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Academy Award: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Academy Award of Merit • Oscar
Notable Honorees Alfred Hitchcock • Steven Spielberg • Woody Allen • Orson Welles • Martin Scorsese • Frank Sinatra • Vincente Minnelli • John Huston • Frank Capra • Michael Curtiz • Bruce Springsteen • Bob Dylan • George Bernard Shaw • William Wyler • Billy Wilder • Francis Ford Coppola • Charlie Chaplin • Clint Eastwood • Mervyn LeRoy • Robert Altman • George Stevens • George Cukor • Mike Nichols • Larry McMurtry • Ingmar Bergman • Paul Newman • Fred Zinnemann • Elia Kazan • Nicole Kidman • Frank Borzage • Walt Disney • Robert Wise • William Wellman • Brad Pitt • Cecil B. DeMille • Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Harvey Weinstein • John Schlesinger • Sydney Pollack • Chuck Jones • Mel Brooks • Paul Williams • Leo McCarey • Meryl Streep • Cate Blanchett • George Lucas • Guillermo del Toro • Barbara Kopple • Lady Gaga • John Ford • Robert Redford • Bob Fosse • Jean-Luc Godard • Sandra Bullock • Ben Affleck • Preston Sturges • Allison Janney • Lewis Milestone • Elton John • Ryan Coogler • Robert De Niro • Sidney Poitier • Joel Coen • Martin Balsam • Red Buttons • Ben Johnson • Denzel Washington • Robert Donat • Victor McLaglen • Patty Duke • George Kennedy • William Peter Blatty • James Goldman • Miyoshi Umeki • Dick Smith • Ethan Coen • Barbra Streisand • Vanessa Redgrave • Spike Lee • Reese Witherspoon • Clark Gable • Helen Mirren • Matt Damon • Emerald Fennell • Leonardo DiCaprio • Aaron Sorkin • Tom Hanks • Mikey Madison • Jamie Lee Curtis • Julianne Moore • Stanley Kramer • Miyazaki Hayao • Andrew Lloyd Webber • John Wayne • Steven Soderbergh • George Clooney • Jack Nicholson • Alejandro González Iñárritu • Kate Winslet • Brendan Fraser • Kevin Spacey • Sam Rockwell • Anthony Hopkins • Anne Hathaway • Delbert Mann • Gene Kelly • Oprah Winfrey • Angelina Jolie • Viola Davis • Olivia Colman • Sean Penn • Laurence Olivier • Mark Rylance • Michelle Yeoh • Mahershala Ali • Michael Douglas • Eminem • John Farrow • Richard Rodgers • Will Smith • Oliver Stone • Robert Benton • Joanne Woodward • Richard Brooks • Bob Hope • Anjelica Huston • Sam Mendes • Cary Grant • Julia Roberts • A.R. Rahman • Victor Fleming • Russell Crowe • Christopher Nolan • Michael Caine • Jeff Bridges • Tilda Swinton • Rami Malek • Aaron Copland • Tommy Lee Jones • Fred Astaire • Susan Sarandon • Henry Fonda • Dustin Hoffman • Katharine Hepburn • Jamie Foxx • Arthur Hiller • Humphrey Bogart • Elaine May • Colin Firth • George Roy Hill • Gary Oldman • Jerome Robbins • Prince • Miloš Forman • Emma Thompson • Billy Bob Thornton • Javier Bardem • Judi Dench • David Lean • Christoph Waltz • Richard Dreyfuss • E.Y. Harburg • Cillian Murphy • Neil Jordan • Samuel L. Jackson • Jessie Buckley • Penélope Cruz • George Seaton • James Cagney • Alan Arkin • Paul Thomas Anderson • Marlon Brando • Hans Zimmer • Kathy Bates • Jessica Lange • Jon Batiste • Hattie McDaniel • Matthew McConaughey • Morgan Freeman • Kenneth Branagh • Jennifer Lawrence • Jennifer Hudson • Kevin Costner • Cher • Charlize Theron • Roman Polanski • Greta Garbo • Joaquin Phoenix • Jim Broadbent • James Stewart • Robert Duvall • Claudette Colbert • Errol Morris • Franklin J. Schaffner • Robin Williams • Marion Cotillard • Jackie Chan • Christian Bale • Christopher Plummer

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Rows of gold Oscar statuettes are displayed on red platforms, reflecting light.
Chloe Zhao smiles and holds an Oscar statuette in both hands while standing in front of an Oscars backdrop.
Renee Zellweger stands onstage in a white gown accepting the Best Actress Oscar at the 92nd Academy Awards, facing a large audience in the red and gold Dolby Theatre.
An Academy Award for Coquette
Marie Dressler and Lionel Barrymore, both in formal attire, stand behind a wooden podium each holding an Oscar statuette at an awards ceremony.
Making history at the Oscars
Academy Awards
Academy Award: Oscar statuettes
Actress Amy Adams poses on the Oscars red carpet in a strapless, ruffled pale gray Oscar de la Renta gown.
Kathy Bates smiles and holds up her Best Actress Oscar trophy while wearing a black dress at the 63rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Illustration of Oscar statuettes with a large gold figure in front and the words 'Who decides?' in bold white letters on a blue banner across the center.
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