All three films in "The Godfather" series received Academy Awards nominations for Best Picture. Both "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" won the award.
The three films in "The Lord of the Rings" series were nominated for Best Picture in consecutive years -- "The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001), "The Two Towers" (2002) and "The Return of the King" (2003). The latter film won the Best Picture Oscar.
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None. As of May 2012, no films have been nominated for the 2017 OSCARs.
Three animated films have been nominated for Best Picture.Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) was the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture. It lost to The Silence of the Lambs.Pixar's Up (2009) lost to The Hurt Locker.Pixar's Toy Story 3 (2010) lost to The King's Speech.
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There's no definitive reason. It could be argued that no other animated films were good enough to me nominated but I also think the Academy has a prejudice against movies that aren't long epics or are completely serious endevors.
Schumaker, whose films include "St. Elmo's Fire," "The Lost Boys" and "Batman Forever," has never been nominated for an Academy Award.
Yoda dies at exactly 900 yrs. old. He is in all of the prequel films and the last 2 original trilogy films.
Three: "It Happened One Night" (1934), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991). These three films also won best screenplay, making them the only three films to win the big five Oscar categories. No other films have been nominated in all five of these categories and won these four awards without winning best screenplay, see related links.
Veteran character actor Ward Bond appeared in 11 movies that were nominated for Best Picture. Interestingly, he was never nominated for an Academy Award himself. The films are as follows (Best Picture winners in bold):"Arrowsmith" (1931/1932)."Lady for a Day" (1933)."It Happened One Night" (1934)."You Can't Take It With You" (1938)."Gone With the Wind" (1939)."The Grapes of Wrath" (1940)."The Maltese Falcon" (1941)."Sergeant York" (1941)."It's a Wonderful Life" (1946)."The Quiet Man" (1952)."Mister Roberts" (1955).
Kamal Haasan has not been nominated for an Oscar. Unlike his contemporaries, he prefers to stay in Indian films. He incorporates Hollywood themes into his movies, than vie versa.
Only one: Israel's Waltz with Bashir (2008).
There have been several debates about this. But personally, I don't think so