"for Dujardin, making him the first French actor ever to win in this category. It was also the first French-produced film to win Best Picture, and the first mainly silent film to win since 1927's ""Wings"" won at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929. It was also the first film presented in the 4:3 aspect ratio to win since 1953's ""From Here to Eternity"". Additionally, it was the first black-and-white film to win since 1993's ""Schindler's List"", though the latter contained limited colour sequences; it was the first 100% black-and-white film to win since 1960's ""The Apartment"". In France it"
"apiece. ""La La Land""s Best Picture loss to ""Moonlight"" meant it set a record for most nominations and wins without winning Best Picture since ""Cabaret"" in 1972. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 26, 2017. ""Moonlight"" became the first film with an all-black cast and the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture. In an event unprecedented in the history of the Oscars, ""La La Land"" was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture, and, a few minutes later, the error was corrected and ""Moonlight"" was declared the winner. """", at 467 minutes, became the longest film"
"black-and-white cinematography. Since then, the only black-and-white film to win is ""Schindler's List"" (1993). Floyd Crosby won the award for """" in 1931, which was the last silent film to win in this category. Hal Mohr won the only write-in Academy Award ever, in 1935 for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". Mohr was also the first person to win for both black-and-white and color cinematography. No winners are lost, although some of the earliest nominees (and of the unofficial nominees of 1928–29) are lost, including ""The Devil Dancer"" (1927), ""The Magic Flame"" (1927), and ""Four Devils"" (1928). ""The Right to Love"""
"that have received few or no nominations or awards. Only three animated films have been nominated - ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Up"" (2009) and ""Toy Story 3"" (2010), the latter two having been nominated after the Academy expanded the number of nominees—but none have won. No science fiction film or superhero film has won (none of the latter has been nominated); only two fantasy films have won — """" (2003) and ""The Shape of Water"" (2017). ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991) is the only horror film to win Best Picture, and only five other have been nominated for"
"Within a few years after ""The Apartment""'s release, the routine use of black-and-white film in Hollywood had ended. As of 2014, only two black-and-white movies have won the Academy Award for Best Picture after ""The Apartment"" did: ""Schindler's List"" (1993) and ""The Artist"" (2011). ""The Apartment"" also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film from any Source and Lemmon and MacLaine both won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe each for their performances. In 1994, ""The Apartment"" was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry."
"both Black and white and color film. Eight years later, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, along with two other awards, were each combined into their own single category recognizing achievement in film. From 1949 to 1966, most Academy Awards for Best Costume Design in Black and White were given to a contemporary movie. On the other hand, epics, fantasies, and musicals dominated the color category. Since the merger into one singular category for color films in 1967, films set in modern times have won only three times. The three contemporary-set winners have been ""Travels with My Aunt"", ""All"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"Best Picture without a Best Director nomination until ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), and the third of seven to win without a screenwriting nomination. This was the first of three Oscars in which ""two"" films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner (""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" and ""The Guardsman""). This happened again at the 25th and 79th Academy Awards. This year also introduced short films to the Oscars, with ""Flowers and Trees"" being the first color winner and first animated short winner. This was the first and, to date, only ceremony in which there was a"
"nine each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 22, 2015. For the first time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, every Best Picture nominee won at least one award. ""Birdman"" was the first film to win Best Picture without an editing nomination since ""Ordinary People"" (1980). Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win for Best Director after Cuarón who won for helming ""Gravity"". At age 84, Robert Duvall was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. Having won for his work on ""Gravity"""
"did contain some color sequences). No Best Picture winner has been lost, though a few such as ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" and ""Lawrence of Arabia"" exist only in a form altered from their original, award-winning release form. This has usually been due to editing for reissue (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees, such as ""Tom Jones"" and ""Star Wars,"" are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. ""The Broadway Melody"" originally had some sequences photographed in two-color Technicolor. This footage survives only in black and white. The 1928 film ""The Patriot"" is the only"
"Awards in which a film not nominated for Best Picture received the most awards of the evening, excluding years where there were ties for the most wins. The only other film to do this was ""The Thief of Bagdad"" at the 13th Academy Awards; as of the 89th Academy Awards, it has not happened since. Until ""Spotlight"" won only Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards, this was the last year in which the Best Picture winner won just two Oscars. It was also the second of three years to date in which two films ""not"""
"Revenant"", respectively. The Directors Guild of America Award for Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for both Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards. Only seven times since the DGA Award's inception has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award; in 1968 (Carol Reed won the Oscar for directing ""Oliver!""); 1972 (Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing ""Cabaret""); 1985 (Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing ""Out of Africa"", as Steven Spielberg was not nominated for directing ""The Color Purple""); 1995 (Mel Gibson won for directing ""Braveheart"", as Ron Howard was not nominated for"
"the second biographical film to win Best Picture. Luise Rainer received the Academy Award for Best Actress for ""The Good Earth"", earning her the distinctions of being the first actor to win two Academy Awards and the first to win consecutive acting awards. ""A Star Is Born"" was the first color film to receive a Best Picture nomination. Walt Disney's ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", the world's first full-length Technicolor animated feature film with sound and widely seen as one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, received only one nomination (Best Score). In the following year, the"
"Joi McMillon became the first African-American to be nominated for Best Film Editing since Hugh A. Robertson for ""Midnight Cowboy"", as well as the first black woman to be nominated for that award. Octavia Spencer became the first African-American actress to be nominated after having already won before. ""Moonlight"" became the first film with an all-black cast to win the Best Picture award. Additionally, the ceremony had the most black winners of the Academy Awards ever. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won the Best Foreign Language Film for ""The Salesman"", was revealed to initially be unable to attend the ceremony"
"for MSNBC about the 78th Academy Awards selection of ""Crash"" as Best Picture, Erik Lundegaard called ""Crash"" the ""worst Best Picture winner since the 'dull, bloated' film ""The Greatest Show on Earth"""" In 2013, the fact that ""The Greatest Show on Earth"" won over ""High Noon"" was listed by ""Time"" among the 10 Most Controversial Best Picture Races. At the 25th Academy Awards, the movie won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Story. It received nominations for Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Costume Design, Color. It was the last Best Picture winner to win fewer than three Academy"
"Pond"", ""Atlantic City"" and ""Reds"". However, none of them won the Best Picture prize, losing to ""Chariots of Fire"". This also marked the first year that the award for Best Makeup was presented; the winner was Rick Baker for his work on ""An American Werewolf in London"". This was the last year until the 2005 Oscars where all five Best Picture nominations were also nominated for Best Director. ""Reds"" was the last film to gain nominations in all four acting categories until ""Silver Linings Playbook"" matched that feat at the 85th Academy Awards ceremony in 2013. Facilitated in part by"
"roles by stating “only 4 out of 10 movies turn a profit, according to the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers. But because pictures with nearly all-black casts come along more infrequently, they tend to stand out more when they fail"". The then and now 2014 Academy Awards were a turning point for African-American films, with the film ""12 Years a Slave"" taking home the Oscar for Best Picture. In 2013, five African-American films were released (""12 Years a Slave"", ""Fruitvale Station"", ""Lee Daniels' The Butler"", ""Best Man Holiday"" and """"). The release of such films had a broader"
"Awards until ""Spotlight"" in 2016. Some consider this film among the worst to have ever won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It also won that award over highly rated films such as ""High Noon"", ""The Quiet Man"", and ""Singin' in the Rain"". The American film magazine ""Premiere"" placed the movie on its list of the 10 worst Oscar winners and the British film magazine ""Empire"" rated it #3 on their list of the 10 worst Oscar winners. It has the second lowest spot on Rotten Tomatoes' list of the 90 films to win Best Picture. Stanley Kramer alleged that"
"was inspired by the moving shots in the Italian movie, ""Cabiria,"" and developed a camera with special tracking abilities for his 1914 film, ""Pan's Mountain"". Notably, Mohr is the only person to have won a competitive Academy Award without being nominated for it. In 1936, a write-in campaign won him the Best Cinematography Oscar for his work on ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1935). The Academy later changed the Oscar rules, making write-in voting impossible. In 1944, Mohr became the first person to win an Oscar for both Black-and-White and Color cinematography when he won his second Academy Award, this time"
"the only non-white directed film to win an Academy award was Steve McQueen for 12 Years A Slave, winning best picture. There is also a disparity in the budgets and box office grosses between films with white and non-white directors, with white director’s budgets being higher on average. The Evolve Entertainment Fund was created January 2018 to provide a resource for people from under-served communities the opportunity to find work in the entertainment industry. A recent 2018 study from IndieWire found that for actors of color, pay issues have an even steeper climb. At a time when Hollywood’s bottom line"
"MacFarlane, host of the ceremony, and actress Emma Stone. ""Lincoln"" received the most nominations with twelve total, and ""Life of Pi"" came in second with eleven. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 24, 2013. ""Argo"" was the fourth film to win Best Picture without a directing nomination, following 1927's ""Wings"", 1932's ""Grand Hotel"", and 1989's ""Driving Miss Daisy"". As co-producer of ""Argo"", George Clooney became the third individual to win Oscars for both acting and producing. By virtue of his nomination for Best Original Song in ""Ted"", host Seth MacFarlane became the first person since James"
"(1930) is incomplete, and ""Sadie Thompson"" (1927) is incomplete and partially reconstructed with stills. The first nominees shot primarily on digital video were ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" and ""Slumdog Millionaire"" in 2009, with ""Slumdog Millionaire"" the first winner. The following year ""Avatar"" was the first nominee and winner to be shot entirely on digital video. In 2018, Rachel Morrison became the first woman to receive a nomination. Prior to that it had been the last gender-neutral Academy Award category to never nominate a woman. Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees. Academy Award"
"a leading role Oscar. ""An American in Paris"" became the second color film to win Best Picture, after 1939's ""Gone with the Wind"". Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 24th Academy Awards The 24th Academy Awards honored the best in film in 1951, as recognized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture was awarded to ""An American in Paris"", which, like ""A Place in the Sun"", received six Academy Awards. ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" won four Oscars, including three of the acting"
"Kasi Lemmons' heavy-handed treatment of its celebrated source material."" On Metacritic, the film has a score of 48 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating ""mixed or average reviews"". Black Nativity (film) Black Nativity is a 2013 American musical drama film directed by Kasi Lemmons. The script, written by Lemmons, is based on Langston Hughes' play of the same name and released on November 27, 2013. The film stars an African American ensemble cast featuring Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, The Fast and Furious star Tyrese Gibson, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Jacob Latimore, Vondie Curtis-Hall,"
"by Vanessa Redgrave. ""The Turning Point"" set the record for the most nominations without a win (11), previously held by ""Peyton Place"" and ""The Little Foxes"", which each had 9 nominations with no wins. This record, later tied by ""The Color Purple"", still stands . ""Annie Hall"" was the last Best Picture winner to be nominated for just five awards until ""The Departed"" 29 years later in 2006. Jason Robards became the fourth actor to win back-to-back Oscars, following Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn. For the only time to date, both Best Actor and Best Actress winners won"
"Oscars, ""Spotlight"" was the first film since 1952's ""The Greatest Show on Earth"" to win Best Picture with only one other award. Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the third individual to win two consecutive Oscars for Best Director. By virtue of his previous nomination for his portrayal of the titular character in 1976's ""Rocky"", Best Supporting Actor nominee Sylvester Stallone was the sixth person to be nominated for playing the same role in two different films. At the age of 87, Ennio Morricone was believed to be the oldest competitive winner in Oscar history. Having previously won for ""Gravity"" and ""Birdman"","
"category (score, substantially original). Best Sound Effects was introduced this year with ""It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"" winning the award. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. Sidney Poitier's performance in ""Lilies of the Field"" as Homer Smith earned him an award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. This marked the first time a Black male won a competitive Oscar (Poitier is Bahamian-American). This win came five years after his nomination for Best Actor in the 1958's ""The Defiant Ones"". Another African-American male would not"
"Black or White (film) Black or White is a 2014 American drama film directed and written by Mike Binder. The film stars Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Gillian Jacobs, Jennifer Ehle, Anthony Mackie and Bill Burr. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on January 30, 2015. Elliot Anderson (Kevin Costner) is widowed after a car crash leads to the death of his wife. Elliot raises his granddaughter Eloise as he struggles with his grief by binge-drinking. Elliot's world is turned upside-down when the child's black grandmother, Rowena (Octavia Spencer), demands"
"in Beverly Hills, California, by Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy, and actor Chris Hemsworth. ""American Hustle"" and ""Gravity"" tied for the most nominations with ten each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 2, 2014. ""American Hustle"" became David O. Russell's second consecutive film to earn nominations in all acting categories and the fifteenth film overall in Oscar history to achieve this distinction. It also was the third film after ""Gangs of New York"" and ""True Grit"" to lose all ten of its nominations. Steve McQueen became the first black director to direct a Best"
"Supporting Actress for her performance in ""A Passage to India"", making her the oldest winner in that category. This ceremony marked the first time that multiple black nominees would win an Oscar, when Prince and Stevie Wonder won for their respective work on ""Purple Rain"" and ""The Woman in Red"". Additionally, it was the only time that all five nominees in Best Original Song topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart. One of the more notable gaffes in Oscar history occurred during the ceremony. Presenting the Best Picture award, Sir Laurence Olivier forgot to list the nominees and simply tore open"
"or Special category. The Special Black Reel Awards are voted on by special Foundation committees, rather than by the Voting Academy membership as a whole. They are not always presented on a consistent annual basis. Below are the Motion Picture and Television films with 5 or more nominations. ""For Colored Girls"" holds the records for the most nominated film with 14 nominations. ""12 Years a Slave"" and ""Selma"" are tied with the most wins with 8 wins apiece. On the television side, ""Lackawanna Blues"" holds the record for most nominations with 9 and wins 7 for a television film. 14"
"White Cinematography award for Haskell Wexler's stark, black-and-white camera work (it was the last film to win before the category was eliminated), Best Costume Design and for Best Art Direction (Richard Sylbert, George James Hopkins). It was the first film to have its entire credited cast be nominated for acting Oscars, a feat only accomplished two other times, with ""Sleuth"" in 1972 and ""Give 'em Hell, Harry!"" in 1975. The film received the BAFTA Award for Best Film from any Source, and Burton and Taylor won BAFTA Awards for Best British Actor and British Actress respectively. In ""AFI's 100 Years..."
"win Best Picture without any acting nominations. Sean Penn became the ninth person to win Best Lead Actor twice. Best Supporting Actor winner Heath Ledger became the second performer to win a posthumous acting Oscar. The first actor to receive this distinction was Peter Finch who posthumously won Best Actor for ""Network"" two months after his death in January 1977. With its six nominations, ""WALL-E"" tied with 1991's ""Beauty and the Beast"" as the most nominated animated film in Oscar history. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface. The following 15 films received multiple nominations: The following four films received"