Oscars

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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."

The first black woman to win an Academy Award was Hattie McDaniel, who received the 1939 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind." The first black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar was Halle Berry, who won for her 2001 performance as Leticia Musgrove in "Monster's Ball."

Neither iconic actor was ever honored with an Emmy Award. Griffith is most famous as Sheriff Andy Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show." He was never nominated as the pillar of Mayberry. But co-star Don Knotts, who played Andy's jittery deputy Barney Fife, won five supporting actor Emmys for that role. Griffith received a lone Emmy nomination in 1981 for his dramatic portrayal in the NBC miniseries "Murder In Texas."

Hagman received two Emmy nominations as best actor in a drama series for his portrayal of J.R. Ewing on "Dallas." But he didn't win and received no other nominations during his long TV career. The late Barbara Bel Geddes, who played J.R.'s mother, "Miss Ellie," on the original "Dallas," was the only actor from that longrunning series to ever receive an acting Emmy. She won in 1980.

I would have to say Zdeno Chara....

Douglas Fairbanks, actor, one of the 36 founders of the Academy; and writer-director William C. de Mille, the first president of the Academy (and brother of Cecil B. de Mille).

Kate Winslet won the 2008 Best Actress Oscar for her performance in "The Reader."

Eminem won the Best Original Song Oscar in 2002 for "Lose Yourself" from the movie 8 Mile.

Lost in Translation won 1 Oscar for Best Original Picture; it won 3 Golden Globes for Best Musical or Comedy Motion Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Musical or Comedy Actor; 3 BAFTA film awards for Best Editing, Best Actor, and Best Actress; four IFP Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature, Directory, Male Lead, and Screeplay; and was given the original screenplay award from the Writers Guild of America.