THE OSCAR ISSUE / HUFFINGTON / 02.10-17.13
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behind the scenes
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Morgan Freeman,
Jessica Tandy and Dan
Aykroyd in Driving Miss
Daisy, which won Best
Picture in 1990.
in 1929, only three films
have won Best Picture
without a corresponding
nomination for Best Director: Wings, which earned the equivalent of Best Picture at the first Oscar
ceremony in 1929, Grand Hotel and
Driving Miss Daisy.
About those films: When Wings won
Best Picture the category was called
Outstanding Picture, and only two
other films received nominations (The
Racket and Seventh Heaven). There
were also two Best Director categories
at the first Oscars (Best
Director, Comedy Picture
and Best Director, Dramatic Picture). In the end,
the only film honored with nominations
for both Best Director and Outstanding
Picture was Seventh Heaven.
At the 1932 ceremony, Outstanding
Picture became Outstanding Production and winner Grand Hotel was among
eight films nominated in the category.
There were only three Best Director
nominees total, however, making Grand
Hotel director Edmund Goulding’s snub