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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.
Company Business is a 1991 action film, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov.The film follows the exploits of Sam Boyd (Gene Hackman), a former operative for the CIA who is reactivated to escort Pyotr Ivanovich Grushenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov), a captured KGB mole, to a prisoner exchange in recently reunited Berlin.
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. 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 ...
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.
Along with Best Picture and Best Director(s), Javier Bardem was the first Spanish actor to win Best Supporting Actor, for his role of the terrifying assassin Anton Chigurh. Amazon Apple See the ...
The most-watched ceremony based on Nielsen ratings to date, was the 42nd Academy Awards (Best Picture Midnight Cowboy), which drew a 43.4% household rating on April 7, 1970. [92] Hoping to reinvigorate the pre-show and ratings, the 2023 Oscars organizers hired members of the Met Gala creative team.
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...