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Since 1968, most Best Picture winners have been rated R under the Motion Picture Association's rating system. Oliver! is the only G-rated film and Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film (what is categorized as an NC-17 film today), so far, to win Best Picture; they won in back-to-back years, 1968 and 1969. The latter has since been changed to ...
If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non-competitive award will be shown in brackets next to the ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King earned the largest "clean sweep" of Academy Awards, winning all 11 awards out of its 11 nominations (including Best Picture). Films receiving the most Academy Award nominations per ceremony. With only one exception – Dreamgirls – every film on this list above was nominated for Best Picture.
Typical criticism of the Academy Awards for Best Picture is that among the winners and nominees there is an over-representation of romantic historical epics, biographical dramas, romantic dramedies and family melodramas, most of which are released in the U.S. in the last three months of the calendar year.
Pages in category "Best Picture Academy Award winners" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
First Best Picture winner. Wings (1927) First Best Picture winning sound film. The Broadway Melody (1929) First Best Picture winning color film. Gone with the Wind (1939) First Best Director co-winners (for the same film) Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961) First person born in the 20th century to be nominated for (and win ...
The best picture Oscar has marked the epitome of the award-show season for 95 years — where only one film comes out on top. Read on to see all the films that have won best picture thus far.
If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title.. Competitive Academy Awards are separated from non-competitive Awards; as such, any films that were awarded a non-competitive award will be shown in brackets next to the number of competitive wins.