91st Academy Award nominee fun facts/stats.
Jan 22, 2019 14:19:43 GMT
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* Marina de Tavira is the first performance in a foreign language film, and second overall, to be nominated in Best Supporting Actress since Valentina Cortese in 1974.
* Similarly, Marina de Tavira received an Academy Award nomination with literally zero precursors. Maggie "Dallas-Fort Worth" Gyllenhaal can rest easy now.
* The characters of Norman/Jackson Maine and Esther Blodgett/Ally Campana become the first original cinematic characters to inspire three different Academy Award-nominated performances from separate actors in separate productions.
* This is the first year that three foreign-language films have been nominated for Best Cinematography since 2004, and second overall. It should be noted that in 2004, The Passion of the Christ was technically not a foreign production.
* Yalitza Aparicio becomes the first Mexican actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress since Salma Hayek in 2002, and the first of indigenous origin overall. If she were to win, she would be the third non-professional performer to win an Oscar after Harold Russell and Haing S. Ngor, and the first woman overall to do so.
* Aparicio becomes the twenty-first foreign language performance to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the category friendliest to this particular stat overall.
* Christian Bale's performance as Dick Cheney marks the second time that an actor has been nominated for playing an American Vice-President after Anthony Hopkins, who played Richard M. Nixon (VP to Eisenhower) in Nixon.
* This is the third time this decade that four of the five Best Actor nominees were historical personages, after 2013 and 2014. The first two times, a biopic performance won.
* Willem Dafoe and Olivia Colman, last year's Volpi Cup winners at the Venice Film Festival, were both nominated. The last time this happened was in 1950 (Sam Jaffe and Eleanor Parker).
* Ethan Hawke (2018) is the third actor to win NY, LA and NSFC awards and miss out on an Oscar nomination after Bill Murray (1998) and Sally Hawkins (2008).
* Willem Dafoe and Sam Rockwell received nominations in consecutive years.
* Eight of the acting nominees are first-timers.
* This is the third time that Amy Adams and Christian Bale have been nominated for the same film, and the first time they haven't been considered either leading or supporting together.
* With her seventh nomination, Glenn Close cements herself as the living actress with the most Oscar losses (for acting) without a win to her name. Adams is one behind her with six.
* This is the first time in Best Supporting Actor history that the most recent two winners are nominated again in the same year.
* With his nomination in Best Supporting Actor for his performance of George W. Bush in Vice, Sam Rockwell becomes the seventh actor nominated for portraying a U.S. president, after Raymond Massey (Abraham Lincoln) Alexander Knox (Woodrow Wilson), James Whitmore (Harry Truman), Anthony Hopkins (Richard M. Nixon and John Quincy Adams), Frank Langella (Richard M. Nixon), Daniel Day-Lewis (Abraham Lincoln). If Rockwell wins, he will be the second actor to win for playing a president after Day-Lewis.
* Pawel Pawlikowski becomes the second lone director nominee since the Best Picture expansion, after Bennett Miller in 2014.
* Similarly, with Pawlikowski's nomination in Best Director, Cold War is the first Polish-language film to be nominated in one of the above-the-line categories, and the second Slavic-language film overall to do so since The Shop on Main Street in 1966.
* Alfonso Cuarón receives four nominations for a single film (as well as being eligible to accept Mexico's Oscar for Foreign Language Film). If he had received a nomination for Editing, he would have tied Walt Disney's record of six nominations in a single night. If Cuarón wins all five, he breaks Disney's record of four wins in a single night.
* This is Spike Lee's first nomination for Best Director. He is also the first person to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar after receiving an honorary Oscar since Cecil B. DeMille.
* This marks the third time this decade that Emma Stone has starred in a film with the most Oscar nominations in a given year (Birdman, La La Land, The Favourite).
* This is the first time since 1976 that two foreign films were nominated for Best Director.
* If Alfonso Cuarón wins Best Director, it will be the fifth time that one of the Three Amigos takes Best Director this decade, and the eighth time that a non-American director takes the trophy this decade. Damien Chazelle would remain the only outlier since 2010.
* Seven of this year’s acting nominees are nominated for playing an LGBTQ character. This is a record.
* Glenn Close is the eighth performer to receive their seventh acting nomination this decade (following Robert De Niro, Judi Dench, Robert Duvall, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Denzel Washington, and Jeff Bridges). Before De Niro's nomination in 2012, only seventeen actors/actresses had ever achieved seven nominations or more for acting in the history of the Oscars.
* Black Panther is the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture.
* With ten nominations, Roma matches the record set by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for being the most-nominated foreign language film in Academy history. It also marks the first time in Oscar history that a foreign film leads the nomination tally of a particular year.
* Similarly, Marina de Tavira received an Academy Award nomination with literally zero precursors. Maggie "Dallas-Fort Worth" Gyllenhaal can rest easy now.
* The characters of Norman/Jackson Maine and Esther Blodgett/Ally Campana become the first original cinematic characters to inspire three different Academy Award-nominated performances from separate actors in separate productions.
* This is the first year that three foreign-language films have been nominated for Best Cinematography since 2004, and second overall. It should be noted that in 2004, The Passion of the Christ was technically not a foreign production.
* Yalitza Aparicio becomes the first Mexican actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress since Salma Hayek in 2002, and the first of indigenous origin overall. If she were to win, she would be the third non-professional performer to win an Oscar after Harold Russell and Haing S. Ngor, and the first woman overall to do so.
* Aparicio becomes the twenty-first foreign language performance to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the category friendliest to this particular stat overall.
* Christian Bale's performance as Dick Cheney marks the second time that an actor has been nominated for playing an American Vice-President after Anthony Hopkins, who played Richard M. Nixon (VP to Eisenhower) in Nixon.
* This is the third time this decade that four of the five Best Actor nominees were historical personages, after 2013 and 2014. The first two times, a biopic performance won.
* Willem Dafoe and Olivia Colman, last year's Volpi Cup winners at the Venice Film Festival, were both nominated. The last time this happened was in 1950 (Sam Jaffe and Eleanor Parker).
* Ethan Hawke (2018) is the third actor to win NY, LA and NSFC awards and miss out on an Oscar nomination after Bill Murray (1998) and Sally Hawkins (2008).
* Willem Dafoe and Sam Rockwell received nominations in consecutive years.
* Eight of the acting nominees are first-timers.
* This is the third time that Amy Adams and Christian Bale have been nominated for the same film, and the first time they haven't been considered either leading or supporting together.
* With her seventh nomination, Glenn Close cements herself as the living actress with the most Oscar losses (for acting) without a win to her name. Adams is one behind her with six.
* This is the first time in Best Supporting Actor history that the most recent two winners are nominated again in the same year.
* With his nomination in Best Supporting Actor for his performance of George W. Bush in Vice, Sam Rockwell becomes the seventh actor nominated for portraying a U.S. president, after Raymond Massey (Abraham Lincoln) Alexander Knox (Woodrow Wilson), James Whitmore (Harry Truman), Anthony Hopkins (Richard M. Nixon and John Quincy Adams), Frank Langella (Richard M. Nixon), Daniel Day-Lewis (Abraham Lincoln). If Rockwell wins, he will be the second actor to win for playing a president after Day-Lewis.
* Pawel Pawlikowski becomes the second lone director nominee since the Best Picture expansion, after Bennett Miller in 2014.
* Similarly, with Pawlikowski's nomination in Best Director, Cold War is the first Polish-language film to be nominated in one of the above-the-line categories, and the second Slavic-language film overall to do so since The Shop on Main Street in 1966.
* Alfonso Cuarón receives four nominations for a single film (as well as being eligible to accept Mexico's Oscar for Foreign Language Film). If he had received a nomination for Editing, he would have tied Walt Disney's record of six nominations in a single night. If Cuarón wins all five, he breaks Disney's record of four wins in a single night.
* This is Spike Lee's first nomination for Best Director. He is also the first person to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar after receiving an honorary Oscar since Cecil B. DeMille.
* This marks the third time this decade that Emma Stone has starred in a film with the most Oscar nominations in a given year (Birdman, La La Land, The Favourite).
* This is the first time since 1976 that two foreign films were nominated for Best Director.
* If Alfonso Cuarón wins Best Director, it will be the fifth time that one of the Three Amigos takes Best Director this decade, and the eighth time that a non-American director takes the trophy this decade. Damien Chazelle would remain the only outlier since 2010.
* Seven of this year’s acting nominees are nominated for playing an LGBTQ character. This is a record.
* Glenn Close is the eighth performer to receive their seventh acting nomination this decade (following Robert De Niro, Judi Dench, Robert Duvall, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Denzel Washington, and Jeff Bridges). Before De Niro's nomination in 2012, only seventeen actors/actresses had ever achieved seven nominations or more for acting in the history of the Oscars.
* Black Panther is the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture.
* With ten nominations, Roma matches the record set by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for being the most-nominated foreign language film in Academy history. It also marks the first time in Oscar history that a foreign film leads the nomination tally of a particular year.
