List of Donna Gigliotti Oscar
nominations for Best Picture
Posted: June 2025
List of Oscar nominations and wins for Donna Gigliotti. Donna Gigliotti has been nominated for 4 Academy Awards, all for Best Picture, and won 1. She is also the vice president/treasurer of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Year indicates year/period for which films were eligible for awards consideration, not year of ceremony. Sources: Oscars.org, Internet Movie Database
2016: Hidden Figures (shared with Peter Chernin, Theodore Melfi, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams) — lost to Moonlight (Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski). Other nominees: La La Land (Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt), Manchester by the Sea (Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Kevin J. Walsh), Hell or High Water (Carla Hacken, Julie Yorn), Lion (Iain Canning, Angie Fielder, Emile Sherman), Hacksaw Ridge (Bill Mechanic, David Permut), Arrival (Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder, David Linde), Fences (Todd Black, Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington)
2012: Silver Linings Playbook (shared with Bruce Cohen, Jonathan Gordon) — lost to Argo (Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney). Other nominees: Django Unchained (Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone), Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy), Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison), Les Misérables (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh), Amour (Stefan Arndt, Margaret Ménégoz, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz), Beasts of the Southern Wild (Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, Michael Gottwald), Life of Pi (Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark)
2008: The Reader (shared with Anthony Minghella (posthumous), Sydney Pollack (posthumous), Redmond Morris) — lost to Slumdog Millionaire (Christian Colson). Other nominees: Milk (Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ceán Chaffin), Frost/Nixon (Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Eric Fellner)
WON: 1998: Shakespeare in Love (Best Picture) (shared with David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman) — Other nominees: Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn), Life Is Beautiful (Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi), Elizabeth (Alison Owen, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan), The Thin Red Line (Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill)
