Cimarron (1931 film) being "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") to receive nominations in every eligible category. It won for three of them, including Best Picture. It would win the first of only two Best Picture Oscars for the studio, the other being awarded to 1946's "The Best Years of Our Lives". It was the first Western to win the Best Picture award, and it would not be until 1990 when "Dances with Wolves" won, that another Western would garner that honor. Cimarron (1931 film) Cimarron is a 1931 Pre-Code Western film directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and featuring
Academy Award for Best Picture "The Silence of the Lambs" was adapted from the sequel novel to "Red Dragon." The latter had been adapted for film as "Manhunter" by a different studio. Best Picture nominee "The Lion in Winter" features Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, a role he had played previously in the film "Becket." But "Winter" is not a sequel to "Becket". Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" was a companion piece to his film "Flags of Our Fathers," released earlier the same year. These two films depict the same battle from the different viewpoints of Japanese and United States military forces; the