Oscars

Yes. Peter Jackson's final installment of "The Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy won all 11 2003 Academy Awards for which it had been nominated. The film joined two other Best Picture winners -- "Ben-Hur" (1959) and "Titanic" (1997) -- for the most Oscars received in one year.

Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman, Annie Hall Neil Simon, The Goodbye Girl George Lucas, Star Wars Robert Benton, The Late Show Arthur Laurents, The Turning Point Best Adapted Screenplay: Alvin Sargent, Julia Peter Shaffer, Equus Louise Bonnell & Jean-Claude Carriere, That Obscure Object of Desire Larry Gelbart, Oh, God! Gavin Lambert & Lewis John Carlino, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

The 85th Academy Awards telecast will be aired by Arizona ABC affiliates KNXV-TV, Channel 15 in Phoenix and KGUN-TV, Channel 9 in Tucson.

The cast of The 2002 World Music Awards - 2002 includes: Prince Albert of Monaco as himself Shakira as herself Enya as herself Anggun as herself Shaggy as himself DJ Bobo as himself Andrea Bocelli as himself Naomi Campbell as herself Michael Cretu as himself Johnny Depp as himself Amr Diab as himself Gloria Gaynor as herself Ayumi Hamasaki as herself Helena Hellwig as herself Nicole Hohloch as herself Enrique Iglesias as himself Alicia Keys as herself Jennifer Love Hewitt as herself Mark McGrath as himself Kylie Minogue as herself Christina Orbakaite as herself Ja Rule as himself Nicholas Tse as himself

In 1961 the nominees for Best Actor in a Leading Role were Charles Boyer for Fanny, Paul Newman for The Hustler, Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg, Spencer Tracy for Judgment at Nuremberg and Stuart Whitman for The Mark. The Oscar went to Maximilian Schell.

Angela Lansbury has hosted the most Tony Awards. She has been the host of five ceremonies.

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No, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Nominated for the Oscar for Best Score by Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith, but it did not win. The following year, Walt Disney was presented with an Honorary Award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field (one statuette - seven miniature statuettes).

"Lilies of the Field," in which Poitier played handyman Homer Smith, who builds a chapel for immigrant German nuns in Arizona.

"Gone With the Wind" was the big winner at the 12th annual Academy Awards, which honored the best in motion pictures for the year 1939. The awards ceremony was held on February 29, 1940.

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Best Actor: Russell Crowe, Gladiator Best Actress: Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich Best Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, Traffic Best Supporting Actress: Marcia Gay Harden, Pollock Best Director: Steven Soderburgh, Traffic Best Picture: Gladiator

Zero. He was nominated for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay for Rocky (1976), but didn't win.
Stallone, who received two 1976 nominations for "Rocky" (Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay), has never won an Academy Award.

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The preeminent awards in the field of motion pictures and arts include The Golden Globe Awards and The Academy Awards.The Golden Globe Awards are distributed annually by Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Academy Awards popularly known as the Oscars are the most prestigious of awards. It is awarded by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.The Golden Globe Awards are always followed by the Oscars. The Golden Globe Awards are given to all the forms of media, but Academy Awards are given only to the motion pictures. This includes documentary & animation feature films.

Marlon Brando for The Godfather

No film has ever won 12 Academy Awards. The record is 11, shared by three movies: "Ben-Hur" (1959), "Titanic" (1997) and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003).

Hillary Swank won the Best Actress Oscar for playing the boxer in "Million Dollar Baby."

Martin Scorcese's 2011 film about the early days of moviemaking in France was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won five -- Best Cinematography (Robert Richardson), Art Direction (Dante Ferretti, Francesco Lo Schiavo), Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.

The movie also received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (Scorsese), Adapted Screenplay (John Logan), Best Original Score (Howard Shore), Best Costume Design (Sandy Powell) and Best Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker).

The Academy Awards are paid for by The Motion Picture Academy Of Arts and Science. The show is paid for by dues received by its members. The show is then "sold" to the TV network and the network pays for the show by selling advertisements.

Meryl Streep has two daughters who have been seen recently in television series. Mamie Gummer, who turns 29 on August 3, 2012, has made occasional appearances on the CBS drama "The Good Wife" and played Dr. Mina Minard in the ABC medical drama "Off the Map." She will headline the upcoming series "Emily Owens, M.D.," which will air Tuesday nights on The CW during the 2012-2013 season.

Gummer's 26-year-old sister, Grace, recently guest starred on the NBC series "Smash." She also starred as Anna Moore in the TeenNick cable series "Gigantic" and appeared in the 2011 Tom Cruise-Julia Roberts feature film "Larry Crowne."