Film records

• **In 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King became the first fantasy film to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

• **The film which received the most Oscars without winning Best Picture is Cabaret with 8 awards in 1972. Although the film was nominated for Best Picture, it lost to The Godfather.

• **The two films which share the record for most nominations (11) with no Oscar wins are The Turning Point (1977) and The Color Purple (1985).

• **The film with the most nominations without a Best Picture nomination is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) with nine nominations.

• **The first (and only) animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture is Beauty and the Beast (1991). This film shares the record for the most nominations for an animated film, six, with WALL-E (2008). The earlier film's nominations spanned only four categories, however, with three nominations for Best Original Song; the latter title has been nominated in six separate categories. That same year, Waltz with Bashir also became the first animated film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (representing Israel).

• **No film to date has produced Oscar-winning performances in each of the four competitive acting categories (Leading Actor, Leading Actress, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress). The two films which came closest to achieving this feat were A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Network (1976), with each film earning three out of the four acting Oscars.

• **The Red Balloon (1956), a film with no dialogue, is the only such film ever to win an Oscar (as even silent films have scripted dialogue). This film won the Best Original Screenplay Award. It is also the only short film to win an Oscar outside of the short film categories.

• **In 2006, Dreamgirls became the first film to ever have the most Oscar nominations of that year without having a Best Picture nomination. Though films from previous years had had more nominations without receiving a Best Picture nomination, there was always another film with more nominations.

• **Films that won Best Picture without receiving a single acting nomination include: Wings (1927), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Grand Hotel (1932), An American in Paris (1951), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Gigi (1958), The Last Emperor (1987), Braveheart (1995), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), and Slumdog Millionaire (2008).

• **Grand Hotel (1932) is the only film to win Best Picture without receiving any other nominations.