Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Sergio Leone, Sidney Lumet and Christopher Nolan don't have a single Best Director Oscar between them.
Anthony Hopkins won the Best Leading Actor for his role as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) with just 16 minutes and 10 seconds of screentime, whereas Frank Finlay won the Best S…
Every one of the 5 films that John Cazale appeared in were nominated for Best Picture.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won every one of its 11 nominations, tying it for the most Oscar wins ever. In contrast, The Turning Point (1977) and The Color Purple (1985) both …
Norbit (2007), Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Click (2006) all received Oscar nominations in the Makeup category.
John Lasseter dresses his Oscar in Barbie clothes.
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Sound mixer Kevin O'Connell has been nominated 20 times without a single win.
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Outside of the Lord of the Rings movies, the highest grossing Best Picture nominee from 2000 to 2008 was A Beautiful Mind (2001) with $170,742,341. But after the expansion to 10 nominees, 2009 and 201…
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Only 3 animated films have been nominated for Best Picture: Beauty and the Beast (1991), Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010).
American Sniper (2014) holds the record for the highest gross from a Best Picture after it's nomination, with over $300 million. The previous record was Avatar (2009) with $122,154,407.
Due to the fact that Titanic (1997), the highest grossing film at the time, was the winner of 11 awards, The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998) was watched by a total 87.5 viewers in the U.S. alone.
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Traffic (2000) won all of its 5 nominations, except Best Picture.
The 148 minute difference in length between Best Picture winners Gone with the Wind (1939) and Marty (1955) is longer than 7 of 2015's Best Picture nominees.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) won 5 Oscars, but didn't get a Best Picture nomination.
Three people have been nominated for an Oscar for playing Henry VIII: Robert Shaw in A Man for All Seasons (1966), Richard Burton in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) and Charles Laughton in The Privat…
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Wings (1927) is the only movie to win Best Picture without any other major nominations.
Deus Ex Machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the inspired and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability or object. *…
Which of these decade defining actors of the 1970s do you believe to be the most influential? 1960s <<< Vote Other Decades >>> 1980s After voting, you may discuss the poll here. Als…
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"He has no genitalia and he's holding a sword" These are the words formulated by Dustin Hoffman when he was close enough to give a detailed description of the most coveted award of Cinema's …
This is a little list I made up (except for three or four options, slightly rewritten) of "Light bulb" jokes, all based on movie-related characters or professions. Which one do you find the…
Which of these male performances chosen by IMDb Poll Board members as the best performances not nominated for an Oscar most deserved to be nominated? Discuss it here. Vote in the female poll here
According to ABC News, these are the most popular names for the Royal Baby. Which name do you hope Prince William of Wales and Catherine Princess of Wales will name their next child? Please discuss yo…
Oscar records come in all shapes and sizes. Some happen over a single ceremony, others happen over a lifetime. Some you would love to be part of and others you want nothing to do with. These Oscar rec…
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Warner Bros. has launched its Oscar campaign for Wonder Woman (2017). They are pushing the film to become the first comic-book movie nominated for Best Picture. The studio also wants Patty Jenkins to…