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Film with the highest clean sweep: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 Academy Awards from its 11 nominations. Films with the most nominations without a single win: The Turning Point and The Color Purple (11 nominations each) Film with the most awards without winning Best Picture: Cabaret won eight Academy Awards from its ...
At the 1st Academy Awards, the Best Picture award (then named "Academy Award for Outstanding Picture") was presented to the 1927 silent film Wings. The Artist (2011) was the first essentially silent (with the exception of a single scene of dialogue, and a dream sequence with sound effects) film since Wings to win Best Picture.
If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title.. 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.
A total of 69 films received both the most Academy Awards and the most Academy Award nominations in their respective years of eligibility. Of these 69 films, 52 also received the Best Picture award. The first film to achieve this feat was: Cimarron (1930–1931). The most recent film to achieve this feat was: Oppenheimer . Record-breaking films
Oscar award silhouette. At the Academy Awards, the so-called "Big Five" awards are those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay (either Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay). [1] As of the 94th Academy Awards (2021
In 2008, the 80th Academy Awards telecast was watched by 31.76 million viewers on average with an 18.66% household rating, the lowest-rated and least-watched ceremony at the time, in spite of celebrating 80 years of the Academy Awards. [94] The Best Picture winner of that particular ceremony was another independent film (this time, the Coen ...
First short film to win an Academy Award outside of the Short Film categories. The Red Balloon (1956) for Best Original Screenplay; First professional athlete to win an Academy Award. Kobe Bryant won Best Animated Short Film for Dear Basketball (2017) First Deaf actress to be nominated for and win an acting award
Best Director winner Jane Campion was the third woman to win the award and the first woman to be nominated twice, having previously been nominated for 1993's The Piano. [13] The Power of the Dog became the first film to win Best Director as its sole award since 1967's The Graduate. [14]