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1. Fredric March won in the 1931-32 Academy Awards, tying with Wallace Beery for "The Champ." Barrymore's performance was in the 1920 silent version, before the Oscars began. Tracy's was in 1941.
2. The odd coincidence: In four consecutive years, the winner of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar had the initials "MS": Maggie Smith, 1978; Meryl Streep, 1979; Mary Steenburgen, 1980; Maureen Stapleton, 1981.
3. Charles Chaplin's "Limelight" won the Oscar for Best Musical Score 20 years after its original release. Academy rules require a film to play in a public engagement at a Los Angeles theater during the year of nomination. Due to a controversy over Chaplin's left-wing politics, "Limelight" received no L.A. bookings in 1952 and couldn't be nominated in the year of its release. When it finally was booked in 1972, it qualified, was nominated...and won.
4. False. Though Hepburn did not appear at the awards to pick up her Oscars for "Morning Glory" (1932-33), "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" (1967), "The Lion in Winter" (1968) or "On Golden Pond" (1981), Hepburn did appear at the 1973 awards ceremony to present the Irving Thalberg Award to producer Lawrence Weingarten.
5. C. Warner Baxter in "In Old Arizona" (1928-29).
6. Kevin Costner ("Dances with Wolves." 1990); Clint Eastwood ("Unforgiven," 1992) and Mel Gibson ("Braveheart," 1995).
7. Linda Hunt in "The Year of Living Dangerously" (1983).
8. Under 1944 Academy rules, a performer could be nominated in both categories.
9. "King of the Zombies" (1941) was nominated for Edward Kay's musical score.
10. All played real people in their Oscar-winning roles: Laughton was King Henry VIII in "The Private Life of Henry VIII"; Muni was Louis Pasteur in "The Story of Louis Pasteur"; Streisand was Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl" and Hayward was convicted murderess Barbara Graham in "I Want to Live!"
11. Maximilian Schell played the same role in both the TV and film versions of "Judgment in Nuremberg." Duke won an Oscar re-creating her Broadway role as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker," but Patty McCormack played the role in the earlier TV production. Borgine won the Oscar playing "Marty" in the movies, but Rod Steiger played the part in the original TV play.
12. Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro both played Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" (1972) and "The Godfather, Part II" (1974). DeNiro's part was Corleone as a young man.
13. Yes. Ginger Rogers won the Best Actress Oscar for "Kitty Foyle" (1940). Astaire was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 1974 for "The Towering Inferno," but didn't win.
14. DeHavilland, who had five nominations, two wins, to Fontaine's three nominations, one win. However, Fontaine actually beat her sister in direct competition in 1941. DeHavilland's losing nominations: Best Supporting Actress, "Gone with the Wind" (1939); Best Actress, "Hold Back the Dawn" (1941), "The Snake Pit" (1948). Fontaine's losing nominations, both in the Best Actress category: "Rebecca" (1940), "The Constant Nymph" (1943).
15. Woody Allen. Under his direction, Diane Keaton won Best Actress for "Annie Hall" (1977), Michael Caine and Dianne Wiest both won supporting Oscars for "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), Wiest won again in the same category in his "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994) and Mira Sorvino won supporting actress in "Mighty Aphrodite" (1995). Hitchcock directed only one Oscar-winning performance: Joan Fontaine in "Suspicion."
16. Tatum O'Neal who won the supporting actress Oscar in "Paper Moon" (1973) opposite real-life father Ryan O'Neal.
17. "Wishing."
18. They all were foreign-born: Winner Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy); nominees John Boorman (England), Lasse Hallstrom (Sweden), Norman Jewison (Canada) and Adrian Lyne (England).
19. False. "Cimarron" (1930-31) and "Dances with Wolves" (1990) both were Westerns.
20. Directing for "Reds" (1981).
© 2001 by Ron Miller.
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