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
Crash (2004 film) Film & Television Alliance selected "Crash" as one of the 30 Most Significant Independent Films of the last 30 years. "Crash" won the Best Picture Oscar at the 78th Academy Awards, controversially beating the critically favored "Brokeback Mountain" and making it only the second film ever (the other being "The Sting") to win the Academy Award for Best Picture without having been nominated for any of the three Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture (Best Drama, Best Comedy/Musical and Best Foreign Film). The film's use of moral quandary as a storytelling medium was widely reported as ironic, since many