31.   The film won the Oscar for best picture this year.

32.   The film also won the audience choice award at the Honolulu Film Festival and was given standing ovations at both the Chicago and Virginia film festivals.

33.   The film won numerous awards and caught the attention of the television producer David Wolper, who offered Friedkin a job in Los Angeles.

34.   The film won seven Academy Awards, including best picture and best director.

35.   The film won six Academy Awards.

36.   The film won the audience award in San Francisco and, when it was shown at the Seattle Film Festival in June, it won a similar award there.

37.   The film won the top award at Cannes last year but failed to win a slot in the foreign film category.

38.   The film also won Oscars for film editing, visual effects and best adapted screenplay, by Eric Roth, based on the novel by Winston Groom.

39.   The film also won the cinematography award.

40.   The film has won early praise from reviewers for the performance of Anthony Hopkins as a brooding Richard Nixon.