Academy Award
Winner of the Academy Award for, "Two Arabian Nights"
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Oscar wins, nominations and recognition across the cinema archive. This page combines historical context with 186 matching records drawn directly from the World History Database cinema archive.
Historical context
The archive contains a large body of records connected with Academy Awards and Oscar recognition, linking actors, directors and films across several decades.
The Academy Awards became one of the most visible institutions for recognising American and international film achievement and provide a recurring reference point across many careers in the database.
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Academy Award
Winner of the Academy Award for, "Two Arabian Nights"
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor
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Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "A Free Soul" as Stephen Ashe
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The Music Box which wins an Academy Award for Best Short Subject
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "The Private Life of Henry VIII" as King Henry VIII
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "It Happened One Night" as Peter Warne
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Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "The Informer" as Gypo Nolan
Academy Award
Winner of Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "The Story of Louis Pasteur" as Louis Pasteur
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "Captains Courageous" as Manuel
Academy Award
Winner of Best Supporting Actor for Kentucky
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "Boys Town" as Father Flanagan
Marie Antoinette
Plays the part of Louis XVI, for which he received an Academy Award Nomination as Best Supporting Actor in "Marie Antoinette"
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" as Mr. Chips
Academy Award
Wins an Oscar for, "Gone With The Wind"
Academy Award
Winner of Best Supporting Actor for The Westerner
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "The Philadelphia Story" as Macaulay Connor
Academy Award
Stars in, "Sergeant York" & wins an Academy Award for Best Actor
Sergeant York
Stars in, "Sergeant York" & wins an Academy Award for Best Actor
Academy Award
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Direction for Mrs. Miniver
National Velvet
National Velvet, which costarred fellow young actor Mickey Rooney and English newcomer Angela Lansbury, became a great success upon its release. First film appearance in Gaslight as a conniving maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gaslight
Academy Award
Wins an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Billy Wilders film The Lost Weekend
Academy Award
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Direction for The Best Years of Our Lives. The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Academy Awards, including those for best picture, director, actor, supporting actor, editing, screenplay, and original score
Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Key Largo
Key Largo
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Key Largo
All About Eve
Writer-director of the Oscar-winning All About Eve
Honorary Academy Award
Honorary Academy Award: Best Foreign Language Film for Rashomon
Academy Award
Winner of the best male actor for "The African Queen"
Academy Award
Winner of the best male actor for "Hign Noon"
Mogambo
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Mogambo
A Star is Born
Stars in A Star is Born with Judy Garland, bringing him the first of three Oscar nominations
Academy Award
Winner of the best male actor for "Stalag 17"
Academy Award
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in Marty
Academy Award
Winner of the best male actor for "On The Waterfront"
BAFTA
Writes the screenplay for The Ladykillers, for which he is nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and wins the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay
Film
Hiroshi Inagaki wins an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Part I of his Samurai Trilogy
Marty
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in Marty
The Ladykillers
Writes the screenplay for The Ladykillers, for which he is nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and wins the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay
Academy Award
With her starring role in 1956s Anastasia, Bergman made a triumphant return to the American screen and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for a second time
Academy Award
Winner of the best male actor for "The King & I"
Raintree County
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Raintree County
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Directs The Bridge on the River Kwai, the epic that brings him his first Academy Award for directing.
Academy Award
Winner of the best male actor for "The Bridge On The River Kwai"
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Academy Award
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Direction for Ben-Hur
Suddenly, Last Summer
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Suddenly, Last Summer
Academy Award
Winner of the best male actor for "Ben Hur"
Academy Award
Wins an Academy Award for BUtterfield 8
Academy Award Nomination - The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
Sellers receives an Academy Award nomination as producer of The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film.
BUtterfield 8
Wins an Academy Award for BUtterfield 8. Taylor became the highest paid actress up to that time when she signed a one million dollar contract to play the title role in Twentieth Century Foxs lavish production of Cleopatra which is released in 1963
Oscar Wilde
Stars in "Oscar Wilde"
Oscar Wilde
Directs "Oscar Wilde"
Oscar Wilde
Appears in "Oscar Wilde"
Academy Award
Winner of the best male actor for "Elmer Gantry"
Academy Award
Laurel is given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy
Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Actress in The Miracle Worker
Academy Award
Plays middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud for which she wins the Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Mary Poppins.
Academy Award Nomination - Dr. Strangelove
The Academy nominates Sellers for Best Actor at the 1965 Oscars for his three-role performance in Dr. Strangelove.
A Man for All Seasons
Scofield receives an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons
Academy Award
Best Original Song for "Born Free" from Born Free. Best Original Music Score for Born Free
Academy Award
Winner of Best Actor for Cat Ballou
Academy Award
Scofield receives an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons
Academy Award
Second Academy Award, also for Best Actress in a Leading Role, was for her performance as Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Academy Award
Winner of Best Supporting Actress for A Patch Of Blue
BAFTA
Scofield receives an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons
Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Second Academy Award, also for Best Actress in a Leading Role, was for her performance as Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Academy Award
Best Original Music Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical) for The Lion in Winter
Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Director The Graduate
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as an unorthodox Scottish schoolteacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as an unorthodox Scottish schoolteacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Ryans Daughter
For his role as the village idiot in Ryans Daughter, Mills wins an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Sleuth
Wins an Oscar nomination for Best Direction in 1972 for Sleuth starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine
Academy Award
Bergman became one of the elite actresses to receive three Oscars when she won her third (and first for Best Supporting Actress) for her performance in Murder on the Orient Express
The Godfather Part II
Plays Michael Corleone in the sequel The Godfather Part II, acclaimed as being comparable to the original, the film became the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar, and Pacino was nominated for his third Oscar
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Director for The Godfather Part II.
Academy Award
Awarded the Academy Award, Best Foreign Language Film for Dersu Uzala
Tommy
A movie version of Tommy is released, directed by Ken Russell, starring Roger Daltrey in the title role and earning Pete Townshend an academy award nomination for Best Original Score
Tommy
A movie version of Tommy is released, directed by Ken Russell, starring Roger Daltrey in the title role and earning Pete Townshend an academy award nomination for Best Original Score
Tommy
A movie version of Tommy is released, directed by Ken Russell, starring Roger Daltrey in the title role and earning Pete Townshend an academy award nomination for Best Original Score
Academy Award
Wins best screenplay for "Annie Hall". "Anniie Hall" wins four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, an unusual feat for a comedy, and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Diane Keaton
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for best actress, "Network"
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Julia
Anniie Hall
"Anniie Hall" wins four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, an unusual feat for a comedy, and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Diane Keaton. "Annie Hall" marks a major turn to more sophisticated humor and thoughtful drama
Anniie Hall
"Anniie Hall" wins four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, an unusual feat for a comedy, and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Diane Keaton
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for best actress, "Annie Hall"
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for California Suite
Academy Award
Awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the brittle actress Diana Barry in California Suite, acting opposite Michael Caine
Academy Award
Walken wins an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter
Death on the Nile
Awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the brittle actress Diana Barry in California Suite, acting opposite Michael Caine. Appears in Death on the Nile
Deer Hunter
Directs The Deer Hunter, the picture becomes a massive critical and commercial success, and won a number of Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture
The Deer Hunter
Walken wins an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for best actress, "Coming Home"
Academy Award
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress in Kramer vs. Kramer
Academy Award
The Tin Drum wins the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for best actress, "Norma Rae"
Academy Award Nomination - Being There
At the 1980 Oscars, Sellers is nominated for Actor in a Leading Role for Being There.
Academy Award
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress in Sophies Choice
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Director for Gandhi, which also receives the Best Picture award.
Academy Award
Best Original Score for Out of Africa
Academy Award
Winner of the Acadremy Award for Best Director, "Out of Africa"
Academy Award
Wins best screenplay for "Hannah and Her Sisters"
Academy Award
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Hannah and Her Sisters
Academy Award
Wins an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money
Academy Award
Winner of the Acadremy Award for Best Director, "Platoon"
Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Actress in 84 Charing Cross Road
Academy Award
Winner of the Acadremy Award for Best Director, "The Last Emperor"
Street Smart
Plays the dangerous pimp Fast Black in Street Smart and receives his first Academy Award nomination.
Academy Award
Winner of the Acadremy Award for Best Director, "Rain Man"
Academy Award
The Accused earns Foster her first Academy Award for Best Actress.
Academy Award
Winner of the Acadremy Award for Best Director, "Born on the 4th of July"
Rain Man
Stars in Rain Man, which also starred Dustin Hoffman and was directed by Barry Levinson, the film is praised by critics and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and won four, including Best Picture and Best Actor
Academy Award
Best Original Score for Dances with Wolves
Academy Award
Receives the supporting-actor Oscar for Glory, marking his first Academy Award victory.
Honorary Academy Award
Awarded the Honorary Academy Award
Academy Award
Wins a second Academy Award for Best Actress for The Silence of the Lambs.
Academy Award
Wins Academy and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her strong performance in the British drama Howards End
Academy Award
Wins Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards for Unforgiven.
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor
Schindler's List
Portrays concentration-camp commandant Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, earning an Academy Award nomination.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Plays Arnie Grape in What's Eating Gilbert Grape and receives his first Academy Award nomination.
Academy Award
Winner of the best male actor for "Philadelphia"
Academy Award
Winner of the best male actor for "Forest Gump"
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Pulp Fiction with Roger Avary.
Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
Plays Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility and receives her first Academy Award nomination.
Academy Award
Winner of the best male actor for "Leaving Las Vegas"
Academy Award
Fargo brings McDormand the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Academy Award
Winner of an Oscar for The Cider House Rules, best supporting actor
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Shakespeare in Love.
Academy Award
Awarded an honorary Oscar
Academy Award
Wins an Oscar for "The Last King of Scotland" as Idi Amin
Gladiator
Directs Gladiator, the Roman epic that wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Academy Award
Wins the Oscar for Things Have Changed.
Academy Award
Training Day brings Washington the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for best actor, for "The Pianist"
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for best actress, for "The Hours"
Academy Award
Wins an Oscar for "Mystic River" as Jimmy Markum
Mystic River
Receives Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director for Mystic River.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation.
Academy Award
Wins an Oscar for "Ray" as Ray Charles
Closer
Receives her first Oscar nomination for playing Alice in Closer.
Academy Award
Wins Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards for Million Dollar Baby.
Academy Award
Takes the supporting-actor Oscar for Million Dollar Baby.
Academy Award
Wins an Oscar for "Capote" as Truman Capote
Letters from Iwo Jima Academy Nominations
Receives Academy Award nominations connected with Letters from Iwo Jima.
Osacr
Wins an Oscar for "There Will Be Blood" as Daniel Plainview
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton.
The Reader
Stars as Hanna Schmitz in The Reader, a performance that brings her first Academy Award win.
A Single Man
Stars as George Falconer in A Single Man and receives his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
Academy Award
Receives the leading-actress Oscar for The Reader, marking her first Academy Award victory.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Fighter.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for The King's Speech.
Academy Award
Receives the Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan.
Academy Award
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress in The Iron Lady
The Help
Her performance as Celia Foote in The Help earns Chastain her first Academy Award nomination.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Plays intelligence officer George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and receives his first Academy Award nomination.
Academy Award
Wins a second Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Django Unchained.
American Sniper Academy Nomination
Receives a Best Picture nomination as producer of American Sniper.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Theory of Everything.
Academy Award
The Revenant brings DiCaprio his first Academy Award for Best Actor.
Lion
Stars as Saroo Brierley in Lion and receives an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Director for La La Land.
Academy Award Adapted Screenplay
Shares the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay for Moonlight with Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Academy Award Best Picture
Shares the Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer of Moonlight.
Get Out
Stars as Chris Washington in Get Out, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
Academy Award
Wins a second Academy Award for Best Actress for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Get Out.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Favourite.
Academy Award
Wins his first competitive Academy Award for the adapted screenplay of BlacKkKlansman.
1917 Awards
Wins Academy Awards recognition for the film 1917 though not Best Picture
Parasite
Parasite wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Promising Young Woman
Stars as Cassie Thomas in Promising Young Woman and receives an Academy Award nomination.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah.
Academy Award
Wins Best Actress for Nomadland and shares its Best Picture award as a producer.
The Lost Daughter
Stars as Leda Caruso in The Lost Daughter and receives another Academy Award nomination.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Belfast.
Academy Award
Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
Academy Award Best Actor
Wins Best Actor for The Brutalist.
Academy Award Best Actress
Wins Best Actress for Anora.
Academy Award Best Picture
Anora wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
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Last reviewed: September 2026.
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