Wikipedia Tour: Best Picture Oscar Winners

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Wikipedia Tour: Best Picture Oscar Winners

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The Oscars: the glamour, the glitz—and, oh yeah, the movies. Catch up on your Academy Award history with this collection of all eighty Best Picture Award winners. The list spans from silent films to the amazing spectacles of more recent years, but each picture is a crystallized moment of cinematic brilliance, a distillation of time and of the visions of many individuals. Here you can learn about the ideas, actors, and process that created these motion-picture gems.

The text of this Wikipedia Tour is available from Wikipedia under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

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Welcome to our _Wikipedia Tour: "Best Picture" Oscar Winners_. Each day we’ll send you a link to a new article about an Oscar-winning film on Wikipedia. The introduction to each day’s article is included in the installment so you can choose to read just the introduction or the full ...

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5/5

Reviewed by dreamdust on Jun 15, 2011

Fun and informative

I learned in the original Chicago the reporter Mary Sunshine role was to be played by a man in drag (made me wish I'd seen the original version) and lots of other gems.