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.