Academy Awards: Home

This LibGuide lists all the winners of merit-based academy awards. To see all the nominees for any award, click the Wikipedia link for that category.

For comparison, here is the list of the top 50 highest rated movies as rated by users on IMDb:

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. 12 Angry Men (1957)
6. Schindler's List (1993)
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
8. Pulp Fiction (1994)
9. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
10. Fight Club (1999)
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001)
12. Forrest Gump (1994)
13. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
14. Inception (2010)
15. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
17. Goodfellas (1990)
18. The Matrix (1999)
19. Seven Samurai (1954)
20. Se7en (1995)
21. City of God (2002)
22. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
23. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
24. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
25. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
26. Spirited Away (2001)
27. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
28. The Usual Suspects (1995)
29. Léon: The Professional (1994)
30. Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (2018)
31. The Green Mile (1999)
32. Interstellar (2014)
33. Psycho (1960)
34. American History X (1998)
35. City Lights (1931)
36. Casablanca (1942)
37. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
38. The Pianist (2002)
39. Modern Times (1936)
40. The Intouchables (2011)
41. The Departed (2006)
42. Back to the Future (1985)
43. Terminator 2 (1991)
44. Whiplash (2014)
45. Rear Window (1954)
46. The Lion King (1994)
47. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
48. Gladiator (2000)
49. The Prestige (2006)
50. Apocalypse Now (1979)

Films with the most Oscar wins:

11 Awards won:

• Ben-Hur (1959)
• Titanic (1997)
• Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)

10 Awards won:

•  West Side Story (1961)

9 Awards won:

• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• Gigi (1958)
• The Last Emperor (1987)
• The English Patient (1996)

8 Awards won:

• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• My Fair Lady (1964)
• Cabaret (1972)
• Gandhi (1982)
• Amadeus (1984)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

7 Awards won:

• Going My Way (1944)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Patton (1970)
• The Sting (1973)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Out of Africa (1985)
• Dances with Wolves (1990)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• Gravity (2013)

6 Awards won:

• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• All About Eve (1950)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• A Place in the Sun (1951)
• A Man for All Seasons (1966)
• Oliver! (1968)
• The Godfather Part II (1974)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Chicago (2002)
• The Hurt Locker (2009)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• La La Land (2016)

Films with the most Oscar nominations:

14 Award nominations:

• Titanic (1997) - won 11
• All About Eve (1950) - won 6
• La La Land (2016) - won 6

13 Award nominations:

• Gone with the Wind (1939) - won 8
• From Here to Eternity (1953) - won 8
• Shakespeare in Love (1998) - won 7
• Forrest Gump (1994) - won 6
• Chicago (2002) - won 6
• Mary Poppins (1964) - won 5
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - won 5
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - won 4
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009) - won 3

12 Award nominations:

• Ben-Hur (1959) - won 11
• The English Patient (1996) - won 9
• On the Waterfront (1954) - won 8
• My Fair Lady (1964) - won 8
• Dances with Wolves (1990) - won 7
• Schindler's List (1993) - won 7
• Mrs. Miniver (1942) - won 6
• Gladiator (2000) - won 5
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - won 4
• The Song of Bernadette (1943) - won 4
• The King's Speech (2010) - won 4
• Reds (1981) - won 3
• The Revenant (2015) - won 3
• Lincoln (2012) - won 2
• Johnny Belinda (1948) - won 1
• Becket (1964) - won 1