James Cameron's Avatar, the top grossing movie of all time, was nominated for nine Academy Awards. Avatar grossed $2.8 billion from worldwide theatres. Ironically, The Hurt Locker took home the Oscar for Best Film that year, the lowest-grossing movie to ever win the award.
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"Gigi" was nominated for nine 1958 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Vincent Minnelli). It won in every nominated category.
"Gigi" won all nine Academy Awards for which it was nominated, including Best Picture.
It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won all of the categories.
The Defiant Ones was nominated for nine Oscars and won two. You can read more about The film and about the 1958 Academy Awards awarded by following the links, below.The film that won nine Oscars was Gigi. You can also read more about it, below.
"Apollo 13" was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for Ed Harris. It won two Oscars for Best Film Editing and Best Sound.
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"Kane" producer and star Orson Welles shared the 1941 Best Original Screenplay Oscar with Herman J. Manckiewicz.
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.
No. But there were three noteworthy African-American nominees for the year 2012. Denzel Washington received his fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Actor (and his sixth Oscar nod overall) for the movie "Flight." Nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest person ever nominated in the Best Actress category for her performance in "Beasts of the Southern Wild." And filmmaker Reginald Hudlin was one of the producers of "Django Unchained" nominated for the Best Picture award.
"True Grit" (2010) won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Jeff Bridges) and was nominated for nine other Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won a number of other awards, such as Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer for Hailee Steinfeld, and several awards for cinematography and costumes.
The Last Airbender was not well-received by critics. It was nominated for nine Razzies and won 5, including Worst Picture, Worst Director and the special award of "Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3D"