The film won all of its nine Oscar nominations, a record at that point in time, and a special Oscar for co-star Maurice Chevalier.

It garnered Spacek and Piper Laurie Oscar nominations for their performances.

The film received Oscar nominations for composers Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen and for co-star Peter Falk ( Best Supporting Actor ).

An A-level feature all the way, the film's commercial success and seven Oscar nominations made it probably the most influential of the early noirs.

** Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Screenplay ( with Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi ), Best Art and Set Direction

" He was not included in the film's six Oscar nominations, all of which were lost.

Les Girls ( 1957 ) won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and Wild Is the Wind ( 1957 ) earned Oscar nominations for Anna Magnani and Anthony Quinn, but neither Heller in Pink Tights nor Let's Make Love ( both 1960 ) were box office hits.

The film was a success, securing three Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Supporting Actor for Lemmon, who won.

He received his first two Oscar nominations for John Ford's 1934 film The Lost Patrol, and the same year for The Gay Divorcee.

An enduring cultural icon, Brando became a box office star during the 1950s, during which time he racked up five Oscar nominations as Best Actor, along with three consecutive wins of the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

There have also been many fictional depictions of wrestling ; the 2008 film The Wrestler received several Oscar nominations and began a career revival for star Mickey Rourke.

The 2008 film The Wrestler, about a washed-up professional wrestler, garnered several Oscar nominations.

Crowe received three consecutive best actor Oscar nominations, for The Insider, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind.

As of 2012, All About Eve is still the only film in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations ( Davis and Baxter as Best Actress, Holm and Ritter as Best Supporting Actress ).

His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations, one of them being in the same year.

Other Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor were for Dick Tracy and Glengarry Glen Ross.

Oscar nominations for Best Actor include The Godfather Part II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, ... And Justice for All and Scent of a Woman.

Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins.

It received 8 Oscar nominations and 3 wins, including Kazan's first for Best Director.

" A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), an adaptation of the stage play which he had also directed, received 12 Oscar nominations, winning 4, and was Marlon Brando's breakthrough role.

During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, won twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins in different films.

" Tracy received Oscar and BAFTA Award nominations for the work.

It has been suggested that remarks Burton made about blacklisting Hollywood while filming The Robe may have explained his failure to ever win an Oscar, despite receiving seven nominations.

Telecasts of the Oscar ceremony would come later.

If the Norge expedition was actually the first to the North Pole, Amundsen and Oscar Wisting would therefore be the first persons to reach each geographical pole, by ground or by air, as the case may be.

A critical and financial success, it earned Siodmak his only Oscar nomination for direction in Hollywood ( his German production The Devil Came at Night ( Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam ) would be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1956 ).

Initially he resisted, because he was determined to write the full score for his next project ( Saturday Night had been aborted ), but Oscar Hammerstein convinced him that he would benefit from the experience, and he accepted.

Preminger's next film would be another period piece based on a literary classic, Oscar Wilde's 1897 play Lady Windermere's Fan.

The only tension occurred when local Jordanian officials learned that English actor Henry Oscar, who did not speak Arabic, would be filmed reciting the Qur ' an ; permission was granted only on condition that an imam be present to ensure that there were no misquotations.

Crawford secretly contacted each of the other Oscar nominees in the category ( Katharine Hepburn, Geraldine Page and Anne Bancroft, all East Coast-based actresses ), to let them know that if they could not attend the ceremony, she would be happy to accept the Oscar on their behalf ; all agreed.

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

NBC was concerned about Spock's satanic appearance, however, and asked for the character to be dropped ; according to Oscar Katz, the network was worried " the ' guy with the ears ' would scare the shit out of every kid in America ".

*" I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller — my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre.

When Shaw gave Leopold Jacobson the rights to adapt the play into what became the 1908 operatta The Chocolate Soldier with music by Oscar Straus, he provided three conditions: none of Shaw's dialogue, nor any of his character's names, could be used ; the libretto must be advertised as being a parody of Shaw's work ; and Shaw would accept no monetary compensation.

He achieved great film success in a 1966 comedy as a shyster lawyer called " Whiplash Willie " Gingrich starring opposite Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie, the first of numerous collaborations with Billy Wilder, and a role that would earn him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde ’ s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).

It was the first time the studio, known for low budget B-movies, released a film receiving an Oscar nomination, the only Best Picture nomination the studio would ever garner.

Named “ Oscar the Grouch ”, writers would eventually add other Grouches, an entire species explored in the film The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland and various television episodes.

In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Oscar reveals that he would still be orange if he bathed ; his green exterior is apparently moss.

If Oscar didn ’ t fight me, he would not have been anything in boxing.

The incident was not repeated, the play received moderately good reviews and had a modest run of four weeks, before being taken off to make way for Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which Alexander thought would have better prospects for the coming Season.

At the time of her death, McDaniel would have had few options other than black institutions to place the Oscar.

The fight was close and in keeping with past De La Hoya big fights, Oscar would fade late into the fight and Mosley was able to edge out a points win.

On May 1, 2007, the Staples Center sports arena announced that a bronze statue of Oscar De La Hoya would join similar tributes to Los Angeles sports stars Magic Johnson and Wayne Gretzky at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Sinatra would later win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.