Oscars

Three with 11 Oscars:

Ben-Hur (1959)

Titanic (1997)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Only one with 10 Oscars:

West Side Story (1961)

Three with 9 Oscars (the first two winning 9 out of 9 nominations):

Gigi (1958)

The Last Emperor (1987)

The English Patient (1996)

1. Best Actor in a Leading Role - Charlton Heston
2. Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Hugh Griffith
3. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color - William A. Horning, Edward C. Carfagno and Hugh Hunt (In case of Horning the Oscar win was posthumous)
4. Best Cinematography, Color - Robert Surtees
5. Best Costume Design, Color - Elizabeth Haffenden
6. Best Director - William Wyler
7. Best Effects, Special Effects - A. Arnold Gillespie (visual), Robert MacDonald (visual) and Milo B. Lory (audible)
8. Best Film Editing - Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning
9. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - Miklós Rózsa
10. Best Picture - Sam Zimbalist (postumous - Sam Zimbalist died during filming. Mrs. Zimbalist accepted the award on his behalf)
11. Best Sound - Franklin Milton (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer SSD)

Ben Hur was also nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Karl Tunberg)

1. Best Actor in a Supporting Role - George Chakiris
2. Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Rita Moreno
3. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color - Boris Leven and Victor A. Gangelin
4. Best Cinematography, Color - Daniel L. Fapp
5. Best Costume Design, Color - Irene Sharaff
6. Best Director - Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (first time a directing award was shared)
7. Best Film Editing - Thomas Stanford
8. Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture - Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal
9. Best Picture - Robert Wise
10. Best Sound - Fred Hynes (Todd-AO SSD) and Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)

West Side Story was also nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Ernest Lehman).

1. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Peter Lamont (art director) and Michael Ford (set decorator)
2. Best Cinematography - Russell Carpenter
3. Best Costume Design - Deborah Lynn Scott
4. Best Director - James Cameron
5. Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing - Tom Bellfort and Christopher Boyes
6. Best Effects, Visual Effects - Robert Legato, Mark A. Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher and Michael Kanfer
7. Best Film Editing - Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron and Richard A. Harris
8. Best Music, Original Dramatic Score - James Horner
9. Best Music, Original Song - James Horner (music) and Will Jennings (lyrics) - For the song "My Heart Will Go On", performed by Céline Dion.
10. Best Picture - James Cameron and Jon Landau
11. Best Sound - Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers and Mark Ulano

Titanic was also nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Kate Winslet); Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Gloria Stuart); and Best Makeup (Tina Earnshaw, Greg Cannom and Simon Thompson)

1. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Grant Major (art director), Dan Hennah (set decorator) and Alan Lee (set decorator)
2. Best Costume Design - Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
3. Best Director - Peter Jackson
4. Best Editing - Jamie Selkirk
5. Best Makeup - Richard Taylor and Peter King
6. Best Music, Original Score - Howard Shore
7. Best Music, Original Song - Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox For the song "Into the West"
8. Best Picture - Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
9. Best Sound Mixing - Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
10. Best Visual Effects - Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke
11. Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson

10 Oscars: West Side Story

Gordon Parks,Gordon Parks, Jr.,Melvin Van Peebles,Bill Duke ,Michael Schultz ,Stan Lathan,Spike Lee,Orlando Bagwell,Thomas Carter,Julie Dash,Carl Franklin,Allen Hughes and Albert Hughes ,Kasi Lemmons,Stanley Nelson ,John Singleton,Forest Whitaker,F. Gary Gray,Antoine Fuqua,Tim Story,Gina Prince-Blythewood,the Wayans Brothers,Tyler Perry,Charles Burnett,This is only a few that I could think of but here is a link that is more detailed...

http://www.skokielibrary.info/s_audiovisual/av_lists/av_ls_Movies/african_american_directors.asp

No, you’re not missing anything. We’re all confused.

Eminem wasn’t up for any awards this year, and there was nothing that suddenly made “Lose Yourself” more culturally relevant this year. The rapper’s tweet about his performance implied that it was to make up for the fact that he couldn’t make it to the 2003 ceremony where “Lose Yourself” was honored with Best Original Song. And since the performance was introduced with a montage about the power of music in films, I guess that’s what made it make sense?

We’re all talking about it, anyway, and that was clearly the goal.

Meryl Streep holds the overall record with 19 Academy Award nominations. She has won three times. Her nominated roles and movies are as follows (Oscar wins in bold):

• Linda in "The Deer Hunter" (1978). Best Supporting Actress.
• Joanna Kramer in "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979). Best Supporting Actress.
• Sarah/Anna in "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981). Best Actress.
• Sophie Zawistowski in "Sophie's Choice" (1982). Best Actress.
• Karen Silkwood in "Silkwood" (1983). Best Actress.
• Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen in "Out of Africa" (1985). Best Actress.
• Helen Archer in "Ironweed" (1987). Best Actress.
• Lindy Chamberlain in "A Cry in the Dark" (1988). Best Actress.
• Suzanne Vale in "Postcards from the Edge" (1990). Best Actress.
• Francesca Johnson in "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995). Best Actress.
• Kate Gulden in "One True Thing" (1998). Best Actress.
• Roberta Guaspari in "Music of the Heart" (1999). Best Actress.
• Susan Orlean in "Adaptation" (2002). Best Supporting Actress.
• Miranda Priestly in "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006). Best Actress.
• Sister Aloysius Beauvier in "Doubt" (2008). Best Actress.
• Julia Child in "Julie & Julia" (2009). Best Actress.
• Baroness Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady" (2011). Best Actress.
• Violet Weston in "August: Osage County" (2013). Best Actress.
• The Witch in "Into the Woods" (2014). Best Supporting Actress.

The talking pig is a combination of 48 real Yorkshire pigs plus an animatronic double. A makeup artist added toupee and eyelashes to each, and computer digitization manipulated pictures of the snout to make the pig appear to talk.

Because baby pigs grow so fast, 48 pigs were used during filming for the role of Babe.