Films with the Most Academy Award Wins (All Time)

About This Dataset

Films ranked by total Oscar wins at the Academy Awards ceremony throughout cinematic history, according to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences records. Three films share the record of eleven Academy Award wins — Ben-Hur in 1960, Titanic in 1998, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004. Peter Jackson's achievement with The Return of the King is particularly remarkable in that the film won in every single category in which it was nominated, achieving an unprecedented 11-from-11 sweep that reflected both the extraordinary technical ambition of the three-film Lord of the Rings project and the Academy's recognition of a cinematic undertaking that had redefined what large-scale fantasy filmmaking could accomplish.

Analysis

Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King are level at the top on 11 Academy Award Wins in 2023. West Side Story (1961) follows on 10. None of them dominates the field: each holds 14.7% of the combined total of all 8. Places 3 to 8 are close together, spanning 10 to 7 Academy Award Wins.

Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Key Findings

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Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King are level at the top on 11 Academy Award Wins in 2023.

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1960 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.

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Gap in 2023: Ben-Hur (1959) is 1.6× larger than Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Films with the Most Academy Award Wins (All Time)

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Data Points

8 categories · 8 years

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Top Value

Ben-Hur (1959)

Academy Award Wins · 1960

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Academy Award Wins

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1960 – 2023

8 years of data

Methodology & source

Data source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Coverage: 8 entities · 1960–2023 (8 years) · 8 observations
Measure: Academy Award Wins
Last updated: 6 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.

Rankings & Full Data

8 records · Academy Award Wins · ranked by 2023

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#	Category	1960	1962	1983	1985	1988	1998	2004	2023	Change
🥇	Ben-Hur (1959)	11	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
🥈	Titanic (1997)	—	—	—	—	—	11	—	—	—
🥉	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	—	—	—	—	—	—	11	—	—
4	West Side Story (1961)	—	10	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5	The Last Emperor (1987)	—	—	—	—	9	—	—	—	—
6	Gandhi (1982)	—	—	8	—	—	—	—	—	—
7	Amadeus (1984)	—	—	—	8	—	—	—	—	—
8	Everything Everywhere All at Once	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	7	—