Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport. Between 1912 and 1948, the international sporting events awarded medals for music, painting, sculpture and architecture. Shame it didn’t catch on, the famous pottery scene in Ghost could have won an Olympic medal as well as an Academy Award for the best screenplay.
100 Mind-Blowing Medal Facts
If you look strictly at statistics, you’re more likely to win an Olympic Medal than the lottery. According to statistics, your chances of winning an Olympic gold medal are about 1 in 3.5 million. However, the chances of you winning the lottery is 1 in 14 million.
Spielberg received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work on the film. In 1998, he was honoured with the highest civilian award in the United States for his contributions to cinema and for raising awareness of the Holocaust through “Schindler’s List.
Studies show that bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists because they are happy just to get a medal at all.