Oscars

Yes. It won 5 Oscars: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Original Screenplay and Cinematography.

37 movies won 4 Oscars (underlined 15 movies won Best Picture): The Informer, Anthony Adverse, The Song of Bernadette, The Lost Weekend, Hamlet (1948), The Heiress, A Streetcar Named Desire, High Noon, Marty, Sayonara, Spartacus, Cleopatra, Tom Jones, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Barry Lyndon, All the President's Men, Network, Annie Hall, All That Jazz, Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire, E.T., Fanny and Alexander, The Right Stuff, Platoon, Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy, Terminator 2, Unforgiven, The Matrix, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Traffic, A Beautiful Mind, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Million Dollar Baby, The Departed and No Country for Old Men.

• Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Boys Town(1938) Spencer Tracy was not present at the awards ceremony. His wife Louise Treadwell accepted the award on his behalf.
• Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Captains Courageous (1937)

Everyone likes to win awards, even film makers. Many other industries present similar types of awards. Your company might present an annual employee of the year award. The Oscars server an additional purpose of promoting film making generally. Movie fans watch more movies because of the award show.

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The 2011 Academy Award for Best Actor went to Jean Dujardin for his performance as silent film star George Valentin in "The Artist." Dujardin is the first French actor to win the Best Actor award.

The cast of Daddy Knows Best - 1983 includes: Matutina Balot Dolphy Corina Abello Hiedi Alemania Maan Angelica Ryan Arnaldo Gabriel Bonnin Vincent Bonnin Rowena Buenaventura Carol Dauden Teroy de Guzman Boy De Guzman Andy De Lara Jimmy De Leon Girlie Dominguez Maria Elena Hernandez Sonny Erang Lemuel Estrada Kristine Garcia Noel Garda Julie Gutierrez Juno Henares Jaime Ladiana Ike Lozada Benny Mack Susan Madrinico Manong Martin Jenny Morena Glenn Navarro Raymond Paraiso Zony Quizon Manuel Quizon Georgie Quizon Manilyn Reynes Tessie Salinas Ariel Salvador Snooky Serna Maricel Soriano Conde Ubaldo Nova Villa

Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks. Tracy won back-to-back Best Actor Oscars for "Captains Courageous" (1937) and "Boys Town" (1938)." A little more than 50 years later, Tom Hanks duplicated the feat, winning for "Philadelphia" (1993) and "Forrest Gump" (1994).

The 1966 Best Actress nominees were: Anouk Aimee for "A Man and a Woman"; Ida Kaminska for "The Shop on Main Street"; Lynn Redgrave for "Georgy Girl"; Vanessa Redgrave for "Morgan! A Suitable Case for Treatment"; and Elizabeth Taylor for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." The Oscar went to Taylor.

Crash won 3 Oscars and 41 awards and 66 nominations.

The Oscar wins were as follows:

Best Achievement in Editing

Huges Winborne

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Paul Haggis

Cathy Shulman

Best Writing Original Screenplay

Paul Haggis

Robert Moresco

Two: Best Supporting Actress (Kim Bassinger) and Best Adapted Screenplay.

She got less votes than Kate Winslet. And seriously: Voters felt Winslet was due for an Oscar after five previous nominations, while Meryl Streep already has two Oscars (but she will at least another one in the -near- future).

No Chinese movie has ever won an Oscar. Two have been nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category, and a few other in different categories- Cinematography, Costume Design, but none have won, yet.

There was no winner that year for Best Animated Feature because the category had not been created yet. Best Animated Feature was a category that was created for the 2002 Academy Awards (for films released in 2001). However, the category for Best Animated Short Film has been around since the 1930's.

In a sense, they have no value. Whoever receives an Oscar must sign a legal contract stating that the Oscar must be offered back to the Academy for one cent prior to selling or giving the Oscar to anyone else. It was discovered at the last award cermony that the contract was not valid for minors. A revised contract was made and signed by a guardian which states that the winner must sign the traditional contract upon turning 18 or return the Oscar. Because the original contract is not valid for minors, two former winners may be able to sell their Oscars if they choose to do so, as they were not of legal age when the signed the traditional contract.

Hattie McDaniel won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1939.

Will Smith has been nominated twice in the Best Actor category. His first nomination was for his 2001 portrayal of three-time heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in "Ali." He was nominated again for his 2006 performance as real-life stockbroker Chris Gardner in "The Pursuit of Happyness."

Lawrence Olivier won one Oscar for best actor and two Oscars as Honorary Awards.