Which films earned the most Oscar nominations?

It is said that it’s an honor just to be nominated for an Oscar. Well these films were all quite well honored. Over the years, 54 movies have received at least 10 nominations for Academy Awards. They’ve all taken home multiple Oscars at the end of the night as well. Here are the movies that made it to double-digit nominations.

"All About Eve" was the first movie to get 14 nominations. Two movies have had as much since, but no film has ever gotten more at this point. That’s impressive, but on the other hand “All About Eve” won “only” six of them. However, unlike “La La Land,” one of them was for Best Picture. Fourteen nominations and a Best Picture win? That’s far from a bumpy night.

This movie kind of made the Oscars for a new generation of movie fans. People adored it. It was the highest-grossing film for years. “My Heart Will Go On” was the biggest song in the world. Obviously, it won an Oscar. That was one of the 11 Oscars that “Titanic” won, which includes Best Picture. Interestingly, none of the wins was for acting.

The most recent film to receive a record-tying 14 noms of was “La La Land.” The 2016 film only took home six awards out of those nominations, but or a second there, it seemed like there was going to be a seventh. You remember what happened with the Best Picture award this year, right? “Moonlight,” not “La La Land,” actually got the win there, making this musical the film with the most nominations and no Best Picture win.

To this day, “Gone with the Wind” is one of the most iconic films ever made. It’s the highest-grossing movie of all time adjusting for inflation. It was one of the first huge Oscar movies. “Gone with the Wind” didn’t win any more Oscars than, say, “From Here to Eternity,” as both won eight on 13 nominations. However, “Gone with the Wind” is the one that 90 years later is still considered one of the quintessential films.

We’re taking a big trip back in time here, although like “Forrest Gump” there is a fair amount of war in “From Here to Eternity.” There were also a lot of Oscars, as the movie won eight of them. This includes Best Supporting Actor, which went to Frank Sinatra. No really, and he’s quite good in the movie too!

Speaking of Best Picture winners that maybe didn’t stand the test of time — although, any film involving Tom Hanks has something going for it. Hanks memorably won Best Actor for “Forrest Gump,” making it back-to-back years winning this award for arguably the most beloved man in America.

People look back at “Shakespeare in Love” with puzzlement at the adoration it got — there was a lot of politicking involved — but at the time voters were clearly into it. Like it or not, and people rooting for “Saving Private Ryan” probably did not, “Shakespeare in Love” won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Judi Dench also won Best Supporting Actress despite only being in the movie for a handful of minutes.

The first of the three “Lord of the Rings” movies got the most nominations. It did not get many wins though. “The Fellowship of the Ring” won a mere four Oscars, and that doesn’t include Best Picture or Best Director, not to mention no acting awards.

“Chicago” has flashy set pieces, a bunch of musical numbers and an impressive cast. No wonder it got so many nominations. It wasn’t all music and costume victories, though. The movie also picked up Best Supporting Actress, which went to Catherine Zeta-Jones, not to mention Best Picture.

Despite all the opportunities, “The Shape of Water” walked away with only four Oscars. That being said, two of those wins were Best Director and Best Picture, arguably the two biggest awards of the night.

People expected "Oppenheimer" to be an Oscars favorite. It was a massive commercial hit, but also had awards cache. Christopher Nolan's biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer managed to find itself in rarefied air. While some technical awards are in the mix, as they have to be to reach this number of nominations, "Oppenheimer" got nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture as well. It took home four of those, all but Emily Blunt for Supporting Actress, as well as three more awards for seven total.

“Mrs. Miniver” did not suffer the same fate as “The Song of Bernadette.” Not only did it win six awards out of 12 the year prior, it also took home Best Picture. Maybe the romance film set against the backdrop of war struck a chord with audiences during World War II.

On the one hand, “The Song of Bernadette” did get 12 nominations. On the other, it took home only four of those awards. Additionally, none was for Best Picture, making it the third-most-nominated film to not win the big one. Perhaps that’s why this movie is not well remembered other than by true cinephiles.

“On the Waterfront” was an acting tour de force, including Marlon Brando in the role that won him his first Oscar. Eve Marie Saint won for Best Supporting Actress, and three different men were nominated for Best Supporting Actor, though none of them won.

For years, “Ben-Hur” was the standard bearer for Oscars success. It was the first movie to take home double-digit Oscars, winning 11 of them. That is still tied for the record for most wins of all time. The one loss, if you are curious, was Best Adapted Screenplay. The forgotten “Room at the Top” got that win.

Oh look, another musical from the ‘60s that won a ton of Oscars. “My Fair Lady” won eight awards, including Best Picture. You know who didn’t even get one of the 12 nominations, though? That would be Audrey Hepburn, who played Eliza Doolittle. The winner for Best Actress that year was Julie Andrews, who notably played the part of Doolittle on Broadway and actually did her own singing to boot.

“Dances with Wolves” was Kevin Costner’s directing debut, and he starred in it as well. It was a bold gamble, and not everybody believed in him at the time. Well he showed the skeptics he was up to the task, as the movie won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and, yes, Best Director.

Speaking of “Seinfeld,” “Schindler’s List” also featured prominently in one episode. While Jerry and his girlfriend Rachel got caught necking during the Holocaust drama, Oscar voters paid more attention. The Spielberg film won seven awards, and that included Best Picture.

Elaine Benes from “Seinfeld” hated it, but Oscar voters loved “The English Patient.” It won nine statuettes, including Best Picture. Meanwhile, “Sack Lunch” was robbed for a single nomination. Sorry, Elaine!

Are you not entertained? Many people were very much entertained by “Gladiator,” as it was a box office success and a critical one to boot. After all, it won Best Picture and took home five other awards. The following year, Russell Crowe would star in the next year’s Best Picture winner, “A Beautiful Mind.”

We’re moving on up to 12-nomination movies. “The King’s Speech” has been overshadowed by a more prescient 2010 film, “The Social Network.” In fact, “The King’s Speech” got only four wins, so clearly people weren’t too into it. Then again, it won Best Picture, so who knows?

"The Power of the Dog" was considered an Oscar favorite, and the nominations bore that out. It's 12 was tops in 2021, including four acting nominations. On top of that, Jane Campion was nominated for Best Director, making her the first woman to ever be nominated twice. Once a Best Picture favorite, in the end "The Power of the Dog" only won a single Academy Award. However, it did go to Campion for Best Director.

Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar, but one of his films did win Best Picture. That would be "Rebecca," though despite winning the big award on the night had a lackluster performance. Of the 11 nominations the movie received (including Best Director, naturally), "Rebecca" only won two. That's the all-time low for a film with double-digit nominations.

We said musicals were loved in the ‘60s. “West Side Story” was so close to perfection, winning 10 of the 11 awards it was up for. Condolences to Ernest Lehman, who didn’t win for Best Adapted Screenplay.

The Oscars loved musicals in the ‘60s, even ones that aren’t very good, like “Oliver!” Evidently voters disagreed. The movie got 11 nominations, despite no iconic, or even memorable, performances, and it won Best Picture among its five victories.

“The Godfather” is not on this list, but its sequel is. Well, some people do think it’s the better movie. Despite its status as an iconic film, it won "only" six Oscars, but that includes Robert De Niro winning for the same role that Marlon Brando won an Oscar for in the first film.

“Gandhi” is a massive epic about an iconic figure of history. That doesn’t always lend itself to Oscar success, though. Fortunately for this film, it worked, as “Gandhi” won eight Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Best Picture.

Emotional movies often feel like Oscar bait, and “Terms of Endearment” can get the waterworks going. It works on the Oscar bait front, as it got 11 nominations, winning five of them, including Best Picture.

Mozart is maybe the biggest name in classical music, and his story, or a fictionalized version of it, captured audiences, and critics, in 1984. The movie took home eight Academy Awards, and that does include Best Picture. We’ll accept the fact it beat “Ghostbusters” for that honor. Sure, “Ghostbusters” wasn’t nominated. We’ll have to overlook that too.

While "The Color Purple" is far from the first Spielberg film most think of, when it comes to Oscar nominations it's one of his crowning achievements. Sure, it didn't win him Best Picture or Best Director, but his adaptation of Alice Walker's novel did get 11 nominations, including one for the aforementioned Best Picture award. However, it failed to win a single award among all those nominations, even with big names like Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey (yes, that Oprah) among the nominees.

Once again Robert Redford stars in a Best Picture winner that got a ton of nominations. “Out of Africa” won seven Oscars, but neither of them went to Redford or Meryl Streep. While Streep got nominated, Redford didn’t even have that much luck.

Behold, the glory of perfection. The final “Lord of the Rings” movie got 11 nominations and won all 11 Oscars. Yes, it swept all its categories. No other film with double-digit nominations has done that. “Return of the King” is tied for having the most wins ever, but the other 11-time winners all lost at least once.

That’s right. We’ve got another Scorsese film. Like “Hugo,” it got 11 nominations. Also like “Hugo” it won five awards. Sadly for Scorsese, another similarity between these two movies is that “The Aviator” didn’t win Best Picture or Best Director. Cate Blanchett did win an Oscar for playing another Oscar winner though: Katharine Hepburn.

This is one of the more forgotten Martin Scorsese films, maybe because it was family friendly. The movie won five awards, all for technical stuff. It’s most prominent win probably goes to Best Cinematography.

“Life of Pi” was a technical achievement, which got it a bunch of nominations along those lines, but it got only four wins. One of them went to Ang Lee for Best Director, his second win after "Brokeback Mountain". It did not take home Best Picture, however.

Yes, "Joker," of all films got the most nominations of 2019. This includes a look for Best Picture. Joaquin Phoenix is one of the most-venerated actors of his generation, and somehow this ended up being the film he finally won Best Actor for. The movie also won for it's score.

Out of nowhere, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" became an Oscars darling. The multiverse family dramedy is polarizing, but the Academy gave it 11 nominations. That includes four acting nominations, including a delightful one for Ke Huy Quan, who was a famed child actor in the 1980s who had given up on acting until recently. The movie dominated at the Oscars, winning seven awards. That included three acting wins - Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Michelle Yeoh - as well as Best Director and Best Picture.

Yorgos Lanthimos films are no stranger to Oscar success, Olivia Colman did win for "The Favourite," but "Poor Things" took things to a new level. His newest film beat "The Favourite" by one nomination, getting into the 11 range. Lanthimos' beloved Emma Stone (who seems to love him just as much) got a nomination, and the movie was up for Best Director and Best Picture as well. While "Oppenheimer" was 2023's big winner, "Poor Things" was no slouch of a silver medalist. It took home four Oscars, three of the aesthetic variety, and then Stone did get her second Best Actress trophy.

“The Life of Emile Zola” is the first film to receive double-digit nominations. It took home Best Picture, but that was one of only three Oscars it won. Only one film with 10 or more nominations has taken home fewer awards, the aforementioned "Rebecca."

“How Green Was My Valley” won five Oscars, including Best Picture, but the films that didn’t win get more press these days. You may have heard of a couple of Best Picture losers called “Citizen Kane” and “The Maltese Falcon.”

You may think of Bing Crosby as a singer, but he had some acting chops, as he won Best Actor for his role in “Going My Way.” It was the highest-grossing film of 1944, making it a commercial and critical success. “Going My Way” won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and was followed by a sequel in 1945, “The Bells of St. Mary’s.”

“The Apartment” is the rare comedy that ended up winning Best Picture. That was one of five awards this delightful, but sometimes dark, movie won. None was for the stars, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, but they both won Golden Globes, which don’t count here.

The year prior to “Tom Jones,” “Lawrence of Arabia” also got 10 nominations. However, while “Tom Jones” has been pretty much forgotten, “Lawrence of Arabia” is considered an all-time epic film. It also won more Oscars than its successor for Best Picture, winning seven.

No, this was not a prescient biopic of Welsh crooner Tom Jones. It’s based on a Henry Fielding novel from 1749. “Tom Jones” won only four Oscars, but one of them was Best Picture, which is what really matters in the end.

The hills were alive with the sound of Oscar wins. This iconic musical had 10 nominations, and it took home five of them. That includes, unsurprisingly, Best Music, but it won Best Picture as well.

Yes, two films in the same year both got 10 nominations. What were the rest of films doing that year? “Doctor Zhivago” won five Oscars just like “The Sound of Music,” but as you have likely surmised it did not win Best Picture.

This biopic of Gen. George Patton also received 10 nominations, and it won seven. That includes Best Picture. One of those awards was for Best Actor, which went to George C. Scott, but Scott refused to accept the award. It still counts for these purposes though.

Life was, indeed, a cabaret for this musical, as it won a whopping eight Oscars based on 10 nominations. However, it did not win Best Picture. That’s understandable. It was up against a little film called “The Godfather.”

This Depression Era-set heist film stars Robert Redford and Paul Newman, but neither of them got a win for “The Sting.” Not that many folks associated with the movie went home unhappy on Oscar night. It won seven Oscars on 10 nominations, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture.

“Network” should have won Best Picture; no knock on “Rocky.” It ended up winning only four of the awards it was nominated for. However, they were all big categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay. By the way, Best Actor went to Peter Finch, who unfortunately received it posthumously.

Ever heard of it? Maybe we now should call it “Episode IV: A New Hope," but back then it was just known as “Star Wars.” A juggernaut was born. “Star Wars” mixed commercial and critical success, as it actually got 10 Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture. It lost out to “Annie Hall” there, but it won six awards.

Speaking of Mel Gibson, and we don't as much these days, he came up huge in 1995 with “Braveheart.” Granted, it won only five of the 10 awards it got nominated for, but one of those was Best Picture. On top of that, it gave us the memorable line, “They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our FREEDOM!”

“Slumdog Millionaire” almost had a perfect night. The Danny Boyle movie got 10 nominations, and it took home eight Oscars. That included Best Picture, a great cap to the evening for the film.

The Oscars love movies about the power of Hollywood, and “The Artist” delivered that in spades. It’s a silent movie about the era of silent movies! Actors we in America hadn’t heard of (Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo) took home awards! Plus, of the five awards out of 10 nominations the movie won, one of those was “Best Picture.”

Speaking of technical achievements, the spectacle of “Gravity” led to it getting 10 nominations. After all, Sandra Bullock is basically the only actor in it, so there wasn’t a lot of others out there to get nods. Bullock didn’t win herself, and it didn’t get Best Picture either, but Alfonso Cuaron did take home Best Director.

Expectations weren’t exactly high for this long-delayed fourth film in the “Mad Max” series. Mel Gibson was gone, and it’s not like any of those films were considered Oscar bait. Then George Miller stunned us with “Fury Road,” which many considered the best film of the year. It got a Best Picture nomination but didn’t win. However, it did take home six Oscars, mostly of the technical variety.

The Oscars love films about Hollywood, and Quentin Tarantino's film literally has "Hollywood" right in the title. Tarantino is threatening to retire after one more film, but that wasn't enough to get him a win for his love letter to a bygone era of showbiz. However, Brad Pitt did finally win his first acting Oscar.

Weirdly, Robert De Niro didn't get one of for 10 nominations for "The Irishman." Otherwise, it would be up to 11, tying it for tops among 2019 films. Martin Scorsese's epic mobster movie leaves everything on the table, but despite the Academy's love for "Marty" the film was completely overlooked when it came to the preference of voters.

Out of nowhere, "1917" became one of the favorites to win a bunch of Oscars, especially after it won Best Picture Drama at the Golden Globes. Sam Mendes' war film has a lot of technical accomplishments going for it, which is how it got 10 nominations despite the fact it got zero acting nominations. In the end, "1917" did not win Best Picture as many expected, with "Parasite" instead emerging as the big winner.

"Mank" seemed like an early Oscars favorite as a film directed by David Fincher about Joseph Mankiewicz, one of the writers of "Citizen Kane." Then, it became an unexpected meme movie, mostly because people liked to say "Mank." The Oscars buzz faded, mostly on the Best Picture front, but the film still got 10 nominations. "Mank" took home two Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography, which is a pretty impressive one to win.

"Dune" is one of those films that is very sensory, the kind that tends to get nominated for technical Oscars. Indeed, the bulk of its nominations are for things like Best Visual Effects and Best Sound. That being said, it did get a Best Picture nod as well. In the end, the technical awards led "Dune" to having the biggest night of any movie. "Dune" won six Oscars. No other film in its year won more than three.

Martin Scorsese directed a new film, and of course the Academy showered it in nominations. "Killers of the Flower Moon" has earned Scorsese another Best Director nomination, the 10th of his career. Among the 10 nominations, the one that perhaps drew the most attention was Lily Gladstone, a relative unknown up for Best Actress. Unfortunately, "Killers" joined ignominious company. It took home zero Oscars, adding it to the list of movies to earn double-digit nominations without a single win.