# Oscar trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2000, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167 "2000-03-24T03:12:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dekayx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@dekayx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dekayx)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/21 "2000-03-25T13:48:00Z")
oh, and the Color Purple did get 11 nominations but no wins. The other film was in 1977. * * * No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness…Mary Wollstonecraft ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/22 "2000-03-26T03:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > : What one person has won more Academy Awards than anybody else? > –If you count “honorary awards” I believe it’s Walt Disney. Not including those, it’s Woody Allen. For acting, Katharine Hepburn has won the most (four, I think) Disney did indeed win the most, even if you don’t count honorary awards. Remember, a lot of awards – especially best short subject, best documentary, etc. – go to the producer, and Disney routinely won four awards some years in the 50s for best short subject, best animated short subject, best short documentary, and best documentary. Woody Allen, OTOH, is not a big award winner at all (he may have gotten a writing award for ANNIE HALL, but little else). Hepburn does indeed have the most acting awards. Here’s a few more: 1. What film went the longest time between its release and winning an Oscar? 2. Name the four directors who won Oscars for the first movie they ever directed? Hint: three of them won best screenplay, not best director, for the film. 3. Who was the first actor to win both Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor (not in the same year)? 4. What was the only Oscar awarded to Alfred Hitchcock? 5. Frank Capra was once mightily embarrassed at an Oscar ceremony when the MC – Will Rogers – said “Come and get it, Frank.” As Capra approached the podium, he realized Rogers meant another director. What was his last name? 6. Charlie Chaplin was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1972. He also was awarded two others, one honorary and one in competition. What were they for? 7. Who designed Oscar? 8. The Oscars are given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS started giving the awards as an afterthought to its original mission. Why was AMPAS founded? 9. Everyone knows about the streaker at the Oscar ceremony in the 70s. Who was on stage when the man showed it all? 10. Who won the most Best Supporting Actor Oscars? * * * “What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/23 "2000-03-26T07:30:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by dekayx: > \*\* > > 1. Name the actor who was nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same role. > > \*\* Barry Fitzgerald received nominations in both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories for his performance in GOING MY WAY. ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/24 "2000-03-26T07:52:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by RealityChuck: > \*\* > 2. Name the four directors who won Oscars for the first movie they ever directed? Hint: three of them won best screenplay, not best director, for the film. > > 1. Who was the first actor to win both Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor (not in the same year)? > > 2. What was the only Oscar awarded to Alfred Hitchcock? > > 3. The Oscars are given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS started giving the awards as an afterthought to its original mission. Why was AMPAS founded? > > 4. Everyone knows about the streaker at the Oscar ceremony in the 70s. Who was on stage when the man showed it all? > > 5. Who won the most Best Supporting Actor Oscars? > > \*\* #2- I think I answered this in an earlier thread: Preston Sturges, Orson Welles and Mel Brooks won screenplay Oscars for their first directorial efforts. Also, both Robert Redford and Kevin Costner won Oscars for their directing debuts. #3- Jack Lemmon- Best Supporting Actor 1955 for MISTER ROBERTS, and Best Actor 1973 for SAVE THE TIGER. #4- Hitchcock won the Irving Thalberg memorial award and an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar. #8- The academy was founded in hopes that it would prevent the actors and directors from unionizing. #9- David Niven #10- Walter Brennan won three supporting oscars. ---
**Author:** ![dwtno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@dwtno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwtno)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/25 "2000-03-26T14:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. What film went the longest time between its release and winning an Oscar? Would it be Chaplin’s ]i]Limelight\*? Relseased, in 1952, awarded an Oscar in 1972. To be elegible for the Academy awards, the film in question must be screened in a Los Angeles area theater, and _Limelight_ wasn’t seen in L.A. until 1972. The Oscar was for Chpalin’s original musical score (which also answers another of your questions). > [@](#): > > Who designed Oscar? The Oscar statuette was designed by Cedric Gibbons, and Bette Davis’ apocryphal tale not withstanding, was named by Academy secretary Margaret Herrick after her Uncle. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/26 "2000-03-27T06:24:00Z")
Good answers. We still need Chaplin’s third Oscar. I also forgot one of my favorites: Every movie this actor appeared in (and there were six of them) was nominated for Best Picture. Who is he? * * * “What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/27 "2000-03-27T06:54:00Z")
Dekayx, would the actor who was nominated for best actor and best supporting actor be Fredric March for “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” in the early 1930’s. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/28 "2000-03-26T19:35:00Z")
My favorite one … What was so unusual about the oscar that Walt Disney won for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?” For extra credit … who presented it? * * * Saint Eutychus _H.M.S.H._ _" ‘He is a prince’ , the minstrels sing. Among men, yes. Among fools he is a king."_ [Disney Shorts](http://www.disneyshorts.org) [The Eutychus Papers](http://members.aol.com/eutychus55) ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/29 "2000-03-26T20:06:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by RealityChuck: > \*\* > > I also forgot one of my favorites: > > Every movie this actor appeared in (and there were six of them) was nominated for Best Picture. Who is he? > > \*\* John Cazale was in only five movies. All five received best picture nominations: The Godfather The Conversation The Godfather II Dog Day Afternoon The Deer Hunter ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/30 "2000-03-26T23:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Eutychus55: > \*\*My favorite one … > > What was so unusual about the oscar that Walt Disney won for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?” > > For extra credit … who presented it?\*\* It was a regular Oscar with seven miniature Oscars, presented by Shirley Temple. After the streaker left, David Niven said something like “There goes a man who will always be remembered for his shortcomings.” * * * “No,” he replied, and smiled seraphically, as was his wont. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/31 "2000-03-27T00:23:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by zgystardst: > \*\* It was a regular Oscar with seven miniature Oscars, presented by Shirley Temple. > \*\* BING! We have a winner! * * * Saint Eutychus _H.M.S.H._ _" ‘He is a prince’ , the minstrels sing. Among men, yes. Among fools he is a king."_ [Disney Shorts](http://www.disneyshorts.org) [The Eutychus Papers](http://members.aol.com/eutychus55) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167/32 "2000-03-27T02:40:00Z")
Kawlinga – the IMDB also has Cazale in THE GODFATHER III in flashbacks, another best film nominee. Cazle has only seven entries; the seventh is the compilation for video of the Godfather movies. Pretty impressive. I’m sorry he didn’t live longer; he was a fine actor. * * * “What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-trivia/15167.md?page=1)