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Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot. Watch Night Cries Streaming. The actors or actresses in the film will not accept this award unless he or she produced the film. Best Picture is considered the premier award of the Academy Awards, as it represents all the directing, acting, music composing, writing, editing, and other efforts put forth into a film production. Since 1. 97. 3,[citation needed] it is the final award presented at the ceremony.

The Grand Staircase columns at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2. Best Picture title since the award's inception.[1] As of 2. Best Picture and 8. History[edit]Category name changes[edit]At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1. Outstanding Picture and Unique and Artistic Picture, the previous being won by the war epic Wings, and the latter by the art film Sunrise.

Each award was intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking. The following year, the Academy dropped the Unique and Artistic Picture award, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings was the highest honor that could be awarded.[3] Though the award kept the title Outstanding Picture for the next ceremony, the name underwent several changes over the years as seen below. Since 1. 96. 2 it has been called the Best Picture award.[2]1. Academy Award for Outstanding Picture.

Academy Award for Outstanding Production. Academy Award for Outstanding Motion Picture. Academy Award for Best Motion Picture. Academy Award for Best Picture.

Recipients[edit]Until 1. That year the protocol was changed so that the award was presented to all credited producers. This rule was modified in 1. Shakespeare in Love had received the award.[4][5][6]As of 2.

Special Rules for the Best Picture of the Year Award" limit recipients to those who meet two main requirements: [7]Those with screen credit of "producer" or "produced by"those three or fewer producers who have performed the major portion of the producing functions. Watch Union Pacific Streaming here. The rules permit "bona fide team[s] of not more than two people to be considered to be a single 'producer' if the two individuals have had an established producing partnership for at least the previous five years and as a producing team have produced a minimum of five theatrically released feature motion pictures during that time.[7]The Academy can make exceptions to the limit, as when the late Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among the four producers nominated for The Reader.[8] As of 2. Producers Branch Executive Committee determines such exceptions, noting they take place only in "rare and extraordinary circumstance[s]."[7]Best Picture and Best Director[edit]The Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been closely linked throughout their history.

Of the 8. 9 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 6. Best Director. Only four films have won Best Picture without their directors being nominated: Wings (1. Grand Hotel (1. 93. Driving Miss Daisy (1. Argo (2. 01. 2). The only two Best Director winners to win for films that did not receive a Best Picture nomination were during the early years of the awards: Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Knights (1. Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady (1. Nomination limit increased[edit]On June 2.

AMPAS announced that the number of films to be nominated in the Best Picture award category would increase from five to ten, starting with the 8. Academy Awards (2. The expansion was a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1.

Having 1. 0 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize," AMPAS President Sid Ganis said in a press conference. I can't wait to see what that list of 1. February."[1. 0]At the same time, the voting system was switched from first- past- the- post to instant runoff voting (also known as preferential voting).[1. Two years after this change, the Academy revised the rule again so that the number of films nominated was between 5 and 1. Bruce Davis, the Academy executive director at the time, said, "A Best Picture nomination should be an indication of extraordinary merit.

If there are only eight pictures that truly earn that honor in a given year, we shouldn't feel an obligation to round out the number."[1. Controversies[edit]The award is not without controversy. One point of contention is the lack of consideration of non- English language films for Best Picture. To date, only nine foreign language films have been nominated in the category: Grand Illusion (French, 1. Z (French, 1. 96.

The Emigrants (Swedish, 1. Cries and Whispers (Swedish, 1. Il Postino: The Postman (Italian/Spanish, 1. Life Is Beautiful (Italian, 1.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Mandarin Chinese, 2. Letters from Iwo Jima (Japanese, 2. Best Foreign Language Film, as it was an American production); and Amour (French, 2. Similarly, the award seldom goes to films produced by non- U. S. studios; only 1.

United States have won Best Picture, 1. United Kingdom. Those films were, in chronological order: Hamlet (1. Watch Dragons: Gift Of The Night Fury Online Freeform. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1. Lawrence of Arabia (1.

Tom Jones (1. 96. A Man for All Seasons (1. Oliver! (1. 96. 8), Chariots of Fire (1. Gandhi (1. 98. 2), The Last Emperor (1. The English Patient (1. Shakespeare in Love (1. Slumdog Millionaire (2.

The King's Speech (2. The fourteenth film, The Artist, (2.

France.[1. 5]Other points of contention include genres of film that have received few or no nominations or awards. Only three animated films have been nominated—Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1. Disney- Pixar's Up (2. Toy Story 3 (2. 01. 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; though Birdman, which won in 2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2. Horror films have also been notably absent.

The most recent one to have been nominated was The Sixth Sense in 1. The Silence of the Lambs, in 1. No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture,[1.

Chang, which was nominated in the "Unique and Artistic Production" category at the 1. In 2. 01. 7, at the 8. 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 "Best Actress in a Leading Role" envelope, for which Emma Stone had won for her role in La La Land moments prior. When the mistake was realized, the show's producers rushed onstage to correct it; in the resulting chaos, it was La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz who finally announced that Moonlight was the real winner.[1. Sequel nominations and winners[edit]Few sequels have been nominated for Best Picture; two have won: The Godfather Part II and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Other nominees include The Bells of St.

Mary's,The Godfather Part III,The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,Toy Story 3, and Mad Max: Fury Road.[1. Another nominee, Broadway Melody of 1. The Broadway Melody.

But, beyond the title and some music, there is no story connection to the earlier film. The Silence of the Lambs was adapted from the sequel novel to Red Dragon. The latter had been adapted for film as Manhunter by a different studio. Best Picture nominee The Lion in Winter features Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, a role he had played previously in the film Becket.

But Winter is not a sequel to Becket. Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima was a companion piece to his film Flags of Our Fathers, released earlier the same year.