Oscars

No. In fact, some industry insiders are already predicting she'll receive her 21st Oscar-nomination for her upcoming performance as Katherine Graham, the late publisher of The Washington Post in "The Papers."

George C. Scott for Patton.
The Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1970 was George C. Scott in "Patton"

He did not ever win an Oscar, he was nominated for Best Actor for Hotel Rwanda in about 2006.

The Academy Award for Best Actor of 1979 went to Dustin Hoffman for his performance as newly divorced father Ted Kramer in "Kramer vs. Kramer."

The three Indian movies nominated for an Oscar in the foreign language category were: Mother India (1957), Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Lagaan (2001). Shwaas (2004) as someone really likes to mention wasn't nominated for an Oscar. It was submitted by India with 49 other movies from different countries but did not make the final cut.

Penny Marshall's 1992 film about women's professional baseball did not receive any Academy Award nominations. But it did produce one of the most-remembered lines from the movies: "There's no crying in baseball!"

Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for the Best Actor category in 2013.

Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for their roles in Gone with the Wind (1939).

It has happened several times, but perhaps the biggest winner was "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." It was nominated for 11 Oscars for the year 2003 and won in every category, including Best Picture.

Bhanu Athaiya was the First Indian to Get an Oscar. She won the award for the Best Costume Designer for Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi in 1982. Bhanu Athaiya has been associated with the Hindi Film Industry for more than 50 years. She was born as Bhanumati Annasaheb Rajopadhye in Kolhapur in Maharashtra.

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.

Justin Henry was 8 years and 276 days old when he was nominated in 1980 as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979). He broke the record held by Jackie Cooper, who was 9 years and 20 days old when he was nominated in 1931 as Best Actor for his work in the movie "Skippy."

Henry did not win the Oscar, which went to 79-year-old Melvyn Douglas for his performance in "Being There."

Yes. Whitaker won the 2006 Best Actor award for his portrayal of the 1970s Ugandan strongman Idi Ami Dada in the drama "The Last King of Scotland."

Two actually: He won Best Actor for Jimmy Markum in Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008).

Rasool pookuti was the first malayalee to win an oscar award for sound mixing.

Yes. Whoopi Goldberg has served as solo host of the awards show four times, and Chris Rock once. Other African-Americans have appeared at the ceremony as co-hosts, including Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross and Richard Pryor.

Most people tend to remain near where their ancestors lived. Since a very large number of African Americans descend from Africans imported to the South to work as slaves, there are still large numbers of African Americans in the South.

No actor has ever won more than three Oscars in the acting categories. Jack Nicholson won Best Actor awards for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and "As Good As It Gets" (1997). He also won a Best Supporting Actor award for "Terms of Endearment" (1983).

Walter Brennan won three Best Supporting Actor awards for "Come and Get It" (1936), "Kentucky" (1938) and "The Westerner" (1940).

In 1997, the big winner at the ceremony was Anthony Minghella's The English Patient (1996), which had received 12 nominations and won 9 awards including Best Picture.

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