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unusual facts about 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.

Gianluigi Braschi

He co-produced the hugely successful film Life Is Beautiful (1997) with Elda Ferri, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

Hsu Li Kong

Hsu Li Kong (徐立功, Pinyin: Xú Lìgōng; born 1943) is a film producer most famous for co-producing the successful wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, a BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language as well as an Independent Spirit Award for Best Film.

Joshuah Bearman

The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Pablo Berger

Blancanieves won ten Goya Awards, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

Rajesh Rajilal

His historical biopics of Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth and its sequel The Golden Age) garnered 7 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Cate Blanchett.

Theater Hopper

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


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1982 Metro Manila Film Festival

ECP's Himala captured nine awards in the 1982 Metro Manila Film Festival--- Best Picture, Best Actress (Nora Aunor), Best Supporting Actor (Spanky Manikan), Best Supporting Actress (Gigi Duenas), Best Director (Ishmael Bernal), Best Cinematography (Sergio Lobo), Best Art Direction (Racquel Villavicencio), Best Sound Engineering (Rolly Ruta) and Best Editing (Ike Jarlego, Jr.).

1984 Metro Manila Film Festival

Cherubim Films' Bulaklak sa City Jail won the Best Picture Award in the 1984 Metro Manila Film Festival.

1987 Metro Manila Film Festival

Olongapo...The Great American Dream was adjudged Best Picture in the 1987 Metro Manila Film Festival.

1989 Metro Manila Film Festival

Their movie, Viva Productions' Imortal wins the Best Picture award and eight other awards- Best Director (Eddie Garcia); Best Supporting Actress (Cherie Gil); Best Story and Screenplay ( Orlando Nadres); Best Film Editing (Ike Jarlego, Jr.); Best Production Design ( Elmer Manapul); Best Musical Score and Best Original Song (George Canseco).

1990 Metro Manila Film Festival

topped the 1990 Metro Manila Film Festival with eleven awards--- Best Picture, Best Actress (Nora Aunor), Best Supporting Actress (Gina Alajar), Best Director (Gil Portes), Best Editing (Boy Vinarao), Best Musical Score and Best Original Theme Song (Mon Faustino), Best Original Story and Best Screenplay (Ricky Lee and Gil Portes), Best Studio Sound Recording (Rolly Ruta) and The Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Award.

1991 Metro Manila Film Festival

FLT Film International’s Juan Tamad at Mister Shooli sa Mongolian Barbeque (The Movie) received seven awards--- Best Actor (Eric Quizon); Best Supporting Actor (Leo Martinez); Best Cinematography (Johnny Arajo); Best Sound Recording (Gaudencio Barredo); Best Production Design (Edel Templonuevo); the festival’s Second Best Picture and the Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Awards.

Viva Films’ Darna had four awards--- Best Supporting Actress (Tetchie Agbayani); Best Make-up Artist (Cecille Baun); Best Visual Special Effects (Carlos Lacap); and the festival’s Third Best Picture.

1994 Metro Manila Film Festival

This film festival is notable because no film won the award for Best Picture, as well as the Second and Third Best Picture, the Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Awards, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

1995 Metro Manila Film Festival

Viva Films' Muling Umawit ang Puso romped away with 11 awards--- Best Picture; Best Actress (Nora Aunor); Best Supporting Actor (Albert Martinez); Best Supporting Actress (Donna Cruz); Best Director (Joel Lamangan); Best Story; Best Screenplay; Best Musical Score; Best Theme Song; Best Production Design and the Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Awards.

2000 Metro Manila Film Festival

The movie also received 8 other major awards--- Best Picture, the Gatpuno Antonio Villegas Cultural Award, Best Actor (Johnny Delgado), Best Director and Story (Laurice Guillen), Best Cinematography (Videlle Meily), Best Musical Score (Nonong Buencamino and Best Screenplay (Shaira Mella Salvador, Raymond Lee and Laurice Guillen).

2010 Sundance Film Festival

The Kids Are All Right, which screened in the Premieres category, was nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Annette Bening for Best Actress, Mark Ruffalo for Best Supporting Actor, and Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg for Best Original Screenplay.

Winter's Bone, which won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, was nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Jennifer Lawrence for Best Actress, John Hawkes as Best Supporting Actor, and Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Best Adapted Screenplay.

American Film Institute Awards 2010

The Best Picture winner, The King's Speech was not eligible because it was British financed.

Beongeoli Sam-ryong

In 1964 Shin Sang-ok directed Deaf Sam-yong, a remake of Beongeoli Sam-ryong which won the Grand Bell (Daejong) Award in 1965 for Best Picture.

Boston Society of Film Critics

The 2009 award for best picture and best director went to The Hurt Locker directed by Kathryn Bigelow and also won three other awards (best actor, best cinematography and best film editing).

California Film Awards

The California Film Awards (CFA) is a film awards ceremony that offers awards in the categories of Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Cinematography, Directing, First-Time Directors, Editing, Screenplay, Animation, Art Design, Music Videos, Short Films, Experimental Films, Student Films, California Films, Foreign Films, Documentaries, and Feature Narratives.

Charles Evans, Jr.

Worried that producer credits were getting out of hand, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changes its rules to permit no more than three producers to receive an Oscar for a Best Picture film.

Chip Hourihan

Hourihan wrote and directed the feature film Glissando, based upon a short story by Robert Boswell, which won numerous Best Picture and Best Actors awards on the film festival circuit.

Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter, a 1978 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture

Dickson Iroegbu

In 2005, at the maiden edition of the African Movie Academy Awards, Iroegbu won three awards for the movie The Mayors, including the awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director.

Duraid Munajim

In 2007 Duraid worked as one of the principal camera operators on The Hurt Locker, which ended up winning multiple awards internationally, including Best Picture at the 2010 Oscar awards.

Elizabeth Yake

She has been nominated for over 15 Genie Awards including It's All Gone Pete Tong nominated for 8 Genie Awards including Best Director and Best Picture.

Els Nens Salvatges

Els Nens Salvatges (Spanish: Los Niños Salvajes) is a 2012 Spanish drama film directed by Patrícia Ferreira and winner of Best Picture in the Málaga Film Festival.

Gladney Center for Adoption

Blossoms in the Dust was in the Top Ten films of 1941 and was nominated for four Academy Awards—Best Picture, Best Actress, Color Cinematography, and Color Interior Decoration, winning the Oscar for Color Interior Decoration.

How to Steal 2 Million

The film received 11 nominations and won 4 awards at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2012, including the awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Achievement in Editing.

Killings

The film starred Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei, and was nominated for five Academy Awards – Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role (Wilkinson), Actress in a Leading Role (Spacek), Actress in a Supporting Role (Tomei), and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Published (Robert Festinger & Field).

Libeled Lady

It received an Academy Award nomination as Best Picture in 1937, but lost to The Great Ziegfeld, which also starred William Powell and Myrna Loy.

Melvin Goes to Dinner

The film won the Audience Award at the 2003 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, and the Best Picture and Best Ensemble Awards at the Phoenix Film Festival.

Moss Hart

When director Frank Capra and writer Robert Riskin adapted it for the screen in 1938, the film won the Best Picture Oscar and Capra won for Best Director.

Nasser Ashgriz

-- article Phillips Laboratory says it was located at Kirtland Air Force Base in Washington! --> He has received several awards including the Ralph Teetor Award from Society of Automotive Engineers (1988), The Best Picture Award, from the American Physical Society (1988), the Best Paper Award, from the Combustion Institute (1992), and TOKTEN Award from the United Nations Development Program (1995).

Nellie Bellflower

Nellie has been involved in movie production with three projects: The Girl in Melanie Klein (2008), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) and Finding Neverland (2004), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award as Producer for Best Picture.

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2004

Sideways won 3 awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Giamatti) and Best Supporting Actress (Madsen).

Nikki Gil

In 2010, she was the lead actress in a romance film entitled The Red Shoes produced by Unitel with Marvin Agustin, which won the Best Picture in the 27th Bogota International Film Festival.

Omoni Oboli

2010 saw Oboli feature in the award-winning film The Figurine, which won the Best Picture award at the 2010 African Movie Academy Awards.

Paul Colichman

Gods and Monsters received three Academy Award nominations (winning for Best Adapted Screenplay), four Golden Globe nominations (winning for Best Supporting Actress), three Independent Spirit Awards, and the National Board of Review’s Best Picture honor.

Renata Litvinova

She starred in the award-winning films Passions, The Tuner, Two in One and Melody for a Street-organ, directed by Kira Muratova, all of which won best picture at the Nika Awards.

RevoLOUtion: The Transformation of Lou Benedetti

Carr has shot additional scenes for the film every to two years since 1996, and having been rejected 5 years in a row from major film festivals, he eventually won or was nominated for Jury Prize and/or special distinctions at 14 of the top festivals such as Best Picture at Malibu Film Festival, Best Picture at San Francisco World Film Festival, Jury Prize Nomination at Slamdance Film Festival and others.

Sétif and Guelma massacre

When Outside the law by Rachid Bouchareb was nominated best picture in the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, French pied noir, harkis and war veterans demonstrated against the film being shown in French cinemas, accusing it of distorting reality.

Slow Dancing in the Big City

This was the first film made by Avildsen after 1976's Rocky captured Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director.

The Common Room

Prizes could be rewarded for the best picture/video and text—these are usually small, non-cash prizes such as an ITV Play T-shirt, a Slinky, a pen, or sometimes an electronic item such as an MP3 Player.

The Most Fun You Can Have Dying

The film was nominated as Best Picture at the 2012 New Zealand Film Awards losing out to the Orator.

Viva Riva!

The film received 12 nominations and won 6 awards at the 7th African Movie Academy Awards in 2011, including the awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography & Best Production Design.

Wendy and Lucy

The film won both Best Picture and Best Actress at the 12th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards.

Xie Jin

The Red Detachment of Women won the Best Picture and Best Directing of the 1st Hundred Flowers Awards, and it also won the Wanlong Prize of 3rd Asia-Africa Film Festival in 1964.

Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure

When the film won the Best Picture award over the much favored film Bagong Buwan (a film about the military conflict in Muslim Mindanao directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya).

Yoji Yamada

His movies have won the Best Picture award at the Japanese Academy Awards four times: in 1977 for The Yellow Handkerchief, in 1991 for My Sons, in 1993 for A Class to Remember, and in 2002 for The Twilight Samurai, which was nominated for the 76th Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Film.

Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain

The film was nominated for five Hong Kong Film Awards in 1984 (Best Action Choreography - Corey Yuen, Best Actress - Brigitte Lin, Best Art Direction - William Chang, Best Film Editing - Peter Cheung and Best Picture).