good job pusherman!! why was this thread more fun than the show itself?

PusherMan said:

I wasn't gonna waste my time doing it 11 times, but you know the drill

sosgemini said:

Beats me.....But here some realy interesting facts about Lord of the Ring Trilogy

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Nominated for 13 Oscars won only 4
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers(2002) - Nominated for 6 Oscars won only 2
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - Nominated for 11 Oscars won 11..

Together the Trilogy was nominated for 30 Oscars and won 17

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring brought home a total of 860,700,000 $
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers brought home a total of 921,600,000 $
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brought home a total of 1,005,400,00 $

Together the Trilogy brought home a total of 2.787,700,000 $$$$$ Nearly 3 billion dollars !!!!!
www.imdb.com/Charts/worldtopmovies

Here is some more Trivia about the Oscars thru the years.....

Movies that Won 11 Oscars

Ben-Hur (1959, 12 nominations)
Titanic (1997, 14 nominations)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, 11 nominations)

10 Oscars

West Side Story (1961, 11 nominations)

9 Oscars

Gigi (1958, 9 nominations)
The Last Emperor (1987, 9)
The English Patient (1997, 12)

8 Oscars

Gone With The Wind (1939, 13)
From Here To Eternity (1953, 13)
On The Waterfront (1954, 12)
My Fair Lady (1964, 12)
Cabaret (1972, 10)
Gandhi (1983, 11)
Amadeus (1984, 11)

7 Oscars

Going My Way (1944, 10)
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946, 8)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957, 8)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962, 10)
Patton (1970, 10)
The Sting (1973, 10)
Out Of Africa (1985, 11)
Dances With Wolves (1990, 12)
Schindler’s List (1993, 12)
Shakespeare In Love (1998, 13)

6 Oscars

Mrs. Miniver (1942, 12)
All About Eve, (1940, 14)
An American In Paris (1951, 8)
A Place In The Sun (1951, 9)
A Man For All Seasons (1966, 8)
The Godfather, Part II (1974, 11)
Star Wars (1977, 10)
Forrest Gump, (1994, 13)

5 Oscars

It Happened One Night (1934, 5)
How Green Was My Valley (1941, 10)
Wilson (1944, 10)
The Bad And The Beautiful (1952, 6)
Around The World In 80 Days (1956, 8)
The King And I (1956, 9)
The Apartment, (1960, 10)
Mary Poppins (1964, 13)
Doctor Zhivago (1965, 10)
The Sound Of Music (1965, 10)
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966, 13)
In The Heat Of The Night (1967, 7)
Oliver! (1968, 11)
The French Connection (1971, 9)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, 9)
The Deer Hunter (1978, 9)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, 9)
Terms Of Endearment (1983, 11)
Silence Of The Lambs (1991, 7)
Braveheart (1995, 10)
Saving Private Ryan (1998, 11)
American Beauty (1999, 8)
Gladiator (2000, 12) Chicago (2002, 13)

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Films With The Most Nominations


14 Nominations
All About Eve (1950, 6 Oscars)
Titanic (1997, 11)

13 Nominations
Gone With The Wind (1939, 8)
From Here To Eternity (1953, 8)
Mary Poppins (1964, 5)
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966, 5)
Forrest Gump (1994, 6)
Shakespeare In Love (1998, 7)
Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Rings (2001, 4)
Chicago (2002, 6)

12 Nominations
Mrs. Miniver (1942, 6)
The Song Of Bernadette (1943, 4)
Johnny Belinda (1948, 1)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, 4)
On The Waterfront (1954, 8)
Ben Hur (1959, 11)
Becket (1964, 1)
My Fair Lady (1964, 8)
Reds (1981, 3)
Dances With Wolves (1990, 7)
Schindler's List (1993, 7)
The English Patient (1996, 9)
Gladiator (2000, 5)

11 Nominations
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939, 1)
Rebecca (1940, 2)
Sergeant York (1941, 2)
The Pride Of The Yankees (1942, 1)
Sunset Boulevard (1950, 3)
Judgement At Nuremberg (1961, 2)
West Side Story (1961, 10)
Oliver! (1968, 5)
Chinatown (1974, 1)
The Godfather, Part II (1974, 6)
Julia (1977, 3)
The Turning Point (1977, 0)1
Gandhi (1982, 8)
Terms Of Endearment (1983, 5)
Amadeus (1984, 8)
A Passage To India (1984, 2)
The Color Purple (1985, 0)1
Out Of Africa (1985, 7)
Saving Private Ryan (1998, 5)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, 11)2

10 Nominations
The Life Of Emile Zola (1937, 3)
How Green Was My Valley (1941, 5)
Going My Way (1944, 7)
Wilson (1944, 5)
Roman Holiday (1953, 3)
Giant (1956, 1)
Sayonara (1957, 4)
The Apartment (1960, 5)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962, 7)
Tom Jones (1963, 4)
Doctor Zhivago (1965, 5)
The Sound Of Music (1965, 5)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967, 2)
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967, 2)
Anne Of The Thousand Days (1969, 1)
Airport (1970, 1)
Patton (1970, 7)
Cabaret (1972, 8)
The Godfather (1972, 3)
The Exorcist (1973, 2)
The Sting (1973, 7)
Network (1976, 4)
Rocky (1976, 3)
Star Wars (1977, 6)
On Golden Pond (1981, 3)
Tootsie (1982, 1)
Bugsy (1991, 2)
Braveheart (1995, 5)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, 4)
Gangs Of New York (2002, 0)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, 2)

Pusherman.. Your VERY into your Oscar trivia arent' you ??

BabyCakes said:

Yep

And here are footnote conclusions from the above trivia....

1. The record for most nominations without a single win is held by A Turning Point and The Color Purple which were each nominated for 11 Academy Awards.

2. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) holds the record for most Oscar nominations without a single loss.

PusherMan said:

Your hysterical.. Good JOb!!!

abierman said:

Nope. Didn't win.

minneapolisgenius said:

Sorry.....I rather liked the Dutch film.....De Tweeling is another release in the overcrowded WorldWar II department. And it includes every factual and visual cliché there is available about the war in Holland. I read the book, De Tweeling by Tessa de Loo, and I must say that the movie most certainly lived up to the high quality of the book, in some ways even surpassed it. The movie then brilliantly uses flashbacks to reveal the scar that has separated the two for life, and it mostly comes down to the second world war, both living and experiences it in a different way and place. Sad, but Inspiring.....

Well i guess this subject is non relevant.....but i just had a thought.....if this year it was "The Return of The King" year i predict next year it would be Tarantinos Kill Bill year.....What do you people predict ?

PusherMan said:

Although, it'll be interesting to see how Mel Gibson is received/rearded/treated/ignored for the "Passion." Already, movie critics are predicting that it won't be nominated for best picture. At best, some say, it'll be nominated in technical categories like cinematography.

ThreadBare said:

.....and maybe Foreign Language Film ....

Isnt anyone here proud of my achievments in my predictions.....19 out of 24....!!!!....
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The first hour ....

Blow by Blow
5:32 p.m.: Even host Billy Crystal needs his own presenter, and Sean Connery obliges with a gushing tribute to the movies that "bind us together and touch the humanity of all of us." Did he catch Dumb and Dumberer?

5:32 p.m.: Cue Crystal in a Middle-Earth spoof, trying to summon the courage to host the Oscars after three years out of commission.

5:35 p.m.: Crystal obviously didn't insist on a no-nudity rider--but he should have insisted on a personal trainer. He tells audiences they can catch the telecast in Aramaic, before breaking into his now traditional dinner-theater song serenading the evening's Best Picture noms.
5:41 p.m.: We think mama-to-be Marcia Gay Harden is about to give birth on Clint Eastwood's head.

5:49 p.m.: Crystal shuts up long enough to allow Catherine Zeta-Jones to announce the nominees for the first award of the evening. Is it any wonder this show runs long?

5:51 p.m.: The first Oscar of the night goes to Tim Robbins for Best Supporting Actor for Mystic River. We can sense the ABC censor fingering the five-second delay button.

5:53 p.m.: Robbins, who's wearing a subtle peace pin on his lapel, winds up his speech urging victims of abuse and violence to seek help (and avoid a vengeful Sean Penn), but he avoids Iraq, Haiti, gay marriages, the Super Bowl scandal and The Passion of the Christ. Phew.

5:57 p.m.: Ian McKellen is babbling on about how great it was filming the The Lord of the Rings. Ever notice how, thanks to his British accent, he can yak about anything and it sounds really cool?

6:02 p.m.: Angelina Jolie presents the Best Art Direction award to the, um, art directors for LOTR. What about the person who did her many visible tattoos? Now, there's some art direction!

6:05 p.m.: Billy Crystal introduces "the reason for our five-second delay," Robin Williams, who stands behind Crystal and re-creates some sort of weird homage to Señor Wences. Señor Wences! No wonder the Oscars are known as the hippest of all the awards shows.

6:06 p.m.: No surprises in the 'toon department: Finding Nemo wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature--which makes us wonder as we go to commercial, Are there any fish sticks in the freezer?

6:13 p.m.: And it's a Lord of the Rings sweep thus far, as Renée Zellweger, sans any apparent Bridget Jones bulge, gives out the award for Best Costume Design to the Return of the King clothiers.

6:16 p.m.: Crystal's back with his list of the rich and infamous' favorite movies: Martha Stewart gives a thumbs-up to Runaway Jury; Hillary Clinton's keen on Kill Bill: Volume 1; Rush Limbaugh and Bobby Brown both enjoyed 21 Grams; and Saddam Hussein just loved Holes.

6:17 p.m.: Coppola family member Nicolas Cage, who's introducing Best Film nominee Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, got the acting talent, but it looks like Francis lucked out in the hair department.

6:23 p.m.: Zellweger's back to collect her Best Supporting Actress trophy. Is it her lopsided dress, or is the Cold Mountain star about to keel over? She thanks just about everyone, but she's talkingtoofast for us to get any of the names.

6:24 p.m.: Tom Hanks emerges to the strains of "Hail to the Chief." Huh? A sign of political things to come?

6:25 p.m.: Oops. That must have been meant for the late, great Bob Hope, who gets a well-deserved three-minute tribute.

6:31 p.m.: A tux-clad Owen Wilson and a cardiganned Ben Stiller--plugging his role as the cardigan-favoring Starsky in his and Wilson's Starsky & Hutch flick--intro the nominees for Best Short, which include Most, written and produced by one William Zabka, better known as Johnny, the bad guy in The Karate Kid.

Oooh, we hated that guy! Anyway, he didn't win. Hey, where has Ralph Macchio been hiding himself these days, anyway? Oh yeah, Two Soldiers is the live-action short that did win.


.....To be continued...

I am proud of you Pusherman.... ..... great prediction and great thread.....

Rupert said:

Thanks....