Academy Awards Trivia: The Most, the Longest and the Only
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Award: The actor who has appeared in more movies with fellow Oscar nominees than any other is Anthony Quinn.
Most nominations for a single movie: Ben-Hur, All About Eve and Titanic, with 14 nominations each. Both have been eclipsed by lesser nominated movies as the best films of their respective years.
Most nominations for Best Screenplay: Woody Allen with 13. So far.
Number of Oscar winners who spoke no more than one word in their winning performance: 7, with the latest being Holly Hunter for The Piano.
Longest drought between acting nominations: 38 years, shared by both Helen Hayes and Jack Palance.
Most expensive movie (adjusted for inflation) to be nominated for Best Picture: Cleopatra, 1963.
Only person to win a Best Director Oscar for the only film he ever directed: Jerome Robbins, who shared the award with Robert Wise for West Side Story.
Only movie to win Best Screenplay without a single word of dialogue: The Red Balloon in 1956.
Only person to win the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay two consecutive years: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve.
Most nominations for a single individual: Edith Head, who received 35 nominations for costuming over the course of her long career.
Only actor to received Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nominations in the same year for the same role in the same movie: 1944. Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way.
Longest acceptance speech: Greer Garson. Her Best Actress win for Mrs. Miniver produced a six minute long acceptance speech.
Only person to win an acting Oscar for a role in an Alfred Hitchcock movie: 1941. Joan Fontaine for Suspicion.
Movies to win the most Academy Awards without also winning Best Picture: Star Wars and The Aviator.
Oldest man to win Best Director: Clint Eastwood who won the award at age 74 for Million Dollar Baby.
Youngest actress to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actress: Keisha Castle-Hughes for Whale Rider at age 13.
Most tragic trivia related to an Oscar-winning film: 1993's Tom Hanks movie Philadelphia featured over fifty actors who were diagnosed with AIDS. Nearly all of them have since succumbed to the disease.
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2 Comments
Post a CommentI like your joke about The Lord of the Rings movies. I'm feeiling pretty much the same way about them.
But I cannot get this one: "Most nominations for a single movie: Ben-Hur, All About Eve and Titanic, with 14 nominations each. Both have been eclipsed by lesser nominated movies as the best films of their respective years." What's your idea? According to this article http://www.reviewmaze.com/2011/02/oscar-trivia-most-oscars-won.html Ben-Hur does not have 14 nominations. Also which "both" of these 3 have been eclipsed as the best picture in their corresponding years? Ben-Hur, Titanic and All About Eve all have won Best Picture in their corresponding year.
Some reader pointed out that Cabaret won more awards w/o winning Best Picture and that John Williams has been nominated more than Edith Head. Not sure what happened to that or the other comments, but I do want you to know that I missed the boat in those two sections.