75th Academy Awards® Trivia
Academy Award® News
- 96th Oscar nominations announced
- Nomadland wins Best Picture Oscar
- Green Book wins, Spike fumes, Colman surprises
- 91st Oscar nominations announced
- The Shape of Water takes Best Picture at 90th Oscars
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Meryl Streep’s 13th acting nomination makes her the most-nominated performer in Academy history, breaking a tie with Katharine Hepburn. All of Hepburn’s nominations, accumulated over a 48-year span, were for leading roles. Streep’s nominations have been acquired in a 24- year period, and include recognition for ten leading roles and three supporting ones.
If Meryl Streep wins, her three acting Oscars will put her in the rare company of Ingrid Bergman, Walter Brennan and Jack Nicholson, previous winners of three Academy Awards.
A win for Julianne Moore in both of her acting categories would make her the first performer in Academy history to receive two competitive acting Oscars in one year.
His twelfth nomination makes Jack Nicholson the most nominated male performer in Academy history. A win would put him in the company of Katharine Hepburn as the only performers with four Oscars.
Eight of this year’s 19 acting nominees have already won Academy Awards. In the Leading Actor category, Adrien Brody is the only nominee who does not already hold an Oscar.
Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger are the only two repeat acting nominees from 2001.
Randy Newman’s Oscar for his 16th lifetime nomination cost him the record for most nominations without an Oscar. The current record holder, Kevin O’Connell, receives his 16th Sound nomination this year.
Cinematography nominee Conrad L. Hall becomes the first posthumous nominee since 1995, when both producer Mario Cecchi Gori and actor/writer Massimo Troisi were nominated for Il Postino.
John Williams’ nomination is his 42nd in the music categories, placing him just one short of Alfred Newman’s record lifetime total for Music.
The two nominations in the Original Screenplay category represent the first time since 1976 that a pair of non-English scripts have been nominated. That year saw the scripts for Cousin, Cousine (French) and Seven Beauties (Italian) nominated in the Original Screenplay category.
Should Adaptation win for Adapted Screenplay, the two credited writers will share a single Academy Award.
Of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees, the earliest release date was December 18, for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
