Walt Disney might need probably the most Oscar wins personally, however the Mouse Home itself has confirmed far much less fortunate with respect to Greatest Image. Once more, if we disclude each Searchlight Footage and twentieth Century Studios (née Fox), Walt Disney Studios has amassed 13 Greatest Image Oscar nods however no wins between motion pictures it is launched by way of Walt Disney Footage (4 nods), Touchstone Footage (six nods), Hollywood Footage (two nods), and Marvel Studios (one nod). Fortunately, the Oscar mathing will get rather less convoluted with regards to the remainder of the Hollywood “Huge 5,” with Common and Warner Bros. having each gained Greatest Image 9 occasions (the identical complete as MGM), twentieth Century Studios having 10 wins, and Paramount sitting fairly with 11 victories.
That leaves Columbia Footage as the present reigning champion with 12 Greatest Image Oscars to its identify. Humorous as it’s to comprehend that report belongs to the identical studio that launched “Madame Internet,” “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” and “Kraven the Hunter” over the span of 10 months in 2024 (low blow, I do know, however them’s the details), you additionally must do not forget that Columbia Footage was an Oscar-winning machine across the center of the twentieth century. Between “All of the King’s Males,” “From Right here to Eternity,” “On the Waterfront,” “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “A Man for All Seasons,” and “Oliver!,” the studio added seven Greatest Image Oscars to its belt from 1950-1969 alone. It was solely after that Columbia slowed down; it needed to wait 11 years for its subsequent win (for “Kramer vs. Kramer” in 1980), adopted by “Gandhi” miraculously beating “E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial” for Greatest Image in 1983 (which even its director, Richard Attenborough, felt was nonsense), and, most just lately, “The Final Emperor” being granted that very same honor again in 1988.
Will Columbia discover a approach to defend its title within the foreseeable future? It isn’t unattainable. Lest we overlook, the studio was nonetheless a Greatest Image Oscar nomination magnet within the early 2010s, releasing “The Social Community,” “Moneyball,” Zero Darkish Thirty,” “Django Unchained,” “Captain Phillips,” and “American Hustle” within the span of three years. To not put extra stress on it than it already has, however all eyes are on you now, “Anaconda” reboot.