what is the only x-rated film to win an academy award for best picture?

Oscars - Best Motion-picture show Milestones
Year of Awards (No.) Production Company	Best Motion picture Winner/Year and Director Number of Awards/Nominations and Milestones	Movie Poster
1960 (33rd) United Artists	*The Apartment (1960)* d. Billy Wilder Awards: 5 Nominations: 10 A dramatic comedy about an insurance clerk who advances by letting his scummy bosses meet with their mistresses at his apartment. the last entirely B/W All-time Picture winner until Schindler's Listing (1993) (although it had some color sequences) none of the three nominated members of the acting cast (Lemmon, MacLaine, or Kruschen) of the Best Flick winner won an Oscar an unprecedented triple win for Wilder - 3 Oscars for co-writing, producing, and directing the same film
1961 (34th) United Artists	*West Side Story (1961)* d. Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise Awards: 10 Nominations: 11 Romeo and Juliet as a musical about warring white and Puerto Rican street gangs in New York City. the first of merely two Best Picture winners to accept more than than one credited director (the co-directing team of Robbins and Wise) (run across likewise 2007) Robbins was the but All-time Director Oscar winner to win for the just film he ever directed the Best Picture-winner (a musical film) has the most University Award wins (ten) of any other musical pic, including Best Pic (there were other All-time Pictures with more than 10 wins (i.e., Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)), only they were not musicals) the adjacent largest Best Picture-winning films would be Gigi (1958), The Concluding Emperor (1987) and The English Patient (1996), (coming close with nine Oscars)
1962 (35th) Columbia	*Lawrence of Arabia (1962)* d. David Lean Awards: 7 Nominations: ten A spectacular adventure nearly a British officer who found his place amid Bedouin tribesmen in WWI Arabia. the only All-time Picture winner to have credited roles for actors of only one gender beginning in 1962, the proper name for the top Oscar prize officially became Best Motion picture the get-go of four British-made films that won the height Best Picture Oscar in the decade of the 1960s. The other 3 were Tom Jones (1963), A Man For All Seasons (1966), and Oliver! (1968) arguably, it is the longest All-time Picture nominee and winner - although Gone With the Wind (1939) comes close the movie marked Sam Spiegel'south third Oscar for Best Flick (earlier wins for the producer were for On The Waterfront (1954) and The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)). Due to this Oscar win, Spiegel became (and remains) the just producer to take his name - and his name only - associated with three Best Pic Oscars.
1963 (36th) United Artists	*Tom Jones (1963)* d. Tony Richardson Awards: iv Nominations: x The comic and amorous adventures of an eighteenth-century foundling, told with swinging sixties style. the merely film in Academy history in which three actresses were nominated for the All-time Supporting Actress Oscar (all lost) the just film in Academy history to receive five Oscar nominations for its acting performances - and and so lose in all instances in the same yr, the longest nominee for Best Picture, Cleopatra (1963) with a running time of just over four hours the next comedy film to win Best Picture was The Sting (1973), ten years later
1964 (37th) Warner Bros.	*My Off-white Lady (1964)* d. George Cukor Awards: 8 Nominations: 12 *George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion* reinvented equally a musical about a blossom girl taught to pass equally a cultured duchess.** with his win, Cukor became the oldest person to receive a Best Director award upwards to that time (surpassed in 2002) although Mary Poppins (1964) had 13 nominations (and five wins), it lost the All-time Motion picture race all 5 titles of the Best Picture show-nominated films referred to the film'south characters (this also occurred in 2008)
1965 (38th) 20th Century Play tricks	*The Audio of Music (1965)* d. Robert Wise Awards: v Nominations: 10 The singing Von Trapp family and their governess, an aspiring nun, escape Nazi-occupied Austria. The Sound of Music topped Gone With The Current of air (1939) equally the well-nigh commercially-successful, money-grossing film to appointment - thereby saving its studio 20th Century Play a joke on from defalcation the next Best Flick winner to not have its Screenplay nominated would be Titanic (1997) in the same year, Othello (1965) became the 3rd film in University history to receive four acting nominations without a Best Motion-picture show nomination (this besides occurred in 1936, 1948, and 2008)
1966 (39th) Columbia	*A Homo For All Seasons (1966)* d. Fred Zinnemann Awards: half dozen Nominations: 8 A sixteenth-century chancellor pays dearly for defying King Henry VIII rather than betraying his religious principles. the film's win for Best Picture Oscar defeated some other favored nominee Who'southward Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) which earned 13 nominations (and won five, without winning Best Flick) the Best Moving-picture show winner faced stiff competition from Who'southward Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), the only film in Academy history to be nominated in every eligible category; it was the first motion-picture show to have its entire cast nominated for acting Oscars (also accomplished by Sleuth (1972) and Give 'Em Hell, Harry! (1975))
1967 (40th) United Artists	*In the Heat of the Dark (1967)* d. Norman Jewison Awards: 5 Nominations: 7 An African-American cop from Philadelphia and a Mississippi police chief bring together forces to solve a murder. a celebrated, seminal, late 1960s film: the first - and only - mystery/detective film to win Best Motion-picture show, although it was really a hybrid offense-drama-thriller and ceremonious-rights social consequence film although Rod Steiger won the All-time Actor Oscar, his major co-star Sidney Poitier didn't even receive a nomination, although his appearances in three popular films in 1967 fabricated him a bona fide movie star (his other 2 films were To Sir, With Dear (1967) and Estimate Who'southward Coming to Dinner (1967) it was another surprise example of a nominated manager (Norman Jewison) who failed to take home the All-time Director Oscar - instead Mike Nichols won the accolade (presumably considering he had failed to win equally All-time Director the previous yr for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)) it was the offset Best Picture Oscar winner to be adjusted into a regular prime-time TV serial (NBC: 1988-1992 and CBS: 1992-1995), with Carroll O'Connor equally Sheriff Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as Virgil Tibbs
1968 (41st) Columbia	*Oliver! (1968)* d. Carol Reed Awards: 5 Nominations: 11 Charles Dickens' story of a plucky orphan scrambling to survive the hateful streets of nineteenth-century London. the first film with an MPAA rating to win All-time Moving picture to date, the first - and only - Chiliad-rated motion-picture show to win Best Moving-picture show (although some pre-1968 All-time Picture winners were rated Thousand when re-released to theaters later 1968) the last musical film to win All-time Motion picture until 34 years later (Chicago (2002)); in that location were five musical All-time Picture winners betwixt 1958 and 1968 iv of the 10 Best Pictures in the 1960s were musicals (all based on previous Broadway hits) the Best Motion-picture show winner won five Oscars, and was as well presented with a sixth Oscar, a special Academy Accolade for Choreography it would be 13 years until another British-made motion picture would win Best Motion-picture show, Chariots of Fire (1981) in the same year, Russia's War and Peace (1968), the longest movie to ever win an Academy Award at 414 minutes, winner of Best Foreign Language Film
1969 (42nd) United Artists	*Midnight Cowboy (1969)* d. John Schlesinger Awards: 3 Nominations: 7 A portrait of a naive hustler and a lesser-feeding con man living on New York's fringes. the merely X-rated film to win the Best Moving picture Oscar, although the film was re-rated in the adjacent decade to an R-rating in the same year, Anne of the 1000 Days (1969) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child (1969), the first Yard-rated films to be nominated for All-time Picture in the same yr, Sydney Pollack'south They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) received a remarkable nine nominations - merely none of them were for Best Picture. Information technology became the kickoff (and just) film to receive the most nominations always (9) without existence nominated for All-time Picture in the same year, Z (1969) was the first sub-titled motion-picture show in Oscar history to be nominated for Best Picture; it was also the start flick nominated equally Best Foreign Language Flick that besides received a nomination for Best Picture; information technology won the Foreign Film Award, but non the Best Flick Oscar