One of the most aggravating bits of trivia you'll discover is that Cary Grant never won an Oscar.  He was nominated for his work in Penny Serenade and None But the Lonely Heart, two of his serious roles, but he never won. 

Cary Grant - 'The secret of comedy is doing it naturally under the most difficult circumstances.  And film comedy is the most difficult of all.  At least on stage you know right away if you're getting laughs or not.  But making a movie, you have no way of knowing.  So you try to time the thing for space and length and can only hope when it plays in the movie theatres months later that you have timed the thing right.  It's difficult and it takes experience.  I'll always remember the great actor, A.E. Matthews, who said on his death bed: "Dying's tough -- but not as tough as comedy."' ¹

Cary Accepting his Honorary Oscar from Frank Sinatra
42nd Annual Academys® in 1970
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On April 7, 1970, Grant received the Academy's special Honorary Oscar for his life's work.

"You know that I may never look at this without remembering the quiet patience of directors who were so kind to me, who were kind enough to put up with me more than once, some of them even three or four times.  I trust they and all the other directors, writers and producers and my leading women have forgiven me for what I didn't know.  You know that I've never been a joiner or a member of any particular social set, but I've been privileged to be a part of Hollywood's most glorious era." - Cary Grant's acceptance speech ²

Below is a list of the Grant films nominated for various Academy Awards.  Those marked with an asterisk (*) won in that category.

BEST PICTURE
1932 - She Done Him Wrong
1937 - The Awful Truth
1940 - The Philadelphia Story
1941 - Suspicion
1942 - The Talk of the Town
1947 - The Bishop's Wife

BEST ACTOR
*1940 - James Stewart - Philadelphia Story
1941 - Cary Grant - Penny Serenade
1944 - Cary Grant - None but the Lonely Heart

BEST DIRECTOR
*1937 - Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
1940 - George Cukor - The Philadelphia Story
1947 - Henry Koser - The Bishop's Wife

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1940 - Ruth Hussey - The Philadelphia Story
*1944 - Ethel Barrymore - None But The Lonely Heart

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1937 - Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth
1937 - Roland Young - Topper
1946 - Claude Rains - Notorious

BEST ACTRESS
1937 - Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth
1940 - Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story
*1941 - Joan Fontaine - Suspicion

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
1939 - Only Angels Have Wings

BEST SOUND RECORDING
1937 - Topper
1940 - The Howards of Virginia
1942 - Once Upon a Honeymoon
*1947 - The Bishop's Wife
1962 - That Touch of Mink
1964 - Father Goose

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (all categories)
1940 - The Howards of Virginia
1940 - My Favorite Wife
1941 - Suspicion
1942 - The Talk of the Town
1944 - None but the Lonely Heart
1946 - Night and Day
1947 - The Bishop's Wife
1957 - An Affair to Remember

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1942 - The Talk of the Town
*1955 - To Catch a Thief
1957 - An Affair to Remember

BEST ART DIRECTION (all categories)
1938 - Holiday
1940 - My Favorite Wife
1942 - The Talk of the Town
1955 - To Catch a Thief
1959 - North by Northwest
1962 - That Touch of Mink

BEST FILM EDITING
1937 - The Awful Truth
1942 - The Talk of the Town
1944 - None but the Lonely Heart
1947 - The Bishop's Wife
1959 - North by Northwest
1964 - Father Goose

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
1953 - Dream Wife
1955 - To Catch a Thief
1957 - An Affair to Remember

BEST SONG
1936 - Suzy
1957 - An Affair to Remember
1958 - Houseboat
1963 - Charade

BEST WRITING FOR THE SCREEN (original story or screen play)
1937 - The Awful Truth
1940 - My Favorite Wife
*1940 - The Phildelphia Story
1942 - The Talk of the Town (Original Writing)
1942 - The Talk of the Town (Screen play)
1943 - Destination Tokyo
1946 - Notorious
*1947 - The Bachelor and the Bobbby-Soxer
1958 - Houseboat
1959 - North by Northwest
1962 - That Touch of Mink
1964 - Father Goose

*Won in the category

¹ Cary Grant: In Name Only; Morecambe & Sterling; pg 89.
² Cary Grant: In Name Only; Morecambe & Sterling; pg 90.

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