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Cinema / Fiction · True or False?

"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003) won every Academy Award for which it was nominated

The answer is True.

Explanation

It won all 11 of its nominations at the 76th Academy Awards on February 29, 2004. The film tied "Ben-Hur" (1959) and "Titanic" (1997) for the most Oscars won by a single film, and it remains the largest clean sweep in Oscars history as of 2026. Fun fact: it was also the first fantasy film to win Best Picture.

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