List of Dede Gardner Oscar nominations for Best Picture, only woman to twice win Best Picture
Updated: Jan. 23, 2026
List of Oscar nominations and wins for Dede Gardner. Dede Gardner has been nominated for 9 Academy Awards, all for Best Picture, and won 2. Dede Gardner is the first woman to twice win Oscars for Best Picture. Year indicates year/period for which films were eligible for awards consideration, not year of ceremony. Sources: Oscars.org, Internet Movie Database
2025: F1 (nominee, result pending) (shared with Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer) — Other nominees:
One Battle After Another (Adam Somner, Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson), Hamnet (Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes), Marty Supreme (Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas, Timothée Chalamet), Bugonia (Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Lars Knudsen), Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, Scott Stuber), Train Dreams (Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer, Michael Heimler), The Secret Agent (Emilie Lesclaux), Sentimental Value (Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar), Sinners (Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler)
2024: Nickel Boys (shared with Jeremy Kleiner, Joslyn Barnes) — lost to Anora (Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker). Other nominees: Conclave (Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael Jackman), The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, D.J. Gugenheim, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, Nick Gordon), Wicked (Marc Platt), Dune: Part Two (Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe, Denis Villeneuve), The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner), A Complete Unknown (Fred Berger, James Mangold, Alex Heineman), I’m Still Here (Maria Carlota Bruno, Rodrigo Teixeira), Emilia Pérez (Pascal Caucheteux, Jacques Audiard)
2022: Women Talking (shared with Jeremy Kleiner, Frances McDormand) — lost to Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang). Other nominees: Top Gun: Maverick (Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison, Jerry Bruckheimer), Elvis (Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss), Triangle of Sadness (Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober), All Quiet on the Western Front (Malte Grunert), The Banshees of Inisherin (Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh), Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, Jon Landau), The Fabelmans (Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner), Tár (Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert)
2018: Vice (shared with Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay, Kevin J. Messick) — lost to Green Book (Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga). Other nominees: Black Panther (Kevin Feige), Bohemian Rhapsody (Graham King), BlacKkKlansman (Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele, Spike Lee), Roma (Gabriela Rodríguez, Alfonso Cuarón), The Favourite (Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Yorgos Lanthimos), A Star Is Born (Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper, Lynette Howell Taylor)
WON: 2016: Moonlight (shared with Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski) — Other nominees: La La Land (Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt), Hell or High Water (Carla Hacken, Julie Yorn), Hidden Figures (Peter Chernin, Donna Gigliotti, Theodore Melfi, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams), Arrival (Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder, David Linde), Manchester by the Sea (Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Kevin J. Walsh), Fences (Todd Black, Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington), Hacksaw Ridge (Bill Mechanic, David Permut), Lion (Iain Canning, Angie Fielder, Emile Sherman)
2015: The Big Short (shared with Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner) — lost to Spotlight (Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Blye Pagon Faust). Other nominees: The Revenant (Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent, Keith Redmon), The Martian (Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Mark Huffam), Room (Ed Guiney), Mad Max: Fury Road (Doug Mitchell, George Miller), Brooklyn (Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey), Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt, Kristie Macosko Krieger)
2014: Selma (shared with Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Jeremy Kleiner) — lost to Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole). Other nominees: Whiplash (Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster), American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, Peter Morgan), Boyhood (Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland), The Imitation Game (Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman), The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson), The Theory of Everything (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten)
WON: 2013: 12 Years a Slave (shared with Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Anthony Katagas) — Other nominees: The Wolf of Wall Street (Leonardo DiCaprio, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Joey McFarland, Martin Scorsese), Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman), Dallas Buyers Club (Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter), American Hustle (Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon), Nebraska (Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa), Her (Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay), Captain Phillips (Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca), Philomena (Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward)
2011: The Tree of Life (shared with Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Grant Hill) — lost to The Artist (Thomas Langmann). Other nominees: Moneyball (Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt), Hugo (Graham King, Martin Scorsese), Midnight in Paris (Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum), The Descendants (Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor), The Help (Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan), War Horse (Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Scott Rudin)