Minnelli's comedy “Designing Woman” won the Story and Screenplay Oscar, which was ironic since the whole idea was lifted out of the Tracy-Hepburn comedy “Woman of the Year.”

“Sabrina” was nominated for six Oscars, including Director for Billy Wilder and Actress for Audrey Hepburn, winning one, for Edith Head's Costume Design.

June 18, 2007–Actors Jennifer Hudson, Ryan Gosling and Christopher Plummer and directors Paul Greengrass, Antoine Fuqua and Monte Hellman are among the 115 artists and execs who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. This marks the fourth year the organization has gone public with its list of invitees.

James Dean received two posthumous Oscar nominations, for “East of Eden” and for “Giant.”

J. Lee Thompson's WWII epic, “The Guns of Navarone,” was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, but the big winner in 1961 was the musical “West Side Story,” which swept most of the Oscars.