ACADEMY AWARDS BEST PICTURE* WINNERS (*originally known as Best Production) 1927/28 - 1959 Part 1 |
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Academy Award Winners |
(* Did not also win Best Director) |
Studio or Production Company |
Best Picture |
(possibly?) |
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Wings (Outstanding Picture)
Sunrise (Unique and Artistic Picture) |
William A. Wellman* (The two Best Director nominees/winners were Lewis Milestone and Frank Borzage) |
Paramount Famous Lasky |
Metropolis Sunrise |
Sunrise or 7th Heaven |
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The Broadway Melody (Outstanding Picture) | Harry Beaumont* |
MGM |
The Wind The Wedding March |
The Wind or In Old Arizona |
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Outstanding Production) |
Lewis Milestone |
Universal |
Applause | |
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Cimarron | Wesley Ruggles* |
RKO Radio |
City Lights Dracula Frankenstein Little Caesar Public Enemy |
City Lights or The Front Page |
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Grand Hotel | Edmund Goulding* |
MGM |
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation | Scarface:
The Shame of a Nation or Shanghai Express |
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Cavalcade | Frank Lloyd |
Fox |
King Kong Queen Christina Trouble in Paradise Dinner at Eight Duck Soup |
King Kong or I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang |
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It Happened One Night | Frank Capra |
Columbia |
The Scarlet Empress It's a Gift Twentieth Century |
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Mutiny on the Bounty | Frank Lloyd* |
MGM |
The 39
Steps A Night At The Opera |
The 39
Steps |
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The Great Ziegfeld | Robert Z. Leonard* |
MGM |
Modern Times Swing Time My Man Godfrey Fury Show Boat |
Modern Times or Dodsworth or My Man Godfrey |
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The Life of Emile Zola | William Dieterle* |
Warner Bros |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | The Awful
Truth or Lost Horizon or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
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You Can't Take It With You | Frank Capra |
Columbia |
Bringing Up Baby Angels With Dirty Faces The Lady Vanishes |
The Adventures of Robin Hood or La Grand Illusion |
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Gone With The Wind | Victor Fleming |
MGM (Selznick) |
Destry
Rides Again Gunga Din The Women |
The Wizard of Oz or Stagecoach |
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Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock* |
United Artists (Selznick) |
His Girl Friday Pinocchio The Sea Hawk The Shop Around the Corner |
The Grapes of Wrath |
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How Green Was My Valley | John Ford |
20th Century-Fox |
Ball of Fire Meet John Doe That Hamilton Woman |
Citizen Kane |
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Mrs. Miniver | William Wyler |
MGM |
Sullivan's
Travels The Palm Beach Story To Be or Not to Be |
Sullivan's
Travels or The Magnificent Ambersons |
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Casablanca | Michael Curtiz |
Warner Bros |
Shadow of a Doubt | The Ox-Bow Incident |
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Going My Way | Leo McCarey |
Paramount |
The Curse of the Cat People Laura Meet Me in St. Louis Murder, My Sweet The Suspect Hail the Conquering Hero Lifeboat The Miracle of Morgan's Creek |
Double Indemnity |
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The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder |
Paramount |
They Were Expendable Scarlet Street A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler |
RKO Radio (Goldwyn) |
My Darling Clementine Notorious The Big Sleep Brief Encounter The Postman Always Rings Twice Gilda |
It's A Wonderful Life or Notorious |
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Gentleman's Agreement | Elia Kazan |
20th Century-Fox |
Monsieur Verdoux Black Narcissus Nightmare Alley Out of the Past Crossfire |
Out of the Past or Crossfire |
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Hamlet | Laurence Olivier* |
Universal - International (British) J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films |
Fort Apache Letter From an Unknown Woman Red River Oliver Twist |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre or Johnny Belinda |
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All the King's Men | Robert Rossen* |
Columbia |
Gun Crazy On the Town They Live By Night White Heat |
Gun Crazy or The Heiress or A Letter to Three Wives |
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All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
20th Century Fox |
The Asphalt
Jungle In a Lonely Place The Third Man Winchester '73 |
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An American In Paris | Vincente Minnelli* |
MGM |
The African Queen Strangers on a Train |
A Streetcar Named Desire or A Place in the Sun |
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The Greatest Show on Earth | Cecil B. DeMille* |
Paramount |
Singin' in The Rain The Bad and the Beautiful The Member of the Wedding Rancho Notorious Pat and Mike |
Singin' in The Rain or The Quiet Man or High Noon |
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From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann |
Columbia |
The Big
Heat Stalag 17 The Band Wagon |
Shane |
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On The Waterfront | Elia Kazan |
Columbia |
Rear Window Johnny Guitar A Star is Born |
Rear Window |
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Marty | Delbert Mann |
United Artists |
The Night of the Hunter The Blackboard Jungle East of Eden Kiss Me Deadly Rebel Without a Cause Bad Day at Black Rock Oklahoma! To Catch a Thief |
The Night of the Hunter or Rebel Without a Cause |
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Around the World in 80 Days | Michael Anderson* |
United Artists |
The Searchers Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Killing Richard III The Seven Samurai The Bad Seed Bus Stop High Society Lust for Life The Man Who Knew Too Much Written on the Wind |
The Searchers or Friendly Persuasion or Giant |
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The Bridge On The River Kwai | David Lean |
Columbia |
Paths of Glory A Face in the Crowd Sweet Smell of Success |
Paths of Glory or 12 Angry Men |
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Gigi | Vincente Minnelli |
MGM |
Vertigo Touch of Evil I Want to Live! Some Came Running South Pacific Teacher's Pet The Tarnished Angels |
Touch of Evil or The Defiant Ones or Vertigo |
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Ben-Hur | William Wyler |
MGM |
Some Like It Hot North by Northwest Rio Bravo Imitation of Life Pillow Talk Porgy and Bess |
Some Like It Hot or Anatomy of a Murder |
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