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List Of Academy Award Records
This list of Academy Award records is current as of the 97th Academy Awards, which took place in 2025. Most awards or nominations * Most awards won by a single film: 11 ** Three films have won 11 Academy Awards: *** '' Ben-Hur'' (1959): nominated in 12 of the 15 possible categories *** '' Titanic'' (1997): nominated in 14 of the 17 possible categories *** '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (2003): nominated in 11 of the 17 possible categories * Most nominations received by a single film: 14 ** Three films have received 14 nominations: ***''All About Eve'' (1950): won 6 awards out of 16 possible categories *** '' Titanic'' (1997): won 11 awards out of 17 possible categories *** '' La La Land'' (2016): won 6 awards out of 17 possible categories * Most nominations received by a single film without winning an award: 11 ** Two films have received 11 nominations and won no awards: ***'' The Turning Point'' (1977): from 14 possible categories ***'' The Color Purple' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney Portrait
Walt is a masculine given name, generally a short form of Walter (name), Walter, and occasionally a surname. Notable people with the name include: People Given name * Walt Anderson (American football) (born 1952), American football official * Walt Arfons (1916-2013), American drag racer and competition land speed record racer * Walt Bellamy (1939-2013), American National Basketball Association player, two-time Basketball Hall of Fame inductee * Walt Bellamy (ice hockey) (1881-1941), Canadian hockey player * Walter Blackman (born 1965/1966), American member of the Arizona House of Representatives * Walt Bowyer (born 1960), American National Football League player * Walt Brown (politician) (born 1926), American politician * Walt Clago (1899-1955), American football player * Walt Conley (1929–2003), American singer * Walt Corey (1938–2022), American National Football League player * Walt Disney (1901–1966), American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alaskan Eskimo
''The Alaskan Eskimo'' is a 1953 American short documentary film produced by Walt Disney. It was the initial film in Disney's '' People & Places'' series. In 1954, it won an Oscar for Documentary Short Subject at the 26th Academy Awards The 26th Academy Awards were held on March 25, 1954, simultaneously at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood (hosted by Donald O'Connor), and the NBC Center Theatre in New York City (hosted by Fredric March). The second national telecast o .... Synopsis References External links * * * 1953 films 1953 short documentary films American short documentary films Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners Disney documentary films Films set in Alaska Inuit films Short films directed by James Algar Films produced by Walt Disney Films scored by Oliver Wallace Disney short films Films with screenplays by Winston Hibler 1950s English-language films 1950s American films English-language short documentary films [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Brackett
Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He collaborated with Billy Wilder on sixteen films. Life and career Brackett was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, the son of Mary Emma Corliss and New York State Senator, lawyer, and banker Edgar Truman Brackett. The family's roots traced back to the arrival of Richard Brackett in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. His mother's uncle, George Henry Corliss, built the Centennial Engine that powered the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. A 1915 graduate of Williams College, he earned his law degree from Harvard University. He joined the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War I, and was awarded the French Medal of Honor. He was a frequent contributor to the ''Saturday Evening Post'', ''Collier's'', and '' Vanity Fair'', and a drama critic for ''The New Yorker''. He wrote five novels: ''The Counsel of the Ungodly'' (1920), ''Week-End'' (1925), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Allen
Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Allen has received many List of awards and nominations received by Woody Allen, accolades, including the most nominations (16) for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Allen was awarded an Golden Lion, Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Palme d'Or, Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Allen began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ford
John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), better known as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood, and was one of the first American directors to be recognized as an auteur. In a career of more than 50 years, he directed over John Ford filmography, 130 films between 1917 and 1970 (although most of his silent films are now lost film, lost), and received a record four Academy Award for Best Director for ''The Informer (1935 film), The Informer'' (1935), ''The Grapes of Wrath (film), The Grapes of Wrath'' (1940), ''How Green Was My Valley (film), How Green Was My Valley'' (1941), and ''The Quiet Man'' (1952). Ford is renowned for his Western film, Westerns, such as ''Stagecoach (1939 film), Stagecoach'' (1939), ''My Darling Clementine'' (1946), ''Fort Apache (film), Fort Apache'' (1948), ''The Searchers'' (1956), and ''The Man Who Shot Liberty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose Katharine Hepburn on screen and stage, career as a Golden Age of Hollywood, Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women. She worked in a varied range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, which earned her List of awards and nominations received by Katharine Hepburn, various accolades, including four Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Actress, Best Actress—a List of Academy Award records#Acting records, record for any performer. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, Progressive Era, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while at Bryn Mawr College. Favorable reviews of her work on Broadway theatre, Broadway brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Her early years i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood (born September 25, 1948) is an American costume designer. In a career spanning over four decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across film and television. She has received numerous accolades, including four Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and two Emmy Awards. Atwood is best known for her collaborations with directors Jonathan Demme, Tim Burton, and Rob Marshall. She has received 12 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and has won four times for ''Chicago'' (2002), '' Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005), ''Alice in Wonderland'' (2010), and '' Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'' (2016). Early life and education Born in Ellensburg, Washington, Atwood grew up in the small farming community of Quincy, Washington. At 17, she became pregnant and didn't graduate high school with her class. To support her baby and her husband, who was in college, she took a job at a French fry factory. Then, Atwood received a scholarship to attend Corn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milena Canonero
Milena Canonero (born 13 July 1946) is an Italian costume designer, production designer, and film producer. In a career spanning over five decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across stage and screen. She has received numerous accolades, including four Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards, and two Costume Designers Guild Awards. She has been the recipient of various honorary awards, including the Honorary Golden Bear in 2017. Canonero is best known for her collaborations with directors Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, and Wes Anderson. She has received nine nominations for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and has won four times for ''Barry Lyndon'' (1975), ''Chariots of Fire'' (1981), ''Marie Antoinette (2006 film), Marie Antoinette'' (2006), and ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2014). Early life and education Canonero was born in Turin, Italy. She attended university in Genoa, studying fashion, period design, and art history b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Menken
Alan Irwin Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American composer and conductor. Over his career he has received List of awards and nominations received by Alan Menken, numerous accolades including winning eight Academy Awards, a Tony Awards, Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Awards, Daytime Emmy Award. He is one of 21 recipients to have won the competitive EGOT, EGOT (Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony). He is best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Menken's contributions to ''The Little Mermaid (1989 film), The Little Mermaid'' (1989), ''Beauty and the Beast (1991 film), Beauty and the Beast'' (1991), ''Aladdin (1992 Disney film), Aladdin'' (1992), and ''Pocahontas (1995 film), Pocahontas'' (1995) won him two Academy Awards for each film. He also composed the scores and songs for ''Little Shop of Horrors (film), Little Shop of Horrors'' (1986), ''Newsies'' (1992), ''The Hunchback of Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anora
''Anora'' is a 2024 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Sean Baker. It stars Mikey Madison as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva, a stripper from New York who marries the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch played by Mark Eydelshteyn. The supporting cast includes Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Darya Ekamasova, and Aleksei Serebryakov. ''Anora'' premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2024, where it received critical acclaim and won the Palme d'Or. It was released theatrically on October 18, 2024, by Neon. The film grossed $59.3million worldwide against a $6million budget, making it Baker's highest-grossing film. ''Anora'' received numerous accolades. The film was named one of the top ten films of 2024 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. The film received six nominations at the 97th Academy Awards, winning five for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Madison), Best Origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Baker (filmmaker)
Sean Baker (born February 26, 1971) is an American filmmaker. He is a director, writer, editor, and producer of independent narrative feature films which are most often about the lives of marginalized people, especially immigrants and sex workers. He made his directorial film debut with '' Four Letter Words'' (2000) and co-created the television character '' Greg the Bunny''. Baker has since directed seven feature films: '' Take Out'' (2004), '' Prince of Broadway'' (2008), '' Starlet'' (2012), ''Tangerine'' (2015), '' The Florida Project'' (2017), '' Red Rocket'' (2021), and ''Anora'' (2024). Baker has received several accolades. For ''Anora'', he received the Palme d'Or and, alongside his wife Samantha Quan, the British Academy Film Award for Best Casting. At the 97th Academy Awards, Baker won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. He is the first person to individually win four Oscars for the same film in a single ceremony. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben And Me
''Ben and Me'' is an American animated two-reel short subject produced by Walt Disney Productions and released theatrically on November 10, 1953. It was adapted from the book of the same name written by author/illustrator Robert Lawson and first published in 1939. Though both book and film deal with the relationship between a mouse and American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, the book, with illustrations by Lawson, focused more heavily on actual historical events and personages, and included incidents from Franklin's French career at Versailles. The short received an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. This short was also notable for being the second release on the Buena Vista Distribution label, with the first being '' Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom'', released on the same day. On its release, ''Ben and Me'' was packaged with the feature-length '' True-Life Adventures'' nature documentary film '' The Living Desert''. When Disney's regular distrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
