Oscars fast facts Home » fastfacts » Oscars fast facts Oscars fast facts The shortest Oscar ceremony ever was the first, held in 1929; it lasted only about 15 minutes as all the winners had been announced three months earlier. The longest Oscar awards ceremony was in 2000, running for 4 hours and 16 minutes – beating a previous record by 16 minutes. Bob Hope has hosted the Oscars 18 times; Billy Crystal is in second place with 8 times. Tom Hanks is the youngest recipient of the Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which he received in 2002 at age 45. Kate Winslet received four Oscar nominations before reaching the age of 30. Elizabeth Taylor received four Oscar nominations before reaching the age of 28. Gone with the Wind, at 3 hours and 56 minutes, was the longest film to have won a Best Picture Oscar; it was also the first film in color to win Best Picture. The 1968 movie, War and Peace, was the longest film (431 minutes) to an Academy Award – for best Foreign picture.

Julia Phillips was the first female producer to win Best Picture award, for The Sting (1973). The first female to win the Best Director award was Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2008). Henry Fonda was first nominated for a Best Actor Oscar in 1941 for his role in The Grapes of Wrath but had to wait 41 years before he finally achieved a win in 1982 for his role in On Golden Pond. At 76, he is the oldest actor yet to have received the Best Actor award. The oldest actress to win an Oscar is Jessica Tandy – at 81 she won the Best Actress Oscar in 1990 for her performance in Driving Miss Daisy. Anthony Quinn’s performance as painter Paul Gaugin in Lust for Life (1956) is the shortest ever to win a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award, his second Oscar. He was on screen for only 8 minutes.

(He won a similar award in 1952 playing opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan’s Viva Zapata!) The shortest-ever winning performance for Best Supporting Actress belongs to Beatrice Straight, who won an Oscar in 1976 for her 5 minutes 40 seconds appearance as devastated wife Louise Schumacher in Network. Dame Judi Dench won an Oscar in 1998 for less than 8 minutes of screen time playing Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love. The shortest-ever Best Actor Oscar-winning performance was awarded to David Niven in 1958, having appeared for only 15 minutes and 38 seconds in Separate Tables. The second-shortest winning appearance was made by Anthony Hopkins in 1992, for less than 16 minutes of screen time as Dr Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. In 1948, Jane Wyman won Best Actress award without uttering a word; she played the role of a deaf -mute person in the movie Johnny Belinda.

The fewest lines actually spoken by an Oscar-winning actress won Patty Duke a Best Actress in a Supporting Role portraying the deaf and blind Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker. In the role she speaks only one word in the last scene: “Wah-wah” (for “water”). In 1993, Holly Hunter won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as a deaf person in the movie The Piano but she narrated a few scenes and does speak (although her face is covered) in the last scene of the film. The films with the most Oscar wins are Ben-Hur, Titanic and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, each winning 11 Oscars from 12, 14 and 11 nominations respectively. See more in the lists of Oscar winners . In total, the Middle-earth series (The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003) – and the The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) won 17 Oscars out of 33 nominations.

William Wyler has directed more actors to Academy Award success than any other, with 34 nominations and 14 wins. Jack Nicholson leads the Best Actor Academy Award category with wins from 11 nominations, followed by Laurence Olivier, nominated 10 times and receiving one Best Actor award, and then Spencer Tracy with nine nominations resulting in two awards. Daniel Day-Lewis has won the most Best Actor awards, with 3 awards (1989, 2007, 2012). Meryl Streep had more Best Actress nominations than any other actress; 14 in total, leading to 3 awards. Katharine Hepburn received 12 nominations for Best Actress and won 4 Academy Awards. Shirley Temple is the youngest performer to receive an Academy Award; in 1934 she received a Special Award when she was only five years old. Groucho Marx was the oldest Academy Award winner – in 1973 he received a Honorary Award at the age of 83. The first posthumous Oscar winner was Sidney Howard, for the screenplay of Gone with the Wind.

Mutiny on The Bounty (1935) was the only film to have had three nominees for Best Actor Oscars (Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone) but won only the Best Picture award. The only tie for Best Actor was between Wallace Beery for The Champ and Fredric March for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in 1932. The only films to win Best Picture and Best Song are Gigi, Going My Way and Titanic. The first animated film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar was Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, in 1991. The award went to Silence of the Lambs but Beauty and the Beast won 2 Oscars: Best Original Score and Best Original Song.

In 1937 Disney won a special Oscar for the first full-length animation: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Oscar families: Two families have three generations of Oscar winners in their ranks: The Huston family: Walter Huston won Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of Sierra Madre); John Huston won Best Director, The Treasure of Sierra Madre in 1948, and Anjlica Huston won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Prizzi’sHonorin 1985. The Hustons and the Coppolas are two families where the grandfather, father and daughter won Oscars.

The Coppola family: Carmine Coppola won Best Original Dramatic Score, The Godfather in 1974; Francis Ford Coppola won Best Original Screenplay for Patron (1970), Best Adapted Screenplay, The Godfather (1970), Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, The Godfather: Part II (1974), and Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation won for Best Original Screenplay in 2004; Nicholas Cage, Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew, won Best Actor for his role in Leaving Las Vegas, in 1995. The Minnelli family: Liza Minnelli is the only Oscar winner with two Oscar winning parents: her mother Judy Garland, received a honorary Oscar as Outstanding Juvenile Performer for The Wizard of Oz and her father, Vincente Minnelli, won Best Director for Best Picture, Gigi (1958). The Epstein family: The only twins to win Oscars are Julius J Epstein and Philip G Epstein, who shared the Best Screenplay award s with Howard Koch for Casablanca (1942).

12 actors to win an Oscar for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Awards ceremony: Patty Duke playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962) Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938) Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C.

York in Sergeant York (1941) Jason Robards for playing Benjamin Bradlee in All the President’s Men (1976) Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980) Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995) Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996) Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000) Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001) Jennifer Connelly for playing Alicia Nash in Beautiful Mind (2001) Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006) The Academy Awards and Oscars are trademarks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Updated: March 2013 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor Django Unchained (2012) The Most Best Supporting Actor Nominations (and Wins): Four actors have received four Best Supporting Actor nominations, although only two of them won subsequent awards.

The two actors with the most Best Supporting Actor nominations (with no wins) include Arthur Kennedy and Claude Rains.

Actors with the most Best Supporting Actor nominations (in parentheses) include: Walter Brennan (4) - with three wins (Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), The Westerner (1940)); also nominated in 1941 Jack Nicholson (4) - with one win ( Terms of Endearment (1983) ); also nominated for Easy Rider (1969) , Reds (1981), A Few Good Men (1992) Arthur Kennedy (4) - no wins; nominated for Champion (1949), Trial (1955), Peyton Place (1957), Some Came Running (1958) Claude Rains (4) - no wins; nominated for Apocalypse Now (1979) , and A Civil Action (1998) Al Pacino (3) - no wins; nominated for The Godfather (1972) , Dick Tracy (1990), and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Ed Harris (3) - no wins; nominated for Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), and

 The Hours (2002) Philip Seymour Hoffman (3) - no wins; nominated for Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Doubt (2008), and The Master (2012) Consecutive Best Supporting Actor-Winning Performers: There is only one actor who has received two consecutive Best Supporting Actor Oscar statuette wins: Jason Robards for All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977) No Best Supporting Actress has won two Academy Awards in a row.

Actors Winning at Least One Statuette in Both the Lead and Supporting Categories: Six actors have won acting awards in both the lead and supporting categories: Jack Lemmon, Best Supporting Actor (Mister Roberts (1955)), Best Actor (Save the Tiger (1973)) - the first! Robert DeNiro, Best Supporting Actor ( Gene Hackman, Best Actor ( The French Connection (1971) ), Best Supporting Actor ( Unforgiven (1992) ) Kevin Spacey, Best Supporting Actor (The Usual Suspects (1995)), Best Actor (American Beauty (1999)) - his only two career nominations (so far) Denzel Washington, Best Supporting Actor (Glory (1989)), Best Actor (Training Day (2001)) Victor McLaglen was the first performer to be nominated for a Best Supporting Oscar (for The Quiet Man (1952) ) after having already won the Lead Performance Oscar for The Informer (1935).

Posthumous Winner: The only actor to win a posthumous acting Oscar in a supporting role was Australian actor Heath Ledger for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight (2008). He was the second actor to win a posthumous acting Oscar - the first was Peter Finch, who won Best Actor for his role as Howard Beale in Network (1976) . Multiple Nominations: No single performer has ever won two performing awards in the same year. There have been a total of eleven performers who are double nominees - that means that they have received two acting nominations in the same year. Three were actors and eight were actresses (wins are marked with *). (See the Best Supporting Actress section for eight actresses who have duplicated the feat.) Of the 11 performers (actors and actresses) who've been recognized with nods for two performances in the same year, seven of them ended up winning one of the trophies. Double nominees usually win in one category (i.e., double nominees Al Pacino and Jamie Foxx won as Best Actor, and Fitzgerald won as Best Supporting Actor - see below). In only one case, an actor (Barry Fitzgerald) was simultaneously nominated in two performance categories for the same film.

[The Academy would prevent this in future years by not allowing a double nomination for the same performance.] He was the only actor simultaneously nominated in both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories for the same film and performance: Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor* for Going My Way (1944) In a few instances, actors have been nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for different films in the same year. The two male actors who accomplished this feat were Al Pacino, and Jamie Foxx. Al Pacino was the first actor to be nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in two different roles.

And Jamie Foxx was the only African-American performer to have two Oscar nominations in one year: Al Pacino (Best Actor for Scent of a Woman (1992)* and Best Supporting Actor for Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)) Jamie Foxx (Best Actor for Ray (2004)* and Best Supporting Actor for Collateral (2004)) Multiple Wins for the Same Character: The only actor to win two Academy Award Oscars for the same performance or role: Harold Russell received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a double-amputee veteran returning from WWII in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - his debut film Russell received an additional Special Honorary Oscar for the same performance "for bringing hope and courage to fellow veterans" The only time two actors have won Oscars playing the same character (Don Vito Corleone) in different films: Marlon Brando won Best Actor for his role as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II (1974) Refusal to Accept Nomination: George C.

Scott in his third screen appearance in The Hustler (1961) received his second supporting nomination in 1962 - after his first nomination received in 1960 for Anatomy of a Murder (1959). (His first film was The Hanging Tree (1959).) He became the first actor to decline his Oscar nomination - in protest of fellow actors' practice of campaigning for awards, calling the awards demeaning and self-serving. When Scott received another Oscar nomination (and won) as Best Actor for Patton (1970) , he declined to accept the nomination and the award, because he did not feel himself to be in any competition with other actors, calling it a "meat parade." Film Debut Nominees/Winners of Best Supporting Actor Oscars: Only three actors have won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for their debut performance (in a feature film), while others received a nomination for a substantial role in a film debut (a sampling): John Garfield in Four Daughters (1938) (nomination) Robert Morley in Marie Antoinette (1938) (nomination) Sydney Greenstreet in (3) Haing S.

Ngor in The Killing Fields (1984) (win) John Malkovich in Places in the Heart (1984) (nomination) Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game (1992) (nomination) Edward Norton in Primal Fear (1996) (nomination) Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips (2013) (nomination) Films With the Most Best Supporting Actor Nominees: Three films have had three nominees for Best Supporting Actor: On The Waterfront (1954) - Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, and Rod Steiger (all lost to Edmond O'Brien in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)) - it was the first film to earn three Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor The Godfather (1972) - James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Al Pacino (all lost to Joel Grey for Cabaret (1972) ) The Godfather, Part II (1974) - Robert De Niro, Lee Strasberg, and Michael V.

Gazzo (De Niro won) African-American (or Black) Notables: There have been seventeen nominations for black performers as Best Supporting Actor (with only four winners), divided amongst 14 different performers: # Barkhad Abdi Captain Phillips (2013) Only ten black performers have won the Oscar in the supporting category (four Best Supporting Actor, six Best Supporting Actress). Only four black actors have won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar: Louis Gossett, Jr. for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) Denzel Washington for Glory (1989) Cuba Gooding, Jr. for Jerry Maguire (1996) Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby (2004) Only fifteen awards have been won by African-Americans (or blacks) in both lead and supporting categories (four Best Actor, one Best Actress, four Best Supporting Actor, and six Best Supporting Actress). Jamie Foxx also set a record for being the first black to debut as a nominee in two categories in the same year, lead and supporting, for Ray (2004) and Collateral (2004).

Morgan Freeman's Best Supporting Actor win for Million Dollar Baby (2004), paired with Foxx's Best Actor win for Ray (2004), was the first time that African-American actors won in their respective categories in the same year. Latino, Asian and Other Ethnic-Minority (Non-English) Performers: There have only been a few Best Supporting Actor Oscar wins by ethnic/other minority (non-English) performers, or by actors in foreign-language performances: Austrian-born Christoph Waltz won his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Django Unchained (2012) Austrian-born Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor for Inglourious Basterds (2009) - his performance was in German and French as well as English Spanish-born actor Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men (2007) Puerto Rican Benicio Del Toro won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Traffic (2000) - a primarily non-English (Spanish) language role Cambodian native Haing S.

Ngor won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in The Killing Fields (1984) - he was the first Asian performer to win this Oscar Robert DeNiro won the Best Supporting Oscar for The Godfather, Part II (1974) in which he spoke Sicilian Mexican-born Anthony Quinn won two Best Supporting Actor Oscars - for Viva Zapata!

(1952) and Lust for Life (1956) - he was the first Mexican to win an Academy Award Oscar Notable ethnic/minority performance nominations for Best Supporting Actor include: Somali-born Barkhad Abdi was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for his role in Captain Phillips (2013) - he became the first Somali actor to ever receive an Oscar nomination Djimon Hounsou was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for his role in Blood Diamond (2006) Beninese-American Djimon Hounsou was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for In America (2003) - he was one of the first African-born actors nominated for an acting Oscar Puerto Rican-born Benicio Del Toro was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for 21 Grams (2003) Japanese actor Ken Watanabe was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for The Last Samurai (2003) Ben Kingsley was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for Sexy Beast (2001) Australian actor Geoffrey Rush was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for Shakespeare in Love (1998) and The King's Speech (2010) Ben Kingsley (with half-Indian (birth name Krishna Bhanji) and half-English

 descent) was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for Bugsy (1991) Cuban-born Andy Garcia was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather, Part III (1990) Native-American (Lakota Sioux) actor Graham Greene (from Canada) was nominated for his Best Supporting Actor role in Dances With Wolves (1990) Japanese actor Noriyuki "Pat" Morita was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for The Karate Kid (1984) Native-American Chief Dan George was nominated as Best Supporting Actor in Little Big Man (1970) - he was the first Native-American to receive an Oscar nomination Japansese actor Makoto Iwamatsu was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for The Sand Pebbles (1966) Egypt-born Omar Sharif was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957) White performer Jeff Chandler was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for playing the role of Apache chief Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950) South African-born Cecil Kellaway was nominated twice for Best Supporting Actor: for Luck of the Irish (1948) and for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) Puerto

 Rican-born Jose Ferrer was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for Joan of Arc (1948) Shortest and Other Oddities: The shortest performance time to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar was for Anthony Quinn for about nine minutes as Paul Gaugin in Lust for Life (1956).

[The shortest performance to win an Oscar ever was in the Best Supporting Actress category: Beatrice Straight won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for less than eight minutes of screen time in Network (1976) , with only 8 speaking parts (of approx. 260 words). (Runner up: Judi Dench for about ten minutes of screen time as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love (1998), with 14 speaking parts (of approx. 446 words).)] The only diminutive dwarf actor ever nominated for Best Supporting Actor: Michael Dunn was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Ship of Fools (1965) The only Best Supporting Actor winner (and male actor) for a mute performance (in the sound era): John Mills for his performance as the town idiot Michael in Ryan's Daughter (1970) Gig Young (with real-name Byron Barr) was the only Oscar winner, Best Supporting Actor for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), who adopted his screen name from the role he played in The Gay Sisters (1942) as "Gig Young".

Jason Robards has the record for the most Oscar-nominated roles as historical personages: Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee in All The President's Men (1976) Author Dashiell Hammett in Julia (1977) Howard Hughes in Melvin and Howard (1980) Related Oscar Winners and Nominees: Siblings The first - and only - brother and sister to win acting Oscars were: Lionel Barrymore, who won the Best Actor award for A Free Soul (1930/31), and Ethel Barrymore who won the Best Supporting Actress award for None But the Lonely Heart (1944) (Note: Famous brother John Barrymore was never nominated, nor has descendant Drew Barrymore (yet).) Other brother-sister acting nominees include: Jane Fonda (nominated seven times with two Best Actress wins), and Peter Fonda as Best Actor for Ulee's Gold (1997) Eric Roberts as Best Supporting Actor for Runaway Train (1985), and Julia Roberts (nominated three times with one Best Actress win) Warren Beatty (nominated four times for Best Actor with no wins), and Shirley MacLaine (nominated five times with one Best

 Actress win) Jake Gyllenhaal as Best Supporting Actor for Brokeback Mountain (2005), and Maggie Gyllenhaal as Best Supporting Actress for Crazy Heart (2009) The only brothers nominated for acting Oscars were: River Phoenix as Best Supporting Actor for Running on Empty (1988), and Joaquin Phoenix as Best Supporting Actor for Gladiator (2000) Two pairs of sisters have competed against each other (when nominated simultaneously) for the same Best Actress award: Joan Fontaine in Suspicion (1941) defeated sister Olivia de Havilland in Hold Back the Dawn (1941); de Havilland later won two Best Actress Oscars for her roles in To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949) Vanessa Redgrave for Morgan (1966) vs.

Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl (1966) - both lost to Elizabeth Taylor The only other sisters to have received acting Oscar nominations (supporting in this case): Meg Tilly for Agnes of God (1985) and Jennifer Tilly for Bullets Over Broadway (1994) Three Generations: 1948's Oscar-winning director John Huston directed both his father (Walter Huston) to a Best Supporting Actor Oscar and his daughter (Anjelica) to a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in respectively, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Prizzi's Honor (1985) 37 years later. [Huston won two Oscars for writing and directing the 1948 film.] This remarkable feat made the Hustons the first family with three generations of Oscar winners - Huston became the only director to have directed both his father and daughter to Oscar victories. Since Huston also received an acting nomination (supporting) for The Cardinal (1963), the Hustons are the only grandfather-father-daughter acting nominees in Oscar history.

In addition, this made the Hustons the only grandfather-granddaughter ever to win Academy Awards: Walter Huston, Best Supporting Actor winner for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) (directed by his son John Huston) Anjelica Huston, Best Supporting Actress winner for Prizzi's Honor (1985) (directed by her father John Huston) A win for Sofia Coppola for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation (2003) made her part of the second family of three-generation Oscar winners (her father is a five-time winner and her grandfather, Carmine Coppola, won for musical score on The Godfather Part II (1974) ). Further connections can be made for the Coppolas - the only father-daughter-nephew grouping to win Oscars: Francis Ford Coppola, Best Director winner for Sofia Coppola, Best Original Screenplay winner for Lost in Translation (2003) Nicolas Cage, Best Actor winner for Leaving Las Vegas (1995) Cast Nominations: Fifteen films have received nominations in all four acting categories. With his two films in 2012 and 2013, director David O.

Russell was the first director to helm two movies (back to back too) that both achieved this feat: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Johnny Belinda (1948) Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - dir. David O. Russell American Hustle (2013) - dir. David O. Russell Three films have had the entire cast nominated for awards: Sleuth (1972), with Best Actor nominations for Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier Give 'Em Hell, Harry! (1975), with a Best Actor nomination for James Whitmore Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) , with various nominations for all four cast members, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis Youngest and Oldest Best Supporting Actors: Nominees and Winners Note: The calculated time is from date of birth to the date of either (1) the nominations announcement, or (2) the date of the awards ceremony.

Youngest Best Supporting Actor Nominee Youngest Best Supporting Actor Winner Oldest Best Supporting Actor Nominee Oldest Best Supporting Actor Winner Top 10 Oscar Curiosities and Records - Toptenz.net Toptenz.net Top 10 Oscar Curiosities and Records Posted by Timeea on in Bizarre , Movies & Television | 3,155 Views | 8 Responses At the beginning of every year, the entertainment industry, the connoisseurs of the seventh art and film lovers from all over the world turn their attention to the Oscars. The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences honors and recognizes outstanding cinema achievements since 1929. The greatest motion picture artists and professionals determine the nominees and the Academy’s 6000 members vote. The nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards have been announced, the ceremony is right around the corner, so we thought to post a Top 10 list of Oscar fun facts. Did you know that Maggie Smith is the only actress to ever win an Academy Award by playing an Oscar-losing actress? She won the Oscar for playing “Diana Barrie” in California Suite, a 1978 American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross.

Check out the rest of Oscar curiosities and records: 10. Who’s Oscar? One of the most recognized trophies in the world is the Academy’s gold-plated statuette, better known by its nickname, Oscar. But who’s Oscar and how did the statuette get its name? The statuette was designed by art director Cedric Gibbons and sculpted by George Stanley, but the origins of its name are disputable. Although there are various theories, many sources credit Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky for using the name Oscar for the first time in a 1934 article. Skolsky explained in his memoirs: “I needed the magic name fast. But fast! I remembered the vaudeville shows I’d seen. The comedians having fun with the orchestra leader in the pit would say, “Will you have a cigar, Oscar?” The orchestra leader reached for it; the comedians backed away, making a comical remark. The audience laughed at Oscar. I started hitting the keys. “Katharine Hepburn won the Oscar for her performance as Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory, her third Hollywood film.” I felt better. I was having fun. I filed and forgot.

During the next year of columns, whenever referring to the Academy Award, I used the word “Oscar.” In a few years Oscar was the accepted name. It proved to be the magic name.” Another common story involves Margaret Herrick, AMPAS’ first librarian, who remembers calling the famous statuette Oscar because it resembled her cousin Oscar Pierce. 9. The Winners’ Agreement What if you get nominated, win an Oscar, bring it home to your proud mother, but decide to sell it one day? Or worse…you need to sell it. How much is it worth? Well, $1 according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The nominees who win an Oscar, have to sign a ‘winners’ agreement’ in which they commit to never sell the Academy’s Awards without first offering the Oscars back to the AMPAS for a fee of $1. This is the Academy’s way of controlling the trophies that go on sale. They want to make sure that no award arrives in the hands of private collectors . If someone refuses to sign the agreement, the Academy is entitled to keep the award. AMPAS began issuing this kind of agreements in 1951. The case of Harold John Russell is very interesting.

He is one of the two non-professional actors to ever win an Oscar. Russell sold the Academy Award to cover his wife’s medical expenses. AMPAS offered to loan him money, but Russell refused. Some controversy was sparked after he sold the Oscar for $60,500. Experts speculate that more than 140 Academy Awards have been sold since the first ceremony. 8. Saying NO to the Oscar So far, only two of the greatest actors in history shocked Hollywood by refusing the Academy’s Awards. George Scott won the 1970 Best Actor Oscar for his magisterial performance in “Patton: Lust For Glory”, but decided to refuse it. Scott said that the politics surrounding the ceremony was “demeaning” and characterized the Hollywood event as “a two-hour meat parade”. Three years later, a Native American activist took the stage during the 45th Academy Awards ceremony to decline Marlon Brando’s Oscar for the title role in “The Godfather”. Sacheen Littlefeather delivered the refusal speech on the actor’s behalf. Marlon Brando protested against America’s poor treatment and Hollywood’s misrepresentation of American Indians.

“For 200 years we have said to the Indian people who are fighting for their land, their life, their families and their right to be free: ”Lay down your arms, my friends, and then we will remain together. Only if you lay down your arms, my friends, can we then talk of peace and come to an agreement which will be good for you.” When they laid down their arms, we murdered them. We lied to them. We cheated them out of their lands. We starved them into signing fraudulent agreements that we called treaties which we never kept. We turned them into beggars on a continent that gave life for as long as life can remember…”( That Unfinished Oscar Speech – by Marlon Brando) 7. The Only Silent Movie to Win an Academy Award “Wings” won the very first Academy Award for Best Picture and in addition to this, it holds the distinction of being the only silent movie to win an Oscar. Completed with an estimated budget of $2 million, the movie was considered one of the most expensive films of its time. The Academy’s Award for Engineering Effects was among the first categories to honor outstanding technicians. “Wings” was a winner also in this category.

Valued as a timeless triumph of the silent film era, “Wings” starred Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Clara Bow, Jobyna Ralston and Richard Arlen. It was produced by Lucien Hubbard and directed by William A. Wellman. The movie was set during 1917-1918 and focuses on the life of two WWI fighter pilots who fall in love for the same woman. 6. The Youngest Oscar Winner The youngest actress to win a competitive Academy Award is Tatum O’Neal , who was 10 years old when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in “Paper Moon”. The film was adapted from “Addie Pray” (1971), a well crafted novel written by Joe David Brown. Tatum O’Neal starred as a child also in other notable movies such as “The Bad News Bears” with Walter Matthau, “International Velvet” with Anthony Hopkins, and “Little Darlings” with Kristy McNichol. 5. Most Oscars Awarded to a Movie Three movies share an amazing record: “Ben-Hur”, “Titanic” and “Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King” have each won 11 Academy Awards.

“Ben-Hur”, the epic 1959 movie that redefined the art and science of cinema, won 11 Oscars of the 12 categories in which it was nominated, including Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color and Best Cinematography. James Cameron’s epic romance won 11 Academy Awards out of 14 nominations and Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King” dominated the 76th Academy Awards ceremony by winning 11 Oscars from 11 nominations. 4. Three Generations of Oscar Winners The first family to have three generations of Oscar winners is the Huston family with Walter, Anjelica and John. Walter Thomas Huston was the father of film director, screenwriter and actor John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston. Walter Huston was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in 1936 for his role in “Dodsworth” and five years later for “The Devil and Daniel Webster”.

The “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”, a great adventure film set in old time Mexico, gathered a total of three Academy Awards: Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Walter) and Best Director (John). Anjelica became the third generation of the Huston family to win an Oscar, for her performance in “Prizzi’s Honor”. The second family to have three generations of Oscar winners consists of Hollywood veteran Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia and Carmine Coppola. Movies produced through Coppola’s company have earned more than 60 Oscar nominations and 15 trophies. Carmine Coppola’s Oscar for Best Music (The Godfather II) and Sofia’s 2003 Oscar for “Lost in Translation,” made the Coppola’s a family with three generations of Oscar winners. 3. The Oldest Oscar Winner Legendary actress Jessica Tandy is the oldest winner of a Best Actress Academy Award for her role in “Driving Miss Daisy”. This outstanding performance was awarded also with a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe. “Driving Miss Daisy” is a wonderful 1989 comedy-drama adapted from a play written by Alfred Uhry.

It is a slow and poignant story of great love , sensibility, kindness and patience, a story that takes a quarter of century to unfold. Even if there is not much action, Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman really bring the story to life. If you didn’t watch this movie, I highly recommend to do so. “Driving Miss Daisy” is a timeless film that really goes out and touches people’s hearts. 2. First African-American Performer to Win an Oscar Do you remember dear old Mammy from “Gone with the Wind”? Seventy-two years ago, Hattie McDaniel won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing Mammy in “Gone with the Wind”. She was the first African-American performer to receive an Academy Award. In 1963, another actor made history as the first African-American to win a competitive Oscar as Best Actor, Sidney Poitier. More than 100 Oscar nominations have been officially made to a large number of African American directors, actors, engineers writers and musicians. Here are some of the winners: Louis Gosset Jr., Denzel Washington, Cuba Gooding Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry, Mo’Nique and many more. 1.

Most Oscars in a Lifetime Who’s got the Guinness World Record for the ‘Most ‘Oscars’ won in a lifetime? Walter Elias Disney with 32 awards from more than 60 nominations! Sir David Cecil Low, a prominent political cartoonist of the 20th century, considered Disney “the most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo.” A pioneer and innovator, Walter Elias Disney revolutionized the way we were entertained. He invented the multiplane camera in 1936, a camera that gave the illusion of depth in cartoons by making everything look more natural and believable. The camera was used for the first time in the production of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Although Walt Disney didn’t invent the “Technicolor process”, he made it very famous. After signing an exclusive agreement with Technicolor, Disney released in 1932 the industry’s first full-color animation, Flowers and Trees. It was awarded with an Academy Award for Best Cartoon. This Oscar was the first of 32 trophies Disney won personally.

By Vinerean Timeea 8 Oscars, 24 Nominations: The Coppola Family Tree | Hollywood Reporter 8 Oscars, 24 Nominations: The Coppola Family Tree 2:52 PM PST 2/22/2013 by Mike Barnes Getty Images Sofia and Roman Coppola The core family has eight Oscars and 24 nominations, while its extended members encompass even more awards and an extraordinary influence in the arts. This story first appeared in the March 1 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. How many folks can say their grandfather, father, sister, cousin and uncle have won Oscars and their aunt and cousin have been nominated? Roman Coppola can, and now he's nominated for his own Academy Award for best original screenplay (with Wes Anderson) for Moonrise Kingdom. PHOTOS: Oscars 2013: 16 Icons Come Together for THR's Oscar Issue This latest in a long line of Coppola kudos -- they and the Hustons are the only families with Oscars over three generations -- prompted THR to follow a lineage that has its roots in Italy, runs through New York, Napa and Hollywood and has wound its way through film, fashion, music, radio and academia.

"With our family, I always say it's not six degrees of separation, it's like three," says cinematographer John Schwartzman, an Oscar nominee for Seabiscuit. "We could form a studio. We certainly have enough people." The first Oscars Home » movies » The first Oscars The first Oscars The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was established in May 1927 as a non-profit corporation to promote the art of movie making. In the first year, the Academy had 36 members, with Douglas Fairbanks Sr as president. The first Academy Awards, now better known as the Oscars, were presented at a private dinner in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, with less than 250 persons attending. Today, the Academy has over 6 000 honorary members – the Oscar Awards are viewed by more than a billion people on television. The first television broadcast of the Oscars took place in 1953 – on black and white TV, telecasted throughout the US and Canada. Telecasting in color begun in 1966, and since 1969, the Oscars have been telecast throughout the world.

By the mid-1990s it was telecast in over 100 countries. Emil Jannings Photos with kind permission of silent-movies.com – the premier web destination for Silent Movie facts. The first Oscars At the first Academy Awards, held in May 1929, Best Director awards went to Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Knights and Frank Borzage for 7th Heaven. The first award for Actor in a Leading Role went to Emil Jannings (real name Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz) for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. The first Best Actress award was won Janet Gaynor for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise. The first Best Picture award went to WINGS. All those films were screened in 1927. Those were the days of the silent movies, thus WINGS was the only silent to have won a Best Picture Oscar. It also featured Gary Cooper in a minor role. Swiss-born Jannings grew up in Germany and had a heavy German accent which, with the advent of sound in movies , basically put an end to his Hollywood movie career.

The most popular night in the world The Academy Award ceremony basically was a non-public affair in 1927 and 1928. But it had created such public interest that the Oscar Presentation Night was introduced in 1929. Until 1954 the Oscars were presented mostly on a Thursday. From 1955 to 1958, they were presented on a Wednesday. From 1959 until 1998 the Oscars were, with a few exceptions, presented on a Monday night. Only since 1999 did the Awards ceremony take place on a Sunday (in March). In total up to 2005, the famous statuettes have been handed out on 32 Monday nights, 21 Thursday nights, 8 Wednesdays, 6 Tuesdays, 2 Fridays, once on a Saturday (1948), and four times on a Sunday. In 1930, the Academy Awards were held twice: on 3 April and on 5 November. No ceremony was held in 1933.

Since 1940 people have been kept on the edge of their seats with the familiar phrase “The envelope please.” The Envelope Please The record for most acting nominations without a single win is shared by Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton with seven. The most nominated actors for Best Actor and Best Supporting Roles are Jack Nicholson (11), Laurence Olivier (10), and Spencer Tracy (9). No male performer has yet won three Best Actor awards. Only one actress has won the Best Actress award four times: Katharine Hepburn is the only actress to have won the Best Actress award four times, for Morning Glory (1932/3), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). In 1968 Katherine Hepburn was tied with and Barbra Streisand for the Best Actress award. Anthony Quinn’s performance as painter Paul Gaugin in Lust for Life (1956) is the shortest ever to win a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. He was on screen for only 8 minutes.

Judi Dench made the an equally short performance, winning Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Elizabeth I in “Shakespeare in Love” (1999). More Oscar fast facts In 1997 James Cameron’s Titanic received 11 Oscars, sharing the record of the most Oscars awards for a single film with William Wyler’s Ben Hur (1959). The closest runner-up is West Side Story with 10 Oscars in 1961. Family matters The Hustons are the only family to produce three generations of Oscar winners: Walter Huston was named Best Supporting Actor in 1948 for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; John Huston was awarded Best Director/Adapted Screenplay for the same movie, and Anjelica Huston received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Prizzi’s Honor, 1985.

Only two married couples won Oscars for acting roles: Laurence Olivier (Hamlet, 1948) and Vivian Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951); and Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve, 1957) and Paul Newman (The Color of Money, 1986). The only sisters to have won Oscars are Joan Fontaine (Suspicion, 1941) and Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own, 1946, and The Heiress, 1949). No thank you! In 1970 George C. Scott refused the Oscar for his award-winning performance in Patton. In 1972 Marlon Brando refused the Oscars for his award-winning role in The Godfather. They weren’t the first, though. In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer because the Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios at the time. Double the honor Eight actors have won an Oscar twice: Fredric March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde (1931/2) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); Spencer Tracy for Captain Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938); Gary Cooper for Sergeant York (1941) and High Noon (1952); Marlon Brando for On The Waterfront (1954) and The Godfather (1972); Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and As Good As It Gets (1997); Dustin Hoffman for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Rain Man (1988); Tom Hanks for Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994); Daniel Day-Lewis for My Left Foot (1990) and There Will Be Blood (2008).

Many actresses have won the Best Actress Oscar twice: Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937); Bette Davis for Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938); Vivien Leigh for Gone With The Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); Olivia de Havilland for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949); Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966); Glenda Jackson for Women in Love (1970) and A Touch of Class (1973); Jane Fonda for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978); Sally Field for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984); Meryl Streep for Kramer vs.

Kramer (1979) and Sophie’s Choice (1982); Jodie Foster for The Accused (1988) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Top 10 Hollywood Family Dynasties - Toptenz.net Toptenz.net Posted by Orrin Konheim on January 9, 2012 in Movies & Television | 22,704 Views | 27 Responses Family dynasties are a grand tradition in Hollywood. Below are a list of clans of famous actors, directors, writers, and producers who were related to each other. The criteria for this list is how much talent the combined members of the family had and how many generations the dynasty spanned. 10. The Reitman Dynasty Members: Ivan, son Jason, daughter Catherine Rather than go with the Kirk/Michael combo or the Judy/Vincente/Liza triumvate, I’ll start with something a little more current.

Jason Reitman, the talented writer/director of poignant comic films as diverse as Thank You for Smoking, Juno and now Young Adult, followed in the foot steps of father Ivan Reitman who’s film credits include Ghostbusters, Meatballs, Twins as well as production credits on Space Jam and Kindergarten Cop. When Jason got his first Oscar nomination for Juno in 2008, he recounted to the press a story about him and his dad when he was 12: “I said, ‘Why don’t you go to the Oscars?’ And he said, ‘You know, if I’m ever fortunate enough to be nominated, I’ll go.’ I was like 12-years-old. I don’t know why I asked this. And I had the chutzpah to go, ‘Yeah, but what if I get nominated, will you go?'” Any bitterness was erased by the fact that Jason got his father nominated as well with a co-producing credit on Up in the Air. In addition, Jason’s sister Catherine is a budding actress. 9. The Fairbanks-Pickford Dynasty Members: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, son Douglas Jr.

This dynasty begins with the two of the three people (Charlie Chaplin would be the third) who are arguably most responsible for inventing the concept of movie stardom. It doesn’t rank very high, however, because it fizzles out after a generation. Swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks and America’s first sweetheart Mary Pickford were Hollywood’s first It couple when they fell and love and married. They later divorced but not before being half of the team of the founders behind United Artists Studios. The studio was co-founded with silent comedian Charlie Chaplin and director D.W. Griffith because the four of them had gotten so popular and successful that no one could pay their salaries. Fairbanks’ son through another marriage, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., was a gifted and athletic actor also suited for action films and starred in Gunga Din and Sinbad the Sailor. He later married screen star Joan Crawford (at the tender age of 20) which might have continued this dynasty into a three-generation machine except for the fact that within a year Crawford caught the eye of Clark Gable and left Douglas Jr. Douglas had three daughters with his second wife, none of whom had any imdb credits. 8.

The Curtis/Leigh Dynasty Members: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, daughter Kelly Curtis, daughter Jamie Lee Curtis , son-in-law Christopher Guest Neither Curtis nor Leigh was a child of Hollywood royalty as they both came from working class backgrounds. Curtis had the fortune of growing up in New York City where he enrolled in acting courses following his service in the Navy while Leigh was discovered by Norma Shearer at a ski resort where her dad worked. Nonetheless, their marriage was one of Hollywood royalty and while the intensity of the spotlight led to the crumbling of their marriage, they produced a very special daughter who would later become a star in the form of Jamie Lee Curtis. Also joining forces with this clan is Jamie Lee Curtis’ husband Christopher Guest. Guest, a former SNL cast member, is writer and director of the popular mockumentaries Best in Show and A Mighty Wind. Jamie Lee’s sister Kelly landed the role of “Muffy” in the film Trading Places. She retired from acting in 1999 and became Jamie Lee’s assistant on set. 7.

The Ladd Dynasty Members: Alan Ladd Sr., son Alan Ladd Jr, granddaughters Kelliann, Chelsea and Amanda Ladd Everyone knows Alan Ladd is best-known as the heroic gunslinger in Shane. Fewer people know his other indirect contribution to film by having a son who would go on to be one of the most unsung heroes in Hollywood history. Starting his career as a Hollywood agent, Ladd went on to become head of creative affairs and eventually president of Fox studios. He’s the person responsible for green lighting George Lucas’ Star Wars when no one else would. He also was behind other commercial smash hits as Alien, The Towering Inferno, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Breaking Away, and All That Jazz. He also gave director Ron Howard his start. As far whether the Ladd Dynasty goes beyond Alan and Alan Jr., three of Alan Jr.’s four children have credits on imdb with daughter Kelliann having producer’s credits on three films. 6. The Mankiewicz Family Members: Brothers Joseph and Herman, son Tom, grandson Ben Joseph Mankiewicz was a two-time Oscar winning writer and director. His film All About Eve is one of the greatest satires Hollywood has ever made.

His brother Herman Mankiewicz was a top-tier screenwriter highlighted by a co-writing credit on Citizen Kane with Orson Welles. This is a very interesting distinction in Hollywood history because a) Citizen Kane routinely tops polls as the best film ever made 2) Orson Welles was nominated for Oscars in acting and directing as well but writing was the only Oscar he ever won AND 3) Some sources claim that Orson Welles didn’t write the script at all but delegated it all to Mankiewicz. With the exception of Joseph’s son Tom who directed some TV films and wrote a couple scripts in the James Bond series, none of the Mankewicz brothers’ offspring continued their reputation as great filmmakers of films. However, Herman’s grandson Ben is one of the faces most associated with classic film as one of the two permanent hosts of Turner Classic Movies. The Mankewicz family is also home to a number of political luminaries with Ben’s father being a speechwriter for the Kennedy administration. 5.

The Richardson/Redgrave Dynasty Members: Michael, daughter Vanessa, daughter Lynn, son-in-law Tony, granddaughter Natasha This dynasty begins with Sir Michael Redgrave who became one of Britain’s premiere stage and screen actors in the 1940’s. His two daughters, Vanessa and Lynn, followed in their fathers’ footsteps and both have had even more successful careers. Both actresses broke out with Academy Award nominations for best actress in the same year: In 1966, Lynn was nominated as the titular character in Georgy Girl while Vanessa was nominated in A Man for All Seasons. Since then, the two sisters have had incredibly lengthy careers that has earned them ranks within the British empire (Vanessa is a Commander of the British Empire while Lynn was awarded an Officer of the British Empire). Lynn passed away last year (her last film was the acclaimed My Dog Tulip) while Vanessa stands to earn her 7th Oscar nomination for her role in Corlianis. Vanessa was married to Oscar-winning Director Tony Richardson for five years (a bisexual, he died of AIDS in 1991), and their union produced stage and screen star Natasha Richardson who tragically died in a skiing accident in 2009. 4.

The Hustons Members: Walter, son John, grandson Danny, granddaughter Anjelica The Hustons are one of two families to win Oscars among three generations. Writer and director Walter Huston directed both father, Walter, and daughter, Anjelica to Oscars in Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Prizzi’s Honor (1985) respectively. Walter Huston was a character actor who disappeared into roles. In contrast, John was a Hollywood personality so outlandish Clint Eastwood made the movie White Hunter, Black Heart based on his larger-than-life exploits. In addition to being a director, John was a painter, boxer, cavalry officer in the Mexican army, gamesman, writer , explorer, and couldn’t resist an occasional acting role on screen. His daughter Anjelica is best known to popular audiences in the role of “Morticia” from The Addams Family movies and son Danny Huston has acted in films such as The Constant Gardener and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. 3.

The Coppolas Members: Frances, father Carmine, daughter Sofia, nephew Nicolas Cage, nephew Jason Schwartzman, nephew Roman Coppola, ex son-in-law Spike Jonze, sister Talia Shire The other of two families to win Oscars through three generations, the Coppolas have a very high success rate per family member. Frances’s father, Carmine, was the principal flutist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra when it was conducted by the legendary Arturo Toscanini in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Carmine would go on to write music for 16 films including his son’s Oscar-winning masterpiece The Godfather: Part II, which would win him an Oscar for the score. Francis’s daughter Sofia, whose biggest acting role was her father’s third installment of her father’s Godfather trilogy, followed in her father’s footsteps of filmmaking and won a screenwriting Oscar for Lost in Translation (2003). The family has had success in nearly every branch of the tree with Francis’s sister, Talia, becoming a great actor and Talia’s son Jason Schwartzman following along the same path.

One family member who wanted to make it big but not rely on the family name was nephew Nicholas Kim Coppola who changed his name early in his career to Nicolas Cage (borrowing from comic book character “Luke Cage”). 2. The Barrymores Members: John Barrymore, brother Lionel, sister Ethel, son John Drew Barrymore, granddaughter Drew, mother Georgie Drew, father Herbert Blythe, uncle Maurice Drew, son John Drew Considered the first family of Hollywood for good reason. Bubbly starlet Drew Barrymore’s grandfather John (nicknamed “The Great Profile” for his matinee good looks) and siblings Ethel and Lionel were three of Hollywood’s highest paid stars from their arrival in Hollywood in 1914 through the 1940’s. What most people might not be aware of isthat the Barrymore clan’s history of performing goes all the way back to the mid-1800’s on the stage when the parents of John, Lionel, and Ethel were both stage stars. Ironically, their mother was named Georgie Drew which is where Drew’s first name came from. As to whether the acting bug skipped a generation, it didn’t entirely.

Drew’s father John Drew acted in various film and television projects and his sister Diana did the same but neither succeeded and Diana died of a drug overdose at the age of 38. Steering Drew on the right path was godfather Steven Spielberg who gave her a leading role in E.T. 1. The Fondas Members: Henry Fonda; daughter Jane, son Peter, granddaughter Bridget Through roles in films such as Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, and 12 Angry Men, My Darling Clementine, Henry not only established himself as one of the most iconic actor of his day but established a screen persona that made him synonymous with the upright good guy. Peter Fonda said of his dad , “In many of his roles, you could see this steady tension, this rock solid stillness that stood for justice, democratic ideals and honest character. When Henry Fonda said something on screen, you were right to believe it.” Ironically, children Peter and Jane had great acting careers but in a different mold. Peter wrote and produced the seminal counter-culture film Easy Rider (1969) which ushered in an edgier era of filmmaking.

Jane became one of the premiere actors of her generation with seven Oscar nominations and two Oscar wins and became a counter-culture spokeswoman with her role in subversive films like Coming Home and China Syndrome and her controversial two-week tour of North Vietnam (which got her the nickname “Hanoi Jane”). Despite tension from differing political viewpoints, the Fondas have always remained close and Jane’s recounted several times that making On Golden Pond with her father in 1981 (his last film and therole that won him an Oscar) was one of her most special filmmaking experiences ever. Peter’s daughter Bridget also has a modest acting career. Orrin Konheim | Permalink Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order SVU fame. Her mother was Jayne Mansfield, her father was Mickey Hargitay, the Hungarian Bodybuilder. Also, Judy Garland and Vincent Minnelli and their daughter Liza Minnelli. The woes of Ryan O’Neal and his deceased significant other Farrah Fawcett and Ryan’s daughter, Tatum and son Griffin.

Though being a rock music singer, Steven Tyler (singer for Aerosmith) and his daughters actress Liv Tyler (of “Lord Of The Rings” fame) and Mia Tyler (a very much sought after “Plus” size model). Kirk Douglas and his son Michael and Michael’s son (I cannot think of his first name). The Baldwin’s (Alec, Daniel, Steven, Billy) and Alec’s ex-wife Kim Basinger. | Permalink Hello Orrin. Sorry for my overlooking your inclusion on your list. Its just me getting carried away.There is an interesting story that I am reading on the Wikipedia that might interest you if you haven’t already have not heard about it. Its this so-called “curse” called the “27 Club”. Its all about popular or famous musicians that died at the age of 27 and its not just limited to rock musicians as a classical music composer is on the list and ones that I never realized who died at that age. It also gives the official cause of death and some of them are very strange. Thank You again for correcting me.

Question: Three generations of which family have won Oscars?
Answer: Huston