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Actually, there’s another story about how the statuette got its name. When Bette Davis got her first Academy Award in 1936, she remarked how the statuette looked just like her ex-husband, Harmon "Oscar" Nelson, especially its butt!
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Actually, there’s another story about how the statuette got its name. When Bette Davis got her first Academy Award in 1936, she remarked how the statuette looked just like her ex-husband, Harmon "Oscar" Nelson, especially its butt!
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3) The first actor to receive an Oscar posthumously was Peter Finch who died of a heart attack while leaving the Beverly Hills Hotel to do a pre-Oscar ceremony TV interview with Good Morning America.
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With his eighth acting nom, for "Venus," Peter O'Toole is a winner either way. If he wins, great; if not, he goes down in the record books as the actor with the most noms without a win (he was previously tied with Richard Burton).
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Meryl Streep garnered her 14th nomination, for her performance in “The Devil Wears Prada.” This adds to her record roster of nominations, in both the Actress and Supporting Actress categories.
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Most nominations without a Best Picture win: "Mary Poppins," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (13 each)
