Some Oscar stats (up to 2009 Oscars, presented on March 7, 2010):
Random interesting tidbit. Only 3 films have ever won Best Picture that weren't nominated for Best Director. (1989 - Driving Miss Daisy, 1932 - Grand Hotel, 1928 - Wings)
Only 5 times in Oscar history has there been not a single film nominated for Best Picture but not nominated for Best Director. In other words, every BP nominee was also up for Best Director. This is rare because most of the years have a different number of BD nominations compared to BP nominations, so someone is bound to be left out. 2 have occurred in the last 5 years (2005, 2008).
Only 3 films have ever swept all 5 major awards (Actor, Actress, Director, Screenplay, Picture).
1934 (7th)
It Happened One Night
1975 (48th)
One Flew over the ####oo's Nest
1991 (64th)
The Silence of the Lambs
BATTING "1000" -- Films [Films with 4 or more competitive nominations, winning all]
11
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
9
Gigi (1958)
9
The Last Emperor (1987)
5
It Happened One Night (1934)
4
The Matrix (1999)
BATTING "0" -- Films [Films with 7 or more competitive nominations, winning none]
Top three only
11 The Turning Point (1977)
11 The Color Purple (1985)
10 Gangs of New York (2002)
Most Awards without winning Best Picture [best picture winner]
8 AWARDS
Cabaret, Allied Artists, 1972. [
The Godfather]
6 AWARDS
A Place in the Sun, Paramount, 1951. [
An American in Paris]
Star Wars, 20th Century-Fox, 1977 (plus 1 Special Achievement Award). [
Annie Hall]
5 AWARDS
Wilson, 20th Century-Fox, 1944. [
Going My Way]
The Bad and the Beautiful, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1952. [
The Greatest Show on Earth]
The King and I, 20th Century-Fox, 1956. [
Around the World in 80 Days]
Mary Poppins, Buena Vista Distribution Company, 1964. [
My Fair Lady]
Doctor Zhivago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1965. [
The Sound of Music]
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Warner Bros., 1966. [
A Man for All Seasons]
Saving Private Ryan, DreamWorks, 1998. [
Shakespeare in Love]
The Aviator, Miramax, Initial Entertainment Group and Warner Bros., 2004. [
Million Dollar Baby]
PERSONS WITH 5 OR MORE ACTING NOMINATIONS
[#] indicates competitive Acting Awards won
16 Meryl Streep [2]
12 Katharine Hepburn [4]
12 Jack Nicholson [3]
10 Bette Davis [2]
10 Laurence Olivier [1]
9 Paul Newman [1]
9 Spencer Tracy [2]
8 Marlon Brando [2]
8 Jack Lemmon [2]
8 Peter O'Toole [0]
8 Al Pacino [1]
8 Geraldine Page [1]
FILMS WINNING BOTH BEST ACTOR AND BEST ACTRESS
1934 (7th) Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert --
It Happened One Night
1975 (48th) Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher --
One Flew over the ####oo's Nest
1976 (49th) Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway --
Network
1978 (51st) Jon Voight, Jane Fonda --
Coming Home
1981 (54th) Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn --
On Golden Pond
1991 (64th) Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster --
The Silence of the Lambs
1997 (70th) Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt --
As Good As It Gets
Most consecutive years nominated (person)
http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/amp...oreConsec.html
There are only eleven films that have won Best Picture without receiving a single acting nomination:
The film which received the most Oscars without winning Best Picture is
Cabaret with 8 awards in 1972. Although the film was nominated for Best Picture, it lost to
The Godfather.
The two films which share the record for most nominations (11) with no Oscar wins are
The Turning Point (1977) and
The Color Purple (1985).
Grand Hotel (1932) is the only film to win Best Picture without receiving any other nominations.
The highest number of Academy Awards won by any film is 11. Three films have achieved this:
The
Coen Brothers have won 4 Academy Awards each (Directing, Best Picture, and Writing for
No Country for Old Men and
Fargo) and have received a total of 13 nominations (11 under their names and 2 under the
pseudonym Roderick Jaynes).
[2]
A Streetcar Named Desire is tied with
Network (1976) for film with most acting nominations and wins with four and three, respectively. The awards it won was for Actress in a Leading Role (Leigh), Actor in a Supporting Role (Malden), Actress in a Supporting Role (Hunter), and Art Direction.
[4] No other films have ever won more than 2 acting awards.
Marlon Brando and
Robert De Niro are the only two actors to win Oscars portraying the same character. Brando won Best Actor as
Vito Corleone in (
The Godfather) (1972) and De Niro won Best Supporting Actor also as
Vito Corleone in (
The Godfather Part II) (1974).
George Bernard Shaw is the only person to have won both an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize
Only 10 people have an Oscar and a Grammy. They are: actors
John Gielgud,
Helen Hayes,
Audrey Hepburn,
Rita Moreno, and
Whoopi Goldberg; composers
Marvin Hamlisch,
Richard Rodgers, and
Jonathan Tunick; and directors
Mel Brooks and
Mike Nichols. If Trent Reznor wins for his score of
The Social Network he will be the 11th.