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Films with the most awards: Ben-Hur , Titanic , and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King each earned 11 Academy Awards. Films with the most nominations: All About Eve , Titanic , and La La Land each earned 14 Academy Award nominations. Film with the highest clean sweep: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 Academy ...
Competitive Academy Awards are separated from non-competitive Awards; as such, any films that were awarded a non-competitive award will be shown in brackets next to the number of competitive wins. Films that were nominated, but had the nomination taken away for any reason are listed here, but without counting the nomination.
Beginning with the 7th Academy Awards, held in February 1935, each year's awards are presented for films that were first shown during the full preceding calendar year from January 1 to December 31 in Los Angeles County, California. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31. [4]
Most nominations and awards for a person in a single year: 6 & 4 In 1954, Walt Disney received 6 nominations and won 4 awards, both records. He won Best Documentary, Features for The Living Desert ; Best Documentary, Short Subjects for The Alaskan Eskimo ; Best Short Subject, Cartoons for Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom ; and Best Short Subject ...
The Oscar statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, [17] is given to winners of each year's awards. Made of gold-plated bronze on a black metal base, it is 13.5 in (34.3 cm) tall, weighs 8.5 lb (3.9 kg) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and ...
Frances McDormand has won three times for her lead roles, out of six nominations—three lead and three supporting. [5] Meryl Streep is the most-nominated actor of all, with twenty-one nominations. [6] Jack Nicholson has received the most Academy Award nominations for any male actor with twelve nominations. [7]
List of actors with Academy Award nominations; List of films with all four Academy Award acting nominations; List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for non-English performances; List of actors nominated for multiple Academy Awards in the same year; List of animated feature films nominated for Academy Awards