The most consecutive kickflips on a snowskate board is 14 by Phil Smage (USA) during ESPN’s Winter X Games 11 in Aspen, Colorado, USA on 25 January 2007.

A record 14 different films made in 1940 were shortlisted for the American Academy Awards (Oscars) for ‘Achievements in Special Effects’, held at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA on 27 February 1941. These 14 included the winner, The Thief of Bagdad (UK, 1940). The other 13: The Blue Bird (USA 1940) Boom Town (USA 1940) The Boys from Syracuse (USA 1940) Dr. Cyclops (USA 1940) Foreign Correspondent (USA 1940) The Invisible Man Returns (USA 1940) The Long Voyage Home (USA 1940) One Million Continue reading →

Eleven researchers have received Nobel Prizes for work done while they were at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA.

The USA has had a total of 91 outright or shared winners of the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine.

Since beginning his career in the film The Cry Baby Killer (USA 1958), Jack Nicholson (USA) (b. 22 April 1937) has been nominated for 12 Oscars, four as Best Supporting Actor and the rest as Best Actor between 1970 and 2003. His first nomination was in 1970 for Best Supporting Actor in Easy Rider (USA 1969). He won his first Oscar as Best Actor on his fifth nomination in 1976 for his portrayal of ‘Randle Patrick McMurphy’ in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (USA Continue reading →

In a single year, two actors have had roles in three films nominated for Best Picture. Of the ten films nominated for the title in 1940, Thomas Mitchell (USA) had starred in Gone with the Wind (USA 1939) as Gerald O’Hara, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (USA 1939) as Diz Moore and Stagecoach (1939) as Dr. Josiah Boone. Of the five films up for monination for the 2002 Academy Awards, John C. Reilly (USA) had appeared in Chicago (USA/Can 2002) as Amos Hart, Gangs of Continue reading →

Clint Eastwood (USA) has won the Oscar for Best Director twice for films he has also starred in. The first was on 29 March 1993 for Unforgiven (USA 1992), followed by Million Dollar Baby (USA 2004) on 27 February 2005. In all, he has been nominated in this category three times, the second occasion was in 2004 with Mystic River (USA 2003), a film he did not appear in.

To date, no film has won all four acting Oscars, but in 1952 A Streetcar Named Desire (USA 1951) and in 1977 Network (USA 1976) won three. Nominated for 12 Oscars, A Streetcar Named Desire won five including Best Actress for Vivien Leigh (UK), Best Supporting Actor for Karl Malden (USA) and Best Supporting Actress for Kim Hunter (USA). Network won all three Oscars it was nominated for: Best Actor for Peter Finch (UK), Best Actress for Faye Dunaway (USA) and Best Supporting Actress for Beatrice Continue reading →

The most oranges peeled and eaten in three minutes is six and was achieved by Ashrita Furman (USA) at the Panorama Café in New York, New York, USA, on 14 July 2010. All of the oranges were between 6 and 7 ounces.

The only occasion when three out of four Best Actor nominations were for stars in the same film were for the awards held on 5 March 1936, with Clark Gable (USA), Charles Laughton (UK) and Franchot Tone (USA), nominated for their performances in Mutiny on the Bounty (USA 1935). The winner was the fourth nominee Victor McLaglen (UK) for The Informer (USA 1935).