OSCAR TIME! (2016)

As February is traditionally Oscars month, I decided to dedicate this month's posts to some Academy Award winners of the past. Last week I already looked at Fiddler On The Roof that won three Oscars (best cinematography, sound and music score).

To date there are actually three films that share the number one position for receiving the most Academy Awards. These are Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King (2003). Each of them won a total of eleven Oscars. However, if you take into account that the Lord Of The Rings trilogy was actually shot as one long continuous film project which was only presented in three parts, it is the clear winner by far with a total of seventeen Oscars!

Now as far as Ben-Hur is concerned I already discussed it on this blog and for details about the movie itself you can go to my post of 17 June 2014. But for puposes of this post it won Academy Awards in the following categories:

1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor in a leading role
3. Best Actor in a supporting role
4. Best Director
5. Best Cinematography
6. Best Art direction and set design
7. Best Costume design
8. Best Sound
9. Best Film editing
10. Best Special effects
11. Best Music score

Impressive indeed. Next week I'll take a look at Titanic.