The 96th Academy Awards will be held on March 10 at 7pm ET/4pm PT live on ABC, hosted for a fourth time by Jimmy KimmelThe Academy Awards are the biggest night in Hollywood - with wins in the major categories ensuring films go down in the history books.
Ahead of the 2024 Oscars on Sunday - DailyMail.com looks back at the biggest winners at the ceremony ever... Ben-Hur won a record 11 Academy Awards out of 12 nominations - including Best Picture, Best Director for William Wyler and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Heston. Charlton Heston starred as fallen Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hu who is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend Messala in 1st-century Jerusalem. But Judah swears to come back and take revenge
Titanic won Best Picture, Best Director for James Cameron, Best Art Direction - Peter Lamont and Michael D. Ford, Best Cinematography - Russell Carpenter, Best Costume Design - Deborah Lynn Scott, Best Film Editing - Conrad Buff, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris, Best Original Dramatic Score - James Horner, Best Original Song - James Horner and Will Jennings for My Heart Will Go On, Best Sound - Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, and Mark Ulano.
The film was nominated for 11 awards at the 2004 Oscars and became the highest clean sweep in history for a movie - winning every category in which it was nominated Jackson won his first Best Director Oscar while the film also won Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson.
The impressive total - which also includes best supporting actor and actress for Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt, as well as best director for Christopher Nolan - is just one nomination short of the all-time record set by Titanic in 1998. Another surprise saw America Ferrera nominated for best supporting actress over her role in Barbie, with pundits saying her character's impassioned speech on feminism had sealed the deal.
For best actor in leading role Bradley Cooper and Cillian Murphy are set to duke it out for the award. Colman Domingo, Paul Giamatti and Jeffrey Wright received nominations as well.Lily Gladstone is the first Native American nominated for best actress, for her performance in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon
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