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2 March 2009 11:11 AM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

In 1943, there was such fierce disagreement over the year's best picture that the four top film awards went to four pictures: the Oscars ("Casablanca"), National Board of Review ("The Ox-Bow Incident"), New York Film Critics Circle ("Watch on the Rhine") and the brand-new Golden Globe ("The Song of Bernadette"). The latter award was so fledging and low-key that it didn't have a statuette to hand out. Winners were given scrolls on the studio lot.

Variety declared "Watch on the Rhine" even better than Lillian Hellman's Broadway production, which had won best play from the New York Drama Critics Circle, but it had a hard time prevailing as best picture within the New York Film Critics Circle. On the first ballot, it tied director Clarence Brown's "The Human Comedy" and didn't amass enough votes to break away to win until the sixth ballot. "Casablanca" was not a significant contender. »

- tomoneil

23 February 2009 11:49 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

a few pieces of useless trivia for you!

...that in the elite community of actors who've won more than one Oscar, all thirty-eight of them with Sean Penn as the newest club member, the average wait for the second statue is 9 years. Kate Winslet for the win in 2017, baby! Of course, for some actors the love affair with the Academy is intense and feverish and the statues are back to back (Tom Hanks, Luise Rainer, Jason Robards, Spencer Tracy) as if the voting body wanted to seal the deal before they started showing... if you know what I mean. The most common wait time though is strangely but a 3 year span. That's happened to five goddesses of the silver screen (Glenda Jackson, Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep, Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland).

Only four actors have won three or more Oscars (Katharine Hepburn, Walter Brennan, Jack Nicholson, and Ingrid Bergman) and »

- NATHANIEL R

2 articles from 2009