Lately we've been telling you how many days it is until Oscar night. But we're still more than two months away from Nomination Morning, or as we like to call it, Christmas. (That makes Oscar night the big New Year's Eve party which is correct since the new film year starts thereafter... at least symbolically).
So for today's trivia, the number is 76! So let's talk one of our all time favorite Best Picture losers Network which fell to the rousing hugely popular Rocky in 1976. It didn't go down without a fight, though, taking home more Oscars than the Best Picture winner! How often has that happened, exactly?
It's happened 18 times in Oscar history all told. How many of the years can you guess before clicking after the jump to see the list Tell us how well you did in the comments.
Years in which the "Best Picture" didn't take home the most Oscars
(years where Best Picture tied another movie's haul not included)
2016 Moonlight (3) / La La Land (6)
2015 Spotlight (2) / Mad Max Fury Road (6) and The Revenant (3)
2013 12 Years a Slave (3) / Gravity (7)
2012 Argo (3) / Life of Pi (4)
2004 Million Dollar Baby (4) / The Aviator (5)
1977 Annie Hall (4) / Star Wars (6)
1976 Rocky (3) / Network (4) and All the President's Men (4)
1972 The Godfather (3) / Cabaret (8)
EXTRA TRIVIA: Cabaret holds the record of the most Oscar wins without taking Best Picture. Gravity recently came close to tying it but didn't quite...
1969 Midnight Cowboy (3) / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (4)
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth (2) / The Bad and the Beautiful (5).
EXTRA TRIVIA: The Bad and the Beautiful holds the record for the most Oscar wins ever for a film that wasn't nominated for Best Picture. And it's one of only two times the most statues have gone to a non Best Picture nominee - the other is 1940. The former record will likely stand for eternity now that there are so many more Best Picture nominees in a year.
1949 All the Kings Men (3) / The Heiress (4)
1943 Casablanca (3) / The Song of Bernadette (4)
1940 Rebecca (2) / The Thief of Baghdad (3)
1938 You Can't Take it With You (2) / The Adventures of Robin Hood (3)
1936 The Great Ziegfeld (3) / Anthony Adverse (4)
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty (1) / The Informer (4)
1932 Grand Hotel (1) / The Champ and Bad Girl (2)
EXTRA TRIVIA: Grand Hotel is the only Best Picture winner which was only nominated for Best Picture (though there were far fewer categories back then)
1927/28 Wings (2) sort of...
EXTRA TRIVIA: This year, Oscar's first, is confusing. Both Sunrise and 7th Heaven won 3 prizes if you count Janet Gaynor's win for both of them... they hadn't yet ironed out the acting categories so she won for three films that year. But technically speaking there were two Best Picture prizes that year (under two separate names with Wings winning one and Sunrise the other) so maybe this year shouldn't count at all for this particular list.
What do you make of this list and in general do you prefer the losing film with the higher statue count or the Best Picture winners?
related list "most wins without a Best Picture nomination"