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Movies That Won Only a Single Oscar (Above the Line Categories)

How many movies can you name that, since the Oscars began, won only a single award in an above the line category? The categories are: Picture, Director, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Animated Feature and International Feature.
Movies are sorted alphabetically within each decade's categories
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1920's
Adapted Screenplay
The Patriot
Director
The Divine Lady
Two Arabian Knights
Lead Actor
In Old Arizona
The Last Command
The Way of All Flesh
Lead Actress
Coquette
Street Angel
Picture
The Broadway Melody
 
 
1930's
Adapted Screenplay
Little Women
Pygmalion
Director
The Awful Truth
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Skippy
Lead Actor
Captains Courageous
Disraeli
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Free Soul
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Lead Actress
Dangerous
The Divorcee
Min and Bill
Morning Glory
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Picture
Grand Hotel
Mutiny on the Bounty
Supporting Actor
Come and Get It
Kentucky
Supporting Actress
The Great Lie
In Old Chicago
 
 
1960's
Adapted Screenplay
Becket
Director
The Graduate
International Feature
Closely Watched Trains
The Shop on Main Street
Sundays and Cybele
Through a Glass Darkly
The Virgin Spring
War and Peace
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Lead Actor
Cat Ballou
Charly
Lilies of the Field
True Grit
Lead Actress
BUtterfield 8
Funny Girl
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Two Women
Original Screenplay
Divorce Italian Style
Father Goose
The Producers
Splendor in the Grass
Supporting Actor
Cool Hand Luke
The Fortune Cookie
The Subject Was Roses
Sweet Bird of Youth
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
A Thousand Clowns
Topkapi
Supporting Actress
Cactus Flower
A Patch of Blue
Rosemary's Baby
The V.I.P.s
 
 
1970's
Adapted Screenplay
M*A*S*H
International Feature
Amarcord
Black and White in Color
Day for Night
Dersu Uzala
The Discreet Charm
of the Bourgeoisie
The Garden of the
Finzi Continis
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Investigation of a Citizen
Above Suspicion
Madame Rosa
The Tin Drum
Lead Actor
The Goodbye Girl
Harry and Tonto
Save the Tiger
Lead Actress
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Klute
A Touch of Class
Women in Love
Original Screenplay
Breaking Away
The Candidate
Chinatown
Dog Day Afternoon
The Hospital
Supporting Actor
Being There
The Paper Chase
The Sunshine Boys
Supporting Actress
Airport
Butterflies Are Free
California Suite
Murder on the Orient Express
Paper Moon
Shampoo
 
 
1980's
Adapted Screenplay
Missing
International Feature
The Assault
Babette's Feast
Cinema Paradiso
Dangerous Moves
Mephisto
Moscow Does Not
Believe in Tears
The Official Story
Pelle the Conqueror
To Begin Again
Lead Actor
The Color of Money
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Wall Street
Lead Actress
The Accused
Children of a Lesser God
Coal Miner's Daughter
Sophie's Choice
The Trip to Bountiful
Original Screenplay
Dead Poets Society
Supporting Actor
A Fish Called Wanda
The Untouchables
Supporting Actress
The Accidental Tourist
Prizzi's Honor
Tootsie
The Year of Living Dangerously
1990's
Adapted Screenplay
Gods and Monsters
Sense and Sensibility
Sling Blade
International Feature
All About My Mother
Antonia's Line
Belle Époque
Burnt by the Sun
Character
Indochine
Journey of Hope
Kolya
Mediterraneo
Lead Actor
Leaving Las Vegas
Reversal of Fortune
Scent of a Woman
Shine
Lead Actress
Blue Sky
Boys Don't Cry
Dead Man Walking
Misery
Original Screenplay
The Crying Game
Pulp Fiction
Thelma & Louise
Supporting Actor
Affliction
City Slickers
The Fugitive
GoodFellas
Bullets Over Broadway
Jerry Maguire
Supporting Actress
The Fisher King
Girl, Interrupted
Mighty Aphrodite
My Cousin Vinny
 
 
2000's
Adapted Screenplay
Sideways
Animated Feature
Finding Nemo
Happy Feet
Ratatouille
Shrek
Spirited Away
Wallace & Gromit:
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
WALL-E
International Feature
The Barbarian Invasions
The Counterfeiters
Departures
The Lives of Others
No Man's Land
Nowhere in Africa
The Sea Inside
The Secret in Their Eyes
Tsotsi
Lead Actor
Capote
The Last King of Scotland
Training Day
Lead Actress
The Blind Side
Erin Brockovich
The Hours
Monster
Monster's Ball
The Queen
The Reader
Walk the Line
Original Screenplay
Almost Famous
Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind
Gosford Park
Juno
Lost in Translation
Talk to Her
Supporting Actor
Adaptation
Inglourious Basterds
Iris
Syriana
Supporting Actress
Cold Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Michael Clayton
Pollock
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
 
 
2010's
Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short
BlacKkKlansman
Call Me by Your Name
The Descendants
The Imitation Game
Jojo Rabbit
Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
Brave
Inside Out
Rango
Spider-Man: Into the
Spider-Verse
Toy Story 4
Zootopia
International Feature
Amour
A Fantastic Woman
The Great Beauty
Ida
In a Better World
The Salesman
A Separation
Son of Saul
Lead Actor
The Theory of Everything
Lead Actress
Black Swan
Blue Jasmine
The Favourite
Judy
Room
Silver Linings Playbook
Still Alice
Original Screenplay
Get Out
Her
Midnight in Paris
Supporting Actor
Beginners
Bridge of Spies
Supporting Actress
Boyhood
The Danish Girl
Fences
The Help
I, Tonya
If Beale Street Could Talk
Marriage Story
2020's
Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction
Conclave
Women Talking
Animated Feature
The Boy and the Heron
Encanto
Flow
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Director
The Power of the Dog
International Feature
Another Round
Drive My Car
I'm Still Here
Sentimental Value
Lead Actor
King Richard
Lead Actress
Hamnet
Original Screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall
Belfast
Promising Young Woman
Supporting Actor
A Real Pain
Supporting Actress
The Holdovers
Minari
Weapons
West Side Story
 
 
1950's
Director
Giant
International Feature
Black Orpheus
Forbidden Games
La Strada
Mon Oncle
Nights of Cabiria
Rashomon
Samurai, the Legend of Musashi
The Walls of Malapaga
Lead Actor
The African Queen
Cyrano de Bergerac
Stalag 17
Lead Actress
Anastasia
Born Yesterday
Come Back, Little Sheba
I Want to Live!
The Three Faces of Eve
Original Screenplay
Designing Woman
Interrupted Melody
The Lavender Hill Mob
Pillow Talk
The Red Balloon
Titanic
Supporting Actor
The Barefoot Contessa
The Big Country
Lust for Life
Mister Roberts
Viva Zapata!
Supporting Actress
East of Eden
Harvey
Written on the Wind
 
 
1940's
International Feature
Bicycle Thieves
Monsieur Vincent
Shoe-Shine
Lead Actor
Watch on the Rhine
Lead Actress
The Farmer's Daughter
Johnny Belinda
Kitty Foyle
Mildred Pierce
Suspicion
To Each His Own
Original Screenplay
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Citizen Kane
The Great McGinty
Marie-Louise
Princess O'Rourke
The Seventh Veil
Woman of the Year
Supporting Actor
Johnny Eager
The More the Merrier
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Westerner
Supporting Actress
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Key Largo
None but the Lonely Heart
The Razor's Edge
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