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| Charlize Theron was the original choice to play the main character, and the got part but eventually had to reaudition due to financial reasons, and was not cast | |
| The last black and white movie to win best picture until 33 years later | |
| Leading Lady's Best Actress acceptance speech lasted an incredible 5 1/2 minutes, making it a Hollywood record | |
| Whereas the play had only 19 characters, there are 153 parts in the film | |
| The Leading Lady underwent a serious training schedule to prepare for this film. She gained nearly 20 pounds of muscle due to the workouts | |
| The campaign montages were shot by Don Siegel | |
| In Spain the film is known as 'Smiles and Tears'. In France it is known as 'The Melody of Happiness' | |
| Second of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture | |
| First movie to have a black actor win an Oscar | |
| The first sports film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture | |
| Set in a hot Mississippi summer but filmed during Autumn in Illinois, many of the actors had to keep ice chips in their mouths to prevent their breath to appear on screen | |
| The Paris train station set was recycled from Now, Voyager | |
| First winner of 'The Big Five' | |
| The deaths of approximately twenty-eight people who died playing Russian roulette were reported as having been influenced by scenes in the movie | |
| Only best picture to be rated X | |
| The role of Emma was originally written for Sissy Spacek | |
| Alfred Hitchcock's first american movie | |
| This is the movie with the most uses of the word '****' and its derivatives (237) to win the Best Picture Oscar | |
| Leading lady's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, despite her lengthy preparation for the role | |
| Darryl F. Zanuck originally intended the film to be a four-hour epic to rival Gone with the Wind | |
| The cast had to mouth the songs as production was so swift that the score had yet to recorded by the time it came to filming | |
| In the original version of the script, there was a separate story that included one of the characters having a gay lover who dies in Vietnam. | |
| The only G-rated film to be honored with an Academy Award for Best Picture | |
| Billy Wilder contributed to the first draft of the screenplay for this film, and at one time early in its production, was set to direct it | |
| Studio bosses - most of whom were Jewish themselves - urged the director not to make the film | |
| The film helped to popularize Aloha shirts | |
| Dustin Hoffman had expressed an early desire to play the title role but was offered Tootsie the same year and ended up taking the latter role. | |
| Audrey Hepburn was the first choice to play the main character, but turned it down because she felt that she was too old | |
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| The movie was named as one of 'The 20 Most Overrated Movies Of All Time' by Premiere | |
| For in-flight viewing, several airlines deleted the sequence in which Raymond reels off statistics on airline accidents | |
| No words are spoken during the last 20 minutes and 25 seconds of the film | |
| The only film of the 2000s to gross under $2 million in its opening weekend, that went on to win an Academy Award for Best Picture | |
| There are no women speaking in the film | |
| From first draft of the screenplay to final cut took four years | |
| Mercedes-Benz asked that its logos be removed in scenes taking place in the slums. The companydid not want to be associated with the poverty-stricken areas | |
| The film is the only Best Picture Oscar winner to have fewer than a thousand votes on IMDb | |
| The only film to have three nominees for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar | |
| Ranks first in the Most Academy Award Nominated Films with 14 nominations, set a record which has been tied only by the No.2 Titanic | |
| Costume designer Janty Yates and her team created more than 10,000 costumes for the cast and extras | |
| Almost all of John Lennon’s dialog is from his song 'Imagine' ('No possessions', 'No religion too', 'It's easy if you try...”) | |
| First PG-rated film to win Best Picture | |
| The movie lost $565,000 on a budget of $1.433 million. It was re-released in 1935 and the red ink mostly disappeared off RKO's books | |
| Was the first film to be filmed at Fox Studios Baja | |
| The bridge cost $250,000 to build; construction began before anyone had been cast | |
| Some of the Vietnamese cast members were actually tourists who were vacationing in the Philippines at the time of filming | |
| The fourth of fourteen films pairing William Powell and Myrna Loy | |
| 100,000 people lined the streets of Wellington for the world premiere. That's roughly a quarter of the city's population | |
| Shortest Best Picture | |
| Close to a million feet of film was shot in total | |
| The Last film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture without a Best Film Editing nomination | |
| The first talkie war film to win Academy Awards | |
| The screenwriter of this film is the oldest to win the Academy Award for Original Screeplay | |
| Sets and costumes for the operatic productions were based on sketches of the original costumes and sets used when the operas premiered | |
| The woman who won best supporting actress could have been nominated for best actress, but because she was lesser known, they put her in the supporting category | |
| The 'male military band' featured several women disguised with false mustaches | |
| First originally R-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture | |
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| The first film to win the Oscars for Best Film and Best Song | |
| The first biographical picture to win an Academy Award for Best Picture | |
| The only movie to win Best Picture and nothing else | |
| The movie is often cited as the least deserved Best Picture winner ever | |
| The first non-American film to win the Oscar for Best Picture | |
| The first musical to win an Academy Award for Best Picture | |
| Frank Sinatra wanted the lead part but was never even considered for it, however a part of the movie was apparently based on a part of his downhill career, later proving to be not | |
| The first of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture | |
| The only film to have three performers nominated in the Best Actor category at the Academy Awards | |
| One of only 4 productions to win both the Best Play Tony and the Best Picture Oscar | |
| Actress winning for this picture is the oldest Oscar winner | |
| For his performance this man became the only actor to win two Academy Awards for the same role | |
| The first movie sequel to win an Academy Award for Best Picture | |
| Received the most Oscars without a Best Director win | |
| Edith Head won her 8th and final Best Costume Design Academy Award for this film | |
| With inflation, the $1,000 bounty on the cowboys would be the equivalent to $22,040.90 in 2008 | |
| JoBeth Williams's funny nude scene was optically darkened for the film's theatrical run, to avoid an R rating. The un-darkened version frequently appears in some television prints | |
| This was the first time that any film crews had been given permission to film in Bellevue Hospital | |
| A majority of the actors and extras in this film were actually Irish, although they are supposed to be Scottish or English | |
| The film was shot on location in Africa, but local laws prohibited the use of wild animals in film. Trained lions were imported from California | |
| Alvy's sneezing into the cocaine was an unscripted accident. When previewed, the audience laughed so loud that director Allen decided to leave it in | |
| The lowest grossing Best Picture Oscar winner | |
| The first film to win the Best Picture Oscar that was widely available on home video at the time of the ceremony | |
| The first movie to be set primarily or entirely in Los Angeles and win a Best Picture Oscar | |
| The film utilized the talents of, at that time the most animals ever in any film | |
| First picture ever to have a woman win Best Director | |
| The only silent movie to win best picture | |
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