It’s a family affair when it comes to Academy Awards

i’m a big fan of singer/ songwriter Randy Newman’s music – songs such as Short People and I Love L. A. are absolute classics.

He has also written music for films and has won a couple of Oscars.

While reading about him, I discovered his brother and uncle were Academy Award winners, too.

So my Query is this – are the Newmans the family with the most Oscar winners? –J.

Randy has won Best Original Song twice, in 2002 for If I Didn’t Have You (from Monsters, Inc) and in 2011 for We Belong Together (from Toy Story 3).

His brother, Lionel, won Best Score in 1969 for Hello Dolly! and their uncle, Alfred Newman, won nine Oscars for writing scores for movies such as Camelot and The King And I, giving the Newmans a total of 12 Oscars, the most for a single family.

Between the three, they were also nominated by the Academy a further 59 times.

However, if you are judging the most successful clan by the number of Oscar-winning relatives, it has to be the Coppolas.

Francis Ford Coppola has won five times as director of iconic movies such as The Godfather.

His daughter Sofia, son-in-law Spike Jonze, father Carmine, brotherin-law David Shire, nephew Nicholas Cage and niece-in-law Patricia Arquette, have all won a golden statuette, making it seven family members.