Question: What film starring Richard Gere was the first musical since "Oliver" to win Best Picture?

Context articles: No Mercy (film)
The Hoax
Red Corner
Miles from Home
Richard Gere
An Officer and a Gentleman
Chicago: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture
Intersection (1994 film)
Chicago (2002 film)
Strike Force (1975 film)

No Mercy is a 1986 film starring Richard Gere and Kim Basinger about a policeman who accepts an offer to kill a Cajun gangster.
The Hoax is a 2006 American drama film starring Richard Gere, directed by Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallström.
 The screenplay by William Wheeler is based on the book of the same title by Clifford Irving.
 It recounts Irving's elaborate hoax of publishing an autobiography of Howard Hughes that he purportedly helped write, without ever having talked with Hughes.
 The film was ranked as one of the Top 10 of the year by the "Los Angeles Times" and "Newsweek."
Red Corner is a 1997 American mystery thriller film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Richard Gere, Bai Ling and Bradley Whitford.
 Written by Robert King, the film is about an American businessman on business in China who ends up wrongfully on trial for murder.
 His only hope of exoneration and freedom is a female defense lawyer from the country.
 The film received the 1997 National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award (Richard Gere, Jon Avnet) and the NBR Award for Breakthrough Female Performance (Bai Ling).
 Ling also won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress.
Miles from Home is a 1988 film starring Richard Gere and Kevin Anderson.
 It is about two brothers who, after being forced off their farm in the debt stricken Midwestern United States, become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.
 The movie was directed by Gary Sinise and written by Chris Gerolmo.
 The film uses many members of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company of which Sinise is a co-founder.
Richard Tiffany Gere ( ; born August 31, 1949) is an American actor and humanitarian activist.
 He began in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (1977) and a starring role in "Days of Heaven" (1978).
 He came to prominence with his role in the film "American Gigolo" (1980), which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol.
 He went on to star in many well-received films, including "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982), "The Cotton Club" (1984), "Pretty Woman" (1990), "Primal Fear" (1996), "Runaway Bride" (1999), "I'm Not There" (2007), "Arbitrage" (2012) and "" (2016).
 For portraying Billy Flynn in the Academy Award-winning musical "Chicago" (2002), he won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast.
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American romantic drama film starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger and Louis Gossett, Jr., who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film.
 It tells the story of Zack (Gere), a U.S. Navy Aviation Officer Candidate who is beginning his training at Aviation Officer Candidate School.
 While Zack meets his first true girlfriend during his training, a local young woman named Paula (Winger), he also comes into conflict with the hard-driving Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant (Gossett, Jr.), the drill instructor training his class.
Chicago: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture is a soundtrack album featuring all of the original songs of the 2002 Best Picture Academy Award-winning musical film "Chicago" starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah, Richard Gere, John C. Reilly, Mýa Harrison and Christine Baranski.
Intersection is a 1994 film, directed by Mark Rydell and starring Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich and Martin Landau.
 It is a remake of the French film "Les choses de la vie" (1970) by Claude Sautet, the story — set in Vancouver, British Columbia — concerns an architect (played by Gere) who, as his classic Mercedes 280SL roadster hurtles into a collision at an intersection, flashes through key moments in his life, including his marriage to a beautiful but chilly heiress (Stone) and his subsequent affair with a travel writer (Davidovich).
Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy-drama film based on the stage-musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age.
 The film stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger and Richard Gere.
 "Chicago" centers on Velma Kelly (Zeta-Jones) and Roxie Hart (Zellweger), two murderesses who find themselves in jail together awaiting trial in 1920s Chicago.
 Velma, a vaudevillian, and Roxie, a housewife, fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows.
 Directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, and adapted by screenwriter Bill Condon, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, "Chicago" won six Academy Awards in 2003, including Best Picture.
 The film was critically lauded, and was the first musical to win Best Picture since "Oliver!
" in 1968.
Strike Force is a 1975 television film starring Richard Gere.