Oscar Q & A Q.
What individual has more Oscar nominations than any other person in Academy Awards
history?
A. Walt Disney holds that record with 64 nominations. John Williams' 39 Academy
Award nominations make him the most nominated living person.
Q. Which actor or actress has the most nominations? Who has the most wins?
A. Katharine Hepburn and Meryl Streep are tied for having the greatest number of
acting Academy Award nominations (12). Ms. Hepburn holds the distinction of the most wins
with four Leading Actress Oscars.
Q. Is there anybody who has won an Oscar every time he or she has been nominated?
A. Dozens of people have that honor, but four-time Academy Award winner Mark Berger
holds the record for the most. Berger won his Oscar statuettes in the Sound category for
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979), THE RIGHT STUFF (1983), AMADEUS (1984) and THE ENGLISH PATIENT
(1996).
 Q. Has a
woman ever been nominated for a directing Oscar?
A. Two women have been nominated for achievement in Directing: Jane Campion in 1993
for THE PIANO and Lina Wertmuller in 1976 for SEVEN BEAUTIES.
Q. How many times did Alfred Hitchcock get nominated? Did he ever win?
A. Hitchcock was nominated in the Directing category five times: REBECCA (1940),
LIFEBOAT (1944), SPELLBOUND (1945), REAR WINDOW (1954) and PSYCHO (1960). He did not win a
Directing Oscar but was presented with an Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1967.
Q. What material was the Oscar
statuette made of during World War II?
A. In support of the war effort, the
Academy handed out plaster Oscar statuettes during WWII. After the war, winners exchanged
the plaster awards for golden statuettes.
Q. Who was the youngest person ever
to win an Oscar statuette? And who was the youngest person ever to receive an Academy
Award nomination?
A. Shirley Temple was the youngest
winner when she was presented a juvenile Academy Award at age 6 years, 310 days. The
youngest winner of a competitive Academy Award was Tatum O'Neal, who at age 10 years, 148
days won a Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in PAPER MOON.
Q. What movies have won Academy Awards in all of the following categories: Best Picture,
Directing, Actor, Actress and Writing?
A. In the Academy's 73-year history, only three films have swept those five awards:
in 1934, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT; in 1975, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST; and in 1991, THE
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.
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