"to YouTube on May 8, 2009 and December 11, 2009 respectively. Collectively, the franchise has received a record 38 Academy Award nominations, winning 17, and one special award, also a record. Along with ""The Godfather"" trilogy, it is one of two film series to date to have received three Best Picture nominations. The third film in Peter Jackson's trilogy, """", was the first and, as of 2017, only fantasy film to win Best Picture, as well as the second sequel to do so after ""The Godfather Part II"". Furthermore, it is currently the only film to be the third in"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"husband, Sydney Box, for the 1945 film ""The Seventh Veil"". The Boxes are also the first married couple to win in this category. Only three other married couples won an Oscar in another category—Earl W. Wallace and Pamela Wallace (for Original Screenplay), Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (for Adapted Screenplay and Picture), and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (for Original Song). In 1996, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen became the only siblings to win in this category (for ""Fargo""). Francis Ford Coppola (""Patton"", 1970) and Sofia Coppola (""Lost in Translation"", 2003) are the only father-daughter pair to win. Preston Sturges"
"for best picture it's Wall-E."" Only three animated films, 1991's ""Beauty and the Beast"" and Pixar's next two films, 2009's ""Up"" and 2010's ""Toy Story 3"", have ever been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. A reflective Stanton stated he was not disappointed the film was restricted to the Best Animated Film nomination because he was overwhelmed by the film's positive reception, and eventually ""The line [between live-action and animation] is just getting so blurry that I think with each proceeding year, it's going to be tougher and tougher to say what's an animated movie and what's not"
"to win the Grand Prix, followed by Xavier Dolan with ""It's Only the End of the World"" in 2016. ""The Sweet Hereafter"" also won Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Actor for Holm, and three other prizes at the 18th Genie Awards. It was nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 70th Academy Awards, but lost to ""Titanic"" and ""L.A. Confidential"", respectively. The Sweet Hereafter (film) The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian drama film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, starring Ian Holm, Sarah Polley and Bruce Greenwood and adapted from the novel of"
"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"""
"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"
"Only one person had previously achieved the dubious feat (Alan Menken in 1993), and only one other (Sandra Bullock in 2010) has achieved it since. He accepted the Razzie and became only the fourth person in its history to be personally presented with the statuette. He keeps the statues of both the Oscar and the Razzie on his mantle as ""a reminder of Hollywood's idealistic nature and unrealistic expectations."" Helgeland wrote and directed the films ""A Knight's Tale"" (2001), ""The Order"" (2003) and ""42"" (2013). He has worked with director Clint Eastwood twice, in 2002 on"" Blood Work"", and in"
"the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, ultimately winning one award for Best Sound Editing. It was also awarded the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2017. In February 2015, it was announced that Villeneuve would direct ""Blade Runner 2049"", the sequel to Ridley Scott's ""Blade Runner"" (1982). Scott served as the film's executive producer on behalf of Warner Bros. It was released on October 6, 2017 to overwhelming critical acclaim despite middling box office returns. Villeneuve is set to direct the adaptation of"
"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"
"in 2018. It is also the first non-American film to win the Best Picture Academy Award. In the past, the 1948 film was often considered the definitive cinematic rendition of ""Hamlet"". Over the years, however, it has lost some of its status, especially in comparison to Olivier's versions of ""Henry V"" and ""Richard III"". This is primarily because Olivier, according to some critics, overemphasised Hamlet's Oedipal fixation on his mother, and because Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two of the most important supporting characters in the play, were completely omitted from this film version, robbing the film of what could have been"
"genre, after ""Raging Bull"", by the American Film Institute in 2008. The film has spawned seven sequels: ""Rocky II"" (1979), ""Rocky III"" (1982), ""Rocky IV"" (1985), ""Rocky V"" (1990), ""Rocky Balboa"" (2006), ""Creed"" (2015) and ""Creed II"" (2018). Stallone portrays Rocky in all seven sequels, wrote the first five, and directed four (Avildsen returned to direct ""Rocky V"" and Ryan Coogler directed ""Creed""). An eighth film and direct sequel to ""Creed"", titled ""Creed II"", was released in 2018 with Steven Caple Jr. directing and Stallone returning to star and writing the script. In late 1975, the heavyweight boxing world champion,"
"nominated in the Outstanding Miniseries category but the Academy ruled that the nomination was not valid a few days later and later allowed the program to compete in the Outstanding Drama Series category. Since 2000, every single winner has been a serial drama: ""The West Wing"" (2000–2003), ""The Sopranos"" (2004, 2007), ""Lost"" (2005), ""24"" (2006), ""Mad Men"" (2008–2011), ""Homeland"" (2012), ""Breaking Bad"" (2013–2014), ""Game of Thrones"" (2015–2016, 2018), and ""The Handmaid's Tale"" (2017). Since the advent of ""Hill Street Blues"" in 1981, every winner has had some serialized arcs with the exception of ""Law & Order"". The majority of these"
"ticket sales. The film won more than twenty awards, including three Academy Awards for its technical achievements in visual effects and sound design. ""Jurassic Park"" is considered a landmark in the development of computer-generated imagery and animatronic visual effects and was followed by four commercially successful sequels, """" (1997), ""Jurassic Park III"" (2001), ""Jurassic World"" (2015) and """" (2018), with a fifth and final sequel, currently titled ""Jurassic World 3"", scheduled for a 2021 release. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or"
"Film & Television Alliance selected ""Crash"" as one of the 30 Most Significant Independent Films of the last 30 years. ""Crash"" won the Best Picture Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards, controversially beating the critically favored ""Brokeback Mountain"" and making it only the second film ever (the other being ""The Sting"") to win the Academy Award for Best Picture without having been nominated for any of the three Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture (Best Drama, Best Comedy/Musical and Best Foreign Film). The film's use of moral quandary as a storytelling medium was widely reported as ironic, since many"
"nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Original Score, which was written by John Williams, and Best Original Song for ""Somewhere in My Memory"". After its release, ""Home Alone"" became the highest-grossing live action comedy film of all time in the United States, and also held the record worldwide until it was overtaken by ""The Hangover Part II"" in 2011. It is the highest grossing Christmas movie of all time at the North American box office (when adjusted for inflation). Despite the mixed critical reception upon its initial release, ""Home Alone"" has been hailed as a holiday classic among audiences, and"
"Only ""Finding Nemo"" (1st), ""The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King"" (2nd), ""Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"" (3rd), ""Seabiscuit"" (16th), ""Something's Gotta Give"" (21st), ""The Last Samurai"" (23rd), ""Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"" (31st), ""Brother Bear"" (32nd) ""Cold Mountain"" (37th), and ""Mystic River"" (46th) were nominated for Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, or any of the directing, acting, or screenwriting. In light of the controversy surrounding the halftime show during Super Bowl XXXVIII, network ABC implemented a five-second tape delay to ensure that profanity and obscenity were not seen"
"for many awards including the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design, Best Sound, and Best Special Visual Effects. It was followed by six sequels, beginning with ""Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"" in 2004 and ending with ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2"" in 2011, nearly ten years after the first film's release. Harry Potter spends the summer with The Dursleys without receiving letters from his Hogwarts friends. In his room, Harry meets Dobby, a house-elf who warns him of a peril that will take shape if he returns to Hogwarts. Dobby reveals that he intercepted"
"is often ranked as one of the best Christmas films of all time. ""Home Alone"" spawned a successful film franchise with four sequels, including the 1992 film """", which is the only ""Home Alone"" sequel to have the original cast reprising their roles. The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris, gathering at Peter and Kate's home outside of Chicago on the night before their departure. Peter and Kate's youngest son, Kevin, is being scorned by his siblings and cousins. Later, Kevin accidentally ruins the family dinner after a fight with his older brother Buzz, resulting in him"
"scope and grand spectacle, ""Ben-Hur"" still ranks among Hollywood's finest examples of pure entertainment."" ""Ben-Hur"" was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won an unprecedented 11. , only ""Titanic"" in 1998 and """" in 2004 have matched the film's wins. The lone category where ""Ben-Hur"" did not win was for Best Adapted Screenplay (losing to ""Room at the Top""), and most observers attributed this to the controversy over the writing credit. MGM and Panavision shared a special technical Oscar in March 1960 for developing the Camera 65 photographic process. ""Ben-Hur"" also won three Golden Globe Awards – Best Motion Picture"
"Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor, Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. A sequel, titled ""Creed II"", was released in November 2018, directed by Steven Caple Jr. In 1998, Adonis ""Donnie"" Johnson, the son of an extramarital lover of former heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, is serving time in a Los Angeles youth detention center when Creed's widow, Mary Anne, visits and offers to take him in. In 2015, Donnie resigns from the Smith Boardley Financial Group to pursue his dream of becoming a professional boxer."
"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."
"Editing, Best Costume Design, a second nomination for Best Original Song (""Audition""), Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing. During the Oscars ceremony, presenter Faye Dunaway incorrectly announced that ""La La Land"" had won Best Picture, reading from the card Warren Beatty opened, which was actually a duplicate of the Best Actress card for Emma Stone. After the cast and crew of ""La La Land"" took the stage, it took the show's producers more than two minutes and nearly three speeches to fix the mistake. The actual winner was ""Moonlight"". La La Land (film) La La Land is a 2016"
"Brazil were the sole countries to broadcast the event live. This is currently the highest rated of the televised Academy Awards ceremonies, according to Nielsen ratings. The record, , remains unbroken thanks to the emergence of the Super Bowl as the biggest annual event of awards season. ""Midnight Cowboy"" became the first and so far, the only X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its rating has since been downgraded to R. The previous year had seen the only G-rated film to win Best Picture, Carol Reed's ""Oliver!"". ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" set an Oscar record"
"Academy Award for Best Song and the Golden Globe. A film sequel, ""Rooster Cogburn"", was made in 1975, with Wayne reprising his role and Katharine Hepburn as an elderly spinster, Eula Goodnight, who teams up with him. The plot has been described as a rehash of the original ""True Grit"" with elements of the Bogart-Hepburn film ""The African Queen"". A further made-for-television sequel titled """" appeared in 1978, starring Warren Oates as Rooster Cogburn and Lisa Pelikan as Mattie Ross and featuring subsequent adventures of the valiant pair. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen directed another adaptation of the novel."
"Bourgeoisie)"", ""La nuit américaine (Day for Night)"", ""Préparez vos mouchoirs (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs)"", and ""Amour"". National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Picture is an annual award given by National Society of Film Critics to honor the best film of the year. In the past 40 years, the Society only agreed with the Academy Award for Best Picture seven times: ""Annie Hall"" (1977), ""Unforgiven"" (1992), ""Schindler's List"" (1993), ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009), ""Spotlight"" (2015), and ""Moonlight"" (2016). Five others have received the Oscar for"
"and resulted in two wins. Puzo's novel ""The Godfather"" resulted in wins in 1972 and 1974. The other is E. M. Forster, whose novels ""A Room with a View"" and ""Howards End"" resulted in wins for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Larry McMurtry is the only person who has won (for ""Brokeback Mountain"") for adapting someone else's work and whose work has been adapted by someone else resulting in a win, ""Terms of Endearment"". Emma Thompson is the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners Billy Bob Thornton and John Huston have only received nominations (not wins) in the acting"
""""" along with the single nomination for """" brings the series' total to 37 nominations). ""The Fellowship of the Ring"" earned thirteen nominations, the most of any film at the 74th Academy Awards, winning four. ""The Return of the King"" won in every category in which it was nominated, setting the current Oscar record for the highest clean sweep, and its 11 Academy Awards wins ties the record held by ""Ben-Hur"" and ""Titanic"" (though both of those films had additional nominations that they ultimately lost). ""The Return of the King"" became only the second sequel to win the Oscar 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"
"films were nominated for Academy Awards (with wins going to the first two released) and were commercially successful, with a combined box office revenue of over billion. Together with the theatrical spin-off films """" (2008), ""Rogue One"" (2016), and """" (2018), ""Star Wars"" is the second-highest-grossing film series of all time. The film series has spawned into other media, including books, television shows, computer and video games, theme park attractions and , and comic books, resulting in significant development of the series' fictional universe. ""Star Wars"" holds a ""Guinness World Records"" title for the ""Most successful film merchandising franchise"". In"
"is the only film in the trilogy not to win for Best Picture or any other Academy Award for that matter, as well as the only film in the trilogy not selected for preservation by the U.S. National Film Registry. Along with ""The Lord of the Rings"", ""The Godfather Trilogy"" shares the distinction that all of its installments were nominated for Best Picture. The film was also nominated for seven Golden Globes Awards, but did not win. Sofia Coppola won two Golden Raspberry Awards for both Worst Supporting Actress and Worst New Star. The film is recognized by American Film"