Oscars: Records–Most Nominations by Foreign-Language Film

Most Nominations by a Foreign-Language Film Two foreign language films have been nominated for 10 Academy Awards: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000): Best Foreign Language Film, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song, Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography Roma (2018): Best Foreign […]

Oscars: Records–Most Awards won by a person still living

Most Awards Won by Person Still Living Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren has won nine Academy Awards – six competitive awards, two “Special Achievement” awards, and one “Technical Achievement” award Most competitive awards won by a person still living Composer Alan Menken has won 8 competitive Academy Awards Acting Katharine Hepburn is still the only […]

Oscars: Records–Most Awards in Single Year

Most awards in a single year: In 1954, Walt Disney won four awards out of six nominations, both records. He won Best Documentary, Features for The Living Desert; Best Documentary, Short Subjects for The Alaskan Eskimo; Best Short Subject, Cartoons for Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom; and Best Short Subject, Two-reel for Bear Country. He […]

Oscars: Records–Most Awards Won by a Male and a Female

Oscars: Records–Most Awards Won by a Male and a Female

Horse Whisperer, The (1998): Redford’s Western Melodrama, Starring Himself, Scarlett Johansson

Rober Reford directed The Horse Whisperer, a Western family melodrama starring himself, based on the 1995 best-selling novel of the same title by Nicholas Evans. Redford plays talented trainer with remarkable gift for understanding horses, who is hired to help an injured teenager (Scarlett Johansson) and her horse back to health after a dramatic and […]