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What director has directed the most Academy Award winning acting performances? What director has directed the most Academy Award nominated acting performances? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro ( talk) 00:53, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Unfortunately the IMDB's publicly available raw data files include director data but not awards data. I downloaded the directors file and then went to the official Oscar database to obtain lists of all movies that won or were nominated for acting Oscars. Unfortunately I then had to do a lot of hand-work to make the titles from the two sources consistent—e.g. Wait Until Dark vs. Wait until Dark; Casablanca (1942) (first release) or (1943) (first Los Angeles release); Life is Beautiful vs. La vita è bella. After that it was a small matter of programming to tabulate the results.
Anyway, the result was that Wgolf was right: William Wyler is the right answer in both categories. The directors of the greatest number of Oscar-winning acting performances are:
And when you add non-winning acting nominations:
Here are the 20 movies for Wyler. Boldface names indicate winners; italics indicate the supporting categories. Boldface dates indicate that Wyler himself was nominated as Best Director, and boldface titles indicate that he won. (The markup and name lists were mostly done by hand, so it's possible I goofed somewhere.)
Note incidentally that one of the movies on the list is a remake of another one on the list!
Thanks for an interesting question.
-- 50.100.193.30 ( talk) 12:22, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, all. Joseph A. Spadaro ( talk) 15:28, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
I never read J.R.R. Tolkien's novel, Lord of the Rings, but I did stumble across the Lord of the Rings wiki and found out that goblins were an evil race in some sort of fantasy-land. Now, this bears some resemblance to a book that I did read, The Princess and the Goblin, and its sequel, The Princess and Curdie, both created by George MacDonald. Did Tolkien borrow the concept of the goblin from MacDonald's goblin (nasty evil humanoid race that lives in an underground cave, always afraid to get out, ruled by a goblin king and queen and prince), or did he derive his own concept of goblin based on folklore? MacDonald's evil goblins had sensitive large feet, which, if I remember correctly, aided Curdie and the princess to defeat them. 140.254.226.214 ( talk) 16:01, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
I could of swore there was a list of this somewhere on Wikipedia, but I have not found it. You know including every category there is-starting with Snow White as the earliest (which had a sound nomination) So is there a list like this on Wikipedia? Think someone should start this article? Thanks Wgolf ( talk) 17:04, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Yeah I know about those, I think I could start it, probably should start in the sandbox first. Of course the obvious ones I know about, and I should mention it to be for feature length only.
Wgolf ( talk) 18:30, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Started it! User:Wgolf/sandbox/List of Feature Length Animated films nominated for an Oscar Granted I just have Snow White and Pinocchio so far on there. (I know that Fantasia did get a special award, but for now I'm leaving that off, there are going to be some odd cases like Roger Rabbit as that was part animated.) Wgolf ( talk) 18:40, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
I got up to 2000, now comes the part with tons of noms-yep 2001. I currently have it by year, I considered doing it by cat, but since that be mostly song/score (and of course animated feature) that be pointless in a way. Wgolf ( talk) 20:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, if someone else wants to do a table that be great, of course I'll need a better layout for the winners. (I had to draw the line somewhere for animated/live action crossovers, Pete's Dragon was iffy, Roger Rabbit I decided was okay, but decided against the ones that are CGI/live action cross overs as that just raises more problems) Wgolf ( talk) 22:33, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Okay finished putting every film. I'm going to put some info on the bottom like years with most nominations (before 2001 and after) and other stuff. Though the layout is not that great right now. And I know it will need to be divided into sections eventually. Wgolf ( talk) 23:56, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
I have an earworm that's been driving me crazy for a week. It's just a phrase, a fragment of a larger work, and this phrase is played quite gently, andante. In my mind I hear it played by strings and maybe other instruments. My head says it's by Bach, but my searches have failed to identify it.
The melody is as I specified here. I do not guarantee the pitch.
Any ideas, dear colleagues? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 22:41, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
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What director has directed the most Academy Award winning acting performances? What director has directed the most Academy Award nominated acting performances? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro ( talk) 00:53, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Unfortunately the IMDB's publicly available raw data files include director data but not awards data. I downloaded the directors file and then went to the official Oscar database to obtain lists of all movies that won or were nominated for acting Oscars. Unfortunately I then had to do a lot of hand-work to make the titles from the two sources consistent—e.g. Wait Until Dark vs. Wait until Dark; Casablanca (1942) (first release) or (1943) (first Los Angeles release); Life is Beautiful vs. La vita è bella. After that it was a small matter of programming to tabulate the results.
Anyway, the result was that Wgolf was right: William Wyler is the right answer in both categories. The directors of the greatest number of Oscar-winning acting performances are:
And when you add non-winning acting nominations:
Here are the 20 movies for Wyler. Boldface names indicate winners; italics indicate the supporting categories. Boldface dates indicate that Wyler himself was nominated as Best Director, and boldface titles indicate that he won. (The markup and name lists were mostly done by hand, so it's possible I goofed somewhere.)
Note incidentally that one of the movies on the list is a remake of another one on the list!
Thanks for an interesting question.
-- 50.100.193.30 ( talk) 12:22, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, all. Joseph A. Spadaro ( talk) 15:28, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
I never read J.R.R. Tolkien's novel, Lord of the Rings, but I did stumble across the Lord of the Rings wiki and found out that goblins were an evil race in some sort of fantasy-land. Now, this bears some resemblance to a book that I did read, The Princess and the Goblin, and its sequel, The Princess and Curdie, both created by George MacDonald. Did Tolkien borrow the concept of the goblin from MacDonald's goblin (nasty evil humanoid race that lives in an underground cave, always afraid to get out, ruled by a goblin king and queen and prince), or did he derive his own concept of goblin based on folklore? MacDonald's evil goblins had sensitive large feet, which, if I remember correctly, aided Curdie and the princess to defeat them. 140.254.226.214 ( talk) 16:01, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
I could of swore there was a list of this somewhere on Wikipedia, but I have not found it. You know including every category there is-starting with Snow White as the earliest (which had a sound nomination) So is there a list like this on Wikipedia? Think someone should start this article? Thanks Wgolf ( talk) 17:04, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Yeah I know about those, I think I could start it, probably should start in the sandbox first. Of course the obvious ones I know about, and I should mention it to be for feature length only.
Wgolf ( talk) 18:30, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Started it! User:Wgolf/sandbox/List of Feature Length Animated films nominated for an Oscar Granted I just have Snow White and Pinocchio so far on there. (I know that Fantasia did get a special award, but for now I'm leaving that off, there are going to be some odd cases like Roger Rabbit as that was part animated.) Wgolf ( talk) 18:40, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
I got up to 2000, now comes the part with tons of noms-yep 2001. I currently have it by year, I considered doing it by cat, but since that be mostly song/score (and of course animated feature) that be pointless in a way. Wgolf ( talk) 20:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, if someone else wants to do a table that be great, of course I'll need a better layout for the winners. (I had to draw the line somewhere for animated/live action crossovers, Pete's Dragon was iffy, Roger Rabbit I decided was okay, but decided against the ones that are CGI/live action cross overs as that just raises more problems) Wgolf ( talk) 22:33, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Okay finished putting every film. I'm going to put some info on the bottom like years with most nominations (before 2001 and after) and other stuff. Though the layout is not that great right now. And I know it will need to be divided into sections eventually. Wgolf ( talk) 23:56, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
I have an earworm that's been driving me crazy for a week. It's just a phrase, a fragment of a larger work, and this phrase is played quite gently, andante. In my mind I hear it played by strings and maybe other instruments. My head says it's by Bach, but my searches have failed to identify it.
The melody is as I specified here. I do not guarantee the pitch.
Any ideas, dear colleagues? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 22:41, 31 March 2014 (UTC)