which movie was the only horror film nominated for the best film oscar
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Which horror movies have been nominated for an Oscar? The 1991 film, The Silence of the Lambs swept the Bests: Best Picture, Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Best Actress (Jodie Foster), Best Director (Jonathan Demme), and Best Writing (Ted Tally). To date (June 2009), the last horror film to be nominated for Best Picture was The Sixth Sense in 2000.
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- Adventure Horror/Thriller Films The Exorcist (1973) was the only true horror film to be nominated for Best Picture in Academy Award history-until 1991. Only one true 'horror' film has won Best Picture, The Silence of the Lambs (1991), although it has also been classified as a thriller.
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Whatâs New on Netflix Streaming This Month: January 2014 Billy Wilder's dramedy, starring Jack Lemmon as a lowly office drone reignited by the object of his affection (Shirley MacLaine), took home the Best Picture Oscar in 1961. Today, it's hard to imagine a movie so sweet, so intimate, and so character-driven duking it out with the blockbuster-size prestige pictures.
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- Chicago (2002) was the last musical film to win the Oscar for Best picture. The previous musical winner of the Oscar for Best Picture was Carol Reed's Oliver! (1968), gap of 4 … decades.
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- Kubrick won a best effects Oscar for 2001: A Space Odyssey and Welles won a best writing, original screenplay Oscar for Citizen Kane.. Hitchcock was nominated five times for best director and never won an Oscar. He directed Rebecca, which won two Oscars at the 13th Academy Awards, but the outstanding production Oscar was given to Selznick International Pictures and the cinematography (Black-and-White) Oscar went to George Barnes. Hitchcock was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1968.
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The Lord of the Rings  (film series) The Return of the King became only the second sequel to win the Oscar for Best Picture (after The Godfather Part II) and the first and only fantasy film to receive this honor, though this has been widely perceived as an award by proxy for the entire series (the first two films were also nominated for Best Picture).
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- (Agence France-Press)(pg. C9) Billy Crystal, aboard a mock-up of the Titanic, served as host of the 70th annual Academy Awards ceremony. (Associated Press) Matt Damon, left, and Ben Affleck won the Oscar for best original screenplay, for ''Good Will Hunting,'' in which the actors also starred.he other Oscar nominated films were ''As Good As It Gets,'' ''L.A. Confidential,'' ''The Full Monty'' and ''Good Will Hunting.'' The Oscar winners were selected by the 5,371 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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- The other Best Picture nominees were: 1  Somerset Maugham's tale, by director Edmund Goulding, The Razor's Edge (with four nominations and one win-Best Supporting Actress) of a wealthy young man's (Tyrone Power) search in the world for the truth about life.
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- Only three films have won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Writing: in 1934, It Happened One Night; in 1975, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; and in 1991, The Silence of the Lambs..
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Trivia This was the only film personally produced by Walt Disney to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. (Beauty and the Beast (1991) was also nominated for Best Picture, but that film was made in 1991, and Disney died in 1966).
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"Public Overwhelmingly Favors ""Saving Private Ryan"" for Best Picture Oscar" Shakespeare in Love far behind in second place. The American public overwhelmingly would like to see Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan win the Oscar this Sunday night as the best picture of the year in the annual Academy Awards ceremonies.
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BAFTA Awards: 'Boyhood' Wins Best Film, 'Grand Budapest Hotel' Gets Five Honors Boyhood took home the best film, best director and best supporting actress awards, while Eddie Redmayne landed the best actor honor — one of three wins for The Theory of Everything — and Julianne Moore scored best actress for Still Alice, which is still not out in U.K. cinemas. Read more BAFTA Awards: Stephen Fry Takes Swipe at North Korea.
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- Cabaret (with ten nominations and eight wins) - this film won many more Oscars - but not Best Picture. Cabaret's Oscars were for Best Director (Bob Fosse), Best Actress (Minnelli), Best Supporting Actor (Grey), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Sound, and Best Scoring.
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'Lovely Bones:' Serial Killers Elude As Ordinary Neighbors Actor Stanley Tucci has been nominated for a Golden Globe award and is being touted as Oscar material for his complex portrayal of Harvey, the suburban pedophile in the film adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel.
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Oscars Flashback '94: Spielberg Wins His First VIDEO: E.T. Gets the ET Treatment. Spielberg not only won his first Oscar in 1994 for the Holocaust-based Schindler's List but won his first two Oscars that night, adding Best Picture to his Best Director Award.
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- Alejandro G. Inarritu iñárritu named best, director While Eddie, Redmayne Julianne moore win lead Acting. Oscars. BY LOS—Angeles a crop of smaller movies took Home oscars On sunday night in a ceremony that seemed to match them in. scale
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Did 'Rain Man' deserve 1988's Best Picture Oscar? Posted December 16 2008 — 3:30 PM EST. Since Rain Man took home the 1988 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as Best Director, Actor and Original Screenplay), there has never been another winner quite like it.
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List of Academy Award records 1 Longest time between the release of a film and winning an Oscar. 2  Limelight (1952) is the only film to have won an award twenty years after its official release. 3  Since it was not released in Los Angeles County until 1972, it was not eligible for any Academy Awards until that time. These films were nominated for best picture and won in every category they were nominated for except best picture. 2  Bad Girl (1931), 3 nominations, 2 wins. 3  The Private Life of Henry VIII (1932), 2 nominations, 1 win.
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- Did 'Rain Man' deserve 1988's Best Picture Oscar? Since Rain Man took home the 1988 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as Best Director, Actor and Original Screenplay), there has never been another winner quite like it.
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- The event which ended the Eastern Roman Empire was the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
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Rewind: The Oscar-winning best pictures 87 photos: Oscar-winning best pictures. 'The Life of Emile Zola' (1937) – The Life of Emile Zola won three Oscars, including best picture. The film is a biography of the famed French author. Star Paul Muni was nominated for best actor but lost to Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous).
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'The Hurt Locker' wins six Oscars, including history maker for director Kathryn Bigelow March 7, 2010 | 9:38 pm. The 82nd Academy Awards followed the script set down by pundits, as the front-runners for all of the major Oscars won Sunday night. The Hurt Locker led with six Oscars, including best picture and best director for Kathryn Bigelow, who became the first woman to win this award. The Iraq war drama also picked up prizes for original screenplay (Mark Boal), editing, sound mixing and sound editing.
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Oscars 2016: Complete coverage of the 88th Academy Awards; Spotlight wins best picture; Chris Rockâs monologue; complete list of winners Here are the Academy Award nominees for best movie, actor, actress, supporting actor and supporting actress. Here are the Academy Award nominees for best movie, actor, actress, supporting actor and supporting actress. Clockwise from top left: Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, Spotlight, Cate Blanchett in Carol and Christian Bale in The Big Short..
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EXCLUSIVE: Grieving Diane Sawyer seen for the first time since the death of director husband Mike Nichols Dancer/choreographer/ and director Bob Fosse (with his first of three career nominations) won the Best Director Oscar (his only Best Director win) for his exquisitely-directed Cabaret - it was his second film as director following his first musical Sweet Charity (1969).
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2016 Oscar Nominations Are Announced: 'The Revenant,' 'Mad Max' Get Most Nods 2016 Oscar Nominations Are Announced: 'The Revenant,' 'Mad Max' Get Most Nods. Actor John Krasinski and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announce the nominees for best performance by an actor in a leading role Thursday.
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25 years in the making, Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' will get its Oscar moment Scorsese has been on an Oscar streak like few others. Five of his last six films have been nominated for best picture; only Shutter Island, in 2010, didn't make the list. “The Departed,” of course, won picture, director, editing and adapted screenplay. Whether Scorsese’s move to more ruminative territory will fly with voters remains to be seen. (Kundun wasn't nominated for best picture.)
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Here's why one Oscar winner keeps his Academy Award in the fridge Dreyfuss, 69, obviously has a great sense of humor about his Oscar, which he won for Best Actor in 1978 for the film The Goodbye Girl. That award was the only category in which Annie Hall was nominated and lost that year — but it’s okay, Diane Keaton still won the Oscar for Best Actress and that’s all that matters.