What makes ‘Cimarron’ unique among Oscar winning movies?

 

            ‘Cimarron’ was the first film to receive more than six Academy Awards nominations and nominated for the Big Five awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Writing). Among these, the movie won the Best Picture in the year 1930-31. Although it didn’t win Best Director, it won most of the major non-acting awards. It is, technically, the first film to win ‘Best Picture’ as previously, in the first three years, the award had been termed ‘Best Production’.

            Based on Edna Ferber’s novel, it is about a typical American frontier family, and the rise of Oklahoma to statehood. The movie was directed by Wesley Ruggles.

            ‘Cimarron’ starred Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and featured Estelle Taylor and Roscoe Ates. Epic in scope, spanning forty years from 1889 to 1929, it was a critical success, although the movie did not regain its production costs during its initial run in 1931.

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