Oscars

Siney Pointer has won many film awards.

• Won - Oscar - Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Lilies of the Field (1963)
• Won - BAFTA Film Award - Best Foreign Actor for: The Defiant Ones (1958) USA.
• Won - Silver Berlin Bear - Best Actor for: Lilies of the Field (1963)
• Won - Silver Berlin Bear - Best Actor for: The Defiant Ones (1958)
• Won - Fotogramas de Plata - Best Foreign Performer (Mejor intérprete de cine extranjero) for: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
• Won - Golden Apple - Male Star of the Year
• Won - Golden Globe - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama for: Lilies of the Field (1963)
• Won - Image Award - Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie/Miniseries/Dramatic Special for: The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999) (TV)
• Won - Prize San Sebastián - Best Actor for: For Love of Ivy (1968)

He has also received several lifetime achievement awards which are non-competitive, so he cannot be said to have wonthem.

Obviously, no woman has ever been nominated in the Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor categories. Women have never been nominated in the Best Cinematography category either.

Other noteworthy facts

• Best Picture: Julia Philips was the first woman nominated in the Best Picture category along with Tony Bill and Michael Phillips. Their film, The Sting (1973), won Best Picture that year.
• Best Director: no woman has ever won best director, and only four have ever been nominated: Lina Wertmüller for 1976's Seven Beauties, Jane Campion for 1993's The Piano, Sofia Coppola for 2003's Lost in Translation, and Kathryn Bigelow for 2009's The Hurt Locker.
• Best Original Screenplay: Josephine Lovett was the first woman to be nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category for Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
• Best Adapted Screenplay: Lenore J. Coffee with Howard Estabrook was the first woman nominated in the category for Best Adapted Screenplay for Streeet of Chance (1930). Their screenplay was adapted from the story by Oliver H. P. Garrett
• Best Animated Feature: technically it is the film which is nominated in this category rather than any individual; however, a studio or an individual is usually named to receive the award. It is unclear whether or not a woman has ever been named in this category.
• Best Art Direction: Grace Gregory was the first woman nominated in the Best Art Direction category for The Country Girl (1954).
• Best Costume Design: Irene Lentz was the first woman nominated in the Best Costume Design categor for B. F.'s Daughter (1948). This was the first year that this award was given.
• Best Documentary Feature: technically it is the film which is nominated in this category rather than any individual; however, a studio or an individual is usually named to receive the award. It is unclear whether or not a woman has ever been named in this category.
• Best Film Editing: Anne Bauchens was the first woman to be nominted in this category for Cleopatra (1934). This was the first year that this award was given.
• Best Foreign Language Film: unlike the award for Best Picture, which officially goes to the winning film's producers, the Foreign Language Film Award is not given to a specific individual but is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole.
• Best Makeup: Sarah Monzani and Michèle Burke were the fist women nominated in this category. They were nominated for Quest for Fire (1982) , the second year that this award was given. They won the award this year.
• Best Original Score: Angela Morley was the first woman to be nominated in one of the various scoring categories that have come and gone over the years. The category at the time was actually called Best Original Score and Adaptation. She was nominated along with Nelson Riddle and Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe and Douglas Gamley. She was nominated for The Song Score for "The Little Prince" from The Great Gatsby (1974).
• Best Original Song: Dorothy Fields was the first female songwriter to win the Best Original Song Oscar. She wrote the lyrics for the 1936 winner "The Way You Look Tonight" (music by Jerome Kern) sung by Fred Astaire in the film Swing Time. It was thirty-two years before a second woman was honoured, Marilyn Bergman, who co-wrote with husband Alan the lyrics for "Windmills of Your Mind" (music Michel Legrand) from The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968. Female winners since then: Barbra Streisand(for "Evergreen" from A Star Is Born in 1976), the first female tunesmith to be honoured, Carole Bayer Sager("Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" from Arthur in 1981), Buffy Sainte-Marie ("Up Where We Belong" from An Officer and a Gentleman in 1982), Irene Cara("Flashdance... What a Feeling" from Flashdance in 1983), Carly Simon ("Let the River Run" from Working Girl in 1988), Annie Lennox ("Into the West" from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003), Fran Walsh ("Into the West" from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003), Melissa Etheridge ("I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth in 2006). Markéta Irglová ("Falling Slowly" from Once) in 2007. In 1988, Carly Simon became the first woman working alone to win this award. She was joined by Melissa Etheridge who won in 2006.
• Best Animated Short Film: Faith Elliott Hubley was the first woman to be nominated in this category in 1959 for Moonbird. She shared the nomination (and the award) with her husband John Hubley.

Four.

1. 1953 Won Oscar Best Director for: The Quiet Man (1952)
2. 1942 Won Oscar Best Director for: How Green Was My Valley (1941)
3. 1941 Won Oscar Best Director for: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

   1940 Nominated Oscar Best Director for: Stagecoach (1939)

4. 1936 Won Oscar Best Director for: The Informer (1935)

As of 03/07/2010, 82 films have won the Oscar for Best picture

1. 1927/28 (1st) OUTSTANDING PICTURE * Paramount Famous Lasky -- Wings
2. 1928/29 (2nd) OUTSTANDING PICTURE * Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -- The Broadway Melody [NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners (*) were revealed during the awards banquet on April 3, 1930.]
3. 1929/30 (3rd) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * All Quiet on the Western Front -- Universal
4. 1930/31 (4th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Cimarron -- RKO Radio
5. 1931/32 (5th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Grand Hotel -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
6. 1932/33 (6th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Cavalcade -- Fox
7. 1934 (7th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * It Happened One Night -- Columbia
8. 1935 (8th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Mutiny on the Bounty -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
9. 1936 (9th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * The Great Ziegfeld -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
10. 1937 (10th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * The Life of Emile Zola -- Warner Bros.
11. 1938 (11th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * You Can't Take It with You -- Columbia
12. 1939 (12th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Gone with the Wind -- Selznick International Pictures
13. 1940 (13th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Rebecca -- Selznick International Pictures
14. 1941 (14th) OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE * How Green Was My Valley -- 20th Century-Fox
15. 1942 (15th) OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE * Mrs. Miniver -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
16. 1943 (16th) OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE * Casablanca -- Warner Bros.
17. 1944 (17th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Going My Way -- Paramount
18. 1945 (18th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * The Lost Weekend -- Paramount
19. 1946 (19th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * The Best Years of Our Lives -- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
20. 1947 (20th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Gentleman's Agreement -- 20th Century-Fox
21. 1948 (21st) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Hamlet -- J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
22. 1949 (22nd) BEST MOTION PICTURE * All the King's Men -- Robert Rossen Productions
23. 1950 (23rd) BEST MOTION PICTURE * All about Eve -- 20th Century-Fox
24. 1951 (24th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * An American in Paris -- Arthur Freed, Producer
25. 1952 (25th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * The Greatest Show on Earth -- Cecil B. DeMille, Producer
26. 1953 (26th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * From Here to Eternity -- Buddy Adler, Producer
27. 1954 (27th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * On the Waterfront -- Sam Spiegel, Producer
28. 1955 (28th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Marty -- Harold Hecht, Producer
29. 1956 (29th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Around the World in 80 Days -- Michael Todd, Producer
30. 1957 (30th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * The Bridge on the River Kwai -- Sam Spiegel, Producer
31. 1958 (31st) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Gigi -- Arthur Freed, Producer
32. 1959 (32nd) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Ben-Hur -- Sam Zimbalist, Producer
33. 1960 (33rd) BEST MOTION PICTURE * The Apartment -- Billy Wilder, Producer
34. 1961 (34th) BEST MOTION PICTURE* West Side Story -- Robert Wise, Producer
35. 1962 (35th) BEST PICTURE* Lawrence of Arabia -- Sam Spiegel, Producer
36. 1963 (36th) BEST PICTURE* Tom Jones -- Tony Richardson, Producer
37. 1964 (37th) BEST PICTURE* My Fair Lady -- Jack L. Warner, Producer
38. 1965 (38th) BEST PICTURE* The Sound of Music -- Robert Wise, Producer
39. 1966 (39th) BEST PICTURE* A Man for All Seasons -- Fred Zinnemann, Producer
40. 1967 (40th) BEST PICTURE* In the Heat of the Night -- Walter Mirisch, Producer
41. 1968 (41st) BEST PICTURE* Oliver! -- John Woolf, Producer
42. 1969 (42nd) BEST PICTURE* Midnight Cowboy -- Jerome Hellman, Producer
43. 1970 (43rd) BEST PICTURE* Patton -- Frank McCarthy, Producer
44. 1971 (44th) BEST PICTURE* The French Connection -- Philip D'Antoni, Producer
45. 1972 (45th) BEST PICTURE* The Godfather -- Albert S. Ruddy, Producer
46. 1973 (46th) BEST PICTURE* The Sting -- Tony Bill, Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, Producers
47. 1974 (47th) BEST PICTURE* The Godfather Part II -- Francis Ford Coppola, Producer; Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos, Co-Producers
48. 1975 (48th) BEST PICTURE* One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas, Producers
49. 1976 (49th) BEST PICTURE* Rocky -- Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers
50. 1977 (50th) BEST PICTURE* Annie Hall -- Charles H. Joffe, Producer
51. 1978 (51st) BEST PICTURE* The Deer Hunter -- Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall, Producers
52. 1979 (52nd) BEST PICTURE* Kramer vs. Kramer -- Stanley R. Jaffe, Producer
53. 1980 (53rd) BEST PICTURE* Ordinary People -- Ronald L. Schwary, Producer
54. 1981 (54th) BEST PICTURE* Chariots of Fire -- David Puttnam, Producer
55. 1982 (55th) BEST PICTURE* Gandhi -- Richard Attenborough, Producer
56. 1983 (56th) BEST PICTURE* Terms of Endearment -- James L. Brooks, Producer
57. 1984 (57th) BEST PICTURE* Amadeus -- Saul Zaentz, Producer
58. 1985 (58th) BEST PICTURE* Out of Africa -- Sydney Pollack, Producer
59. 1986 (59th) BEST PICTURE* Platoon -- Arnold Kopelson, Producer
60. 1987 (60th) BEST PICTURE* The Last Emperor -- Jeremy Thomas, Producer
61. 1988 (61st) BEST PICTURE* Rain Man -- Mark Johnson, Producer
62. 1989 (62nd) BEST PICTURE* Driving Miss Daisy -- Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck, Producers
63. 1990 (63rd) BEST PICTURE* Dances With Wolves -- Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner, Producers
64. 1991 (64th) BEST PICTURE* The Silence of the Lambs -- Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt and Ron Bozman, Producers
65. 1992 (65th) BEST PICTURE* Unforgiven -- Clint Eastwood, Producer
66. 1993 (66th) BEST PICTURE* Schindler's List -- Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig, Producers
67. 1994 (67th) BEST PICTURE* Forrest Gump -- Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey, Producers
68. 1995 (68th) BEST PICTURE* Braveheart -- Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr. and Bruce Davey, Producers
69. 1996 (69th) BEST PICTURE* The English Patient -- Saul Zaentz, Producer
70. 1997 (70th) BEST PICTURE* Titanic -- James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
71. 1998 (71st) BEST PICTURE* Shakespeare in Love -- David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman, Producers
72. 1999 (72nd) BEST PICTURE* American Beauty -- Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, Producers
73. 2000 (73rd) BEST PICTURE* Gladiator -- Douglas Wick, David Franzoni and Branko Lustig, Producers
74. 2001 (74th) BEST PICTURE* A Beautiful Mind -- Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, Producers
75. 2002 (75th) BEST PICTURE* Chicago -- Martin Richards, Producer
76. 2003 (76th) BEST PICTURE* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King -- Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Producers
77. 2004 (77th) BEST PICTURE* Million Dollar Baby -- Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg, Producers
78. 2005 (78th) BEST PICTURE* Crash -- Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers
79. 2006 (79th) BEST PICTURE* The Departed -- Graham King, Producer
80. 2007 (80th) BEST PICTURE* No Country for Old Men -- Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
81. 2008 (81st) BEST PICTURE* Slumdog Millionaire -- Christian Colson, Producer
82. 2009 (82nd) BEST PICTURE* The Hurt Locker -- Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers

The three (3) Academy Award (Oscar) winners for Hud(1963) are:

1. Melvyn Douglas - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Melvyn Douglas was not present at the awards ceremony. His co-star Brandon De Wilde accepted the award on his behalf.
2. Patricia Neal - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Patricia Neal was not present at the awards ceremony. Annabella accepted the award on her behalf.
3. James Wong Howe - Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

At the first Academy Awards ceremony, twelve Oscars were distributed (compared to 24 at the last ceremony). In addition, there were also two honorary awards.

1. Outstanding Picture, Production
2. Unique and Artistic Production
3. Best Director, Comedy Picture
4. Best Director, Dramatic Picture
5. Best Actor
6. Best Actress
7. Best Writing, Original Story
8. Best Writing, Adapted Story
9. Best Cinematography
10. Best Art Direction
11. Best Engineering Effects
12. Best Writing, Title Writing

• Honorary Award - Charles Chaplin - "For versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus".
• Warner Brothers Production - "For producing The Jazz Singer, the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry".