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Oscar Trivia Page; Oscar Special Report

Most honored directors:
John Ford, four awards (1935, 1940, 1941, 1952)
Frank Capra, three awards (1934, 1936, 1938)
William Wyler, three awards (1942, 1946, 1959)

Most nominated non-winning movies:
"The Turning Point" (1977, 11 nominations)
"The Color Purple" (1985, 11 nominations)

The only silent film to win Best Picture: "Wings" (1927-28)

The first sound film to win Best Picture: "The Broadway Melody" (1928-29)

The first movie in color to win Best Picture: "Gone With the Wind" (1939)

The only sequel to win Best Picture: "The Godfather Part II" (1974)

The first non-Hollywood film to win Best Picture: "Hamlet" (1948), financed and filmed in England

The first foreign-language performance to win an Oscar: Sophia Loren, named 1961's Best Actress for her work in the Italian film "Two Women"

The only westerns to win Best Picture: "Cimarron" (1931), "Dances With Wolves" (1990), "Unforgiven" (1992)

Best Picture winners that received no nominations for acting:
"Wings" (1927-28)
"The Broadway Melody" (1928-29)
"All Quiet on the Western Front" (1929-30)
"Grand Hotel" (1931-32)
"An American in Paris" (1951)
"The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952)
"Around the World in 80 Days" (1956)
"Gigi" (1958)
"The Last Emperor" (1987)
"Braveheart" (1995)

The only motion pictures to win Best Picture, Direction, Actress, Actor and Screenplay:
"It Happened One Night" (1934)
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)
"The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)

The only performers to win consecutive Oscars:
Luise Rainer (1936 for "The Great Ziegfeld"; 1937 for "The Good Earth")
Spencer Tracy (1937 for "Captains Courageous"; 1938 for "Boys Town")
Katharine Hepburn (1967 for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"; 1968 for "The Lion in Winter")
Jason Robards (1976 for "All the President's Men"; 1977 for "Julia")
Tom Hanks (1993 for "Philadelphia"; 1994 for "Forrest Gump")

The only films to win three Oscars for acting:
"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
"Network" (1976)
(To date, no film has won all four of the Oscars for acting.)

The only films to win both Best Actor and Best Actress:
"It Happened One Night" (1934)
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)
"Network" (1976)
"Coming Home" (1978)
"On Golden Pond" (1981)
"The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)
"As Good as It Gets" (1997)

The only person to win an Oscar for playing an Oscar loser: Maggie Smith in "California Suite" (1978)

The most nominated non-winning performers: Richard Burton (seven nominations, no wins); Peter O'Toole (seven nominations, no wins)

The only performers to win three or more Oscars for acting:
Katharine Hepburn (four wins)
Walter Brennan (three wins)
Ingrid Bergman (three wins)
Jack Nicholson (three wins)

Performers who've won two Oscars for acting: Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Robert de Niro, Melvyn Douglas, Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Jodie Foster, Gene Hackman, Tom Hanks, Helen Hayes, Dustin Hoffman, Glenda Jackson, Jessica Lange, Vivien Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Fredric March, Anthony Quinn, Luise Rainer (for 1936's "The Good Earth" and 1937's "The Great Ziegfeld"), Jason Robards, Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Peter Ustinov, Dianne Wiest, Shelley Winters

The only women nominated as Best Director:
Lina Wertmuller ("Seven Beauties," 1976)
Jane Campion ("The Piano," 1993)

The first person nominated as producer, director, actor and screenwriter in a single year: Orson Welles (1941, for "Citizen Kane")

The only African American actors to win Oscars:
Hattie McDaniel (Best Supporting Actress, "Gone With the Wind")
Sidney Poitier (Best Actor, "Lilies of the Field")
Louis Gossett Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, "An Officer and a Gentleman")
Denzel Washington (Best Supporting Actor, "Glory")
Whoopi Goldberg (Best Supporting Actress, "Ghost")
Cuba Gooding Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, "Jerry Maguire") Halle Berry (Best Actress, "Monster's Ball")
Denzel Washington (Best Actor, "Training Day")

Youngest performer to receive an Academy Award: Shirley Temple (1934, Special Award; she was 6 years old)

Youngest performer to win a competitive Academy Award: Tatum O'Neal (1973, for "Paper Moon"; 10 years old)

Youngest winner as Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss (1977, for "The Goodbye Girl"; 29 years old)

Youngest winner as Best Actress: Marlee Matlin (1986, for "Children of a Lesser God"; 21 years old)

Oldest winner as Best Actor: Henry Fonda (1981, for "On Golden Pond"; 76 years old)

Oldest performer to receive an Academy Award: Groucho Marx (1973, Honorary Award; 83 years old)

Oldest performer to win a competitive Academy Award: Jessica Tandy (1989, for "Driving Miss Daisy"; 80 years old)

Host of the Oscars the year the show ran 20 minutes short: Jerry Lewis (1959)

Sources: "70 Years of the Oscar" by Robert Osborne, Washington Post staff and wire reports, Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.