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1. Why are Academy Awards called Oscar?
2. Who has won the most Academy Awards in total?
3. Who has had the most Oscar nominations in total?
4. Who was the youngest person ever to receive an Oscar?
5. Who has the most acting wins?
6. Who has had the most acting Nominations?
7. How many times did Alfred Hitchcock get nominated? Did he ever win?
8. For how many Academy Awards was "Citizen Kane" nominated?
9. Has a woman ever been nominated for a directing Oscar?
10What movies have won Academy Awards in all of the following categories: Best Picture, Directing, Actor, Actress and Writing?

1. Why are Academy Awards called Oscar?

How the award got it's nickname "Oscar" isn't very clear. A popular story has been that Academy librarian and eventual executive director Margaret Herrick said that it resembled her Uncle Oscar.

A reporter allegedly overheard her and helped brand the golden statuette. In any case, by the sixth Awards Presentation in 1934, Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky used the name in his column in reference to Katharine Hepburn's first Best Actress win.

The Academy itself didn't use the nickname officially until 1939.

2. Who has won the most Academy Awards in total?

Walt Disney is the all-time winner with 26 Academy Awards to his name.

3. Who has had the most Oscar nominations in total?

Walt Disney holds that record too, with 59 Academy Award nominations.

4. Who was the youngest person ever to receive an Oscar?

Shirley Temple was the youngest recipient 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".

5. Who has the most acting wins?

Katharine Hepburn holds the distinction of the most wins with four Leading Actress Oscars.

6. Who has had the most acting Nominations?

Meryl Streep has had 13 nominations.

7. How many times did Alfred Hitchcock get nominated? Did he ever win?

Alfred Hitchcock was nominated in the Directing category five times: for "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.

8. For how many Academy Awards was "Citizen Kane" nominated?

"Citizen Kane" was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories: Leading Actor (Orson Welles), Art Direction (Black-and-White) (art direction Perry Ferguson, Van Nest Polglase; interior decoration Al Fields, Darrell Silvera), Cinematography (Black-and-White) (Gregg Toland), Directing (Orson Welles), Film Editing (Robert Wise), Music (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) (Bernard Herrmann), Best Picture (Mercury) and Sound Recording (RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg, Sound Director). It won the Oscar for Writing (Original Screenplay) (Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles).

9. Has a woman ever been nominated for a directing Oscar?

Three women have been nominated for achievement in Directing: Sofia Coppola in 2003 for "Lost In Translation", Jane Campion in 1993 for "The Piano" and Lina Wertmüller in 1976 for "Seven Beauties".

10. What movies have won Academy Awards in all of the following categories: Best Picture, Directing, Actor, Actress and Writing?

To date, 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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