Most Oscar Wins

There are three movies that have bagged the most number of Oscar wins over the years.

• "Ben Hur" was the first film to achieve the amazing feat of winning eleven Oscars which it won from twelve nominations; the only one it failed to win was Best Screen writing.
  

• Next up was "Titanic" and this achieved fourteen nominations, a tie it shares with "All About Eve". Titanic enjoyed eleven Oscar wins including Best Picture and Best Director awards. Titanic missed out on the big performance awards that year, however, it earned nominations for Best Actress and Supporting Actress for two different actresses playing the same part – an Oscar history!

• Finally, in 2004 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, won eleven Oscars out of eleven nominations including the Best Director and the Best Picture awards. Like Titanic, there were no awards in performance categories with the majority going to the technical teams.

Ben Hur :

This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a raft of uncredited writers including Gore Vidal and Maxwell Anderson, the film once more recounts the tale of Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), who lives in Judea with his family during the time that Jesus Christ was becoming known for his "radical" teachings. Ben-Hur's childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd) is now an ambitious Roman tribune; when Ben-Hur refuses to help Messala round up local dissidents on behalf of the emperor, Messala pounces on the first opportunity to exact revenge on his onetime friend. Tried on a trumped-up charge of attempting to kill the provincial governor (whose head was accidentally hit by a falling tile), Ben-Hur is condemned to the Roman galleys, while his mother (Martha Scott) and sister (Cathy O'Donnell) are imprisoned. But during a sea battle, Ben-Hur saves the life of commander Quintus Arrius (Jack Hawkins), who, in gratitude, adopts Ben-Hur as his son and gives him full control over his stable of racing horses. Ben-Hur never gives up trying to find his family or exact revenge on Messala. At crucial junctures in his life, he also crosses the path of Jesus, and each time he benefits from it. The highlight of the film's 212 minutes is its now-legendary chariot race, staged largely by stunt expert Yakima Cannut. Ben-Hur's Oscar haul included Best Picture, Best Director for the legendary William Wyler, Best Actor for Heston, and Best Supporting Actor for Welsh actor Hugh Griffith as an Arab sheik.

Titanic :

An epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" Titanic, at the time, the largest moving object ever built. She was the most luxurious liner of her era -- the "ship of dreams" -- which ultimately carried over 1,500 people to their death in the ice cold waters of the North Atlantic in the early hours of April 15, 1912.


Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) is a 17-year-old, upper-class American depressed under the strong confines and expectations of Edwardian society who falls for a free-spirited young steerage passenger named Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio). Once he opens her eyes to the world that lies outside her gilded cage, Rose and Jack's forbidden love begins a powerful mystery that ultimately echoes across the years into the present. Nothing on earth is going to come between them -- not even something as unimaginable as the sinking of Titanic.


Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King :



Return of the King depicts the epic conclusions of the story's main characters that their adventures have brought upon them. The movie describes Frodo and Sam's perilous journey to Mt. Doom, and the rest of the fellowship's quest in aiding Frodo and Sam in any way possible and restoring Aragorn to his rightful ascension as the King of Gondor.