The Envelope: Genre movies that have won best picture

“Wings,” action-adventure (1927)

“The Broadway Melody,” musical (1929)

“Cimarron,” western (1931)

“It Happened One Night,” comedy (1934)

“The Great Ziegfield,” musical (1935)

“You Can’t Take It With You,” comedy (1938)

“Going My Way,” musical (1944)

“An American in Paris,” musical (1951)

“Around the World in 80 Days,” comedy-adventure (1956)

“Gigi,” musical (1958)

“The Apartment,” comedy (1960)

“Westside Story,” musical (1961)

“Tom Jones,” comedy-adventure (1963)

“My Fair Lady,” musical (1964)

“The Sound of Music,” musical (1965)

“Oliver!,” musical, (1968)

“Annie Hall,” comedy (1977)

“Terms of Endearment,” comedy-drama (1983)

“Dances With Wolves,” western (1990)

“Silence of the Lambs,” thriller (1991)

“Unforgiven,” western (1992)

“Shakespeare in Love,” comedy-drama (1998)

“Chicago,” musical (2002)

“Lord of the Rings: Return of the King,” fantasy (2003)

“No Country for Old Men,” neo-western-thriller (2007)

“The Artist,” comedy-drama (2011)