"12 Years a Slave" won the Oscar for best picture at Sunday's Academy Awards, while the 3D space spectacle "Gravity" triumphed as the night's top award-winner. Steve McQueen's slavery odyssey ...

But it wasn't a moment without precedent: In 17 of the first 20 Academy Awards ceremonies, Best Picture was not the final award presented.

This award is one-fourth of the coveted EGOT – signifying a person who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, the top awards in television, music, film and theater, respectively.