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The number of Oscars won by Gene Kelly, Steve McQueen, Cary Grant, Glenn Ford, James Mason, Anthony Quayle, Montgomery Clift, Kirk Douglas, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Lee Remick, Natalie Wood, Rita Hayworth and Gloria Swanson between them.
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The number of Oscars won by these classic films between them:
Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)
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The Sixth Sense (1999)
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Taxi Driver (1976)
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The Elephant Man (1980)
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Being John Malkovich (1999)
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Brief Encounter (1946)
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The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)
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To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
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Deliverance (1972)
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
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American Graffiti (1973)
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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Top Hat (1935)
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Dr Strangelove (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb) (1964)
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Psycho (1960)
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12 Angry Men (1957)
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The Green Mile (1999)
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Vertigo (1958)
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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The Player (1992)
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Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
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The Caine Mutiny (1954)
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The Great Dictator (1940)
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The China Syndrome (1979)
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When Harry Met Sally (1989)
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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
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Rear Window (1954)
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A Star Is Born (1954)
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Alfie (1966)
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North By Northwest (1959)
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A Few Good Men (1992)
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Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
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Amelie (2001)
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The number of Oscar nominations won by these classic films between them:
Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (1960)
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The Wild One (1953)
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Kind Hearts And Coronets (1948)
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The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
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King Kong (1933)
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O Lucky Man (1972)
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My Darling Clementine (1946)
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Mean Streets (1973)
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A Night At The Opera (1934)
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The Big Sleep (1946)
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The Misfits (1961)
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The 39 Steps (1935)
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Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)
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Oliver Twist (1948)
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His Girl Friday (1940)
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Reservoir Dogs (1992)
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The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
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The Searchers (1956)
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Dirty Harry (1971)
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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Paths of Glory (1957)
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Modern Times (1936)
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The Lady Vanishes (1939)
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Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
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The number of Nobel prize-winners to win Oscars (George Bernard Shaw for Pygmalion).
The number of British footballers to win Oscars. Neil Paterson played for Dundee United in the 1940s while also working as a freelance writer. In 1959, he won the Oscar for his screenplay for Room At The Top.
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The number of people to open the Oscar envelope to find their own name on the card: Irving Berlin (Best Song, White Christmas 1942).
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The number of people to be nominated for producer, director, writer and actor on the same film – twice. Warren Beatty for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Reds (1981).
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The number of roles to garner two Oscars (Vito Corleone). Marlon Brando won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in The Godfather (1972) while Robert De Niro won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in the same role for The Godfather Part II (1974).
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The number of men named Oscar to win an Oscar: Oscar Hammerstein II (Best Song: 1941; 1945).
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The number of mothers and daughters to be nominated for Oscars in the same year: Diane Ladd and her daughter Laura Dern for Rambling Rose (1991).
The number of families in which three generations have won Oscars: The Hustons: Walter for The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948), John for The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre and Anjelica for Prizzi’s Honor (1985). Walter and John Huston are also the only father and son to win acting Oscars for the same film. The Coppolas: Carmine for The Godfather, Part II (1974), his son Francis for The Godfather, Part II (1974) and Sofia for Lost In Translation (2004). In addition, Francis’s nephew (Sofia’s cousin) Nicolas Cage won the Best Actor Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas (1995).
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The number of non-professional actors to win acting Oscars: Harold Russell (The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946) and Dr Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields, 1984).
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The number of Oscar categories for which women have never won prizes: Best Sound and Best Cinematography.
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The number of actresses to win consecutive Best Actress Oscars: Luise Rainer (1936 and 1937) and Katharine Hepburn (1967 and 1968).
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The number of films in which all the members of the cast have been nominated for Oscars: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (four cast members, 1966), Sleuth (two cast members, 1972) and Give ‘em Hell Harry (one cast member, 1975).
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The number of actors to win consecutive Oscars: Spencer Tracy (1937 and 1938); Jason Robards (1976 and 1977); and Tom Hanks (1993 and 1994). Tracy and Hanks won Best Actor Oscars; Robards won Best Supporting Actor Oscars.
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The number of films to win Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay: It Happened One Night (1934); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975); and The Silence Of The Lambs (1991).
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The number of films to be nominated for nine or more Oscars and to win Oscars in every category for which they were nominated: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (11/11 Oscars in 2004); The Last Emperor (9/9 in 1988); and Gigi (9/9 in 1959).
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The number of actresses to win Best Actress Oscars for their very first on-screen appearances: Shirley Booth (Come Back Little Sheba, 1953); Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1965); Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, 1969); and Marlee Matlin (Children Of A Lesser God, 1987).
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The number of people to win an acting Oscar and to have a number-one album in the US (Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Barbra Streisand and Jamie Foxx).
The number of years running Marlon Brando (1951–4) and Al Pacino (1972–5) were nominated for Oscars.
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The number of years running Bette Davis (1938–42) and Greer Garson (1941–5) were nominated for Oscars.
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The number of years double-Oscar winners are statistically likely to outlive other actors by.
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The number of films to win Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars: 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); and As Good As It Gets (1997).
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The number of people to win the Tony and then the Oscar for the same role:
José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac (Tony: 1947/Oscar: 1950)
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Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba (1950/1953)
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Yul Brynner for The King and I (1952/1956)
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Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady (1957/1964)
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Anne Bancroft for The Miracle Worker (1960/1962)
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Paul Scofield for A Man for All Seasons (1962/1966)
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Jack Albertson for The Subject Was Roses (1965/1968)
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Joel Grey for Cabaret (1967/1973)
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NB. Lila Kedrova did it the other way around. She won a 1964 Oscar for Zorba the Greek, and 20 years later won a Tony for the same role in Zorba.
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The number of people who have been nominated for two acting Oscars in the same year – the most recent being: Holly Hunter and Emma Thompson (1993); Julianne Moore (2002); and Jamie Foxx (2004).
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The number of Oscar nominations The Turning Point (1977) and The Color Purple (1985) won without winning a single Oscar (a dubious record they both share).
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The number of Oscars won by Walt Disney (more than anyone else in history).