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The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2008 and took place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.
It's easy to fall behind on essential Oscars viewing. Especially in recent years -- with more awards contenders competing at more awards shows during busier and busier awards season -- the backlog ...
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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 ...
2009: The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow made history as the first female filmmaker to win the Best Director Oscar, but the movie’s Best Picture win was a pretty big deal as well.
It was the second fully-animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; the first being Beauty and the Beast (1991). [8] Up became the third consecutive Pixar film to win the Academy Award for Animated Feature, after Ratatouille (2007) and WALL-E (2008). [ 9 ]
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.
The rival Best Picture nominees in 1974 included Lenny, Chinatown and The Conversation (also directed by Francis Ford Coppola). All would have been worthy winners in other years. All would have ...