Honorary Oscar facts
While investigating facts about Honorary Oscars 2019 and Honorary Oscar Winners, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Walt Disney was presented with one normal sized honorary Oscar and seven little Oscars for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1938.
how do you become an honorary life member?
Charlie Chaplin received a 12-minute standing ovation when he won the Honorary Oscar in 1972, the longest in Oscar history
What is a non honorary oscar?
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what is an honorary oscar?
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When Charlie Chaplin received his honorary Oscar, he received a 12-minute standing ovation - the longest in Oscar history.
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In 1972 Charles Chaplin returned to the US to receive an Honorary Academy Award. He received the longest standing ovation in Oscar history - lasting 12 minutes.
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Walt Disney won an honorary Oscar with 7 little Oscars on it, for Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs
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When Charlie Chaplin finally returned to the U.S. for an Honorary Oscar after being run out of Hollywood, the government only granted him a 10-day visa.
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Isaac Hayes, the performer and composer of the theme from 1971's "Shaft," won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and was only the third African-American to win an Oscar. Decades later, Hayes was crowned honorary king of the Ada region of Ghana in recognition of his humanitarian work there.
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Only a single actor has ever won two Academy Awards for the same part. In 1946, WWII veteran and amputee Harold Russell won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Earlier in the ceremony the academy presented him with an Honorary Oscar for “bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans.”
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs won an Honorary award from the Oscars that consisted of one normal Oscar statue and seven miniature Oscar statues (to represent the seven dwarfs). It was presented to Walt Disney by Shirley Temple in 1939.
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Only 15 people are "EGOT" winners - people who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. (Not including honorary awards). The latest to join the club is John Legend.
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Walt Disney received one large statuette and seven miniature statuettes when he won an honorary Oscar for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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Walt Disney holds the record for the most Academy Awards in history for wins and nominations. He won 22 Oscars (Plus 3 Honorary Awards) and had 52 nominations.
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Legendary stunt man Vic Armstrong holds multiple Guinness World Records, worked on James Bond, Superman, Mission Impossible, and Indiana Jones movies, received an honorary Oscar, and directed Left Behind- a 2014 movie that received 2% on Rotten Tomatoes starring Nicolas Cage
Only 12 people in history have won the EGOT (an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony) under normal circumstances. 5 others have won one of each award with at least one award being honorary or awarded under some kind of special circumstances - source
