Find Best Picture Oscar Winners in a Sentence #5 Quiz

Answer: western

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"Cimarron" was remade in 1960, but it was the original 1931 version that was awarded The Best Picture Oscar. The story focuses on the years 1889-1929 when the U.S. government opened up the Oklahoma territory for people to settle in. Richard Dix plays the newspaper editor who grabs a plot of land with his family, and he soon becomes a leading citizen of the town of Osage. Restlessness would soon overtake him again.
"Cimarron" was the first western to win any Oscar let alone a Best Picture Oscar. It would be another 59 years until another western took the top prize ("Dances With Wolves"). "Cimarron's" release during one of the darkest times of the Great Depression hurt its box office tremendously, despite its Oscar win, which historically has shown to boost a film's box office a great deal.

Answer: crime

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The first was "On The Waterfront" (1954), and then "The Godfather" (1972). Only Brando was fighting against the criminals in the first film and was the prime criminal in the second. Also coincidentally, both films had three actors nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category and they all lost.

Answer: melodrama

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"Grand Hotel" was innovative in its narrative, setting up a format that would lead to the term "Grand Hotel format" of movies. Movies in that genre are based on the narrative following a large group of different characters having different subplots and story lines, instead of the usual protagonist/antagonist. When I examined my own favorite films it does seem as though I lean a lot toward films of that structure: "American Graffiti", "The Great Escape". Many disaster films have this kind of structure as well. But "Grand Hotel" was about the lives and stories of a variety of characters all staying at the same hotel.
"Grand Hotel" is the first film to win Best Picture without even being nominated in any other category. And its one of the first three movies to win Best Picture without winning any other Oscars; "Broadway Melody" (1929) and "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) are the other two.

Answer: drama

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"Nomadland" tells the story of a woman named Fern who faces financial hardship after losing her standing in the Great Recession of 2008, so she has resorted to living out of a van and befriending a group of people in a similar circumstance who live as nomads, traveling about in their vans. The film almost seemed to create a new genre, a mix of documentary (the film interviews many of the characters as they tell their life stories) with a regular dramatic narrative.

Answer: comedy-drama

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This risque comedy from director Billy Wilder tells the tale of an office drone who seeks to improve his position in the company by allowing the executives to use his apartment for their romantic trysts. The mood turns equal parts drama and comedy when a romantic triangle emerges for our lead character played by Jack Lemmon and another employee, played by Shirley MacLaine.
In 1961 "The Apartment" was the last black and white movie to win Best Picture at The Academy Awards until half a century later when "The Artist" would win in 2012. This doesn't count "Schindler's List" which won Best Picture in 1994 but was not completely black and white. Billy Wilder became the first person to win the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay, all for one movie. And "The Apartment" became the first film to win Best Picture at the Oscars and BAFTA Awards, and Best Picture: Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globe Awards.

Answer: one-word title

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But Marcus Aurelius's son Commodus is deeply offended by this and positions himself as the successor instead, and orders Maximus to be executed. Maximus escapes this death sentence though and in his anonymity is captured and made a gladiator slave. "Gladiator" was the first Best Picture Oscar winner in 51 years to not also win an Oscar for its screenplay or directing. "All The King's Men" back in 1950 was the previous film to have this happen. And then it would happen again only two years after "Gladiator" when "Chicago" also won Best Picture without a writing or directing win.

Answer: musical

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"Oliver!" is the film adaptation of the Broadway musical that was based on the Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist". A young orphan boy escapes from the mortician he was sold to, and takes up with a gang of pickpockets led by the older Fagin.
"Oliver!" was the last musical to win a Best Picture Oscar until "Chicago" brought home the statue once again to the musical genre 34 years later, in 2003. "Oliver!" was also the last British or non-American film to win the Best Picture until "Chariots of Fire" won in 1982. It was the only Best Picture Oscar nominee to also be nominated for Best Art Direction that year.

Answer: crime drama

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"The Departed" (2006) has a brilliantly intriguing and suspenseful race-against-time premise: The Boston police department has an officer (Matt Damon as Colin Sullivan) infiltrate the Irish mob in that city in order to gain the confidence of their leader, Frank Costello (played by Jack Nicholson). Meanwhile though, the Irish crime force has their own mole (Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy Costigan) who has climbed the ranks of the police force. Who will uncover the others' identity first?
"The Departed" is he first remake of a foreign film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" was adapted from the 2002 Hong Kong action crime drama "Internal Affairs" ("Mou gaan dou"), directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It was the first movie directed by Martin Scorsese to win the Best Picture Oscar, despite many previous nominations for that award that he directed.

Answer: historical epic

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In the 1st century A.D., Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) lives as a wealthy Jewish prince/merchant in Jerusalem. His old friend Messala (Stephen Boyd) has become commanding officer of the Roman Legion. Friendly at first, the two men soon find they are too much at odds in their political views. Judah refuses to name names of Jews who oppose Roman rule, so Messala makes an example of Judah and banishes to life as a galley slave. Judah Ben-Hur will seek revenge for this betrayal.
Although Ben-Hur was the first of first three films to have won 11 Academy Awards, including the Best Picture, its achievement is perhaps more impressive when we consider that several of the categories won by "Titanic" (1997) and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" did not exist back when "Ben-Hur" won its Oscars. "Ben-Hur" was the first film to win 10 competitive Oscars (Of the 10 Oscars that "Gone With The Wind" won, only 8 of them were competitive while the other two were "Special Oscars").
"Ben-Hur" was the first Best Picture Oscar winner to also win Best Special Effects, and is the first Best Picture winner with a hyphen in its title.

Answer: war-time drama

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In director William Wyler's family drama, a British family must cope with the struggles presented by the start of World War II. Amidst the bombing raids, Mrs. Miniver's son still makes the effort to court the girl he loves. Oscar winner for Best Actress, Greer Garson is the title character, the family matriarch keeping things together in this war-time Best Picture winner.
"Mrs. Miniver" (1942) was the first film to win the Academy Award Best Picture that received nominations in all four acting categories. "From Here to Eternity" (1953) was the second film to achieve that distinction. Both of them World War II films.
"Mrs. Miniver" was the first film to receive five Academy Award nominations in acting categories. Greer Garson had won Best Actress, and Teresa Wright won Best Supporting Actress. Walter Pidgeon was nominated for Best Actor, Henry Travers for Supporting Actor, and May Whitty for Supporting Actress.