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
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Picture is an annual award given by National Society of Film Critics to honor the best film of the year. In the past 40 years, the Society only agreed with the Academy Award for Best Picture seven times: "Annie Hall" (1977), "Unforgiven" (1992), "Schindler's List" (1993), "Million Dollar Baby" (2004), "The Hurt Locker" (2009), "Spotlight" (2015), and "Moonlight" (2016). Five others have received the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: "Z", "Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm of the