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10 unusual facts about Academy Award for Best Picture


Anthony Katagas

Katagas and his fellow producers are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave.

Different Seasons

The collection is notable for having had three of its four novellas turned into Hollywood films, one of which, The Shawshank Redemption, was nominated for the 1994 Academy Award for Best Picture.

Emma Tillinger Koskoff

Koskoff and her fellow producers are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street.

Gabrielle Tana

Tana and her fellow producers are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 2013 film Philomena.

Jeremy Kleiner

Kleiner and his fellow producers are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave.

Marvin Minoff

The Nixon Interviews would later be adapted into a Broadway play, which in turn, formed the basis for the 2008 film Frost/Nixon, directed by Ron Howard, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Rachel Winter

Winter and her fellow producers are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club.

Richard Suckle

Suckle and his fellow producers are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for the 2013 film American Hustle.

Theater Hopper

They make a concerted effort to watch all Best Picture nominees, and even this has proven difficult with their timetables.

Wallis Clark

Along with actors Franklyn Farnum and Bess Flowers, Clark holds the record for the most appearances in films that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.


Bess Flowers

Along with actors Wallis Clark and Franklyn Farnum, she holds the record for the most appearances in movies which have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Blossoms in the Dust

It won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color (Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary and Edwin B. Willis), and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Greer Garson), Best Cinematography, Color and Best Picture.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs

As Paramount Pictures' executive vice president of worldwide publicity, she orchestrated the marketing campaigns for Best Picture winners Forrest Gump and Braveheart; she later served as president of theatrical marketing for New Line Cinema.

Julia Phillips

In 1973, The Sting won the Academy Award for Best Picture and made Phillips the first woman to win an Oscar as a producer (an award shared by Tony Bill and Phillips' then-husband Michael Phillips).

Robert Penn Warren

All the King's Men became a highly successful film, starring Broderick Crawford and winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1949.

The Evening Star

The Evening Star is a 1996 sequel to Academy Award for Best Picture-winning Terms of Endearment, starring Shirley MacLaine, who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway she won an Oscar for playing in the original film.