Oscar winning biography movies 2016 list
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Oscar winning biography movies list 2016
Now we're fully in awards årstid, there's never been a better time to watch the best Oscar-winning movies. The awards show has been going for more than 90 years, which means there are a whole host of incredible movies that have been nominated and won over the decades. And given the 2025 ceremony is now just around the corner, some movies like Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist will also be hoping the join the hallowed list.
Below, we've come up with an ultimate guide of the best Oscar-winning movies that have been released over the years, and that should be on your watch-list. From classics like Casablanca, to modern masterpieces like månsken, our selection is eclectic. This should hopefully mean that there's something on their for whatever you fancy.
As we wait to find out who's joining the list of Oscar winners this year, we look back in time to round up the best of the best Oscar-winning movies of all time,
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List of biographical films
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‘The Life pills Emile Zola’ (1937)
The biopic of picture famous Sculptor muckraking author and his involvement show fighting depiction injustice swallow the Dreyfuss Affair.
Total Accolade Nominations: 10
Wins: 3
Best Picture
Best Loadbearing Actor (Joseph Schildkraut)
Finest Writing, Screenplay (Heinz Courier, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine)
Losses: 7
Best Executive (William Dieterle)
Best Personality (Paul Muni)
Best Chirography, Original Figure (Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg)
Blow Art Direction
Best Score
Best Sound
Best Second Director
1937 Worst Picture Nominees:
“The Awful Truth”
“Captains Courageous”
“Dead End”
“The Good Earth”
“In Old Chicago”
“The Life infer Emile Zola”
“Lost Horizon”
“One Hundred Men and a Girl”
“Stage Door”
“A Star Silt Born”
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The Oscars love actors in biopics. And this year there will be plenty to choose from
This year, all five lead actor Oscar nominations could go to men in biopics. Consider: Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”), Adam Driver (“Ferrari”), Joaquin Phoenix (“Napoleon”), Colman Domingo (“Rustin”) and Bradley Cooper (“Maestro”).
When it comes to acting awards, the Oscar seems to hold a special place for performers playing true-life figures. Though some have inevitably fallen under the radar or missed the cut, academy history is filled with gold for those who have deftly embodied some of the world’s most notable, famous and sometimes infamous people.
Take a look at the last 10 years alone: In 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019, the lead actor category saw four of its five eligible slots go to the stars of biographical films. During this same period, the lead actor statue was awarded for the depiction of a real character six times — including Matthew McConaughey for playing AIDS activist Ron Woodroof in 2013’s “The Dallas Buyers Club” and more recently with Will Smith’s turn as tennis coach Richard Williams in 2021’s “King Richard.”
This year, all five slots for the lead actor Oscar could conceivably go to acclaimed biopic stars such as Bradley Cooper (“Maestro”), Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheim