Slumdog Millionaire, 8
Year: 2008
Nominations: 10
Producer: Christian Colson (won)
Director: Danny Boyle (won)
Music: A.R. Rahman (won)
Studio: Fox Searchlight
All the Films That Have Won 8 or More Oscars: Complete List
Written by djfrosty on March 8, 2024
In the 96-year history of the Academy Awards, just 15 films have won eight or more Oscars. Oppenheimer has a good chance of joining them when the 2024 Oscars are presented at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday (March 10). The three-hour drama is expected to win eight awards, including best picture, best director and best original score, and could win as many as 10 (from its 13 nominations) if everything goes its way.
The list of films that have won eight or more Oscars is quite diverse, including epics, biopics and musicals. All but one of these films won best picture. The exception was Cabaret, which swept eight 1972 Oscars but lost the big one to The Godfather, which won just two other awards besides best picture.
Three of these films – The Last Emperor, Gigi and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – achieved clean sweeps, winning in every category in which they were nominated. The latter film, the third in that trilogy, made the biggest Oscar night sweep of all, winning in all 11 categories in which it was nominated.
Here are all films that have won eight or more Oscars, listed in ascending order. We show the year the film was released, the total number of nominations it received (flagging the three that achieved clean sweeps), the names of the producer(s), director(s) and people most responsible for the music – indicating if they won or were nominated for Oscars in those capacities, and finally, the studio that released the film.
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Amadeus, 8
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Gandhi, 8
Year: 1982
Nominations: 11
Producer: Richard Attenborough (won)
Director: Richard Attenborough (won)
Music: Ravi Shankar, George Fenton (nominated)
Studio: Columbia
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Cabaret, 8
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Year: 1972
Nominations: 10
Producer: Cy Feuer (nominated)
Director: Bob Fosse (won)
Music: Ralph Burns for adapting the Kander & Ebb score (won)
Studio: Allied Artists
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My Fair Lady, 8
Year: 1964
Nominations: 12
Producer: Jack L. Warner (won)
Director: George Cukor (won)
Music: Andre Previn for adapting the Lerner & Loewe score (won)
Studio: Warner Bros.
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On the Waterfront, 8
Year: 1954
Nominations: 12
Producer: Sam Spiegel (won)
Director: Elia Kazan (won)
Music: Leonard Bernstein (nominated)
Studio: Columbia
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From Here to Eternity, 8
Year: 1953
Nominations: 13
Producer: Buddy Adler (won)
Director: Fred Zinnemann (won)
Music: Morris Stoloff & George Duning (nominated)
Studio: Columbia
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Gone With the Wind, 8
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Year: 1939
Nominations: 13
Producer: [David O.] Selznick International Pictures (won)
Director: Victor Fleming (won)
Music: Max Steiner (nominated)
Studio: MGM
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The English Patient, 9
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The Last Emperor, 9
Year: 1987
Nominations: 9 (clean sweep)
Producer: Jeremy Thomas (won)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci (won)
Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Cong Su (won)
Studio: Columbia
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Gigi, 9
Year: 1958
Nominations: 9 (clean sweep)
Producer: Arthur Freed (won)
Director: Vincente Minnelli (won)
Music: Andre Previn for his treatment of the Lerner & Loewe score (won)
Studio: MGM
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West Side Story, 10
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Year: 1961
Nominations: 11
Producer: Robert Wise (won)
Director: Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins (won)
Music: Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal for their treatment of the song score by Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim (won)
Studio: United Artists
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 11
Year: 2003
Nominations: 11 (clean sweep)
Producer: Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh (won)
Director: Peter Jackson (won)
Music: Howard Shore (won)
Studio: New Line
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Titanic, 11
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures/CBS via Getty Images Year: 1997
Nominations: 14
Producer: James Cameron & Jon Landau (won)
Director: James Cameron (won)
Music: James Horner (won)
Studio: 20th Century Fox & Paramount
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Ben-Hur, 11
Year: 1959
Nominations: 12
Producer: Sam Zimbalist (won)
Director: William Wyler (won)
Music: Miklos Rozsa (won)
Studio: MGM