The Split: Picture/Director

Since their inception, the Academy Awards have had years in which the categories of Best Picture and Best Director were split between two films respectively.

This has happened 21 times out of 83 ceremonies.

The Academy's splits:
1927/28: Picture - Wings/Director - Frank Borzage for 7th Heaven
1928/29: Picture - The Broadway Melody/Director - Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady
1930/31: Picture - Cimarron/Director - Norman Taurog for Skippy
1931/32: Picture - Grand Hotel/Director - Frank Borzage for Bad Girl
1935: Picture - Mutiny on the Bounty/Director - John Ford for The Informer
1936: Picture - The Great Ziegfeld/Director - Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1937: Picture - The Life of Emile Zola/Director - Leo McCarey for The Awful Truth
1940: Picture - Rebecca/Director - John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath
1948: Picture - Hamlet/Director - John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949: Picture - All the King's Men/Director - Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives
1951: Picture - An American in Paris/Director - George Stevens for A Place in the Sun
1952: Picture - The Greatest Show on Earth/Director - John Ford for The Quiet Man
1956: Picture - Around the World in 80 Days/Director - George Stevens for Giant
1967: Picture - In the Heat of the Night/Director - Mike Nichols for The Graduate
1972: Picture - The Godfather/Director - Bob Fosse for Cabaret
1981: Picture - Chariots of Fire/Director - Warren Beatty for Reds
1989: Picture - Driving Miss Daisy/Director - Oliver Stone for Born on the Fourth of July
1998: Picture - Shakespeare in Love/Director - Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan
2000: Picture - Gladiator/Director - Steven Soderbergh for Traffic
2002: Picture - Chicago/Director - Roman Polanski for The Pianist
2005: Picture - Crash/Director - Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain

My own splits:
1941: Picture - The Maltese Falcon/Director - Orson Welles for Citizen Kane
1957: Picture - 12 Angry Men/Director - Ingmar Bergman for The Seventh Seal
1960: Picture - The Apartment/Director - Alfred Hitchcock for Psycho
1963: Picture - The Great Escape/Director - Federico Fellini for 8 1/2
1965: Picture - Von Ryan's Express/Director - David Lean for Doctor Zhivago
1992: Picture - Glengarry Glen Ross/Director - Clint Eastwood for Unforgiven
1995: Picture - Before Sunrise/Director - Michael Mann for Heat

The Best Pictures

Idea via John Likes Movies:

As a fan of the Academy Awards, I have seen every film that has won the Best Picture Oscar. Here's the winners with my star-ratings attached. (Ratings are out of 4 stars.)

1927/28: Wings - 3 Stars
1928/29: The Broadway Melody - 3 Stars
1929/30: All Quiet on the Western Front - 3 1/2 Stars
1930/31: Cimarron - 3 Stars
1931/32: Grand Hotel - 4 Stars
1932/33: Cavalcade - 3 1/2 Stars
1934: It Happened One Night - 4 Stars
1935: Mutiny on the Bounty - 4 Stars
1936: The Great Ziegfeld - 3 1/2 Stars
1937: The Life of Emile Zola - 3 1/2 Stars
1938: You Can't Take It with You - 4 Stars
1939: Gone with the Wind - 4 Stars
1940: Rebecca - 4 Stars
1941: How Green Was My Valley - 3 1/2 Stars
1942: Mrs. Miniver - 3 1/2 Stars
1943: Casablanca - 4 Stars
1944: Going My Way - 4 Stars
1945: The Lost Weekend - 3 1/2 Stars
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives - 4 Stars
1947: Gentleman's Agreement - 3 Stars
1948: Hamlet - 4 Stars
1949: All the King's Men - 3 Stars
1950: All About Eve - 4 Stars
1951: An American in Paris - 3 Stars
1952: The Greatest Show on Earth - 3 1/2 Stars
1953: From Here to Eternity - 4 Stars
1954: On the Waterfront - 4 Stars
1955: Marty - 3 1/2 Stars
1956: Around the World in 80 Days - 4 Stars
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai - 4 Stars
1958: Gigi - 4 Stars
1959: Ben-Hur - 3 Stars
1960: The Apartment - 4 Stars
1961: West Side Story - 4 Stars
1962: Lawrence of Arabia - 3 1/2 Stars
1963: Tom Jones - 3 Stars
1964: My Fair Lady - 3 Stars
1965: The Sound of Music - 4 Stars
1966: A Man for All Seasons - 3 Stars
1967: In the Heat of the Night - 3 1/2 Stars
1968: Oliver! - 4 Stars
1969: Midnight Cowboy - 4 Stars
1970: Patton - 3 1/2 Stars
1971: The French Connection - 4 Stars
1972: The Godfather - 4 Stars
1973: The Sting - 3 1/2 Stars
1974: The Godfather Part II - 4 Stars
1975: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - 3 Stars
1976: Rocky - 4 Stars
1977: Annie Hall - 4 Stars
1978: The Deer Hunter - 3 1/2 Stars
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer - 4 Stars
1980: Ordinary People - 3 1/2 Stars
1981: Chariots of Fire - 3 Stars
1982: Gandhi - 3 Stars
1983: Terms of Endearment - 3 1/2 Stars
1984: Amadeus - 4 Stars
1985: Out of Africa - 3 Stars
1986: Platoon - 4 Stars
1987: The Last Emperor - 3 1/2 Stars
1988: Rain Man - 3 Stars
1989: Driving Miss Daisy - 2 1/2 Stars
1990: Dances with Wolves - 3 Stars
1991: The Silence of the Lambs - 4 Stars
1992: Unforgiven - 4 Stars
1993: Schindler's List - 4 Stars
1994: Forrest Gump - 3 Stars
1995: Braveheart - 4 Stars
1996: The English Patient - 3 Stars
1997: Titanic - 4 Stars
1998: Shakespeare in Love - 4 Stars
1999: American Beauty - 4 Stars
2000: Gladiator - 4 Stars
2001: A Beautiful Mind - 3 1/2 Stars
2002: Chicago - 3 1/2 Stars
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - 3 Stars
2004: Million Dollar Baby - 3 1/2 Stars
2005: Crash - 3 1/2 Stars
2006: The Departed - 4 Stars
2007: No Country for Old Men - 4 Stars
2008: Slumdog Millionaire - 4 Stars
2009: The Hurt Locker - 4 Stars
2010: The King's Speech - 3 Stars

First post

Welcome to my blog! I've loved classic cinema since I first saw films like It's a Wonderful Life and West Side Story as a kid. After reading other classic movie blogs, I've decided to start my own. Keep in mind, I don't know what I'll end up doing with the blog. Still, I'm glad to get started and hope you enjoy.