Netflix won seven Oscars last night
After everything was wrapped up at a very weird Oscars ceremony, original films released by Netflix had won seven statuettes.
The streaming service’s awards include two for “Mank” (production design and cinematography), two for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (hair/makeup and costume), documentary feature (“My Octopus Teacher”), animated short (“If Anything Happens I Love You”) and live action short (“Two Distant Strangers”).
Meanwhile, Amazon’s “Sound of Metal” won the awards for sound and editing, while Facebook’s Oculus, EA and Respawn won their first Oscar for “Colette,” which won in the documentary short category.
Mank in the Best Picture category.
But what of the Academy Awards in days gone past? Which films have won the most trophies or scored the highest number of nominations? And who among the acting cohort has been the most successful when it comes to the event? We decided to dig into the history and look at the most successful films at the Oscars, the performers who have gone home with the most gongs, and a full list of every Best Picture Winner in history so far. Oscar facts! Get yer Oscar facts here!
Which films have won the most Oscars?
35 Fresh Christopher Plummer Movies
Christopher Plummer, who rose to international fame as Captain Von Trapp in
The Sound of Music, began his screen career with an “and introducing” credit on Sidney Lumet’s 1958
Stage Struck. By 1965 he would be known everywhere as papa Trapp, but
Sound of Music was lighter fare for Plummer, a movie that punctuated a career building around military epics and classic-style adventures like
The Fall of the Roman Empire,
Battle of Britain,
The Silent Partner,
12 Monkeys were among his movie highlights until a career resurgence with 1999’s
The Insider, the Michael Mann big-tobacco expose with Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. This opened to a string of critical and commerical hits, including Best Picture-winner
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