Their One And Only Oscar
Whoopi Goldberg
Ghost
1970's
The Sting
Last G-rated film to win Best Picture
Oliver!
Steve Carell
Foxcatcher
The only performers to win consecutive Oscars (5)
Luise Rainer, 1936 and 1937 Spencer Tracy, 1937 and 1938 Katharine Hepburn, 1967 and 1968 Jason Robards, 1976 and 1977 Tom Hanks, 1993 and 1994
Alan Arkin
Little Miss Sunshine
1980s
Tootsie
First Person of Color to win an Acting Award
Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind)
Dan Aykroyd
Driving Miss Daisy
The only years two Oscars were given for best director (2)
1961, Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, co-directors of West Side Story. 2007, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, co-directors of No Country for Old Men.
Anne Bancroft
The Miracle Worker
1990s
Ghost
Prior to The Artist, the last entirely black-and-white film to win Best Picture
The Apartment (1960)
Minnie Driver
Good Will Hunting
The only married couples to win acting Oscars (2)
Laurence Olivier (1948) and Vivien Leigh (1951). [They were not yet married when Leigh won her first Oscar in 1939.] Paul Newman (1986) and Joanne Woodward (1957). [They were married in 1958, prior to Woodward receiving 1957's Best Actress award.]
Julianne Moore
Still Alice
2000s
The first color film to win Best Picture
Gone with the Wind
Angela Bassett
What’s Love Got to Do With It
The only films to win three Oscars for acting (2)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Network (1976)
Reese Witherspoon
Walk The Line
2010s
Toy Story 3
First woman to be nominated for Best Director
Lina Wertmüller in 1977 for Seven Beauties
Antonio Banderas
Pain and Glory
The only three-generation Oscar-winning families (2)
The Hustons. Walter Huston won Best Supporting Actor in 1948; son John Huston won Best Director and Best Screenplay in 1948; and granddaughter Anjelica Huston won Best Supporting Actress in 1985.
The Coppolas. Carmine Coppola won for Original Dramatic Score in 1974; son Francis Ford Coppola's first win was for Original Screenplay in 1970; and granddaughter Sofia Coppola won for Original Screenplay in 2003.