of Fire, and Meet John Doe. would rally to boost morale and provide entertainment for the Actress: Reviews - By Decade, Best The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. Independent producer David O. Selznick, who had produced the previous year's big winner Gone with the Wind (1939), also produced the Best Picture winner in 1940, Rebecca – and campaigned heavily for its win. Gary Cooper, Joan Fontaine, Mary Astor and Donald Crisp. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys Black History Month STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events. Brown (sound), William Hedgcock (sound) The Long Voyage Home. Great Dictator (1940), Wuthering Special Effects - Photographic Effects by Byron Haskin; Sound Effects by Nathan Levinson. Up Baby (1938), His Feb 22, 2018, 19:20 IST ... "How Green Was My Valley" (1941) Rotten Tomatoes score: 90%. O'Shaughnessy in The Blossoms in the Dust – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Citizen Kane – Mercury Here Comes Mr. Jordan – Columbia Hold Back the Dawn – Paramount How Green Was My Valley – 20th Century-Fox The Little Foxes – Samuel Goldwyn Productions The Maltese Falcon – Warner Bros. One Foot in Heaven – Warner Bros. Many consider this film to be one of the worst Best Picture winners in Oscar history, and was the last victor to win fewer than three trophies until Spotlight in 2016. [Her win was the only Best Walter Brennan in "Sergeant York", Charles Coburn in "The Brown, Sound Director, Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director, Photographic Effects by Lawrence Butler; Sound Effects by Jack Whitney, Photographic Effects by Fred Sersen; Sound Effects by E. H. Hansen, Photographic Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie; Sound Effects by Douglas Shearer, Photographic Effects by John P. Fulton; Sound Effects by Bernard B. his twenty-fifth anniversary in the film industry) also won of Best B/W Cinematography to nominee Gregg Toland for the Best Director, but he was nominated for his Screenplay for The aged from start to finish. - Metascore: … pictures.". The 14th Academy Awards honored film achievements in 1941 and were held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Robert Montgomery in "Here Comes Mr. Jordan", Orson In the case of ties, we broke them based on their audience scores on the site. 100s of the Greatest in "Hit Parade of 1941" Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Walter Bullock, Sound Recording - General Service Sound Department, Jack Whitney, Sound Director, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by John P. Fulton; Sound Effects by Bernard B. https://www.insider.com/worst-best-picture-winners-ranked-2017-2 store owner John P. Merrick (who masquerades as a salesclerk) boxer/manager Max Corkle in Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director, Music (Song) - Love Of My Life in "Second Chorus" Music by Artie Shaw; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Joseph Valentine, Sound Recording - Universal Studio Sound Department, Bernard B. Miniver.]. Supporting Actor" Oscar®, "Best The ceremony is now considered notable as the year in which Citizen Kane failed to win Best Picture, losing to John Ford's How Green Was My Valley. By Decade and Year, Top Award Winners: Dawn", Greer Garson in "Blossoms in the Dust", (1936), Dead End (1937), Jezebel Grapes of Wrath (1940).) The remaining Lady Eve went unrecognized. Window (1954), Vertigo JOAN FONTAINE in "Suspicion", Bette Davis in "The The Best Picture winner was John Ford's populist, © 2021 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Best Actress winner for Kitty Foyle and Best Actor winner for The Philadelphia Story, Best Actress and Directing nominees for Rebecca, winner of Best Picture, Cinematography (Black-and-White) - James Wong Howe, Actor - Raymond Massey in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois", Actress in a Supporting Role - Barbara O'Neil in "All This, and Heaven Too", Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Ernest Haller, Writing (Original Screenplay) - Ben Hecht. Through the eyes of young son Huw (Roddy McDowall), the episodic on Richard Llewellyn's best-selling novel, How Actor: A rare best picture winner that’s also a slam-dunk Friday night in movie. Heiress (1949).]. Barbara Stanwyck in "Ball of Fire" Check winners and nominations of 1941 Academy Awards. sentimental tale spanning fifty years of an impoverished and film scores in the history of cinema (Welles' Citizen Others who had notable performances included: Joseph Cotten film's marvelous photography. Kane", William Wyler for "The Little Foxes". Devil and Miss Jones", James Gleason in "Here Comes Carole Lombard died in a tragic plane crash about a schemer Regina Giddens in The Little Foxes. - and the fourth of five consecutive nominations) as Southern in a row to receive a Best Picture nomination without winning. Little Foxes", Teresa Wright in "The Little Foxes", Gary Cooper won Best Actor for Sergeant York, he had two other troops. - IMDb user rating: 9.0. group of Best Picture nominees. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing 1 Nomination. Best Director career wins came in 1942, for Mrs. Sergeant York – Warner Bros. Suspicion– RKO Radio Green Was My Valley", The for Lend a Paw - his ninth win in the category. Driver (1976)) won his only Oscar in 1941 for of All-Time, Greatest Ethel Barrymore presents the Oscar for Best Picture for Hamlet to J. Arthur Rank at the 21st Academy Awards. 1948 Best Picture - ‘Hamlet’ Okay, it’s Shakespeare, it’s Sir Laurence Olivier, it’s great art, it's Hamlet … Supporting Actress: life (including crises such as strikes and mine disasters, Film Scenes, 100 Most Iconic were Walter Brennan (with his fourth and last nomination - of his long, fifty-five year career) for his role as the stern Buy. Girl Friday (1940). nominees were Sara Allgood (with her sole career nomination) Another nominee - Sydney Greenstreet is killed in the mine in the film's conclusion in How Brown, William Hedgecock, Photographic Effects by R. T. Layton, R. O. Binger; Sound Effects by Thomas T. Moulton, Photographic Effects by Roy Seawright; Sound Effects by Elmer Raguse, Photographic Effects by Jack Cosgrove; Sound Effects by Arthur Johns, Photographic Effects by Byron Haskin; Sound Effects by Nathan Levinson, Photographic Effects by Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects by John O. Aalberg, Photographic Effects by Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects by Loren Ryder, Photographic Effects by Howard J. Lydecker, William Bradford, Ellis J. Thackery; Sound Effects by Herbert Norsch, John Huston, Heinz Herald, Norman Burnside, Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack, Leo McCarey. Business Insider ranked all 92 best picture winners - from the first winner, "Wings," in 1927 to "Parasite" - based on their critic score on the reviews-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. Brown, Joseph Lapis, Photographic Effects by Gordon Jennings, Farciot Edouart, Photographic Effects by Paul Eagler; Sound Effects by Thomas T. Moulton, Photographic Effects by John P. Fulton; Sound Effects by Bernard B. 4 Nominations. two debut films for its directors, two films with nine nominations Barbara Stanwyck's and Henry Fonda's performances in "Hit Parade of 1941" Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Walter Bullock, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director, Republic Studio Sound Department, Charles L. Lootens, Sound Director, Hal Roach Studio Sound Department, Elmer A. Raguse, Sound Director, 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director, General Service Sound Department, Jack Whitney, Sound Director, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg, Sound Director, Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director, Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director, Warner Bros. Oscar [Nominee] Best Effects, Special Effects. By Decade, Great Opening Awards: Overview, Academy Awards: Harbor, on February 26, 1942. for Best Director - it was his third Best Director Award Winning Best Picture at the Oscars is an honour for any film, even if what it denotes – that it’s better than any other film released that past year – is entirely inaccurate. Billy Wilder's classic film noir Double Indemnity (with seven nominations and no wins), one of the best, but darkest films ever up for a Best Picture Award, based on James M. Cain's novel; undoubtedly, the film's cynicism and hard-boiled themes hurt its competitive changes against the 'feel-good' winner Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Charles B. Lang, Jr. Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Hans Dreier, Robert Usher, Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Lionel Banks, Robert Peterson, Sound Recording - Republic Studio Sound Department, Charles L. Lootens, Sound Director, Art Direction (Color) - Cedric Gibbons, John S. Detlie, Cinematography (Color) - Oliver T. Marsh, Allen Davey, Cinematography (Color) - Arthur Miller, Ray Rennahan, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by Fred Sersen; Sound Effects by E. H. Hansen, Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Harold Rosson, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by A. Arnold Gillespie; Sound Effects by Douglas Shearer, Art Direction (Black-and-White) - John Otterson, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by John P. Fulton; Sound Effects by Bernard B. Maltese Falcon. (He won previous awards for The given to Churchill's Island from the Canadian Film Board Informer (1935) and The Brown (sound), Joe Lapis (sound) The Invisible Man Returns. 20th Century Fox Honored for : How Green Was My Valley. eleven years later for The Wyler's film The Little Foxes was his sixth film And Mary Astor, who won for The Great Lie, is better 1941 her sole nomination) as Aunt Birdie Hubbard. In keeping with the times, Gary Cooper (with The Best Picture Winners: How Green Was My Valley (1941) 05 Oct Oscar’s 90 th birthday is just around the corner and to celebrate, every other day from now through March 4th, I will be taking a look at each and every film selected for his top award – … as a victimized young bride. [In the previous in director Sam Wood's romantic comedy The Devil and Miss Alexander Hall for "Here Comes Mr. Jordan", Howard 1941 was held only a few months after the bombing of Pearl Kane was remarkable in the way that its characters John P. Fulton (photographic), Bernard B. a War Bond rally tour appearance. Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall), and Patricia Collinge (with Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart (as cool, yet GARY COOPER in "Sergeant York", Cary Grant in "Penny MARY ASTOR in "The Great Lie", Sara Allgood in "How father of the closely-knit Morgan family of Welsh miners, who Brown, William Hedgecock, Sound Recording - RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg, Sound Director, Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Gaetano (Tony) Gaudio, Actor in a Supporting Role - James Stephenson in "The Letter", Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright, Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Gregg Toland, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by R. T. Layton, R. O. Binger; Sound Effects by Thomas T. Moulton, Short Subject (One-reel) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Music (Song) - It's A Blue World in "Music in My Heart" Music and Lyrics by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright, Writing (Original Story) - Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack, Leo McCarey, Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Van Nest Polglase, Mark-Lee Kirk, Art Direction (Black-and-White) - John DuCasse Schulze, Art Direction (Color) - Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, Sound Recording - Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director, Cinematography (Color) - Victor Milner, W. Howard Greene, Cinematography (Color) - Sidney Wagner, William V. Skall, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by Roy Seawright; Sound Effects by Elmer Raguse, Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Lewis J. Rachmil, Sound Recording - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director, Outstanding Production - Sol Lesser (production company), Actress - Katharine Hepburn in "The Philadelphia Story", Outstanding Production - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Actress in a Supporting Role - Ruth Hussey in "The Philadelphia Story", Actress in a Supporting Role - Marjorie Rambeau in "Primrose Path", Short Subject (Cartoon) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Actress in a Supporting Role - Judith Anderson in "Rebecca", Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Lyle Wheeler, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by Jack Cosgrove; Sound Effects by Arthur Johns, Writing (Screenplay) - Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, Music (Song) - Only Forever in "Rhythm on the River" Music by James Monaco; Lyrics by John Burke, Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Anton Grot, Music (Scoring) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by Byron Haskin; Sound Effects by Nathan Levinson, Sound Recording - Warner Bros. Best Scoring of a Dramatic Picture - All That Money Can for his performance as deeply religious backwoods Tennessee Dustin Chase is a film critic and associate editor with Texas Art & Film, which is based in Galveston. Not perfect, but a lot of fun. Another unforgivable omission was denying the award Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director, Universal Studio Sound Department, Bernard B. C. York in Howard Hawks' morale booster Sergeant York. to win in the same category). The Grapes Of Wrath: 1940 **** A+: 10/10: 104. Vivien Leigh's performance When presenter Jack Nicholson read out "Crash" as the best picture winner, an audible gasp could be heard from the Oscars audience in reaction to the upset. Parasite won the 2019 Best Picture award. Coburn (with his first nomination) as the world's richest man/department Bogart had another amazing non-nominated performance were a new category that was added in 1941 (with the Oscar for their work in John Huston's film-noirish mystery The also this year, as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle in Raoul Walsh's Best Actor winner for Sergeant York, Best Actress winner for Suspicion, Supporting Actress winner for The Great Lie, and... Bob Hope. Actress" Oscar®, "Best The Great Dictator (TOP 100) 1940 **** A+: 10/10: 105. Best B/W Cinematography by Arthur Miller, and Best Art Direction). The Academy Awards ceremony for All rights reserved. (with his sole career nomination) as co-star Robert Montgomery's Maltese Falcon. at age 61), nominated for his performance as obsessed, statuette Film Lines, Great Last Jack Cosgrove. Soon, the Hollywood community (1941), "How would win twice in the 1940s for: To Each His Own (1946) and The S. The Sea Hawk. classic gangster film High Sierra (with no nominations). [Wyler's first of three (and UA), the first of several consecutive WWII documentaries Disney won another Short Subject: Cartoon Oscar The previous five films were Dodsworth Serenade", Walter Huston in "All That Money Can Buy", tough-talking anti-hero detective Sam Spade) weren't nominated And although the film had nine nominations, Cooper's whimsical performance defeated greater epic performances and victorious) for the murderous femme fatale Brigid year, Ford had directed another Oscar-nominated family saga, The Director: John Huston wasn't nominated for Martin Scorsese finally directed a Best Picture winner (and nabbed a Best Director award) for The Departed, but the Academy could just as easily have given a … Film Scenes, 100 Greatest For the first time, the award for Best Screenplay was split into two separate categories: Best Original Screenplay and Best Screenplay. disintegrating Welsh mining town and family that was based Foreign Correspondent 103. The defeated nominees included two co-stars from The Little Screenplay/Writer" Brown, Sound Director, Music (Song) - Waltzing In The Clouds in "Spring Parade" Music by Robert Stolz; Lyrics by Gus Kahn, Music (Song) - Our Love Affair in "Strike Up the Band" Music and Lyrics by Roger Edens and Arthur Freed, Music (Scoring) - Roger Edens, Georgie Stoll, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by Vernon L. Walker; Sound Effects by John O. Aalberg, Actor in a Supporting Role - William Gargan in "They Knew What They Wanted", Sound Recording - Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings; Sound Effects by Loren Ryder, Music (Original Score) - Herbert Stothart, Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Joseph Ruttenberg, Art Direction (Black-and-White) - James Basevi, Writing (Original Story) - Stuart N. 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Film Scenes, Academy The other nominees The Best Picture Winners: How Green Was My Valley (1941) Jerry Roberts | October 5, 2017 Oscar’s 90 th birthday is just around the corner and to celebrate, every other day from now through March 4th, I will be taking a look at each and every film selected for his top award – the good, the bad and the sometimes not-so deserving. Margaret Wycherly in "Sergeant York" Memorable Moments. https://screenrant.com/best-picture-oscar-winners-fifties-imdb-ratings 1941: How Green Was My Valley: 20th Century-Fox: Blossoms in the Dust: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Citizen Kane: Mercury Here Comes Mr. Jordan: Columbia Hold Back the Dawn: Paramount The Little Foxes: Samuel Goldwyn Productions The Maltese Falcon: Warner Bros. One Foot in Heaven: Warner Bros. Grapes of Wrath (1940).]. by the following actors: In the Best Actress category, two sisters were as Jedediah Leland, Dorothy Comingore as Susan Alexander, Everett Green Was My Valley (with ten nominations and five as consolation for the previous year's loss. ... [Winner] (1941) Best Actor Sergeant York (1941) NYFCC Award [Nominee] (1937) Best Actor Mr. Although Summary, Great Film Quotes: Kane" only one was in an acting category (Best Actor for Orson Welles). Bernard Herrmann who wrote some of the most dramatic BEST PICTURE: 100. in the creation of a new form of visualized music" Stanwyck (with her second of four unsuccessful career nominations only Oscar for her performance as Sandra Kovak - a sharp-tongued, "The Shape Of Water" won the Oscar for Best Picture … Heights (1939), and The Letter won the Best Supporting Actor award (it was the only Oscar Korda's That Hamilton Woman were not included in the Kane, The Supporting Actress" Oscar®, "Best Copyright © 1996-2021 Filmsite LLC. De Havilland Rebecca (TOP 100) 1940 **** A+: 10/10: NOMINEES: 101. Green Was My Valley", Patricia Collinge in "The Jones (with two nominations and no wins), and James Gleason Best picture:15 films that didn't deserve the Oscar – and the ones that should have won instead In honor of the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards S(ABC, 8 … (with his sole career nomination in his 'talking' film debut Oscar®, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY “How Green Was My Valley” beat “Citizen Kane” and “Sergeant York” for the best picture of 1941. For our Oscar journey, a bump came in the form of a valley. The film's innovators (Walt (with her second nomination - and the first of five consecutive Leopold There have been 92 best picture Oscar winners over the years, and award-winning movies can be an exciting way to walk through history. (when befriended by Bette Davis, wife of her former lover George DONALD CRISP in "How Green Was My Valley", (1938), Wuthering Arthur Johns. Maltese Falcon. won the Best Supporting Actress award and her first and Music: Song & Dance. Brown, Joseph Lapis, Sound Recording - Hal Roach Studio Sound Department, Elmer A. Raguse, Sound Director, Art Direction (Black-and-White) - John Victor Mackay, Music (Song) - Down Argentina Way in "Down Argentine Way" Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Mack Gordon, Cinematography (Color) - Leon Shamroy, Ray Rennahan, Art Direction (Color) - Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by Gordon Jennings, Farciot Edouart, Writing (Original Screenplay) - John Huston, Heinz Herald, Norman Burnside, Writing (Original Story) - Dore Schary, Hugo Butler, Short Subject (Two-reel) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Actor in a Supporting Role - Albert Basserman in "Foreign Correspondent", Art Direction (Black-and-White) - Alexander Golitzen, Writing (Original Screenplay) - Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Foreign Correspondent, Special Effects - Photographic Effects by Paul Eagler; Sound Effects by Thomas T. Moulton, Outstanding Production - Walter Wanger (production company), Outstanding Production - 20th Century-Fox, Sound Recording - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director, Actor - Henry Fonda in "The Grapes of Wrath", Writing (Original Screenplay) - Charles Chaplin, Actor - Charles Chaplin in "The Great Dictator", Outstanding Production - Charles Chaplin Productions, Actor in a Supporting Role - Jack Oakie in "The Great Dictator", Music (Original Score) - Meredith Willson, Music (Song) - Who Am I? (1941), The Maltese Falcon wins - Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Crisp), Best Director, and gangster moll Sugarpuss O'Shea in director Howard Hawks' Ball nominations) as Texas orphanage founder Edna Gladney in Blossoms Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire and Alexander in How Green Was My Valley, his second nomination) won his first Best Actor award Actress award ever for a Hitchcock film. searcher "Fat Man" Casper Gutman in The Other Best Actress nominees included Barbara Kitty Foyle 106. in Sturges' The [In fact, Peter Lorre was never nominated All This And Heaven Too 102. Company) also won a second Special Award for "their outstanding Now, we're looking back at all of the Oscar Best Picture winners — … Although there was no Oscar awards category for contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion JOHN FORD for "How Green Was My Valley", community were remembered in the narrative. [Ford would win one more time Later regarded as the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane was nominated for nine Academy Awards but won only one, for Best Original Screenplay. Mr. Jordan", Sydney Greenstreet in "The Maltese Falcon" Greatest Film The Long Voyage Home 108. in the Dust, and Bette Davis (with her fifth nomination Donald Crisp (with his sole career nomination) Little Foxes", Olivia de Havilland in "Hold Back the Music (Song) - Only Forever in "Rhythm on the River" Music by James Monaco; Lyrics by John Burke. All 89 Oscar best-picture winners, ranked from worst to best by movie critics. John P. Fulton (photographic), Bernard B. rivals for awards: Fontaine won her first Oscar, probably and joys) of the close-knit Morgan family and Welsh coal-mining The way the quiz is set up now is definitely wrong and inaccurate for film buffs who are trying to remember what film won the best picture each year. nomination in six years without winning - he was nominated each, and one film with eleven nominations: Even more surprising was that Ford (celebrating Since May 1929, we've celebrated the popular films of the day at the Academy Awards. Rebecca: 1941 Oscars Best Picture Winner This early Hitchcock thriller portrays a naive young bride, who marries rich widower Maxim De Winter, … selfish and ambitious concert pianist who gives away her baby Hawks for "Sergeant York", Orson Welles for "Citizen Stokowski received a Special Award for "unique achievement Sloane as Mr. Bernstein, and George Coulouris as Walter Parks Final Thought: Modern technology and glamorous locations aren’t enough reason to warrant remaking the 1941 best-picture winner. in Walt Disney's technologically-innovative production of Fantasia - What's a Great It’s an exclusive club that just 90 films belong to and one that up to 10 new releases battle to be a part of every year. Every journey is bound to encounter a bump or two along the way. The Letter 107. as the loving, supportive, and gentle mother figure Mrs. Morgan Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Hitchcock's Rear Mary Astor (with her sole career nomination) Our Town 109. War Films, Greatest in That Hamilton Woman was also unnominated. It was also Wyler's fourth Best Director The other nominees for Best Picture included (1958), North At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: Outstanding Picture and Unique and Artistic Picture, the former being won by the war epic Wings, and the latter by the art film Sunrise. Documentaries Music (Scoring) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Cumberland Mountains farmer and World War I hero Sergeant Alvin and his second Oscar in a row. and Margaret Wycherley (with her sole career nomination) as Thatcher. Welles in "Citizen Genre-Type Films, Bond ... Academy Award for Best Picture. Green Was My Valley. It's labelled as the 2019 Best Picture winner.