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Academy Awards surprises: five Best Picture films that weren't supposed to win

The Oscar-winning Best Picture has not always been what people expected. Will there be another upset at the Academy Awards this year?

3. Chariots of Fire (1981)

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The film about Olympic athletes raced ahead of 'Reds.'

  • By Aaron Couch Contributor

“Reds,” a biopic about Communist revolutionary John Reed, was the heavy favorite among 1981 films. When “Chariots of Fire” won, it became the first British film since 1968’s “Oliver!” to do so.

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