 | "Ordinary People" | Robert De Niro | Sissy Spacek | Robert Redford |
| "Raging Bull" | "Coal Miner"s Daughter" | "Ordinary People" | ||
| 1981 | "Chariots of Fire" | Henry Fonda | Katharine Hepburn | Warren Beatty |
| "On Golden Pond" | "On Golden Pond" | "Reds" | ||
| 1982 | "Gandhi" | Ben Kingsley | Meryl Streep | Richard Attenborough |
| "Gandhi" | "Sophie"s Choice" | "Gandhi" | ||
| 1983 | "Terms of Endearment" | Robert Duvall | Shirley MacLaine | James L. Brooks |
| "Tender Mercies" | "Terms of Endearment" | "Terms of Endearment" | ||
| 1984 | "Amadeus" | F. Murray Abraham | Sally Field | Milos Forman |
| "Amadeus" | "Places in the Heart" | "Amadeus" | ||
| 1985 | "Out of Africa" | William Hurt | Geraldine Page | Sydney Pollack |
| "Kiss of the Spider Woman" | "The Trip to Bountiful" | "Out of Africa" | ||
| 1986 | "Platoon" | Paul Newman | Marlee Matlin | Oliver Stone |
| "The Color of Money" | "Children of a Lesser God" | "Platoon" | ||
| 1987 | "The Last Emperor" | Michael Douglas | Cher | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| "Wall Street" | "Moonstruck" | "The Last Emperor" | ||
| 1988 | "Rain Man" | Dustin Hoffman | Jodie Foster | Barry Levinson |
| "Rain Man" | "The Accused" | "Rain Man" | ||
| 1989 | "Driving Miss Daisy" | Daniel Day-Lewis | Jessica Tandy | Oliver Stone |
| "My Left Foot" | "Driving Miss Daisy" | "Born on the Fourth of July" | ||
| 1990 | "Dances with Wolves" | Jeremy Irons | Kathy Bates | Kevin Costner |
| "Reversal of Fortune" | "Misery" | "Dances with Wolves" | ||
| 1991 | "The Silence of the Lambs" | Anthony Hopkins | Jodie Foster | Jonathan Demme |
| "The Silence of the Lambs" | "The Silence of the Lambs" | "The Silence of the Lambs" | ||
| 1992 | "Unforgiven" | Al Pacino | Emma Thompson | Clint Eastwood |
| "Scent of a Woman" | "Howards End" | "Unforgiven" | ||
| 1993 | "Schindler"s List" | Tom Hanks | Holly Hunter | Steven Spielberg |
| "Philadelphia" | "The Piano" | "Schindler"s List" | ||
| 1994 | "Forrest Gump" | Tom Hanks | Jessica Lange | Robert Zemeckis |
| "Forrest Gump" | "Blue Sky" | "Forrest Gump" | ||
| 1995 | "Braveheart" | Nicolas Cage | Susan Sarandon | Mel Gibson |
| "Leaving Las Vegas" | "Dead Man Walking" | "Braveheart" | ||
| 1996 | "The English Patient" | Geoffrey Rush | Frances McDormand | Anthony Minghella |
| "Shine" | "Fargo" | "The English Patient" | ||
| 1997 | "Titanic" | Jack Nicholson | Helen Hunt | James Cameron |
| "As Good As It Gets" | "As Good As It Gets" | "Titanic" | ||
| 1998 | "Shakespeare In Love" | Roberto Benigni | Gwyneth Paltrow | Steven Spielberg |
| "Life Is Beautiful" | "Shakespeare In Love" | "Saving Private Ryan" | ||
| 1999 | "American Beauty" | Kevin Spacey | Hilary Swank | Sam Mendes |
| "American Beauty" | "Boys Don't Cry" | "American Beauty" |
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