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Lawrence of Arabia 1962
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won:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Original Score
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction
Best Film Editing
Best Sound

nominated:
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actor
Best Adapted Screenplay
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My fair Lady, 1964

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My Fair Lady won eight Oscars:
Best Picture – Jack L. Warner
Best Director – George Cukor
Best Actor – Rex Harrison
Best Cinematography – Harry Stradling
Best Sound – George R. Groves, Warner Brothers Studio
Best Adaptation or Treatment Score – André Previn
Best Art Direction – Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton, and George James Hopkins
Best Costume Design – Cecil Beaton
Additional Academy Award nominations
Best Adapted Screenplay – Alan Jay Lerner
Best Film Editing – William Ziegler
Best Supporting Actor – Stanley Holloway
Best Supporting Actress – Gladys Cooper
My Fair Lady won three Golden Globe Awards:
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Best Director – Motion Picture – George Cukor
Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy – Rex Harrison
BAFTA Awards
My Fair Lady won the BAFTA Award for Best Film from any source
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Nicholas and Alexandra 1971
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won:
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Best Costume Design

nominated:
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Cinematography
Best Music
Original Dramatic Score
Best Picture
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Once upon a time in Hollywood, 2019

Winner:
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Brad Pitt)
Best Achievement in Production Design (Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh)

Nominee:
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Achievement in Directing
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Best Original Screenplay
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
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Pulp Fiction / 1994

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Winner:
Best Original Screenplay

nominated:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Best Film Editing
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The Queen (2006)
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Won: Best Actress—Helen Mirren
Nominated: Best Picture—Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward
Nominated: Best Director—Stephen Frears
Nominated: Best Original Screenplay—Peter Morgan
Nominated: Best Original Score—Alexandre Desplat
Nominated: Best Costume Design—Consolata Boyle
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Rosemary's Baby 1968

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won: best supporting act
nominated: best screenplay
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Star Wars 1977
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Star Wars won six competitive Academy Awards at the 50th Academy Awards: Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound and Best Visual Effects. A Special Achievement for Sound Effects Editing went to sound designer Ben Burtt and a Scientific and Engineering Award went to John Dykstra for the development of the Dykstraflex Camera (shared with Alvah J. Miller and Jerry Jeffress, who were both granted for the engineering of the Electronic Motion Control System). Additional nominations included Alec Guinness for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, for Julia and George Lucas for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture (wikipedia).
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Tess 1980
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Won
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography,
Best Costume Design
Nominated:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Original Score
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Unforgiven 1992

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Viva Villa 1934
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Won:
Assistant Director
Nominated
Best Picture
Sound Recording
Writing (Adaptation)
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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Academy Awards
Nominated
Best Picture Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Art Direction Cedric Gibbons and William A. Horning
Best Effects, Special Effects A. Arnold Gillespie and Douglas Shearer
Won
Best Music, Original Score Herbert Stothart
Best Music, Original Song "Over the Rainbow"
Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
Honorary
Academy Juvenile Award Judy Garland
For her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year. (She was jointly awarded for her performances in Babes in Arms and The Wizard of Oz).
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizar ... emy_Awards)
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No Oscar winning movie starting with X

But there is Xanadu with Olivia Newton John
the movie was succesful in the Golden Raspberry Awards 1980
Won: Worst Director (Robert Greenwald)
Nominated: Worst Picture
Nominated: Worst Screenplay
Nominated: Worst Actor (Michael Beck)
Nominated: Worst Actress (Olivia Newton-John)
Nominated: Worst Original Song ("Suspended in Time")
Nominated: Worst "Musical" of Our First 25 Years
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Yentl won an Academy Award in 1984 for Best Adaptation Score, the award going to Michel Legrand (music), Alan Bergman (lyrics), and Marilyn Bergman (lyrics). Amy Irving was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the film was also nominated for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Roy Walker, Leslie Tomkins, Tessa Davies). (Wikipedia)
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Zorba the Greek
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won:
Best supporting actress
Best art direction
Best cinematography

nominated:
Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Screenplay
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