Best Picture
| Academy Award for Best Picture | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Quincy Jones | The Color Purple | Nominated | First black producer whose film was nominated for Best Picture. |
| 2009 | Lee Daniels | Precious | Nominated | First black director whose film was nominated for Best Picture. |
| Broderick Johnson | The Blind Side | Nominated | First time a film by two black producers was nominated for Best Picture. | |
Read more about this topic: List Of Black Academy Award Winners And Nominees
Famous quotes containing the word picture:
“The difference between human vision and the image perceived by the faceted eye of an insect may be compared with the difference between a half-tone block made with the very finest screen and the corresponding picture as represented by the very coarse screening used in common newspaper pictorial reproduction. The same comparison holds good between the way Gogol saw things and the way average readers and average writers see things.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)