Nine Lists. Nine Days Til Oscar !
Friday, February 19, 2016 at 12:30PM 
Oscar is only 9 days away! So it's time for 9 lists with the magic number 9. NINE. NINE. NINE. NINE. NINE. NINE. NINE. NINE. NINE.
According to this website there are 9 Irish nominees this year? Kiss them!
I can only find six though. Maybe they meant all Room & Brooklyn noms (6) plus actors (2) plus short film (1)?
Best Picture Ed Guiney, Room
Best Actress Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Best Actor Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Best Director Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Best Adapted Screenplay Emma Donoghue, Room
Best Live Action Short Benjamin Cleary, Stutterer
The 9 best movies of all time that received exactly 9 nominations (in chronological order, *indicates Best Picture winner)
1941 Citizen Kane
1951 A Place in the Sun
1969 They Shoot Horses Don't They?
1979 All That Jazz
1979 Kramer vs Kramer *
1992 Howards End
2002 The Hours
2009 The Hurt Locker*
2013 12 Years a Slave*
Only movies with 9 in the title that received Oscar love
1941 (1979) - 3 craft nominations
Nine to Five (1980) - Best Original Song nominee
9 (2005) - Animated Short nominee. It was remade as a feature in 2009 but no Oscar love then
District 9 (2009) - 4 nominations including Best Picture
Nine (2009) - 4 nominations
only performers with exactly 9 nominations
Paul Newman (1925-2008). This all time great star received nominations from 1958's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof through 2002's Road to Perdition, winning on his 7th nomination for The Color of Money (1986) in which he reprised his Oscar nominated role from The Hustler (1961). Somehow he lost for his best performance in one of the great films, Hud (1963). In addition to his acting nominations he was nominated for producing the really interesting Best Picture nominee Rachel Rachel (1969) which he also directed and which starred his wife Joanne Woodward.
Spencer Tracy. Katharine Hepburn's main squeeze received nominations from 1936's San Francisco through 1967's Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. He won two Oscars for Captains Courageous (1937) & Boys Town (1938) becoming the second performer to win back-to-back Oscars following hot on the heels of Luise Rainer in 1936-1937. Like Kate he was only ever nominated as a lead.
9 awesome wins from a 9th nomination
If the person received more than one nomination in the year they got their 9th, we played fast and loose as to which was the 9th because you can't determine order!
- Billy Wilder, Screenplay Sunset Blvd (1950)
- Warren Beatty, Director Reds (1981)
- Milena Canonero, Costume Design The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
- Walt Disney, Short Film Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
- Johnny Mercer, Original Song "On the Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fe," The Harvey Girls (1946)
- Jerry Goldsmith, Score The Omen (1976)
- George Stevens, Best Director Giant (1956)
- Elmer Bernstein, Score Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
- Edith Head, Costume Design Sabrina (1954)
9 super-duper fine 9th nominations that lost *sniffle*
- Cedric Gibbons, Art Direction The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Woody Allen, Screenplay Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
- Francis Coppola, Best Picture The Conversation (1974)
- Meryl Streep, Actress Postcards from the Edge (1990)
- Charles Lang Jr, Cinematography Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Max Steiner, Score Gone With the Wind (1939)
- Andy Nelson, Sound Moulin Rouge! (2001)
- Dorothy Jeakins, Costume Design The Sound of Music (1965)
- Greg P Russell, Sound Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Katharine Hepburn's 9th nomination Long Day's Journey Into Night is tops according to some but I haven't seen that one.
Only 9 year-olds to win Oscar nominations
Jackie Cooper Best Actor, Skippy (1931)
Quvenzhane Wallis, Best Actress, Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
9 wins, however likely or impossible, that would have us on Cloud 9 this coming Oscar night
- Mad Max Fury Road (Picture)
- George Miller (Director)
- Carol (Cinematography)
- Mad Max Fury Road (Editing)
- Carol (Costume Design)
- World of Tomorrow (Animated Short)
- Anyone but Jennifer Lawrence (Actress)
- Kate Winslet (Supporting Actress)
- Mad Max Fury Road (Production Design)
That's only eight lists but you'll have to provide the 9th in the comments.
Reader Comments (18)
Katharine Hepburn was great in LDJIN, BUT....Geraldine Page won NBR & Golden Globe Drama and should have had the Oscar. That is Gerry's best performance. She lost to Bancroft but ironically beat her in the last nomination for both of them. Hepburn's best ever was in the David Lean directed Summertime.
Love Paul Newman - and people think Leo is over due...
I can't give you a better list than your 9 films with 9 nominations - from Citizen Kane to 12 Years a Slave, that's a great list of films to see. One for each day until the Oscars.
(Gasp) the movie Nine got 4 nominations? I remember fast-forwarding through much it on Netflix, I thought it was just that bad.
What a fun list! 9 days more...
The Towering Inferno would have had 9 nominations if AMPAS hadn't switched out the effects award to honorary. Still burns my butt.
Long Day's Journey Into Night is Hepburn's absolute best performance. You're in for a real treat!
9 winners I will cheer for loudly (if they happen):
1. The Big Short for best pic (apparently not a popular choice on Team Experience!)
2. Leo (and not just because he's "due")
3. Rooney (category fraud be damned)
4. Alex Garland for orig screenplay for Ex Machina (even more so after a second viewing)
5. Emma Donoghue for adapted screenplay for Room (genius)
6. Mad Max for cinematography (red smoke!)
7. Carol for score (talk about due: Carter Burwell)
8. What Happened, Miss Simone? for doc feature (the better of the two entertainment docs by far)
9. Last Day of Freedom for doc short (SEE IT if you can)
Following San FranCinema's lead, nine winners I'd cheer:
1. Best Picture: Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Best Picture: The Big Short
3. Best Picture: Brooklyn
4. Best Picture: Room
5. Best Actor: Fassbender
6. Best Supporting Actor: Bale
7. Best Actress: Ronan
8. Best Production Design: Mad Max: Fury Road
9. Best Cinematography: Mad Max: Fury Road
@Paul Outlaw: nice to see some overlap. I think the only thing I don't share is your Brooklyn love. I liked the film, and Ms. Ronan's performance, but it didn't land in the "best" for me this year. My personal best actress fave is Cate, but I'm not quite "rooting" for her given her past haul.
Aw, "anyone but..."? Folks here would never say something similar about Nicole, Cate, or Julianne, even if they were in shitty movies. This is akin to Hillary Swank-bashing, and so undeserved.
Pam -- she has an oscar already and the others are all totally brilliant.
@ San FranCinema: I honestly don't think (at least) half of my nine are the best of the (so-so) year, but I'd still cheer if they won. ;-)
9 FACTS ABOUT 9 2016 ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINEES
# 1 Mad Max: Fury Road australian director George Miller has a namesake also director born In Scotland, UK
# 2 Cate Blanchett’s father, Robert, a Texan advertising executive died of a heart attack when she was ten years old.
# 3 In 2003, Michael Fassbender appeared in the music video "Blind Pilots" by British rock band, 'The Cooper Temple Clause'.
# 4 Christian Bale met his wife, Sibi Blazic, through Winona Ryder(they were in Little Women, 1994); she was Ryder's personal assistant.
# 5 Ennio Morricone co-wrote "It couldn't happen here" with the British pop duo Pet Shop Boys for their 1987 album "Actually".
# 6 John Williams is father of composer and former Toto lead singer, Joseph Williams.
# 7 Diane Warren is the first songwriter in Billboard history to have 7 songs on the Hot 100 simultaneously.
# 8 Mark Ruffalo is a vegetarian.
# 9 Rachel McAdams is formerly a vegetarian.
Oh Nate your hatred towards Jennifer Lawrence is getting insufferable these days. I'm not hoping she'll win this year, but "anyone but her"? Really?
Y'all should listen to the latest podcast and get a grip on Nathaniel's feelings about Jennifer Lawrence.
All That Jazz is stone-cold brilliant.
"Anyone but Jennifer Lawrence (Actress)"
Bwa-ha-ha!!
At Craver: "Oh Nate your hatred towards Jennifer Lawrence is getting insufferable these days. I'm not hoping she'll win this year, but "anyone but her"? Really?"
Hoping she doesn't win a (second) Oscar is 'hatred'? What have I missed here?
I'm in full agreement about Paul Newman in Hud (1963). It absolutely is the towering performance of his career in my opinion. It also happens to be one of my favorite films of the 1960s. It's funny to recall it took 7 nominations for Newman to get to the point DiCaprio is at in his career today, though it could be argued that Leo has had a few snubs over the years. I don't think I'll be alone in grinning ear to ear when we see Leo rewarded by his peers after almost thirty years of great work. The nitpicker in me wishes it could have been for a Scorsese film, I think The Departed is his best acting work.