It’s quite common to see certain movies “sweep” the Academy Awards and take home a bevy of trophies in one night.
However, it’s very rare to see a motion picture score 10 or more Oscar wins.
Per a March 2023 Variety piece, only four movies in history have managed to secure 10 or more Oscar wins.
One member of that quartet is the original 1961 version of West Side Story, which won exactly 10 Academy Awards.
The other three are all tied for the honor of winning more Oscars than any other movie in history.
That esteemed trio consists of the 1959 film Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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