, a total of 2, 809 Oscars have been given for 1, 853 awards.

When brought to the screen in 1964, the movie version would win eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Rex Harrison.

Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.

The movie was nominated for ten Oscars and won five.

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It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and received 6 Oscars, including 3 for Coppola: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director.

Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes ( 1964 ) won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film Oscars.

He briefly held the record for winning the most Best Director Oscars when he won for the third time in 1938, until this record was matched by John Ford in 1941, and then later surpassed by Ford in 1952.

Nominated for four Oscars, 8½ won awards for best foreign language film and best costume design in black-and-white.

He followed this with leading roles in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation ( 1974 ), which was nominated for several Oscars.

The film was nominated for three Oscars:

The finished film, released in 1962, was a huge success and was nominated for four Oscars, including one for Lancaster's performance.

The film was nominated for two Oscars, including one for Lansbury.

The film, written by Rod Serling, costarred Fredric March as the President and Ava Gardner as a former flame of Lancaster's, was nominated for two Oscars.

Introducing methods of photographing high-speed auto racing that had never been seen before, mounting cameras on the cars, at full speed and putting the stars in the actual cars, instead of against rear-projections, the film was an international success and won three Oscars, for editing, sound and sound effects.

After the QML's Quake Movie Oscars, dedicated machinima awards did not reappear until the AMAS created the Mackies for its first Machinima Film Festival in 2002.

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

The film is a box-office hit, and is nominated for several Oscars.

Gary Cooper and Joan Fontaine holding their Oscars at the Academy Awards, 1942

Gable and Colbert receive their only Oscars for this film.

The music executives decided to rectify this by creating an award given by their industry similar to the Oscars and the Emmys.

Before 1981, Special Achievement Oscars were twice awarded to makeup artists for their work on a specific film:

Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper holding their Oscars at Academy Award s, 1942.

Fontaine and Gary Cooper holding their Oscars at Academy Award s, 1942

Both George K. Spoor ( in 1948 ) and Broncho Billy Anderson ( in 1958 ) received Oscars, specifically Academy Honorary Awards, for their pioneering efforts with Essanay.

Grahame and Quinn won Oscars for their performances in one of Minnelli's movies.

Only Young and Lange won Oscars for their performances in one of Pollack's films.

Playfully referred to as the " Kiddie Oscars ", the Young Artist Awards are regarded as young Hollywood's answer to the Academy Awards, recognizing children for their work within the entertainment industry.

Like their earlier hit " Get to Me ", this song gained further popularity when it was used as the commercial soundtrack to launch Samsung's 3D television during the Oscars.

In recent times, Corliss has criticized critics for being snobby and the Oscars for being too elite, that being the reason their ratings have suffered as of late.

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A total of 302 actors have won Oscars in competitive acting categories or have been awarded Honorary or Juvenile Awards.

The film won five Oscars in the five most important categories: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, one of only three films in history to do so, along with It Happened One Night and The Silence of the Lambs, and firmly established Forman's reputation.

The film met widespread critical acclaim and, along with the 1978 Academy Award for Best Picture, won Oscars in three other categories: two for Allen ( Best Director and, with Brickman, Best Original Screenplay ), and Keaton for Best Actress.

All of his works have been made into films, the most notable being the multi-Oscar winning The Silence of the Lambs which became only the third film in Academy Award history to sweep the Oscars in major categories.

In 2006 Saiyuki Reload was listed by PUFF ( also known as Manga Oscars ) known by many fans as one of the definite study guides for those who appreciate manga, as 10th in Long Stories categories.

Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the 35 categories of the Image Awards are voted on by the award organization's members ( that is, NAACP members ).

During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards ( commonly referred to as Oscars ) in 24 categories.

; " The Arthur Awards ": Named after the PawPet Show character Arthur Bronswager, this is a parody of the Oscars held on the Sunday night closest to the show, and features categories such as " Best Running Joke " and " Best Song they Never Play on the Show Anymore ".

Also, Jessica Lange, winner of the 1982 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Tootsie, won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Tony Richardson's last film, Blue Sky, joining an elite group of thespians who have won Oscars in both the supporting and lead categories.

During the ceremony, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards ( now commonly referred to as Oscars ) in twelve categories.

The Quirkys are annual awards similar to the Oscars in such categories as Best Quirkyalone Movie of 2004, Best Quirkyalone TV Show of 2004, Best Quirkyalone Book of 2004, Lifetime Quirkyalone Achievement Award, and others.

Some of the award-winning student films have themselves been nominated for Oscars in the short film categories, including Chicks in White Satin, The Janitor, Karl Hess: Toward Liberty, The Lunch Date, 9, Quiero ser ( I Want to Be ...), The Red Jacket, On the Line ( Auf der Strecke ), God of Love and The Confession.