The 83rd Academy Awards | 2011 (2023)

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Which picture won the Best Picture award in the 83rd Academy Awards Oscars? ›

The King's Speech won four awards, including Best Picture.

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Colin Firth has received two Academy Award for Best Actor nominations winning for his performance as King George VI in Tom Hooper's historical drama The King's Speech (2010). He also received two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Only three films have won all five of these major awards: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Eight films failed to win any of the five major awards after being nominated in each category.

Sacheen Littlefeather, Who Declined Oscar on Marlon Brando's Behalf, Dies at 75. FILE - Activist and actress Sacheen Littlefeather takes part in a panel discussion on the PBS special 'Reel Injun' at the PBS Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., Aug.

Six have won exactly three acting Academy Awards: Daniel Day-Lewis (three Best Actor awards), Frances McDormand (three Best Actress awards), Meryl Streep (two Best Actress awards and one Best Supporting Actress award), Jack Nicholson (two Best Actor awards and one Best Supporting Actor award), Ingrid Bergman (two Best ...

Daniel Day-Lewis

He's been nominated only six times, but he's won three Oscars for Best Actor. The Irish thespian had said that 2017's “Phantom Thread” was his last film, so he may be retired. Of course, Joe Pesci said that once, and then “The Irishman” happened.

Frank Capra won three awards in this category, for It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, and You Can't Take It with You. John Ford has the most Best Director wins with four, winning in 1935, 1940, 1941, and 1952.

Walt Disney won an armload of Academy Awards® one unforgettable Hollywood night. On March 25, 1954, Walt won Oscars for the films The Living Desert, Bear Country, The Alaskan Eskimo, and the cartoon short Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom.

The beloved funnyman Jim Carrey has never received an Oscar nomination, despite having appeared in such critically adored films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Truman Show. He has picked up a slew of Golden Globe nominations, however, two of which have resulted in wins.

What 3 films have won 11 Oscars? ›

"Ben-Hur" (1959), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003), and "Titanic" (1997) each received 11 Oscars.

Who has the most Oscars overall? Out of all nominees in Academy Awards history, Walt Disney holds the most Oscars. Disney won 26 Oscars over the course of his career and was nominated a grand total of 59 times.

Chaplin had received honorary Academy Awards in 1929 and 1972. Cabaret, Bob Fosse's adaptation of the Broadway stage musical, set a record for the most Oscars won without winning Best Picture. Best Picture winner The Godfather received only three Academy Awards.

Walt Disney has been honored with the most Academy Awards of all time, having won 22 awards out of 59 nominations. Katharine Hepburn holds the record for the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time.

As of 2022, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time.

The statuettes are solid bronze and plated in 24-karat gold. Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars were made of painted plaster for three years.

Sacheen Littlefeather had only 60 seconds to speak at the 1973 Academy Awards. In her brief speech, she refused the Oscar for best actor on behalf of Marlon Brando, faced a mixture of loud boos and cheers, and defended the rights of Native Americans on national TV.

Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight” (2008)

Posthumously awarded the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, Ledger perfectly embodies the lunacy of Gotham's most gleeful villain, the Joker. He died more than a year before he could receive his award, but his performance remains the pinnacle of villain madness.

Two actors have won two consecutive awards: Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938) Tom Hanks – Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994)

In the past 90 years, only three films, It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) have won all five Oscars from the forty-three films that secured nominations in all five prestige Academy Award categories.

Has anyone won 2 Oscars in the same year? ›

Seven of these actors and actresses received an Academy Award in one of the categories they were nominated in, but none have won two Academy Awards in the same year.

Tatum O'Neal, 'Paper Moon' (1973)

She remains the youngest competitive Oscar winner in history, beating out Linda Blair (The Exorcist), Sylvia Sidney (Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams), Candy Clark (American Graffiti) and her Paper Moon co-star Madeline Kahn.

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.

Ultimately, the 1984 awards were monopolized by Amadeus with eight wins, the Saul Zaentz-produced, Milos Forman-directed film. The musical quasi-biopic/epic won the following awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (F.

Forrest Gump won six awards, including Best Picture.

The film received thirteen Academy Award nominations, the most of the 81st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Fincher, Best Actor for Pitt, and Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, and Best Visual Effects.

Big Five winners

Three films have received the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay (Original or Adapted; all won for Best Adapted Screenplay).

As of 2021, 44 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Katharine Hepburn leads the way with four (all Best Actress).

Prior to 1950, Oscar statuettes were (and remain) the property of the recipient. Since then the statuettes have been legally encumbered by the requirement that the statuette be first offered for sale back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette.

The year's highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada was Beverly Hills Cop. Ghostbusters overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year.

Why is 1984 so iconic? ›

1984 saw a contentious Presidential election where Ronald Reagan won a second term over Walter Mondale, the AIDS virus was discovered and made public, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated, and the threat of nuclear war hung over the world.

Titanic received awards for: Best Picture, Best Director, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume, Visual Effects, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Film Editing, Original Dramatic Score, Original Song and losing out on Best Actress, Supporting Actress and Makeup.

Cabaret in particular was an ambitious endeavor, as the 1966 Broadway musical was already an acclaimed work in its own right. Whether Cabaret deserved to win over The Godfather is still a debate worth having, but it would be impossible to dismiss Fosse's efforts entirely.

Forrest Gump beat out Four Weddings and a Funeral, Quiz Show, Pulp Fiction, and The Shawshank Redemption for Best Picture that year, with the latter being another big pick from cinephiles as a deserving winner of the prize over Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump

The failure of "nobility." Benjamin abandons his family because, essentially, he's got an illness that is going to be a burden on them as it progresses. Years later, when Daisy is married, Benjamin returns and she sleeps with him one last time.

Progeria is also known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) or the “Benjamin Button” disease (named after the short story and movie 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'). It's a rare genetic condition that results in a child's body aging rapidly. A mutation in the LMNA gene causes progeria.

Rupesh Kumar, 21, lives in India and weighs under 45 pounds, Express reports. He has a rare condition called Hutchinson-Gilford progeria that causes him to age quickly. It affects only one in 8 million people. The condition is said to have inspired "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," the F.