Last year I was curious about which film was most likely to win Best Picture. So, I posed the following question to my film critic friend who is both a cinephile and stats-junkie. "How often has the film with the most nominations NOT won Best Picture?" Anyone else may have answered "Not often." Someone a little more precise might have said, 7 times in the last 35 years. But not Peter T. Chattaway ! He composed the following list for me, and I think it's cool, so I'm passing it on to you.
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Red indicates the winner had LESS nominations than at least one other film. (And FWIW, in at least two years -- 1980 and 1977 -- I believe the winner had the least nominations of all, or was tied for the least.) Purple indicates the winner was TIED for the most nominations with at least one other film.
2005 – MOST NOMINATIONS THIS YEAR: Brokeback Mountain (nom 8)
2004 – winner: Million Dollar Baby (nom 7, won 4), The Aviator (nom 11, won 4),
2003 - winner: The Return of the King (nom 11, won 11)
2002 - winner: Chicago (nom 13, won 6)
2001 - winner: A Beautiful Mind (nom 8, won 4); most noms: The Fellowship of the Ring (nom 13, won 4)
2000 - winner: Gladiator (nom 12, won 5)
1999 - winner: American Beauty (nom 8, won 5)
1998 - winner: Shakespeare in Love (nom 13, won 7)
1997 - winner: Titanic (nom 14, won 11)
1996 - winner: The English Patient (nom 12, won 9)
1995 - winner: Braveheart (nom 10, won 5)
1994 - winner: Forrest Gump (nom 13, won 6)
1993 - winner: Schindler's List (nom 12, won 7)
1992 - winner: Unforgiven (nom 9, won 4); tied with: Howards End (nom 9, won 3)
1991 - winner: Silence of the Lambs (nom 7, won 5); most noms: Bugsy (nom 10, won 2)
1990 - winner: Dances with Wolves (nom 12, won 7)
1989 - winner: Driving Miss Daisy (nom 9, won 4)
1988 - winner: Rain Man (nom 8, won 4)
1987 - winner: The Last Emperor (nom 9, won 9)
1986 - winner: Platoon (nom 8, won 4); tied with: A Room with a View (nom 8, won 3)
1985 - winner: Out of Africa (nom 11, won 7); tied with: The Color Purple (nom 11, won 0)
1984 - winner: Amadeus (nom 11, won 8): tied with: A Passage to India (nom 11, won 2)
1983 - winner: Terms of Endearment (nom 11, won 5)
1982 - winner: Gandhi (nom 11, won 8)
1981 - winner: Chariots of Fire (nom 7, won 4); most noms: Reds (nom 12, won 3)
1980 - winner: Ordinary People (nom 6, won 4); most noms: Raging Bull (nom 8, won 2) and The Elephant Man (nom 8, won 0)
1979 - winner: Kramer Vs. Kramer (nom 9, won 5); tied with: All That Jazz (nom 9, won 4)
1978 - winner: The Deer Hunter (nom 9, won 5); tied with: The Deer Hunter and Heaven Can Wait (nom 9, won 1)
1977 - winner: Annie Hall (nom 5, won 4); most noms: Julia (nom 11, won 3) and The Turning Point (nom 11, won 0) and Star Wars (nom 10, won 6 + 1 special award)
1976 - winner: Rocky (nom 10, won 3); tied with: Network (nom 10, won 4)
1975 - winner: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (nom 9, won 5)
1974 - winner: The Godfather Part II (nom 11, won 6); tied with: Chinatown (nom 11, won 1)
1973 - winner: The Sting (nom 9, won 7); most noms: The Exorcist (nom 10, won 2)
1972 - winner: The Godfather (nom 10, won 3); tied with: Cabaret (nom 10, won 8)
1971 - winner: The French Connection (nom 8, won 5); tied with: Fiddler on the Roof (nom 8, won 3) and The Last Picture Show (nom 8, won 2)
1970 - winner: Patton (nom 10, won 7); tied with: Airport (nom 10, won 1)
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If you like these kinds of stats, as I do, check out... http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/index.html
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