In the 25 years since Rocky won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the top-grossing film has won the Oscar just five times.

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My guess is that this is the movie that takes home the award for Best Picture and Best Director, winning by a hair-thin margin.

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Sure, schizophrenia isn't generally considered a crowd-pleaser, but as the year's Golden Globe award for Best Picture, this uniquely refreshing flick has all the prerequisites of an Oscar winner.

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Written and directed by a white man, and staring some of the most exciting black actors in show business, it was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture.

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The WGA accurately predicted the Academy Award winner for Best Picture about 55% of the time.

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It is now considered a front-runner for the best picture award at the Oscars on Feb. 24, even though Affleck was not nominated for best director there.

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Ben Affleck, coming off winning Golden Globe Awards for best motion picture drama and director for the real-life drama, received the award handed out at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

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In other words, every foreign language film nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film lost the first award but won the second.

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