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Friday, August 21, 2009

Did you know who received the most Oscar nominations without any wins?

Did you know that Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Award nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms". A frequent collaborator with Cecil B. DeMille - he worked on "Cleopatra" (1934), "The Buccaneer" (1938) and "North West Mounted Police" (1940) - as well as such other classics as "Holiday Inn" (1942), "Road to Utopia" (1946), "Son of Paleface" (1952) and "Will Penny" (1967).
(18 November, 1903 – 29 October 1989)


Those 15 nominations were for:

* "A Farewell to Arms" (1933)







* "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" (1935)




* "Souls at Sea" (1937)





* "North West Mounted Police" (1940)




* "Take a Letter Darling" (1942)








* "Reap the Wild Wind" (1942)



* "Love Letters" (1945)





* "Carrie" (1952)




* "The Country Girl" (1954)





* "Red Garters" (1954)


* "It Started in Naples" (1960)



* "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961)


* "The Pigeon That Took Rome" (1962)


* "Love with the Proper Stranger" (1963)


* "Come Blow Your Horn" (1963)

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