did the empire strikes back win any oscars?
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Star Wars' 10 Oscar Wins Before we take a look at the seven Oscars won by Star Wars -- as well as the two for Empire Strikes Back and one for Return of the Jedi -- here's a little trivia, quite a bit of which may surprise you.
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Star Wars' 10 Oscar Wins When nominations were announced for the 50th Academy Awards, aka the 1978 Oscars, Star Wars did something no genre film had ever done before: it was one of the top nominees. It scored ten nominations, including nods for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Score, and numerous technical categories.
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Wes Anderson Anderson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001, Moonrise Kingdom in 2012 and The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014, as well as the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Fantastic Mr. Fox in 2009.
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- How many ribs in half a rack. It seems you get a different number of ribs in every restaurant. What is the official number of ribs that should be in a half rack? (post #31361, reply #1 of 4) Everything is relative....
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Oscars 2017: âRogue One: A Star Wars Storyâ Nabs 2 Nominations For those keeping track of Star Wars‘ history at the Oscars, A New Hope remains the only film in the series nominated for Best Picture. The original 1977 film is also the most-honored movie, with six Oscar wins, plus a special award for Ben Burtt’s sound design.
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Poll: How many Oscars will 'Avatar' win? (OMG, all nine?) Avatar probably won't be nominated for best screenplay. James Cameron didn't reap a script bid for Titanic even though it sailed off into Oscar history as biggest champ, tying Ben-Hur's record (11). Also, don't expect Avatar to make the list for best makeup.
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What Academy Awards have the Star Wars films won? So Star Wars: A New Hope won 6 Oscars. A key fact is that the person who the gong for Film editing, was George Lucas's wife, Marcia Lucas.
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Meryl Streep Is Queen of the Oscars: See Her Many Looks From 1979 to Now When it comes to the Oscars, it's Meryl Streep 's world and everyone else is just living in it. The Into the Woods star (who's nominated again at the 2015 Academy Awards) has earned 19 acting nominations in the last 37 years, more than any other actor or actress in the history of the show.
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Meryl Streep Is Queen of the Oscars: See Her Many Looks From 1979 to Now 1989: Between 1979 and 1989, Streep was nominated every year except 1981, 1985, and 1987. She was nominated in 1989 for her role in A Cry in the Dark (A dingo's got my baby!), but lost to The Accused actress Jodie Foster. Meryl Streep and Don Gummer during 61st Annual Academy Awards-Governor's Ball in 1989. Credit: Barry King/WireImage.
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Poor Leo: will Leonardo DiCaprio ever win an Oscar? Leonardo DiCaprio, star of The Wolf of Wall Street, has now lost at the Oscars four times but, says Robbie Collin, his time will come. Leonardo DiCaprio at the 2014 Oscars Photo: AFP. By Robbie Collin. 2:47PM GMT 03 Mar 2014. Follow. Comments. In the words of everyone on the internet right now: poor Leo.
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- 1 Nine Best Picture-winning films are tied for third place with 12 nominations (see below). 2  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Titanic (1997), and Ben-Hur (1959) are the three Best Picture-winning films with the most Oscars wins (11).
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The Only Movies That Have Won the Big 5 Oscars The Winners of the Big Five Oscars®. It Happened One Night (1934) It Happened One Night, a romantic comedy, was the first film to win the Big Five Oscars®, taking home the top prizes at the 7th Academy Awards in 1935. The film was produced by Frank Capra and Harry Cohn for Columbia Pictures.
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Meryl Streep Is Queen of the Oscars: See Her Many Looks From 1979 to Now Meryl Streep and Don Gummer during 61st Annual Academy Awards – Governor's Ball in 1989. Barry King/WireImage 1996: After losing the 1991 Oscar to Misery's Kathy Bates, the Postcards From the Edge actress went four years without another nomination — her longest blank stretch to date.
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Did Star Wars win an Oscar? 1977's Star Wars won 6 Oscars: Editing, Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound, Score, Visual Effects and received a special achievement award for Sound Effects. 1980's The Empire Strikes Back won 2 Oscars: Sound and Visual Effects. No other Star Wars movie won an Oscar, despite all other four being nominated.
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Academy Award for Best Director 1 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Titanic (1997), and Ben-Hur (1959) are the three Best Picture-winning films with the most Oscars wins (11). 2  The closest Best Picture winning runner-up for most Oscar wins was West Side Story (1961) with 10 Oscars (out of 11 nominations).
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- A Clockwork Orange (1971) was the only other X-rated film (since re-rated) nominated for Best Picture. Actor Marlon Brando and director Bernard Bertolucci were also Oscar nominees for an X-rated film (not re-rated since its release): Last Tango in Paris (1972).
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What Oscars has Meryl Streep won? Meryl Streep has won three Academy Awards. She received the 1979 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in Kramer vs. Kramer. She won the 1982 Best Actress award … for Sophie's Choice and the 2011 Best Actress award for The Iron Lady.
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7 Movies That Should Never Have Won Best Picture Oscar... But Did Ever since Wings beat out Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans at the very first Academy Awards on May 16th 1929, the Academy has had a history of giving the Best Picture award to movies that were generally the safeand popular choice.
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How many Oscars did Katharine Hepburn win? She was nominated for Oscars for her work in the movies Long Day's Journey Into Night, Suddenly, Last Summer, The Rainmaker, Summertime, The African Queen, Woman of the Year, … The Philadelphia Story, Alice Adams, and Morning Glory.
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- However, the 30th anniversary Blue-ray edition of the film in 2012 undid the changes Spielberg made for its theatrical re-release 10 years earlier.] Out of its nine Academy Awards nominations, it received four Oscars: Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Score (John Williams), and Best Sound.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Receives 5 Oscar Nominations This marks the most nominations for a Star Wars film since the release of the original Star Wars in 1977, which received 10 nods and won six Oscars; The Empire Strikes Back (1980) received three nominations, winning two Oscars; Return of the Jedi (1983) nabbed four nominations with one win; The Phantom Menace (1999) captured three nominations; ...
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Oscars: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Has Best Picture Nomination Potential (Analysis) It not only won for its art direction, costume design, film editing, score, sound and visual effects, but it also was nominated in four above-the-line categories: picture, director, original screenplay and supporting actor. Admittedly, the first Star Wars and the latest one appeal in very different ways.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wins 11 Oscars The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wins 11 Oscars. Perhaps the most attention-grabbing, trailblazing performer in film in 2003 did not receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor–but he was honored nonetheless.
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On âStar Warsâ Day, a look at the franchiseâs Oscar history Six films, 22 nominations, seven wins and three special achievement awards, the “Star Wars” franchise obviously has a significant history with Oscar, albeit one reflecting diminishing returns.
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- Yes, Titanic (1997) won eleven 11 Academy Awards, making it one of the biggest Oscar-winning movies ever.Yes, it holds a record for the most. Titanic has won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It is only tied with two other films, Ben-Hur and Lord of the Rings.