Calendar’s Big Oscars Issue : OSCAR LORE : THE BOUNTIFUL

Best actor nominees Anthony Hopkins (“The Remains of the Day”), Daniel Day-Lewis (“In the Name of the Father”) and Liam Neeson (“Schindler’s List”) appeared together in the 1984 film “The Bounty.”

NEO-TERRORIST

Speaking of Daniel Day-Lewis, as a youngster he appeared briefly in the Oscar-nominated 1971 film “Sunday, Bloody Sunday.” Day-Lewis played a punk who scratched the side of a parked car.

THE NAKED

Double nominee Emma Thompson (“The Remains of the Day,” “In the Name of the Father”) was seen au naturel in the 1989 British comedy “The Tall Guy.”

LOVELY COUPLE

“What’s Love Got to Do With It” isn’t the first time 1993 Oscar nominees Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett played a troubled husband and wife. The two played a divorced couple in the 1991 film “Boyz N the Hood.”

GROWN UP

Best supporting actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”) played the role of Luke Brower in the 1991-92 season of ABC’s “Growing Pains.”

JONES’ STORY

Best supporting actor nominee Tommy Lee Jones (“The Fugitive”) played Ryan O’Neal’s Harvard roommate in 1970’s “Love Story.”

SOLO TURN

Robert Altman is nominated for the 1993 best director award for “Short Cuts.” It’s the film’s only nomination. Altman’s sole nomination marks the first time a film has received only a best director nomination since Martin Scorsese’s for his 1988 film “The Last Temptation of Christ.”

ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH

“Grand Hotel” won the 1932 best picture Oscar. It was the film’s only nomination. The 1935 best picture winner, “Mutiny on the Bounty,” marked the last time a best picture winner received no other award.

THE TINIEST ACTOR

The youngest best actor nominee was Jackie Cooper. The “Our Gang” veteran was 10 when he was nominated for best actor for 1931’s “Skippy.”

BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOR

The last film shot in black and white to receive best picture honors was 1960’s “The Apartment.” The first Technicolor film to win the best picture award was 1939’s “Gone With the Wind.”

DOUBLE THREAT

Lionel Barrymore received a nomination for best director of 1929 for “Madame X.” Though he lost that award, the following year he won the best actor award for “A Free Soul.”

NO ARTISTRY ALLOWED

Over the years, Oscar categories have gone through several permutations. One category that didn’t continue after the first Oscars was “artistic quality of production.” The film “Sunrise” won the award.

DEAD AGAIN

James Dean is the only actor to receive two posthumous acting nominations. He received the 1955 best actor nomination for “East of Eden” and the 1956 nomination for “Giant.” When the 1956 awards were presented March 27, 1957, Dean had been dead 18 months.

ALL ABOUT CLAUDETTE

Claudette Colbert originally was cast as Margo Channing in the 1950 best picture winner, “All About Eve.” After a bad back kept Colbert from making the film, the role was inherited by Bette Davis, who received a best actress nomination.

GLORIOUS SWANSON

Silent-screen star Gloria Swanson received a nomination for best actress of 1950 for her comeback role as Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard.” She previously was nominated for best actress of 1927-28 for “Sadie Thompson.”

ONE CENT SHORT

The 1936 Oscar-nominated tune “Pennies From Heaven” was the first title song to be nominated for best song. It lost to “The Way You Look Tonight” from “Swing Time.”

JUVENILIA

Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney both won miniature 1938 statuette trophies for “their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement.”

FROM ‘LOVE’ TO ‘LUCY’

Karl Freund, later the cinematographer on “I Love Lucy,” won an Oscar for his work on 1937’s “The Good Earth.” He also directed the classic 1935 film “Mad Love.”

FULL PALETTE

Starting with 1939, best cinematography nominees were divided into black-and-white nominations and color nominations. The nominations went back to just one division in 1967.

IN THE CHIPS

Both Robert Donat and Peter O’Toole received Oscar nominations playing James Hilton’s beloved schoolteacher Mr. Chips in “Goodbye Mr. Chips.” Donat won the 1939 Oscar for his role in the original; O’Toole received his nomination for the 1969 musical remake. He lost the Oscar to John Wayne, who won for “True Grit.”

DOUBLE DUTY

O’Toole also won best actor Oscar nominations playing the same character, Henry II, in two different films. He played Henry in 1964’s “Becket” and in 1968’s “The Lion in Winter.” Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando won Oscars for playing the same role: Don Vito Corleone. De Niro won best supporting actor for 1974’s “The Godfather, Part II” and Brando won best actor for 1972’s “The Godfather.”

Paul Newman also scored Oscar success playing the role of Fast Eddie Felson. He received a best actor Oscar nomination as Fast Eddie in 1961’s “The Hustler” and won best actor as Eddie in the sequel, 1986’s “The Color of Money.”

STURGES STRIKEOUT

Preston Sturges was nominated twice for 1944’s best original screenplay Oscar for “Hail the Conquering Hero” and “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek.” He lost the award to Lamar Trotti for “Wilson.”

DOCUMENTARY QUARTET

Twenty-five films were nominated for best documentary of 1942. Four movies ended up sharing the award: “Battle of Midway,” “Kokoda Front Line,” “Moscow Strikes Back” and “Prelude to War.”

OSCAR SNATCHER

Don Siegel, who later directed “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and “Dirty Harry,” directed two 1945 Oscar-winning shorts: the short subject documentary “Hitler Lives?” and the best two-reel short subject, “‘Star in the Night.”

HOLDEN FEAST

William Holden starred in (but was not nominated for) two Oscar-nominated best films of 1955: “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing” and “Picnic.”

TAKE A LETTER

Oscar-winning Celeste Holm provided the uncredited voice of Addie Ross in the 1949 double Oscar winner “A Letter to Three Wives.”

WHEN IT RAINS . . .

Though 1952’s “Singin’ in the Rain” is considered to be one of the greatest musicals ever made, the film mustered only two Oscar nominations: To Jean Hagen, for best supporting actress, and Lennie Hayton, for his score.

ISN’T HE SPECIAL?

Silent-film great Harold Lloyd received a special statuette at the 1952 Oscar ceremony for being a “master comedian and good citizen.”

VETERAN ACTOR

Harold Russell received the best supporting actor Oscar for 1946’s “The Best Years of Our Lives.” He also received a special Oscar for “bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in ‘The Best Years of Our Lives.’ ”

EXISTENTIAL EFFORT

Jean-Paul Sartre received an Oscar nomination for best motion picture story for 1956’s “The Proud and the Beautiful.”

SILENT SOARING

“The Red Balloon,” the 1956 original screenplay award winner, contained no dialogue.

STOUT GUINNESS

The year after he won the 1957 best actor Oscar for “Bridge on the River Kwai,” Alec Guinness was nominated for best screenplay, based on material from another medium, for “The Horse’s Mouth.”

ARE YOU NOW . . . ?

As of 1956, no one could be nominated for an Oscar if he or she had admitted Communist Party membership and had not renounced it. The Communist clause was dropped two years later.

QUE SERA SERA

The Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedy “Pillow Talk” won the 1959 Oscar for best story and screenplay written directly for the screen. It beat out the screenplays for “400 Blows,” “Wild Strawberries,” “North by Northwest” and “Operation Petticoat.”

MULTITALENTED

Peter Sellers, who received best actor Oscar nominations for 1964’s “Dr. Strangelove” and 1979’s “Being There,” also nabbed a 1959 nomination as producer of the live-action short subject nominee “The Running, Jumping and Standing-Still Film.”

ONLY IN AMERICA

All of the 1964 best actor nominees--Richard Burton for “Becket,” Rex Harrison for “My Fair Lady,” Peter O’Toole for “Becket,” Anthony Quinn for “Zorba the Greek” and Peter Sellers for “Dr. Strangelove”--were born outside the United States.

WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT

Though Dionne Warwick scored a huge hit with the 1966 Oscar-nominated song “Alfie,” Cher actually sang the song in the movie.

‘REIVERS’ REWARD

Rupert Crosse was the first African American to be nominated for best supporting actor. He received his nomination for 1969’s “The Reivers.”

TROUPER

Helen Hayes was the first actress to win a best actress award (for 1931’s “The Sin of Madelon Claudet”) and then win a best supporting award (for 1970’s “Airport”).

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Ellen Burstyn, the 1974 best actress winner for “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More,” appeared in the 1964 Debbie Reynolds comedy “Goodbye Charlie,” under the name Ellen McRae.

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

“Scent of a Woman” was nominated for best film of 1992. The original Italian version was nominated for best foreign-language film of 1975.

THAT’S AMORE

Sophia Loren is the only performer to win an Oscar for a foreign-language film. She won the best actress award for 1961’s “Two Women.”

WINGED VICTORY

The very first best picture winner, 1927’s “Wings,” is the only silent film to win best picture.

AW-SHUCKS HOST

Will Rogers was the host and handed out all the Oscars at the 1932-33 ceremony on March 16, 1934.

CAPRA REMAKE

Frank Capra’s 1933 film “Lady for a Day” was nominated for best picture. Twenty-eight years later, he remade the film as “Pocketful of Miracles.”

THE WINNER IS . . . ME!

Irving Berlin presented the 1942 best song award to himself. He won the award for “White Christmas.”

FORE PLAY

During World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster. After celebrating his Oscar for best supporting actor for 1944’s “Going My Way,” Barry Fitzgerald decided to practice his golf swing at home. He accidentally hit his Oscar and decapitated it. Paramount, the studio that produced the film, had to pay to get him a spare.

OLIVIER OLIVIER

Laurence Olivier’s 1946 multi-Oscar nominated film “Henry V” was such a box-office hit in New York that it ran for 46 weeks. Olivier was not present to receive his 1948 best actor Oscar for “Hamlet.” His friend Douglas Fairbanks Jr. picked up the Academy Award in his name.

ALL SEWN UP

When it was announced that Celeste Holm had won best supporting actress of 1947 for “Gentleman’s Agreement,” she was knitting while sitting in the audience at the ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium.

HIT THE HEIGHTS

Best supporting actor nominee Ralph Fiennes of “Schindler’s List” has a movie role in common with Laurence Olivier and Timothy Dalton. They have all played Emily Bronte’s brooding Heathcliff in movie adaptations of “Wuthering Heights.”

TV ENCOUNTERS

Before he made his feature film directorial debut with 1974’s “The Sugarland Express,” Oscar-nominated Steven Spielberg (“Schindler’s List”) directed episodes of such TV series as “Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law,” “Marcus Welby, M.D.” and “Columbo.”

SUPPORTING SLEUTH

Peter Falk, best known for his title role in “Columbo,” has received two best supporting Oscar nominations: for 1960’s “Murder, Inc.” and 1961’s “Pocketful of Miracles.”

SING OUT

The 1950 best picture, “All About Eve,” was turned into the hit Broadway musical “Applause.” The 1960 best picture winner, “The Apartment,” later became the Broadway musical “Promises, Promises.”

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

1934 best picture winner “It Happened One Night” was remade as the 1956 movie musical “You Can’t Run Away From It.”

MOVE ‘EM OUT

Sheb Wooley, who played Ben Miller in the 1952 classic “High Noon,” winner of four Oscars, later wrote and recorded the hit novelty record “The Purple People Eater.”

TV DEGREE

Stockard Channing, a 1993 best actress nominee for “Six Degrees of Separation,” starred in two short-lived CBS sitcoms: 1979’s “Stockard Channing in Just Friends” and 1980’s “The Stockard Channing Show.”

ESCAPED

1993 best picture nominee “The Fugitive” is the first film based on a TV series that has been nominated in that category.

TELE-TYPE

“Shadowlands,” for which William Nicholson is nominated for best screenplay of 1993 based on material previously produced or published, was originally a 1985 BBC-TV movie. In that version, Joss Ackland played C.S. Lewis and Claire Bloom was Joy Grisham.

BOOTH’S THE TICKET

Shirley Booth was the first actress to win a Tony and then win the Oscar for the movie version of the same play. She won the 1950 Tony for best actress for “Come Back, Little Sheba” and copped the 1952 Oscar for the movie adaptation.

ACTING OUT

Oscar-winning directors Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack made their movie acting debuts in the 1962 film “War Hunt.”

SINGING DETECTIVE

Long before Angela Lansbury became Jessica Fletcher on TV’s “Murder, She Wrote,” she performed the 1967 Oscar-nominated tune “Thoroughly Modern Millie” on the 1968 Oscar telecast.