The 5 movies with the most Oscars in history 0:48
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They are mythical and perhaps you have heard of them at some point.
You may have even seen them.
And since an awards season is approaching to recognize the best of cinema, here we have a list of the most awarded films at the Oscars since its creation in 1925, (when the ticket to attend the award ceremony cost US $ 5 ).
Returning to the subject, three films in the history of the Oscars have taken the largest number of golden statuettes, with 11 awards.
One more has won 10 awards and three other 9 golden statuettes.
These are the movies with the most Oscars in history
Ben Hur (1959) — 11 Oscars
Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, among others, star in this drama directed by William Wyler in which a Jewish prince is betrayed by his friend, a Roman, and ends up working as a slave.
The prince then returns to take revenge.
This 1959 film is one of the most awarded in history with 11 golden statuettes out of 12 nominations at the 32nd Academy Awards.
Ben-Hur won Best Actor (Charlton Heston), Best Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith), Best Director (William Wyler), Best Editing (Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning), and Best Picture, among others.
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Titanic (1997) — 11 Oscars
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star in this James Cameron-directed drama, in which a young upper-class woman falls in love with a poor artist aboard the luxury ship RMS Titanic, the famous ship that sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912. (The remains of the ship were found on the ocean floor at a depth of 3,600 meters in the North Atlantic Ocean decades later.)
At the gala night in Hollywood, the film was awarded 11 statuettes out of 14 nominations it received (it is one of the films that has received the most nominations in the history of the Academy Awards).
The awards it won were, among others, Best Picture, Best Director (James Cameron), Best Costume Design (Deborah Lynn Scott), Best Sound (Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano), Best Original Song. , among others.
Kate Winslet was nominated for Best Leading Actress, but did not win an Oscar on that occasion;
Gloria Stuart (who played the elderly Rose), was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, but did not win the statuette either.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) — 11 Oscars
Peter Jackson's epic film, which is part of the trilogy based on JRR Tolkien's book, was awarded 11 prizes at the 76th Academy Awards.
This is the last part of the journey that a group of companions undertook to save Middle-earth.
It is the tape in which the fate of the inhabitants of those lands is decided.
The film received awards for Best Director, Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Makeup, Best Soundtrack, Best Special Effects, among others.
He swept the awards that night in January 2003.
Gone with the Wind (1939) — 10 Oscars
The daughter of a millionaire plantation owner in Georgia, USA, falls in love with a man who wants to take advantage of her father's fortune.
Gone with the Wind is set in the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Directed by Victor Fleming, the dramatic romance earned 13 Oscar nominations and won 8 competitive statuettes, including Best Director, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Film Adaptation, Best Art Direction, among others.
He received two other honorary Oscars.
West Side Story (1961) — 10 Oscars
The musical directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins is another of the most awarded in history: it was nominated in 11 categories and won 10 Oscars at the 34th Academy Awards.
Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, this musical - one of the most important in cinema of this genre - deals with the gentrification of the slums of New York in the 1950s and tells the story of two gangs that fight for their territory every time. smaller as if their lives depended on it.
(Sound familiar? Steven Spielberg did a 2021 remake of this movie.)
The film won Oscars for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Design, among others.
The English Patient (1996) — 9 Oscars
Set during interwar Egypt and World War II Italian Tuscany, this film tells the story of an injured man who ends up being cared for in an abandoned monastery and is only known as "the English patient."
His past is discovered throughout the film through flashbacks and a fateful love relationship.
Directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Willem Dafoe, this film won 9 Oscars in 1996 at the 69th Academy Awards.
Among them Best Director, Best Film, Best Art Direction, Best Leading Actress, among others.
Gigi (1958) — 9 Oscars
Another musical on the list of the most awarded films in the United States.
Gigi tells the story of a playboy millionaire and a young courtesan who have a "platonic" friendship, but may "not remain platonic for long", as described by the website specialized in movies and series, IMDB.
Directed by Vincente Minnelli and screenplayed by Alan Jay Lerner, this film is based on the book of the same name by the French writer Colette.
He won 9 Oscars at the 31st Academy Awards in 1958, with awards such as Best Director, Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Film Adaptation, Best Song, among others.
The Last Emperor (1987) — 9 Oscars
This film by director Bernardo Bertolucci tells the story of Puyi, the last emperor of China, while the communist revolution spreads throughout the country.
Starring John Love, Joan Chen and Peter O'toole, this film won nine Oscars at the 60th Academy Awards.
Among them, awards for Best Director, Best Film Adaptation, Best Film, Best Screenplay, among others.
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