Academy Awards Milestones
In 1962 Bette Davis became the first person to secure ten Academy Award nominations for acting. Since then only four people have equalled or surpassed this figure, Meryl Streep (with seventeen nominations and three wins), Katharine Hepburn (twelve nominations and four wins), Jack Nicholson (twelve nominations and three wins) and Laurence Olivier (ten nominations and one win).
Steven Spielberg purchased Davis's Oscars for Dangerous (1935) and Jezebel (1938) when they were offered for auction for $207,500 and $578,000, respectively, and returned them to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- 1934: Davis's performance in Of Human Bondage (1934) was widely acclaimed and when she was not nominated for an Academy Award, several influential people mounted a campaign to have her name included. The Academy relaxed its rules for that year only to allow for the consideration of any performer nominated in a write-in vote; therefore, any performance of the year was technically eligible for consideration. Given the well-publicized hoopla, some sources still consider this as a nomination for Davis; however, the Academy does not officially record this as a nomination.
- 1935: Won for Dangerous
- 1938: Won for Jezebel
- 1939: Nominated for Dark Victory
- 1940: Nominated for The Letter
- 1941: Nominated for The Little Foxes
- 1942: Nominated for Now, Voyager
- 1944: Nominated for Mr. Skeffington
- 1950: Nominated for All About Eve
- 1952: Nominated for The Star
- 1962: Nominated for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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