OSCAR HISTORY

Best Picture Oscar Presenters

The Academy traditionally brings out a big star or famous name to present its biggest award of each Oscar Night ... Best Picture (especially in more recent times). Here's a list of all of the individuals who opened that biggest of envelopes and announced the Academy's Best Picture each year.


2025: Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor (View Oscar Moment)
2024: Billy Crystal & Meg Ryan (View Oscar Moment)
2023: Al Pacino (View Oscar Moment)
2022: Harrison Ford (View Oscar Moment)
2021: Lady Gaga & Liza Minnelli (View Oscar Moment)
2020: Rita Moreno (View Oscar Moment)
2019: Jane Fonda (View Oscar Moment)
2018: Julia Roberts (View Oscar Moment)
2017: Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway (View Oscar Moment)
2016: Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway (View Oscar Moment)
2015: Morgan Freeman (View Oscar Moment)
2014: Sean Penn (View Oscar Moment)
2013: Will Smith (View Oscar Moment)
2012: Jack Nicholson & First Lady Michelle Obama (View Oscar Moment)
2011: Tom Cruise (View Oscar Moment)
2010: Steven Spielberg (View Oscar Moment)
2009: Tom Hanks (View Oscar Moment)
2008: Steven Spielberg (View Oscar Moment)
2007: Denzel Washington (View Oscar Moment)
2006: Jack Nicholson & Diane Keaton (View Oscar Moment)
2005: Jack Nicholson (View Oscar Moment)
2004: Dustin Hoffman & Barbra Streisand (View Oscar Moment)
2003: Steven Spielberg (View Oscar Moment)
2002: Michael Douglas & Kirk Douglas (View Oscar Moment)
2001: Tom Hanks (View Oscar Moment)
2000: Michael Douglas (View Oscar Moment)
1999: Clint Eastwood (View Oscar Moment)
1998: Harrison Ford (View Oscar Moment)
1997: Sean Connery (View Oscar Moment)
1996: Al Pacino (View Oscar Moment)
1995: Sidney Poitier (View Oscar Moment)
1994: Robert De Niro & Al Pacino (View Oscar Moment)
1993: Harrison Ford (View Oscar Moment)
1992: Jack Nicholson (View Oscar Moment)
1991: Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Newman (View Oscar Moment)
1990: Barbra Streisand (View Oscar Moment)
1989: Warren Beatty & Jack Nicholson (View Oscar Moment)
1988: Cher (View Oscar Moment)
1987: Eddie Murphy (View Oscar Moment)
1986: Dustin Hoffman (View Oscar Moment)
1985: John Huston, Akira Kurosawa, & Billy Wilder (View Oscar Moment)
1984: Laurence Olivier (View Oscar Moment)
1983: Frank Capra (View Oscar Moment)
1982: Carol Burnett (View Oscar Moment)
1981: Loretta Young (View Oscar Moment)
1980: Lillian Gish (View Oscar Moment)
1979: Charlton Heston (View Oscar Moment)
1978: John Wayne (View Oscar Moment)
1977: Jack Nicholson (View Oscar Moment)
1976: Jack Nicholson (View Oscar Moment)
1975: Audrey Hepburn (View Oscar Moment)
1974: Warren Beatty (View Oscar Moment)
1973: Elizabeth Taylor (View Oscar Moment)
1972: Clint Eastwood (View Oscar Moment)
1971: Jack Nicholson (View Oscar Moment)
1970: Steve McQueen (View Oscar Moment)
1969: Elizabeth Taylor (View Oscar Moment)
1968: Sidney Poitier (View Oscar Moment)
1967: Julie Andrews (View Oscar Moment)
1966: Audrey Hepburn (View Oscar Moment)
1965: Jack Lemmon (View Oscar Moment)
1964: Gregory Peck (View Oscar Moment)
1963: Frank Sinatra (View Oscar Moment)
1962: Olivia de Havilland (View Oscar Moment)
1961: Fred Astaire (View Oscar Moment)
1960: Audrey Hepburn (View Oscar Moment)
1959: Gary Cooper (View Oscar Moment)
1958: Ingrid Bergman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhhZRGY1fU0)
1957: Gary Cooper (View Oscar Moment)
1956: Janet Gaynor (View Oscar Moment)
1955: Audrey Hepburn (View Oscar Moment)
1954: Buddy Adler (View Oscar Moment)
1953: Cecil B. DeMille (View Oscar Moment)
1952: Mary Pickford (View Oscar Moment)
1951: Jesse L. Lasky (View Oscar Moment)
1950: Dr. Ralph Bunche (View Oscar Moment)
1949: James Cagney (View Oscar Moment)
1948: Ethel Barrymore (View Oscar Moment)
1947: Fredric March (View Newsreel)
1946: Eric Johnston
1945: Eric Johnston
1944: Hal Wallis
1943: Sidney Franklin
1942: William Goetz
1941: David O. Selznick
1940: Mervyn LeRoy
1939: Y. Frank Freeman
1938: James Roosevelt
1937: Frank Capra
1936: George Jessel
1935: Harry Cohn
1934: Irvin S. Cobb
1932 / 33: Will Rogers
1931 / 32: William LeBaron
1930 / 31: B.P. Schulberg
1929 / 30: Louis B. Mayer
1928 / 29: William C. DeMille
1927 / 28: Douglas Fairbanks