The Academy Award for Best Picture
For the first time in many years, the Academy Awards will have ten pictures vying for the Best Picture award. For more than a decade during the Academy’s earlier years, the Best Picture category welcomed more than five films; for nine years there were 10 nominees. The 16th Academy Awards (1943) was the last year to include a field of that size; “Casablanca” was named Best Picture. (In 1931/32, there were eight nominees and in 1934 and 1935 there were 12 nominees.)
In honor of this new change, this exhibit highlights Best Picture winners from over the years.
This years nominees for Best Picture are:
- Avatar
- The Blind Side
- District 9
- An Education
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglourious Bastards
- Precious
- A Serious Man
- Up
- Up in the Air
Best Pictures not in the Exhibit
- All Quiet on the Western Front
Call Number: Video PN1997.A3242 1995
Best Picture winner in 1930. - Mutiny on the Bounty
Call Number: DVD PS3527.O437 M8 2004
Winner, Best Picture 1935. - The Life of Emile Zola
Call Number: Video PQ2528.L54 1989
Best Picture, 1937. - The Premiere Frank Capra Collection
Call Number: DVD PN1997.P735 2006
Includes the 1934 Best Picture, It Happened One Night, and the 1938 Best Picture, You Can't Take it With You. - Rebecca
Call Number: DVD PR6007.U47 R4 2008
Best Picture in 1940. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Lawrence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. - Going My Way
Call Number: Video PN1997.G61
Best Picture for 1944. - The Best Years of Our Lives
Call Number: Video PN1997.B477 1991
Best Picture 1946. - Hamlet
Call Number: DVD PR2807.A23 O54 2000
Best Picture 1948. - All the King's Men
Call Number: Video PS3545.A748 A7 1990
Best Picture, 1949. - An American in Paris
Call Number: DVD PN1995.9.M86 A43 1999
Best Picture, 1951. - From Here to Eternity
Call Number: Video PN1997.F754 1989
1953 Best Picture, Best Director-Fred Zinnemann, Best Supporting Actor-Frank Sinatra, and Best Supporting Actress-Donna Reed. - Ben Hur
Call Number: DVD PN1997.B463 2001
Best picture 1959. Won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Director (William Wyler), Best Actor (Charlton Heston) and Best Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith). - West Side Story
Call Number: Video PN1995.9.M86 W47 1988
Best Picture, 1961. - Tom Jones
Call Number: DVD PR3454.H5 2001
Best Picture, 1963. - My Fair Lady
Call Number: Video PN1995.9.M86 M9 pt.1-2
Best Picture, 1964. - The Sound of Music
Call Number: DVD PN1995.9.M86 S686 2002
Best Picture, 1965. - A Man for All Seasons
Call Number: DVD PN1995.9.M86 S686 2002
Best Picture 1966. - Patton
Call Number: Video PN1995.9.W3 P37 pt.1-2
Best Picture, 1970. - Godfather, Part II
Call Number: Video PN1997.G633 1988 pt.1-2
Best Picture, 1974. - The Deer Hunter
Call Number: Video PN1995.9.W3 D4 1991 pt.1-2
Best Picture, 1978. - Out of Africa
Call Number: Video PN1997.O87 1986
Best Picture, 1985. - Driving Miss Daisy
Call Number: Video PS3571.H7 D7 1991
Best Picture, 1989. - Dances with Wolves
Call Number: Video PN1997.D25 1991
Best Picture, 1990. - The Silence of the Lambs
Call Number: Video PN1997.S5346 1991
Best Picture, 1991. - The Unforgiven
Call Number: Video PN1995.9.W4 U54
Best Picture, 1992. - Forrest Gump
Call Number: Video PN1997.F673 1995
Best Picture, 1994. - Braveheart
Call Number: DVD PN1995.9.H5 B728 2007
Best Picture, 1995. - The English Patient
Call Number: DVD PR9199.9.O5 E54 2004
Best Picture, 1996. - Shakespeare in Love
Call Number: Video PN1997.S523 1998
Best Picture, 1998. - Gladiator
Call Number: DVD PN1995.9.H5 G522 2003
Best Picture, 2000 - Crash
Call Number: DVD PN1997.C727 2005
Best Picture, 2005.
Books in the Exhibit
On the Road to Tara : the making of Gone With the Wind / - Aljean Harmatz.
Call Number: PN1997.G59 H36 1996
ISBN/ISSN: 0810936844
A noted journalist has gained access to the Gone With the Wind producer's private archive, as well as several other large collections, to reveal prospective casting lists, more than one hundred photographs, and many more insights into the making of the blockbuster movie.
All about "All about Eve" : the complete behind-the-scenes story of the bitchiest film ever made / - Sam Staggs.
Call Number: Hicks PN1997.A323 S73 2000
ISBN/ISSN: 0312252684
Pictures at a revolution : five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood / - Mark Harris.
Call Number: PN1993.5.U6 H37 2008
ISBN/ISSN: 1594201528
Documents the cultural revolution behind 1967's five Best Picture-nominated films--"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "The Graduate," "Doctor Doolittle," "In the Heat of the Night," and "Bonnie and Clyde"--and how they reflected beliefs about race, violence, and identity.
Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy / - edited by Nick Browne.
Call Number: PN1997.G56833 F73 2000
ISBN/ISSN: 0521559502
In six essays written especially for this volume, The Godfather trilogy is reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Providing original analyses on the form and significance of Coppola's achievement, they demonstrate how the filmmaker revised the conventions of the American crime film in the Vietnam era, his treatment of the capitalism of the criminal underworld and its inherent violence, the power struggles within Hollywood over the film, and the contribution of opera to the epic force and cinematic style of Coppola's vision of an American criminal dynasty.
The making of James Cameron's Titanic : the inside story of the three-year adventure that rewrote motion picture history / - Paula Parisi.
Call Number: Hicks PN1997.T54 P37 1998
ISBN/ISSN: 1557043647
The Lord of the Rings location guidebook / - Ian Brodie.
Call Number: PN1997.2.L67 B76 2003
ISBN/ISSN: 1869505301
Since the first screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001, New Zealand has become the embodiment of Middle-earth to millions of moviegoers the world over. This definitive guidebook showcases the principal movie set locations around New Zealand as seen in all three films.
Movies in the Exhibit
Wings [motion picture]
Call Number: Video PN1995.75.W56 1985
Winner of the first Best Picture award. Starring Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen and Gary Cooper, it is the story of two young men who join the Air Service during World War I and the girl they must leave behind.
The Great Ziegfield [motion picture]
Call Number: DVD PN1995.9.M86 G732 2004
ISBN/ISSN: 0790745194
Best picture in 1936. Stars William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, and Fanny Brice.
Gone With the Wind [motion picture]
Call Number: DVD PN1997.G6528 2004
ISBN/ISSN: 0790790491
Best Picture in 1939.
In 1939, arguably one of Hollywood's best film years, there were ten nominees including such diverse classics as “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “Stagecoach,” “The Wizard of Oz” and Best Picture winner “Gone with the Wind.”
Casablanca [motion picture]
Call Number: DVD PN1997.C372 2003
Best picture for 1943. Directed by Michael Curtiz. A truly perfect movie, the 1942 Casablanca still wowsviewers today, and for good reason. Its unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes in the war against a monster is sophisticated instead of outlandish, intriguing instead of garish. Humphrey Bogart plays the allegedly apolitical club owner in unoccupied French territory that is nevertheless crawling with Nazis; Ingrid Bergman is the lover who mysteriously deserted him in Paris; and Paul Heinreid is her heroic, slightly bewildered husband. Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Conrad Veidt are among what may be the best supporting cast in the history of Hollywood films.
Gentleman's Agreement [motion picture]
Call Number: DVD PN1997.G467 2002
Best Picture, 1947.
All About Eve [motion picture]
Call Number: Personal copy.
Best Picture 1950.
The Bridge on the River Kwai [motion picture]
Call Number: Personal Copy
Best Picture, 1957.
The Apartment [motion picture]
Call Number: Personal Copy
Best Picture, 1960.
In the Heat of the Night [motion picture]
Call Number: DVD PN1995.9.D4 I57 2001
Best Picture, 1967.
Godfather [motion picture]
Call Number: Personal DVD copy. Also Video PN1997.G63 1989 pt.1-2
Best Picture, 1972.
Chariots of Fire [motion picture]
Call Number: Personal DVD Copy. also Video PN1997.85.C42 1991
Best Picture, 1981.
Amadeus [motion picture]
Call Number: DVD PR6037.H23 A8 1997
Best Picture, 1984.
Schindler's List [motion picture]
Call Number: Personal DVD Copy. Also Video PN1997.S355 1994 pt.1-2
Best Picture, 1993.
Titanic [motion picture]
Call Number: Personal DVD copy, also Video PN1995.9.D55 .T5 1998 vol.1-2
Best Picture, 1997. Won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Director (James Cameron).
The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King [motion picture]
Call Number: Personal Copy
Best Picture, 2003.
Million Dollar Baby [motion picture]
Call Number: Personal Copy
Best Picture, 2004.
The Departed [motion picture]
Call Number: Personal Copy.
Best Picture, 2006. Won 4 Academy Awards, including Martin Scorsese's first award as Best Director.
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