What are the movie westerns that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and will “Hell or High Water” join the esteemed list this year? Click through our photo gallery highlighting all of the Oscar-winning westerns, from “No Country for Old Men” (2007) to “Cimarron” (1931).
-By Marcus James Dixon
Violence and mayhem ensue in this modern western after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Total Oscar Nominations: 8
Wins: 4
Best Picture
Best Director (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
Losses: 4
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
2007 Best Picture Nominees:
“Atonement”
“Juno”
“Michael Clayton”
“No Country for Old Men”
“There Will Be Blood”
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.
Total Oscar Nominations: 9
Wins: 4
Best Picture
Best Director (Clint Eastwood)
Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman)
Best Film Editing
Losses: 5
Best Actor (Clint Eastwood)
Best Original Screenplay (David Webb Peoples)
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Best Sound
1992 Best Picture Nominees:
“The Crying Game”
“A Few Good Men”
“Howards End”
“Scent of a Woman”
“Unforgiven”
Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Native Americans, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
Total Oscar Nominations: 12
Wins: 7
Best Picture
Best Director (Kevin Costner)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Michael Blake)
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score
Best Sound
Losses: 5
Best Actor (Kevin Costner)
Best Supporting Actor (Graham Greene)
Best Supporting Actress (Mary McDonnell)
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Best Costume Design
1990 Best Picture Nominees:
“Awakenings”
“Dances with Wolves”
“Ghost”
“The Godfather, Part III”
“GoodFellas”
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Total Oscar Nominations: 7
Wins: 3
Best Picture
Best Writing, Adaptation (Howard Estabrook)
Best Art Direction
Losses: 4
Best Director (Wesley Ruggles)
Best Actor (Richard Dix)
Best Actress (Irene Dunne)
Best Cinematography
1930-31 Best Picture Nominees:
“Cimarron”
“East Lynne”
“The Front Page”
“Skippy”
“Trader Horn”
Every Oscar winner for Best Picture
Every Oscar winner for Best Director
Every Oscar winner for Best Actor
Every Oscar winner for Best Actress
Every Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor
Every Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress
Musicals that won Best Picture
Westerns that won Best Picture
Tom O’Neil: My Top 25 Oscar Best Picture Winners of All Time
