{"id":802,"date":"2014-02-23T14:57:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T14:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2017-02-11T17:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T17:36:55","slug":"road-to-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/movie\/road-to-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"ROAD TO OSCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As Hollywood is preparing for the 86th Academy Awards ceremony and the world is guessing at which of the ten best picture nominated films will walk away with Oscar gold, we looked back at past best picture winners.\u00a0 It\u2019s interesting to find that only one person has directed more than two best picture winners.\u00a0 Most of the directors that today\u2019s audiences consider the greatest have no more than one best picture under their belt and only a few have two.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Perfect example is Rebecca<\/a> winner of the best picture of 1940.\u00a0 This is the only picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock to win the Oscar for best picture.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Steven Spielberg, considered by many to be one of the greatest directors ever, so far has only directed one best picture winner, <\/span>Schindler\u2019s List<\/a> (1993).Director David Lean directed two best picture winners the first in 1957 for “<\/span>The Bridge on the River Kwai<\/a>” and the 2nd in 1962 for the monumental “<\/span>Lawrence of Arabia<\/a>“<\/span><\/div>\n
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Lawrence of Arabia swept the 35th Academy Awards with 10 nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Substantially Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay and won seven awards including best director to David Lean and Best Cinematography to Frederick A. Young.<\/p>\n

Elia Kazan directed the 1954 best picture Oscar winner On the Waterfront<\/a>. This was the 2nd best picture winner for Kazan.<\/p>\n

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Francis Ford Coppola, directed two best picture winners, <\/span>The Godfather<\/a> (1972) and of course <\/span>The Godfather Part II<\/a> (1974).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Billy Wilder also only directed two winners, The Lost Weekend<\/a> in 1945 and fifteen years later with The Apartment<\/a> (1960).<\/span><\/p>\n

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To date only William Wyler directing three best picture winners, Mrs. Miniver<\/a> (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives<\/a> (1946) and Ben-Hur<\/a> (1959).<\/p>\n

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There have been a number of best picture winners that were directed by the film\u2019s star, the first being\u00a0Hamlet<\/a>\u00a0(1948) Laurence Olivier (director and star).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Braveheart<\/a> (1995) by Mel Gibson<\/p>\n

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Clint Eastwood for the Unforgiven<\/a> in 1992\u00a0and Million Dollar Baby in 2004, Kevin Costner in 1990 for Dances With Wolves and 2012 winner Argo by Ben Affleck.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Third Academy Award celebration winner <\/span>All Quiet on the Western Front<\/a> (1929\/1930) directed by Lewis Milestone<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mutiny on the Bounty<\/a> (1935) directed by Frank Lloyd<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Great Ziegfeld<\/a> (1936) directed by Robert Z. Leonard<\/p>\n

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You Can’t Take It with You<\/a> (1938) directed by Frank Capra (who also directed the 1934 winner It Happened One Night).<\/p>\n

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Gone with the Wind<\/a> (1939) directed by Victor Fleming<\/span><\/p>\n

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All About Eve<\/a> (1950) directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (this was the only film that Marilyn Monroe appeared which won the Oscar for best picture)<\/span><\/p>\n

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