Oscars

• 1958 British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Best Foreign Actor for The Defiant Ones
• 1958 Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for The Defiant Ones
• 1963 Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Lilies of the Field
• 1963 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Lilies of the Field
• 1963 Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for Lilies of the Field
• 1974 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Because Poitier is a citizen of The Bahamas, a Commonwealth realm that subscribes to the British Honours System, this is a substantive (as opposed to honorary) knighthood, which entitles him to the style "Sir". Poitier does not use the style, nor does his wife use the style "Lady Poitier"
• 1992 AFI Life Achievement Award
• 1995 SAG Life Achievement Award
• 1997 Appointed non-resident Bahamian Ambassador to Japan
• 1999 Kennedy Center Honors
• 2000 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special for The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
• 2001 NAACP Image Award - Hall of Fame Award
• 2001 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album - Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) and Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man
• 2002 Honorary Oscar - "For his extraordinary performances and unique presence on the screen and for representing the industry with dignity, style and intelligence"
• 2009 Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom[14]

The 2000 Best Actor nominees were: Javier Bardem for "Before Night Falls"; Russell Crowe for "Gladiator" (his second of three consecutive nominations in the category); Tom Hanks for "Cast Away"; Ed Harris for "Pollock"; and Geoffrey Rush for "Quills." The Oscar went to Crowe.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) only awards one Oscar for Best Song every year, so it is not possible for one song to win more than one Oscar. And a song is only eligible for consideration if it is an original song, it can be used in many movies, but it is only eligible to win the Oscar for the movie it was originally written for. It is possible for one composer to win more than one Oscar. There is another category for Best Score, and composers can win year after year.

West Side Story (1961) won 10 Oscars: Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound and Score. The only nomination it did not win is Adapted Screenplay- Best Picture- Robert Wise Best Director- Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins Best Supporting Actress- Rita Moreno Best Supporting Actor- George Chakiris Best Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)- Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal Best Sound- Fred Hynes, Gordon Sawyer Best Costume Design (Color)- Irene Sharaff Best Film Editing- Thomas Stanford Best Art-Set Direction (Color)- Boris Leven, Victor A. Gangelin Best Cinematography (Color)- Daniel L. Fapp

Three movies won 11 Oscars: Ben-Hur (1959) which was nominated for 12 awards, Titanic (1997) which was nomianted for 14 awards, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) that won all 11 nominations.

There are 17 categories that a single live action feature film can win in.

Theoretically, two actors from the same film can win in a tie, so a film could win more than 17 awards, but that has never happened.

According to the IMDb website, the role of Beau Wilkes, son of Ashley and Melanie Wilkes, was played by Mickey Kuhn (in the scene where Melanie is dying) and Gary Carlson (uncredited - in the scene where Melanie is feeding the returning soldiers.)

There usually are two music categories recognized at the Academy Awards ceremony. One is for Original Music Score; the other is for Best Original Song.

The English Patient (1996) won 9 Academy Awards.

Ahead of Gandhi, and Slumdog Millionaire which both received 8

Brian McNight has been nominated sixteen times without a win.

No African American comedian has ever won an Oscar for Best Actor. The four Best Actor winners were Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx and Forest Whitaker. Foxx isn't really considered a comedian. Eddie Murphy was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for Dreamgirls, but he lost to Alan Arkin (because Norbit came out before that year's Oscars); however, Whoopi Goldberg is a comedian, and she won an Oscar for Ghost, but she didn't win Best Actor. She won Best Supporting Actress.

Yes. The actor-folk singer won the 1958 Best Supporting Actor award for his performance as rancher Rufus Hannassey in "The Big Country." Interestingly, one of the other nominees in the category was actor-folk singer Theodore Bikel for "The Defiant Ones."

It recently has been held in either late February or early March. This could change after 2012 because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may move the ceremony to January because of the glut of other awards shows before it.

Buck Buck, how many Fawns are up?? I assume you mean the Deer Character, Bambi. Bambi is mated, aligned, whatever with Faline, his love interest with a cat-like name. Evidentally they have a family- but how many.. it doesn"t figure in the plot.

Ziegfeld was best-known for(marriage-wise) his marriage to Anna Held. there was a movie house or stage theatre in Coney Island that bore her name inthe twenties- she died in l9l7.

The nominees for Best Actress of 1988 were: Glenn Close for "Dangerous Liaisons"; Jodie Foster for "The Accused"; Melanie Griffith for "Working Girl"; Meryl Streep for "A Cry in the Dark"; and Sigourney Weaver for "Gorillas in the Mist." The Oscar went to Foster.

A supporting actor is one who is cast in a role that is not the lead, but is still vital to the play. Although the supporting roles are not usually the biggest parts, they add depth to the plot.

Burt Lancaster for Elmer Gantry.
Burt Lancaster won his only Best Actor award for playing the title character in "Elmer Gantry." He also received Best Actor nominations for "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "The Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962) and "Atlantic City" (1980).

Meryl Streep stands as the most nominated actor with 15 nominations. Streep won Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in "Kramer vs Kramer" and Best Actress in a Leading Role in "Sophie's Choice." She was also nominated for her work in "The Deer Hunter," "The French Lieutenant's Woman," "Silkwood," "Out of Africa," "Ironweed," "A Cry in the Dark," "Postcards from the Edge," "The Bridges of Madison County," "One True Thing," "Music of the Heart," "Adaptation,", "The Devil Wears Prada", and "Doubt."

Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India for excellence in sports coaching. The award comprises a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs.300,000. The award was instituted in 1985. As the best sportsperson award is named Arjuna Award, it is appropriate that the coaching award is named after Dronacharya, as he was the Guru of Arjuna.

Yes. Yes. And yes. Ingrid Bergman won three Academy Awards during her career. She won the 1944 Best Actress award for her performance in "Gaslight," and the 1956 Best Actress award for her work in "Anastasia." Her third Oscar was a 1974 Best Supporting Actress award for a small role as a Swedish missionary/suspect in "Murder on the Orient Express."