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The Oscars, also known as the Academy Awards, are an annual awards ceremony. Awards are given out for cinematic excellence. The awards ceremony is held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Did troy win an Academy Award?

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.

What is the difference between a Tony award and an Oscar?

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.

What films won 12 Oscars?

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).

Who was the actress who played boxer in Million Dollar Baby?

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

What Oscars did Hugo win at the Academy Awards?

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).

Who pays for the Oscars ceremonies?

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.

Who is meryl streeps actress daughter?

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."

Who was the first black American woman to win an Academy Award in 2002?

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."

Has Andy Griffith ever been nominated for an Academy Award?

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.

Who hosted the Oscars in 1973?

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).

Oscar winner of the movie The Reader?

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

Which Eminem song won an Academy Award?

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

Did Good Will Hunting win the Best Picture Oscar?

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.

Who won the Oscar for Special Effects in 1961?

Wings, The Rains Come, The Thief of Bagdad, I Wanted Wings, Reap the Wild Wind, Crash Drive, Thirty Seconds Over Toyko, Wonder Man, Blithe Spirit, Green Dolphin Street, Portrait of Jennie, Mighty Joe Young, Destination Moon, When Worlds Collide, Plymouth Adventure, The War of the Worlds, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Bridges of Toko-Ri, The Ten Commandments, The Enemy Below, tom thumb, Ben-Hur, The Time Machine, The Guns of Navarone, The Longest Day, Cleopatra, Mary Poppins, Grand Prix, Fantastic Voyage, Doctor Dolittle, 2001: A Space Oydessy, Marooned, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Poseidon Adventure, The Hindenburg, Star Wars, Superman, Alien, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Cocoon, Aliens, Innerspace, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Abyss, Total Recall, Terminator 2, Death Becomes Her, Jurassic Park, Forest Gump, Babe, Independence Day, Titanic, What Dreams May Come, The Matrix, Gladiator, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Spider-Man 2, King Kong, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and The Golden Compass.

What film won the Oscar for best costume design in 1955?

The award for Best Costume Design for a black-and-white film went to Helen Rose for "I'll Cry Tomorrow." The award for a color film went to Charles LeMaire for "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing."

Are Angelina Jolies lips real?

Yes, they are, as can be seen in old pictures of her, long before she became famous, as well as her daugher Shiloh who has her lips.

Who were Academy Award winners in 1994?

The male who has won the most oscars is Walt Disney with 22 oscars. He also won the most oscars in one year which was 4 in 1953. The female who has won the most oscars is Edith Head with 8 oscars, all for costume design.

Did Lassie win an Oscar?

To the best of my knowledge no Oscar ( academy award) has ever been awarded to an Animal. Lassie was a Collie. several dogs, were of necessity, involved for different types of stunts- Lassie fighting a more dangerous animal was of course done with trick photography as were forest fire scenes, etc. the ASPCA would not permit the Dog to be in real life-threartening peril. preoccupation with downbeat subjects turned many adult viewers off. Lassie ( TV version- Provost-Lockhart) had overtones of situation tragedy- and the program was DEVOID of any humor, even wisecracks.

How many Oscars did Out of Africa win?

The African Queen (1951) won one (1) Academy Award (Oscar).

  1. Best Actor in a Leading Role - Humphrey Bogart

It was also nominated for the following awards

  1. Best Actress in a Leading Role - Katharine Hepburn
  2. Best Director - John Huston
  3. Best Writing, Screenplay - James Agee and John Huston

Who was the German actress that won an Oscar in 1936?

Zarah Leander

Marika Rokk

Irene Von meyendorf

Christina Soderbaum

Marianne Hoppe

Mady Rahl

Winnie Markus

What was Kathy bates last name in misery?

Kathy Bates' name in "Misery" was Annie Wilkes.

What year did people start calling the AMPAS award Oscars?

The Oscars 'began' in 1929. The first Academy Awards took place on May 16, 1929 as an un-televised, un-broadcasted ceremony. The original event was only 15 minutes long! The winner for Best Picture at the first awards was Wings.