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
Oscar bait went on to win the Best Picture Oscar. "Oscar bait" was used in a critical 1948 review of John Ford's "Fort Apache" in "The New Republic" that ends with the sentence "Postcards are supposed to be sent through the mail; flashed self-consciously on the screen, they look like Oscar bait." "The New York Times" used it in a 1955 article about the then-upcoming "The Harder They Fall", Humphrey Bogart's final film. A 1968 ad for "The Lion in Winter" quoted from a review in "Cosmopolitan" praising the performances of Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn as "Oscar bait outings." These all