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The 15 movies that were nominated for all 4 acting awards

No movie ever won all 4 but 12 of the 15 movies won at least 1. My Man Godfrey, Sunset Boulevard and American Hustle are the only ones that didn't win any of the 4 acting awards. However Sunset Boulevard is the only one that did win some Oscars despite not winning any for acting

Year Movie Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
1936 My Man Godfrey William Powell (lost to Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur) Carole Lombard (lost to Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld) Mischa Auer (lost to Walter Brennan for Come and Get It) Alice Brady (lost to Gale Sodengaard for Anthony Adverse)
1942 Mrs. Miniver Walter Pidgeon (lost to James Cagney for Yankee Doodle Dandee) Greer Garson (won) Henry Travers (lost to Van Heflin for Johnny Eager) Teresa Wright and May Whitty (Teresa Wright won)
1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls Gary Cooper (lost to Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine) Ingrid Bergman (lost to Jennifer Jones for The Song of Bernadette) Akim Tamiroff (lost to Charles Coburn for The More the Merrier) Katina Paxou (won)
1948 Johnny Belinda Lew Ayres (lost to Laurence Olivier for Hamlet) Jane Wyman (won) Charles Bickford (lost to Walter Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) Agnes Moorehead (lost to Claire Trevor for Key Largo)
1950 Sunset Boulevard William Holden (lost to José Ferrer for Cyrano de Begerac) Gloria Swanson (lost to Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday) Erich von Stroheim (lost to George Sanders for All About Eve) Nancy Olson (lost to Josephine Hull for Harvey)
1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Marlon Brando (lost to Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen) Vivien Leigh (won) Karl Malden (won) Kim Hunter (won)
1953 From Here to Eternity Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster (they both lost to William Holden for Stalag 17) Deborah Kerr (lost to Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday) Frank Sinatra (won) Donna Reed (won)
1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Richard Burton (lost to Paul Scofield for A Man for All Seasons) Elizabeth Taylor (won) George Segal (lost to Walter Matthau for The Fortune Cookie) Sandy Dennis (won)
1967 Bonnie and Clyde Warren Beatty (lost to Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night) Faye Dunaway (lost to Katharine Hepburn for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as mentioned in the row below) Gene Hackman and Michael Pollard (they both lost to George Kennedy for Cool Hand Luke) Estelle Parsons (won)
1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Spencer Tracy (lost to Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night as mentioned in the brackets in the row above) Katharine Hepburn (won) Cecile Kellaway (lost to George Kennedy for Cool Hand Luke as mentioned in the brackets in the row above) Beah Richards (lost to Estelle Parsons for Bonnie and Clyde as mentioned in the row above)
1976 Network Peter Finch and William Holden (Peter Finch won) Faye Dunaway (won) Ned Beatty (lost to Jason Robards for All the President's Men) Beatrice Straight (won)
1978 Coming Home Jon Voight (won) Jane Fonda (won) Bruce Dern (lost to Christopher Walken for The Deer Hunter) Penelope Milford (lost to Maggie Smith for California Suite)
1981 Reds Warren Beatty (lost to Henry Fonda for On Golden Pond) Diane Keaton (lost to Katharine Hepburn for On Golden Pond) Jack Nicholson (lost to John Gielgud for Arthur) Maureen Stapleton (won)
2012 Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper (lost to Daniel Day Lewis for Lincoln) Jennifer Lawrence (won) Robert De Niro (lost to Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained) Jacki Weaver (lost to Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables)
2013 American Hustle Christian Bale (lost to Matthew McCounaghey for Dallas Buyers Club) Amy Adams (lost to Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine) Bradley Cooper (lost to Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club) Jennifer Lawrence (lost to Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave)
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u/LowInteraction6397 — 2 days ago

The only 3 movies that won Best Picture without winning anything else

Year Best Picture winner Only win out of number of nominations Nominations it failed to win
1928/1929 The Broadway Melody 1 out of 3 nominations Best Director for Harry Beaumont (lost to Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady) and Best Actress for Bessie Love (lost to Mary Pickford for Coquette)
1931/1932 Grand Hotel 1 out of 1 nomination Best Picture is literally the only nomination the movie received and is the only movie to date to win Best Picture without being nominated for anything else
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty 1 out of 8 nominations Best Director for Frank Lloyd (lost to John Ford for The Informer), Best Actor for Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone (they all lost to Victor McLaglen for The Informer), Best Adapted Screenplay (lost to The Informer), Best Original Score (lost to The Informer) and Best Film Editing (lost to A Midsummer's Night Dream)
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u/LowInteraction6397 — 2 days ago

Annecy 2026 — Select Shorts (Limited Time)

Benoit and the wonderful team over at The Animation Showcase have uploaded six new animated shorts to their streaming platform! LINKED HERE. These were presented at Annecy 2026 in June. A few have won qualifying festival awards and are thus eligible to submit for Oscars consideration. Expect some of them to appear on the shortlist. If you have an active account, then go check them out before they disappear!

u/justcauseof — 2 days ago

So few films to see in July!

Some Oscar buzzy movies I saw in July:

  • The Odyssey (duh)
  • The Invite (Director, writing, maybe actors?)
  • Minions (Animation)
  • Next week is Spiderman (probably won't get anything - but visual effects? I dunno)

I feel like there's nothing coming out this week, though. I'm also looking through the Indie theaters, but I'm not finding anything cross-referenced with my lists.

Don't get me wrong, I see more than Oscar-buzzy movies, but it's apt for this sub. (I also watched the newest Evil Dead..)

Anything coming out this week that should be on my radar? (Honestly, even if it's not Oscar-buzzy- just something that might be good.)

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u/Banya6 — 4 days ago
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The Odyssey will get 13 Oscar nominations from Academy.

Christopher Nolan's Brand New Fantasy Epic "The Odyssey", Will Get 13 Nominations From Academy. These Are ; Best Picture, Directing, Lead Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actress, Editing, Cinematography, Original Score, Casting, Visual Effects, Sound, Costume Design and Production Design.

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u/volkanc — 11 days ago

Early Short Film Contenders for the 99th Academy Awards

The great people of ShortStick Films go over various short films that could contend at next year's Oscars. They also note that there's only 3 months left for shorts to qualify because they have a different qualifying window.

Considering shorts are the films that usually hold up people's Death Races, this is a great resource for what to potentially watch out for. The people who run this site have a pretty solid predictive track record when it comes to shorts. Also, shorts are just nifty imo.

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u/ziggory — 11 days ago

The 13 movies that won Best Picture without winning Best Director or any for acting

While it isn't very common for Best Picture winners to win both Best Director and any for acting (only 44 of the 98 movies that won Best Picture won both) it's very common for them to win any of them or both of them. 85 of the 98 movies that won Best Picture also won Best Director and/or any for acting. These are the only 13 that didn't

Year Best Picture winner Director of Best Picture winner Best Director nomination Acting nominee/s Best Director winner/s Acting winner/s
1927/1928 Wings William Wellman No No Frank Borzage for 7th Heaven and Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Knights Best Actor for Emil Jannings for both The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh and Best Actress for Janet Gaynor for 7th Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise
1928/1929 The Broadway Melody Harry Beaumont Yes Best Actress for Bessie Love Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady Mary Pickford for Coquette
1930/1931 Cimarron Wesley Ruggles Yes Best Actor for Richard Dix and Best Actress for Irene Dunn Norman Taurog for Skippy Lionel Barrymore for A Free Soul and Marie Dressler for Min and Bill
1931/1932 Grand Hotel Edmund Goulding No No Frank Borzage for Bad Girl Best Actor for Fredric March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wallace Beery for The Champ and Best Actress for Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty Frank Lloyd Yes Best Actor for Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone John Ford for The Informer Victor McLaglen for The Informer
1940 Rebecca Alfred Hitchcock Yes Best Actor for Laurence Olivier, Best Actress for Joan Fontaine and Best Supporting Actress for Judith Anderson John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath James Stewart for The Philadelphia Story, Ginger Rogers for Kitty Foyle and Jane Darwell for The Grapes of Wrath
1951 An American in Paris Vincente Minnelli Yes No George Stevens for A Place in the Sun Best Actor for Humphreey Bogart for The African Queen and Best Actress for Vivien Leigh, Best Supporting Actor for Karl Malden and Best Supporting Actress for Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth Cecile DeMile Yes No John Ford for The Quiet Man Best Actor for Gary Cooper for High Noon, Best Actress for Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba, Best Supporting Actor for Anthony Quinn for Viva Zapata! and Best Supporting Actress for Gloria Grahame for The Bad and the Beautiful
1956 Around the World in 80 Days Michael Anderson Yes No George Stevens for Giant Best Actor for Yul Brynner for The King and I, Best Actress for Ingrid Bergman for Anastasia, Best Supporting Actor for Anthony Quinn for Lust for Life and Best Supporting Actress for Dorothy Malone for Written on the Wind
1981 Chariots of Fire Hugh Hudson Yes Best Supporting Actor for Ian Holm Warren Beatty for Reds John Gielgud for Arthur
2005 Crash Paul Haggis Yes Best Supporting Actor for Matt Dillon Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain George Clooney for Syriana
2012 Argo Ben Affleck No Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin Ang Lee for Life of Pi Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained
2015 Spotlight Tom McCarthy Yes Best Supporting Actor for Mark Ruffalo and Best Supporting Actress for Rachel McAdams Alejandro Iñárritu for The Revenant Mark Rylance for Bridge of Spies and Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl
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u/LowInteraction6397 — 11 days ago

Summer trailer season

Have been seeing some recent trailers for some likely contenders for the death race, several look exciting. Your thoughts on additions and/or any you’re particularly excited about?

•Digger, Tom Cruise in full prosthetics, John Goodman, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Baldo…, Birdman…) Looks like Dr. Strangelove meets Don’t Look Up.

•Behemoth, Pedro Pascal, written and directed by Michael Clayton’s Tony Gilroy. Selling more of a mood than a plot in the preview.

•I Play Rocky, biopic about struggling unknown Sylvester Stallone’s battle to play the lead in the movie he wrote, which happens to be one of the greatest sports movies of all time. The Academy loves movies that glorify moviemaking.

•Wildwood, stop motion animation after a long gap from the studio of Kubo and the Two Strings, The Boxtrolls and Coraline. Looks a little like Labyrinth, minus David Bowie’s bulge.

•Wild Horse Nine, Sam Rockwell and John Malkovitch are CIA agents in the 70’s, written and directed by Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards…, In Bruges, The Banshees of Inisherin) McDonough isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m always excited when he’s in the race.

•The Debut, Jesse Eisenberg’s follow up to A Real Pain, looks to have a similarly dark-humored tone about a Svengali community theater director (Paul Giamatti) and a bored housewife/newby actress (Julianne Moore)

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u/alter_ego19456 — 9 days ago

I built a website to track your own oscar ballots

Hey everyone,

Like a lot of people here, i am quite a film nerd who loves tracking my own version of the oscars winners and nominees. so i built my own website, The website shows all the nominees for each category of a given year, from there you can select your own nominees, chose popular choses or pick from the original pool. you can also upload your letterboxd csv to see all the films you've logged for a given year to make things easier. You can also export your ballots as a .txt and allows you to share your ballot with friends

The website is just something for fun, so there maybe bugs or glitches, if so let me know.

I hope you guys enjoy

buildyourballot.com

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u/Willingness_Final — 12 days ago