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War Horse is producer Kathleen Kennedy's seventh Best Picture nomination. To date she's missed out with E.T., The Color Purple, The Sixth Sense, Seabiscuit, Munich and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.
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The only sequel to have won Best Picture is The Godfather: Part II.
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Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film to win Best Picture, although A Clockwork Orange also received a nomination.
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The country with the most Best Foreign Film Oscars is Italy. Its ten winners include Fellini's Nights Of Cabiria, Amarcord and 8½, as well as Cinema Paradiso and, most recently, Life Is Beautiful.
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A total of eight foreign-language movies have received Best Picture nominations: Grand Illusion, Z, The Emigrants, Cries And Whispers, Il Postino, Life Is Beautiful, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Letters From Iwo Jima.
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If you want a strong pointer for Best Film, try the Directors Guild Awards. In the DGA's 63-year history, the winner in the category has gone on to win the Oscar 50 times. That's good news for The Artist, this year's DGA winner.
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Only two actors have won an Oscar for playing the same character: Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro for playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather and The Godfather II respectively.
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The Directors Guild is, unsurprisingly, even better at spotting a decent director. Only six directors have won at the DGA and not gone on to win the Oscar. The unlucky half dozen are Anthony Harvey (The Lion In Winter), Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather), Steven Spielberg (The Color Purple), Ron Howard (Apollo 13), Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Rob Marshall (Chicago).
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The most nominated character is Henry VIII. Three actors (Charles Laughton, Robert Shaw and Richard Burton) have earned nods for playing the king.
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The first sequel to be nominated was The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) which followed up to the previous year's Going My Way.
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The most nominated writers are Woody Allen, with 14 screenplay nods and two wins, and Billy Wilder, with 12 nods and three wins.
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If he wins, Demián Bichir will be the first Mexican to collect an Academy Award for acting since Anthony Quinn in 1956's Lust For Life.
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