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Posthumous Oscar Nominees

This is a list of everyone who has ever received a posthumous Oscar nomination, meaning they were nominated for an Oscar following their own death.

Best Title Writing:
- Nominated: 1929 (Gerald Duffy - The Private Life of Helen of Troy)
- Total: 1/0
Best Actress:
- Nominated: 1930 (Jeanne Engels - The Letter)
- Total: 1/0
Best Original Song:
- Nominated: 1938 (George Gershwin - Shall We Dance)
- Won: 1992 (Howard Ashman - Beauty and the Beast)
- Total: 9/1
Best Adapted Screenplay:
- Nominated: 1940 (Sidney Howard - Gone With the Wind)
- Won: 1940 (Sidney Howard - Gone With the Wind)
- Total: 6/1
Best Original Score:
- Nominated: 1943 (Frank Churchill - Bambi)
- Won:…

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  • The Private Life of Helen of Troy
  • The Letter
  • Shall We Dance
  • Gone with the Wind
  • Bambi
  • A Song to Remember
  • Can't Help Singing
  • Your National Gallery
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Centennial Summer
  • The Dolly Sisters
  • Portrait of Jennie
  • The Strip
  • Kind Lady
  • The Great Caruso
  • Desert Killer
  • Thar She Blows!
  • The Merry Widow
  • There's No Business Like Show Business
  • East of Eden
  • Giant
  • Around the World in 80 Days
  • Written on the Wind
  • Gigi
  • Ben-Hur
  • North by Northwest
  • Pillow Talk
  • Spartacus
  • How the West Was Won
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
  • Hello, Dolly!
  • Airport
  • The Andromeda Strain
  • Malcolm X
  • Limelight
  • The Way We Were
  • Network
  • Obsession
  • Taxi Driver
  • King Kong
  • Rocky
  • A Doonesbury Special
  • The Lovers' Wind
  • All That Jazz
  • Tess
  • On Golden Pond
  • Annie
  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
  • The Color of Money
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Fried Green Tomatoes
  • Aladdin
  • Educating Peter
  • The Postman
  • Road to Perdition
  • The Good Shepherd
  • La Vie en Rose
  • The Reader
  • The Dark Knight
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  • The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Mirror Mirror
  • 20 Feet from Stardom
  • American Sniper
  • Fences
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • One Battle After Another