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TIL there have only ever been six horror films nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, and only one has won.

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BgB7D TIL Shakespeare's accent was (probably) closer to American English than British English
GY4Ag TIL that upon its release 'Stalker', a film by Andrei Tarkovsky, was criticized for being slow. In response to this Tarkovsky replied "The film needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts."
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