GOAT
Only film to win an oscar in every category it was nominated in, 11 (2003)
Lord of the Rings: Return of The King
This best picture winner about Boston journalists investigating abuse in the catholic church is set on a spaceship in a Pixar prequel
SpotLightyear
This film starring Oprah Winfrey was nominated 17 times in 1985, yet didn't win a single award. Oprah later produced the musical version of the film in 2023.
The Color Purple
In 2017, this movie was incorrectly identified as the winner of the Best Picture oscar
La La Land
Nominations for a movie, 18 (2025)
Sinners
This Oscar-winning crime epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola, stars Steve Martin playing the dad of a fiancee.
The Godfather of the Bride
Best picture favourite Brokeback Mountain shockingly lost the award to this film in 2006.
Crash
This person was slapped on stage in 2022.
Chris Rock
This founder of an eponymous studio has the most Oscars ever, 22
The Best Picture winning actress for Silver Linings Playbook gets attacked in the desert in this 1962 film that won 7 oscars
Jennifer Lawrence of Arabia
Driving Miss Daisy won the Oscar for best picture in 1990. This director of "Do The Right Thing", which was not even nominated, has argued that his film has much better commentary on race relations.
Spike Lee
This 22-year-old tripped on her way up the stairs to accept her best actress award in 2013.
Jennifer Lawrence
This person has the most nominations for an actress, 21
Meryl Streep
The actor, who plays George Costanza in Seinfeld gets adopted as the son of the Sentimental Value nominee for Best Supporting Actor
Jason Alexander Skarsgard
Jamie Lee Curtis won the best supporting actress oscar over this co-star nominated in the same category in 2023.
Stephanie Hsu
The Oscars broke with 92 years of tradition in 2021 to award the Oscar for Best Actor last, after best picture. Incorrectly assuming this actor would win posthumously for Ma Rainey's Black bottom. Embarrassingly, Anthony Hopkins ended up winning the award.
Chadwick Boseman
This composer has the most nominations for a living person, 54
John Williams
This 5-time oscar nominated actor, who has previously 'played god', drives Miss Daisy around New York in this 1979 film that netted Woody Allen a Best Original Screenplay nomination.
Morgan FreeManhattan
Greta Gerwig was not awarded for her extraordinary work on Little Women, losing the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in 2020 to Taika Waititi, for his work on this film.
Jojo Rabbit
This director was loudly booed in 2003 when in his speech he claimed that "We live in a time that has fictitious election results, that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where a fictitious president sends us to war for fictitious reasons."
Michael Moore