Academy Awards - Have Low Budget Films Ever Won An Oscar Award?!


Question: Curious about how independent film makers compete with mainstream Hollywood productions.


Answers: Curious about how independent film makers compete with mainstream Hollywood productions.

The buzz barometer for independent film makers is still the Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah, rather than the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, California. But 4 films come to mind --
1. 'Pulp Fiction', the 1994 cult classic by Quentin Tarantino
2. 'Mulholland Drive' by David Lynch
3. 'Being John Malkovich' a surrealist film starring Malkovich and Cameron Diaz, and
4. 'Brokeback Mountain' starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall -- that were all low-budget Oscar winners.

Independent film making is really about experimentation and creativity (mixed with a certain quirkiness of the director / story writer) rather than explicit box office success.

I remember a TV show some time ago that allowed indie film makers a chance to get a $1 million contract with DreamWorks and an opportunity to work with Steven Spielberg himself. Fact is, Mr Spielberg himself (like Mr. George Lucas) was an independent film maker.

In a web-savvy, connected world with cheap technology to aid movie-making, the chances of your message getting out to the world is more than ever before. Not just as home videos, you've got sites like YouTube and Metacafe that offer massive exposure to indie film makers that traditional studio environments simply can't.

I recently came across a package called 'No Budget Film Making' -- http://starturl.com/NoBudgetMovies -- that I felt captured what all aspiring film makers secretly want: A chance to get started at the lowest possible cost and release their first film to the world.

They don't need film school or a hefty budget. Just a creative instinct and an Oscar-winning idea somewhere inside :-)

Sure. Plenty of times. Especially in the acting and supporting acting awards, but there have even been a few winners for Best Picture. For example, "Marty" in the 1950s and "Rocky" in the 1970s and "Chariots of Fire" in the 1980s.



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