Oscars

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."

In 1999, the King of Pop was the top bidder at a Sotheby auction for the ownership of producer David O. Selznick's 1939 Best Picture Oscar for "Gone With the Wind." The purchase price: $1.54 million.

1. Network (1976) Actor (Peter Finch-won); Actress (Faye Dunaway-won);
2. Coming Home (1978) Actor (Jon Voight-won); Actress (Jane Fonda-won);
3. Good as It Gets (1997) Actor (Jack Nicholson-won); Actress (Helen Hunt-won);
4. On Golden Pond (1981) Actor (Henry Fonda-won); Actress (Katharine Hepburn-won);
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Actor (Jack Nicholson-won); Actress (Louise Fletcher-won);

Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy appeared in nine films together.

Yes, in 1948, it was the first and to day the only Shakespeare play to win the award. Laurence Olivier also won for Best Actor and the film also won for Best Art Direction in black in white and Best Costume Design in black and white.

Susan Hayward for I Want to Live.
Susan Hayward won the 1958 Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of real-life death-row inmate Barbara Graham in "I Want to Live!" Graham was convicted of murder and executed in a gas chamber by the State of California on June 3, 1955. Hayward's Oscar was her first in five nominations for Best Actress.
Susan Hayward

• John G. Avildsen won the Oscar for Best Director
• Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad won the Oscar for Best Film Editing
• Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff won the Oscar for Best Picture

does jack nicholson pay for his laker seats?