Which 1972 movie musical has the distinction of winning the most Oscars (eight) without winning the Best Picture award?
"apiece. ""La La Land""s Best Picture loss to ""Moonlight"" meant it set a record for most nominations and wins without winning Best Picture since ""Cabaret"" in 1972. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 26, 2017. ""Moonlight"" became the first film with an all-black cast and the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture. In an event unprecedented in the history of the Oscars, ""La La Land"" was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture, and, a few minutes later, the error was corrected and ""Moonlight"" was declared the winner. """", at 467 minutes, became the longest film"
"records of which films were evaluated by the judges. ""The Divine Lady"" is the only film to ever win Best Director without a Best Picture nomination, excluding the first year where there was an award for comic director. This is the only year in which no movie won more than one Oscar. ""The Broadway Melody"" became the second of seven films (""Wings"", ""Grand Hotel"", ""Cavalcade"", ""Hamlet"", ""The Sound of Music"", and ""Titanic"" are the others) to win Best Picture without a writing nomination, and the first of three to win Best Picture and nothing else (""Grand Hotel"" and ""Mutiny on"
"the lyrics differently. The film earned a total of eight Academy Awards: It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, losing both to ""The Godfather"". ""Cabaret"" holds the record for most Academy Awards won by a film which did not win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Shortly before the Academy Awards, Fosse won two Tonys for directing and choreographing ""Pippin"", his biggest stage hit to date. When, months later, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for choreographing and directing Minnelli's television special ""Liza with a Z"", he became"
"are in the top 10 inflation-adjusted commercially successful films ever made, and both would appear 33 years later on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the twentieth century. ""The Sound of Music"" was the first Best Picture winner without a screenwriting nomination since ""Hamlet""; it would be the last until ""Titanic"" at the 70th Academy Awards. ""Othello"" became the third film (of four to date) to receive four acting nominations without one for Best Picture. Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, attended the Academy Awards presentation and was escorted by actor George"
"the Academy's own theater, primarily because the major Hollywood studios had withdrawn their financial support in order to address rumors that they had been trying to influence voters. Humphrey Bogart failed to receive a nomination for Best Actor in ""The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"", eventually considered one of the Academy’s greatest slights. ""Joan of Arc"" became the first film to receive as many as seven nominations without being nominated for Best Picture. ""Hamlet"" became the fifth film to win Best Picture without a screenwriting nomination; the next to do so would be ""The Sound of Music"" at the 38th"
"years later on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the 20th Century. For a film that only received two nominations, ""Singin' in the Rain"" went on to be named as the greatest American musical film of all time and in the 2007 American Film Institute updated list as the fifth greatest American film of all time, while ""High Noon"" was ranked twenty-seventh on the same 2007 list, as well. ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" won five awards, the most wins ever for a film not nominated for Best Picture. It was also the second Academy"
"won five Academy Awards and was nominated for an additional seven, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Director for Ridley Scott. It was the first movie to win Best Picture without winning either a directing or screenwriting award since ""All the King's Men"" at the 22nd Academy Awards in 1950. In 2003, ""Chicago"" became another Best Picture winner which didn't win an Academy Award in either of these two major categories. Due to Academy rules, only Hans Zimmer was officially nominated for Best Original Score, and not Lisa Gerrard at the time. However, the"
"– Musical or Comedy in their respective years, while such films as ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""Hairspray"", ""Mamma Mia!"", ""Nine"", ""Into the Woods"", and ""The Greatest Showman"" were only nominated. ""Chicago"" was also the first musical since ""Oliver!"" to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards."" Joshua Oppenheimer's Academy Award-nominated documentary ""The Act of Killing"" may be considered a nonfiction musical. One specific musical trend was the rising number of jukebox musicals based on music from various pop/rock artists on the big screen, some of which based on Broadway shows. Examples of Broadway-based jukebox musical films included ""Mamma Mia!"""
"Best Picture without a Best Director nomination until ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), and the third of seven to win without a screenwriting nomination. This was the first of three Oscars in which ""two"" films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner (""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" and ""The Guardsman""). This happened again at the 25th and 79th Academy Awards. This year also introduced short films to the Oscars, with ""Flowers and Trees"" being the first color winner and first animated short winner. This was the first and, to date, only ceremony in which there was a"
"and was the only one to lose all of its nominations until ""Sunset Boulevard"" at the 23rd Academy Awards. It was also the first of four films to receive four acting nominations without one for Best Picture, followed by ""I Remember Mama"" (1948), ""Othello"" (1965), and ""Doubt"" (2008). Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. The following twenty films received multiple nominations: The following three films received multiple awards: 9th Academy Awards The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by George Jessel; music was provided"
"featuring the pianist Jorge Bolet playing seven of Franz Liszt's compositions. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra was conducted by Morris Stoloff. Orchestral selections included four selections from the film's repertoire, and two selections reminded listeners of Liszt's organ virtuosity (uncredited performer..accompanied by ""The Song Without End"" chorus). CP-506 (LP). ""The Franz Liszt Story"" featured the piano and orchestra of Harry Sukman. Liberty Records, LST-7151 (LP). Harry Sukman recorded ten of the Liszt compositions featured in the film. Eight of those selections were adaptations by Harry Sukman composed especially for the album. The film won the Best Music score Academy Award"
"MacFarlane, host of the ceremony, and actress Emma Stone. ""Lincoln"" received the most nominations with twelve total, and ""Life of Pi"" came in second with eleven. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 24, 2013. ""Argo"" was the fourth film to win Best Picture without a directing nomination, following 1927's ""Wings"", 1932's ""Grand Hotel"", and 1989's ""Driving Miss Daisy"". As co-producer of ""Argo"", George Clooney became the third individual to win Oscars for both acting and producing. By virtue of his nomination for Best Original Song in ""Ted"", host Seth MacFarlane became the first person since James"
"and became the second highest-grossing film of the year in the United States. The film won ten Academy Awards in its eleven nominated categories, including Best Picture. It received the most Academy Awards (10 wins) of any musical film, including Best Picture. Rita Moreno (Anita) was the first Latina actress ever to win an Oscar. The soundtrack album won a Grammy Award and was ranked No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" chart for a record 54 weeks. Differences in the film from the stage version include that ""Tonight"" is moved to follow ""America"", and Bernardo sings a line in ""America"" instead"
"for Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture (Musical). Song Without End Song Without End, subtitled The Story of Franz Liszt (1960) is a biographical film romance made by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Charles Vidor, who died during the shooting of the picture and was replaced by George Cukor. It was produced by William Goetz from a screenplay by Oscar Millard, revised (uncredited) by Walter Bernstein and based on screenwriter Oscar Saul's original 1952 script (uncredited). The music score was by Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman with music by Franz Liszt,"
"join the two Franks on stage. This was the last time that the Oscars' eligibility period was spread over two different calendar years, creating the longest time frame for which films could be nominated: the seventeen months from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. This was the last time that no film had more than four nominations. ""Cavalcade"" became the fourth film to win Best Picture without a writing nomination, and the last until ""Hamlet"" (1948) at the 21st Academy Awards. Walt Disney became the first person to win consecutive Academy Awards, winning Best Short Subject, Cartoon for ""The"
"Wise's dazzling direction, Leonard Bernstein's score, and Stephen Sondheim's lyrics, ""West Side Story"" remains perhaps the most iconic of all the Shakespeare adaptations to visit the big screen."" The film earned $19,645,000 in North American rentals. Because of profit participation, United Artists earned a profit of $2.5 million on the film. Its ten Academy Awards make it the musical film with the most Academy wins, including Best Picture. Three other films (""Ben-Hur"", ""Titanic"" and """") won 11 Oscars, but they were not musical films. Awards American Film Institute lists: The film's cast appeared and was honored at the 50th anniversary"
"Awards in which a film not nominated for Best Picture received the most awards of the evening, excluding years where there were ties for the most wins. The only other film to do this was ""The Thief of Bagdad"" at the 13th Academy Awards; as of the 89th Academy Awards, it has not happened since. Until ""Spotlight"" won only Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards, this was the last year in which the Best Picture winner won just two Oscars. It was also the second of three years to date in which two films ""not"""
"were done. Oscar is not about the 'lark that is learning to pray' – that's easy to make fun of. He's about ""Allegro"","" Hammerstein's most experimental musical. His reputation for being sentimental is based largely on the movie versions of the musicals, especially ""The Sound of Music"", in which a song sung by those in favor of reaching an accommodation with the Nazis, ""No Way to Stop It"", was cut. As recent revivals of ""Show Boat"", ""Oklahoma!"", ""Carousel"", and ""The King and I"" in London and New York show, Hammerstein was one of the more tough-minded and socially conscious American"
"a haystack they stand on, before Curly jumps down, landing on Jud and causing him to fall on his own knife. The film omits only ""It's a Scandal, It's an Outrage"" and ""Lonely Room"". The film won Academy Awards for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture and Best Sound, Recording. Most of the songs from ""Oklahoma!"" were released on a record album by Decca Records in 1943 containing six 10-inch double-sided discs in 78 RPM format. It was the first U.S. cast album featuring the original Broadway cast of a musical. It sold over a million copies, prompting the"
"film version of ""Oklahoma!"", they also ran over two hours, followed the stage originals quite closely and retained most of their songs. ""South Pacific"" (1958), as well as most other stage-to-film musical adaptations that came after it, did have an intermission and was also quite long, as was ""The Sound of Music"" (1965). The trend of ""roadshow"" stage-to-film musicals lasted into the early 1970s, the last of them being the film versions of ""Fiddler on the Roof"" (1971) and ""Man of La Mancha"" (1972). The film won two Academy Awards and was nominated for two others. The wins came in"
"won several awards in the early 1960s. Oliver Reed played Sikes in the musical's 1968 film adaptation which also won several awards, with Reed's performance often cited as the best portrayal of Sikes - being labelled as ""the sinister core of the film"". His songs are removed from the film, making his performance of the character closer to that of the novel rather than the stage version. The famous climax of the 1948 film adaptation is retained and Bill Sikes dies in the same manner of being shot then accidentally hanging himself. In Disney's animated version, ""Oliver & Company"" (1988),"
"song ""Valentine"". This is also the last film to be distributed by Twentieth Century Pictures before it merged with Fox Film to form 20th Century Fox in 1935. Folies Bergère de Paris Folies Bergère de Paris is a 1935 American musical comedy film that won at the 8th Academy Awards for the short lived Best Dance Direction category, along with ""Broadway Melody of 1936"". The winner was Dave Gould. This is one of only four films to win in this category. It is a story of mistaken identity, with Maurice Chevalier playing both a music-hall star and a business tycoon"
"has gone to the composer and lyricist for their combined contributions, except for 1971 when the two awards were split (although Stephen Sondheim won both, for ""Company)"". In only six years have non-musical plays been nominated for Tony Awards in this category: ""Much Ado About Nothing"" in 1973, ""The Song of Jacob Zulu"" in 1993, ""Twelfth Night"" in 1999, ""Enron"" and ""Fences"" in 2010, ""Peter and the Starcatcher"" and ""One Man, Two Guvnors"" in 2012, and ""Angels in America"" in 2018. In 2013, Cyndi Lauper became the first woman to win the award solo for ""Kinky Boots"". In 2015, Lisa"
"Park with George"", and ""Next to Normal"" are the only musicals that won the Pulitzer Prize and did not win the Tony Award for Best Musical. However, ""Of Thee I Sing"" opened when the Tony Awards did not exist, and ""Next to Normal"" won the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations. The award goes to the playwright, although production of the play is also taken into account. In the case of a musical being awarded the prize, the composer, lyricist and book writer are generally the recipients. An exception to this was the"
"of 7.8/10; the critics' consensus reads: ""It has aged somewhat awkwardly, but the performances are inspired, the songs are memorable, and the film is undeniably influential."" The Academy Film Archive preserved ""Oliver!"" in 1998. ""Oliver!"" was the last G-rated film to receive an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was the last movie musical to win the award until ""Chicago"" thirty-four years later, though others have been nominated such as ""Hello, Dolly!"", ""Fiddler on the Roof"", ""Cabaret"", ""All That Jazz"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", and ""Moulin Rouge!"". ""Oliver!"" also had the distinction of being the last British film to win"
"is also included in the 18-disc release ""Best Picture Oscar Collection"", also released by Warner Bros. The Broadway Melody The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is an American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. Today the Technicolor sequence is lost; only a black and white copy survives in available versions. The film was"
"Award for Best Musical, and Lauren Bacall won the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical. Composer Charles Strouse and lyricist Lee Adams (who had previously collaborated on the score to ""Bye Bye Birdie"", among others) wanted to write a musical version of the 1950 movie, ""All About Eve"". However, Twentieth Century Fox, which owned the rights to the movie, refused to grant them the rights to the script or the title. They were, however, able to purchase the stage rights to the short story on which ""All About Eve"" had been based, Mary Orr's ""The Wisdom of Eve"". The"
"Academy Awards. Jane Wyman became the first performer since the silent era to win an Oscar for a performance with no lines; ""Johnny Belinda"" became the fourth film to receive nominations in all four acting categories. ""I Remember Mama"" received four acting nominations but not one for Best Picture, tying the record set by ""My Man Godfrey"" in 1936. Two more films would also tie this record: ""Othello"" (1965) and ""Doubt"" (2008). Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Class II Class III These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 21st Academy Awards The 21st"
"but failed to win any. The previous record for nominations without a win was eleven, held by ""Steel Pier"" and the original production of ""Chicago"", both also by Kander and Ebb. The musical's twelve nominations were second only to ""The Book of Mormon"", which garnered fourteen nominations that year. Nevertheless, ""The Scottsboro Boys"" played in US regional theatres in 2012 and moved to London in 2013, where, after a sell-out production at the Young Vic, it moved to the West End in 2014. As she is waiting for a bus, a lady lifts a corner of a cake box she's"
"win Best Picture without any acting nominations. Sean Penn became the ninth person to win Best Lead Actor twice. Best Supporting Actor winner Heath Ledger became the second performer to win a posthumous acting Oscar. The first actor to receive this distinction was Peter Finch who posthumously won Best Actor for ""Network"" two months after his death in January 1977. With its six nominations, ""WALL-E"" tied with 1991's ""Beauty and the Beast"" as the most nominated animated film in Oscar history. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface. The following 15 films received multiple nominations: The following four films received"
"The Who's Tommy, Hamlet with Ralph Fiennes, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying starring Matthew Broderick, Annie Get Your Gun (musical) starring Bernadette Peters and the revival of Chicago (musical). Hart is a graduate of Dartmouth College. John Hart (producer) John N. Hart Jr. is an American film and theater producer best known for his work on Once (musical) (2012 winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical), The Band's Visit (musical) (2018 winner of ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical), Boys Don't Cry (film), You Can Count on Me and Revolutionary Road (film). His productions have garnered"
"Folies Bergère de Paris Folies Bergère de Paris is a 1935 American musical comedy film that won at the 8th Academy Awards for the short lived Best Dance Direction category, along with ""Broadway Melody of 1936"". The winner was Dave Gould. This is one of only four films to win in this category. It is a story of mistaken identity, with Maurice Chevalier playing both a music-hall star and a business tycoon who resembles him. This was Chevalier’s last film in Hollywood for twenty years, and reprised familiar themes such as the straw hat and a rendering of the French"
"last year that write-in votes were allowed at the Oscars. ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" became the only film to win a write-in Oscar, taking Best Cinematography. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. The following thirteen films received multiple nominations: The following two films received multiple awards: 8th Academy Awards The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Frank Capra. This was the first year in which the gold statuettes were called ""Oscars"". The category of Best Dance Direction was introduced this year. The DGA"