First off, let me say that Sandra Bullock is my girl. Loved her in "Speed," "Miss Congeniality" and, come to think of it, "Miss Congeniality 2."
Meryl Streep, however, hasn't won an Oscar since 1982 ("Sophie's Choice"), and she deserves another for playing Julia Child in "Julie & Julia."
Currently, she is lumped in with 33 other actors who have won two Oscars. Just look at all those two-timers surrounding her in the list below. Doesn't look right.
But the magnificent Streepness will soar onto a new plane if she blindsides Bullock on Sunday and becomes the only actress alive with three Oscars. Now, that seems about right.
All references to Oscar wins are for competitive Academy Awards only. Honorary Oscars and other special awards are not included.
Source: oscars.org, the official Web site of the Academy Awards, and boxofficemojo.com
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2
Number of best-actress winners in 1968, when Barbra Streisand ("Funny Girl") and Katharine Hepburn ("The Lion in Winter") got the same number of votes. It's the only true tie in any of the acting categories.
11
Number of Oscars won by "Ben-Hur," "Titanic" and "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." No movie has won 12.
7
Number of times the best actor and the best actress have come from the same film:
1934 Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert for "It Happened One Night."
1975 Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
1976 Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway for "Network."
1978 Jon Voight, Jane Fonda for "Coming Home."
1981 Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn for "On Golden Pond."
1991 Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster for "The Silence of the Lambs."
1997 Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt for "As Good As It Gets."
3
Number of films that have won the Oscar for best picture, best actor, best actress, best director and best writing:
• "It Happened One Night" (1934)
• "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)
• "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)
2
Number of Oscar nominations for Spike Lee, who will be in Tucson March 31 for a lecture at Centennial Hall.
45
Number of music nominations for John Williams. He's won five Oscars, most recently in 1993 for best original score ("Schindler's List").
4
Number of acting Oscars won by Katharine Hepburn, a record.
3
Number of people with three acting Oscars: Jack Nicholson, Walter Brennan and Ingrid Bergman.
34
Number of people who have won two acting Oscars:
Marlon Brando, Michael Caine, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Daniel Day-Lewis, 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, Sean Penn, Anthony Quinn, Luise Rainer, Jason Robards, Maggie Smith, Kevin Spacey, Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Peter Ustinov, Denzel Washington, Dianne Wiest, Shelley Winters.
16
Acting nominations for Meryl Streep, a record.
• "The Deer Hunter"
• "Kramer vs. Kramer"
• "The French Lieutenant's Woman"
• "Sophie's Choice"
• "Silkwood"
• "Out of Africa"
• "Ironweed"
• "A Cry in the Dark"
• "Postcards From the Edge"
• "The Bridges of Madison County"
• "One True Thing"
• "Music of the Heart"
• "Adaptation"
• "The Devil Wears Prada"
• "Doubt"
• "Julie & Julia"
10*
Number of acting nominations earned by Bette Davis.
* 11 if you count her unofficial nomination in '34 for "Of Human Bondage." Davis came in third as a write-in.
Films with 'man' or 'men' in title earned 4 nods this year
7
Number of acting Oscars won for films with "man" or "men" in the title, including Susan Sarandon for "Dead Man Walking" and Dustin Hoffman for "Rain Man."
4
Number of best-picture winners with "man" or "men" in the title: "All the King's Men," "A Man for All Seasons," "Rain Man" and "No Country for Old Men."
4
Number of acting Oscars won for films with "woman" or "women" in the title, including William Hurt in "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and Al Pacino for "Scent of a Woman."
0
Number of best-picture winners with "woman" or "women" in the title.
The last time there were 10 nominees for best picture
1943, when "Casablanca" beat nine other nominees:
"For Whom the Bell Tolls"
"Heaven Can Wait"
"The Human Comedy"
"In Which We Serve"
"Madame Curie"
"The More the Merrier"
"The Ox-Bow Incident"
"The Song of Bernadette"
"Watch on the Rhine"
People with 4 or more directing nominations
12 William Wyler
8 Billy Wilder
7 David Lean
7 Fred Zinnemann
6 Woody Allen
6 Frank Capra
6 Martin Scorsese
6 Steven Spielberg
5 Robert Altman
5 Clarence Brown
5 George Cukor
5 John Ford
5 Alfred Hitchcock
5 John Huston
5 Elia Kazan
5 George Stevens
5 King Vidor
4 Francis Ford Coppola
4 Michael Curtiz
4 Clint Eastwood
4 Federico Fellini
4 Stanley Kubrick
4 Sidney Lumet
4 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
4 Mike Nichols
4 Peter Weir
0
Combined number of Oscars won by directors Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Clarence Brown, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet and Peter Weir.
Some films must direct themselves, I guess
"Wings" won best picture at the first Academy Awards (1927-28). But the director was not nominated for best director. This has happened only twice since then:
In 1931-32, director Edmund Goulding was not nominated for "Grand Hotel," which won best picture.
In 1989, director Bruce Beresford was not nominated for "Driving Miss Daisy," which won best picture.
Only two people have earned acting nominations for five straight years
Bette Davis
1938 "Jezebel" *
1939 "Dark Victory"
1940 "The Letter"
1941 "The Little Foxes"
1942 "Now, Voyager"
Greer Garson
1941 "Blossoms in the Dust"
1942 "Mrs. Miniver" *
1943 "Madame Curie"
1944 "Mrs. Parkington"
1945 "The Valley of Decision"
* Won the Oscar for best actress
The following have won acting nominations four years in a row: Jennifer Jones, Thelma Ritter, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor and Al Pacino.
Finally . . .
Billy Wilder finally won an Oscar for best direction for "The Apartment," which was his eighth and final nomination in that category. Only William Wyler earned more directing nominations (12).
Right off the bat . . .
Woody Allen won his only directing Oscar for "Annie Hall," his first nomination. He also was nominated for his direction of "Interiors," "Hannah and Her Sisters," "Broadway Danny Rose," "Crimes and Misdemeanors" and "Bullets Over Broadway."
Allen has a record 14 writing nominations. He won for "Annie Hall" and "Hannah and Her Sisters."
20
Number of nominations for Kevin O'Connell, a sound mixer of films from "Terms of Endearment" to "Transformers."
0
Number of wins for Kevin O'Connell, making him Oscar's reigning bridesmaid.
The person with the most acting nominations (eight) and no wins? Peter O'Toole
Incredible Streaks
William Wyler was nominated for best director seven years straight
1936 for "Dodsworth," 1937 for "Dead End," 1938 for "Jezebel," 1939 for "Wuthering Heights," 1940 for "The Letter," 1941 for "The Little Foxes" and in 1942 for "Mrs. Miniver."
7 was not their lucky number
The following films received seven nominations each and were shut out on Oscar night:
"The Letter," "Random Harvest," "The Talk of the Town," "Madame Curie," "Double Indemnity," "Come to the Stable," "The Caine Mutiny," "Anatomy of a Murder," "Pepe," "Mutiny on the Bounty," "Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte," "Hawaii," "Star!," "Broadcast News," "The Godfather, Part III," "The Prince of Tides," "In the Name of the Father," "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Thin Red Line," "The Insider" and "Seabiscuit."
Back to back?
Penelope Cruz, who won best supporting actress last year for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," was nominated this year for "Nine." If she wins, she'll be the first actor to win back-to-back awards since Tom Hanks ("Philadelphia" in 1993 and "Forrest Gump" in 1994).
$2,546,818,745
Worldwide box office gross, as of Monday, for "Avatar"
$19,327,244
Worldwide box office gross, as of Monday, for "The Hurt Locker"
9
Number of Oscar nominations each for "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker."
