| Oscar Trivia - Part 2 |
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"I Want To Thank My Agent And My Mom..."
The following films won the Best Picture Oscar, yet didn't win any of
the other major awards (i.e., Best Director or any of the four acting
awards), which seems incongruous for a "Best Picture":
Wings (1928)
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Cimarron (1931)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Rebecca (1940)
An American in Paris (1951)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Chariots of Fire (1981).
Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs
(1990) despite appearing in only a few scenes.
To date, only five performers have won two Oscars back-to-back:
Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937).
Spencer Tracy for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938).
Katharine Hepburn for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and The Lion
in Winter (1968).
Jason Robards, Jr. for All the President's Men (1976) and Julia
(1977).
Tom Hanks for Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994).
In 1978, at age 29, Richard Dreyfuss became the youngest man to win an
Academy Award for Best Actor for The Goodbye Girl. Marlee Matlin, at
age 21, was the youngest female to win an Oscar for Best Actress, for
the film Children of a Lesser God.
Films with lengthy titles don't often crack into the line-up for Best
Picture Academy Awards. During Oscar's history, the longest title for
a Best Picture winner has contained six words, a distinction held by
just seven films:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
You Can't Take it With You (1938)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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