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| Academy Awards Trivia - Fun Facts About Oscar |
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BEST PICTURE
- The Best Picture category has gone through five names since the first Oscars, including Outstanding Production and Best Motion Picture.
- Only two sequels have won Best Picture: "The Godfather Part II" (1975) and "The Lord of the RIngs: The Return of the King" (2004).
- There are 11 movies that have won Best Picture without *any* acting nominations -- "An American in Paris" (1952), "Gigi" (1959), and "Braveheart" (1996), to name three.
- Only four Best Pictures nominated for four or more Oscars have made a "clean sweep," meaning they won every award for which they were nominated.
- "Toy Story 3," "Up," and "Beauty and the Beast" are the only animated films to be nominated for Best Picture. "Up" and "Toy Story 3" won Best Animated Feature (established in 2002).
- Just 13 female-directed films have received nods for Best Picture: The first: "Children of a Lesser God." Unfortunately, nine of them were *not* nominated for Best Director.
- Two of the four versions of "A Star Is Born" have been nominated for Best Picture -- in 1938 and 2019.
- Since the Best Picture award goes to the producers of the films, there's one Hollywood big shot with 10 nominations in the category. His name: Steven Spielberg.
- In 1992, "The Silence of the Lambs" became the only horror movie to win the top honor at the Oscars. "The Exorcist" (1974) was the first in the genre to nab a Best Picture nod.
BEST DIRECTOR
- Three directors have received two -- yes, two -- Best Director nominations in one year. That'd be Clarence Brown, Michael Curtiz, and Steven Soderbergh, who won for "Traffic" in 2001.
- As of 2019, only six black directors have been nominated for Best Director. John Singleton was the first in 1992 for "Boys N the Hood"; it would be 18 years before Lee Daniels nabbed the second for "Precious."
- From 2014 to 2018, three Mexican filmmakers have earned this highest honor for directors: Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Alfonso Cuaron.
- William Wyler, helmer of such films as 1953's "Roman Holiday" and 1959's "Ben-Hur," earned the most Best Director nods with 12. He won three times.
- Only three helmers have scored consecutive Best Director wins: John Ford, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
- Two actors-turned-directors have won trophies for their debut films. Maybe you've heard of Robert Redford ("Ordinary People") and Kevin Costner ("Dances With Wolves")?
BEST ACTOR
- Henry VIII has proved to be a meaty Oscar role, with two nods for Best Actor and one for Supporting Actor. Charles Laughton is the only nominee who prevailed for "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1934).
- Robert Downey Jr. is the only actor to receive a nod for portryaing an Oscar nominee; he was recognized for his work as Charlie Chaplin in "Chaplin" (1993).
- Fredric March and James Mason were both nominated for playing Norman Maine (Hi, Jackson!) in "A Star Is Born" in 1938 and 1955.
- Daniel Day-Lewis is the only actor to snag three Best Actor wins: "My Left Foot" (1990); "There Will Be Blood" (2008); and "Lincoln" (2013). He's been nominated six times for the honor.
- Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier are tied for most Best Actor nominations at nine. Tracy won twice and Olivier once.
- "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1936) boasted three Best Actor nominations -- for Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, and Charles Laughton. Ultimately none of them went home with the Oscar statue.
BEST ACTRESS
- There has been one Best Actress tie: in 1969, between Barbra Streisand for "Funny Girl" and Katharine Hepburn for "The Lion in Winter."
- Bette Davis (1939-1946) and Greer Garson (1942-1946) are the only two actresses with five consecutive acting nominations.
- Luise Rainer, Bette Davis, Jodie Foster, and Hillary Swank each won two Best Actress awards by the age of 30!
- Katharine Hepburn received 12 Best Actress nods and is the only person to win any acting Oscar four times.
- Judy Holliday, Shirley Booth, Anne Bancroft, and Barbra Streisand all won Best Actress for roles they originated on stage.
- Two people have won Best Actress for playing country singers: Sissy Spacek (Loretta Lynn, "Coal Miner's Daughter") and Reese Witherspoon (June Carter, "Walk the Line").
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Only three people -- Harold Russell, Timothy Hutton, and Haing S. Ngor -- have nabbed Best Supporting Actor for their feature-film debuts.
- Of the 15 black men who have been nominated in this category, five won. The first was Louis Gossett Jr. for "An Officer and a Gentleman" in 1983.
- The only two brothers ever nominated for Best Supporting Actor are River Phoenix for "Running on Empty" in 1989 and Joaquin Phoenix for "Gladiator" in 2001.
- Jason Robards is the only winner of back-to-back Supporting Actor honors: "All the President's Men" in 1977 and "Julia" in 1978.
- The only posthumous Oscar for Best Supporting Actor went to Heath Ledger for his work as the Joker in 2008's "The Dark Knight."
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Only two actresses have won this honor twice -- Shelley Winters in 1960 and 1966, and Dianne Wiest in 1987 and 1995.
- Thelma Ritter earned six nominations for Best Supporting Actress but never won. Ritter is followed by Agnes Moorehead, Geraldine Page, and Amy Adams, each of whom has won four.
- Black women have received 23 nods in this category. Only seven have won the award -- most recently, Viola Davis for "Fences" in 2017.
- Beatrice Streight was honored with an Oscar for playing Louise Schumacher, the rightfully irritated wife of Max, in "Network" (1976). She had only eight speaking parts in the film.
- When Patty Duke portrayed Hellen Keller in 1962's "The Miracle Worker," she won for her role in which she uttered just one word -- "water" -- in the last scene of the film.
- Tatum O'Neal was the youngest Best Supporting Actress nominee and winner, at age 10, for "Paper Moon" (1973), in which she played a baby con artist alongside her real-life dad, Ryan. |
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