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"Schindler's List" (1993) won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The Best Picture award is a merit of the Academy Awards. It is given annually to one film since 1929. It is considered the most prestigious of the Oscars and is usually saved for last at the actual Academy Awards ceremony.
There are only about 3000 seats in the Kodak Theatre (which is where the Academy Awards are held) so the invitations are extremely exclusive. Not even all of the members of the actual Academy are invited. For someone not directly involved in the film industry to have the opportunity to attend, you'd need to be the guest of someone who was invited.
The Academy Award for Best Picture of 1941 went to "How Green Was My Valley," directed by John Ford.In 1941 at the 14th Annual Academy Awards, Best PIcture went to How Green Was My Valley, directed by John Ford and starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara and Anna Lee (who later went on to star on General Hospital as Lila Quartermaine for many, many years until her death in May, 2004). Also of note is that in 1941 the Academy had not limited the amount of nominees in a category so it beat nine other films that year. The other nominees were Suspicion, Citizen Kane, Blossoms in the Dust, Sergeant York, The Maltese Falcon, The Little Foxes, Here Comes Mister Jordon, Hold Back the Dawn and One Foot in Heaven.
BAFTA awards are presented each year by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The BAFTAs are usually presented a couple of weeks before the Academy Awards and often considered an indicator of who and what will win Oscars.
For a movie to be nominated for an Academy Award, it has to be released in the US (except the Foreign Language Film nominees). Most of the movies in the US are in English, that's the reasons most Oscar nominees are American and British.
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British Academy Film Awards was created in 1948.
British Academy Children's Awards was created in 1969.
British Academy Television Awards happened in 1954.
British Academy Television Awards was created in 1954.
There were more than five Best Picture nominees during most of the 1930s and early 1940s. The 1944 Academy Awards reduced the number to five and it stayed that way until the 2009 Oscars when the number was upped to 10. After two years of the experiment, designed to create more interest in the Oscars telecast, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced in June 2011 that the number of Best Picture nominees will vary from five to 10.
The Academy Awards are decided by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
British Academy Video Games Awards was created in 2003.
British Academy Television Craft Awards was created in 1999.
The year 1930 had two Academy awards celebrations:The 2nd Annual Academy Awards: best picture was The Broadway MelodyThe 3rd Annual Academy Awards: best picture was All Quiet on the Western Front
"Schindler's List" (1993) won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.