A handful of comedies have won the Best Picture award, including "It Happened One Night"(1934), "You Can't Take It With You" (1938) and "Annie Hall" (1977). and "Forrest Gump", but it doesn't happen often.
If you include the category "romantic comedy," then it's Shakespeare In Love (1998). In the more traditional "Comedy" category, the answer is Annie Hall (1977). Norm S.www.meetinthelobby.comnorm@meetinthelobby.com
It was the first film, and the only silent film ever, to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Coming to America (1988) which was nominated for Costume Design and Makeup was nominated in the 1989 Academy Awards.
No. He has won a BMI Film Award for "Big Love". Which he shares with David Byrne and Tony Asher.
No film has ever been snubbed for that reason.
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was introduced in 1991. The winner was Shrek.
Two : the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Academy Award for Best Original Song .
The Academy Award winner for best picture in 2008 was "Slumdog Millionaire."
The first comedy to win the Academy Award for Best Picture was Frank Capra's 1934 film "It Happened One Night," which starred Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. It was the first of three movies to win the top five Oscars on the same night: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and a screenwriting award. The two others that accomplished the feat: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991).
As of 2011, no film in the "Harry Potter" series has ever won an Academy Award.
The one who directed the film 'Bright Star' was Jane Campion. She is the second of four women to ever be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.
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