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Even Bad Movies win Oscars
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William Wyler's ambitious biblical epic cleaned up at the 32nd Academy Awards by winning 11 of its 12 nominations, a record that would tie with Titanic and The Return of the King.
What is Ben-Hur?
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Classic films such as West Side Story, Cleopatra, and Avatar received this award for achievement in production design and set decoration. It was renamed to Best Production Design in 2012 with Lincoln as its first winner.
What is Best Art Direction?
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Ruth E. Carter won back-to-back Oscars for Best Costume Design for this Marvel project and its sequel, Wakanda Forever.
What is Black Panther?
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The "Slap Heard 'Round the World" was the name for this unprompted event at the 94th Academy Awards, in which this nominee, and the winner for Best Actor that night, decided that Chris Rock's jokes about his wife possibly being in G.I. Jane 2 weren't very funny.
Who is Will Smith?
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Sandra Bullock won Best Actress for playing the matriarch in this 2009 sports drama about a wealthy family giving a leg up to NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher. However, the film has come under fire due to Oher's claim that he was tricked into a conservatorship instead of being formally adopted.
What is The Blind Side?
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The film adaptation of this Bob Fosse Broadwat musical is currently the most recent time a musical has won Best Picture. Since then, several attempts include Les Misérables, La La Land, West Side Story (again), Emilia Pérez, and Wicked.
What is Chicago?
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From 1940 to 1966, technical awards for cinematography, production design, and costumes were split into Black-and-White and Color each to award films in their respective mediums, thanks to this 1939 fantasy musical for making it all happen.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
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11 years before Joaquin Phoenix won his award for the Joker, this Australian actor exceeded everyone's expectations and posthumously won Best Supporting Actor his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight.
Who is Heath Ledger?
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This host at the 86th Academy Awards got the perfect selfie at the Oscars with celebrities such as Bradley Cooper, Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Channing Tatum, and Lupita Nyong'o and her brother Peter.
Who is Ellen DeGeneres?
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Despite being universally panned by audiences and critics alike, this 2016 DC team-up movie featuring Margot Robbie and Viola Davis snagged Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 89th Academy Awards.
What is Suicide Squad?
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Troy Kotsur's performance, as the deaf patriarch in this coming-of-age dramedy, left us all speechless when it earned him Best Supporting Actor at the 94th Academy Awards, becoming the second deaf actor to win an Oscar. The first was his costar Marlee Matlin.
What is CODA?
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Best Dance Direction was a short-lived category that ran from 1935 to 1937. One of the nominees included the comedy film A Day at the Races, starring Groucho, Harpo, and Chico of this classic comedy troupe. This is the only time they were nominated.
Who are the Marx Brothers?
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The groundbreaking visual effects in this 1986 sci-fi horror sequel, directed by James Cameron, was enough to earn it the Oscar, which would go nicely with the Visual Effects Oscar the first film also received in 1979.
What is Aliens?
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This Golden Age Hollywood icon finally won his Oscar at the 45th Academy Awards when his 20-year-old picture, Limelight, received the award for Best Original Dramatic Score. He received a standing ovation lasting 12 minutes, the longest in Oscar history.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
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Even Michael Bay was given his due when this critically panned war drama, starring Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett, received the Oscar for Sound Design.
What is Pearl Harbor?
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Only 3 films have won an Oscar for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay. The first was this 1934 Frank Capra-directed comedy starring Clark Gable.
What is It Happened One Night?
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Very little could be said about what this category would have entailed because it was killed before its appearance at the 91st Academy Awards, but its initial aim was to honor films who maintained an achievement in blockbuster status.
What is Best Popular Film?
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This threequel from Pixar's flagship franchise was the third and most recent animated film to be nominated for Best Picture. Although it took home Best Animated Feature instead, we are still hopeful that an animated film will win the top prize.
What is Toy Story 3?
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Photographer and gay rights activist Robert Opel, dressed in his birthday suit, did this across the stage at the 46th Academy Awards, which host David Niven quipped, "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?"
What is streaking/streaked?
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Brokeback Mountain was supposed to be in the envelope for Best Picture at the 78th Academy Awards. This winner was also a critical darling among voters; however, its message on race and cultural insensitivity did not age well.
What is Crash?
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Before director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins wowed us with their ability to blend long takes into a continuous shot in the war film 1917, director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki did the same thing and won Best Picture and Best Cinematography for this satirical, surrealist comedy.
What is Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)?
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is the only recipient of the Unique and Artistic Picture award, which it won at the very first Academy Awards. Its director, F. W. Murnau, is better known as the director of this 1922 German expressionist film that Rotten Tomatoes claimed "set the template for horror fims that followed."
What is Nosferatu?
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This Scottish singer walked on broken glass "Into the West" and claimed Best Original Song alongside Fran Walsh and Howard Shore for the final LOTR movie.
Who is Annie Lennox?
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Marlon Brando rejected his award for The Godfather, which was demonstrated when she walked on stage in his place and gave a 60-second speech regarding the harsh depiction of Indigenous people in film and television at the time.
Who is Sacheen Littlefeather?
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Fred Zinnemann's classic western High Noon was expected to be crowned Best Picture at the 25th Academy Awards. However, this Cecil B. DeMille picture took the award instead, and critics later say that it is one of the worst winners in Oscar history.
What is The Greatest Show on Earth?