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Peter O'Toole is correct. As a side, Ingmar Bergman didn't win in 9 nominations for directing/writing.

Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine are both correct.

Titanic is correct. I think it's the last LOTR film which shares the record with Titanic for most wins, but from less nominations.
The other film is less well known (but much better IMO than Titanic), so I'll give a clue. Marilyn Monroe makes a short appearance in it.
 
That's tough. It basically would have been nominated in every category back then...but the only one I can think of is Ben-Hur, but that was 11 and it won them all.
 
What's sad is that I read all that Oscar trivia not too long ago, and now can't remember a piece of it.
 
national acrobat said:
The other film is less well known (but much better IMO than Titanic), so I'll give a clue. Marilyn Monroe makes a short appearance in it.
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When I read that, the second* thing that sprung to mind was "Street Car Named Desire". And I have no idea why I thought about that - and I am not sure Monroe was briefly in it, if at all.



*The first was "Some Like it Hot" but she was more than just briefly in that film.
 
An interesting film with a quite original story:

A fan of a Broadway star insinuates herself into her life, ultimately threatening her career and her personal relationships. Sounds dull when reading this, but it gets pretty intriguing.

Some other facts I just looked up:
It won six Oscars, including Best Picture. As of 2010, All About Eve is still the only film in Oscar history to receive 4 female acting nominations.
 
I think my answer highlights my complete ignorance of "classic cinema".

If it's not a Bond movie or it doesn't have Arnie in it, I'm lost. :D
 
Forostar said:
An interesting film with a quite original story:

A fan of a Broadway star insinuates herself into her life, ultimately threatening her career and her personal relationships. Sounds dull when reading this, but it gets pretty intriguing.

Some other facts I just looked up:
It won six Oscars, including Best Picture. As of 2010, All About Eve is still the only film in Oscar history to receive 4 female acting nominations.
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It's a film All About Bette Davis. ;)

As no-one has asked a question, I'll do another:
Apart from the US embassy, where is the only piece of American land in England?
 
It's a memorial, but not war associated. It's probably too obscure so I'll give the answer later (just in case someone does have this useless nugget of information stored away somewhere). A no doubt worthless hint: it's at the site of a great event in British history.
 
I would have thought that EW's answer is a good one. Quite possibly a Mayflower memorial in Southampton.
 
No. The event is a wholly English one, but which later had wider consequences - which is why the place was chosen as a site for the memorial of a particular American. This is still too vague I think, but I'm having troubling wording it.
 
If it were the other way around (British soil in American territory), I'd have had the answer right away... but here... Huh. Is it the memorial to the Great Fire of London?
 
This pissed me off, so I Googled it. And I have to say, I did not know about it at all - but we all would have heard of the event. And we all would know of the American this memorial is in aid of.

Putting the two together may not be as obvious as you may think - but it makes sense.
 
Firstly, to all those who I've annoyed with my question, I apologize. I overestimated the number of Americans familiar with small monuments in south-east England. ;)

The answer is a memorial to JFK at Runnymede, Surrey, which is where King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215. Because of its influence on democracy and constituional law (in England and therefore USA), the site has been given over to a number of memorials, including this one to President K granted by the Queen in 1965.
 
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