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Which movie holds the record for most Oscars but was not nominated for Best Picture?
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∙ 14y ago
Four movies have been nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including Best Picutre, and didn't win the top award: Mary Poppins(1964), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). Mary and Virginia won 5 Oscars, Rings won 4, Benjaminwon 3.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoNot nominated for Best Picture, with 9 nominations:
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), won one of nine: Best Supporting Actor.
The Poseidon Adventure (1972), won two of nine: Best Visual Effects and Song.
Movie that won the most Oscars without being nominated for Best Picture:
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) won five of six nominations.
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∙ 13y ago"Cabaret" (1972) was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, and nearly performed a clean sweep. It won eight Oscars, including Best Director (Bob Fosse), Best Actress (Liza Minnelli), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Joel Grey), Cinematography, Editing, Music, Art Direction (Rolf Zehetbauer, Hans Jürgen Kiebach, Herbert Strabel) and Sound. It lost the Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay awards to "The Godfather."
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∙ 7y agoMovies that won Best Picture without winning Best Director:
2016 Moonlight
2015 Spotlight
2013 12 Years a Slave
2012 Argo
2005 Crash
2002 Chicago
2000 Gladiator
1998 Shakespeare in Love
1989 Driving Miss Daisy
1981 Chariots of Fire
1972 The Godfather
1967 In the Heat of the Night
1956 Around the World in 80 Days
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
1951 An American in Paris
1949 All the King's Men
1948 Hamlet
1940 Rebecca
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 The Great Ziegfeld
1937 The Life of Emil Zola
1932 Grand Hotel
1931 Cimarron
1929 The Broadway Melody
1928 Wings
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∙ 13y ago(1) 2005 Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
(2) 2002 Roman Polanski, The Pianist
(3) 2000 Steven Soderbergh, Traffic
(4) 1998 Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan
(5) 1989 Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July
(6) 1981 Warren Beatty, Reds
(7) 1972 Bob Fosse, Cabaret
(8) 1967 Mike Nichols, The Graduate
(9) 1956 George Stevens, Giant
(10) 1952 John Ford, The Quiet Man
(11) 1951 George Stevens, A Place in the Sun
(12) 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives
(13) 1948 John Huston, The Treasure of Sierra Madre
(14) 1940 John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath
(15) 1937 Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth
(16) 1936 Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(17) 1935 John Ford, The Informer
(18) 1932 Frank Borzage, Bad Girl
(19) 1931 Norman Taurog, Skippy
(20) 1929 Frank Lloyd, The Divine Lady
(21, 22) 1928 Frank Borzage, Seventh Heaven (Drama); Lewis Milestone, Two Arabian Knights (Comedy)
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∙ 15y agoThat would have to be 1972's Cabaret which won 8 Oscars, including Best Director, but didn't win Best Picture or Adapted Screenplay (losing both to The Godfather).
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∙ 12y agoAmong the films that did not win the Best Picture Oscar: "The Exorcist" (1973), "Chinatown" (1974), "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) and "Avatar" (2009).
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∙ 14y agoBad and the Beautiful
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How many Oscars did Cabaret win?
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Is Harry Potter the most successful movie sequel that was also a book?
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What director was nominated for the Oscars 12 times?
Jack Nicholson holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for an actor with 12. Meryl Streep leads all actresses with 18 Oscar nominations.
Who has been nominated the most in the Academy Awards?
Walt Disney holds the record for both the most Academy Award nominations (59) and the number of Oscars awarded (22). He also earned four honorary Oscars. His last competitive Academy Award was posthumous.
What film holds the record for the most academy award wins in a given year?
As of 2015, The most wins any film has won is 11. Three films have won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture. They are Ben Hur(1959); Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings The Return Of the King (2003)
How many Oscars has Meryl Streep won?
Streep, who holds the record for most Academy Award nominations with 20, has won three Oscars. She received the awards for Best Supporting Actress of 1979 for "Kramer vs. Kramer"; Best Actress of 1982 for "Sophie's Choice"; and Best Actress of 2011 for "The Iron Lady."
Who was the first Irish actor to win an Oscar?
The 2 Irish-born actors to win acting Oscars are: 1) Barry Fitzgerald, for Best Supporting Actor for the 1944 movie, "Going My Way" (for which he was also nominated for Best Actor, which is no longer possible), and 2) Brenda Fricker, the Best Supporting Actress winner for 1989's "My Left Foot". More famously, Daniel Day-Lewis, who holds the record for the most Best Actor Oscars with 3 (and was nominated for 2 more), was born in England but holds duel citizenship in the UK and Ireland, dividing his time between Ireland and New York with his wife and family. Irish-born Peter O'Toole holds the record for most Oscar nominations without a win (8), but was finally awarded the Academy Honorary Award in 2003 in recognition of his career. So, technically, he's the 3rd Irish actor to win an Oscar, though not an acting one. Other Irish actors who have been nominated for Oscars include Richard Harris (twice), Stephen Rea, and Liam Neeson.
Who has the most nominations for Best Actor without winning?
Peter O'Toole holds the record for the longest time span between his first and last nominations (44 years), and he also holds the record for the greatest number of nominations without ever winning the Oscar for Best Actor (eight).
