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List of Scott Rudin Oscar nominations
Posted: July 2025
List of Oscar nominations and wins for Scott Rudin. Scott Rudin has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards (mostly for Best Picture) and won 1. Year indicates year/period for which films were eligible for awards consideration, not year of ceremony. Sources: Oscars.org, Internet Movie Database, Wikipedia
2018: Isle of Dogs (Best Animated Feature Film) (shared with Wes Anderson, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson) — lost to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller). Other nominees: Mirai (Mamoru Hosoda, Yûichirô Saitô), Ralph Breaks the Internet (Rich Moore, Phil Johnston, Clark Spencer), Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird, John Walker, Nicole Paradis Grindle)
2017: Lady Bird (Best Picture) (shared with Eli Bush, Evelyn O’Neill) — lost to The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale). Other nominees: Phantom Thread (JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, Daniel Lupi), Darkest Hour (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski), Get Out (Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., Jordan Peele), Call Me by Your Name (Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Marco Morabito), The Post (Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh), Dunkirk (Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan)
2016: Fences (Best Picture) (shared with Todd Black, Denzel Washington) — lost to Moonlight (Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski). Other nominees: Hacksaw Ridge (Bill Mechanic, David Permut), Lion (Iain Canning, Angie Fielder, Emile Sherman), Arrival (Shawn Levy,
Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder, David Linde), Hell or High Water (Carla Hacken, Julie Yorn), Manchester by the Sea (Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Kevin J. Walsh), Hidden Figures (Peter Chernin, Donna Gigliotti, Theodore Melfi, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams), La La Land (Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt)
2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Best Picture) (shared with Wes Anderson, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson) — lost to Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole). Other nominees: American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, Peter Morgan), The Theory of Everything (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten), The Imitation Game (Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman), Boyhood (Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland), Selma (Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner), Whiplash (Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster)
2013: Captain Phillips (Best Picture) (shared with Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca) — lost to 12 Years a Slave (Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Anthony Katagas). Other nominees: The Wolf of Wall Street (Leonardo DiCaprio, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Joey McFarland, Martin Scorsese), Her (Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay), Nebraska (Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa), American Hustle (Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon), Philomena (Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward), Dallas Buyers Club (Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter), Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman)
2011: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Best Picture) — lost to The Artist (Thomas Langmann). Other nominees: War Horse (Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy), The Descendants (Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor), Hugo (Graham King, Martin Scorsese), The Tree of Life (Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner, Grant Hill), The Help (Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan), Midnight in Paris (Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum), Moneyball (Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt)
2010: True Grit (Best Picture) (shared with Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) — lost to The King’s Speech (Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin). Other nominees: The Social Network (Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ceán Chaffin), Inception (Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas), Toy Story 3 (Darla K. Anderson), 127 Hours (Christian Colson, Danny Boyle, John Smithson), Black Swan (Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin), The Fighter (David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Mark Wahlberg), The Kids Are All Right (Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Celine Rattray), Winter’s Bone (Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan)
2010: The Social Network (Best Picture) (shared with Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ceán Chaffin) — lost to The King’s Speech (Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin). Other nominees: True Grit (Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen), Inception (Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas), Toy Story 3 (Darla K. Anderson), 127 Hours (Christian Colson, Danny Boyle, John Smithson), Black Swan (Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin), The Fighter (David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Mark Wahlberg), The Kids Are All Right (Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Celine Rattray), Winter’s Bone (Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan)
WON: 2007: No Country for Old Men (Best Picture) (shared with Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) — Other nominees: Michael Clayton (Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent), Atonement (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster), Juno (Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith), There Will Be Blood (JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi)
2002: The Hours (Best Picture) (shared with Robert Fox) — lost to Chicago (Martin Richards). Other nominees: Gangs of New York (Alberto Grimaldi, Harvey Weinstein), The Pianist (Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson)