![]() Williams, Benedict Cumberbatch, Storm Reid, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, Kelsey Scott, Bill Camp and more. Chiwetel Ejiofor portrays Northup in the film, starring alongside Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael K. Steve McQueen directed 12 Years a Slave, written by John Ridley, adapted from Solomon Northup's book about his journey from freedom into the slavery and back out again. Image Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures/Photofest (2013 best picture nominees: Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty) Affleck was famously snubbed for a best director honor, but he won the Globe for best director for Argo earlier that same year. The four additional nominations included Alan Arkin for best supporting actor and Alexandre Desplat for best original score, along with sound mixing and sound. The film won a total of three Oscars for best picture, best screenplay (Chris Terrio) and best editing (William Goldenberg). (2012 best picture nominees: The Descendants, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, War Horse)īen Affleck directed and starred in Argo, a historical drama that follows an elaborate plan to free six Americans from Tehran during the 1979 Iran-U.S. It earned five additional nominations for best writing (Hazanavicius), best supporting actress (Bejo) plus cinematography, editing and art direction. The film won a total of five Oscars for best picture, best director (Hazanavicius), best actor (Dujardin), best costume design (Mark Bridges) and best original score (Ludovic Bource). Jean Dujardin plays actor George Valentin who falls for a dancer played by Bérénice Bejo. Michel Hazanavicius' silent, black-and-white comedy follows a Hollywood romance set during the silent film era. Image Credit: The Weinstein Compay/Photofest (2011 best picture nominees: 127 Hours, Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter's Bone) ![]() Bonham Carter and Rush each scored nominations for their supporting roles. The film won four Oscars including best picture, best director (Hooper), best actor (Firth) and best screenplay (David Seidler) and earned eight additional nominations. Image Credit: Weinstein Company, The/Photofestĭirected by Tom Hooper, The King's Speech stars Colin Firth as the late British Monarch King George VI along with Geoffrey Rush, who plays his speech therapist, and Helena Bonham Carter as his wife, Queen Elizabeth. (2010 best picture nominees: Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air) ![]() ![]() The film earned three additional nominations for Renner's lead role, Barry Ackroyd's cinematography and an original score from Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders. Ottosson and Ray Beckett) and best sound editing (Ottosson). The Hurt Locker took home best picture, best director (for Bigelow, becoming the first and only female recipient of the award), best screenplay (Boal), best editing (Bob Murawski and Chris Innis), best sound mixing (Paul N.J. Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty also star in the film, written by Mark Boal. Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War thriller follows a bomb squad led by a maverick sergeant played by Jeremy Renner. Image Credit: Summit Entertainment/Photofest (Please note all years reference the year the award was presented during the annual ceremony.) See the full list of Academy Award winners for best picture in the 2010s below. Stories based on true events and historical narratives dominated the wins of the decade with movies such as Hurt Locker, The King's Speech, Argo, 12 Years a Slave, Spotlight and Green Book, but were contrasted with whimsical films such as The Artist, Guillermo del Toro's fantasy romance The Shape of Water, Alejandro Iñárritu's dark comedy/drama Birdman and Barry Jenkins' coming-of-age tale Moonlight. The Hurt Locker set the decade off with the first (and only) film directed by a woman to win best picture (director Kathryn Bigelow won the best director honor as well) and honored producer Dede Gardner as the only woman to win the best picture honor twice ( 12 Years a Slave, Moonlight).
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