The Oscars By The Numbers

Impress your movie buff buddies by sharing these numerical fun facts about the Oscars that they may not know.

By Rob Kiener From Reader's Digest Australia, March 2010

>> Three films are tied for winning 11 awards, the most ever: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Titanic (1997), Ben Hur (1959).

>> 300 limousines are reserved for each year’s show.

>> Singer Michael Jackson paid US$1.54 million in 1999 to Sotheby’s for David Selznick’s Best Picture Oscar for the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind.

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