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Have Oscar Nominees Ever Competed Against Themselves? Yes—Surprisingly Often
John Williams has done it eight times.
Considering how few Oscar nominees there are, it seems almost impossible for a person to get nominated twice in the same category during the same awards season. But it happens surprisingly often—in fact, at least one person has competed against themselves nearly every year of Oscars history.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has prohibited multiple nominations in certain categories during certain years, but the rules change fairly frequently. During the early 1930s, for example, the rulebook stipulated that “No individual shall be entitled to nomination for more than one achievement” except for the Outstanding Production award (a forerunner to Best Picture). Short films were apparently exempt, too, as producer Walt Disney was often nominated for more than one cartoon during that period.
Beginning with the 12th Academy Awards, the rulebook stated that “one actor, director, writing team or writer without collaborator” could only be nominated for one work per season. These days, actors can only be nominated for one role per category (you can, for example, nab Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress nominations in the same year for different movies—and plenty of people have). But directors are now allowed dual nominations: Steven Soderbergh was up for Best Director for both Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2001. (He won for Traffic.) It was only the second time that the category played host to a duplicate: The first was back in 1939, when Michael Curtiz was nominated for Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters. (He lost to Frank Capra for You Can’t Take It with You.)
Not all categories have always been capped at five nominations. In 1942, for example, there were a whopping 20 nominees for Music Score of a Dramatic Picture (five of them were duplicates) and another 10 for Scoring of a Musical Picture (no duplicates). Today, there’s only one category for all kinds of scores, but some composers have still managed to earn multiple nominations in a year (John Williams has done so eight times).
Duplicates tend to happen most often in categories where people work as a team, like Sound, Visual Effects, and Production Design. Even Best Picture has amassed quite a few duplicates, since films typically have multiple producers. Take Emma Tillinger Koskoff, who served as a producer on two 2020 Best Picture nominees: Joker and The Irishman. (Both lost to Parasite.)
Before we get into the full rundown of some 250 duplicates, here are some notes about the data below.
- The year above each grid is when the awards ceremony took place, typically honoring the films that premiered the previous year (e.g. all the films you’ll see in the 2015 section were released in 2014).
- We only included individuals competing against themselves, not production studios and other collective entities.
- Categories have been added and subtracted over the decades, and category names have evolved, too. We stuck with the syntax that the Academy used at the time (which is reflected in the organization’s digital database). Writing, for instance, used to be split into “Writing (Original Screenplay)” and “Writing (Screenplay).” Today, that second category would be labeled “Writing (Adapted Screenplay).”
- It’s not that uncommon for an actor to appear in more than one Best Picture nominee in the same year. But actors don’t win Oscars for Best Picture, so they’re technically not competing in that category (unless they’re also credited as a producer on the film). In other words, you won’t see Timothée Chalamet listed below as a duplicate for the 2018 Oscars, when Call Me by Your Name and Lady Bird were both up for Best Picture.
- For the first three Oscars ceremonies (held in May 1929, April 1930, and November 1930, respectively), a single nomination for an actor could encompass more than one film role from the eligibility period. In 1929, for example, Janet Gaynor was nominated (and won) the Best Actress Oscar for her performances in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise. We didn’t count these situations as duplicates, since judges were more or less voting for an actor’s cumulative work, rather than pitting one performance against another. Weirdly, at the 3rd Oscars, it was announced that George Arliss won Best Actor for his performance in Disraeli, even though the ballot had also included The Green Goddess in his nomination. The same thing happened with Best Actress: Norma Shearer won for The Divorcee, though her nomination had included Their Own Desire. It’s never been clear exactly why this happened, but it wasn’t because voters were forced to choose between the roles.
1932
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Walt Disney | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Flowers and Trees | Mickey’s Orphans | Flowers and Trees |
1934
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Walt Disney | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Building a Building | The Three Little Pigs | The Three Little Pigs |
Louis Brock | Short Subject (Comedy) | A Preferred List | So This Is Harris | So This Is Harris |
1936
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Walt Disney | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Three Orphan Kittens | Who Killed Cock Robin? | Three Orphan Kittens |
1937
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B. Willis | Art Direction | The Great Ziegfeld | Romeo and Juliet | Dodsworth (Richard Day) |
Max Steiner | Music (Scoring) | The Charge of the Light Brigade | The Garden of Allah | Anthony Adverse (Erich Wolfgang Korngold) |
1938
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alfred Newman | Music (Scoring) | The Hurricane | The Prisoner of Zenda | One Hundred Men and a Girl (Charles Previn, head of Universal Studio Music Department; no composer credit) |
1939
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Nominee 4 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Curtiz | Directing | Angels with Dirty Faces | Four Daughters | You Can't Take It with You (Frank Capra) | ||
Tom Held | Film Editing | The Great Waltz | Test Pilot | The Adventures of Robin Hood (Ralph Dawson) | ||
Victor Young | Music (Original Score) | Army Girl | Breaking the Ice | The Adventures of Robin Hood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold) | ||
Alfred Newman | Music (Scoring) | Alexander’s Ragtime Band | The Goldwyn Follies | Alexander’s Ragtime Band | ||
Irving Berlin | Music (Song) | “Change Partners” (Carefree) | “Now It Can Be Told” (Alexander's Ragtime Band) | “Thanks for the Memory” (The Big Broadcast of 1938) | ||
Arthur Quenzer | Music (Song) | “The Cowboy and the Lady” (The Cowboy and the Lady) | “Merrily We Live” (Merrily We Live) | “Thanks for the Memory” (The Big Broadcast of 1938) | ||
Walt Disney | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Brave Little Tailor | Ferdinand the Bull | Good Scouts | Mother Goose Goes Hollywood | Ferdinand the Bull |
Ian Dalrymple | Writing (Screenplay) | The Citadel | Pygmalion | Pygmalion (with George Bernard Shaw, W.P. Lipscomb, and Cecil Lewis) |
1940
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Max Steiner | Music (Original Score) | Dark Victory | The Wizard of Oz (Herbert Stothart) | ||
Victor Young | Music (Original Score) | Golden Boy | Gulliver’s Travels | Man of Conquest | The Wizard of Oz (Herbert Stothart) |
Alfred Newman | Music (Original Score) | The Rains Came | Wuthering Heights | The Wizard of Oz (Herbert Stothart) | |
Alfred Newman | Music (Scoring) | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | They Shall Have Music | Stagecoach (Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken) | |
Walt Disney | Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Pointer | The Ugly Duckling | The Ugly Duckling (Walt Disney) |
1941
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ray Rennahan | Cinematography (Color) | The Blue Bird | Down Argentine Way | The Thief of Bagdad (Georges Périnal) | |
Victor Young | Music (Original Score) | Arizona | The Dark Command | North West Mounted Police | Pinocchio (Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington) |
Richard Hageman | Music (Original Score) | The Howards of Virginia | The Long Voyage Home | Pinocchio (Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington) | |
Johnny Mercer | Music (Song) | “I’d Know You Anywhere” (You’ll Find Out) | “Love of My Life” (Second Chorus) | “When You Wish Upon a Star” (Pinocchio) | |
John P. Fulton; Bernard B. Brown | Special Effects | The Boys from Syracuse | The Invisible Man Returns | The Thief of Bagdad (Lawrence Butler, Jack Whitney) | |
Gordon Jennings, Farciot Edouart | Special Effects | Dr. Cyclops | Typhoon | The Thief of Bagdad (Lawrence Butler, Jack Whitney) | |
Thomas T. Moulton | Special Effects | Foreign Correspondent | The Long Voyage Home | The Thief of Bagdad (Lawrence Butler, Jack Whitney) |
1942
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ray Rennahan | Cinematography (Color) | Blood and Sand | Louisiana Purchase | Blood and Sand |
Truman Talley | Documentary (Short Subject) | Life of a Thoroughbred | Soldiers of the Sky | Churchill’s Island (National Film Board of Canada) |
Bernard Herrmann | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) | All That Money Can Buy | All That Money Can Buy | |
Alfred Newman | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) | Ball of Fire | How Green Was My Valley | All That Money Can Buy |
Edward Ward | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) | Cheers for Miss Bishop | Tanks a Million | All That Money Can Buy |
Franz Waxman | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Suspicion | All That Money Can Buy |
Miklos Rozsa | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) | Lydia | Sundown | All That Money Can Buy |
Leon Schlesinger | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt | Rhapsody in Rivets | Lend a Paw |
Walt Disney | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Lend a Paw | Truant Officer Donald | Lend a Paw |
Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, Louis Mesenkop | Special Effects | Aloma of the South Seas | I Wanted Wings | I Wanted Wings |
1943
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Howard Greene | Cinematography (Color) | Arabian Nights | Jungle Book | The Black Swan (Leon Shamroy) | |
William V. Skall | Cinematography (Color) | Arabian Nights | Reap the Wild Wind | To the Shores of Tripoli | The Black Swan (Leon Shamroy) |
Walt Disney | Documentary | The Grain That Built a Hemisphere | The New Spirit | (Four winners)The Battle of Midway, Kokoda Front Line!, Moscow Strikes Back, Prelude to War | |
Victor Young | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) | Flying Tigers | Silver Queen | Take a Letter, Darling | Now, Voyager (Max Steiner) |
Roy Webb | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) | I Married a Witch | Joan of Paris | Now, Voyager (Max Steiner) | |
Frank Butler | Writing (Original Screenplay) | Road to Morocco | Wake Island | Woman of the Year (Ring Lardner Jr., Michael Kanin) | |
Claudine West | Writing (Screenplay) | Mrs. Miniver | Random Harvest | Mrs. Miniver (with Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, and James Hilton) |
1944
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
James Wong Howe | Cinematography (Black-and-White) | Air Force | The North Star | The Song of Bernadette (Arthur Miller) | |
Harold Arlen | Music (Song) | “Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe” (Cabin in the Sky) | “My Shining Hour” (The Sky’s the Limit) | “That Old Black Magic” (Star Spangled Rhythm) | “You’ll Never Know” (Hello, Frisco, Hello) |
Johnny Mercer | Music (Song) | “My Shining Hour” (The Sky’s the Limit) | “That Old Black Magic” (Star Spangled Rhythm) | “You’ll Never Know” (Hello, Frisco, Hello) |
1945
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Max Steiner | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) | The Adventures of Mark Twain | Since You Went Away | Since You Went Away |
Miklos Rozsa | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) | Woman of the Town | Since You Went Away | |
Edward Paul | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) | The Hairy Ape | Up in Mabel’s Room | Since You Went Away |
Michel Michelet | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) | The Hairy Ape | Voice in the Wind | Since You Went Away |
Ray Heindorf | Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) | Hollywood Canteen | Up in Arms | Cover Girl (Morris Stoloff, Carmen Dragon) |
Ted Koehler | Music (Song) | “Now I Know” (Up in Arms) | “Sweet Dreams Sweetheart” (Hollywood Canteen) | “Swinging on a Star” (Going My Way) |
Preston Sturges | Writing (Original Screenplay) | Hail the Conquering Hero | The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek | Wilson (Lamar Trotti) |
1946
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Werner Janssen | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) | Captain Kidd | Guest in the House | The Southerner | Spellbound |
Miklos Rozsa | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) | The Lost Weekend | A Song to Remember | Spellbound | Spellbound |
Ray Heindorf | Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) | Rhapsody in Blue | Wonder Man | Anchors Aweigh (Georgie Stoll) | |
Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn | Music (Song) | “Anywhere” (Tonight and Every Night) | “I Fall in Love Too Easily“ (Anchors Aweigh) | “It Might As Well Be Spring” (State Fair) | |
James Van Heusen, Johnny Burke | Music (Song) | “Aren’t You Glad You’re You?” (The Bells of St. Mary’s) | “Sleighride in July” (Belle of the Yukon) | “It Might As Well Be Spring” (State Fair) |
1947
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Little | Art Direction (Black-and-White) | Anna and the King of Siam | The Razor’s Edge | Anna and the King of Siam (with Lyle Wheeler, William Darling, and Frank E. Hughes) |
Gordon Hollingshead | Short Subject (One-Reel) | Facing Your Danger | Smart As a Fox | Facing Your Danger |
1948
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Walt Disney | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Chip an'’ Dale | Pluto’s Blue Note | Tweetie Pie (Edward Selzer) |
1949
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Leo Robin | Music (Song) | “For Every Man There’s a Woman” (Casbah) | “This Is the Moment” (That Lady in Ermine) | "Buttons and Bows" (The Paleface) |
J. Arthur Rank | Best Motion Picture | Hamlet | The Red Shoes | Hamlet |
Walt Disney | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Mickey and the Seal | Tea for Two Hundred | The Little Orphan (Fred Quimby) |
Gordon Hollingshead | Short Subject (One-Reel) | Cinderella Horse | So You Want to Be on the Radio | Symphony of a City (Edmund H. Reek) |
1950
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gordon Hollingshead | Short Subject (Two-Reel) | The Grass Is Always Greener | Snow Carnival | Van Gogh (Gaston Diehl, Robert Haessens) |
1951
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Stephen Bosustow | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Gerald McBoing-Boing | Trouble Indemnity | Gerald McBoing-Boing |
1952
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lyle Wheeler, Thomas Little | Art Direction (Black-and-White) | Fourteen Hours | House on Telegraph Hill | A Streetcar Named Desire (Richard Day, George James Hopkins) |
Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction (Color) | An American in Paris | Quo Vadis | An American in Paris (with Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, and Keogh Gleason) |
Lyle Wheeler, Thomas Little | Art Direction (Color) | David and Bathsheba | On the Riviera | An American in Paris (Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason) |
Alex North | Music (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) | Death of a Salesman | A Streetcar Named Desire | A Place in the Sun (Franz Waxman) |
Johnny Green | Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) | An American in Paris | The Great Caruso | An American in Paris (with Saul Chaplin) |
1953
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lyle Wheeler | Art Direction (Black-and-White) | My Cousin Rachel | Viva Zapata! | The Bad and the Beautiful (Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason) |
Fred Quimby | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Johann Mouse | Little Johnny Jet | Johann Mouse |
Stephen Bosustow | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Madeline | Pink and Blue Blues | Johann Mouse |
1954
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lyle Wheeler | Art Direction (Black-and-White) | The President’s Lady | Julius Caesar (Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt) | ||
Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B. Willis | Art Direction (Color) | Lili | The Story of Three Loves | Young Bless | The Robe (Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox) |
Arthur Krams | Art Direction (Color) | Lili | The Story of Three Loves | The Robe (Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox) | |
Charles LeMaire | Costume Design (Color) | How to Marry a Millionaire | The Robe | The Robe (with Emile Santiago) | |
Stephen Bosustow | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Christopher Crumpet | The Tell-Tale Heart | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom | |
Walt Disney | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Rugged Bear | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom | |
Walt Disney | Short Subject (Two-Reel) | Bear Country | Ben and Me | Bear Country |
1955
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hal Pereira, Sam Comer | Art Direction (Black-and-White) | The Country Girl | Sabrina | On the Waterfront (Richard Day) |
Irene Sharaff | Costume Design (Color) | Brigadoon | A Star Is Born | Gate of Hell (Sanzo Wada) |
Charles LeMaire | Costume Design (Color) | Desiree | There’s No Business Like Show Business | Gate of Hell (Sanzo Wada) |
1956
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B. Willis | Art Direction (Black-and-White) | Blackboard Jungle | I’ll Cry Tomorrow | The Rose Tattoo (Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer, Arthur Krams) |
Lyle Wheeler, Walter M. Scott | Art Direction (Color) | Daddy Long Legs | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Picnic (William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley) |
Charles LeMaire | Costume Design (Color) | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | The Virgin Queen | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing |
Sammy Cahn | Music (Song) | “I’ll Never Stop Loving You” (Love Me or Leave Me) | ‘(Love Is) The Tender Trap” (The Tender Trap) | “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” (Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing) |
1957
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Johnny Green | Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) | High Society | Meet Me in Las Vegas | The King and I (Alfred Newman, Ken Darby) | |
Stephen Bosustow | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo | The Jaywalker | Mister Magoo’s Puddle Jumper | Mister Magoo’s Puddle Jumper |
1958
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
William A. Horning, Edwin B. Willis | Art Direction | Les Girls | Raintree County | Sayonara (Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley) |
Hugo Friedhofer | Music (Scoring) | An Affair to Remember | Boy on a Dolphin | The Bridge on the River Kwai (Malcolm Arnold) |
Edward Selzer | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Birds Anonymous | Tabasco Road | Birds Anonymous |
1959
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster | Music (Song) | “A Certain Smile” (A Certain Smile) | “A Very Precious Love” (Marjorie Morningstar) | “Gigi” (Gigi) |
1960
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
William A. Horning | Art Direction (Color) | Ben-Hur | Ben-Hur (with Edward Carfagno and Hugh Hunt) | |
Sammy Cahn | Music (Song) | “The Best of Everything” (The Best of Everything) | “High Hopes” (A Hole in the Head) | “High Hopes” (with James Van Heusen) |
Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin | Writing (Story and Screenplay—Written Directly for the Screen) | Operation Petticoat | Pillow Talk | Pillow Talk (with Russell Rouse and Clarance Greene) |
1961
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gordon E. Sawyer | Sound | The Alamo | The Apartment | The Alamo (with Fred Hynes) |
1962
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sam Comer | Art Direction (Color) | Summer and Smoke | West Side Story (Boris Leven, Victor A. Gangelin) | |
Irene Sharaff | Costume Design (Color) | Flower Drum Song | West Side Story | |
Henry Mancini | Music (Song) | “Bachelor in Paradise” (Bachelor in Paradise) | “Moon River“ (Breakfast at Tiffany’s) | “Moon River” (with Johnny Mercer) |
Chuck Jones | Short Subject (Cartoon) | Beep Prepared | Nelly’s Folly | Ersatz (The Substitute) (Zagreb Film) |
Gordon E. Sawyer | Sound | The Children’s Hour | West Side Story | West Side Story (with Fred Hynes) |
1963
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
George W. Davis, Henry Grace | Art Direction (Color) | Mutiny on the Bounty | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Lawrence of Arabia (John Box, John Stoll, Dario Simoni) |
Paul Francis Webster | Music (Song) | “Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me)” (Mutiny on the Bounty) | “Tender Is the Night” (Tender Is the Night) | “Days of Wine and Roses” (Days of Wine and Roses) |
1964
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hal Pereira, Sam Comer | Art Direction (Black-and-White) | Hud | Love with the Proper Stranger | America America (Gene Callahan) |
Leon Shamroy | Cinematography (Color) | The Cardinal | Cleopatra | Cleopatra |
Joseph LaShelle | Cinematography (Color) | How the West Was Won | Irma La Douce | Cleopatra |
Edith Head | Costume Design (Black-and-White) | Love with the Proper Stranger | Wives and Lovers | 8 1/2 (Piero Gherardi) |
1965
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Charles Guggenheim | Documentary (Short Subject) | Children Without | Nine from Little Rock | Nine from Little Rock |
James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn | Music (Song) | “My Kind of Town” (Robin and the 7 Hoods) | “Where Love Has Gone” (Where Love Has Gone) | “Chim Chim-Cher-ee” (Mary Poppins) |
William L. Snyder | Short Subject (Cartoon) | How to Avoid Frendship | Nudnik #2 | The Pink Phink (David H. DePatie, Friz Freleng) |
1966
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hal Pereira | Art Direction (Black-and-White) | The Slender Thread | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Ship of Fools (Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish) |
Dario Simoni | Art Direction (Color) | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Doctor Zhivago | Doctor Zhivago (with John Box and Terry Marsh) |
Vittorio Nino Novarese | Costume Design (Color) | The Agony and the Ecstasy | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Doctor Zhivago (Phyllis Dalton) |
James P. Corcoran | Sound | The Agony and the Ecstasy | The Sound of Music (with Fred Hynes) |
1967
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Walter M. Scott | Art Direction (Color) | Fantastic Voyage | The Sand Pebbles | Fantastic Voyage (with Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy, and Stuart A. Reiss) |
Danilo Donati | Costume Design (Black-and-White) | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | Mandragola | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Irene Sharaff) |
1968
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Surtees | Cinematography | Doctor Dolittle | Bonnie and Clyde (Burnett Guffey) |
1972
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Surtees | Cinematography | The Last Picture Show | Summer of ’42 | Fiddler on the Roof (Oswald Morris) |
Gordon K. McCallum | Sound | Diamonds Are Forever | Fiddler on the Roof | Fiddler on the Roof (with David Hildyard) |
1973
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Williams | Music (Original Dramatic Score) | Images | The Poseidon Adventure | Limelight (Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch, Larry Russell) |
Richard Portman | Sound | The Candidate | Cabaret (Robert Knudson, David Hildyard) |
1974
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Richard Portman | Sound | The Day of the Dolphin | Paper Moon | The Exorcist (Robert Knudson, Chris Newman) |
Lawrence O. Jost | Sound | The Day of the Dolphin | The Paper Chase | The Exorcist (Robert Knudson, Chris Newman) |
1975
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos | Best Picture | The Godfather Part II (with Gray Frederickson) |
1977
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bernard Herrmann | Music (Original Score) | Obsession | The Omen (Jerry Goldsmith) | |
William McCaughey | Sound | King Kong | All the President’s Men (Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Jim Webb) |
1978
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Williams | Music (Original Score) | Star Wars | ||
Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass | Sound | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Sorcerer | Star Wars (Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball) |
1980
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Shire | Music (Original Song) | “I’ll Never Say Goodbye” (The Promise) | “It Goes Like It Goes” (Norma Rae) | “It Goes Like It Goes” (with Norman Gimbel) |
1983
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman | Music (Original Song) | “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” (Best Friends) | “If We Were in Love” (Yes, Giorgio) | “It Might Be You” (Tootsie) | “Up Where We Belong” (An Officer and a Gentleman) |
1984
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman | Music (Original Song) | “Papa, Can You Hear Me?” (Yentl) | “The Way He Makes Me Feel” (Yentl) | “Flashdance... What a Feeling” (Flashdance) | |
Randy Thom | Sound | Never Cry Wolf | The Right Stuff | The Right Stuff (with Mark Berger, Tom Scott, and David MacMillan) |
1985
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Williams | Music (Original Score) | The River | A Passage to India (Maurice Jarre) | |
Dean Pitchford | Music (Original Song) | “Footloose” (Footloose) | “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” (Footloose) | “I Just Called to Say I Love You” (The Woman in Red) |
Richard Edlund | Visual Effects | 2010 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Lorne Peterson, George Gibbs) |
1986
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lionel Richie | Music (Original Song) | “Miss Celie’s Blues (Sister)” (The Color Purple) | “Say You, Say Me” (White Nights) | “Say You, Say Me” (White Nights) |
1987
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oliver Stone | Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) | Salvador | Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen) |
1988
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Kahn | Film Editing | Empire of the Sun | The Last Emperor (Gabriella Cristiani) | |
John Williams | Music (Original Score) | Empire of the Sun | The Witches of Eastwick | The Last Emperor (Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Cong Su) |
1990
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Williams | Music (Original Score) | The Little Mermaid (Alan Menken) | ||
Alan Menken, Howard Ashman | Music (Original Song) | “Kiss the Girl” (The Little Mermaid) | “Under the Sea” (The Little Mermaid) | “Under the Sea” (The Little Mermaid) |
1991
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Walter Murch | Film Editing | Dances With Wolves (Neil Travis) | ||
Nick Park | Short Film (Animated) | Creature Comforts | A Grand Day Out | Creature Comforts |
1992
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dennis Gassner, Nancy Haigh | Art Direction | Bugsy | Bugsy | ||
Alan Menken, Howard Ashman | Music (Original Song) | “Be Our Guest” (Beauty and the Beast) | “Beauty and the Beast” (Beauty and the Beast) | “Belle” (Beauty and the Beast) | “Beauty and the Beast” (Beauty and the Beast) |
Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers | Sound | Backdraft | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (with Tom Johnson and Lee Orloff) | ||
Gary Rydstrom | Sound Effects Editing | Backdraft | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (with Gloria S. Borders) |
1993
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ve Neill | Makeup | Batman Returns | Hoffa | Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Greg Cannom, Michèle Burke, Matthew W. Mungle) |
Greg Cannom | Makeup | Hoffa | Bram Stoker’s Dracula (with Michèle Burke and Matthew W. Mungle) | |
Alan Menken | Music (Original Song) | “Friend Like Me” (Aladdin) | “A Whole New World” (Aladdin) | “A Whole New World” (Aladdin) |
1994
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ron Judkins | Sound | Jurassic Park (with Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, and Shawn Murphy) |
1995
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Newman | Music (Original Score) | Little Women | The Lion King (Hans Zimmer) | ||
Elton John, Tim Rice | Music (Original Song) | “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” (The Lion King) | “Circle of Life” (The Lion King) | “Hakuna Matata” (The Lion King) | “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” (The Lion King) |
1996
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
James Horner | Music (Original Dramatic Score) | The Postman (Il Postino) (Luis Enrique Bacalov) |
1997
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kevin O’Connell | Sound | The Rock | The English Patient (Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, Chris Newman) |
1998
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tom Johnson | Sound | Titanic (with Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, and Murk Ulano) |
1999
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sandy Powell | Costume Design | Velvet Goldmine | Shakespeare in Love | |
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell | Sound | Armageddon | The Mask of Zorro | Saving Private Ryan (Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Ronald Judkins) |
2001
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Steven Soderbergh | Directing | Traffic | Traffic |
2002
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Williams | Music (Original Score) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Howard Shore) |
2004
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ngila Dickson | Costume Design | The Last Samurai | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (with Richard Taylor) |
Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer | Sound Mixing | The Last Samurai | Seabiscuit | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek) |
Christopher Boyes | Sound Mixing | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (with Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek) |
2005
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Randy Thom | Sound Editing | The Incredibles (with Michael Silvers) | ||
Randy Thom | Sound Mixing | The Incredibles | The Polar Express | Ray (Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer, Steve Cantamessa) |
2006
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Williams | Music (Original Score) | Memoirs of a Geisha | Munich | Brokeback Mountain (Gustavo Santaolalla) |
2007
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Henry Krieger | Music (Original Song) | “Listen” (Dreamgirls) | “Love You I Do” (Dreamgirls) | “Patience” (Dreamgirls) | “I Need to Wake Up” (An Inconvenient Truth) |
Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman | Sound Editing | Flags of Our Fathers | Letters from Iwo Jima | Letters from Iwo Jima |
2008
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Roger Deakins | Cinematography | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | There Will Be Blood (Robert Elswit) | ||
Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz | Music (Original Song) | “Happy Working Song” (Enchanted) | “So Close” (Enchanted) | “That’s How You Know” (Enchanted) | “Falling Slowly” (Once) |
John Frazier | Visual Effects | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Transformers | The Golden Compass (Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris, Trevor Wood) |
2009
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A.R. Rahman | Music (Original Song) | “Jai Ho” (Slumdog Millionaire) | “O Saya” (Slumdog Millionaire) | “Jai Ho” (with Gulzar) |
Michael Semanick | Sound Mixing | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Slumdog Millionaire (Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty) |
2010
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Randy Newman | Music (Original Song) | “Almost There” (The Princess and the Frog) | “Down in New Orleans” (The Princess and the Frog) | “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” (Crazy Heart) |
Gary Summers | Sound Mixing | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett) | |
Andy Nelson | Sound Mixing | Avatar | Star Trek | The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett) |
2011
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Scott Rudin | Best Picture | True Grit | The King’s Speech (Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin) |
2012
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Williams | Music (Original Score) | The Adventures of Tintin | War Horse | The Artist (Ludovic Bource) |
2013
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
William Goldenberg | Film Editing | Argo | Zero Dark Thirty | Argo |
Andy Nelson | Sound Mixing | Les Misérables | Lincoln | Les Misérables (with Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes) |
2014
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Megan Ellison | Best Picture | American Hustle | Her | 12 Years a Slave (Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Anthony Katagas) |
Chris Munro | Sound Mixing | Captain Phillips | Gravity | Gravity (with Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, and Christopher Benstead) |
2015
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexandre Desplat | Music (Original Score) | The Grand Budapest Hotel | The Imitation Game | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
Anna Pinnock | Production Design | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Into the Woods | The Grand Budapest Hotel (with Adam Stockhausen) |
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño | Sound Mixing | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Unbroken | Whiplash (Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley) |
2016
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sandy Powell | Costume Design | Carol | Cinderella | Mad Max: Fury Road (Jenny Beavan) |
Andy Nelson | Sound Mixing | Bridge of Spies | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Mad Max: Fury Road (Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff, Ben Osmo) |
2017
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul | Music (Original Song) | “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” (La La Land) | “City of Stars” (La La Land) | “City of Stars” (La La Land) |
2018
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jacqueline Durran | Costume Design | Beauty and the Beast | Darkest Hour | Phantom Thread (Mark Bridges) |
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer | Production Design | Beauty and the Beast | Darkest Hour | The Shape of Water (Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, Jeffrey A. Melvin) |
2019
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sandy Powell | Costume Design | Mary Poppins Returns | Black Panther (Ruth Carter) |
2020
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Emma Tillinger Koskoff | Best Picture | The Irishman | Joker | Parasite (Kwak Sin Ae, Bong Joon Ho) |
David Heyman | Best Picture | Marriage Story | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood | Parasite (Kwak Sin Ae, Bong Joon Ho) |
Mark Ulano | Sound Mixing | Ad Astra | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood | 1917 (Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson) |
Dominic Tuohy | Visual Effects | 1917 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | 1917 (with Guillaume Rocheron and Greg Butler) |
2021
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross | Music (Original Score) | Mank | Soul | Soul (with Jon Batiste) |
David Parker | Sound | Mank | Soul | Sound of Metal (Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michellee Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés, Phillip Bladh) |
2022
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dan Sudick | Visual Effects | Free Guy | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Dune (Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, Gerd Nefzer) |
2023
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Shane Boris | Documentary Feature Film | Fire of Love | Navalny | Navalny (with Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, and Melanie Miller) |
Andy Nelson | Sound | The Batman | Elvis | Top Gun: Maverick (Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor) |
2024
Name | Category | Nominee 1 | Nominee 2 | Nominee 3 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic | Sound | The Creator | Maestro | TBA | |
Richard King | Sound | Maestro | Oppenheimer | TBA | |
Neil Corbould | Visual Effects | The Creator | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | Napoleon | TBA |
Simone Coco | Visual Effects | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | Napoleon | TBA |
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