Did you know that Color Purple hold the record for nominations with out a single win, 11

Did you know that:



These men Direct Themselves to Acting Oscars

Laurence Olivier, Hamlet, 1948


Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful, 1998








The Color Purple holds the record for most nominations without a single win, it was nominated for 11 Academy Awards.





The Lord of the Rings the Return of the King (2003) holds the record for most Oscar nominations 11 without a single loss.









That these two films received the most-nominations 14.
“All about Eve” (1950)

and “Titanic” (1997).








Sofia Coppola is the only American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award® in the Directing category?
in 2003 for “Lost in Translation.”