Some of the biggest past oscar winners include the films Ben Hur, Titanic and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - all of which have won eleven Oscars.
Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson and Ingrid Bergman are among the leaders in total wins for the acting categories.
To date, only three films have won the so-called "Oscar Grand Slam" - taking home awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Writing. These films are It Happened One Night in 1934, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975, and The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.
If you are looking for a complete list of this year's Oscar Winners, see Mahalo's guide to Oscar Winners 2010. The winners of the 2010 Oscars were announced as the show aired live from the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California, on Sunday, March 7, 2010.
2010 Oscar Nominations and Winners
- Avatar - James Cameron and Jon Landau
- The Blind Side - TBA
- District 9 - Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham
- An Education - Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
- The Hurt Locker - WINNER!
- Inglourious Basterds - Lawrence Bender
- Precious - Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness
- A Serious Man - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- Up - Jonas Rivera
- Up in the Air - Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman
- Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart - WINNER!
- George Clooney in Up in the Air
- Colin Firth in A Single Man
- Morgan Freeman in Invictus
- Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker
- Matt Damon in Invictus
- Woody Harrelson in The Messenger
- Christopher Plummer in The Last Station
- Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones
- Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds - WINNER!
- Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side - WINNER!
- Helen Mirren in The Last Station
- Carey Mulligan in An Education
- Gabourey Sidibe in Precious
- Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia
- Penelope Cruz in Nine
- Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air
- Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart
- Anna Kendrick in Up in the Air
- Mo'Nique in Precious - WINNER!
- Coraline - Henry Selick
- Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson
- The Princess and the Frog - John Musker and Ron Clements
- The Secret of Kells - Tomm Moore
- Up - Pete Docter - WINNER!
- Avatar - Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg, Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair - WINNER!
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro, Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
- Nine - Art Direction: John Myhre, Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
- Sherlock Holmes - Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood, Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
- The Young Victoria - Art Direction: Patrice Vermette, Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
- Avatar - Mauro Fiore - WINNER!
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Bruno Delbonnel
- The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd
- Inglourious Basterds - Robert Richardson
- The White Ribbon - Christian Berger
- Bright Star - Janet Patterson
- Coco before Chanel - Catherine Leterrier
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Monique Prudhomme
- Nine - Colleen Atwood
- The Young Victoria - Sandy Powell - WINNER!
- Avatar - James Cameron
- The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow - WINNER!
- Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
- Precious - Lee Daniels
- Up in the Air - Jason Reitman
- Burma VJ - Anders Ostergaard and Lise Lense-Moller
- The Cove - Fisher Stevens and Louie Psihoyos - WINNER!
- Food, Inc. - Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
- The Most Dangerous Man in America Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers - Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
- Which Way Home - Rebecca Cammisa
- China's Unnatural Disaster The Tears of Sichuan Province - Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
- The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner - Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
- The Last Truck Closing of a GM Plant - Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
- Music by Prudence - Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett - WINNER!
- Rabbit a la Berlin - Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
- Avatar - Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
- District 9 - Julian Clarke
- The Hurt Locker - Bob Murawski and Chris Innis - WINNER!
- Inglourious Basterds - Sally Menke
- Precious - Joe Klotz
- Ajami - Israel
- El Secreto de Sus Ojos - Argentina - WINNER!
- The Milk of Sorrow - Peru
- Un Prophete - France
- The White Ribbon - Germany
- Il Divo - Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
- Star Trek - Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow - WINNER!
- The Young Victoria - Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
- Avatar - James Horner
- Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat
- The Hurt Locker - Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
- Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer
- Up - Michael Giacchino - WINNER!
- "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog - Randy Newman
- "Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog - Randy Newman
- "Loin de Paname" from Paris 36 - Frank Thomas
- "Take It All" from Nine - Maury Yeston
- "The Weary Kind Theme from Crazy Heart" from Crazy Heart - Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett - WINNER!
Short Film (Animated)
- French Roast - Fabrice O. Joubert
- Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty - Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
- The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) - Javier Recio Gracia
- Logorama - Nicolas Schmerkin - WINNER!
- A Matter of Loaf and Death - Nick Park
- The Door - Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
- Instead of Abracadabra - Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellstrom
- Kavi - Gregg Helvey
- Miracle Fish - Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
- The New Tenants - Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson - WINNER!
- Avatar - Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
- The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson - WINNER!
- Inglourious Basterds - Wylie Stateman
- Star Trek - Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
- Up - Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
- Avatar - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
- The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett - WINNER!
- Inglourious Basterds - Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
- Star Trek - Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
- Transformers Revenge of the Fallen - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
- Avatar - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones - WINNER!
- District 9 - Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
- Star Trek - Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
- District 9 - Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
- An Education - Nick Hornby
- In the Loop - Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche
- Precious - Geoffrey Fletcher - WINNER!
- Up in the Air - Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
- The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal - WINNER!
- Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
- The Messenger - Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
- A Serious Man - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- Up - Bob Peterson, Pete Docter and Tom McCarthy
2009 Oscar Winners
At the 2009 Oscars, held on February 22, 2009, Slumdog Millionaire cleaned up as the top winner, taking home Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Danny Boyle), Best Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy), Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Score and Best Song. Sean Penn took home the Best Actor statue for his work in Milk, while Kate Winslet won Best Actress for The Reader. Other winners included Penelope Cruz as Best Supporting Actress in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the late Heath Ledger as Best Supporting Actor in The Dark Knight and Dustin Lance Black and Milk as Best Original Screenplay.
Past 10 Best Picture Winners
- Date reflects year of the ceremony
- (2008): No Country for Old Men
- (2007): The Departed
- (2006): Crash
- (2005): Million Dollar Baby
- (2004): The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- (2003): Chicago
- (2002): A Beautiful Mind
- (2001): Gladiator
- (2000): American Beauty
- (1999): Shakespeare in Love
Oscar Winners 1990s
- FilmSite.org: Academy Awards Winners (1990-1999)
Oscar Winners 1980s
- FilmSite.org: Academy Awards Winners (1980-1989)
Oscar Winners 1970s
- FilmSite.org: Academy Awards Winners (1970-1979)
Oscar Winners 1960s
- FilmSite.org: Academy Awards Winners (1960-1969)
Oscar Winners 1950s
- FilmSite.org: Academy Awards Winners (1950-1959)
Oscar Winners 1940s
- FilmSite.org: Academy Awards Winners (1940-1949)
Oscar Winners 1920s and 1930s
- FilmSite.org: Academy Awards Winners (1927-1939)
Celebrities at The Oscars
References
Fast Facts
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First ever Best Picture Academy Award winner
Wings, in 1929, a silent film
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Fact:
33 films have won six or more Academy Awards, including Gone With the Wind, All About Eve, Star Wars and Schindler's List
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Katharine Hepburn has won the most Academy Awards, with four
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Walt Disney has won the most Oscar statues, with 22
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In 2008, Daniel Day-Lewis was highly favored to win Best Actor
