Oscar Trivia

Tomorrow night is Oscar Night! Here's some Oscar Trivia to amaze your friends and family as you get ready to watch the show and see who wins Mr. Oscar!

• Movies with the most nominations: "All About Eve" (1950), and "Titanic" (1997). 14 each (although two of "Titanic"'s nominations were in categories that did not exist in 1950)
• Movie with the most Oscars: "Ben-Hur" (1959), 11
• Movie with the most Oscars that did not win Best Picture: "Cabaret" (1972), 8. (It lost Best Picture to "The Godfather," which won a total of 3 Oscars)
• Movies with the most nominations not to win a single Oscar: "The Turning Point" (1977); "The Color Purple" (1984), 11 nominations each.
• Best Picture winner with the fewest nominations: "Grand Hotel" (1931-32) (1 nomination)
• Actors/actresses with the most nominations and no wins: Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole, 7 nominations; Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter, 6 nominations.
• Only actors/actresses to win in consecutive years: Luise Rainer ("The Great Ziegfeld, 1936 and "The Good Earth," 1937), Spencer Tracy ("Captains Courageous, 1937 and "Boys Town," 1938), Katharine Hepburn ("Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," 1967 and "The Lion in Winter," 1968), Jason Robards (supporting: "All the President's Men," 1976 and "Julia," 1977), Tom Hanks ("Philadelphia," 1993 and "Forrest Gump," 1994)

Movies you may never have heard of that were nominated for Best Picture:

• "Nicholas and Alexandra" (1971)
• "The Emigrants" (1972)
• "A Touch of Class" (1973)
• "The Goodbye Girl" (1977)
• "Breaking Away" (1979)
• "Tess" (1980)
• "The Dresser" (1983)
• "The Mission" (1986)
• "The Accidental Tourist" (1988)
• "Awakenings" (1990)

Classic movies that were not nominated for Best Picture:

• "Frankenstein" (1931)
• "King Kong" (1933)
• "Gunga Din" (1939)
• "The African Queen" (1951)
• "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)
• "Rebel Without A Cause" (1955)
• "Some Like It Hot" (1959)
• "Psycho" (1960)
• "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961)
• "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962)
• "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)
• "Thelma & Louise" (1991)
• "The Player" (1992