The five categories best picture, best director, best actor, best actress and best Original Screenplay are the most important categories and they are called the Big Five. Six years later, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won eleven Oscars. In 1998 Titanic also won eleven Oscars, so they were in a tie. Then, in 1960, Ben-Hur won eleven Oscars. Gone with the Wind from the year 1939 was the most successful film for a long time with ten Oscars.
There may be four people, who could be the godparents. It is certain, that the name was used in 1931. The godfather of the name Oscar is not clear. In the first years of the award, the trophy was called the Academy Award of Merit. Mayer met two good friends because he wanted to speak about the problem. The director of the successful Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Studios, Louis B. Many people fought for a good salary and a good working time. They had to pay the workers a good salary, but that was impossible at that time. When the radio was invented, people didn't go to the cinema as often as they used to. At the end of the 1920s, the American film industry was in a crisis.