Oscars by the Numbers

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A list of Academy Award records…

Most Nominations Ever for a Film in a Single Year: La La Land joined the ranks of All About Eve (1959) and Titanic (1997) tying the record with 14 nominations in 2017

Number of Words of Shortest Acceptance Speech: 2 words (“Thank You.”) from Patty Duke in 1963 in accepting her Best Supporting Actress award for The Miracle Worker

Most Nominations for Acting Awards: 20 for Meryl Streep

Most Nominations for an Actor: 12 for Jack Nicholson

Most Nominations Before First Award: 8 for Geraldine Page and Al Pacino

Most Awards Won by a Male: 22 for Walt Disney

Most Nominations Ever: 59 for Walt Disney

Most Total Nominations Before Winning First Award: 21 for film composer Victor Young

Most Nominations for Someone Still Living: 50 for composer John Williams

Most Nominations for Directing: 12 for William Wyler

Most Awards Won by a Female: 8 for Costume Designer Edith Head

Most Directing Award Wins: 4 for John Ford

Age of Second Youngest Acting Winner: 11 (Anna Paquin, Best Supporting Actress for The Piano in 1993, who was 9-years old when she began shooting the film)

Most Acting Nominations Ever Without a Win: 8 for Peter O’Toole (though he received an honorary Oscar in 2002)

Length in Minutes of Longest Film to Win Best Picture: 238 minutes for Gone With the Wind (1939)

Length in Minutes of Shortest Film to Win Best Picture: 90 minutes for Marty (1955)

Movies That Have Won the Big Five (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Adapted/Original Screenplay): 3 for It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Most acting awards for a single character: “Vito Corleone”

“They both made em’ an offer they couldn’t refuse” — Obviously!

Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro are the only two actors to ever win separate Oscars for playing the same character. Brando won Best Actor for The Godfather(1972) and De Niro won Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather Part II (1974), both in the role of Vito Corleone.

Robert De Niro spent four months learning to speak the Sicilian dialect in order to play Vito Corleone. Nearly all the dialogue that his character speaks in the film was in Sicilian.

Originally published at asifahsankhan.wordpress.com on January 24, 2017.

*Article edited by Asif Ahsan Khan /IMDb-Editors.