Thirty-six of the total Best Picture winners as of 2012 were adapted from books. The Best Picture is one of the most prestigious awards that a film can earn.
Of the 80 Best Picture winners, 55 were based on previously published books, plays or other movies.
Best Picture winners: 1967 In the Heat of the Night, 1968 Oliver!
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Three nominations in the categories of Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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The movie won 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.4No Country for Old Men was the big 2008 winner, taking home Best Picture, Best Directors, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor, for a total of four Oscars.
Citizen Kane
The Deer Hunter, Driving Miss Daisy, Dances with Wolves.
Braveheart won five Oscars out of ten nominations including Best Picture. It is however, one of the few Best Picture winners that did not receive any acting nominations,
There have actually been 2 Best Picture winners with "Million" in the title, both in the 2000s: Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008).
Braveheart (1995) won five Oscars out of ten nominations including Best Picture. It is however, one of the few Best Picture winners that did not receive any acting nominations.