We can not complain; history movies got a large number of nominations and a considerable number of Academy Awards.
OSCAR WINNERS
First of all, we must mention the biggest award for history movies; Academy Award for Actor in a leading role for Gary Oldman. No one deserved it more than him for a brilliant performance portraying Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. Movie crew that transformed chinless Gary Oldman into chin-friendly Churchill received second Darkest Hour Oscar for Makeup and Hairstyling. One of the crew even describe it: There is nothing similar about the two faces — Gary looks like a greyhound and Churchill resembles a bulldog.
Dunkirk didn’t receive Oscar in main categories such as Best Picture, Cinematography or Directing. Dunkirk got three Oscars for Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. That is a little disappointment, but it understandable considering the strong competition in that categories.
List of other notable winners is very short. Phantom Thread won award Costume Design and Allison Janney won the award for Actress in Supporting Role (I, Tonya).
Darkest Hour history review will be soon available on our page.
