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Academy Award Fun Facts Flashcards

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Only silent film to win Best Picture

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Wings (1927/1928) [While The Artist was mostly silent, it had a soundtrack with some sound effects, and several characters with brief dialogue at the end of the film]

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First “sound” film to win Best Picture

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The Broadway Melody (1928-29)

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First color film to win Best Picture

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Gone with the Wind (1939)

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The last entirely black-and-white film to win Best Picture

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The Artist (2011) [Prior to 2011, The Apartment (1960) held this distinction; Schindler’s List (1993) had some color elements]

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The only sequels to win Best Picture

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The Godfather Part II (1974); Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

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The only X-rated film to win Best Picture

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Midnight Cowboy (1969) [The film was subsequently edited and given an R rating in 1971]

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The first foreign-language film to be nominated for Best Picture

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Grand Illusion (1938) - French [To date, no foreign-language film has won Best Picture]

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The first non-Hollywood film to win an Academy Award

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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1932/33) [Charles Laughton won Best Actor]

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The first non-Hollywood film to win Best Picture

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Hamlet (1948) [Financed and filmed in England]

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The only films to win three academy awards for acting

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); Network (1976) [To date, no film has won all four of the Academy Awards for acting]

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The first foreign-language performance to win an Academy Award

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Sophia Loren, named 1961’s Best Actress for her work in the Italian film Two Women

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The only performers to win consecutive Academy Awards (5)

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Luise Rainer (1936,1937); Spencer Tracy (1937,1938); Katharine Hepburn (1967,1968); Jason Robards (1976,1977); Tom Hanks (1993,1994).

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The only person to win an Oscar for playing a member of the opposite sex

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Linda Hunt, 1983, Best Supporting Actress for The Year of Living Dangerously

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The only performer nominated twice for the same performance

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Barry Fitzgerald, 1944, nominated both as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Going My Way. [Such a feat is not possible under current Academy rules]

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The only performer to win two Oscars for the same performance

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Harold Russell, 1946, voted Best Supporting Actor for The Best Years of Our Lives, and voted an Honorary Oscar that year for his performance

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Most honored individuals at a single ceremony

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(male) Walt Disney (1953), in the categories of Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Cartoon Short Subject, and Two-rell Short Subject; (female) Fran Walsh (2003), in the categories of Original Song, Best Picture, and Adapted Screenplay

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The first posthumous Oscar winner

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Sidney Howard, 1939, winner for writing the screenplay of Gone with the Wind

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The two posthumous Acting Oscar winners

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Peter Finch, 1976, Best Actor winner for The Network; Heath Ledger, 2008, Best Supporting Actor for The Dark Knight;

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The only years two Oscars were given for Best Director (co-winners)

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1961: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, codirectors of West Side Story; 2007: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, codirectors of No Country for Old Men

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The first person to win Oscars for Directing and Writing

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Leo McCarey, 1944, for Going My Way

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The first person to win Oscars for Directing, Writing, and Best Picture

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Billy Wilder, 1960, for The Apartment. [This feat was not possible prior to 1951, when the Best Picture award went to the studio rather than individual producers]

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The only 3-generation Oscar-winning families

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The Hustons: Walter Huston won Best Supportin Actor in 1948; son John Huston won Best Director and Best Screenplay in 1948; and granddaughter Anjelica Huston won Best Supporting Actress in 1985.
The Coppolas: Carmine Coppola won for Original Dramatic Score in 1974; son Francis Ford Coppola’s first win was for Original Screenplay in 1970; and granddaughter Sofia Coppola won for Original Screenplay in 2003.

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The only brother and sister to win Acting Oscars

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Lionel (1930/31) and Ethel (1944) Barrymore

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The only sisters to win Acting Oscars

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Joan Fontaine (1941) and Olivia de Havilland (1946 & 1949)

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The only brothers nominated for acting Oscars

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River (1988) & Joaquin Phoenix (2000, 2005, 2012)

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The only married couples to win acting Oscars (2)

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Laurence Olivier (1948) and Vivien Leigh (1951) [they were not yet married when Leigh won her first Oscar in 1939]; Paul Newman (1986) and Joanne Woodward (1957) [They were married in 1958, prior to Woodward receiving 1957’s Best Actress award].

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The only Oscar winner with parents who both received Oscars

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Liza Minneli; her mother Judy Garland received an Honorary miniature Oscar in 1939; father Vincente Minnelli won Best Director in 1958; Liza Minnelli won Best Actress in 1972

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The most Oscar-nominated family

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The Newmans, with 88 nominations and counting: Brothers Alfred Newman (43 Noms), Emil newman (1), and Lionel Newman (11); second generation Randy newman (20), David Newman (1), and Thomas Newman (12)

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The first person to refuse an Oscar

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Dudley Nichols, 1935, winner for his screenplay of The Informer

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The only write-in Oscar winner

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Hal Mohr, 1935, for his cinematography of A Midsummer Night’s Dream [He won without having been a nominee, a feat not possible under today’s Academy rules]

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Youngest person to win a standard Oscar

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Tatum O’Neal, who was 10 years old when she won the Best Supporting Actress award for 1973’s Paper Moon

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Oldest person to win a standard Oscar

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Christopher Plummer, who was 82, when he won Best Supporting Actor for Beginners in 2012

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Oldest actor to win Best Actor

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Henry Fonda, for On Golden Pond in 1981. He was 76.

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Oldest actress to be nominated for an Oscar

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Gloria Stewart, who was 87 when nominated for her role in 1997’s Titanic

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Three movies that won the most Oscars (11 each)

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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003); Titanic (1997); Ben-Hur (1959)

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Two movies nominated for 14 Oscars

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Titanic (1997) and All About Eve (1950)

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Actress with most Best Actress oscars

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Katharine Hepburn (4)

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Actor with most Best Actor awards

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Daniel Day-Lewis (3)

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Actress with most total acting Oscar nominations

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Meryl Streep (18 nominations and 3 wins - 2 Best Actress and 1 Best Supporting Actress)

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Actor with most total acting Oscar nominations

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Jack Nicholson (12 nominations and 3 wins - 2 Best Actor and 1 Best Supporting Actor)

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Director with most Oscar wins

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John Ford (Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, The Informaer)

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The individual with the most total Oscars

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Walt Disney: 26 awards over his lifetime (22 regular + 4 Honorary); 64 total nominations

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The three Best Picture winning films longer than 3.5 hours

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Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur, Gone With the Wind,

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The youngest Best Actor winner

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Adrien Brody, 29, for The Pianist

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Two films to have been nominated for 11 awards but won 0

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The Turning Point (1978) and The Color Purple (1986)

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The most nominated writer

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Woody Allen (16 nominations for Best Original Screenplay - through 2013 - with 3 wins).

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The most nominated character

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Henry VIII; three actors have earned nods for playing the king

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Country with the most Best Foreign Film Oscars

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Italy (with 10)

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The “unwinningest” actor in Oscar history

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Peter O’Toole, nominated 8 times without ever winning

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The three animated films that have received Best Picture nominations

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Beauty and the Beast (1991); Up (2010); Toy Stoy 3 (2011)

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Youngest Best Actress nominee

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Quvenzhane Wallis (9 years old) for Beasts of of the Southern Wild

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Youngest Best Actress winner

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Marlee Matlin (21 yeasr old) for Children of a Lesser God (1986)

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Oldest Best Actress nominee

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Emmanuelle Riva (85 years old) for Amour (2012)

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Oldest Best Actress winner

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Jessica Tandy (80 years old) for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

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Youngest Best Supporting Actor winner

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Timothy Hutton (20 years old) for Ordinary People (1980)

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Only people to win Best Actor for a film they directed (2)

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Laurence Olivier (1948) for Hamlet; Roberto Benigni (1997) for Life is Beautiful

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First black actress to win an Oscar

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Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939)

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First black actor to win an Oscar

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Sidney Poitier, overlooked for In the Heat of the Night and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, finally won for Lilies of the Field in 1963

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Most frequent host

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Bob Hope (19 times); Billy Crystal is second with

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