Tagged: awards

“Out of Africa” won 7 Oscars at the 58th Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, but it did not win any of the acting Oscars. The other Best...

Amadeus picked up 8 Oscars at the 57th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Milos Forman) and Best Actor (F. Murray Abraham). Tom Hulce who played the title role...

With 11 nominations, “Terms of Endearments” was the favorite at the 56th Academy Awards and it picked up Best Picture, Best Director (James L. Brooks — and he also won...

“Gandhi” won 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, at the 55th Academy Awards. Not bad at all out of 11 nominations. “Tootsie” had 10 nomination and...

At the 54th Academy Awards “Chariots of Fire” won Best Picture, over the highly favored “Reds” (12 nominations), as well as “On Golden Pond” (10), “Raiders of the Lost Ark”...

“Ordinary People” won Best Picture and Best Director at the 53rd Academy Awards, beating “Raging Bull”, “The Elephant Man” and “Tess”. Two biographical films about living people got the top...

“Kramer vs. Kramer” may have won all 4 of the top Oscars at the 52nd Academy Awards if Meryl Street was considered a lead actress, but she was nominated as...

“The Deer Hunter” won Best Picture and Best Director at the 51st Academy Awards. The also rans were “Coming Home”, “Heaven Can Wait”, “Midnight Express” and “An Unmarried Woman”. Best...

“Annie Hall” won 4 Oscars at the 50th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. That was out of 5 nominations. It was up against these 3 films with way more nominations:...

“Rocky” won the Best Picture Oscar at the 49th Academy Awards, beating “All the President’s Men”, “Network”, “Bound for Glory”, and “Taxi Driver.” John G. Avildsen also won Best Director...