Most recent foreign language film nominated for Best Picture with the most number of Academy Award nominations as well as First Chinese language film to be nominated for Best Picture.
First Best Picture winner to be the basis for a winner (or nominee) of the Tony Award for Best Musical (1970) which, in turn, was the first Best Musical winner or nominee to be based on any film.
One of two (along with The Rose Tattoo) Best Picture nominees that were the first to be adapted from a recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play (1948). (Note: Mister Roberts was pre-selected for Best Play when that award was a non-competitive category.)
One of two (along with Mister Roberts) Best Picture nominees that were the first to be adapted from a recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play (1951). (Note: The Rose Tattoo was pre-selected for Best Play when that award was a non-competitive category.)
First Best Picture nominee based on a recipient of the Tony Award for Best Musical (1952). (Note: The 1952 production of The King and I was pre-selected for the Tony Award when Best Musical was a non-competitive category.)
Second of two Best Picture winners (awarded in consecutive years) to be based on a winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical (1960). (Note: The 1959 production of The Sound of Music tied with Fiorello! for Best Musical.)
First of only two films to win Best Picture without being nominated for either of the three Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture (drama, comedy/musical or foreign film).
First of only three film festival acquisitions to win Best Picture
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Second of only two films to win Best Picture without being nominated for either of the three Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture (drama, comedy/musical or foreign film).
Most recent Best Picture nominee with a PG rating.
Although some best picture winners that were made before the MPAA rating system such as Gone with the Wind were later given G ratings, Oliver! is the only best picture winner to have been rated G at the time that it won the award.
Milestones related to sequels, prequels, remakes, and adaptations
The first film of the franchise will be nominated for the Best Picture. Second of only two sequels to be nominated for Best Picture without any of its predecessors being nominated
↑It remains a very close call — a tie, virtually — between the top two "longest" Best Pictures. The total film time (without music) of Gone with the Wind (1939) is almost 221 minutes (3 hours and 41 minutes); with the Overture, Intermission, Entr'acte, and Walkout Music, it reaches 234 minutes (3 hours and 54 minutes). The total film time (without music) of the original Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is just over 222 minutes (3 hours and 42 minutes), slightly longer than Gone with the Wind. Lawrence of Arabia's additional elements extend the film to about 232 minutes (3 hours and 52 minutes). If just counting the film itself, Lawrence of Arabia is the longer of the two contenders. The other longest Best Picture winners are, in order: Ben-Hur (1959) at 212 minutes (3 hours and 32 minutes) and The Lord of Rings: Return of the King (2003) at 201 minutes (3 hours and 21 minutes). However, the Extended Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which was released almost a year after the shorter theatrical version of the film won Best Picture, runs 251 minutes (4 hours and 11 minutes).
↑There is an alternate version which includes an extra scene that takes this film's duration to 94 minutes, a minute longer than the second shortest Best Picture winner, 1977's Annie Hall. The extra scene is included on the CBS FOX Video but deleted from the MGM Vintage Classics Video and DVD.[3]
↑The longest film to ever win any Academy Award was Russia's War and Peace (1968) at 414 minutes (6 hours and 54 minutes), winner of Best Foreign Language Film.
↑ 4.04.1Until the 23rd Academy Awards (1950), Best Picture was awarded to the studio that produced the film. Beginning with the 24th Academy Awards (1951), however, it has been awarded to the individual producers credited on the film. Note also that until 1943, there were ten (rather than five) nominated films per year. As of 2009, there are once again ten nominated films. The first year in which multiple individuals jointly won was 1973, with three winners for The Sting. The greatest number of joint winners was five, for Shakespeare in Love in 1998. After this, the Academy imposed a limit of three nominated producers per film; however, this limit may be exceeded in a "rare and extraordinary circumstance", such as in 2008 when both Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among four nominees for The Reader.[6]
‡ Dates and years listed for each ceremony were the eligibility period of film release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period was done on a seasonal basis, from August to July. For the 6th ceremony, held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
