In 1973, Marvin Hamlisch achieved a record, winning all the music Oscars: Song and Original Score for “The Way We Were,” and Adapted Score for “The Sting,” which swept most of the awards.

Barbra Streisand's “The Prince of Tides”
received seven Oscar Nominations, including Best Picture and Actor (but no Director), but emerged as the big loser that year, winning no awards.

February 24, 2008–Though the Oscar statuettes are more widely known, perhaps no other Academy Award is as important as this one–the very first Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award ever presented. Honoring the contributions of both Thalberg and Darryl F. Zanuck to the art of film, it stands as a wonderful association between these two giants of Hollywood motion pictures.

Nominated for 11 Oscars, “The Pride of the Yankees” was one of the biggest losers in 1942, the year of “Mrs. Miniver,” winning only one award, for editing.

Michael Radford's “Il Postino” was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, winning one for the Dramatic Score by Luis Bacalov.