11 September 2024

My All-Time Academy Award Winners

Paul Newman in The Verdict, my best actor winner

The premise here is simple. These are the Academy Award winners from all films ever made as selected by yours truly. I have ten nominees in each category. The winner is listed first and is in bold. The remaining films on each list are in no particular order except for the categories of best foreign language films and best motion pictures. I was going to note which ones won actual Academy Awards but I don’t have enough respect for the Oscars to be bothered.

Best Editing

Dede Allen -- Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Lumet

Tom Rolf and Melvin Shapiro -- Taxi Driver (1976) Scorsese 

Bill Butler -- A Clockwork Orange (1971) Kubrick

Lee Catozzo -- 8 1/2 (1963) Fellini

Dorothy Spencer -- Foreign Correspondent (1940) Hitchcock

Thelma Schoonmaker -- Raging Bull (1980) Scorsese

Ulla Ryghe -- Persona (1966) Bergman

David Bretherton -- Cabaret (1972) Fosse

Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia -- JFK (1991) Stone

Norman Gay and Evan A. Portman -- The Exorcist  (1973) Friedkin


Best Cinemaphotography

Gordon Willis -- Manhattan (1979) Allen

Winton C. Hoch --The Searchers (1956) Ford

John Alcott -- Barry Lyndon (1975) Kubrick

Christopher Doyle, Pun Leung Kwan and Ping Bin Lee -- In the Mood for Love (2000) Wong

Gregg Toland -- Citizen Kane (1941) Welles

Joseph H. August -- The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Dieterle

Stanley Cortez -- The Night of the Hunter (1955) Laughton

Lukasz Zal -- Cold War (2018) Pawlikowski

Georgi Rerberg -- Mirror (1975) Tarkovsky

Jost Vacano -- Das Boot (1981) Peterson


Best Adapted Screenplay

Nunnally Johnson -- Grapes of Wrath (1940) Ford

John Huston -- Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Huston

Peter Bogdanovich -- The Last Picture Show (1971) Bogdanovich

Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster and Myles Connolly -- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Capra

Steve Kloves  -- Wonder Boys (2000) Hanson

Sally Benson and Alma Reville -- Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Hitchcock

Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini -- Rome: Open City (1945) Rossellini

Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur -- His Girl Friday (1940) Hawks

Gerard Brach and Roman Polanski -- Tess (1979) Polanski

Aki Kaurismäki -- La Vie de bohème (1992) Kaurismäki


Best Original Screenplay

Ethan and Joel Coen -- The Big Lebowski (1998) Coen

Robert Towne and Roman Polanski -- Chinatown (1974) Polanski

Jules J. Epstein, Howard Koch and Murray Burnett -- Casablanca (1942) Curtiz

Haruki Murakami, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Ôe -- Drive My Car (2021) Hamaguchi

Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman Jr. -- Sunset Blvd. (1950) Wilder

Woody Allen -- Midnight in Paris (2011) Allen

Louis Malle -- Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) Malle

Paul Schrader -- Taxi Driver (1976) Scorsese 

Quentin Tarantino -- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) Tarantino
Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis -- Groundhog Day (1993) Ramis


Best Documentary Feature

Hearts and Minds (1974) Davis

Monterey Pop (1968) Pennebaker

The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) Ophüls

When We Were Kings (1996) Gast

Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991) Bahr,  Hickenlooper and E. Coppola

Shoah (1995) Lanzman

Woodstock (1970) Wadleigh

Wild Man Blues (1997) Kopple

Grizzly Man (2005) Herzog

Chris & Don. A Love Story (2007) Mascara/Santi


Best Foreign Language Film

Winter Light (1963) Bergman

Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) Malle

Stalker (1979) Tarkovsky 

The Seventh Seal (1957) Bergman

Fallen Leaves (2023) Kaurismäki

Nights of Carbiria (1957) Fellini

Rome: Open City (1945) Rossellini

8 1/2 (1963) Fellini

In the Mood for Love (2000) Wong

Umberto D (1952) De Sica


Best Supporting Actor

Edward G. Robinson — Double Indemnity (1944) Wilder

Christoph Waltz — Inglorious Basterds (2009) Tarantino

Denzel Washington — Glory (1989) Zwick

James Gleason — Meet John Doe (1941) Capra

Joe Pesci — Goodfellas (1990) Scorsese

Walter Huston — The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Dieterle

Thomas Mitchell —  It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Capra

Robert Downey Jr. — Zodiac (2007) Fincher

Javier Bardem — No Country for Old Men (2007) Coen

Samuel L. Jackson — Pulp Fiction (1994) Tarantino


Best Supporting Actress

Jane Darwell — Grapes of Wrath (1940) Ford

Claire Trevor — Stagecoach (1939) Ford

Angela Lansbury — The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Frankenheimer

Cloris Leachman — The Last Picture Show (1971) Bogdanovich

Dianne Weist — Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Allen

Janet Leigh — Psycho (1960) Hitchcock
Carey Mulligan — Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Coens

Penelope Cruz — Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Allen

Lupita Nyongo’o — 12 Years a Slave (2013) McQueen

Allison Janey — I, Tonya (2017) Gillespie


Best Lead Actor

Paul Newman — The Verdict (1982) Lumet

Al Pacino — The Godfather (1972) Coppola 

Jack Nicholson — The Last Detail (1973) Ashby

Casey Affleck — Manchester by the Sea (2016) Lonergan

Max Von Sydow — Through a Glass Darkly (1961) Bergman

Michael Keaton — Birdman (2014) Iñárritu

Colman Domingo — Rustin (2023) Wolfe

Al Pacino — Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Lumet

Paul Newman — Hud (1963) Ritt

Marcello Mastrioni — A Special Day (1977) Scola


Best Lead Actress

Gena Rowlands — A Woman Under the Influence (1974) Cassavetes

Cate Blanchett — Blue Jasmine (2013) Allen

Giulietta Masina — Nights of Carbiria (1957) Fellini

Bette Davis — The Letter (1940) Wyler

Ingrid Bergman — Stromboli (1950) Rossellini

Liv Ullman — Shame (1968) Bergman

Barbara Stanwyck — The Lady Eve (1941) Sturges

Gloria Swanson — Sunset Blvd. (1950) Wilder

Faye Dunaway — Chinatown (1974) Polanski

Liza Minelli— Cabaret (1972) Fosse


Best Director

Martin Scorsese — Goodfellas (1990) 

Howard Hawks His Girl Friday (1940) 

Roman Polanski -- Chinatown (1974) 

John Ford — The Searchers (1956)

Woody Allen — Match Point (2005) 

Ingmar Bergman -- Winter Light (1963) 

Andrei Tarkovsky — Stalker (1979) 

Peter Bogdanovich -- The Last Picture Show (1971) Bogdanovich

Federico Fellini -- 8 1/2 (1963) 

Francis Ford Coppola -- The Godfather (1972) 


Best Motion Picture

His Girl Friday (1940) Hawks

Manhattan (1979) Allen

Goodfellas (1990 Scorsese

The Last Picture Show (1971) Bogdanovich

The Godfather (1972) Coppola

Winter Light (1963) Bergman

Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) Malle

Chinatown (1974) Polanski

The Searchers (1956) Ford

Duck Soup (1993) McCarey


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