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The ceremony was briefly cancelled due to the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. [1] The ceremony is now considered notable as the year in which Citizen Kane failed to win Best Picture, losing to John Ford's How Green Was My Valley.
Best Original Screenplay was introduced at this ceremony, alongside Best Screenplay, which would eventually become Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Story. Independent producer David O. Selznick , who had produced the previous year's Best Picture winner Gone with the Wind (1939), produced the film with the most nominations again this ...
The first World War II film to win Best Picture was "Mrs. Miniver" (1941), an American production set in England during the Battle of Britain. ... Three other Best Picture winners of the 1940s had ...
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 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.
Few other Best Picture winners are as engrained in the public consciousness as Casablanca. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in ‘Casablanca’ (Warner BrosPictures) 7. On the Waterfront (1954)
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 ...
1 Best Picture. 2 Best Director. ... This is a list of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees. ... 1935, 1940, 1941, 1952: Awards resulted from 5 nominations