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Oscar Hammerstein II: Won two Oscars; Best Original Song for the songs "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from the film Lady Be Good in 1941, and "It Might as Well Be Spring" from the film State Fair in 1945, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950, along with an additional citation in 1943
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 ...
The following four films either set, broke, or tied both records – the film with the most Academy Awards and the film with the most Academy Award nominations – in their respective years of eligibility: 7th Heaven (1927–1928), Cimarron (1930–1931), Gone with the Wind , and; Titanic .
Of the 89 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 68 won the award. [7] [8] Since its inception, the award has been given to 75 directors or directing teams. As of the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan is the most recent winner in this category for his work on Oppenheimer.
First persons to win multiple Academy Awards in a single year; Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney were the first individuals to win multiple Academy Awards in a single year; they wrote the script based on their own story, leading to wins for both Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Story (The Story of Louis Pasteur) at the 9th Academy Awards, honoring the films of 1936.
The original list has 75 Academy Awards Best Picture nominees and 33 winners. In the 2007 list, eight of the top ten films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with five winning. In the original list, nine out of the top ten were nominees, and six won. Two animated films appear on each list.
Coppola was ranked at No. 15 on Empire magazine's "Top 40 Greatest Directors of All-Time" list in 2005. [41] [42] In 2007, Total Film magazine ranked Coppola at No. 5 on its "100 Greatest Film Directors Ever" list. [43] Coppola serves as the "Honorary Consul H. E. Francis Ford Coppola" in San Francisco for Belize. [44] Coppola is among only six ...
List of accolades and awards for Ingmar Bergman Signature Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, theatre and radio. He is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential filmmakers of all time, and is well known for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966 ...