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The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2008 and took place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.
In the list below, winners are listed first in the gold row, followed by the other nominees. [1] 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 Los Angeles County, California; normally this is also the year of first release, but it may be the year after first release (as with Casablanca and, if the film ...
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 ...
The best picture Oscar has marked the epitome of the award-show season for 95 years — where only one film comes out on top. Read on to see all the films that have won best picture thus far.
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 ...
Competitive Academy Awards are separated from non-competitive Awards; as such, any films that were awarded a non-competitive award will be shown in brackets next to the number of competitive wins. Films that were nominated, but had the nomination taken away for any reason are listed here, but without counting the nomination.
The Polar Express (2004) received two technical nominations, Best Sound Editing and Mixing and was the only non-Disney animated film to be nominated in the Sound Design categories until The Wild Robot (2024). The Prince of Egypt (1998) win Best Original Song and is the only non-Disney animated film to win Best Original Song.
Nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the directors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the academy. [3] [4] [5] For the first eleven years of the Academy Awards, directors were allowed to be nominated for multiple films in the same year.