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Return of the King <\/i>won every single award it was nominated for — totalling 11 Oscars at all<\/a>, “clean sweep” record, and a tie for most Oscars ever (with Ben Hur <\/i>and Titanic<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Cool.<\/p>\n

(via Doyce<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n

UPDATE: The Dork Towers crew weighs in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The link above actually points to Dork Tower <\/i>now. Yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Return of the King won every single award it was nominated for — totalling 11 Oscars at all, “clean sweep” record, and a tie for most Oscars ever (with Ben…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[382,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5675,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/27\/lord_of_the_osc.html","url_meta":{"origin":5512,"position":0},"title":"Lord of the Oscars","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Jan-04 7:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"And now, today, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King has picked up eleven Oscar nominations, the most of any film this year. 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