All About Eve

All About Eve sets the gold standard for Hollywood satire and outranks #10 Lawrence of Arabia in critical consensus, with a 99% Rotten Tomatoes score that surpasses the typical winner's 92% average. Joseph L. Mankiewicz's razor-sharp script earned a then-record 14 Oscar nominations—since tied only by Titanic and La La Land—and won 6, including Best Picture. Bette Davis and Anne Baxter deliver career-best performances in a film about ambition, aging, and betrayal that remains bitingly relevant over 75 years later. Its 14 nominations still stand as the most of any Best Picture winner, outperforming the runner-up by two nods.