At the 1929/30 Academy Awards held on 5 November 1930, of the four actors nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role category, three were nominated twice: – George Arliss (UK) for The Green Goddess (USA 1930) and Disraeli (USA 1929), Ronald Colman (UK) for Condemned (USA 1929) and Bulldog Drummond (USA 1929) and Maurice Chevalier (France) for The Love Parade (USA 1929) and The Big Pond (USA 1930). George Arliss eventually took the Oscar for his role as Benjamin Disraeli.
Randy Newman (USA, b. 28 November 1943) won the Oscar for Best Music (Song) with “If I Didn’t Have You” from the film Monsters, Inc. (USA 2001) on his 16th nomination at the 74th Academy Awards held on 24 March 2002. He received his first nominations in 1982 for Ragtime (USA 1981) for both Best Song and Best Original Score. This beats the record previously held by Geraldine Page (1924 – 1987) who finally won her Oscar at the eighth attempt with Best Actress for
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The most Oscar nominations a film has received is 14 given to All About Eve (US 1950) in 1951 and Titanic (US 1997) in 1998. All About Eve eventually won six Oscars, including Best Film, Best Director – Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Best Supporting Actor – George Sanders (1906-1972). Titanic came away with 11. (see also Most Oscars won by a film)
Sammy Cahn (USA, 1913 – 1993) was nominated for the category Best Original Song a total of 26 times between 1943 and 1976 during his career. His first nomination was for ‘It Seems I Heard That Song Before’ from the film Youth on Parade (USA 1942). Of all his nominations, his most prolific singer was Frank Sinatra having sung six of the nominated songs in the films Anchors Aweigh (USA 1945), Tender Trap (USA 1955), The Joker is Wild (USA 1957), Some Came Running (USA
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France holds the record for most Oscar nominations by having a film nominated in the Foreign Language Film category 38 times between 1948 – 2010. The last nomination was for Un prophète (Fr 2009) on 7 March 2010. France has won the category on 12 occasions in 1948, 1950, 1952, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1966, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978 and 1992. A record 67 countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 81st Academy Awards in 2009.
Peter O’Toole (Ireland b.2 August 1932) has been nominated eight times for the Best Actor award, but has never won. O’Toole’s no win span has so far lasted nearly 50 years, with Lawrence of Arabia (UK 1962); Beckett (UK 1964); The Lion in Winter (UK 1968); Goodbye Mr Chips (UK 1969); The Ruling Class (UK 1972); The Stunt Man (USA 1980); My Favourite Year (USA 1982), and Venus (UK 2006). In 2003, when he was offered an Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement, Peter O’Toole wrote the
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At the 1929/30 Academy Awards held on the 5 November 1930, of the five actresses nominated for the Best Actress in a Leading Role category, two were nominated twice: Greta Garbo (Sweden) for Anna Christie (USA 1930) and Romance (USA 1930) and Norma Shearer (Canada) for Their Own Desire (USA 1929) and The Divorcee (USA 1930), for which she took the award for her role as Jerry.
Three films have won 11 Oscars. The first to achieve the record was Ben-Hur (USA 1959) which won from 12 nominations on 4 April 1960, followed by Titanic (USA 1997) from 14 nominations on 23 March 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (NZ/USA 2003) which won all 11 of its nominations on 29 February 2004. Ben-Hur won with: Best Picture; Best Director; Best Actor; Best Supporting Actor; Cinematography; Art Direction; Sound; Music Score; Film Editing; Special Effects; Costume and loosing
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Italy has won 13 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, the most recent being Life Is Beautiful (1997) in 1999 at the 71st Academy Awards. The Italian films that have won during the history of the Academy Awards have been as follows: 71st Academy Awards: Life is Beautiful (1999) 64th Academy Awards: Mediterraneo (1991) 62nd Academy Awards: Cinema Paradiso (1989) 47th Academy Awards: Amarcord (1974) 44th Academy Awards: The Garden of the Finzi Continis (1971) 43rd Academy Awards: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
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Jay Stokes (USA) made 640 successful parachute jumps in a 24-hour period on 8 and 9 September 2006 above Greensburg Municipal Airport, Greensburg, Indiana, USA.