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MOVIES
Academy Awards
Films That Won the Most Awards Except for Best Picture
This list features films that have won the majority of the awards they were nominated for except for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
RANK | FILMS | NOMINATIONS | WINS | YEAR |
1 | Cabaret | 10 | 8 | 1972 |
2 | Gravity | 10 | 7 | 2013 |
3 | La La Land | 14 | 6 | 2016 |
4 | Star Wars | 11 | 6 | 1977 |
5 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 10 | 6 | 2015 |
6 | Dune | 10 | 6 | 2021 |
7 | A Place in the Sun | 9 | 6 | 1951 |
8 | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 13 | 5 | 1966 |
9 | Saving Private Ryan | 11 | 5 | 1998 |
10 | The Aviator | 11 | 5 | 2004 |
11 | Hugo | 11 | 5 | 2011 |
12 | Doctor Zhivago | 10 | 5 | 1965 |
13 | The King and I | 9 | 5 | 1956 |
14 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 9 | 5 | 1981 |
References
Reddit. (2013). Films that won 6 Oscars without Best Picture. Reddit. Available at: https://www.reddit.com/r/oscarrace/comments/1isw978/films_that_won_6_oscars_without_best_picture/ [Accessed 1 December 2025].
Wikipedia. (n.d.). List of Academy Award records. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award_records [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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