The Complete Oscar Quest
I did my original Oscar Quest, which was just Picture, Director, Actor, Actor, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress, and very quickly realized, “Well I guess I have to do them all now.” Because that’s how crazy works, kids.
This is a list of every nominee ever at the Oscars. In one place. From the first Oscars up through the most recent ceremony. Every category, every nominee, winners notated. I’ve broken them up into individual pages for each year, so we don’t have a single, unwieldy article on our hands.
At the bottom of each year, so you don’t have to parse through everything if you want to watch them all, I made a list of all the films that were nominated (except for the nominees for Foreign Language Film, Documentary and the Shorts categories. Maybe one day I’ll include those, but not now).
My goal is to watch every movie on those lists. So what I’ve done is, below the links to all the ceremonies, I have my current list of what nominees I’ve yet to watch. And I will continue updating it as I watch more films.
(Note: These links will eventually contain both the winners and nominees and some form of write up by me about my thoughts on each of the categories. We’re not quite there yet. We’re putting Descartes before the horse. And he’s just going, “Is it, though?”)
1st Academy Awards (1927-1928)
2nd Academy Awards (1928-1929)
3rd Academy Awards (1929-1930)
4th Academy Awards (1930-1931)
5th Academy Awards (1931-1932)
6th Academy Awards (1932-1933)
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Films Left to See:
1927-1928
- Glorious Betsy
- The Noose
- The Red Mill
- Sorrell and Son
- Tempest
1928-1929
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- The Cop
- Drag (Lloyd)
- Dynamite (DeMille)
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
- The Leatherneck
- Sal of Singapore
- Skyscraper
- White Shadows in the South Seas (Van Dyke)
- A Woman of Affairs (Brown)
- Wonder of Women (Brown)
1929-1930
- The Case of Sergeant Grischa
- Raffles
- Sally
- The Vagabond King
- With Byrd at the South Pole
1930-1931
- The Doorway to Hell (Mayo)
- Just Imagine (Butler)
- Laughter
- The Right to Love
- Whoopee!
1931-1932
- Á nous la liberté (Clair)
- Lady and Gent
- The Star Witness (Wellman)
- Transatlantic
1932-1933
- Rasputin and the Empress
- Reunion in Vienna
- When Ladies Meet
1934
- Eskimo (Van Dyke)
- Operator 13
- The Richest Girl in the World
- She Loves Me Not (Nugent)
1935
- $1,000 a Minute
- All the King’s Horses
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 (Taurog)
- Broadway Hostess
- The Crusades (DeMille)
- Folies Bergère de Paris (Del Ruth)
- The Gay Deception (Wyler)
- King of Burlesque
- Love Me Forever
- The Scoundrel (Hecht, MacArthur)
- She (Pichel)
- Thanks a Million (Del Ruth)
1936
- Banjo on My Knee (Cromwell)
- Born to Dance (Del Ruth) (2)
- Cain and Mabel (Bacon)
- Dancing Pirate
- Fury (Lang)
- General Spanky (Douglas)
- The Magnificent Brute
- One in a Million
- Pennies from Heaven (McLeod)
- Sing, Baby Sing
- That Girl from Paris
1937
- Ali Baba Goes to Town (Butler)
- Artists and Models (Walsh)
- A Day at the Races (Wood)
- Every Day’s a Holiday (Wood)
- The Girl Said No (Stone)
- Hitting a New High (Walsh)
- Make a Wish
- Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
- Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
- Portia on Trial
- Quality Street (Stevens)
- Ready, Willing and Able
- Something to Sing About
- Thin Ice
- Varsity Show (Keighley)
- Vogues of 1938 (2)
- Way Out West
- Wells Fargo (Lloyd)
- Wings Over Honolulu (Potter)
- You’re a Sweetheart (Butler)
1938
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Taurog)
- Army Girl (3)
- The Big Broadcast of 1938 (Leisen)
- Block-Heads
- Breaking the Ice
- The Buccaneer (DeMille)
- Girls’ School (Brahm)
- Going Places
- The Lady Objects
- Mad About Music (Taurog) (4)
- Mannequin (Borzage)
- Pacific Liner
- Storm Over Bengal
- Suez (Dwan)
- There Goes My Heart (McLeod)
- Tropic Holiday
- Under Western Stars
1939
- Balalaika
- Captain Fury
- Eternally Yours (Garnett)
- Golden Boy (Mamoulian)
- The Great Victor Herbert (Stone) (3)
- Lady of the Tropics (Conway)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (Whale)
- The Mikado
- Nurse Edith Cavell
- Second Fiddle
- She Married a Cop
- Swanee River
- They Shall Have Music (Mayo)
- Topper Takes a Trip (McLeod)
- When Tomorrow Comes (Stahl)
1940
- Behind the News
- Bitter Sweet (Van Dyke) (2)
- Captain Caution
- The Dark Command (Walsh) (2)
- Dr. Cyclops
- The Fight for Life
- Hit Parade of 1941 (2)
- The House of the Seven Gables
- The Invisible Man Returns
- Irene
- Lillian Russell
- The Mark of Zorro (Mamoulian)
- Music in My Heart
- My Son, My Son! (Vidor)
- Northwest Passage (Vidor)
- Rhythm on the River
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Tin Pan Alley (Lang)
- Typhoon
- Women in War
- You’ll Find Out (Butler)
1941
- Appointment for Love
- Back Street (Stevenson)
- Billy the Kid (Miller)
- Birth of the Blues
- Cheers for Miss Bishop (Garnett)
- The Devil Pays Off
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Fleming)
- The Flame of New Orleans
- Flight Command (Borzage)
- Ice-Capades
- The Invisible Woman
- I Wanted Wings (Leisen)
- King of the Zombies
- Ladies in Retirement (Vidor) (2)
- Lady Be Good (McLeod)
- Las Vegas Nights
- Lydia
- The Men in Her Life
- Mercy Island
- Ridin’ on a Rainbow
- The Sea Wolf (Curtiz)
- Skylark (Sandrich)
- So Ends Our Night (Cromwell)
- The Son of Monte Cristo
- Sunny
- Tall, Dark and Handsome (Humberstone)
- Tanks a Million
- That Uncertain Feeling (Lubitsch)
- Tom, Dick and Harry (Kanin)
- Topper Returns (Del Ruth)
- When Ladies Meet (Leonard)
- This Woman Is Mine (Lloyd)
- A Yank in the R.A.F. (King)
1942
- Babes on Broadway (Berkeley)
- Captains of the Clouds (Curtiz) (2)
- The Corsican Brothers
- Desperate Journey (Walsh)
- Flying with Music (2)
- Friendly Enemies (Dwan)
- George Washington Slept Here (Keighley)
- Hellzapoppin’ (Potter)
- Invisible Agent
- It Started with Eve (Koster)
- Joan of Paris (Stevenson)
- Johnny Doughboy
- The Mayor of 44th Street
- Moontide (Mayo)
- The Navy Comes Through
- Orchestra Wives (Mayo)
- The Shanghai Gesture (von Sternberg) (2)
- Silver Queen (Bacon) (2)
- The Spoilers
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point (Hathaway)
- To the Shores of Tripoli (Humberstone)
- The War Against Mrs. Hadley (Bucquet)
1943
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
- Bombardier
- Commandos Strike at Dawn (Farrow)
- Coney Island (Lang)
- Corvette K-225
- Crash Dive (Mayo)
- The Fallen Sparrow
- Flight for Freedom
- Hers to Hold
- Hi Diddle Diddle (Stone)
- Hit Parade of 1943 (2)
- Holy Matrimony (Stahl)
- Johnny Come Lately
- Mission to Moscow (Curtiz)
- The Moon and the Sixpence (Lewin)
- Riding High (Marshall)
- The Sky’s the Limit (2)
- So This Is Washington
- Something to Shout About (2)
- Stand By for Action (Leonard)
- Victory Through Air Power
1944
- Brazil (3)
- The Climax
- Days of Glory (Tourneur)
- The Desert Song
- The Fighting Seabees
- Follow the Boys
- The Hairy Ape
- Higher and Higher (2)
- His Butler’s Sister (Borzage)
- Irish Eyes Are Smiling
- Jack London
- Knickerbocker Holiday
- The Merry Monahans
- Music in Manhattan
- None Shall Escape (De Toth)
- The Princess and the Pirate (Butler) (2)
- Secret Command
- Sensations of 1945 (Stone)
- Step Lively
- Summer Storm (Sirk)
- Sweet and Lowdown (Mayo)
- Three Russian Girls
- Two Girls and a Sailor (Thorpe)
- The Uninvited (Allen)
- Up in Mabel’s Room (Dwan)
- Voice in the Wind (Ripley) (2)
- Wing and a Prayer (Hathaway)
- Woman of the Town
1945
- The Affairs of Susan
- Belle of the Yukon (2)
- Captain Eddie (Bacon)
- Captain Kidd
- Dillinger
- Earl Carroll Vanities
- The Enchanted Cottage (Cromwell)
- Frenchman’s Creek (Leisen)
- G.I. Honeymoon (Karlson)
- Guest in the House (Brahm)
- Guest Wife (Wood)
- Here Come the Waves (Sandrich)
- Hitchhike to Happiness
- Incendiary Blonde (Marshall)
- The Man Who Walked Alone
- Marie-Louise
- Music for Millions (Koster)
- Paris Underground
- Pride of the Marines (Daves)
- Salty O’Rourke (Walsh)
- San Antonio (Butler)
- Sing Your Way Home (Mann)
- The Spanish Main (Borzage)
- Sunbonnet Sue
- This Love of Ours (Dieterle)
- Three Is a Family
- The Unseen (Allen)
- What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (Thorpe)
- The Woman in the Window (Lang)
1946
- Blithe Spirit (Lean)
- The Blue Dahlia (Marshall)
- Centennial Summer (Preminger) (2)
- The Dark Mirror (Siodmak)
- The Dolly Sisters
- Humoresque (Negulesco)
- Kitty (Leisen)
- The Seventh Veil (Bennett)
- A Stolen Life (Bernhardt)
- The Stranger (Welles)
- Vacation from Marriage
1947
- A Cage of Nightingales
- The Foxes of Harrow (Stahl)
- My Wild Irish Rose (Butler)
- The Perils of Pauline (Marshall)
- Shoeshine (De Sica)
- The Time, the Place and the Girl (Butler)
- T-Men (Mann)
1948
- B.F.’s Daughter (Leonard)
- Casbah (Berry)
- Deep Waters (King)
- Green Grass of Wyoming
- That Lady in Ermine (Lubitsch)
- The Louisiana Story
- The Loves of Carmen (Vidor)
- Moonrise (Borzage)
- The Paleface (McLeod)
- Romance on the High Seas (Curtiz, Berkeley) (2)
- The Three Musketeers (Sidney)
1949
- It Happens Every Spring (Bacon)
- Look for the Silver Lining (Butler)
- Madame Bovary (Minnelli)
- Mighty Joe Young
- Mother Is a Freshman (Bacon)
- Neptune’s Daughter
- Once More, My Darling (Montgomery)
- Paisan (Rossellini)
- Passport to Pimlico (Cornelius)
- The Quiet One
- Sand
- Sarabond for Dead Lovers (Dearden)
- So Dear to My Heart
- Tulsa (Heisler)
- The Window (Tetzlaff)
1950
- Bitter Rice
- The Black Rose (Hathaway)
- Captain Carey, U.S.A. (Leisen)
- I’ll Get By
- Louisa (Hall)
- Mystery Street (Sturges)
- No Sad Songs for Me (Maté)
- Our Very Own (Miler)
- The Red Danube (Sidney)
- Singing Guns
- That Forsythe Woman (Bennett)
- Three Little Words (Thorpe)
- The Toast of New Orleans (Taurog)
- Trio
- Wabash Avenue (Koster)
- The West Point Story (Del Ruth)
1951
- The Bullfighter and the Lady (Boetticher)
- Go for Broke!
- Golden Girl (Bacon)
- I Want You (Robson)
- Kind Lady (Sturges)
- The Model and the Marriage Broker (Cukor)
- The Mudlark (Negulesco)
- Rich, Young and Pretty (Taurog)
- La Ronde (Ophuls) (2)
- Royal Wedding (Donen)
- The Strip
- Teresa (Zinnemann)
- Too Young to Kiss (Leonard)
- Two Tickets to Broadway
1952
- Affair in Trinidad (Sherman)
- The Atomic City (Hopper)
- Because You’re Mine (Hall)
- The Card (Neame)
- Flat Top
- The Jazz Singer (Curtz)
- Just for You (Nugent)
- The Medium
- The Miracle of Our Lady Fatima (Brahm)
- My Son John (McCarey)
- Plymouth Adventure (Brown)
- The Pride of St. Louis
- Son of Paleface
- The Thief (Rouse)
1953
- The Actress (Cukor)
- All the Brothers Were Valiant (Thorpe)
- Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
- The Caddy (Taurog)
- Call Me Madam (Lang) (2)
- The Captain’s Paradise
- Crazylegs
- The Cruel Sea
- The Four Poster
- Kiss Me Kate (Sidney)
- The Mississippi Gambler (Maté)
- Miss Sadie Thompson (Bernhardt)
- The President’s Lady (Levin) (2)
- Small Town Girl
- The Story of Three Loves (Minnelli)
- Take The High Ground (Brooks)
1954
- Bread, Love and Dreams
- Desiree (Koster) (2)
- The Gate of Hell
- Knock on Wood (Frank, Panama)
- Le Plaisir (Ophuls)
- Red Garters (Marshall)
- Rogue Cop (Rowland)
1955
- The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Preminger)
- The Dam Busters (Anderson)
- M. Hulot’s Holiday (Tati)
- A Man Called Peter (Koster)
- The Pickwick Papers
- The Private War of Major Benson (Hopper)
- The Rains of Ranchipur (Negulesco)
- The Seven Little Foys (Shavelson)
- The Sheep Has Five Legs
- The Tender Trap (Walters)
- Unchained
- The Virgin Queen (Koster)
1956
- The Best Things in Life Are Free (Curtiz)
- Julie (Stone) (2)
- The Power and the Prize (Koster)
- The Proud and the Beautiful
- The Proud and Profane (Seaton) (2)
- The Solid Gold Cadillac (Quine) (2)
- Stagecoach to Fury
1957
- April Love (Levin)
- Boy on a Dolphin (Negulesco)
- I vitelloni (Fellini)
- Perri
- Tammy and the Bachelor (Pevney)
1958
- The Buccaneer
- Cowboy (Daves)
- Desire Under the Elms (Mann)
- The Horse’s Mouth (Neame)
- Mardi Gras (Goulding)
- The Sheepman (Marshall)
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Sirk)
- Tom Thumb (Pal)
- Torpedo Run (Pevney)
- White Wilderness
1959
- The Gazebo (Marshall)
- Libel (Asquith)
- L’il Abner (Frank)
- Say One for Me (Tashlin)
- Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
- The Young Land (Tetzlaff)
1960
- The Angry Silence (Guy Green)
- High Time (Edwards)
- It Started in Naples (Shavelson)
- The Last Voyage (Stone)
- Let’s Make Love (Cukor)
- Midnight Lace (David Miller)
- The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (Boetticher)
- Song Without End (Charles Vidor)
- The Time Machine (Pal)
- Tunes of Glory (Neame)
- The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
- Visit to a Small Planet (Taurog)
1961
- Back Street (David Miller)
- Claudelle Inglish (Douglas)
- Il General della Rovere (Rossellini)
1962
- My Geisha (Cardiff)
- Period of Adjustment (Hill)
- Phaedra (Dassin)
- The Pigeon That Took Rome (Shavelson)
- Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman)
- Walk on the Wild Side (Dmytryk)
1963
- The Caretakers
- Come Blow Your Horn (Yorkin)
- The Four Days of Naples
- A Gathering of Eagles (Delbert Mann)
- Mondo Cane
- The Stripper (Schaffner)
- Sundays and Cybele (2)
- Toys in the Attic (Hill)
- Wives and Lovers
1964
- Dear Heart (Delbert Mann)
- Fate Is the Hunter (Nelson)
- A House Is Not a Home (Rouse)
- Kisses for My President (Bernhardt)
- The Lively Set (Arnold)
- One Potato, Two Potato (Peerce)
- The Organizer
- That Man from Rio
- The Visit
- Where Love Has Gone (Dmytryk)
1965
- Casanova 70
- Morituri
- A Rage to Live
1966
- An American Dream / See You in Hell, Darling
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (3)
- Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini)
- Khartoum (Dearden)
- Mandragora
- Return of the Seven (Kennedy)
- The Singing Nun (Koster)
- Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
1967
- Banning
- Beach Red (Wilde)
- Tobruk (Hiller)
- Ulysses
- The War Is Over
1968
- For Love of Ivy (Daniel Mann)
- The Fox (Rydell)
- Hot Millions
- War and Peace
- Wild in the Streets
1969
- The Damned (Visconti)
- Krakatoa, East of Java
1970
- The Baby Maker (Bridges)
- I Girasoli (De Sica)
- The Hawaiians
- My Night at Maud’s
- Pieces of Dreams
1971
- Bless the Beasts and the Children (Kramer)
- The Conformist (Bertolucci)
- Death in Venice (Visconti)
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (De Sica)
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
- Tchaikovsky
- What’s the Matter with Helen?
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
1972
- Ben (Karlson)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)
- Images (Altman)
- The Little Ark
- Murmur of the Heart (Malle)
- The Stepmother
1973
- Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Zeffirelli)
- Jesus Christ Superstar (Jewison)
- Ludwig (Visconti)
1974
- Benji
- Gold
- Shanks (Castle)
1975
- And Now My Love
- Birds Do It, Bees Do It
- The Four Musketeers (Lester)
- Lies My Father Told Me
- The Other Side of the Mountain (Peerce)
- Profumo di donna
- Whiffs
1976
- Casanova (Fellini) (2)
- Half a House
- The Passover Plot
1977
- Islands in the Stream (Schaffner)
- Mohammad, Messenger of God
- That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel)
- You Light Up My Life
1978
- Bloodbrothers (Mulligan)
- Caravans
- Hooper (Needham)
- The Magic of Lassie
- The Swarm
1979
- Agatha (Apted)
- The Amityville Horror (Rosenberg)
- Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (Lester)
- The Electric Horseman (Pollack)
- The Europeans (Ivory)
- Ice Castles
- Meteor (Neame)
- The Promise
1980
- The Blue Lagoon (Kleiser)
- Honeysuckle Rose (Schatzberg)
- Kagemusha (Kurosawa)
- Mon Oncle D’Amerique
- My Brilliant Career
- Somewhere in Time
- When Time Ran Out (Goldstone)
1981
- Endless Love (Zeffirelli)
- Heartbeeps
1982
- Best Friends (Jewison)
- Quest for Fire (Annaud)
- La Traviata (Zeffirelli) (2)
1983
- The Return of Martin Guerre
- Under Fire
1984
- Against All Odds (Hackford)
- Dune (Lynch)
- The North
- Songwriter
- The Woman in Red (Wilder)
1985
- The Journey of Natty Gann (Kagan)
- The Official Story
- Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (Hamilton)
- Return to Oz
- Young Sherlock Holmes (Levinson)
1986
- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- The Karate Kid Part II (Avildsen)
- Otello (Zeffirelli)
- Pirates (Polanski)
- Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Gibson)
- That’s Life (Edwards)
1987
- Au Revoir les Enfants (Malle)
- Happy New Year (Avildsen)
- Harry and the Hendersons
- Innerspace (Dante)
- Mannequin
- Matewan
1988
- Bagdad Cafe
- Buster
- A Handful of Dust
- The Milagro Beanfield War (Redford)
- Sunset (Edwards)
- Tequila Sunrise (Towne)
1989
- The Bear (Annaud)
- Chances Are
- Dad
- Harlem Nights
- Sex, Lies and Videotape (Soderbergh)
1990
- Flatliners (Schumacher)
- Green Card (Weir)
- Henry & June (Kaufman)
- Metropolitan
1991
- Europa Europa
- Madame Bovary
1992
- The Lover (Annaud)
- The Mambo Kings
1993
- Beethoven’s 2nd
- Farewell My Concubine
- Geronimo: An American Legend (Hill)
- Poetic Justice (Singleton)
1994
- Frankenstein (Branagh)
- Junior (Reitman)
- Queen Margot
1995
- My Family, Mi Familia
- Roommates (Yates)
- Shanghai Triad (Yimou)
- Unstrung Heroes
1996
- Angels and Insects
- Dragonheart (Cohen)
- Eraser
- The First Wives Club (Wilson)
- Fly Away Home (Ballard)
- The Ghost and the Darkness (Hopkins)
- Lone Star
- The Preacher’s Wife (Marshall)
- Up Close & Personal
1997
- Oscar and Lucinda
1999
- The Red Violin
2000
- Malena (2)
- Vatel (Joffe)
2003
- The Barbarian Invasions
2004
- The Chorus
- The Sea Inside (Amenabar)
2007
- Persepolis
2009
- Il Divo (Sorrentino)
- Paris 36
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