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4 days ago · 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 ...
May 10, 2024 · Unforgiven, American revisionist western film, released in 1992, that was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood. It won four Academy Awards as well as both critical and popular praise for its uncompromising approach to the mythology and pathology of the genre in a brutal story that laid bare the emptiness of a life dedicated to violence.
- Pat Bauer
4 days ago · At the 1st Academy Awards, the Best Picture award (then named "Academy Award for Outstanding Picture") was presented to the 1927 silent film Wings. The Artist (2011) was the first essentially silent (with the exception of a single scene of dialogue, and a dream sequence with sound effects) film since Wings to win Best Picture.
- Best Motion Picture of the Year
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- United States
May 10, 2024 · Forrest Gump, American film, released in 1994, that chronicled 30 years (from the 1950s through the early 1980s) of the life of a intellectually disabled man (played by Tom Hanks) in an unlikely fable that earned critical praise, large audiences, and six Academy Awards, including best picture. The film opens with Forrest Gump (Hanks) sitting on ...
- Pat Bauer
May 1, 2024 · The decades-spanning film took home the Best Picture trophy in 1994, and star Tom Hanks also won his own Academy Award for Best Actor that same year. Pulp Fiction, with its out-of-sequence storytelling, impressed fans and Oscar voters alike in 1994 as well.
May 2, 2024 · The nearly three-hour-long movie was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five, including those for best picture and best director. The Sound of Music, which takes place during the late 1930s, opens on a sweeping view of the Austrian Alps and a young woman, Maria (played by Julie Andrews ), singing. When she hears church bells, she hurries ...
4 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film. The performers of a song are not credited with the ...
