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Academy Award Winners, Past and Present

With the 91st Academy Awards being held on March 4th, 2018 take this opportunity to look back at films that won Best Picture and various different Oscars as decided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since the 1920s/1930s. Included in this list are motion pictures that are currently nominated this year as well! Enjoy!...and don't forget the popcorn.

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Lilies of the field
United Artists ; produced and directed by Ralph Nelson ; screenplay by James Poe. --
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Winner, Best Actor, 1963 (Sidney Poitier)

To kill a mockingbird
Pakula-Mulligan Productions, Inc. and Brentwood Productions, Inc. ; produced by Alan Pakula ; directed by Robert Mulligan ; screenplay by Horton Foote.
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Winner, Best Actor (Gregory Peck), 1962

Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry Productions ; United Artists ; produced by Bernard Smith ; screenplay written and directed by Richard Brooks. --
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Best Actor, 1960 (Burt Lancaster)

The King and I
produced by Charles Brackett ; directed by Walter Lang ; screenplay by Ernest Lehman. --
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Winner, Best Actor, 1956 (Yul Brynner)

Leaving Las Vegas
Lumiáere Pictures presents ; produced by Lila Cazáes and Annie Stewart ; directed by Mike Figgis ; screenplay by Mike Figgis. --
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Best Actor Winner (1996), (Nicolas Cage)

Atonement
Focus Features presents, in association with StudioCanal and Relativity Media, a Working Title production ; screenplay by Christopher Hampton ; produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster ; directed by Joe Wright.
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Winner, Best Original Score, 2008 (Dario Marianelli)

The Bourne ultimatum
Universal Pictures presents in association with Ludlum Entertainment ; produced by Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Paul L. Sandberg ; directed by Paul Greengrass ; screenplay by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, George Nolfi. --
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Winner, Best Film Editing, 2008 (Christopher Rouse)

Taxi to the dark side
a Thinkfilm release of a Jigsaw Productions presentation in association with Tall Woods, LLC and Wider Film Projects ; produced by Alex Gibney, Eva Orner, Susannah Shipman ; written and directed by Alex Gibney. --
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Winner, Best Documentary Feature, 2008 (Alex Gibney and Eva Orner)

Elizabeth
Universal Pictures presents, in association with StudioCanal, a Working Title production ; produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jonathan Cavendish ; written by William Nicholson and Michael Hirst ; directed by Shekhar Kapur.
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Winner for Best Costume Design, 2008 (Alexandra Byrne)

Ratatouille
Walt Disney Pictures presents a Pixar Animation Studios film ; produced by Brad Lewis ; directed and written by Brad Bird. --
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Best Animated Feature Film, 2008