At the 49th Academy Awards, which of these iconic films lost the Best Picture award to "Rocky"?

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01Which dynasty immediately preceded the Ming Dynasty in China?
02Who independently conceived of the theory of evolution through natural selection around the same time as Charles Darwin?
03Who did Muhammad Ali defeat in the famous 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight championship fight?
04After Mount Kilimanjaro, what is the second-highest mountain in Africa?
05Harper Lee's novel "Go Set a Watchman," published in 2015, was the controversial first draft of which earlier classic?
06Who served as Abraham Lincoln's vice president during his first term in office?
07Which contemporary of Isaac Newton claimed that Newton had stolen his work on the inverse-square law of gravitation?
08Who was the second person to walk on the moon, immediately after Neil Armstrong?
09Which Japanese author is frequently mentioned as a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature but has yet to win?
10What is the second-longest river in South America after the Amazon?
11Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings?
12From which specific form of Latin did the modern Romance languages like French, Spanish, and Italian directly descend?
13The element Gallium was discovered in 1875, fulfilling a prediction by Dmitri Mendeleev who had called it by what placeholder name?
14Who was the runner-up when Roger Bannister famously became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes?
15Who was the original drummer for The Beatles before being replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962?
16Excluding the greater metropolitan area, what is the second-largest city proper in Canada by population?
17Who was the leader of the Soviet Union for a brief period between Yuri Andropov and Mikhail Gorbachev?
18Which scientist's 1928 experiment with pneumonia-causing bacteria first demonstrated a "transforming principle" that was later identified as DNA?
19After Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines, who took command of the expedition and completed the first circumnavigation of the globe?
20At the 49th Academy Awards, which of these iconic films lost the Best Picture award to "Rocky"?