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Feb 16, 2017 11:53 AM UTC MOST AWARDS When a single movie dominated Hollywood’s biggest night YOUNGEST WINNERS Talent–and recognition for it–isn’t always contingent on years of experience EGOT WINNERS Only 12 people have ever won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony FAMILY OSCARS When Oscar success appears to be genetic POSTHUMOUS AWARDS Only a few winners didn’t live long enough to accept their honors BEST-PICTURE UPSETS When the long-shot contender ousted the favored COMEBACKS Sometimes an Oscar is the ultimate (career) redemption 1959 / 1988 / 1997 GIGI / THE LAST EMPEROR / THE ENGLISH PATIENT The musical, biopic and romantic drama, respectively, each won 10 Oscars. 1932 NORMAN TAUROG The prolific filmmaker won his first and only Oscar for Best Director when he was 32, for the comedy Skippy. 1932 HELEN HAYES The legendary performer and triple-crown-acting winner scored for her first talking picture, The Sin of Madelon Claudet. EGOT: 1977 1942 JOAN FONTAINE, OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The only siblings to win lead acting awards, the younger Fontaine won first, in 1942, and de Havilland would go on to win twice. 1960 WILLIAM A. HORNING, SAM ZIMBALIST Ben-Hur’s art director and producer both died before they could collect their Oscars. 1942 HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY The drama about a Welsh family is more of a retrospective upset, with many modern critics finding Citizen Kane more deserving. 1954 FRANK SINATRA The crooner bounced back from a stalled career in the early 1950s with a Best Supporting Actor win in From Here to Eternity. 1960 BEN-HUR The most expensive movie of its time also broke awards records with 11 Oscars, losing only in the category for Adapted Screenplay. 1973 TATUM O’NEAL The child actor was 10 years old when she won Best Supporting Actress for her role as a young con artist in Paper Moon. 1946 RICHARD RODGERS The decorated composer won his first of 15 Oscars with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II for a wistful song from the musical State Fair. EGOT: 1962 1949 THE HUSTONS John Huston won two Oscars in 1949 and directed both his father and daughter, Walter in 1949 and Anjelica in 1986, to Oscars. 1969 WALT DISNEY The legendary animator died at 65, two years before winning his 22nd Oscar, for short film Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. 1977 ROCKY Like its titular character, the crowd-pleasing boxing movie was an underdog in a field that included Network, Taxi Driver and All the President’s Men. 1968 KATHARINE HEPBURN A string of flops in the ’30s earned her the label “box-office poison.” Decades later, she would win her second of four Oscars–a record for acting awards that still stands. 1962 WEST SIDE STORY The adaptation of the 1957 Broadway show won 10 Oscars, still the most ever for a movie musical. 1981 TIMOTHY HUTTON Hutton was 20 when he became the youngest male to win Best Supporting Actor, for the drama Ordinary People. 1962 RITA MORENO The triple-threat singer, actor and dancer won for her role as Anita in the film adaptation of West Side Story. EGOT: 1977 1972 THE FONDAS Daughter Jane won first for Klute in 1972 and Coming Home in 1979, with father Henry winning in 1982 for On Golden Pond. 1977 PETER FINCH Two months after dying of a heart attack, the Network actor became the first person to win a posthumous acting award. 1990 DRIVING MISS DAISY Voters chose palatable over challenging (Born on the Fourth of July), not to mention the Academy’s overlooking Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, now a classic. 1973 MARLON BRANDO With his Best Actor trophy for The Godfather, he returned from a series of poorly received films and a reputation as being difficult to work with on set. 1998 TITANIC The epic romance won 11 Oscars and, with All About Eve, held the record for most nominations (14)–now joined by La La Land. 1987 MARLEE MATLIN The 21-year-old won Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God, becoming the only deaf actor ever to win an Oscar. 1969 MEL BROOKS The funnyman won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for his satirical directorial debut, The Producers. EGOT: 2001 1979 JON VOIGHT, ANGELINA JOLIE Father Jon won in 1979 for Coming Home, and daughter Angelina won in 2000 for Girl, Interrupted. 1992 HOWARD ASHMAN The Disney composer won Best Song for Beauty and the Beast’s theme and received subsequent posthumous nominations for Aladdin. 1999 SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE After heavy lobbying by Harvey Weinstein, the 16th century romance beat front runner Saving Private Ryan. 2013 BEN AFFLECK The years between his writing Oscar for Good Will Hunting and Best Picture for Argo saw several misfires–Jersey Girl, Gigli–and negative tabloid press. 2004 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING Winning all 11 Oscars for which it was nominated, the fantasy film had the largest sweep in Oscar history. 2003 ADRIEN BRODY Brody was 29 when he won Best Actor for his role as the Polish composer Wladyslaw Szpilman in the World War II drama The Pianist. 1991 WHOOPI GOLDBERG The actor-comedian took home Best Supporting Actress for playing a medium in the romantic drama Ghost. EGOT: 2002 1971 THE COPPOLAS Francis began the family’s winning streak with a screenwriting Oscar, followed by awards for father Carmine (score), daughter Sofia (screenplay) and nephew Nicolas Cage (acting). 2009 HEATH LEDGER The 28-year-old died exactly one month before being named Best Supporting Actor for his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight. 2005 CRASH Many viewed Brokeback Mountain as the better film and its loss as evidence of anti-gay sentiment in the Academy. Even Crash director Paul Haggis later called his film’s win undeserved. 2014 MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY A promising debut gave way to a decade of frivolous rom-coms before the McConaissance was cemented with a Best Actor win for Dallas Buyers Club. 2017 LA LA LAND The musical must win 12 of its 14 nominations to break the record. Because it’s nominated twice in one category, the most wins it can nab is 13. Lucas Hedges, 20, could tie for youngest Best Supporting Actor, in Manchester by the Sea. Damien Chazelle, 32, could tie for youngest Best Director, for La La Land. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA The Hamilton mastermind will earn an EGOT this year if he wins Best Song for Moana’s “How Far I’ll Go.” THE AFFLECKS Older brother Ben has one win each for writing and producing; this year, Casey Affleck is a favorite to win Best Actor, in Manchester by the Sea. AUGUST WILSON The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright died in 2005 at age 60\. Winning Best Adapted Screenplay for Fences would make him the 16th posthumous Academy Award winner. ANYTHING BUT LA LA LAND The musical is heavily favored, though Moonlight is best positioned to edge it out. MEL GIBSON The Hacksaw Ridge director is up for Best Director a decade after disastrous publicity for domestic violence and anti-Semitic remarks. 2017 OSCAR FIRSTS? Barry Jenkins, Moonlight Could be the first black director to win the award MOONLIGHT Could be the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture Ava Duvernay, 13th Could be the first black woman to win Best Documentary Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins A fourth Oscar would tie her for most acting awards overall Denzel Washington, Fences A Best Actor win would break his own record for most awards by a black actor ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4672998/guide-to-random-oscar-facts/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4672998/guide-to-random-oscar-facts/"},"headline":"A Definitive Guide to Random Oscar Facts","datePublished":"2017-02-16T11:53:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:22:17.524Z","description":"Eighty-nine years of trivia to get you ready for the Feb. 26 show on ABC","url":"https://time.com/4672998/guide-to-random-oscar-facts/","keywords":["awards"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/awards/","name":"awards"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4672998/guide-to-random-oscar-facts/","name":"A Definitive Guide to Random Oscar Facts"}}]}] ```