Here is some really interesting trivia about the Academy Awards and it's nominees and award winners over the years. This year is bound to be a year for record breaking, and in a lot of ways it already has been. Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest woman to ever be nominated for Best Actress at 85, while Quvenzhane Wallis is the youngest nominee in this category at age 9. But that's all stuff you have probably heard or read by now. I searched around to find you all the most impressive details and trivia about the most amazing award show on earth.
- This year is the 85th Annual Academy Awards
- If Daniel Day Lewis wins for Best Actor this year, he will be the man who holds the most of the Best Actor statues in the world. He is currently tied at 2 awards with seven other men including Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando.
- The only films to win "The Big Five" (Best film, director, actor, actress and screenplay) are Silence of the Lambs, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and It Happened One Night
- The Oscar statue weighs a total of 8 1/2 pounds, so when the winner picks it up and actually looks like it's heavy it's because they are picking up a newborn baby with one hand and shaking it around in the air
- The Academy Awards show was first televised in 1953 and was first televised in color in 1966
- Christopher Plummer became the oldest person to ever win an Oscar last year. He won for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82
- The three films that have won the most Academy Awards are Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Titanic and Ben-Hur
- Meryl Streep is the most nominated woman at 17 while her costar in Heartburn, Jack Nicholson holds the most nominations as a man with 12 total.
- If Hugh Jackman wins this year for Best Actor he would be the first actor to win for his performance in a musical in almost 50 years (Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady, 1964)
- John Williams has had more nominations than any living person with 48. The only other person who had more was Walt Disney with 59
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