Now that the winners of the [much-delayed] 93rd Academy Awards have been announced, I decided to take a look at the winners — in all categories — from the past 10 years (the 2011-2020 seasons) and rank them. I will at some point also post a full Oscar history ranking, although there are many films I have yet to see (mainly older ones).
Best Picture
1. Parasite (2019)
2. The Artist (2011)
3. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
4. Moonlight (2016)
5. Nomadland (2020)
6. Argo (2012)
7. Spotlight (2015)
8. Birdman (2014)
9. The Shape of Water (2017)
10. Green Book (2018)
Best Director
1. Alfonso Cuaron — Roma (2018)
2. Bong Joon-ho — Parasite (2019)
3. Chloe Zhao — Nomadland (2020)
4. Michel Hazanavicius — The Artist (2011)
5. Damien Chazelle — La La Land (2016)
6. Ang Lee — Life of Pie (2012)
7. Alfonso Cuaron — Gravity (2013)
8. Alejandro González Iñárritu — Birdman (2014)
9. Guillermo del Toro –The Shape of Water (2017)
10. Alejandro González Iñárritu — the Revenant (2015)
Best Actor
1. Anthony Hopkins (2020)
2. Casey Affleck (2016)
3. Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
4. Eddie Redmayne (2014)
5. Jean Dujardin (2011)
6. Leonardo DiCaprio (2015)
7. Joaquin Phoenix (2019)
8. Gary Oldman (2017)
9. Matthew McConaughey (2013)
10. Rami Malek (2018)
Best Actress
1. Brie Larson — Room (2015)
2. Cate Blanchett — Blue Jasmine (2013)
3. Jennifer Lawrence — Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
4. Frances McDormand — Nomadland (2020)
5. Olivia Colman — The Favourite (2018)
6. Julianne Moore — Still Alice (2014)
7. Frances McDormand — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
8. Renee Zellweger — Judy (2019)
9. Emma Stone — La La Land (2016)
10. Meryl Streep — The Iron Lady (2011)
Best Supporting Actor
1. J.K. Simmons — Whiplash (2014)
2. Christoph Waltz — Django Unchained (2012)
3. Mahershala Ali — Moonlight (2016)
4. Daniel Kaluuya — Judas and the Black Messiah (2020)
5. Brad Pitt — Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019)
6. Mark Rylance — Bridge of Spies (2015)
7. Sam Rockwell — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
8. Jared Leto — Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
9. Christopher Plummer — Beginners (2011)
10. Mahershala Ali — Green Book (2018)
Best Supporting Actress
1. Lupita N’yongo — 12 Years a Slave (2013)
2. Viola Davis — Fences (2016)
3. Yuh-jung Youn — Minari (2020)
4. Anne Hathaway — Les Miserables (2012)
5. Regina King — If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
6. Allison Janney — I, Tonya (2017)
7. Octavia Spencer — The Help (2011)
8. Patricia Arquette — Boyhood (2014)
9. Alicia Vikander — The Danish Girl (2015)
10. Laura Dern — Marriage Story (2019)
Best Adapted Screenplay
1. Call Me By Your Name (2017)
2. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
3. The Father (2020)
4. Moonlight (2016)
5. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
6. The Big Short (2015)
7. The Descendants (2011)
8. Argo (2012)
9. The Imitation Game (2014)
10. JoJo Rabbit (2019)
Best Original Screenplay
1. Parasite (2019)
2. Promising Young Woman (2020)
3. Get Out (2017)
4. Her (2013)
5. Manchester By the Sea (2016)
6. Spotlight (2015)
7. Birdman (2014)
8. Django Unchained (2012)
9. Midnight in Paris (2011)
10. Green Book (2018)
Best Animated Feature
1. Inside Out (2015)
2. Zootopia (2016)
3. Soul (2020)
4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
5. Toy Story 4 (2019)
6. Coco (2017)
7. Big Hero 6 (2014)
8. Frozen (2013)
9. Brave (2012)
10. Rango (2011)
Best Documentary Feature
1. Free Solo (2018)
2. Amy (2015)
3. Icarus (2017)
4. American Factory (2019)
5. Citizenfour (2014)
6. O.J.: Made in America (2016)
7. 20 Feet From Stardom (2013)
8. My Octopus Teacher (2020)
9. Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
Not Seen: Undefeated (2011)
Best International Feature Film
1. Parasite (2019)
2. Roma (2018)
3. A Separation (2011)
4. Amour (2012)
5. Another Round (2020)
6. Ida (2014)
7. A Fantastic Woman (2017)
Not Seen: The Salesman (2016), Son of Saul (2015), The Great Beauty (2013)
Best Animated Short Film
1. Feast (2014)
2. Piper (2016)
3. If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
4. Hair Love (2019)
5. Mr. Hublot (2013)
6. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011)
7. Bear Story (2015)
8. Bao (2018)
9. Dear Basketball (2017)
10. Paperman (2012)
Best Documentary Short Film
1. Colette (2020)
2. The White Helmets (2016)
3. Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) (2019)
4. Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (2017)
5. Saving Face (2011)
6. Period. End of Sentence. (2018)
Not Seen: A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015), Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 (2014), The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013), Inocente (2012)
Live Action Short Film
1. Helium (2013)
2. The Silent Child (2017)
3. The Phone Call (2014)
4. Stutterer (2015)
5. Curfew (2012)
6. Two Distant Strangers (2020)
7. Skin (2018)
8. The Shore (2011)
9. The Neighbors’ Window (2019)
Not Seen: Sing
Best Cinematography
1. 1917 (2019)
2. Roma (2018)
3. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
4. Gravity (2013)
5. Life of Pi (2012)
6. Birdman (2014)
7. Mank (2020)
8. The Revenant (2015)
9. La La Land (2016)
10. Hugo (2011)
Best Costume Design
1. Black Panther (2018)
2. The Artist (2011)
3. Little Women (2019)
4. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
6. The Great Gatsby (2013)
7. Phantom Thread (2017)
8. Anna Karenina (2012)
9. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
10. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Best Film Editing
1. Dunkirk (2017)
2. Whiplash (2014)
3. Gravity (2013)
4. The Girl with the Dragon 5. Tattoo (2011)
5. Ford v Ferrari (2019)
6. Argo (2012)
7. Sound of Metal (2020)
8. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
9. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
10. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
2. Les Misérables (2012)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
4. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
5. Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
6. Bombshell (2019)
7. The Iron Lady (2011)
8. Darkest Hour (2017)
9. Vice (2018)
10. Suicide Squad (2016)
Best Original Score
1. Ludovic Bource — The Artist (2011)
2. Ludwig Göransson — Black Panther (2018)
3. Mychael Danna — Life of Pi (2012)
4. Alexandre Desplat — The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
5. Steven Price — Gravity (2013)
6. Ennio Morricone — The Hateful Eight (2015)
7. Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, & Atticus Ross — Soul (2020)
8. Justin Hurwitz — La La Land (2016)
9. Alexandre Desplat — The Shape of Water (2017)
10. Hildur Guðnadóttir — Joker (2019)
Best Original Song
1. “Remember Me” — Coco (2017)
2. “Glory” — Selma (2014)
3. “Skyfall” — Skyfall (2012)
4. “Shallow” — A Star is Born (2018)
5. “City of Stars” — La La Land (2016)
6. “Fight for You” — Judas and the Black Messiah (2020)
7. “Let It Go” — Frozen (2013)
8. “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” — Rocketman (2019)
9. “Man or Muppet” — The Muppets (2011)
10. “Writing’s On the Wall” — Spectre (2015)
Best Production Design
1. Black Panther (2018)
2. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019)
3. Lincoln (2012)
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
5. Mank (2020)
6. The Shape of Water (2017)
7. La La Land (2016)
8. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
9. The Great Gatsby (2013)
10. Hugo (2011)
Best Sound
(Formerly divided into two categories: sound mixing and sound editing)
1. Sound of Metal (2020)
2. Arrival (2016)
3. 1917 (2019)
4. Dunkirk (2017)
5. Whiplash (2014)
6. Gravity (2013)
7. Les Miserables (2012)
8. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
9. Skyfall (2012)
10. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
11. Ford v Ferrari (2019)
12. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
13. American Sniper (2014)
14. Hugo (2011)
15. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Best Visual Effects
1. Interstellar (2014)
2. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
3. Gravity (2013)
4. Life of Pi (2012)
5. Ex Machina (2015)
6. Tenet (2020)
7. 1917 (2019)
8. The Jungle Book (2016)
9. First Man (2018)
10. Hugo (2011)