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The Academy Award for Best Action Film is an award for Action films. They are awarded for the overall best in the action genre of the year. The first award was given in 1962, and the first winner was Dr. No.

Academy Award for Best Action Film
CountryUnited States
Presented byAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awarded1962
Currently held byEdgar Wright
Baby Driver (2017)
Websiteoscars.org

Winners and Nominees[edit]

Year Film Nominees
1962
(35th)
Dr. No
The Longest Day
Hell is For Heroes
The 300 Spartans
Mutiny on the Bounty
1963
(36th)
The Great Escape
From Russia With Love
How the West Was Won
Hud
Jason and the Argonauts
1964
(37th)
Goldfinger
A Fistful of Dollars
633 Squadron
The Train
Zulu
1965
(38th)
Thunderball
Doctor Zhivago
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
For a Few Dollars More
The Great Race
1966
(39th)
The Professionals
Batman
Django
Grand Prix
The Sand Pebbles
1967
(40th)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Bonnie and Clyde
The Dirty Dozen
Hombre
You Only Live Twice
1968
(41st)
Bullitt
Barbarella
Coogan's Bluff
The Devil's Brigade
Where Eagles Dare
1969
(42nd)
Once Upon a Time in the West
Easy Rider
The Italian Job
True Grit
The Wild Bunch

1970s[edit]

Year Film Nominees
1970
(43rd)
Patton
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Kelly's Heroes
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Two Mules for Sister Sara
1971
(44th)
The French Connection
Diamonds are Forever
Dirty Harry
Shaft
Vanishing Point
1972
(45th)
1973
(46th)
1974
(47th)
1975
(48th)
1976
(49th)
1977
(50th)
1978
(51st)
1979
(52nd)