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:
“A great man is a new statue in every attitude and action. A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)