John Ford won four Oscars for Best Director.
Walt Disney won twenty-six Oscars. (22 competitive, 4 honorary)
Peter O’Toole – nominated eight times for best actor – never won as best actor – a record for most nominations for acting male or female without a win (did get an honorary award instead).
it’s a fact that people who win academy awards live longer than people who get nominated, but don’t win.
goes to show that movies do change people’s lives!
I remember Walter Brennan won every time he got nominated for supporting actor because the extras union loved him. In fact, it’s because of his wins that they stopped letting the extras vote.
The brilliant Randy Newman was nominated 14 times for best score or song without a single victory before he finally took one home in 2002.
amadeus won how many?
Complete Sweeps: films that won the five major statues (Picture, Direction, Screenplay, Actor and Actress)
It Happened One Night
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Silence Of The Lambs
Complete Sweeps: films that won every Oscar for which they were nominated
Gigi (9)
The Last Emperor (9)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (11)
Most Nominated Actor: Jack Nicholson 11 nominations (3 wins)
Most Nominated Actress: Meryl Streep 15 nominations (2 wins)
Make that:
Most Nominated Actress: Meryl Streep 16 nominations (2 wins)
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Ingmar Bergman was nominated for nine Oscars as a director or screenwriter without winning any. That’s a record. What else?