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The movies that dominated the Oscars: which films won the most awards in history?

Emilia Pérez has thirteen nominations but that still doesn’t beat the Oscars record.

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Oli joined the Latest News team in 2021, taking an interest in economics, world news, and articles that build from his study of history. He also dabbles in sports writing, joining the coverage of the last soccer World Cup as well as European Champions League games. He enjoys playing football, electronic music, and painting miniatures.

Update: Feb 26th, 2025 16:32 EST

‘Emilia Pérez’ is nominated for 13 Oscar awards. One of the favorite films of the year has received the same amount of nominations that ‘Oppenheimer’ last year. Christopher Nolan’s film won seven statuettes in 2024. We’ll see how the controversial film by Jacques Audiard does this year.

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The most Oscar-winning movies ever made

Three movies are tied as the winningest ever, each with 11 Oscars. They are “Ben-Hur”, “Titanic” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”

William Wyler’s 1959 epic rendition of “Ben-Hur” was nominated for twelve awards and picked up eleven, missing out on Best Adapted Screenplay but sweeping the board with Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, as well as a raft of technical gongs.

That record stood alone for nearly 40 years until James Cameron got his hands on the deck of the “Titanic”, put together an all-star supporting cast and placed his faith in two actors who were not considered huge stars at the time but went on to helm one of the most successful movies of all time - and the highest-grossing until Cameron surpassed his own Midas touch with “Avatar”.

“Titanic” equalled Ben-Hur’s 11 Oscars, and also equalled the record for Academy Award nominations, with 14, matching the record set by “All About Eve” in 1950. Cameron himself won Best Picture (with Jon Landau) and Best Director with the rest of the movie’s awards coming in technical and musical categories.

“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” was nominated for eleven awards in 2003, a culmination of the work of Peter Jackson and a star-studded ensemble cast who had captivated audiences for three years with a sweeping imagining of JRR Tolkien’s masterpiece.

Jackson won Best Director and Best Picture (with Barrie M Osborne and Fran Walsh), while adapted screenplay was a bit of a shoo-in. “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” also made history with a clean sweep, becoming (and remaining) the only movie to win every category it was nominated in: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Makeup, Costume Design, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects.

Other Oscars movie records:

Most nominations: 14 - “All About Eve” (1950), “Titanic” (1997), “La La Land” (2016)

Most nominations for a foreign-language film: 13 - “Emilia Pérez” (2024), followed by 10 - “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000), “Roma” (2018)

Most nominations without winning an award: 11 - “The Turning Point” (1977), “The Color Purple” (1985)

Most nominations in technical categories: 10 - “Titanic” (1997)

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