Middle-earth in film also became the most-nominated in the Academy's history, surpassing the "Godfather" series' 28 (with the release of "The Hobbit", the series currently has 36 nominations total). Its 11 Oscars at the 2004 Academy Awards tied it for most awards won for one film with "Titanic" six years earlier and the 1959 version of "Ben-Hur." It also broke the previous "sweep" record, beating "Gigi" and "The Last Emperor" (which each took 9 out of 9). "The Return of the King" also made movie history as the highest-grossing film opening on a Wednesday and was the second film after "Titanic" to earn
Breakout (1959 film) Breakout (1959 film) Breakout is a 1959 British film noir drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Lee Patterson, Hazel Court, Terence Alexander. A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison. Among the locations used in the film was the West End area of Aldershot in Hampshire. The gates of the East Cavalry Barracks on Barrack Road stood in for the prison gates used in the breakout. Other scenes were filmed in Uxbridge - then in Middlesex but now in west London. "Sky Movies" noted a "Low-budget, but very tense prison