List of film series and adaptations nominated for Academy Awards

This is a page highlights feature-length and short film series or franchise and adaptations nominated for or won Academy Awards.

In alphabetical order, only nominations more than once with remakes different thematic series by the same auteur or the same continuity must have included on the list with inclusions:

  • Sequels, spin-offs and companion pieces of the same continuity is included but much have included original or either sequel in the list.
  • Adaptations from source materials in the same continuity like Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and Denis Villeneuve's Dune, which have been adapted a two-part story or more than one source material in the same continuity.
  • Different versions or remake adaptations from the source material (e.g. the 1930 and 2022 film versions were adapted from the novel All Quiet on the Western Front) is included.
    • In most winners and nominations below the list, remake adaptations from the source material are allowed to consist overall as a whole franchise.

    Best Picture

    Film series

    The Godfather Part II and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King are the only sequels to have won the award, and their respective trilogies are the only series to have three films nominated. The Godfather series is the only film series with multiple Best Picture winners, with the first film winning the award for 1972 and the second film winning the award for 1974. {| class="wikitable" width="90%" style="font-size: 95%;" , ! width="15%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Series ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Year ! width="20%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Films ! width="30%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Award Recipient(s) ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Result ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Ref. |- | rowspan="2" |James Cameron's Avatar | align="center" |2009
    (82nd) |Avatar | rowspan="2" |James Cameron, Jon Landau | | |- | align="center" |2022
    (95th) |The Way of Water | | |- | rowspan="2" |Denis Villeneuve's Dune | align="center" |2022
    (95th) |Part One |Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, and Cale Boyter | | |- | align="center" |2024
    (97th) |Part Two |Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe, and Denis Villeneuve | | |- | rowspan="2" |Leo McCarey's Father O'Malley | align="center" |1944
    (17th) |Going My Way |Paramount Pictures | | rowspan="2" | |- | align="center" |1945
    (18th) |The Bells of St. Mary's |Rainbow Productions | |- | rowspan="3" |The Godfather | align="center" |1972
    (45th) |The Godfather |Albert S. Ruddy | | |- | align="center" |1974
    (47th) |The Godfather II | rowspan="2" |Francis Ford Coppola | | |- | align="center" |1990
    (63rd) |The Godfather III | | |- | rowspan="3" |The Lord of the Rings | align="center" |2001
    (74th) |The Fellowship of the Ring |Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Tim Sanders | | rowspan="3" | |- | align="center" |2002
    (75th) |The Two Towers | rowspan="2" |Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh | |- | align="center" |2003
    (76th) |The Return of the King | |}

    Film adaptations or remakes from similar source material

    {| class="wikitable" width="90%" style="font-size: 95%;" , ! width="15%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Source material ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Year ! width="20%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Films ! width="30%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Award Recipient(s) ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Result ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Ref. |- | rowspan="2" |A Star Is Born | align="center" |1937
    (10th) |A Star Is Born (1937) |David O. Selznick | | |- | align="center" |2018
    (91st) |A Star Is Born (2018) |Bradley Cooper, Bill Gerber and Lynette Howell Taylor | | |- | rowspan="2" |All Quiet on the Western Front | align="center" |1930
    (3rd) |All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) |Carl Laemmle | | |- | align="center" |2022
    (95th) |All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) |Malte Grunert | | |}

    Best Animated Feature

    {| class="wikitable" width="90%" style="font-size: 95%;" , ! width="15%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Series ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Year ! width="20%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Films ! width="30%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Award Recipient(s) ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Result ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Ref. |- | rowspan="3" |How to Train Your Dragon | align="center" |2010
    (83rd) |How to Train Your Dragon |Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois | | |- | align="center" |2014
    (87th) |How to Train Your Dragon 2 |Dean DeBlois | | |- | align="center" |2019
    (92nd) |How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World |Dean DeBlois, Bonnie Arnold, and Brad Lewis | | |- | rowspan="2" |Inside Out | align="center" |2015
    (88th) |Inside Out |Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera | | |- | align="center" |2024
    (97th) |Inside Out 2 |Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen | | |- | rowspan="3" |Irish Folklore Trilogy | align="center" |2009
    (82nd) |The Secret of Kells |Tomm Moore | | |- | align="center" |2014
    (87th) |Song of the Sea |Tomm Moore and Paul Young | | |- | align="center" |2020
    (93rd) |Wolfwalkers |Tomm Moore, Stéphan Roelants, Ross Stewart, and Paul Young | | |- | rowspan="2" |Kung Fu Panda | align="center" |2008
    (81st) |Kung Fu Panda |Mark Osborne and John Stevenson | | |- | align="center" |2011
    (84th) |Kung Fu Panda 2 |Jennifer Yuh Nelson | | |- | rowspan="4" |Shrek | align="center" |2001
    (74th) |Shrek |Aron Warner | | |- | align="center" |2004
    (77th) |Shrek 2 |Andrew Adamson | | |- | align="center" |2011
    (84th) |Puss in Boots |Chris Miller | | |- | align="center" |2022
    (95th) |Puss in Boots The Last Wish |Joel Crawford and Mark Swift | | |- | rowspan="2" |Spider-Verse | align="center" |2018
    (91st) |Into the Spider-Verse |Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | | |- | align="center" |2023
    (96th) |Across the Spider-Verse |Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal | | |- | rowspan="2" |The Incredibles | align="center" |2004
    (77th) |The Incredibles |Brad Bird | | |- | align="center" |2018
    (91st) |The Incredibles 2 |Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle | | |- | rowspan="2" |Toy Story | align="center" |2010
    (83rd) |Toy Story 3 |Lee Unkrich | | |- | align="center" |2019
    (92nd) |Toy Story 4 |Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen, and Jonas Rivera | | |- | rowspan="4" |Wallace & Gromit | align="center" |2005
    (78th) |Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit |Nick Park and Steve Box | | |- | align="center" |2015
    (88th) |Shaun the Sheep Movie |Mark Burton and Richard Starzak | | |- | align="center" |2020
    (93rd) |A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon |Will Becher, Paul Kewley, and Richard Phelan | | |- | align="center" |2024
    (97th) |Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl |Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, and Richard Beek | | |- | rowspan="2" |Wreck-It Ralph | align="center" |2012
    (85th) |Wreck-It Ralph |Rich Moore | | |- | align="center" |2018
    (91st) |Ralph Breaks the Internet |Rich Moore, Phil Johnston, and Clark Spencer | | |- | rowspan="2" |Zootopia | align="center" |2016
    (89th) |Zootopia |Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer | | |- | align="center" |2025
    (98th) |Zootopia 2 |Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Yvett Merino | | |}

    Best International Feature Film

    Jan Troell's The Emigrants is the only film series to have nominated the Best International Feature Film category twice. {| class="wikitable" width="90%" style="font-size: 95%;" , ! width="15%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Series ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Year ! width="20%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Films ! width="30%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Award Recipient(s) ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Result ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Ref. |- | rowspan="2" |The Emigrants | align="center" |1971
    (44th) |The Emigrants | rowspan="2" | Sweden | | |- | align="center" |1972
    (45th) |The New Land | | |}

    Best Director

    Francis Ford Coppola is the only director to be nominated for each film of a trilogy, winning for the second film. {| class="wikitable" width="90%" style="font-size: 95%;" , ! width="15%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Series ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Year ! width="20%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Films ! width="30%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Award Recipient(s) ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Result ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Ref. |- | rowspan="2" |Leo McCarey's Father O'Malley | align="center" |1944
    (17th) |Going My Way | rowspan="2" |Leo McCarey | | rowspan="2" | |- | align="center" |1945
    (18th) |The Bells of St. Mary's | |- | rowspan="3" |The Godfather | align="center" |1972
    (45th) |The Godfather | rowspan="3" |Francis Ford Coppola | | |- | align="center" |1974
    (47th) |The Godfather II | | |- | align="center" |1990
    (63rd) |The Godfather III | | |- | align="center" |2003
    (76th) |The Return of the King | |}

    Best Screenplay

    {| class="wikitable" width="90%" style="font-size: 95%;" , ! width="15%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Series ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Year ! width="15%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Films ! width="15%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Screenplay category ! width="20%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Award Recipient(s) ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Result ! width="5%" style="background:#F0E68C" |Ref. |- | rowspan="2" |A Benoit Blanc Mystery | align="center" |2019
    (92nd) |Knives Out |Best Original Screenplay | rowspan="2" |Rian Johnson | | align="center" | |- | align="center" |2022
    (95th) |Glass Onion |Best Adapted Screenplay | | align="center" | |- | rowspan="2" |Richard Linklater's Before Trilogy | align="center" |2004
    (77th) |Sunset | rowspan="2" |Best Adapted Screenplay | rowspan="2" |Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke | | align="center" | |- | align="center" |2013
    (86th) |Midnight | | align="center" | |- | rowspan="2" |Borat | align="center" |2006
    (79th) |Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | rowspan="2" |Best Adapted Screenplay |Screenplay: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer; Story: Baron Cohen, Baynham, Hines & Todd Phillips | | align="center" | |- | align="center" |2020
    (93rd) |Borat Subsequent Moviefilm |Screenplay: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman & Lee Kern; Story: Baron Cohen, Hines, Swimer & Nina Pedrad | | align="center" | |- | rowspan="2" |The Godfather | align="center" |1972
    (45th) |The Godfather | rowspan="2" |Best Adapted Screenplay | rowspan="2" |Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo | | |- | align="center" |1974
    (47th) |The Godfather II | | |- | rowspan="2" |The Lord of the Rings | align="center" |2001
    (74th) |The Fellowship of the Ring | rowspan="2" |Best Adapted Screenplay | rowspan="2" |Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyen | | rowspan="2" | |- | align="center" |2003
    (76th) |The Return of the King | |- | rowspan="2" |Toy Story | align="center" |1990
    (63rd) |Toy Story |Best Original Screenplay |Screenplay: , , & ; Story: , , & Stanton | | rowspan="2" | |- | align="center" |2010
    (83rd) |Toy Story 3 |Best Adapted Screenplay |Screenplay: Michael Arndt; Story: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich | |}

    Most wins and nominations

    The following film franchises or remakes received at least six nominations:

    {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- ! scope="col" width="56"| Nominations ! scope="col" align="center"| Title ! scope="col" align="center"| No. of films |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="2"| 37 | Star Wars | 11 |- | Middle-earth (consists of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit) | 6 |- | 29 | Batman | 7 |- | 28 | The Godfather | 3 |- | 27 | Marvel Cinematic Universe | 15 |- | 26 | What Price Hollywood? / A Star Is Born | 5 |- | 20 | The Wizard of Oz | 4 |- | 19 | James Bond | 11 |- | rowspan="2" | 18 | Going My Way / The Bells of St. Mary's | 2 |- | West Side Story | 2 |- | 17 | Mary Poppins | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="4"| 16 | Looney Tunes | 16 |- | Star Trek | 7 |- | Dune | 3 |- | Here Comes Mr. Jordan / Heaven Can Wait | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="3"| 14 | Wizarding World | 9 |- | Indiana Jones | 4 |-

    | Frankenstein | 5 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="6"| 13 | Tom and Jerry | 13 |- | All Quiet on the Western Front | 2 |- | Avatar | 3 |- | Funny Girl / Funny Lady | 2 |- | Gladiator | 2 |- | The Hustler / The Color of Money | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="5"| 12 | Alien | 5 |- | Les Misérables | 2 |- | Rocky | 3 |- | The Color Purple | 2 |- | True Grit | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="3"| 11 | Toy Story | 4 |- | Pirates of the Caribbean | 3 |- | The Sting | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="3"| 10 | Donald Duck | 10 |- | Mickey Mouse | 10 |- | Top Gun | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="2"| 9 | Elizabeth | 2 |- | Space Odyssey | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="6"| 8 | Wallace & Gromit | 8 |- | Spider-Man | 5 |- | King Kong | 3 |- | Babe | 2 |- | Beauty and the Beast | 2 |- | The Philadelphia Story / High Society | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="4"| 7 | Transformers | 3 |- | Aladdin | 2 |- | Blade Runner | 2 |- | Hercule Poirot | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="5"| 6 | Planet of the Apes | 5 |- | Shrek | 4 |- | The Jungle Book | 3 |- | The Broadway Melody | 2 |- | Scent of a Woman | 2 |}

    The following film franchises or remakes received at least three awards (including non-competitive):

    {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- ! scope="col" width="55"| Awards ! scope="col" align="center"| Title ! scope="col" align="center"| No. of films |- | style="text-align:center"| 17 | The Lord of the Rings | 3 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="1"| 11 | West Side Story | 2 |- | style="text-align:center"| 10 | Star Wars | 3 |- | style="text-align:center"| 9 | The Godfather | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="2"| 8 | Dune | 2 |- | Going My Way / The Bells of St. Mary's | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="3"| 7 | Looney Tunes | 7 |- | Tom and Jerry | 7 |- | Indiana Jones | 3 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="2"| 6 | James Bond | 5 |- | All Quiet on the Western Front | 2 |- | style="text-align:center" rowspan="2"| 5 | Avatar | 3 |- | Batman | 3 |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center"| 4 | A Star Is Born | 3 |- | Toy Story | 3 |- | King Kong | 2 |- | Marvel Cinematic Universe | 2 |- | The Wizard of Oz | 2 |- | rowspan=4 style="text-align:center"| 3 | Wallace & Gromit | 3 |- | Alien | 2 |- | Here Comes Mr. Jordan / Heaven Can Wait | 2 |- | The Hustler / The Color of Money | 2 |}

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