IMDb Top 250 Films With Most Oscars
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- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodViggo MortensenIan McKellenGandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.Wins: 11
1. Best Picture
2. Best Director
3. Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
4. Best Film Editing
5. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
6. Best Costume Design
7. Best Makeup
8. Best Music (Original Score)
9. Best Music (Original Song)
10. Best Sound Mixing
11. Best Visual Effects - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsCharlton HestonJack HawkinsStephen BoydAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.Wins: 11
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Leading Role
3. Best Actor in a Supporting Role
4. Best Director
5. Best Cinematography (Color)
6. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
7. Best Costume Design (Color)
8. Best Sound
9. Best Film Editing
10. Best Effects (Special Effects)
11. Best Music (Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) - DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.Wins: 8
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Leading Role
3. Best Director
4. Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
5. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
6. Best Costume Design
7. Best Sound
8. Best Makeup - DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.Wins: 8
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actress in a Leading Role
3. Best Actress in a Supporting Role
4. Best Director
5. Best Writing (Screenplay)
6. Best Cinematography (Color)
7. Best Art Direction
8. Best Film Editing - DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.Wins: 8
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Leading Role
3. Best Actress in a Supporting Role
4. Best Director
5. Best Writing (Story and Screenplay)
6. Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
7. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)
8. Best Film Editing - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.Wins: 7
1. Best Picture
2. Best Director
3. Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
4. Best Cinematography
5. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
6. Best Film Editing
7. Best Music (Original Score) - DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.Wins: 7
1. Best Picture
2. Best Director
3. Best Cinematography (Color)
4. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Color)
5. Best Sound
6. Best Film Editing
7. Best Music (Score - Substantially Original) - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.Wins: 7
1. Best Picture
2. Best Director
3. Best Writing (Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)
4. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
5. Best Costume Design
6. Best Film Editing
7. Best Music (Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation) - DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.Wins: 7
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Leading Role
3. Best Director
4. Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
5. Best Cinematography
6. Best Film Editing
7. Best Music (Scoring) - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.Wins: 6
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Supporting Role
3. Best Director
4. Best Writing (Screenplay Adapted From Other Material)
5. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
6. Best Music (Original Dramatic Score) - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksRobin WrightGary SiniseThe history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.Wins: 6
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Leading Role
3. Best Director
4. Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)
5. Best Film Editing
6. Best Effects, Visual Effects - DirectorGeorge LucasStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherLuke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.Wins: 6
1. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
2. Best Costume Design
3. Best Sound
4. Best Film Editing
5. Best Effects (Visual Effects)
6. Best Music (Original Score) - DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge SandersA seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.Wins: 6
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Supporting Role
3. Best Director
4. Best Writing (Screenplay)
5. Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)
6. Best Sound (Recording) - DirectorGeorge MillerStarsTom HardyCharlize TheronNicholas HoultIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.Wins: 6
1. Best Achievement in Film Editing
2. Best Achievement in Costume Design
3. Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
4. Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
5. Best Achievement in Sound Editing
6. Best Achievement in Production Design - DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael BerrymanIn the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.Wins: 5
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Leading Role
3. Best Actress in a Leading Role
4. Best Director
5. Best Writing (Screenplay Adapted From Other Material) - DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott GlennA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.Wins: 5
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Leading Role
3. Best Actress in a Leading Role
4. Best Director
5. Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published) - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.Wins: 5
1. Best Director
2. Best Cinematography
3. Best Sound
4. Best Film Editing
5. Best Effects (Sound Effects Editing) - DirectorRidley ScottStarsRussell CroweJoaquin PhoenixConnie NielsenA former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.Wins: 5
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Leading Role
3. Best Costume Design
4. Best Sound
5. Best Effects, Visual Effects - DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.Wins: 5
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Leading Role
3. Best Director
4. Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
5. Best Cinematography - DirectorMel GibsonStarsMel GibsonSophie MarceauPatrick McGoohanScottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.Wins: 5
1. Best Picture
2. Best Director
3. Best Cinematography
4. Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing
5. Best Makeup - DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.Wins: 5
1. Best Picture
2. Best Director
3. Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen)
4. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White)
5. Best Film Editing - DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.Wins: 5
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Supporting Role
3. Best Director
4. Best Sound
5. Best Film Editing - DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.Wins: 5
1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a Leading Role
3. Best Actress in a Leading Role
4. Best Director
5. Best Writing (Adaptation)