Two producers won three times:
Sam Spiegel for On the Waterfront (1954), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia(1962), the last two directed by David Lean.
Saul Zaentz for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975), Amadeus (1984) and The English Patient(1996), the first two directed by Milos Forman.
Audra McDonald has won a record six Tony Awards, followed by theater legends Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury, who won five each. Actors who have won four Tony Awards include Boyd Gaines, Frank Langella, Gwen Verdon, and Zoe Caldwell.
The two most nominated films were The Sound of Music and Doctor Zhivago, each with ten nominations. Although both films ultimately won five awards, the winner of Best Picture was 20th Century Fox's and Robert Wise's The Sound of Music, adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical.
Meryl Streep has been nominated for the most Oscars of any actor, a total of 17. She has won three (3) Academy Awards (Oscars), all of them for acting:Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Sophie's Choice (1982)Best Actress in a Supporting Role for: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)Best Actress in a Leading Role for: The Iron Lady(2011)
Both "The King's Speech" and "Inception" won four 2010 Oscars at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony.
They have both been awarded two Oscars and have been nominated for five. They are both completely equal. :)
In 1972 Cabaret won 8 Oscars, including Best Director, but lost Best Picture to The Godfather.
West Side Story (1961), that won 10 Oscars, including Best Picture.
The Academy Award winner for best picture in 2000 was "Gladiator"
Slumdog Millionaire which won 8 Oscars, including Best Picture.
Bad and the Beautiful
The Academy Award for Best Picture of 2008 went to Slumdog Millionaire. It won 8 Oscars.
Amadeus won 8 awards, including Best Picture.
Cabaret won 8 Oscars, but The Godfather won Best Picture.
The 2010 Oscars will not be presented until February or March of 2011. However, at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, honoring the best in films made in 2009, The Hurt Locker (2009) won six awards, more than any other film. Kathery Bigelow was the film's director and producer, so she took home the two most coveted torphies: Best Picture and Best Director.
Schindler's List (1993) was nominated for 12 Oscars and won 7, including Best Director for Spielberg and Best Picture. As a producer of the movie, he shared that award.Saving Private Ryan (1998) received 11 Oscar nominations and won 5, including the Best Director award for Spielberg.Jurrasic Park (1993) holds a perfect record at the Oscars for a Spielberg movie, winning 3 out of the 3 awards for which it was nominated.schinler's list
The 1990s. Only three Westerns have won the Oscar for Best Picture:Cimarron (1931), Dances with Wolves (1990) and Unforgiven (1992).So the most Best Picture-winning Westerns were from the '90s.
The male who has won the most oscars is Walt Disney with 22 oscars. He also won the most oscars in one year which was 4 in 1953. The female who has won the most oscars is Edith Head with 8 oscars, all for costume design.