The Academy Awards is Hollywood's most important event, and the Oscars its biggest prize. So who are the winners who declined the vaunted statuette?

so we tallied up the best picture winners of all time across the nine genres into which this year’s nominees fall to see what movies have the best chance of earning the top Oscar.

The Academy Awards will apparently avoid a looming embarrassment for this year’s show and won’t be asking any past winners to take to the stage and speak glowingly about “Emilia Pérez ...

and features five previous Oscar winners (or nominees) heaping praise on the year’s potential recipients. Last year, for instance, the award for Best Actress was presented by previous winners ...