a sweet 16 days till Oscar
Friday, January 24, 2020 at 2:30PM We're just two weeks away and some change! Since 16 is the magic number of the day, here are some memorable 16-related happenings at the Oscars.
Raiders of the Lost Ark was John Williams 16th nomination (out of 52!). Can you believe he lost for that adventure? Well, yes, because Chariots of Fire took Best Picture and that also had an instantly hooky score.
The 2016 Best Picture announcement (‘La La Land”... whoops, sorry, Moonlight’) will surely go down in history as one of the most memorable Oscar night moments ever.
Edith Head’s 16th nomination for Costume Design was for Career (1959) or was it The Five Pennies (1959)? she was a double-nominee that year.
Meryl Streep’s 16th nomination was for Julie & Julia (2009)
Jack Wild is the only 16 year old male actor ever nominated. Consider yourself, part of the family! … Best Supporting Actor nominee for Oliver! (1968)
Patty Duke is the only 16 year old to ever win, Supporting Actress for The Miracle Worker (1962). Remember when they featured those Oscars on that episode of Feud: Bette and Joan?
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Reader Comments (22)
Meryl in that photo is all of us.
At the 16th Academy Awards, held in 1944, the winner of best picture and director was CASABLANCA. But the film that won the most awards that year (4) was SONG OF BERNADETTE.
1944 was also the first year the Golden Globes were given out. They gave best picture to Bernadette too.
Woody Allen has been nominated 16 times for Best Original Screenplay.
We ever gonna get FEUD on DVD?
Patty Duke has Angela Lansbury's Oscar!
I only somewhat kid! Fun bits of trivia, thanks for this feature!
I want an article about Juliette Lewis having worked with 3 of the 5 Oscar nominated directors!
(So did Leo, but Juliette is prettier 😉)
Love that Woody Allen stat.
Meryl's face made me literally LOL.
Walt Disney’s 16th nomination came in one of his two nominations for Best Short Subjects, Cartoons in 1941. He won for Lend a Paw, beating out Truant Officer Donald.
Do you think we’ll ever see a movie get 16 nominations? The current record is 14, but with four movies getting 10+ nominations this year, it feels like only a matter of time before that record is broken.
Sixteen Candles was John Hughes' first of (only) 8 movies he directed. Still, he is the quintessential 80's director, creating a genre of his own. What does it have to do with Oscars? He was never nominated for one...
May 16, 1929 - First Academy Awards
"Sixteen Candles was John Hughes' first of (only) 8 movies he directed. Still, he is the quintessential 80's director, creating a genre of his own. What does it have to do with Oscars? He was never nominated for one..."
Thank goodness! His movies were not good and the gross sexism and flat-out racism in Sixteen Candles in particular has aged super-poorly.
Sometimes I fantasize with the idea of Warren and Faye noticing their mistake seconds before the producers and improvising a fictional tie. It would have been fair, right? I love both movies.
jack wild was a baby faced sixteen year old - all this time i assumed he was about twelve in oliver
Conspiracy theory time, if the mistake had not been discovered before the 2016 show had ended, would the Academy have announced the mistake?As embarrassing as what actually happened was, i seriously doubt they would've corrected it after the fact. Great that we have a moment to endlessly discuss, but I hate that it came at the expense of the pure joy of hearing someone say, without any added commotion, "And the Oscar goes to... Moonlight."
@ Rob
Mm... Never thought about it and don't know if this is how his ouvre is perceived by history revisionists of today. I grew up on those movies, but next time I catch one of them I'll be open to reconsider them.
Nah Peggy Sue, I personally don’t think black excellence at it’s finest like Moonlight needs a La La Land tie to make it palatable.
I was gonna comment on the substance of this post, but the fact that there's a commenter here with the name "Give Mike Leigh an Oscar!" makes me so so happy.
I'm with Val.... I hate, and will always hate, that Moonlight's moment of triumph occurred this way. All so that idiot from PWC could get a selfie with Emma Stone.
Always wondered - Casablanca was released in December of 1942, but was voted Best Picture of 1943. Should’ve it have been placed within the 1942 nominees?
Rob: Eh, if he got one Original Screenplay nod for Ferris Bueller? That would have at least made sense. It's almost certainly his least problematic movie, Oliver Stone didn't need TWO Original Screenplay nominations in 1986 and The Guy Who Basically Created the Modern High School Movie (for good or ill) not getting even ONE nomination at his peak...pretty big oversight.
Everyone reacting to that Moonlight moment is my favorite mood board. I am Meryl.