The Film-Lover's Check List: Academy Award Nominees

Best Picture Nominees

2024


	Anora (2024)
	The Brutalist (2024)
	Conclave (2024)
	A Complete Unknown (2024)
	Dune: Part Two (2023)
	Emilia Perez (2024)
	I'm Still Here (2024)
	Nickel Boys (2024)
	The Substance (2024)
	Wicked (2021)

2023


	American Fiction (2023)
	Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
	Barbie (2023)
	The Holdovers (2023)
	Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
	Maestro (2023)
	Oppenheimer (2023)
	Past Lives (2023)
	Poor Things (2023)
	The Zone of Interest (2023)
	Women Talking (2022)

2022


	All Quiet On the Western Front (2022)
	Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
	Elvis (2022)
	Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
	The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
	The Fabelmans (2022)
	Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
	Triangle of Sadness (2022)
	Tar (2022)
	Women Talking (2022)

2021


	Belfast (2021)
	Coda (2021)
	Don't Look Up (2021)
	Drive My Car (2021)
	Dune (2021)
	King Richard (2021)
	Licorice Pizza (2021)
	Nightmare Alley (2021)
	The Power of the Dog (2021)
	West Side Story (2021)

2020


	Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
	Mank (2020)
	Minari (2020)
	Nomadland (2020)
	Promising Young Woman (2020)
	Sound of Metal (2019)
	The Father (2020)
	The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

2019


	1917 (2019)
	Ford v Ferrari (2019)
	The Irishman (2019)
	Jojo Rabbit (2019)
	Joker (2019)
	Little Women (2019)
	Marriage Story (2019)
	Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019)
	Parasite (2019)

2018


	Black Panther (2018)
	BlacKkKlansman (2018)
	Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
	The Favourite (2018)
	Green Book (2018)
	Roma (2018)
	A Star Is Born (2018)
	Vice (2018)

2017


	The Shape of Water (2017)
	Call Me By Your Name (2017)
	Darkest Hour (2017)
	Dunkirk (2017)
	Get Out (2017)
	Lady Bird (2017)
	Phantom Thread (2017)
	The Post (2017)
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

2016


	Moonlight (2016)
	Arrival (2016)
	Fences (2016)
	Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
	Hell Or High Water (2016)
	Hidden Figures (2016)
	La La Land (2016)
	Lion (2016)
	Manchester By the Sea (2016)

2015


	Spotlight (2015)
	The Big Short (2015)
	Brooklyn (2015)
	Bridge of Spies (2015)
	Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
	The Martian (2015)
	The Revenant (2015)
	Room (2015)

2014


	Birdman (2014)
	American Sniper (2014)
	Boyhood (2014)
	The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
	The Imitation Game (2014)
	Selma (2014)
	The Theory of Everything (2014)
	Whiplash (2014)

2013


	12 Years a Slave (2013)
	American Hustle (2013)
	Captain Phillips (2013)
	Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
	Gravity (2013)
	Her (2013)
	Nebraska (2013)
	Philomena (2013)
	The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

2012


	Argo (2012)
	Amour (2012)
	Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
	Django Unchained (2012)
	Les Miserables (2012)
	Life of Pi (2012)
	Lincoln (2012)
	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
	Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

2011


	The Artist (2011)
	The Descendants (2011)
	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
	The Help (2011)
	Hugo (2011)
	Midnight In Paris (2011)
	Moneyball (2011)
	The Tree of Life (2011)
	War Horse (2011)

2010


	The King's Speech (2010)
	Black Swan (2010)
	The Fighter (2010)
	Inception (2010)
	The Kids Are All Right (2010)
	127 Hours (2010)
	The Social Network (2010)
	Toy Story 3 (2010)
	True Grit (2010)
	Winter's Bone (2010)

2009


	The Hurt Locker (2009)
	Avatar (2009)
	The Blind Side (2009)
	District 9 (2009)
	An Education (2009)
	Inglourious Basterds (2009)
	Precious (2009)
	A Serious Man (2009)
	Up (2009)
	Up In the Air (2009)

2008


	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
	Frost/Nixon (2008)
	Milk (2008)
	The Reader (2008)

2007


	No Country For Old Men (2007)
	Atonement (2007)
	Juno (2007)
	Michael Clayton (2007)
	There Will Be Blood (2007)

2006


	The Departed (2006)
	Babel (2006)
	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
	The Queen (2006)

2005


	Crash (2005)
	Brokeback Mountain (2005)
	Capote (2005)
	Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
	Munich (2005)

2004


	Million Dollar Baby (2004)
	The Aviator (2004)
	Finding Neverland (2004)
	Ray (2004)
	Sideways (2004)

2003


	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
	Lost In Translation (2003)
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
	Mystic River (2003)
	Seabiscuit (2003)

2002


	Chicago (2002)
	Gangs of New York (2002)
	The Hours (2002)
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
	The Pianist (2002)

2001


	A Beautiful Mind (2001)
	Gosford Park (2001)
	In the Bedroom (2001)
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
	Moulin Rouge! (2001)

2000


	Gladiator (2000)
	Chocolat (2000)
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
	Erin Brockovich (2000)
	Traffic (2000)

1999


	American Beauty (1999)
	The Cider House Rules (1999)
	The Green Mile (1999)
	The Insider (1999)
	The Sixth Sense (1999)

1998


	Shakespeare In Love (1998)
	Elizabeth (1998)
	Life Is Beautiful (1997)
	Saving Private Ryan (1998)
	The Thin Red Line (1998)

1997


	Titanic (1997)
	As Good As It Gets (1997)
	The Full Monty (1997)
	Good Will Hunting (1997)
	L.A. Confidential (1997)

1996


	The English Patient (1996)
	Fargo (1996)
	Jerry Maguire (1996)
	Secrets & Lies (1996)
	Shine (1996)

1995


	Braveheart (1995)
	Babe (1995)
	Apollo 13 (1995)
	Il Postino (1994)
	Sense and Sensibility (1995)

1994


	Forrest Gump (1994)
	Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
	Pulp Fiction (1994)
	Quiz Show (1994)
	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

1993


	Schindler's List (1993)
	The Fugitive (1993)
	In the Name of the Father (1993)
	The Piano (1993)
	The Remains of the Day (1993)

1992


	Unforgiven (1992)
	The Crying Game (1992)
	A Few Good Men (1992)
	Howards End (1992)
	Scent of a Woman (1992)

1991


	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
	Beauty and the Beast (1991)
	Bugsy (1991)
	JFK (1991)
	The Prince of Tides (1991)

1990


	Dances With Wolves (1990)
	Awakenings (1990)
	Ghost (1990)
	The Godfather, Part III (1990)
	Goodfellas (1990)

1989


	Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
	Born On the Fourth of July (1989)
	Dead Poets Society (1989)
	Field of Dreams (1989)
	My Left Foot (1989)

1988


	Rain Man (1988)
	The Accidental Tourist (1988)
	Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
	Mississippi Burning (1988)
	Working Girl (1988)

1987


	The Last Emperor (1987)
	Broadcast News (1987)
	Fatal Attraction (1987)
	Hope and Glory (1987)
	Moonstruck (1987)

1986


	Platoon (1986)
	Children of a Lesser God (1986)
	Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
	The Mission (1986)
	A Room With a View (1986)

1985


	Out of Africa (1985)
	The Color Purple (1985)
	Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
	Prizzi's Honor (1985)
	Witness (1985)

1984


	Amadeus (1984)
	The Killing Fields (1984)
	A Passage To India (1984)
	Places In the Heart (1984)
	A Soldier's Story (1984)

1983


	Terms of Endearment (1983)
	The Big Chill (1983)
	The Dresser (1983)
	The Right Stuff (1983)
	Tender Mercies (1983)

1982


	Gandhi (1982)
	E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
	Missing (1982)
	Tootsie (1982)
	The Verdict (1982)

1981


	Chariots of Fire (1981)
	Atlantic City (1980)
	On Golden Pond (1981)
	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
	Reds (1981)

1980


	Ordinary People (1980)
	Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
	The Elephant Man (1980)
	Raging Bull (1980)
	Tess (1979)

1979


	Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
	All That Jazz (1979)
	Apocalypse Now (1979)
	Breaking Away (1979)
	Norma Rae (1979)

1978


	The Deer Hunter (1978)
	Coming Home (1978)
	Heaven Can Wait (1978)
	Midnight Express (1978)
	An Unmarried Woman (1978)

1977


	Annie Hall (1977)
	The Goodbye Girl (1977)
	Julia (1977)
	Star Wars (1977)
	The Turning Point (1977)

1976


	Rocky (1976)
	All the President's Men (1976)
	Bound For Glory (1976)
	Network (1976)
	Taxi Driver (1976)

1975


	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
	Barry Lyndon (1975)
	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
	Jaws (1975)
	Nashville (1975)

1974


	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
	Chinatown (1974)
	The Conversation (1974)
	Lenny (1974)
	The Towering Inferno (1974)

1973


	The Sting (1973)
	American Graffiti (1973)
	Cries and Whispers (1972)
	The Exorcist (1973)
	A Touch of Class (1973)

1972


	The Godfather (1972)
	Cabaret (1972)
	Deliverance (1972)
	The Emigrants (1971)
	Sounder (1972)

1971


	The French Connection (1971)
	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
	Fiddler On the Roof (1971)
	The Last Picture Show (1971)
	Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

1970


	Patton (1970)
	Airport (1970)
	Five Easy Pieces (1970)
	Love Story (1970)
	MAS*H (1970)

1969


	Midnight Cowboy (1969)
	Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
	Hello, Dolly! (1969)
	Z (1969)

1968


	Oliver! (1968)
	Funny Girl (1968)
	The Lion In Winter (1968)
	Rachel, Rachel (1968)
	Romeo and Juliet (1968)

1967


	In the Heat of the Night (1967)
	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
	Doctor Dolittle (1967)
	The Graduate (1967)
	Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)

1966


	A Man For All Seasons (1966)
	Alfie (1966)
	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
	The Sand Pebbles (1966)
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

1965


	The Sound of Music (1965)
	Darling (1965)
	Dr. Zhivago (1965)
	Ship of Fools (1965)
	A Thousand Clowns (1965)

1964


	My Fair Lady (1964)
	Becket (1964)
	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
	Mary Poppins (1964)
	Zorba the Greek (1964)

1963


	Tom Jones (1963)
	America, America (1963)
	Cleopatra (1963)
	How the West Was Won (1962)
	Lilies of the Field (1963)

1962


	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
	The Longest Day (1962)
	The Music Man (1962)
	Mutiny On the Bounty (1962)
	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

1961


	West Side Story (1961)
	Fanny (1961)
	The Guns of Navarone (1961)
	The Hustler (1961)
	Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)

1960


	The Apartment (1960)
	The Alamo (1960)
	Elmer Gantry (1960)
	Sons and Lovers (1960)
	The Sundowners (1960)

1959


	Ben-Hur (1959)
	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
	The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
	The Nun's Story (1959)
	Room At the Top (1959)

1958


	Gigi (1958)
	Auntie Mame (1958)
	Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
	The Defiant Ones (1958)
	Separate Tables (1958)

1957


	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
	Peyton Place (1957)
	Sayonara (1957)
	12 Angry Men (1957)
	Witness For the Prosecution (1957)

1956


	Around the World In 80 Days (1956)
	Friendly Persuasion (1956)
	Giant (1956)
	The King and I (1956)
	The Ten Commandments (1956)

1955


	Marty (1955)
	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
	Mister Roberts (1955)
	Picnic (1955)
	The Rose Tattoo (1955)

1954


	On the Waterfront (1954)
	The Caine Mutiny (1954)
	The Country Girl (1954)
	Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
	Three Coins In the Fountain (1954)

1953


	From Here To Eternity (1953)
	Julius Caesar (1953)
	The Robe (1953)
	Roman Holiday (1953)
	Shane (1953)

1952


	The Greatest Show On Earth (1952)
	High Noon (1952)
	Ivanhoe (1952)
	Moulin Rouge (1952)
	The Quiet Man (1952)

1951


	An American In Paris (1951)
	Decision Before Dawn (1951)
	A Place In the Sun (1951)
	Quo Vadis (1951)
	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

1950


	All About Eve (1950)
	Born Yesterday (1950)
	Father of the Bride (1950)
	King Solomon's Mines (1950)
	Sunset Boulevard (1950)

1949


	All the King's Men (1949)
	Battleground (1949)
	The Heiress (1949)
	A Letter To Three Wives (1949)
	Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

1948


	Hamlet (1948)
	Johnny Belinda (1948)
	The Red Shoes (1948)
	The Snake Pit (1948)
	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

1947


	Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
	The Bishop's Wife (1947)
	Crossfire (1947)
	Great Expectations (1946)
	Miracle On 34th Street (1947)

1946


	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
	Henry V (1944)
	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
	The Razor's Edge (1946)
	The Yearling (1946)

1945


	The Lost Weekend (1945)
	Anchors Aweigh (1945)
	The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
	Mildred Pierce (1945)
	Spellbound (1945)

1944


	Going My Way (1944)
	Double Indemnity (1944)
	Gaslight (1944)
	Since You Went Away (1944)
	Wilson (1944)

1943


	Casablanca (1942)
	For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
	Heaven Can Wait (1943)
	The Human Comedy (1943)
	In Which We Serve (1942)
	Madame Curie (1943)
	The More the Merrier (1943)
	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
	The Song of Bernadette (1943)
	Watch On the Rhine (1943)

1942


	Mrs. Miniver (1942)
	49th Parallel (1941)
	Kings Row (1942)
	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
	The Pied Piper (1942)
	The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
	Random Harvest (1942)
	The Talk of the Town (1942)
	Wake Island (1942)
	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

1941


	How Green Was My Valley (1941)
	Blossoms In the Dust (1941)
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
	Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
	The Little Foxes (1941)
	The Maltese Falcon (1941)
	One Foot In Heaven (1941)
	Sergeant York (1941)
	Suspicion (1941)

1940


	Rebecca (1940)
	All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
	Foreign Correspondent (1940)
	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
	The Great Dictator (1940)
	Kitty Foyle (1940)
	The Letter (1940)
	The Long Voyage Home (1940)
	Our Town (1940)
	The Philadelphia Story (1940)

1939


	Gone With the Wind (1939)
	Dark Victory (1939)
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
	Love Affair (1939)
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
	Ninotchka (1939)
	Of Mice and Men (1939)
	Stagecoach (1939)
	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
	Wuthering Heights (1939)

1938


	You Can't Take It With You (1938)
	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
	Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
	Boys Town (1938)
	The Citadel (1938)
	Four Daughters (1938)
	Grand Illusion (1937)
	Jezebel (1938)
	Pygmalion (1938)
	Test Pilot (1938)

1937


	The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
	The Awful Truth (1937)
	Captains Courageous (1937)
	Dead End (1937)
	The Good Earth (1937)
	In Old Chicago (1937)
	Lost Horizon (1937)
	One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
	Stage Door (1937)
	A Star Is Born (1937)

1936


	The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
	Anthony Adverse (1936)
	Dodsworth (1936)
	Libeled Lady (1936)
	Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
	Romeo and Juliet (1936)
	San Francisco (1936)
	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
	A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
	Three Smart Girls (1936)

1935


	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)
	Alice Adams (1935)
	Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
	Captain Blood (1935)
	David Copperfield (1935)
	The Informer (1935)
	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
	Les Miserables (1935)
	Naughty Marietta (1935)
	Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
	Top Hat (1935)

1934


	It Happened One Night (1934)
	The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
	Cleopatra (1934)
	Flirtation Walk (1934)
	The Gay Divorcee (1934)
	Here Comes the Navy (1934)
	The House of Rothschild (1934)
	Imitation of Life (1934)
	One Night of Love (1934)
	The Thin Man (1934)
	Viva Villa! (1934)
	The White Parade (1934)

1932-33


	Cavalcade (1933)
	42nd Street (1933)
	A Farewell To Arms (1932)
	I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
	Lady For a Day (1933)
	Little Women (1933)
	The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
	She Done Him Wrong (1933)
	Smilin' Through (1932)
	State Fair (1933)

1931-32


	Grand Hotel (1932)
	Arrowsmith (1931)
	Bad Girl (1931)
	The Champ (1931)
	Five Star Final (1931)
	One Hour With You (1932)
	Shanghai Express (1932)
	The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

1930-31


	Cimarron (1931)
	East Lynne (1931)
	The Front Page (1931)
	Skippy (1931)
	Trader Horn (1931)

1929-30


	All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
	The Big House (1930)
	Disraeli (1929)
	The Divorcee (1930)
	The Love Parade (1929)

1928-29


	The Broadway Melody (1929)
	Alibi (1929)
	The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
	In Old Arizona (1928)
	The Patriot (1928)*

1927-28 Production


	Wings (1927)
	The Racket (1928)
	7th Heaven (1927)

1927-28 Artistic


	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
	Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)
	The Crowd (1928)

*This is a lost film.