Oscars

The film to win Best Picture at the 76th Annual Academy Awards was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. It not only won the Best Picture award, but also a record-setting 11 Oscars overall. Only 2 other films have completed the feat of 11 Oscars, Titanic and Ben-Hur.

1978 Best Supporting Actress, The Deer Hunter (1) 1979 Won Supporting Actress, Kramer vs. Kramer 1981 Lead Actress, The French Lieutentant's Woman 1982 Won Lead Actress, Sophie's Choice 1983 Lead Actress, Silkwood 1985 Lead Actress, Out of Africa 1987 Lead Actress, A Cry in the Dark 1988 Lead Actress, Ironweed 1990 Lead Actress, Postcards from the Edge 1995 Lead Actress, The Bridges of Madison County 1998 Lead Actress, One True Thing 1999 Lead Actress, Music of the Heart 2002 Supporting Actress, Adaptation 2006 Lead Actress, The Devil Wears Prada 2008 Lead Actress, Doubt (15)

On February 29, 2004, Sofia Coppola won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Lost in Translation." As a result, she joined her father, Francis Ford Coppola, and her grandfather, Carmine Coppola, as three-generation Oscar winners.

Jamie Foxx in Ray, Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator, Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda, Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby, and Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland were all nominated, with Jamie Foxx as the winner.

As of 03/07/2010, sixty-one (61) films have won exactly 3 Academy Awards (Oscars).

Avatar 2009 Bourne Ultimatum, The 2007 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Camelot 1967 Casablanca 1943 Cavalcade 1932/1933 Cimarron 1930/1931 Coming Home 1978 Crash 2005 Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The 2008 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Darling 1965 Diary of Anne Frank, The 1959 Dick Tracy 1990 Elmer Gantry 1960 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Glory 1989 Godfather, The 1972 Grand Prix 1966 Great Ziegfeld, The 1936 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Hello, Dolly! 1969 How the West Was Won 1963 Howards End 1992 Hud 1963 Jaws 1975 Julia 1977 Jurassic Park 1993 Killing Fields, The 1984 King Kong 2005 Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) 1998 Life of Émile Zola, The 1937 Lion in Winter, The 1968 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 1955 Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 Midnight Cowboy 1969 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 Moonstruck 1987 On Golden Pond 1981 One Night of Love 1934 Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) 2006 Pianist, The 2002 Piano, The 1993 Reds 1981 Rocky 1976 Roman Holiday 1953 Room with a View, A 1986 Rose Tattoo, The 1955 Story of Louis Pasteur, The 1936 Sunrise 1927/1928[16] Sunset Boulevard 1950 Tess 1980 Thief of Bagdad, The 1940 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Towering Inferno, The 1974 Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The 1948 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas) 1964

Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards during her distinguished career -- all for Best Actress.

The first black male actor to win an Oscar for best actor was Sidney Poitier , Lilies of the Field 1963 and the second black actor to win an Oscar for best actor was Denzel Washington, Training Day 2001.

In 1930, the Academy Awards were held twice on April 3rd (2nd Academy Awards) and on November 5th (3rd Academy Awards). Both of the banquets were held at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. (Cocoanut Grove and Fiesta Room, respectively).

These were the 2nd and 3rd Academy Awards presentations. The first awards in 1929 honored films made in 1927 and the first half of 1928, and the second honored films made between August 1928 and July 1929. The third ceremony was the first attempt to bring the awards closer to the nominated period (August 1929 to July 1930)

It was not until the awards date was moved to March in 1934 (6th Academy Awards) that the period of eligibility was matched to the calendar year, with those awards covering an 18-month period from August 1932 to December 1933.

George Lucas won the Oscar for Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1991.

The odakkuzhal award was won by unnikrishnan puthur. It is not an award of Bollywood but south. The award was given in the 2010 year.

The first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature went to Shrek in 2001.

There is no choreographer listed in the credits, however Fred Werner is credited as Choreographic Music Associate, Jutta Beil is credited as Dance Coordinator and Bob Fosse is credited as Dance Stager and Stager for Musical Numbers.

A person must have a nominator, an endorser, and approving authority to get the "Order of Samuel Sharp" award. Your supervisor has to go the website http://www.usaocaweb.org/downloads/samuelSharpe.pdf and print off the application form.

Chariots of Fire won the Oscar for Costume Design in 1981.

It was Jack Palance, moments after he won a Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in "City Slickers" (1991).

Tom Hanks. He has been nominated for 5 Academy Awards (Oscars) for Big, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan and Castaway, winning two consecutive Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.

1. George Sanders won Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2. Edith Head and Charles Le Maire won Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
3. Joseph L. Mankiewicz won Best Director
4. Best Picture
5. Best Sound, Recording
6. Joseph L. Mankiewicz won Best Writing, Screenplay

In 1989, the Best Actress in a Leading Role award was given to Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy.
Jessica Tandy was named Best Actress of 1989 for her performance in "Driving Miss Daisy." At 80 years and 292 days old, she was the oldest person to win a major Oscar.

No, the Oscar statuette is made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base. The first ones were in bronze. During World War II, they were made of plaster and later replaced with fine metals after the war.

"The Incredibles" directed by Brad Bird. "Shark Tale" and "Shrek 2" were also nominated.