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Robert Redford has been nominated for three Academy Awards -- one for acting and two for directing. He received a 1973 Best Actor nomination for his performance opposite Paul Newman in "The Sting." He won a 1980 Best Director Oscar for his first film behind the camera, "Ordinary People," which was named Best Picture. He received a second Best Director nomination for "Quiz Show" (1994). On March 24, 2002, he received an honorary Academy Award for his overall contributions as an actor, director and producer and as an "inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere."
No, although Beauty and the Beast, Up, and Toy Story 3 received Best Picture nominations.
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).
Although it was nominated for a whopping 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture of 1973, "The Exorcist" received only two Oscars. William Peter Blatty won for adapting the movie's screenplay from his best-selling novel. The film also won the award for Best Sound.
Cleopatra was one of the most expensive films ever made. Cleopatra won four Academy Awards and it was also nominated for five more awards, including best picture.
"Hugo" earned 11 Academy Award nominations, and subsequently won five. In second place was "The Artist" with 10 nominations, ultimately winning five, including Best Picture.
Braveheart won five Oscars out of ten nominations including Best Picture. It is however, one of the few Best Picture winners that did not receive any acting nominations,
The movie received 4 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. But, no one in any of the 4 categories in which the movie was in the running for, took Oscar home that night in 1946.
Warren Beatty's remake of the 1941 fantasy "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" received nine Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture. Beatty received three nominations -- for Best Actor, Best Director (with Buck Henry) and Best Adapted Screenplay (with Elaine May). The film won only one Oscar, for Best Art Direction.
According to Wikipedia, Crash (2004) received a total of 60 award nominations, winning 24 of them; 6 out of the 60 were Academy Award nominations, of which 3 were won (for Best Picture, Best Editing and Best Screenplay - Original).
In the 1930s and early 1940s, between eight to 12 movies per year were nominated for Best Picture. But the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reduced the number of nominations to five from 1944 to 2008. In 2009, the Academy reversed its field and announced it would increase the number of Best Picture nominations to 10.
The Social Network received 8 nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards.These were:Best PictureBest ActorBest CinematographyBest DirectorBest Film EditingBest Original ScoreBest SoundBest Adapted Screenplay
An Oscar nomination is a nomination for an award from the American Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. These nominations are in many categories of excellence. The nominations are once a year and the culminations are the Academy Awards which are held in March.
At the 8th Academy Awards ceremony on March 5, 1936. "Mutiny on the Bounty" won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1934. It was the only award the film received despite seven other nominations.
"The Color Purple" received 11 1985 Academy Awards nominations, including Best Picture, but did not win anything. It shares the record with "The Turning Point" (1977) for the most nominations in one year without a win.
Titanic won best picture in 1997.The Oscar(s) went to: Titanic, As Good As It Gets, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential, The Full Monty, Men in Black.
"Pulp Fiction" received seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Quentin Tarantino), and two for Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta).