Disraeli was nominated for 3 Oscars: Best Picture, Actor George Arliss, and Writing Achievement Julian Stephenson, winning one, for British actor Arliss.

Oscar Award: 1

Actor

Oscar Context

The Best Picture (or Production, as it was then called) went to All Quiet on the western Front.

Frank Lloyd won the Director Oscar for The Divine Lady; The Screenwriting Oscar went to Frances Marion for The Big House.

The Big House was nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Actor Wallace Beery, Writing Achievement Frances Marion, and Sound Recording Douglas Shearer, winning 2: Writing and Sound.

Trader Horn was nominated for one Oscar, Best Picture, but the winner was the Western Cimarron.

As Queen Elizabth II, Helen Mirren will join a distinguished line of actresses who have been nominated for or have won the Oscar for playing Queens. They include Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Genevieve Bujold, Janest Suzman, and others.

Sep 20, 2006–Sven Nykvist, one of the great cinematographers whose work includesn two-dozen films for Ingmar Bergman, died Wednesday in Stockholm, Sweden. He was 83 and had suffered from Alzheimer's disease and aphasia for several years, forcing him to retire in 1999.