John "Jack" Joseph Nicholson

Known by most people as Jack Nicholson,he was a versatile personality in Hollywood.He is known to be an efficient director,producer and a well known face as an actor.He is one of the male actors who has won the maximum number of oscars.He has been nominated 12 times for an Oscar.He won 2 oscars for Best Actor and 1 for his role as a Best Supporting Actor.The movies which earned him the oscars include the following:

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest': Best Actor in the year 1975
'Terms of Endearment':Best Supporting Actor in the year 1983
'As Good as It Gets':Best Actor in the year 1997

Nicholson is also the first actor to have earned the Stanislavsky Award at the Moscow International Film Festival in the year 2001.

The longest acceptance speech at the Oscars

A very interesting fact-The longest speech ever made while receiving the Oscar.

The longest speech was delivered by Greer Garson in 1942 when she won the Best Actress Award for her performance in the movie "Mrs Miniver".The speech lasted for 5 mins 30 seconds and it is recorded in the Guiness Book of Records.Here full name is Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson and she was an extremely popular actress during the time of Second World war.In the movie, Mrs. Miniver she portrayed a character of a strong British woman,as a wife and a mother.

The longest movie to win an Oscar

The Russian movie "War and Peace" (Voyna i mir in Russian) is the longest movie with a duration of 8 hours to win the Academy Awards.The movie which won the award in the year 1968 for the Best Foreign Language Film film is based on Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace.

Man on Wire-Philippe Petit

This years Oscar award for the best documentary was won by 'Man on Wire'.This unique documenary directed by James Marsh was based on Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the Twin Towers(WTC) in New York in 1974. The documentary is based on Philippe Petit's book titled 'To Reach the Clouds'.This book was recently released with the new title 'Man on Wire'.

Philippe Petit,born on August 13,1949 is a French high wire artist,who is also well known for being a magician,unicyclist, pantomime.This documentary 'Man on Wire' is an awesome one as James Marsh has creatively converted the original events into a dramatic one.Though Philippe Petit ,while accepting his oscar speech said that he was delivering the shortest acceptance speech..he went on to add a few more words after that ! Here is his speech:"The shortest speech in Oscar history. Yes! But I always break the rule. I break my own rules very quickly..."     

Immediately after receiving his Oscar ,Petit balanced the Oscar statue upside down on his chin!

Acceptance Speeches at the oscars this year

Danny Boyle(SlumDog Millionaire)-Best director

"My kids are too young to remember this, but I swore that if this miracle ever happened, I would receive it in the spirit of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, so that's what that was about. Thanks everyone at Warner Brothers for passing on to Fox Searchlight. Just to say to Mumbai - unending, unseparable, unborn - all of you who helped us make the film and all of you who didn't, thank you so much. You dwarf even the sky."


Kate Winslet (The Reader)-Best actress winner

"I'd be lying if I hadn't made a version of this speech before. I must have been eight-years-old, and this [holds up statue] was a shampoo bottle. Well it's not a shampoo bottle now. I'd like to thank my family who are in this room somewhere. Dad, whistle so I know where you are. I'd like to thank my fellow nominees. These goddesses. Thank you so very much. I think we all can't believe we are in the same category as Meryl Streep at all."


A R Rahman(Slumdog Millionaire)-Best song:

"All my life I've had a choice of hate or love, I chose love and I'm here. God Bless"


Penelope Cruz(Vicky Cristina Barcelona)-Best supporting actress:

"It's not going to be 45 seconds, I can tell you that [and it certainly wasn't]. Has anyone ever fainted, because I might be the first one? I can not talk about great characters without mentioning my friend Pedro Almodovar. I want to dedicate this to my parents and friends..."