Gone With The Wind (1939) runs 234 minutes, or 3 hours and 56 minutes.
Shortest Best Picture Winner:
Marty (1955) runs 91 minutes
Only Animated Film Nominated For Best Picture:
Beauty And The Beast (1991)
Only Sequels To Win Best Picture:
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Only Trilogies with All Three Films Nominated for Best Picture:
Only Movies To Win Best Picture AND Best Song:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Titanic (1997)
Gigi (1958)
Going My Way (1944)
Only Musicals To Win Best Picture:
Broadway Melody (1928/29)
The Great Zeigfeld (1936)
An American In Paris (1951)
Gigi (1958)
West Side Story (1961)
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
Oliver! (1968)
Chicago (2002)
Only Westerns Win Best Picture:
Cimarron (1931)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Unforgiven (1992)
Only Fantasy To Win Best Picture:
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Rebecca (1940)
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
Only Silent Film To Win Best Picture:
Wings (1927/28)
Only Best Picture Winner That Doesn't Have A Person On It's Poster:
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
First Color Film To Win Best Picture:
Gone With The Wind (1939)
Last Black and White Film To Win Best Picture:
This is tougher to answer than it seems, the true answer is The Apartment (1960), but 95% of the 1993 winner, Schindler's List was in Black-and-White.
Movies to win Best Picture and no other major awards (i.e. Directing or acting):
Wings (1928)
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Cimarron (1931)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Rebecca (1940)
An American in Paris (1951)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Movies to win Best Picture and NO other awards:
Only Movies To Win Best Picture and NOT Be Nominated For Best Director:
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Grand Hotel (1931/32)
Wings (1927/28)
Only Movies To Win Best Picture and NOT Be Nominated For Their Screenplay:
Titanic (1997)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
Hamlet (1948)
Calvacade (1932/33)
Grand Hotel (1931/32)
The Broadway Melody (1928/29)
Wings (1927/28)
The first non-Hollywood film to win Best Picture:
Hamlet (1948), financed and filmed in England
Grand Hotel (1931/32) is the only Best Picture winner to receive only one nomination.
ACADEMY AWARD(S)�, OSCAR(S)�, OSCAR NIGHT� and OSCAR� statuette design mark are the registered trademarks and service marks, and the OSCAR� statuette the copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). This site is in no way affiliated with AMPAS or any of it�s affiliates.