Whether you want to "WOW" your friends with your Oscar knowledge or ask them trivia questions - Here's a list of Oscar Trivia to add to your ten cent crazy book.
The youngest person to ever receive an Oscar was 5-year-old
Shirley Temple - in 1934.
(However, Shirley's Oscar was an honorary one.)
The youngest actress to win a standard Oscar was
Tatum O'Neal, who was 10 years old when she won the
Best Supporting Actress award for
"Paper Moon" in 1974.)
George Burns was the oldest Oscar winner when he won as
Best Supporting Actor for
"The Sunshine Boys" at age 80 (in 1976).
But that mark was later surpassed by
Jessica Tandy, who won her Best Actress Oscar at age 81 for
"Driving Miss Daisy."
The oldest actor to win the Oscar for Best Actor was
Henry Fonda, for
"On Golden Pond". He was 76.
The Three movies that won the most Oscars were
"Lord of the Rings; Return of the King" (2003),
"Titanic" (1997) and
"Ben-Hur" (1959). All three movies won 11 Oscars.
(Second place is held by "West Side Story," which won ten Oscars.)
The actress with the most Academy Awards for "Best Actress" is
Katharine Hepburn, who won four Oscars (in 1932, 1967, 1968 & 1981.)
The title for the most "Best Actor," awards, though, is
shared by seven different actors
(Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson,
Fredric March, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hanks) who each won two Oscars.
The actor with the most total Oscar nominations is
Jack Nicholson, who was nominated 12 times
(winning three times - twice for Best Actor
and once for Best Supporting Actor.)
Meryl Streep now holds the record for the most
total Oscar nominations, with 16
(passing Katharine Hepburn, who had 12.
The individual who was awarded the most total Oscars was none other than
Walt Disney, who walked away with 26 Academy Awards over his lifetime.
He had 64 total Oscar nominations.
The longest acceptance speech ever given at an
Academy Awards ceremony was given by
Greer Garson, when she accepted her award for
Best Actress in 1942's
"Mrs. Miniver." It's uncertain exactly how long she spoke
- most sources agree it was somewhere
between 5 1/2 and 7 minutes.
The Oscar statuette weighs 6 3/4 pounds, and stands 13 1/2 inches high.
It was named by Margaret Herrick, the Academy librarian,
who remarked in 1931 (upon seeing the statuettes),
"Why it looks like my Uncle Oscar!"
(a nickname for her cousin Oscar Pierce).
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