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I realize we've done threads on alternate Academy Award winners, but I thought we could do a thread looking at how any single different win (alternate Best Picture winner, Best Actor winner, etc) might have affected pop culture, and even larger history, down the road. An example:

PoD: Goodfellas wins Best Picture

Butterflies: This means Dances with Wolves doesn't get the big win; this could well mean Disney doesn't decide to do Pocahontas for their 33rd Animated Feature*; and whatever they chose in its place is a much better film (better received, reviewed, etc), thus, even if it is still followed by Hunchback of Notre Dame, still leads to a longer, and stronger, Disney Renaissance. And that's to say nothing, of course, of Avatar...

So that's the idea. Any thoughts or ideas?

*at the time, producers and/or executives thought Pocahontas was sure to do as well or better than Beauty and the Beast at the Academy Awards, so I think this is a reasonable butterfly to expect
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