One studio reigns over all others in terms of the number of homegrown Best Picture winners..and it isn't who you'd expect!
The Big Picture It’s very strange to consider that many of the biggest movie studios today have existed since almost the dawn of cinema. Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures were both founded back in 1912 while Warner Bros. Pictures dates back to 1923. Meanwhile, the Walt Disney Studio was launched in 1923 and though it would take decades before it could start distributing its own works, its standalone distribution company has been around since 1953.
Its smaller size and constantly fluctuating image initially made Columbia Pictures a bit of an oddball outlier among its contemporaries, though it certainly solidified its status as a major studio in the modern world. Part of securing that position has been through securing a staggering 12 Best Picture wins. In Finler’s Hollywood Story, the author notes that the company’s first Best Picture-winning movie, It Happened One Night, was a tremendous event.
Instead, Columbia Pictures was churning out movies each decade that could secure a Best Picture win, with the 1950s and 1960s being an especially prosperous time for the company in this category. Columbia had three different winners in each of these two decades, comprising half of its total Best Picture winners in the process. However, it is worth noting that the 1987 film The Last Emperor is, as of this writing, the last time a Columbia Pictures movie secured a Best Picture win.
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