Films by Awards

This page contains a complete list of all the award winning films that is listed in the book Awards is also listed in the info boxes in the book.


Academy Awards




The Academy Awards, best known as the Oscars is the most popular and most prestigious award in the film industry, and there's no surprise that many Oscar-winners are listed in this book. There are a total of 62 best picture winners, which makes up to 5.7% of all 1001 films.

Best Picture Winners:


62/83 = 75%

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
All About Eve (1950)
An American in Paris (1951)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Marty (1955)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Gigi (1958)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
West Side Story (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Sound of Music (1965)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Patton (1970)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
The Sting (1973)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Rocky (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Ordinary People (1980)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Gandhi (1982)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Amadeus (1984)
Out of Africa (1985)
Platoon (1986)
Rain Man (1988)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Unforgiven (1992)
Schindler's List (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Braveheart (1995)
The English Patient (1996)
Titanic (1997)
American Beauty (1999)
Gladiator (2000)
Chicago (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Crash (2005)
The Departed (2006)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
The King's Speech (2010)
The Artist (2011)
Argo (2012)


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Best Actor Winners:


39/83 = 47%

Clark Gable - It Happened One Night (1934)
Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous (1937)
James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Gary Cooper - Sergeant York (1941)
James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend (1945)
Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen (1951)
Garry Cooper - High Noon (1952)
Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront (1954)
Ernest Borgnine - Marty (1955)
Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur (1958)
Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady (1964)
Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night (1967)
George C. Scott - Patton (1970)
Gene Hackman - The French Connection (1971)
Marlon Brando - The Godfather (1972)
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Peter Finch - Network (1976)
Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Robert De Niro - Raging Bull (1980)
Ben Kingsley - Gandhi (1982)
F. Murray Abrahams - Amadeus (1984)
William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Michael Douglas - Wall Street (1987)
Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man (1988)
Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot (1989)
Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Tom Hanks - Philadelphia (1993)
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump (1994)
Geoffrey Rush - Shine (1996)
Kevin Spacey - American Beauty (1999)
Russell Crowe - Gladiator (2000)
Adrien Brody - The Pianist (2002)
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood (2007)
Colin Firth - The King's Speech (2010)
Jean Dujardin - The Artist (2011)
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln (2012)



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Best Actress Winners:

25/83 = 30%

Janet Gaynor - Sunrise (1927)
Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night (1934)
Bette Davis - Jezebel (1938)
Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind (1939)
Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight (1944)
Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce (1945)
Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress (1949)
Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday (1953)
Patricia Neal - Hud (1963)
Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Jane Fonda - Klute (1971)
Liza Minnelli - Cabaret (1972)
Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Faye Dunaway - Network (1976)
Diane Keaton - Annie Hall (1977)
Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment (1983)
Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God (1986)
Cher - Moonstruck (1987)
Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Holly Hunter - The Piano (1993)
Frances McDormand - Fargo (1996)
Helen Mirren - The Queen (2006)
Marion Cotillard - La Vie en rose (2007)
Natalie Portman - Black Swan (2010)



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Best Supporting Actor Winners:


37/75 = 49%

Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach (1939)
Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Walter Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
George Sanders - All About Eve (1950)
Karl Malden - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Frank Sinatra - From Here To Eternity (1953)
Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur (1959)
Peter Ustinov - Spartacus (1960)
George Chakiris - West Side Story (1961)
Melvyn Douglas - Hud (1963)
George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show (1971)
Joel Gray - Cabaret (1972)
Robert De Niro - The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Jason Robards - All The Presidents Man (1976)
Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter (1978)
Melvyn Douglas - Being There (1979)
Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People (1980)
Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment (1983)
Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields (1984)
Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Sean Connery - The Untouchables (1987)
Kevin Klein - A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Denzel Washington - Glory (1989)
Joe Pesci - Goodfellas (1990)
Gene Hackman - Unforgiven (1992)
Kevin Spacey - The Unusual Suspects (1995)
Benicio del Toro - Traffic (2000)
Chris Cooper - Adaptation. (2002)
Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men (2007)
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight (2008)
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Bastards (2009)
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained (2012)


  
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Best Support Actress Winner:


30/75 = 40%

Fay Bainter - Jezebel (1938)
Hattie McDaniel - Gone with the Wind (1939)
Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Gloria Grahame - The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Donna Reed - From Here to Eternity (1953)
Eve Marie Saint - On the Waterfront (1954)
Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind (1956)
Rita Moreno - West Side Story (1961)
Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Estelle Parsons - Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show (1971)
Beatrice Straight - Network (1976)
Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Maureen Stapleton - Reds (1981)
Jessica Lange - Tootsie (1982)
Peggy Ashcroft - A Passage to India (1984)
Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Diane Wiest -Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck (1987)
Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist (1988)
Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot (1989)
Anna Paquin - The Piano (1993)
Juliette Binoche - The English Patient (1996)
Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential (1997)
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago (2002)
Cate Blanchett - The Aviator (2004)
Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener (2005)
Mo'Nique - Precious (2009)
Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables (2012)


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Cannes Film Festival





Golden Palm (Palm D'or)

The Lost Weekend (1945)
Rome, Open City (1945)
Brief Encounter (1946)
The Third Man (1949)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Marty (1955)
The Cranes Are Flying (1958)
Black Orpheus (1959)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Viridiana (1961)
The Leopard (1963)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Blow-Up (1966)
if.... (1968)
MASH (1970)
The Conversation (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Three of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Tin Drum (1979)
All That Jazz (1979)
Man of Iron (1981)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
The Piano (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Underground (1995)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
Rosetta (1999)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
The Son's Room (2001)
The Pianist (2002)
Elephant (2003)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
The Class (2008)
The White Ribbon (2009)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Amour (2012)


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Venice Film Festival



Golden Lion (Il Leone d'Oro)

Rashomon (1950)
Ordet (1955)
Red Desert (1964)
The Battle of Alguers (1966)
Belle de Jour (1967)
Atlantic City (1980)
Vagabond (1985)
Au revoir les enfants (1987)
Short Cuts (1993)
Three Colours: Blue (1993)
Cyclo (1995)
Fireworks (1997)
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The Wrestler (2008)



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Berlin Film Festival




Golden Bear (Goldener Bär)

The Wages of Fear (1953)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1958)
The Night (1961)
Alphaville (1965)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
The Ascent (1977)
Rain Man (1988)
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Magnolia (1999)
Spirited Away (2001)
Head-On (2004)
A Separation (2011)


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