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In februari stunt TCM met 28 Dagen Oscar®
In februari wordt iedereen in de entertainment- en filmwereld bevangen door de jaarlijkse Oscar® koorts! Opwinding alom en iedereen barst van nieuwsgierigheid wie er dit jaar de felbegeerde beeldjes in de wacht gaan slepen.
Iedere dag om 21:00 uur brengt TCM een film die genomineerd is geweest voor een Oscar® of een Oscar® heeft gewonnen.
Om het dit jaar nog aantrekkelijker te maken zal de Britse acteur Stephen Fry iedere zondag om 21.00 uur een exclusieve introductie geven op zijn persoonlijke favoriete Oscar® films.
28 DAGEN OSCAR®
Dit jaar zal de 77e Academy Awards( Ceremonie plaatsvinden in het Kodak Theatre in Hollywood op zondag 27 februari, 2005. Centraal bij deze uitreiking staat het 35 cm hoge beeldje, de Oscar®. Dit beeldje, dat in de 20-er jaren ontworpen is door MGM's gevierde Art Director Cedric Gibbons, is in de filmwereld de meest begeerde prijs.
Schakel in februari dagelijks om 21.00 uur over op TCM voor de beste Oscar® genomineerden en winnaars ooit!
Dinsdag 1 FEBRUARi
21:00 An American In Paris
6 WINNAARS: Best Picture; Best Art Direction Set Decoration; (Cedric Gibbons, E Preston Ames, Edwin P Willis, F Keogh Gleason) Best Cinematography; Best Costume Design (Orry Kelly, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaf) Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture; (Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin) Best Writing Story and Screenplay (Alan Jay Lerner)
WOENSDAG 2 Februari
21:00 Ice Station Zebra
2 Nominaties: Best Cinematography (Daniel L. Fapp); Best Effects Special Visual Effects (Hal Miller, Joesph McMillan Johnson)
donderdag 3 Februari
21:00 The Year of Living Dangerously
1 WINNAAR: Best Supporting Actress (Linda Hunt)
vrijdag 4 Februari
21:00 Blow-up
2 Nominaties: Best Director (Michelangelo Antonioni) Best Original Screenplay (Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond)
ZATERDAG 5 FEBRUARI
21:00 The Dirty Dozen
3 Nominaties: Best Supporting Actor (John Cassavetes); Best Editing; (Michael Luciano), Best Sound (MGM Sound Department)
1 WINNAAR: Best Effects (Sound Effects) (John Poyner)
zondag 6 FEBRUARI
21:00 Stephen Fry Introduces.Woman of the Year
21:15 Woman of the Year
1 Nominatie: Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn)
1 WINNAAR: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr)
maandag 7 FEBRUARI
21:00 Love Me Or Leave Me
5 Nominaties: Best Writing Screenplay (Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart), Best Sound, Recording, Best Music, Song ("I'll Never Stop Loving You" Nicholas Brodsky, Sammy Cahn), Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (Percy Faith, George E.Stoll), Best Actor (James Cagney)
1 WINNAAR: Best Writing Motion Picture Story (Daniel Fuchs)
dinsdag 8 FEBRUARI
21:00 The Philadelphia Story
4 Nominaties: Best Picture, Best Director (George Cukor), Best Supporting Actress (Ruth Hussey), Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn).
2 WINNAARS: Best Actor (James Stewart), Best Writing Screenplay (Donald Ogden Stewart)
woensdag 9 FEBRUARI
21:00 Ryan's Daughter
2 Nominaties: Best Actress (Sarah Miles); Best Sound (Gordon K McCallum, John Bramell)
2 WINNAARS: Best Supporting Actor (John Mills); Best Cinematography (Freddie Young)
donderdag 10 FEBRUARI
21:00 Victor/Victoria
6 Nominaties: Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium (Blake Edwards), Best Costume Design (Patricia Norris), Best Art Direction Set Decoration, Best Supporting Actress (Lesley Ann Down), Best Actress (Julie Andrews), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Preston)
1 WINNAAR: Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score (Henry Mancini, Leslie Bricusse)
vrijdag 11 FEBRUARI
21:00 Logan's Run
2 Nominaties: Best Art Direction Set Decoration (Dale Hennesy, Robert De Vestel); Best Cinematography ( Ernest Laszlo)
1 WINNAAR: Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects (L B Abbott, Glen Robinson, Matthew Yuricich
zaterdag 12 FEBRUARI
21:00 How the West Was Won
5 Nominaties: Best Picture, Best Art Direction/Set Direction (George W Davis, William Ferrari, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace, Don Greenwood Jr, Jack Mills), Best Cinematography (William H Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang Jr, Joseph Lashelle), Best Costume Design (Walter Plunkett), Best Music (Alfred Newman, Ken Darby),
3 WINNAARS: Best Editing (Harold F Kress), Best Sound (Franklin E. Milton), Best Original Story and Screenplay (James R Webb)
zondag 13 FEBRUARI
21:00 Stephen Fry Introduces. Angels with Dirty Faces
21:10 Angels With Dirty Faces
3 Nominaties: Best Actor (James Cagney); Best Director;(Michael Curtiz) Best Original Story (Rowland Brown)
maandag 14 FEBRUARI
21:00 Maltese Falcon
3 Nominaties: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Sydney Greenstreet) Best Original Screenplay (John Huston
dinsdag 15 FEBRUARI
21:00 High Society
3 Nominaties: Best Writing, (Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman) Best Music Song ("True Love" by Kleure Porter), Best Scoring of a Musical Picture (Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin)
Woensdag 16 FEBRUARI
21:00 King Solomon's Mines
1 Nominatie: Best Picture
2 WINNAARS: Best Cinematography (Robert Surtees) Best Film Editing (Ralph E Winters, Conrad A Nervig)
donderdag 17 FEBRUARI
21:00 Mutiny On The Bounty
7 Nominaties: Best Picture, Best Music, Song ("Follow Me"), Best Music Score (substantially original), Best Film Editing (John McSweeney Jr), Best Effects, Special Effects, Best Cinematography (Robert Surtees), Best Art Direction Set Decoration
vrijdag 18 FEBRUARI
21:00 Fame
4 Nominaties: Best Editing, (Gerry Hambling) Best Music Song "Out Here On My Own", (Michael Gore, Lesley Gore) Best Sound, Best Writing Screenplay (Christopher Gore)
2 WINNAARS: Best Music Original Score (Michael Gore), Best Music Song "Fame" (Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford)
zaterdag 19 FEBRUARI
21:00 Shaft
1 Nominatie: Best Music, Original Dramatic Score
1 WINNAAR: Best Music, Song for the song "Theme from Shaft"
zondag 20 FEBRUARI
21:00 Stephen Fry Presents. 2001: A Space Odyssey
21:15 2001: A Space Odyssey
3 Nominaties: Best Art Direction (Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernie Archer); Best Director (Stanley Kubrick); Best Original Story and Screenplay (Arthur C. Clark, Stanley Kubrick)
1 WINNAAR: Best Visual Effects (Stanley Kubrick)
Maandag 21 FEBRUARI
21:00 Butterfield 8
1 Nominatie: Best Cinematography (Joseph Ruttenberg, Charles Harten)
1 WINNAAR: Best Actress (Elizabeth Taylor)
dinsdag 22 FEBRUARI
21:00 Forbidden Planet
1 Nominatie: Best Visual Effects (A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving Ries, Wesley C. Miller)
woensdag 23 FEBRUARI
21:00 Lolita
1 Nominatie: Best Adapted screenplay (Vladimir Nabokov)
donderdag 24 FEBRUARI
21:00 Grand Prix
3 WINNAARS: Best Effects Sound Effects (Gordon Daniel), Best Film Editing (Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stu Linder, Frank Santillo), Best Sound (Franklin Milton)
vrijdag 25 FEBRUARI
21:00 Poltergeist
3 WINNAARS: Best Effects (Sound) (Stephen Hunter Flicks, Richard L Anderson), Best Effects (Visual) (Richard Edlund, Michael Wood, Bruce Nicholson) Best Music, (Original Score) (Jerry Goldsmith)
zaterdag 26 FEBRUARI
21:00 Stephen Fry Presents.North by Northwest
21:10 North By Northwest
3 Nominaties: Best Art Direction Set Decoration (William A Horning, Robert F Boyle, Merrill Pye, Henry Grace, Frank R. Mc Kelvy) Best Editing (George Tomasini); Best Writing Story and Screenplay (Ernest Lehman)
zondag 27 FEBRUARI
21:00 Stephen Fry Presents. Doctor Zhivago
21:10 Doctor Zhivago
5 Nominaties: Best Picture, Best Sound, (A. W. Watkins) Best Film Editing (Norman Savage), Best Director (David Lean), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Courtenay)
5 WINNAARS: Best Art Direction, Set Decoration, (John Box, Terry Marsh, Dario Simoni), Best cinematography (Freddie Young), Best Costume Design (Phyllis Dalton), Best Music, Score (Maurice Jarre), Best Writing Screenplay on material based from another medium (Robert Bolt)
maandag 28 FEBRUARI
21:00 Gigi
9 WINNAARS: Best Picture, Best Art Direction Set Decoration (William A Horning, E Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F Keogh Gleason); Best Cinematography (Joseph Ruttenberg); Best Costume Design (Cecil Beaton); Best Director; (Vincent Minelli) Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture (Andre Previn); Best Music Song "Gigi"; (Fred Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner); Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from another medium (Alan Jay Lerner), Best Film Editing (Adrienne Fazan)
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TCM OSCAR TRIVIA GUIDE
TCM presents 28 DAYS OF OSCAR®, its annual tribute to Hollywood's biggest event of the year, The 77th Academy Awards® Ceremony - OSCAR® night. This month-long season features the biggest stars, the best films and the most gifted directors who have either won or been nominated for an OSCAR®. Stephen Fry is hosting TCM's special season and introduces some of his personal favourites from the illustrious list of winners and nominees.
The 77th Academy Awards® Ceremony takes place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on February 27, 2005 and this year its popular master of ceremonies, Billy Crystal steps down after eight appearances as host. Replacing Crystal is another actor who made the transition from stand-up comedy to acting, Chris Rock. Rock has a hard job ahead of him as Crystal has been a firm favourite with the audience, but as the man voted Funniest Man in America by Entertainment Weekly, he has all the credentials necessary to keep them laughing through the long ceremony.
Last year Lord of the Rings: Return of the King swept the board winning all eleven awards for which it was nominated. Looking back at the films released during 2004 some stand out as obvious candidates to receive the top prizes when they are handed out at the Kodak Theatre, but as always it's a tough call. Will Scorsese win a much-coveted Best Director award at long last for The Aviator? With the re-emergence of the epic film, will Troy, Alexander or The Passion of the Christ repeat the sort of success that Ben-Hur enjoyed? Whatever, we'd certainly enjoy seeing British actresses, Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake) in the running for Best Actress whilst rooting for newcomer Jamie Foxx (Ray and Collateral) to be in with a chance against established actors such as Leonardo Di Caprio (The Aviator) and Johnny Depp (Finding Neverland).
The History of the OSCAR® Ceremony
Things have changed considerably since the first ceremony on 16th May 1929 with the categories developing from year to year. At one stage there was an award for Comedy Direction, Dance Direction and even one-reel or two-reel short subjects. The first statuette ever presented went to Emil Jannings for his roles in two films, The Last Command (1928) and The Way Of All Flesh (1927) and that year the ceremony took place three months after winners were announced. Thirteen awards were presented that year, the lone female recipient was Janet Gaynor, who won Best Actress.
In the early days statuettes were reserved for Acting and Directing awards and others received certificates or plaques. When Best Supporting Actor and Actress awards were introduced these statuettes were smaller in size than the Best Actor and Actress counterparts.
Over the years 'special' awards have been introduced to honour those, who in the Academy's view, had given an outstanding service to the industry. Many Hollywood stars and directors denied Academy Awards® for their performances, have been presented with a special award to make up for the disappointment of not winning in the competition.
Bizarrely, some of the greatest screen icons and directors have never been honored with Academy Awards® on the merit of their individual achievements and maybe this is part of the reason that the world's press so eagerly awaits the decision each year. Many including Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Kirk Douglas, Gene Kelly, King Vidor, Howard Hawks, Steve McQueen, Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole have had to make do with an honorary or special award instead.
The eyes of the world's media will focus on Hollywood on February 27th, 2005 to witness the film industry's elite take that trip down the red carpet with the possibility of leaving the evening's ceremony with one of the most coveted awards in filmmaking.
Some Facts About OSCAR®
. The OSCAR® statuette, designed by MGM's chief art director Cedric Gibbons, depicts a knight holding a crusader's sword, standing on a reel of film with five spokes, signifying the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians.
. The statuette is 13.5 inches high and weighs 8.5 pounds.
. Over 2,389 OSCAR(S)® have been presented at Academy Awards®.
. Number of eligible categories in 1927 - 13.
. Number of eligible categories in 2005 - 24.
. It takes 12 people and 20 hours to make a statuette.
. 50-60 OSCAR® statuettes are manufactured each year by RS Owens in Chicago.
. Three OSCAR(S)® have been refused: Dudley Nichols for writing The Informer; Marlon Brando rejected his second for The Godfather and George C. Scott refused to accept Best Actor (Patton) as a vociferous opponent of competitive acting awards. Woody Allen was never on hand to pick up his awards for Writing Hannah and Her Sisters, and Writing and Directing for Annie Hall, but he never publicly refused them.
. There is no definitive truth to how the statuette became known as OSCAR®. One story is that Academy secretary Margaret Herrick remarked that it looked like her uncle Oscar, however, others credit Bette Davis with giving the statue its nickname. But everyone agrees that the attempt by Weekly Variety (the industry trade paper) to call it 'the iron man' was never going to stick.
. The Academy began officially using the nickname in 1934 after Sidney Skolsky referred to it in his column with reference to Katharine Hepburn's Best Actress award.
. Since 1949, each OSCAR® has been individually numbered, starting with number 501.
. The Academy protects the image of its award, the standing rule is that if an OSCAR® winner decides they no longer want their statuette, they must offer to sell it back to the academy, for $1.
. Several OSCAR(S)® have ended up in auctions over the years. Over the past four years, director Steven Spielberg has twice purchased OSCAR(S)® at auctions and donated them back to the Academy (first Clark Gable's OSCAR®, then later Bette Davis').
OSCAR® Trivia
Shortest and Longest
. The shortest OSCAR® ceremony in history was the first in 1929. The awards themselves lasted only about 15 minutes as all the winners had been announced three months earlier.
. The longest awards ceremony in history was in 2000. It lasted a bottom- numbing 256 minutes, beating the previous record by about 16 minutes.
. Bob Hope has hosted the OSCAR(S)® an unmatched 18 times, Billy Crystal is in second place with eight.
. Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the only X rated movie to win an OSCAR®.
. Henry Fonda had to wait 41 years between his first nomination, for The Grapes Of Wrath (1941), to his eventual triumph in On Golden Pond (1982).
. The shortest ever OSCAR® winning performance belongs to Dame Judi Dench who won Best Supporting Actress in 1998 for less than eight minutes of screen time playing Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare In Love.
. The shortest ever Best Actor OSCAR® winning performance goes to Anthony Hopkins for less than 16 minutes of screen time as Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter in The Silence Of The Lamb (1991).
. The fewest lines spoken by an OSCAR® winning actress goes to Patty Duke who won Best Supporting Actress for portraying Helen Keller in 1962's The Miracle Worker. In the role she speaks only one word in the last scene, "water."
The biggest winners and nominees
. The films with the most OSCAR® wins are Ben-Hur (1959),Titanic (1997) and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King each of them winning eleven OSCAR(S)® from 12, 14 and 11 nominations respectively.
. The top five OSCAR®-winning film studios are: MGM which has 190; Paramount with 180; 20th Century Fox with 175; Warner Bros. with 169 and Columbia with 154.
. Gigi (1958) and The Last Emperor (1987) hold the record for the most nominations without a single loss; nine out of nine.
. Francis Ford Coppola remains the only person to garner five nominations in a single year. In 1974 he was nominated for Best Picture as producer of The Godfather: Part II and The Conversation, Best Director for The Godfather: Part II, Best Adapted Screenplay for The Godfather: Part II and Best Original Screenplay for The Conversation.
. William Wyler holds the record for directing the most actors to Academy Award® success with 34 nominations and 14 wins.
. The foreign film nominated for the most OSCAR(S)® was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) with ten nominations and four wins.
. Jack Nicholson leads the Best Actor category with four wins from eleven nominations. Laurence Olivier, nominated ten times only received one Best Actor award whilst nine-time nominee Spencer Tracy won twice.
. In the Best Actress category, Meryl Streep leads with the most nominations, thirteen in total out of which she achieved two wins. Katharine Hepburn received less but won four awards from twelve nominations.
. The actresses with the most consecutive nominations are Bette Davis (1938-1942) and Greer Garson (1941-1945) with five.
. The actors with the most consecutive OSCAR® nominations are Marlon Brando (1951-54) and Al Pacino (1972-75) with four each.
. The following have all been nominated for acting, directing and writing on the same film: Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, 1941); Woody Allen (Annie Hall, 1978); Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait, 1978); Warren Beatty (Reds, 1981) and Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful, 1998).
. Walt Disney holds the all-time record for the most Academy Award® wins, twenty-six in total. He is also the recipient of the most OSCAR(S)® awarded to one person during a single ceremony, winning four at the 1953 Awards.
. Sleuth (1972) and Give 'em Hell Harry (1975) are the only films where the entire cast was nominated for OSCAR(S)®.
. The only films to win Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay are: It Happened One Night (1934); One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Silence of The Lambs (1991).
. The only films to win both, Best Actor and Best Actress are: It Happened One Night (1934); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); Network (1976), Coming Home (1978); On Golden Pond (1981); The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and As Good as It Gets (1997).
. The only actors to win consecutive OSCAR(S)® are: Luise Rainer (1936-37); Spencer Tracy (1937-38); Katharine Hepburn (1967-68); Jason Robards (1976-77) and Tom Hanks (1993-94).
. The only consecutive double OSCAR® winners are Joseph L. Mankiewicz, directing and screenplay for A Letter To Three Wives in 1949 and All About Eve in 1950 and Alan Menken in 1991 for Best Song and Best Original Score for Beauty and the Beast and again the following year for Aladdin.
. The only twins to win OSCAR(S)® are Julius J Epstein and Philip G. Epstein who shared the screenplay credits with Howard Koch for Casablanca (1943).
. The only Oscar to win an OSCAR® is Oscar Hammerstein for Best Song in 1941 and 1945.
. The only films to win three OSCAR(S)® for acting are A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Network (1976).
OLDEST AND YOUNGEST
. The youngest performer to receive an Academy Award® is Shirley Temple who, in 1934, was given a Special Award when she was five years old.
. Tatum O'Neal was the youngest to win a competitive award, Best Supporting Actress for Paper Moon (1973) aged 10.
. Adrian Brody, at the age of 29, replaced Richard Dreyfuss as the youngest actor ever to win Best Actor. He also is the only actor to win this category while up against four previous OSCAR® winners.
. Janet Gaynor is the youngest winner as Best Actress, for 7th Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise aged 20 at the first ever Academy Awards®.
. Timothy Hutton is the youngest Best Supporting Actor winner for Ordinary People (1980) he was just 20.
. At 31 Norman Taurog is the youngest director to win an OSCAR® for Skippy (1931). The oldest is George Cukor aged 65 for My Fair Lady (1964).
. Tom Hanks is also the youngest recipient of the Academy's Lifetime Achievement award, which he received in 2002.
. The youngest nominated performer, Justin Henry for Best Supporting Actor for Kramer v Kramer (1979), he was eight.
. Oldest performer to receive an Academy Award® is Groucho Marx in 1973 when he received an Honorary Award at the age of 83.
. Jessica Tandy is the oldest actress to win an OSCAR® at the age of eighty-one, she picked up Best Actress for her performance in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
. At 76 Henry Fonda was the oldest, winning a Best Actor OSCAR® for On Golden Pond (1981).
. The oldest to receive a nomination for OSCAR® Best Actor is Richard Farnsworth for The Straight Story (1999) at 80.
Keeping it in the Family
. Two families have three generations of OSCAR® winners in their ranks:
o The Hustons: Walter (Best Supporting Actor, The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, 1948); John (Best Director, The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, 1948) and Anjelica (Best Supporting Actress, Prizzi's Honor, 1985).
o The Coppola's: Carmine (Best Original Dramatic Score, The Godfather: Part II, 1974); Francis Ford (Best Original Screenplay, Patton, 1970; Best Adapted Screenplay, The Godfather, 1970; Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, The Godfather: Part II, 1974) and Nicholas Cage, Francis Ford Coppola's nephew (Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas, 1995).
. Walter and John Huston are the first father and son to both win OSCAR(S)® in 1948 for Treasure Of The Sierra Madre as Supporting Actor and Director, respectively.
. Sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland were both nominated for the Best Actress category in 1941, Fontaine won.
. The only brothers to win consecutive OSCAR(S)® were James Goldman and William Goldman. Both screenwriters, James won for The Lion in Winter (1968) and William for Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969).
. The only husband and wife nominated in the same year are Richard Burton for Best Actor and Elizabeth Taylor for Best Actress in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
. The only married couple to win acting OSCAR(S)® were Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh but they didn't win in the same year.
. Liza Minnelli (Cabaret, 1972) is the only OSCAR® winner with two OSCAR® winning parents. Her mother, Judy Garland, received an honorary OSCAR® as Outstanding Juvenile Performer for Wizard of Oz and her father, Vincente Minnelli, won Best Director for the 1958 Best Picture, Gigi.
Best Picture Facts
. The longest Best Picture winner is Gone With The Wind (1939) at 3 hours and 56 minutes, it was also the first colour film to win Best Picture.
. The only animated film nominated for Best Picture is Beauty And The Beast (1991).
. The only sequel to win Best Picture is The Godfather: Part II (1974).
. The only films to win Best Picture and Best Song are Titanic (1997), Gigi (1958) and Going My Way (1944).
. The only musicals to win Best Picture are Broadway Melody (1928/29), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), An American In Paris (1951), Gigi (1958), West Side Story (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), The Sound Of Music (1965)and Oliver! (1968).
. The only Westerns to win Best Picture are Cimarron (1931), Dances With Wolves (1990) and Unforgiven (1992).
. The only suspense-thrillers to win Best Picture are Rebecca (1940) and The Silence Of The Lambs (1991).
. The only silent film to win Best Picture is Wings (1927/28).
. The last black and white film to win Best Picture was The Apartment (1960) although 95% of the 1993 winner, Schindler's List was shot in Black-and-White.
. The first non-Hollywood film to win Best Picture was Hamlet (1948), financed and filmed in England.
Miscellaneous
. The first film to be released on video prior to winning an OSCAR® was The Silence Of The Lambs (1991).
. The only TV movie to be adapted into a Best Picture OSCAR® winner is Marty (1955).
. The first posthumous OSCAR® winner was Sidney Howard, for the screenplay of Gone With The Wind (1939).
. The only woman nominated as Best Director have been Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties (1976), Jane Campion for The Piano (1994) and Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003). Coppola is the first American woman to be nominated for Best Director.
. The only people to direct themselves to acting OSCAR(S)® are Laurence Olivier in Hamlet (1948) and Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful (1998).
. The only tie for Best Actor was between Wallace Beery for The Champ and Fredric March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
. Tom Hanks is the second actor to win in consecutive years, for Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994) the first was Spencer Tracy.
. The only tie for Best Actress was between Katharine Hepburn for The Lion In Winter and Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl.
. African-American winners include: Hattie McDaniel Best Supporting Actress in Gone With the Wind; Sidney Poitier Best Actor in Lilies of the Field; Louis Gossett Jr. Best Supporting Actor in An Officer and a Gentleman; Denzel Washington Best Supporting Actor in Glory; Whoopi Goldberg Best Supporting Actress in Ghost; Cuba Gooding Jr. Best Supporting Actor in Jerry Maguire; Halle Berry Best Actress in Monster's Ball and Denzel Washington Best Actor in Training Day.
. Clarence Brown has the most nominations, six, for Best Director, without a single win. A three-way tie for second place exists between King Vidor, Alfred Hitchcock (who was eventually given an honorary award) and Robert Altman.
. Italy leads the way in the best foreign film category, having won ten OSCAR(S)® from twenty-six nominations. France has won nine awards from a total of twenty-nine nominations.
. In 1938, the Academy honoured Walt Disney with one full size OSCAR® and seven miniature statuettes for the animation in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
. The only person to win an OSCAR® for playing an OSCAR®-loser is Maggie Smith in California Suite (1978).
OSCARS® Roll of Honour
Winners
11 OSCARS®
Ben-Hur (1959) - 12 nominations
Titanic (1997) - 14 nominations
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - 11 nominations
10 OSCARS®
West Side Story (1961) - 11 nominations
9 OSCARS®
Gigi (1958) - 9 nominations
The Last Emperor (1987) - 9 nominations
The English Patient (1997) - 12 nominations
8 OSCARS®
Gone With The Wind (1939) - 13 nominations
>From Here To Eternity (1953) - 13 nominations
On The Waterfront (1954) - 12 nominations
My Fair Lady (1964) - 12 nominations
Cabaret (1972) - 10 nominations
Gandhi (1983) - 11 nominations
Amadeus (1984) - 1 nominations
7 OSCARS®
Going My Way (1944) - 10 nominations
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946) - 8 nominations
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) - 8 nominations
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) - 10 nominations
Patton (1970) - 10 nominations
The Sting (1973) - 10 nominations
Out Of Africa (1985) - 11 nominations
Dances With Wolves (1990) - 12 nominations
Schindler's List (1993) - 12 nominations
Shakespeare In Love (1998) - 13 nominations
6 OSCARS®
Mrs Miniver (1942) - 12 nominations
All About Eve (1940) - 14 nominations
An American In Paris (1951) - 8 nominations
A Place In The Sun (1951) - 9 nominations
A Man For All Seasons (1966) - 8 nominations
The Godfather, Part II (1974) -11 nominations
Star Wars (1977) - 10 nominations
Forrest Gump (1994) - 13 nominations
Chicago (2002) - 13 nominations
5 OSCARS®
It Happened One Night (1934) - 5 nominations
How Green Was My Valley (1941) - 10 nominations
Wilson (1944) - 10 nominations
The Bad And The Beautiful (1952) - 6 nominations
Around The World In 80 Days (1956) - 8 nominations
The King And I (1956) - 9 nominations
The Apartment (1960) - 10 nominations
Mary Poppins (1964) - 13 nominations
Doctor Zhivago (1965) - 10 nominations
The Sound Of Music (1965) - 10 nominations
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - 13 nominations
In The Heat Of The Night (1967) - 7 nominations
Oliver! (1968) - 11 nominations
The French Connection (1971) - 9 nominations
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - 9 nominations
The Deer Hunter (1978) - 9
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) - 9 nominations
Terms Of Endearment (1983) - 11 nominations
Silence Of The Lambs (1991) - 7 nominations
Braveheart (1995) - 10
Saving Private Ryan (1998) - 11 nominations
American Beauty (1999) - 8 nominations
Gladiator (2000) - 12 nominations
Films With The Most Nominations
14 Nominations
All About Eve (1950) - 6 wins
Titanic (1997) - 11wins
13 Nominations
Gone With The Wind (1939) - 8 wins
>From Here To Eternity (1953) - 8 wins
Mary Poppins (1964) - 5 wins
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - 5 wins
Forrest Gump (1994) - 6 wins
Shakespeare In Love (1998) - 7 wins
Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) - 4 wins
Chicago (2002) - 6 wins
12 Nominations
Mrs. Miniver (1942) - 6 wins
The Song Of Bernadette (1943) - 4 wins
Johnny Belinda (1948) - 1 win
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - 4 wins
On The Waterfront (1954) - 8 wins
Ben-Hur (1959) - 11 wins
Becket (1964) - 1 win
My Fair Lady (1964) - 8 wins
Reds (1981) - 3 wins
Dances With Wolves (1990) - 7 wins
Schindler's List (1993) - 7 wins
The English Patient (1996) - 9 wins
Gladiator (2000) - 5 wins
11 Nominations
Mr Smith Goes To Washington (1939) - 1 win
Rebecca (1940) - 2 wins
Sergeant York (1941) - 2 wins
The Pride Of The Yankees (1942) - 1 win
Sunset Boulevard (1950) - 3 wins
Judgement At Nuremberg (1961) - 2 wins
West Side Story (1961) - 10 wins
Oliver! (1968) - 5 wins
Chinatown (1974) - 1 win
The Godfather, Part II (1974) - 6 wins
Julia (1977) - 3 wins
The Turning Point (1977) - 0 wins
Gandhi (1982) - 8 wins
Terms Of Endearment (1983) - 5 wins
Amadeus (1984) - 8 wins
A Passage To India (1984) - 2 wins
The Color Purple (1985) - 0 wins
Out Of Africa (1985) - 7 wins
Saving Private Ryan (1998) - 5 wins
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - 11 wins
10 Nominations
The Life Of Emile Zola (1937) - 3 wins
How Green Was My Valley (1941) - 5 wins
Going My Way (1944) - 7 wins
Wilson (1944) 5 wins
Roman Holiday (1953) - 3 wins
Giant (1956) - 1 win
Sayonara (1957) - 4 wins
The Apartment (1960) - 5 wins
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) - 7 wins
Tom Jones (1963) - 4 wins
Doctor Zhivago (1965) - 5 wins
The Sound Of Music (1965) - 5 wins
Bonnie And Clyde (1967) - 2 wins
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) - 2 wins
Anne Of The Thousand Days (1969) - 1 win
Airport (1970) - 1 win
Patton (1970) - 7 wins
Cabaret (1972) - 8 wins
The Godfather (1972) - 3 wins
The Exorcist (1973) - 2 wins
The Sting (1973) - 7 wins
Network (1976) - 4 wins
Rocky (1976) - 3 wins
Star Wars (1977) - 6 wins
On Golden Pond (1981) - 3 wins
Tootsie (1982) - 1 win
Bugsy (1991) - 2 wins
Braveheart (1995) - 5 wins
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - 4 wins
Gangs of New York (2002) - 0 wins
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) - 2 wins
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