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Academy Awards

2000–2025

26 ceremonies

19292025

Longest streak

Emmanuel Lubezki

3 in a row · 2014–2016

Most unpredictable

26 winners

in 26 years of Best Adapted Screenplay

Most predictable

17 winners

in 26 years of Best Costume Design

Who owned which era

Every winner since 2000, colored by distributor. Click a chip to spotlight one; hover a square for the winner.
'00'05'10'15'20'25
Headliners1
Picture
Majors5
Director
Actor
Actress
Animated Feature2002–2025
International Feature1957–2025
Craft & genre19
Supp. Actor1937–2025
Supp. Actress1937–2025
Orig. Screenplay1941–2025
Adapted Screenplay
Cinematography1929–2025
Film Editing1935–2025
Production Design1929–2025
Costume Design1958–2025
Makeup & Hair1965–2025
Visual Effects1940–2025
Sound2021–2025
Sound Mixing1931–2020
Sound Editing1964–2020
Documentary Feature1944–2025
Documentary Short1944–2025
Animated Short1933–2025
Live Action Short1958–2025
Original Score1935–2025
Original Song1935–2025

ringed square = repeat winner (defended the title from the prior year). outline = the category was not awarded that year.

The dominant distributors

Share of the 605 wins with a distributor on record, 2000–2025. The other 12 have none credited by any source.

All Oscars categories
  1. Warner Bros.9115%
  2. Universal8113%
  3. Searchlight508%
  4. Disney488%
  5. Sony437%
  6. Paramount335%
  7. Netflix274%
  8. 20th Century234%
  9. Other20935%

12 further wins have no distributor on record and are not counted in the 605 above.

Dynasties vs. coin flips

How many different winners each category has crowned, out of the ceremonies it ran in this range. The 10 most and 10 least predictable of 25.

Most decorated, 2000–2025

Total wins across every category we track for the Oscars. Ties broken alphabetically.

Colleen Atwood4
2017, 2011, 2006, 2003
Alfonso Cuarón3
2019, 2019, 2014
Dante Ferretti & Francesca Lo Schiavo3
2012, 2008, 2005
Emmanuel Lubezki3
2016, 2015, 2014
Richard King3
2011, 2009, 2004
Sean Baker3
2025, 2025, 2025
Adrien Brody2
2025, 2003
Alan Robert Murray & Bub Asman2
2015, 2007

Every category we track

33 categories. A year range under the count means that category covers less than the full 1929–2025 window. Open it to see whether the award ran for those years only, or whether we are still filling in the record.

33 categories

The headliners (1)

Best Picture2025: Anora97 yrs

The majors (5)

Best Director2025: Sean Baker (Anora)97 yrsBest Actor2025: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)97 yrsBest Actress2025: Mikey Madison (Anora)97 yrsBest Animated Feature2025: Flow24 yrs2002–2025Best International Feature Film2025: I'm Still Here69 yrs1957–2025

The craft & genre races (27)

Best Supporting Actor2025: Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)89 yrs1937–2025Best Supporting Actress2025: Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)89 yrs1937–2025Best Original Screenplay2025: Sean Baker (Anora)84 yrs1941–2025(paused 1 yr)Best Adapted Screenplay2025: Peter Straughan (Conclave)97 yrsBest Cinematography2025: Lol Crawley (The Brutalist)67 yrs1929–2025(paused 30 yrs)Best Cinematography, Black-and-White1967: Haskell Wexler (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)30 yrs1937–1967(paused 1 yr)Best Cinematography, Color1967: Ted Moore (A Man for All Seasons)27 yrs1940–1967(paused 1 yr)Best Film Editing2025: Sean Baker (Anora)91 yrs1935–2025Best Production Design2025: Nathan Crowley & Lee Sandales (Wicked)72 yrs1929–2025(paused 25 yrs)Best Art Direction, Black-and-White1967: Richard Sylbert & George James Hopkins (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)25 yrs1941–1967(paused 2 yrs)Best Art Direction, Color1967: Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy, Walter M. Scott & Stuart A. Reiss (Fantastic Voyage)25 yrs1941–1967(paused 2 yrs)Best Costume Design2025: Paul Tazewell (Wicked)60 yrs1958–2025(paused 8 yrs)Best Costume Design, Black-and-White1967: Irene Sharaff (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)17 yrs1949–1967(paused 2 yrs)Best Costume Design, Color1967: Elizabeth Haffenden & Joan Bridge (A Man for All Seasons)17 yrs1949–1967(paused 2 yrs)Best Makeup and Hairstyling2025: Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon & Marilyne Scarselli (The Substance)45 yrs1965–2025(paused 16 yrs)Best Visual Effects2025: Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe & Gerd Nefzer (Dune: Part Two)74 yrs1940–2025(paused 12 yrs)Best Sound2025: Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett & Doug Hemphill (Dune: Part Two)5 yrs2021–2025Best Sound Mixing2020: Mark Taylor & Stuart Wilson (1917)90 yrs1931–2020Best Sound Editing2020: Donald Sylvester (Ford v Ferrari)41 yrs1964–2020(paused 16 yrs)Best Documentary Feature2025: No Other Land81 yrs1944–2025(paused 1 yr)Best Documentary Short Film2025: The Only Girl in the Orchestra81 yrs1944–2025(paused 1 yr)Best Animated Short Film2025: In the Shadow of the Cypress93 yrs1933–2025Best Live Action Short Film2025: I'm Not a Robot68 yrs1958–2025Best Original Score2025: Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist)91 yrs1935–2025Best Adaptation Score1985: Prince (Purple Rain)44 yrs1939–1985(paused 3 yrs)Best Original Musical or Comedy Score1999: Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love)4 yrs1996–1999Best Original Song2025: "El Mal" (Emilia Pérez)91 yrs1935–2025

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