Oscar Mayer Weiner
Some Crap About The Academy Awards

What began as a simple industry trade show in May of 1929
has evolved overtime as just another overblown commercial exercise
where celebrities, who are already grossly over-rewarded
for seemingly insignificant accomplishments, pass out little statues amongst themselves

Apart from the Academy Awards, there are the Golden Globes,
the SAG Awards, The People's Choice, The MTV Movie Awards,
The Teen Choice Awards, The Tony Awards, The Blockbuster Awards,
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards
The Eurpoean Awards, The Black Entertainment Awards
and on and on they seem to keep coming up with other ways to honor themselves
as if the fame, money, power and lifestyle were painfully inadequate

The music industry has followed the trend
of an industry relentlessly patting itself on the back
all the while putting out a product ever diminishing in its quality, depth and originality
with the American Music Awards, the CMA's, the Grammy's,
The World Music Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards, etc

that being said....

Here's Some Meaningless Oscar Trivia

Oldest/Youngest Oscar™ Nominees/ Winners
Best Actor
Jackie Cooper (9; "Skippy" 1931/32)
Adrien Brody (29; "The Pianist" 2002)
Richard Farnsworth (80; "The Straight Story" 1999)
Henry Fonda (76; "On Golden Pond" 1981)

Best Actress
Keisha Castle-Hughes (13; "Whale Rider" 2003)
Marlee Matlin (21; "Children Of A Lesser God" 1986)
Jessica Tandy (80; "Driving Miss Daisy" 1989)
Jessica Tandy

Best Supporting Actor
Justin Henry (8; "Kramer vs. Kramer" 1979)
Timothy Hutton (20; "Ordinary People" 1980)
Ralph Richardson (82; "Greystoke" 1984)
George Burns (80; "The Sunshine Boys" 1975)

Best Supporting Actress
Tatum O'Neal (10 ; "Paper Moon" 1973)
Tatum O'Neal
Gloria Stuart (87 years, "Titanic" 1997)
Peggy Ashcroft (77; "A Passage To India" 1984)

Best Director
John Singleton (23; "Boyz In The Hood" 1991)
Norman Taurog (31; "Skippy" 1930/31
John Huston (79; "Prizzi's Honor" 1985)
Roman Polanski (69; "The Pianist" 2002)

The shortest Oscar ceremony in history was the first Oscars, in 1929. The awards portion of the evening lasted only about 15 minutes (shorter than some speeches take these days), since all the winners had been announced three months earlier. The longest awards in history was the 2001 (ceremony in 2002) awards which lasted approximately 256 minutes, beating the previous record by about 16 minutes.

Foreign Language Films Nominated For Best Picture
Grand Illusion (1938, France)
Z (1969, Algeria)
The Emigrants (1972, Sweden)
Cries and Whispers (1973, Sweden)
Il Postino (The Postman) (1995, Italy)
Life Is Beautiful (1998, Italy)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Taiwan)

Foreign Language Films Nominated For The Most Oscars
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, 10 nominations, 4 Wins)
Life Is Beautiful (1998, 7 nominations, 3 wins)
Das Boot (1982, 6 nominations, 0 wins)
Fanny and Alexander (1983, 6 nominations, 3 wins)

Actors or Actresses To Earn Consecutive Acting Nominations
Five:
Bette Davis (1938-42)
Greer Garson (1941-45)

Four:
Jennifer Jones (1943-46)
Thelma Ritter (1950-53)
Marlon Brando (1951-54)
Al Pacino (1972-75)
Elizabeth Taylor (1957-60)

Three:
Spencer Tracy (1936-38)
Gary Cooper (1941-43)
Ingrid Bergman (1943-45)
Gregory Peck (1945-47)
Deborah Kerr (1956-58)
Richard Burton (1964-66)
Jack Nicholson (1973-75)
Jane Fonda (1977-79)
Meryl Streep (1981-83)
Glenn Close (1982-84)
William Hurt (1985-87)
Russell Crowe (1999-2001)
Renée Zellweger (2001-2003)

Actors Nominated For A Foreign Language Performance
Sophia Loren (Two Women, Italian, 1961) [w]
Marcello Mastroianni (Divorce Italian Style, Italian, 1962)
Sophia Loren (Marriage Italian Style, Italian, 1964)
Anouk Aimee (A Man And A Woman, French, 1966)
Ida Kaminska (The Shop On Main Street, Czech, 1966)
Liv Ullman (The Emigrants, Swedish, 1972)
Valentina Cortese (Day for Night, French, 1974)
Robert DeNiro (The Godfather, Part II, Italian, 1974)[w]
Isabelle Adjani (The Story of Adele H, French, 1975)
Marie-Christine Barrault (Cousin Cousine, French, 1976)
Giancarlo Giannini (Seven Beauties, Italian, 1976)
Liv Ullman (Face To Face, Swedish, 1976)
Marcello Mastroianni (A Special Day, Italian, 1977)
Ingrid Bergman (Autumn Sonata, Swedish, 1978)
Marlee Matlin (Children Of A Lesser God, American Sign Language, 1986) [w]
Marcello Mastroianni (Dark Eyes, Italian, 1962)
Max Von Sydow (Pelle The Conqueror, Swedish, 1988)
Isabelle Adjani (Camille Claudel, French, 1989)
Gerard Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac, French, 1990)
Catherine Deneuve (Indochine, French, 1992)
Massimo Troisi (Il Postino (The Postman), Italian, 1995)
Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station, Portuguese, 1998)
Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful, Italian, 1998)[w]



People Nominated for Acting, Directing and Writing the Same Film
Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, 1941)
Woody Allen (Annie Hall, 1978)
Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait, 1978)
Warren Beatty (Reds, 1981)
Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful, 1998)


Films In Which The Entire Cast Was Nominated for Oscars:
Sleuth (1972)
Give 'em Hell Harry (1975)


The Only Films To Win Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress And Screenplay:
It Happened One Night (1934)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)


Actors To Win Consecutive Oscars:
Luise Rainer (1936-37)
Spencer Tracy (1937-38)
Katharine Hepburn (1967-68)
Jason Robards (1976-77)
Tom Hanks (1993-94)


Only People To Direct Themselves To Acting Oscars:
Laurence Olivier, Hamlet, 1948
Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful, 1998


Ties For Best Acting:
Wallace Beery (The Champ) and Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) 1931/32
Katharine Hepburn (The Lion In Winter) and Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl)


Only Consecutive Double Oscar Winners:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz won Directing and Screenplay Oscars for A Letter To Three Wives in 1949, and All About Eve in 1950
Alan Menken won Oscars for Best Song and Best Original Score in 1991 for Beauty and the Beast and again the following year for Aladdin.


Posthumous Oscar Winners:
Sidney Howard, for the screenplay of Gone With The Wind (1939)
Peter Finch, Best Actor, Network (1976)


Shortest Performances To Win An Oscar:
Judi Dench won Best Supporting Actress in 1998 for her less than 8 minutes of screen time as Queen Elisabeth in Shakespeare In Love. Beatrice Straight is second place, she won Best Supporting Actress for Network in 1976 for about 10 minutes of screen time. Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor in 1991 for less than 16 minutes of screen time as Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter in The Silence Of The Lambs.


Twins To Win Oscars:
Julius J Epstein and Philip G. Epstein shared the shared the Screenplay with Howard Koch for Casablanca (1943)


The Only Oscar To Win An Oscar:
Oscar Hammerstein II (Best Song: 1941, 1945)


The only films to win three Oscars for acting:
A Streetcar Named Desire(1951)
Network (1976)



The only films to win both Best Actor and Best Actress:
It Happened One Night (1934)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Network (1976)
Coming Home (1978)
On Golden Pond (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
As Good as It Gets (1997)


The only African-American actors to win Oscars:
Hattie McDaniel (Best Supporting Actress, Gone With the Wind)
Sidney Poitier (Best Actor, Lilies of the Field)
Louis Gossett Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, An Officer and a Gentleman)
Denzel Washington (Best Supporting Actor, Glory)
Whoopi Goldberg (Best Supporting Actress, Ghost)
Cuba Gooding Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, Jerry Maguire)
Halle Berry (Best Actress, Monster's Ball)
Denzel Washington (Best Actor, Training Day)




The Longest Gap Between Nomination And Victory:
Henry Fonda was first nominated as an actor for The Grapes Of Wrath (1941), and didn't win an acting award until 41 years later for On Golden Pond (1982). However, was given an honorary award the previous year. Jack Palance was nominated for Sudden Fear (1952), but had to wait 39 years before his victory for City Slickers (1991)


Families With Three Generations Of Oscar Winners:
Walter Huston (Best Supporting Actor, The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, 1948) John Huston (Best Director, The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, 1948) Anjelica Huston (Best Supporting Actress, Prizzi's Honor, 1985)
AND
Carmine Coppola (Best Original Dramatic Score, The Godfather: Part II, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola (Best Original Screenplay, Patton, 1970; Best Adapted Screenplay, The Godfather, 1972; Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, The Godfather: Part II, 1974) Nicholas Cage A.K.A. Nicholas Coppola: Francis Ford Coppola's nephew (Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas, 1995) Sophia Coppola Daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, Grandaughter of Carmine, Cousin of Nicholas Cage (Best Original Screenplay, Lost in Translation, 2003)


The Only Women Nominated As Best Director:
Lina Wertmuller, Seven Beauties (1976)
Jane Campion, The Piano (1994)
Sophia Coppola, Lost in Translation (2003)


Longest Best Picture Winner:
Gone With The Wind (1939) runs 234 minutes, or 3 hours and 56 minutes.


Shortest Best Picture Winner:
Marty (1955) runs 91 minutes


Only Animated Film Nominated For Best Picture:
Beauty And The Beast (1991)


Only Sequels To Win Best Picture:
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)


Trilogies with All Three Films Nominated for Best Picture:
The Godfather (1972) [w], The Godfather: Part II (1974) [w], and The Godfather: Part III (1991)
AND
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)


Only Movies To Win Best Picture AND Best Song:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Titanic (1997)
Gigi (1958)
Going My Way (1944)



Musicals To Win Best Picture:
Broadway Melody (1928/29)
The Great Zeigfeld (1936)
An American In Paris (1951)
Gigi (1958)
West Side Story (1961)
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
Oliver! (1968)
Chicago (2002)


Westerns Win Best Picture:
Cimarron (1931)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Unforgiven (1992)



Only Silent Film To Win Best Picture:
Wings (1927/28)




Movies to win Best Picture and no other major awards (i.e. Directing or acting):
Wings (1928)
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Cimarron (1931)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Rebecca (1940)
An American in Paris (1951)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Chariots of Fire (1981)



Movies to win Best Picture and NO other awards:
The Broadway Melody (1928/29)
Grand Hotel (1931/32)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)



Movies To Win Best Picture and NOT Be Nominated For Best Director:
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Grand Hotel (1931/32)
Wings (1927/28)


Movies To Win Best Picture and NOT Be Nominated For Their Screenplay:
Titanic (1997)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
Hamlet (1948)
Calvacade (1932/33)
Grand Hotel (1931/32)
The Broadway Melody (1928/29)
Wings (1927/28)


The first non-Hollywood film to win Best Picture:
Hamlet (1948), financed and filmed in England

Grand Hotel (1931/32) is the only Best Picture winner to receive only one nomination.


Films That Have Won The Most Awards
11 Oscars
Ben-Hur (1959, 12 nominations)
Titanic (1997, 14 nominations)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, 11 nominations)2

10 Oscars
West Side Story (1961, 11 nominations)

9 Oscars
Gigi (1958, 9 nominations)
The Last Emperor (1987, 9)
The English Patient (1997, 12)

8 Oscars
Gone With The Wind (1939, 13)
From Here To Eternity (1953, 13)
On The Waterfront (1954, 12)
My Fair Lady (1964, 12)
Cabaret (1972, 10)
Gandhi (1983, 11)
Amadeus (1984, 11)

7 Oscars
Going My Way (1944, 10)
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946, 8)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957, 8)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962, 10)
Patton (1970, 10)
The Sting (1973, 10)
Out Of Africa (1985, 11)
Dances With Wolves (1990, 12)
Schindler’s List (1993, 12)
Shakespeare In Love (1998, 13)

6 Oscars
Mrs. Miniver (1942, 12)
All About Eve, (1940, 14)
An American In Paris (1951, 8)
A Place In The Sun (1951, 9)
A Man For All Seasons (1966, 8)
The Godfather, Part II (1974, 11)
Star Wars (1977, 10)
Forrest Gump, (1994, 13)

5 Oscars
It Happened One Night (1934, 5)
How Green Was My Valley (1941, 10)
Wilson (1944, 10)
The Bad And The Beautiful (1952, 6)
Around The World In 80 Days (1956, 8)
The King And I (1956, 9)
The Apartment, (1960, 10)
Mary Poppins (1964, 13)
Doctor Zhivago (1965, 10)
The Sound Of Music (1965, 10)
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966, 13)
In The Heat Of The Night (1967, 7)
Oliver! (1968, 11)
The French Connection (1971, 9)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, 9)
The Deer Hunter (1978, 9)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, 9)
Terms Of Endearment (1983, 11)
Silence Of The Lambs (1991, 7)
Braveheart (1995, 10)
Saving Private Ryan (1998, 11)
American Beauty (1999, 8)
Gladiator (2000, 12) Chicago (2002, 13)



Films With The Most Nominations
14 Nominations
All About Eve (1950, 6 Oscars)
Titanic (1997, 11)

13 Nominations
Gone With The Wind (1939, 8)
From Here To Eternity (1953, 8)
Mary Poppins (1964, 5)
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966, 5)
Forrest Gump (1994, 6)
Shakespeare In Love (1998, 7)
Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Rings (2001, 4)
Chicago (2002, 6)

12 Nominations
Mrs. Miniver (1942, 6)
The Song Of Bernadette (1943, 4)
Johnny Belinda (1948, 1)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, 4)
On The Waterfront (1954, 8)
Ben Hur (1959, 11)
Becket (1964, 1)
My Fair Lady (1964, 8)
Reds (1981, 3)
Dances With Wolves (1990, 7)
Schindler's List (1993, 7)
The English Patient (1996, 9)
Gladiator (2000, 5)

11 Nominations
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939, 1)
Rebecca (1940, 2)
Sergeant York (1941, 2)
The Pride Of The Yankees (1942, 1)
Sunset Boulevard (1950, 3)
Judgement At Nuremberg (1961, 2)
West Side Story (1961, 10)
Oliver! (1968, 5)
Chinatown (1974, 1)
The Godfather, Part II (1974, 6)
Julia (1977, 3)
The Turning Point (1977, 0)1
Gandhi (1982, 8)
Terms Of Endearment (1983, 5)
Amadeus (1984, 8)
A Passage To India (1984, 2)
The Color Purple (1985, 0)1
Out Of Africa (1985, 7)
Saving Private Ryan (1998, 5)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, 11)2

10 Nominations
The Life Of Emile Zola (1937, 3)
How Green Was My Valley (1941, 5)
Going My Way (1944, 7)
Wilson (1944, 5)
Roman Holiday (1953, 3)
Giant (1956, 1)
Sayonara (1957, 4)
The Apartment (1960, 5)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962, 7)
Tom Jones (1963, 4)
Doctor Zhivago (1965, 5)
The Sound Of Music (1965, 5)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967, 2)
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967, 2)
Anne Of The Thousand Days (1969, 1)
Airport (1970, 1)
Patton (1970, 7)
Cabaret (1972, 8)
The Godfather (1972, 3)
The Exorcist (1973, 2)
The Sting (1973, 7)
Network (1976, 4)
Rocky (1976, 3)
Star Wars (1977, 6)
On Golden Pond (1981, 3)
Tootsie (1982, 1)
Bugsy (1991, 2)
Braveheart (1995, 5)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, 4)
Gangs Of New York (2002, 0)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, 2)




Hosts of the Ceremony
2003:Billy Crystal (Sunday, February 29, 2004)
2002:Steve Martin (Sunday, March 23, 2003)
2001:Whoopi Goldberg (Sunday, March 24, 2002)
2000:Steve Martin (Sunday, March 25, 2001)
1999:Billy Crystal (Sunday, March 26, 2000)
1998:Whoopi Goldberg (Sunday, March 21, 1999)
1997:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 23, 1998)
1996:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 24, 1997)
1995:Whoopi Goldberg (Monday, March 25, 1996)
1994:David Letterman (Monday, March 27, 1995)
1993:Whoopi Goldberg (Monday, March 21, 1994)
1992:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 29, 1993)
1991:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 30, 1992)
1990:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 25, 1991)
1989:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 26, 1990)
1988:No Official Host (Wednesday, April 29, 1989)
1987:Chevy Chase (Monday, April 11, 1988)
1986:Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan (Monday, March 31, 1987)
1985:Alan Alda, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams (Monday, March 24, 1986)
1984:Jack Lemmon (Monday, March 25, 1985)
1983:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 9, 1984)
1982:Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor and Walter Matthau (Monday, April 11, 1983)
1981:Johnny Carson (Monday, March 29, 1982)
1980:Johnny Carson (Tuesday, March 31, 1981)1
1979:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 14, 1980)
1978:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 9, 1979)
1977:Bob Hope (Monday, April 3, 1978)
1976:Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda and Richard Pryor (Monday, March 28, 1977)
1975:Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal and Robert Shaw (Monday, March 29, 1976)
1974:Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra (Tuesday, April 8, 1975)
1973:John Huston, Burt Reynolds, David Niven, and Diana Ross (Tuesday, April 2, 1974)
1972:Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson (Tuesday, March 27, 1973)
1971:Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr. and Jack Lemmon (Monday, April 10, 1972)
1970:No Official Host (Thursday, April 15, 1971)
1969:No Official Host (Tuesday, April 7, 1970)
1968:No Official Host (Monday, April 14, 1969)
1967:Bob Hope (Wednesday, April 10, 1968)2
1966:Bob Hope (Monday, April 10, 1967)
1965:Bob Hope (Monday, April 18, 1966)3
1964:Bob Hope (Monday, April 13, 1964)
1963:Jack Lemmon (Monday, April 13, 1964)
1962:Frank Sinatra (Monday, April 8, 1963)
1961:Bob Hope (Monday, April 9, 1962)
1960:Bob Hope (Monday, April 17, 1961)
1959:Bob Hope (Monday, April 4, 1960)
1958:Bob Hope, Tony Randall, Mort Sahl, David Niven, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Jerry Lewis (Monday, April 6, 1959)
1957:Bob Hope, David Niven, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, and Rosalind Russell (Wednesday, March 26, 1958)
1956:Jerry Lewis and Celeste Holm
1955:Jerry Lewis, Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Wednesday, March 21, 1956)
1954:Bob Hope and Thelma Ritter (Wednesday, March 30, 1955)
1953:Donald O'Connor and Frederic March (Thursday, March 25, 1954)
1952:Bob Hope and Conrad Nagel (Thursday, March 19, 1953)4
1951:Danny Kaye (Thursday, March 20, 1952)
1950:Fred Astaire (Thursday, March 29, 1951)
1949:Paul Douglas (Thursday, March 23, 1950)
1948:Robert Montgomery (Thursday, March 24, 1949)
1947:No Official Host (Saturday, March 20, 1948)
1946:Jack Benny (Thursday, March 13, 1947)
1945:Bob Hope and James Stewart (Thursday, March 7, 1946)
1944:Bob Hope and John Cromwell (Thursday, March 15, 1945)5
1943:Jack Benny (Thursday, March 2, 1944)
1942:Bob Hope (Thursday, March 4, 1943)
1941:No Official Host (Thursday, February 26, 1942)
1940:Bob Hope (Thursday, February 27, 1941)6
1939:Bob Hope (Thursday, February 39, 1940)
1938:No Official Host (Thursday, February 23, 1939)
1937:Bob Burns (Thursday, March 10, 1938)7
1936:George Jessel (Thursday, March 4, 1937)
1935:Frank Capra (Thursday, March 5, 1936)
1934:Irwin S. Cobb (Wednesday, February 27, 1935)
1932/33:Will Rogers (Friday, March 16, 1934)
1931/32:Lionel Barrymore (Friday, November 18, 1932)
1930/31:Lawrence Grant (Tuesday, November 10, 1931)
1929/30:Conrad Nagel (Wednesday, November 5, 1930)
1928/29:William C. demille (Thursday, April 3, 1930)
1927/28:Douglas Fairbanks and William C. deMille (Thursday, May 16, 1929)

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