Ingmar Bergman's filmed reminiscence of his childhood was nominated for six 1983 Academy Awards and won four:
Bergman also was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Ira Gershwin (lyrics) and his brother George Gershwin (music) were nominated for Best Song "They Can't Take That Away From Me" from Shall We Dance (1937). I believe they're the first Oscar nominated brothers. Norma Shearerwas nominated 6 times for Best Actress. She won the first time she was nominated, in 1930. That same year her brother, Douglas Shearer, won his first of seven Oscars, for Sound in The Big House.
The Academy Award for Best Picture of 1967 went to "In the Heat of the Night." The Best Picture winner for 1990 was "Dances With Wolves."
The Best Picture award is a merit of the Academy Awards. It is given annually to one film since 1929. It is considered the most prestigious of the Oscars and is usually saved for last at the actual Academy Awards ceremony.
Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director, for her film The Hurt Locker, in 2010. The Hurt Locker is the story of a bomb disposal team in the Iraq war.
Kathryn Bigelow swept the Oscars this year, with The Hurt Locker being nominated in 9 categories and winning 6 awards. The film also swept the BAFTA awards this year.
The Hurt Locker's success at the Oscars and BAFTA were all the more startling as the film defeated Avatar, the biggest blockbuster of all time. Curiously the director of Avatar, James Cameron, is Kathryn Bigelow's ex-husband.
Best Actress (Bette Davis) Best Supporting Actor (Victor Buono) Best Costume Design in Black and White Best Cinematography in Black and White Best Sound
Most of them won only once. Here are a few one-time-winners: Ben Kingsley, Al Pacino, Peter Finch, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Martin Landau, Morgan Freeman, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Henry Fonda, ...
The nominees for Best Actor of 2003 were: Johnny Depp for "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl"; Sir Ben Kingsley for "House of Sand and Fog"; Jude Law for "Cold Mountain"; Bill Murray for "Lost in Translation"; and Sean Penn for "Mystic River." The Oscar was awarded to Penn, who went on to win the category again for his performance in "Milk" (2008).
Jack Nicholson holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for an actor with 12. Meryl Streep leads all actresses with 18 Oscar nominations.
No Casablanca won three Oscars:
---- Academy Award for Best Picture - Warner Bros. (Hal B. Wallis, producer)
Academy Award for Best Director - Michael Curtiz
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch
It was also nominated for another five Oscars:
Academy Award for Best Actor - Humphrey Bogart
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Claude Rains
Academy Award for Best Cinematography, black-and-white - Arthur Edeson
Academy Award for Film Editing - Owen Marks
Academy Award for Original Music Score - Max Steiner ----
Tatum O'Neal won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Addie Pray in "Paper Moon." When she accepted the award on April 2, 1974, she was 10 years and 148 days old, which made her the youngest winner of a competitive Oscar.
Since Golden Globes, Oscars and SAG Awards are all film awards, there are many, many, many actors who have won all three. There are fewer actors who manage to also win Grammy Awards since that is a music award; however, the real prize in the entertainment industry is to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. This covers, television, music, film and stage. It is considered the Royal Crown of the entertainment world, and it has only been achieved by ten performers.
Yes. He won the 2007 Best Supporting Actor award for his performance as the sinister hitman Anton Chigurh in "No Country for Old Men." He has been nominated two other times in the Best Actor category for "Before Night Falls" (2000) and "Biutiful" (2010).
Actually, Al Pacino won the 1992 Best Actor award for his performance in "Scent of a Woman." In the movie, Pacino's character uses the U.S. Army battle cry "Hooah" several times.
Zero. Arnold Schwarzeneger has won many acting awards including a Golden Globe and several Razzie awards, but as of March 2010, he has not yet won an Oscar. See related links for a list of his awards.
According to Entertainment Weekly magazine, each Academy Award costs about $834.
Jack Nicholson holds the Academy Awards record as the most-nominated male actor with 12. He has won three times, which ties him with Walter Brennan for most wins by a male actor. Nicholson's nominated roles and movies are as follows (Oscar wins in bold):
Anne Bancroft won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 1962.
Math. He taught at a boy's academy.
This may refer to the 1969 film.
In the 1939 film he is hired to teach History.
In the original book he taught "Classics" - Latin, Greek, as well as Roman Literature and History.
"With my glasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and seventy."
-Jack Nicholson
"Chariots of Fire" won four 1981 Academy Awards: Best Picture (presented to executive producer David Puttnam), Best Original Screenplay (Colin Welland), Best Original Music Score (Vangelis) and Best Costume Design (Milena Canonero).
The 2009 Oscar Award for Best animated Short was
La Maison En Petits Cubes