A: Meryl Streep has been nominated 13 times.

A: He never won an Academy Award, although he was nominated five times.

A: Walt Disney has won 26

A: In 1975 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Picture
Nicholson - Best Actor
Louise Fletcher - Best Actress
Milos Forman - Best Director
Best Screenplay

By the time I think of the others, someone will have already given the answers -- but it's half the fun to spread the answers around. :-)

Marlon Brando - Best Actor
Eva Marie Saint - Best Actress
Elia Kazan - Best Director

It Happened One Night
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Silence of the Lambs

Here's one I think I know the answer to, but I'm not sure...

Who won the most consecutive oscars?

Katharine Hepburn did too, in 1967 & 1968.

I don't anyone has every won three in a row, have they?

Actors:

Spencer Tracy - 1937 - Captains Courageous
1938 - Boys Town

Tom Hanks - 1993 - Philadelphia
1994 - Forrest Gump

Jason Robards - 1976 - All The President's Men
1977 - Julia
(Both of his were in the Supporting Actor category)

Actresses:

Luise Rainer - 1936 - The Great Zeigfeld
1937 - The Good Earth

Katharine Hepburn - 1967 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
1968 - The Lion In Winter

Who was the only posthumous acting award winner?

I think Paula may have it on the other question. I would guess Bette Davis.

I know one of my favorite actresses, Jennifer Jones, got 4 in a row in the mid 40s. I'm sure Bette did better.

Greer Garson got several nominations in a row, I think. She won for Mrs. Miniver.

Which lady has won the most awards for best actress?

Asking again because I think it was missed....
Name 3 stars who have never received oscar nominations.

Since you didn't put any restrictions on that query, here are my (tongue in cheek) choices :

Paulie Shore
Paul Rubens (aka Pee Wee Herman)
Jennifer Love Hewitt

actually, some better choices would be :

Moe, Larry, and Curly! ;-) (these would be in the "older actors" category!)

1) Name 3 stars who were never nominated for an Oscar.
2) Which lady has won the most awards for best actress?

Well, I know in the director category, Martin Scorscese, Robert Altman and Alfred Hitchcock never won anything.

Marilyn Monroe
Tobey Maguire
Jim Carrey

2) Which lady has won the most awards for best actress?

Katharine Hepburn -

Morning Glory (1933)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
On Golden Pond (1981)

There are three theories about the derivation of the term "Oscar." Some historians says that academy librarian and future executive director Margaret Herrick named it after her uncle, Oscar Pierce. Others credit showbiz columnist Sidney Skolsky, who is said to have used the term while referring to an old vaudeville joke that began "Will you have a cigar, Oscar?" Bette Davis took credit, too, saying that it the naked statuette reminded her of her husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson, Jr.

The term "Emmy" is a feminization of "Immy," a nickname for the image orthicon camera used to film TV in the 1940s.

Tony -- actually Toni -- was the nickname of a stunningly beautiful but tough-as-nails Denver actress, Antoinette Perry, who later turned successfully to producing and directing in an era when women in the business were usually relegated to acting, costume design or choreography.

What I never could understand tho, was, why not simply CALL it the Immy?

click pic for website

The Emmy Statuette

"A television engineer named Louis McManus designed the statuette, using his wife as a model. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) says that the statuette represents the arts (a winged woman) and the sciences (an atom). The first Emmys were given out in 1949. The original name for the award was the Immy, a nickname for the image orthicon tube, part of an early type of camera; but the academy began referring to it as the Emmy because that more feminine name suited the statuette. The R.S. Owens Co. of Chicago makes the Emmy statuettes. (This company also makes the Oscars, the awards given out by the film industry.) An Emmy is made of several different metals -- copper, nickel, silver -- but it is covered in 18 karat gold. It weighs 4-3/4 pounds (2.15 kg), and is 16 inches (40.64 cm) high."

I still don't why just not call it the Immy. I don't think Immy or Emmy makes much difference!

Moongirl, I think they wanted to give it a feminine name the general public could identify with. The statuette is of a woman, but no one would have associated "Immy" with a female and therefore probably never figure out what the statuette is supposed to be or what it represents. Because no one knows a camera called "Immy" it is/was not something anyone is familiar with. Yet, everyone knows "Emmy" to be short for "Emily". I agree though, it would have been nice and different.

Are you sure there's an answer to your question? I tried everyone I could think of...There's a lot for acting nominations with directing wins, but I couldn't find any with wins for both. Can you give a us/me a hint? Thanks.

So I'm guessing no one won both best director and actor for the same film.

Here's a new question:

Who was nominated for both best actor and best supporting actor in the same role?

What year was the category of Costume Design added?

How many Oscars did Edith Head win? (She had an impressive 30 nominations in 19 years!)

moongirl, Shirley Temple's award was not in a competing category, not even a category of any kind. However, it was an Oscar. My question was "Who was the youngest star to win an Oscar?" I didn't ask about best actor or best supporting or anything like that. It's kind of a trick question because I wasn't specific. Tatum and then Anna both won in the best supporting category. But, that wasn't the question.

Shirley Temple was the youngest to win an Oscar (although it was an honorary one) at age 6;
Tatum O'Neal was the youngest to win a competitive Oscar at Age 10;
And, Anna Paquin was also a very young winner at age 11.

On to the question Paula posted; How many Oscars did Edith Head win?

I'll guess 17.

Some of the discrepancies may come from the fact that some years she was up for and won awards in both the color and black and white costume design categories for the same year.

I have a new one -

Earlier, we said that Jessica Tandy was the oldest Oscar winner in an Acting category.

Who was the oldest nominee in an acting category? (Hint - it was in a supporting category)

Back to Edith Head, according to my John Harkness paperback, it says 7 won.

Here's another: A nobody named Robert Opal made Academy Awards history in 1973. Do you know how?

On that supporting category nominee, I only looked for actors. Silly me. That was a good call, Carla.

What 2 actors tied for Best Actor?