“My Fair Lady” won over another musical, “Mary Poppins,” the first of few Walt Disney productions‚Äî”Beauty and the Beast” and “The Sixth Sense” are the other two–ever to be nominated for the Best Picture, although “My Fair Lady” was much less commercially successful than the Disney picture.

“Tom Jones” is the only film in the Academy's annals to receive nominations for three Supporting Actresses. All three Brit thespians were deserving: Dame Edith Evans, as the intrepid aunt; Diane Cilento, as the wild gatekeeper's daughter; and best of all, Joyce Redman, as a lady of easy virtue who seduces the hero over a large meal in what became the film's best remembered sequence.

In the Academy's annals, “West Side Story” ranks third, next to “Ben-Hur” and “Titantic,” as the most Oscar-honored film.

In 1955, the most nominated (9) film was “The Rose Tattoo,” based on Tennessee Williams play and directed by the other Mann, Daniel. Most of the nominated pictures were screen adaptations of popular stage or TV plays. The other three Best Picture nominees were the romantic melodrama “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” John Ford's “Mister Roberts,” and “Picnic.”

The most nominated films in 1952 were Fred Zinnemann's Western “High Noon,” John Huston's Moulin Rouge,” and John Ford's rustic romance “The Quiet Man,” each with 7 nods including Best Picture. The fifth nominee was the historical drama “Ivanhoe,” which received three but lost in each of its categories.