Oscar Countdown: Day 18

Clockwork orange Most film buffs know that Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the only X-rated Best Picture winner.

Name the first Best Picture winners to be rated G, PG, PG-13, and R.

Pictured:  A Clockwork Orange (1971), the last X-rated film to be a Best Picture nominee.  Like Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange saw its MPAA rating revised to "R" in later years.

9 Comments

  1. Howard Wasserman

    G rating: Oliver!
    R rating: The French Connection?

  2. Ben Buchwalter

    I'm sure this doesn't count… but is it true that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs received a special award of one large Oscar and seven smaller Oscars?

  3. Kelly Anders

    "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" might be a PG nominee, or possibly "E.T." as a winner. Maybe even "Titanic."

  4. Tim Zinnecker

    Sorry, Kelly, but no.
    I'm looking for a movie with one word in its title.

  5. Heidi K

    I think it was Patton in the early 70s, shortly after the PG rating was instituted.

  6. Tim Zinnecker

    Heidi is correct.

    And the last Best Picture winner with a rating of PG or G?

    Driving Miss Daisy — 1989.

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