Oscar Winners at
the Academy Awards A Summary of the Oscar Winning
Films In Movie History.
Gwyneth
Paltrow Lets The Tears Flow
The Academy Awards, affectionately known as The Oscars,
have been handed out in the film industry since 1929.
Here we've collected together the results of all the major
Oscars to be given from 1940 to 1999, along with some fun
Oscars Trivia for you to indulge
in.
We've also got the Story
of the Academy Awards themselves so you can find out
how it all started, why it's so important in the movie
industry and why Actors all seem to care so much about
it.
Film
Nominations
• All About Eve (1950)
14
• Titanic (1997)
14
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
13
• Mary Poppins (1964)
13
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
(1966)
13
• Forrest Gump (1994)
13
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
13
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship
of the Ring (2001)
13
• Chicago (2002)
13
Most
Nominated Movies
Over the years the Oscars has thrown
up some weird and wonderful results with some of the
most influence film makers of a generation being widely
ignored.
Director Alfred Hitchcock, while being a huge influence
over the movie industry and being nominated 5 times for
awards, never won an Oscar for his films. He was later
awarded an Acheivement style Oscar, but that's it!
But one of the best parts of the Oscars is hearing the
Actors acceptance speeches which go from the ultra cool,
briefness of Clark Gable whose entire speech consisted
of "Thank You", to the implausible Greer Garson who rattled
on for so long that she was constantly ribbed about it
at dinner parties in Hollywood for years to come.
Another thing with the Oscars if you're an actor is that
you have to learn to be patient.
John Wayne appeared in 138 films before receiving an Oscar for True Grit (1969).
Henry Fonda waited 41 years between his first nomination and his win for On
Golden Pond (1981). So, if you're a young actor, don't get too downhearted if
you don't win one right away!
To find out who won what Oscar in any specific year just
click on the relevent link in the panel on the right. Alternatively,
look to the related links section for more about the Oscars
and the history of the awards ceremony.
Don't forget too, if you've got some Oscars related
trivia or information that you think we should know about
or any specific questions that you can't find the answer
to, just nip over to the WWWK
Forums and tell us all about it.
