What is the only X-rated film to win Best Picture at the Oscars?

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What is the only X-rated film to win Best Picture at the Oscars?

Midnight Cowboy
How ‘Midnight Cowboy’, The Only X-Rated Movie To Win A Best Picture Oscar, Changed Cinema.

What film of the 1960s was the only film to win an Oscar with an X rating?

Midnight Cowboy was the first and only X-rated film to win the Academy Award for best picture, a fact that’s useful to know on trivia night, but otherwise needs to be appended by about five or six asterisks.

How many R rated movies won best picture?

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There were six consecutive R-rated Best Picture winners beginning in 2005:

  • Crash (2005)
  • The Departed (2006)
  • No Country for Old Men (2007)
  • Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  • The Hurt Locker (2009)
  • The King’s Speech (2010)

Why is Midnight Cowboy good?

The basis of “Midnight Cowboy” is one of the essential American myths: The eager youth comes from the country to the city, and his simplicity and freshness are ground up in the urban jungle. Dreiser wrote this story, and Sherwood Anderson, and it is still a good story because it tells what happens every day.

What movie did Jon Voight win an Oscar?

Coming Home (1978)
Voight followed a lead role in the conventional thriller The Odessa File (1974) with a moving portrayal of a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran in the drama Coming Home (1978) that earned him Golden Globe and Oscar awards for best actor; the Cannes film festival also named him best actor for the role.

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Was Angelina Jolie in Midnight Cowboy?

Jon Voight marked the 25th anniversary of Midnight Cowboy with James Haven and Angelina Jolie in LA in February 1994.

Has a PG 13 movie ever won Best Picture?

And in 2012, Michel Hazanavicius’ ode to silent comedies, the PG-rated “The Artist,” won the best picture race in which a whopping eight out of nine nominees were rated PG-13 or under.

What comedy movies won Oscars?

Here is a list of comedic performances that went on to get nominated or win an Academy Award for acting.

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
  • Blazing Saddles. 1974.
  • Private Benjamin. 1980.
  • A Fish Called Wanda. 1988.
  • City Slickers. 1991.
  • My Cousin Vinny. 1992.
  • Little Miss Sunshine.
  • Tropic Thunder.

What is Midnight Cowboy rated?

R
Midnight Cowboy/MPAA rating

Parents need to know that Midnight Cowboy was the first X-rated film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, though its rating was later changed to an R. Made in 1969, the movie has some strong adult content that can still startle today.

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What was Rizzo sick with in Midnight Cowboy?

But Rizzo dies of pneumonia on the bus to Miami, leaving Joe completely alone in the world.