List of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award

This is a list of presenters of Best Picture Academy Award. Each year, the Academy Award for Best Picture is presented by one or more artists on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture is the final trophy presented during the annual ceremonies, as this award represents a culmination of all factors that contribute to cinematic excellence. Past presenters have included noted producers, directors, actors, and actresses. In recent ceremonies, presenters of Best Picture have tended to be previous Academy Award winners themselves. This list is current as of the 80th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 24, 2008.

Notes

*The Best Picture Oscar is the most esteemed award presented during the award ceremony. Since 1988, nearly every presenter for Best Picture has previously won a Best Leading Actor or Actress Award. The only exceptions to this are: Harrison Ford (Best Actor nominee) in 1994, Sean Connery (Best Supporting Actor winner) in 1998, Clint Eastwood (two-time Best Picture winner, two-time Best Director winner, and Best Actor nominee) in 2000, Kirk Douglas (Honorary Academy Award winner) in 2003, and Steven Spielberg (two-time Best Director winner) in 2004.
*Jack Nicholson, a three-time Oscar winner and 12-time nominee, has presented the Best Picture award a total of seven times, more than any other presenter.
*Michael Douglas, an Oscar-winner for both producing and acting, presented the Best Picture Award to "Gladiator" (2000), a film in competition with "Traffic" (in which he starred with his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones). Douglas also presented the Best Picture Award for 2002, this time to "Chicago" (in which his wife also starred).
*Jack Nicholson presented the Best Picture Award for 2006 to "The Departed", a film in which he starred.
*Eddie Murphy, the only non-Oscar winner to present Best Picture in the last 25 years, presented the Best Picture Award for 1987 to "The Last Emperor". Murphy himself was never an Oscar-nominee until 2006, when he received his first nomination (for Best Supporting Actor) for "Dreamgirls".

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/ IMDb: Academy Awards, USA]
* [http://www.oscars.org/ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
* [http://www.oscar.com/ Academy Awards Homepage]