By Tom Chivers Published: 6:05PM GMT 01 March 2010
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"So it turns out a little play teachers are gay! Who knew?" Tom Hanks puts his feet in it in 1994 Photo: AP 
Kathryn Bigelow - on march to be the initial womanlike leader of the Best Director award? Photo: REUTERS 
Michael Moore tells George Bush he is a "fictional" boss at the 2003 Oscars Photo: AFP 
Sorry Kate, you"ll have to wait for an additional 10 years for yours - Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, that won eleven Oscars Photo: PARAMOUNT PICTURES 
Bob Hope, presenter of the Oscars a jot down eighteen times Photo: AP 
Walt Disney, who might or might not have supposed his 26th Oscar from inside his cryogenic freezer in southern California Photo: REUTERS 
I"d similar to to appreciate my Precioussss... The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won eleven Oscars Photo: REX FEATURES 
Greer Garson, who gave the longest ever Oscar acceptance speech: five mins and fifteen seconds for Best Actress, Mrs Miniver, 1943 Photo: REUTERS How majority women have won the Best Director award? Who is the usually Oscar-winner to have outed someone in his speech? Who done the longest ever acceptance debate (hint: it"s not Gwyneth Paltrow)? Learn all that and some-more in the arbitrarily comparison list of seventeen oddments from the 81-year story of the Biggest Night in Showbiz™.
• To maximize your Oscar success, have certain your movie is a magisterial epic that runs approach over budget. Three drive-in theatre share the pretension of Most Decorated, with eleven Oscars each Ben Hur (1959), Titanic (1997), and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003 - graphic above).
• Titanic (above) is additionally the corner hilt of the most-nominated record, with All About Eve (1950) both perceived fourteen nominations. The Turning Point (1977) and The Colour Purple (1985) were both nominated eleven times but unsuccessful to win a singular one the greatest losers in Oscar history. Avatar leads the nominations this year, carrying been put brazen for 9 awards.
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• Only dual pairs of performers have ever been nominated for personification the same impression in the same film, and weirdly, Kate Winslet is one-half of both. She played Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, whilst Gloria Stuart played Old Rose; she was additionally nominated as a immature Iris Murdoch in "Iris", with Judi Dench personification her comparison self.
• Walt Disney has been nominated for 64 Oscars and won 26, some-more than anybody else. His initial came in 1932, with his last awarded posthumously in 1968; Best Short Subject Cartoons for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.
• In the early days, Oscar formula were done accessible to newspapers forward of the rite so that they would have the subsequent days edition. This was fast forsaken in 1941 after nominees proposed on vacation the press room prior to the eventuality to find out either theyd won.
• Want to win Best Director? First try to safeguard that you are a) white and b) male. Only 4 women have ever been nominated for the endowment (Lina Wertmüller for 1976"s Seven Beauties, Jane Campion for 1993"s The Piano, Sofia Coppola for 2003"s Lost in Translation, and Kathryn Bigelow for 2009"s The Hurt Locker), and a small dual African-Americans (John Singleton for Boyz n the Hood, 1991, and Lee Daniels for Precious, 2009). Needless to say, nothing have so far won it nonetheless Bigelow (pictured above) is still in with a possibility this year.
• Bob Hope (above) hosted the Oscars a conspicuous eighteen times. His initial was in 1939 the year Gone with the Wind won Best Picture and his last in 1977, when it was won by Woody Allens Annie Hall. The subsequent majority unchanging hosts are Billy Crystal, with eight appearances, and Johnny Carson with five. Hope additionally won 4 titular awards.
• Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1965) is the longest ever name on a Best Picture nomination. Z (1970) is the shortest. It is doubtful to be beaten.
• The Oscars usually tarnishing situation took place in 1974, when one Robert Opal ran exposed onto the theatre (and was mocked by the host, David Niven, for "revealing his shortcomings"). In 1979, Mr Opal was murdered during a spoliation in his sex emporium in San Francisco.
• The longest ever Oscar acceptance debate was not by Gwyneth Paltrow, but Greer Garson (above), leader of Best Actress in 1943 for Mrs Miniver. Her wayward interjection clocked in at a conspicuous five mins and fifteen seconds, whereupon she detonate in to tears. This year, winners" speeches are singular to usually 45 seconds.
• Liza Minnelli is the usually kid of dual Oscar winners (Judy Garland, Juvenile Award for The Wizard of Oz, 1940, and Vincente Minnelli, Best Director for Gigi,1959) to have won an Oscar herself (Best Actress for Cabaret, 1973).
• In 1934, Frank Capra suffered the misfortune in error temperament in Oscars history, striding on theatre to pick up the Best Picture endowment after conference the presenter contend "Come and get it, Frank" to Frank Lloyd, executive of Cavalcade.
• Tom Hanks (above) is the usually Oscar-winner to have outed someone in his acceptance speech, when he described his former play clergyman as "one of the excellent happy Americans" whilst pciking up his Best Actor endowment for Philadelphia in 1994. The eventuality desirous the 1997 Kevin Kline humerous entertainment In & Out, about a clergyman inaccurately outed in the same way.
• Marlon Brandos non-appearance at the 1973 Oscars is the things of Oscar fable he sent one "Sacheen Littlefeather" to accept his Best Actor endowment for The Godfather in criticism at the movie industrys description of local Americans. Ms Littlefeathers genuine name was Marie Cruz. The same year, she acted for Playboy.
• Similar clumsy domestic posturing at the Academy Awards came from Vanessa Redgrave, who in 1977 berated "Zionist hoodlums" during her acceptance debate for Best Supporting Actress in Julia, and of march Michael Moores anti-war diatribe ("Shame on you, George Bush!" - graphic above) in 2003 when he supposed Best Documentary for Bowling for Columbine.
• Believe it or not, Phil Collins has won an Oscar; Best Original Song for Youll Be In My Heart, from 1999s Tarzan. Some experienced Oscar-watchers contend that this has devalued the total currency.
• Finally, Jack Palances acceptance for Best Supporting Actor in City Slickers (1992) was not so most a debate as a work-out. The 73-year-old forsaken to the building and proposed you do one-armed press-ups.
