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
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film) fails to harmonise the revised characterisation of Brick with the author's original conception." The film received six Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Newman), Best Actress (Taylor), Best Director (Brooks), Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and Best Cinematography, Color (William Daniels). "Cat" may have been too controversial for the Academy voters; the film eventually didn't win any Oscars and the Best Picture award went to "Gigi", another Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, that year. Ives won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Big Country" at the same ceremony. The film was a hit with audiences. According to