How many Academy Awards Oscars did The Shawshank Redemption win 0?

Winners and nominees
Bullets Over Broadway, Pulp Fiction, and The Shawshank Redemption tied for second with seven each.
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How many awards did the movie Shawshank Redemption win?

Forrest Gump led that year's Oscar nominations with 13. Meanwhile, Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption each received seven.
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Which film was nominated for 10 Oscars but won none?

Both The Turning Point (USA 1977) starring Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft (both USA) and The Colour Purple (USA 1986) starring Danny Glover and Whoopi Goldberg (both USA) were nominated 11 times for an Academy Award, but didn't win an Oscar.
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What is the lowest rated movie to win an Oscar?

The 10 Lowest-Rated Best Picture Oscar Winners on IMDb
  • 8) 'The Great Ziegfield' (1936) ...
  • 7) 'Gigi' (1958) ...
  • 6) 'Around the World in 80 Days' (1956) ...
  • 5) 'The Greatest Show on Earth' (1952) ...
  • 4) 'Tom Jones' (1963) ...
  • 3) 'Cavalcade' (1933) ...
  • 2) 'Cimarron' (1931) ...
  • 1) 'The Broadway Melody' (1929)
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What's the most important Oscar?

At the Academy Awards, the so-called "Big Five" awards are those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay (either Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay).
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Do comedies ever won Oscars?

The following have been the only 'comedies' that have won Best Picture: It Happened One Night (1934) You Can't Take It With You (1938) Going My Way (1944) - a musical comedy.
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Has any movie won all 4 acting Oscars?

To date, no film has won four (or more) Academy Awards in acting categories. However, there have been fifteen films containing at least one nominated performance in each of the four Academy Award acting categories.
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What 3 films have won 11 Oscars?

As of September 2021, three films tied for most Academy Award wins of all time. "Ben-Hur" (1959), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003), and "Titanic" (1997) each received 11 Oscars.
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Has an Oscar ever been revoked?

In fact, though there are those who have rejected their Oscars (Marlon Brando, Dudley Nichols), only one award has ever been revoked in Academy history — the 1969 prize for Best Documentary, which was given to Young Americans before it was determined that the film was released in 1967 and therefore ineligible.
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How many Academy Award nominations did Shawshank Redemption receive?

Nominated for seven Academy Awards, the film was released in the fall of 1994 and marked the feature directorial debut of its screenwriter, Frank Darabont. The film was based on a Stephen King novella entitled Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, originally published in 1982 in the collection Different Seasons.
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Why Shawshank Redemption was a flop?

"The Shawshank Redemption" Was Too Hard to Remember

A trailer can effectively sell a film to audiences, but so can word of mouth. "The Shawshank Redemption" star Morgan believes this was the very reason that the film struggled on its first outing.
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Was the movie The Shawshank Redemption a true story?

The Shawshank Redemption is not based on a true story but was adapted from the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The story was originally published in Different Seasons, a collection of four King stories connected to each season of the year.
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What movie beat out Shawshank Redemption?

2. "Forrest Gump" beat "Pulp Fiction" and "The Shawshank Redemption" for best picture (1995) As the years pile on, the best picture win by "Forrest Gump" at the 67th Academy Awards becomes more of a head-scratcher.
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What year was Shawshank Redemption nominated for an Oscar?

Picture: "Forrest Gump," "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Pulp Fiction," "Quiz Show," "The Shawshank Redemption."
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Was Tom Hanks in Shawshank Redemption?

4 Andy Dufresne In The Shawshank Redemption

But according to Mental Floss, Hanks, Cruise, and Kevin Costner all passed on the role before Robbins was cast.
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What actor has the most Oscars?

As of 2022, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time. While the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" star scored four acting accolades during her career, six fellow actors tied for the second spot with three wins each.
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Which movie has the most Oscar wins?

Which film has won the most Oscars of all time? Three films hold the record of winning the most Academy Awards, having garnered 11 Oscars each: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
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What movie has the most awards ever?

Titanic received awards for: Best Picture, Best Director, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume, Visual Effects, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Film Editing, Original Dramatic Score, Original Song and losing out on Best Actress, Supporting Actress and Makeup.
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Who is the only man to have won 3 Best Oscars?

Daniel Day-Lewis

Hepburn starred in dozens of movies, while Day-Lewis is more selective. He's been nominated only six times, but he's won three Oscars for Best Actor.
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Who has won 3 or more Oscars?

Brennan became the first to receive three or more Academy Awards (winning the third for a 1940 film), followed by Hepburn (1968), Bergman (1974), Nicholson (1997), Streep (2011), Day-Lewis (2012), and, most recently, McDormand (2020).
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Has any movie only won Best Picture?

"Wings" is a silent film set during World War I, starring Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, and Richard Arlen — it's the only silent film to ever win Best Picture. (In fact, all the nominated movies at the first ever Academy Awards were silent.)
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Has any action movie won an Oscar?

A select list of Best Picture winners that in some capacity fit all or part of that definition includes: “Wings” (1927) “All Quiet on the Western Front” (1929–30), “Mutiny on the Bounty” (1935), “Around the World in 80 Days” (1956), “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957) “Rocky” (1976), “Platoon” (1986), “Dances With ...
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Has a sci fi movie ever won Best Picture?

No science fiction film has won the award, although several films have been nominated, including A Clockwork Orange, Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Avatar, District 9, Inception, Gravity, Her, The Martian, Arrival, Mad Max: Fury Road, Don't Look Up and Dune.
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What movie won best picture every year?

Best Picture Oscar Winners by Year (Academy Awards)
  • Nomadland (2020) R | 107 min | Drama. ...
  • Parasite (2019) R | 132 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller. ...
  • Green Book (2018) ...
  • The Shape of Water (2017) ...
  • Moonlight (I) (2016) ...
  • Spotlight (I) (2015) ...
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) ...
  • 12 Years a Slave (2013)
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