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
2nd Academy Awards records of which films were evaluated by the judges. "The Divine Lady" is the only film to ever win Best Director without a Best Picture nomination, excluding the first year where there was an award for comic director. This is the only year in which no movie won more than one Oscar. "The Broadway Melody" became the second of seven films ("Wings", "Grand Hotel", "Cavalcade", "Hamlet", "The Sound of Music", and "Titanic" are the others) to win Best Picture without a writing nomination, and the first of three to win Best Picture and nothing else ("Grand Hotel" and "Mutiny on