Who received more nominations for the Academy Award Oscar, Stephen Frears or Mario Monicelli?
Stephen Frears Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film director. Frears has directed British films since the 1980s including "My Beautiful Laundrette", "Dangerous Liaisons", "High Fidelity", "The Queen", "Philomena" and "Florence Foster Jenkins". He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director for "The Grifters" and "The Queen". In 2008 "The Telegraph" named him among the most influential people in British culture.
Sidney Skolsky Sidney Skolsky (2 May 1905 – 3 May 1983) was an American writer best known as a Hollywood gossip columnist. He ranked with Hedda Hopper (with whom he shared a birthday) and Louella Parsons as the premier Hollywood gossip columnists of the first three decades of the sound picture era. A radio personality in addition to having his own syndicated newspaper column, Skolsky also was a screenwriter and movie producer who occasionally acted in the radio and in the movies. Skolsky claimed to be the person who gave the nickname "Oscar" to the Academy Award and was credited for the introduction of the use of the word beefcake.