The city of Selma has a unique connection to the Oscars.

The 91^st edition of the Oscars take place on Sunday night at 7 p.m. and will be televised by ABC.

Five movies were filmed in the Queen City over the last 50 years: “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” “Pay day,” “Blue Sky,” “Body Snatchers,” and “Selma.” Three of those movies produced Oscar nominations.

Filming for “Heart is a Lonely Hunter” began in 1967 and was released a year later. The film adaption of Carson McCullers’ debut novel about a deaf and mute man earned both Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke Academy Award nominations.

Payday, which was released in 1972, starred Rip Torn as a country music singer. The New York Times named it one of the best 1,000 movies ever. Torn earned rave reviews for his performance and received an Oscar nomination a decade later.

Blue Sky, which starred Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica Lange, was filmed in 1990. Lange won an Oscar for her portrayal of a mentally unstable woman from Hawaii brought to Alabama by her military husband.  Jones was superb.

Body Snatchers, which starred future Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, was filmed at Craig Air Force Base in 1993. It was the third film adaptation of Jack Finney’s novel where people working at a military base were replaced by perfect physical imitations grown from plant-like pods.

We know all about Selma, which was filmed five years ago. The movie chronicled the historic Selma to Montgomery March in 1965 as well as the complicated relationship between Dr. Martin Luther King and President Lyndon B. Johnson that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

I disagreed with various parts of the film because several stories didn’t match what my mother, uncles and grandmother told me.

I was more disappointed with the movie only getting two Oscar nominations: best picture and best musical score. The movie deserved more than John Legend’s Oscar victory. We’re talking about the most important piece of American history.