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 690 illustrations, 60 in full color 384 pages • 9 x 12" • Hardcover ISBN 0-7892-0484-3 • $65.00  
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ACADEMY FACTS AND RECORDS THROUGH THE FIRST SEVENTY YEARS
Most honored motion pictures:
Eleven Academy Awards
Ben-Hur (1959)
Titanic (1997)
Ten Academy Awards
West Side Story (1961)
Nine Academy Awards
Gigi (1958)
The Last Emperor (1987)
The English Patient (1996)
Eight Academy Awards
Gone With the Wind (1939)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
On the Waterfront (1954)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Cabaret (1972)
Gandhi (1982)
Amadeus (1984)
Most honored performer:
Katharine Hepburn, winner of 4 Academy Awards for acting, all of them in the best acting category, 1932/33, 1967, 1968, 1981.
The first foreign-language performance to win an Academy Award:
Sophia Loren, named 1961's Best Actress in her work in the Italian film Two Women.
Most honored individuals:
(Male) Walt Disney, personally credited with 26 awards, including 12 Cartoon Awards, plus multiple Awards in the categories of Short Subjects, Documentaries and Honorary.
(female) Edith Head, 8 Academy Awards for Costume Design, 1949, 1950 (2), 1951, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1973.
The first non-Hollywood film to win an Academy Award:
Hamlet (1948), financed and filmed in England.
The only person to win an Oscar for playing an Oscar loser:
Maggie Smith, 1978, in California Suite.
The only women nominated as Best Director:
Lina Wertmuller, 1976
Jane Campion, 1993
The only twins to win Oscars:
Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, 1943. (With Howard Koch, they scripted that year's winning screenplay Casablanca.)
Christoph Lauenstein and Wolfgang Lauenstein, 1989. (They produced the winning animated short film, Balance.)
The only Oscar given for work done 20 years earlier:
The 1972 award for Best Music Score for Charles Chaplin's Limelight, made in 1952. The film was shown in a few key U.S. cities but was never commercially shown in Los Angeles until 1972 and thus was not eligible for Academy Award consideration until that calendar year.
