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
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:
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What film went the longest time between its release and winning an Oscar?
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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.
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Who was the first actor to win both Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor (not in the same year)?
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What was the only Oscar awarded to Alfred Hitchcock?
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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?
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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?
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Who designed Oscar?
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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?
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Everyone knows about the streaker at the Oscar ceremony in the 70s. Who was on stage when the man showed it all?
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Who won the most Best Supporting Actor Oscars?
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Barry Fitzgerald received nominations in both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories for his performance in GOING MY WAY.
#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.
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).
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.
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?
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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.
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
The Eutychus Papers
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
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.
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
The Eutychus Papers
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.
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