Did you know that the red carpet is 500 feet long? How about that the Oscar statuette weighs 8.5 pounds?
Walt Disney displays four Oscars he won at 26th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 25, 1954.Impress your friends on Oscar night with these records, firsts and facts about Hollywood's biggest night!Meryl Streep holds the record for most nominations ever received by an actor . She has won three times.
Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn are the only two actresses to ever tie in the category of Best Actress in 1968.No film has ever won all four acting Oscars, but "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Network" have each won three of the four. Two Hollywood families have had members over three generations win Oscars - the Hustons , son John , and granddaughter Anjelica ) and the Coppolas , son Francis Ford , and granddaughter Sofia ).
The first posthumous Oscar was awarded in 1939 to Sidney Howard for his screenplay for "Gone with the Wind."In 1968, the Oscars were postponed from April 8 to April 10 out of respect for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had been assassinated a few days earlier and whose funeral was held April 9.
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