Numbers. Oscars. Numbers. Oscars...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 10:28PM
NATHANIEL R in Directors, Oscar Trivia, Oscars (16), Screenplays, gender politics

If you love Oscars too much (*raises hands*) your head can get a little swimmy on Oscar nomination day, trying to parse it all. Particularly the numbers and the new statistics. This could take some time. But here are some non-subjective hierarchies and numbers and stats from the day.

We'll start with the easy one.

Most Nominations

  1. La La Land (14)
  2. [tie] Moonlight and Arrival (8)
  3. [tie] Hacksaw Ridge and Lion and Manchester by the Sea (6)
  4. [tie] Hell or High Water and Fences (4)
  5. Hidden Figures and Jackie (3)

    NOTE: Jackie marks the second year in a row wherein a "chilly" gorgeous movie about a complicated woman wins the distinction of "most nominated movie that isn't nominated for Best Picture" -- coincidence? Nope.

 

5 of past 6 years film w/ most noms that wasn't up for Best Pic was a chilly beauty about complex woman. Coincidence? I think not. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/fRFZXaflsb

— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) January 24, 2017

 

Category with Most First Timers!
(excluding categories with too way many names to look up like producing, visual fx, sound,song, and makeup) 

  1. Adapted Screenplay (5/5 nominees are newbies to Oscar)
  2. [tie] Original Score and Cinematography (4/5 nominees are newbies to Oscar)
  3. Best Director (4/5 nominees are first timers in this particular category though some have been nominated in other categories)
  4. Best Supporting Actor (3/5 nominees are newbies to Oscar)
  5. Original Screenplay (3/5 nominees are first time nominees for writing) 

Other Curious Statistics after the jump...

not quite ubiquitous Idris Elba

People With Most Nominations Nominated

To Oscar voters, Meryl Streep's feet never touch the ground

 

  1. [tie] Kevin O'Connell - 21st nomination for Sound with Hacksaw Ridge. He's never won. Andy Nelson 21st nomination for Sound for La La Land. He's won twice most recently for Les Miz, another musical
  2. Meryl Streep - 20th nomination  this year for Florence Foster Jenkins
  3. Greg P Russell - 17th nomination for Sound with 13 Hours. He's never won
  4. Thomas Newman - 14th nomination for composing. He's never won. (It took his cousin Randy Newman until his 16th nomination to win!)
  5. Colleen Atwood - 12th nomination for costume design with Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.
  6. [tie] Stuart Craig -11th nomination for production design for Fantastic Beasts . and Gary Summers 11th nomination for sound in 13 Hours 
  7. Alan Robert Murray - 9th nomination in Sound for Sully
  8. [tie] Scott Rudin - 8th nomination in Best Picture with Fences. And Wylie Statement 8th nomination in Sound for Deepwater Horizon
  9. Denzel Washington - 7th and 8th nomination this year, and first outside of acting for producing Fences
  10. Jeff Bridges -7th acting nomination this year for Hell or High Water, 4 of them have been in the supporting actor category

 

What If Records...

Lucas Hedges is the 8th youngest actor ever nominated in Supporting Actor. Here he is posing for W magazine

 

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