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Shortest acceptance speech

When Joe Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his entire speech was "This is an honor and a privilege, thank you." It is the third shortest Oscar-acceptance speech, after William Holden's, who simply said "Thank you" upon winning for Stalag 17, and Alfred Hitchcock's, who merely said "Thanks," when he received an Honorary Oscar. Later, Pesci admitted that he didn't say more, because "I really didn't think I was going to win." [9]

Shortest performance

• The shortest Oscar-winning performances belong to Anthony Quinn [wiki], who won Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life (1956), and Judi Dench, who won Best Supporting Actress for playing Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1999). They were actually on screen for only 8 minutes each. [1]

• Johnny Belinda - Jane Wyman - Short speech

Records not yet achieved

• No one has ever won the Best Actor award for a debut performance
• No one has ever won consecutive Best Supporting Actress awards
• No film has ever won all four acting awards (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress)

Farthest apart wins / nominations

• BA BSA BA BSA BD

Most Awards at One Ceremony

It would be the first time anyone has won four Oscars for the same film, and it would tie the record of four Oscars in a single year held by Walt Disney, a quadruple winner for 1953 as producer of three winning short films and a documentary for the 1953 awards.

• most noms ?

• most wins / most noms for a single person for a single film

Patty Duke

• First child (under age 18) to win an Oscar (competitive) ... age 16 ... Best Supp. Actress, The Miracle Worker (1962) (35th Annual)

Many records

See [2]

List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards

• add to List of Academy Award records article:
  • first person to win all 4 awards
  • first person to win all 4 awards (plus Pulitzer)

New record

• Edith Head = most awards ever won by individual female

• Walt Disney - most by male

• Walt Disney - most at the same ceremony (4) at XXX 26th? ceremony for 1953 in film

• Note About Dudley Nichols: refused award - but check AMPAS site -- he later accepted it? AMPAS site says: ... 8th awards = NOTE: Mr. Nichols initially refused the award, but Academy records indicate that he was in possession of a statuette by 1949.

Foreign Language performance

• AMPAS site lists all nom / won

Fictitious nominee

Adaptation. - Charlie and Donald Kaufman were nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Donald became the first truly fictitious person nominated for an Oscar.

Posthumous

Ben Hur = Zimbalist = ONLY Best Picture winner posthumous

Best Picture

Mutiny on Bounty (1935) was the ONLY BP Winner to win none of its other noms. Broadway Melody won only one Oscar (Best Picture) -- but it received no other nominations. Mutiny won only one Oscar (Best Picture) -- but it DID receive other nominations (7 other nom's, for a total of 8 noms). It won Best Pic, but nothing else.

Walt Disney

• Was first nominated for an Oscar (as producer) in 1932, the year he also got the Honorary Award for creating Mickey Mouse. From that year until the year before his death, 1965, Disney received one or more Academy Award nominations every year except 1933 and 1941.

• Disney's record-breaking streaks of consecutive Oscar wins include: 1934-1940 (7) and 1951-1956 (6).

• Was awarded an honorary Oscar "For the creation of Mickey Mouse" by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at the fifth Awards ceremony held on November 10, 1932, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. It was only the second honorary Oscar yet awarded by the Academy. The recipient of the first honorary Oscar, Charles Chaplin, was supposed to present the award to Disney, but he stayed home that night.

Linda Hunt

Linda Hunt ... Won for: Best Supporting Actress, 'The Year of Living Dangerously' (1983) ... Where Is She Now? The only actor to win an Oscar for playing a member of the opposite sex, Hunt seems to prefer being heard, not seen: She voiced roles in Disney's 'Pocahontas' and HBO's 'Carnivale,' and since 1997 she's been the host of NPR's 'City Arts & Lectures.'