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Like every year in February, many well-known actors, filmmakers, producers and all cinema fans are waiting for this year's Oscars ceremony. On February 24th, the mega event will take place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles and the Hollywood elite and numerous famous representatives of the film world will be there. This is the 91st Academy Awards ceremony and accordingly it will be televised live. The new Oscar nominations for 2022 are already known, but we won't find out who will win an Oscar in the individual film categories until the last Sunday in February 2022. As a little anticipation for the big film event, we have prepared some interesting statistics for you today. Below we show you our favorite stars who have received the most Oscar nominations. However, how many times each of them has received an Oscar is certainly also interesting for most cinema fans.
Meryl Streep has more Oscar nominations than any other actor.
- Why is the Oscar prize so coveted?
The presentation of this coveted film award already has a 90-year history. The well-known 34 cm tall statuette is considered the highest award for work in cinematic art. It is made from solid Britannia metal and plated with a thin layer of 24k gold.
Only after the award ceremony will the name of the winner, the Oscar category and the title of the film be engraved on the base of the statuette. Where the name Oskar came from for this first-class film award has not yet been clarified and will most likely remain so. The US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is now the first to list Oscar nominees each year. These are divided into 25 categories. The award ceremony takes place in February every year and is accompanied by much speculation.
The German actor Emil Jannings with his Oscar 1929.
- Germans who have won an Oscar film award
The fact that German participation in the Oscars has already been crowned with a number of prizes. At the first award ceremony in 1929, Emil Jannings won the Oscar for "Best Actor". We also have an Oscar winner for Best Original Score for the film The Lion King and that is Hans Zimmer. Volker Schlöndorff also won the longed-for prize with the film "The Tin Drum" (1979) and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck with the movie "The Lives of Others". This year his film "Werk ohne Autor" is also on the list of Oscar nominations. He's trying to win an Oscar in the non-English language film category. We keep our fingers crossed.
"The Tin Drum", the film adaptation of the well-known novel by Günther Grass, brought director and screenwriter Volker Schlöndorff the Oscar title.
- These stars have the most Oscar nominations of all time
The list of well-known actors with the most Oscar nominations is quite long, so we have selected our favorites and want to present them to you. The Oscar nominations are a great honor in themselves. There are actors who have been nominated several times for their work, but have only won once or twice. Here they are:
Meryl Streep - 21 Oscar nominations, 3-time Oscar winner
Meryl Streep was nominated 21 times for the Oscar and received it three times. She has shown us great acting as Miranda Priestly in 2016's The Devil Wears Prada. Most recently, Streep was nominated for an Oscar at the 2022 Academy Awards for her work in The Post. She won her previous awards for "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), "Sophie's Choice" ("Sophie's Choice"), 1982 and "The Iron Lady" ("The Iron Lady") 2011. She has her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Jack Nicholson at the Oscars 1998
Jack Nicholson has a total of 12 Oscar nominations and the actor has won the Oscar 3 times. He received the gold statuette for the first time in 1975 for "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" ("One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"), then in 1983 for the film "Days of Tenderness" ( "Terms of Endearment") and the third Oscar in 1997 for his performance in "It doesn't get better"(As Good As It Gets).
Paul Newman has a total of 10 Oscar nominations.
Paul Newman has a total of 10 Oscar nominations but has only won the Oscar once. The film "The Color of Money" put him on the list of winners in 1986. The actor received the honorable mention "Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award" in 1994.
Denzel Washington at the Oscars 2002
Denzel Washington already has 8 Oscar nominations and has won the film award twice. That was in 1989 for the movie "Glory" and in 2001 with the movie "Training Day".
юAl Pacino with his Oscar 1992.
Al Pacino has 8 Oscar nominations and only once won the coveted film award. The great actor won the Best Actor category in 1993 and won his Oscar for the film Scent of a Woman (original title "Scent of a Woman").
Cate Blanchett with the long-awaited film award.
Cate Blanchett has 7 Oscar nominations so far and has won twice. She won Best Actress for her roles in The Aviator (2004) and Blue Jasmine (2013). These two helped her take home Oscars.
Kate Winslet with her trophy at the Oscars 2009
Kate Winslet has received 7 nominations for the greatest film award so far. She only won it once though, in 2008 for the film The Reader (The Reader). Her role in the mega hit "Titanic" (1997) brought her biggest success and made her popular all over the world.
Glenn Close received a Golden Globe for her role in The Wife in January 2022.
Glenn Close has already been nominated 7 times for the Oscar title, but has not yet received one.
In January she received a Golden Globe for her role as Joan Castleman in the film "The Wife of the Nobel Prize Winner" ("The Wife") and was very happy.
She has acted in classic films such as "A Fatal Attraction" (original title "Fatal Attraction" 1987) and "Dangerous Liaisons" ("Dangerous Liaisons") and thus has her Oscar nominations deserved. But will Glenn Close soon be awarded an Oscar? We'll wait a little longer until they say on February 24th: "And the Oscar goes to… .”
