Some interesting random Oscar stats!
- Only once in history a BP nominee/winner was nominated for Best Visual Effects and lost it to a movie that was not a BP nominee (
Patton lost to
Tora! Tora! Tora!)
- A movie has NEVER won Best Adapted Screenplay yet if it was the film's only nomination
- Only three movies in Oscar history have won Best Costume Design if it was their only nom (most recent -
Marie Antoinette)
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The Golden Globe winners for Best Song have been snubbed for a nom for the last five years in a row - I guess Springsteen had it coming, heh.
- The Best Song category is the most likely one to have films with only one single nom
- This year is the
third time since 1944 in which BP/BD/Screenplay matched 5/5.
- It's the fifth time since 1944 that BP/BD matched 5:5.
- Best Director and Best Screenplay noms go together rather "often" without a necessary BP nom. 64 movies have been nominated for Best Director and Screenplay, without getting as Best Picture nom -
17 of them foreign films - most recently
Talk to Her,
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and
City of God!
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Woody Allen got Best Director/Screenplay in the same year four times without his films getting a BP nod in those years
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Best Picture/Director match for the win - 74%
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Best Picture and Best Screenplay matched in 65%
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Best Picture and Best Editing - 42%
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Worst match - Best Picture and Best Sound Editing - happened only twice (
Braveheart and
Titanic). I assume that doesn't bode well for
Slumdog...
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My Man Godfrey was nominated for Director, Screenplay and four acting awards - and snubbed for Best Picture!
- Only three films won Best Picture without a Best Director nom -
Wings,
Grand Hotel and
Driving Miss Daisy- Of the 96 films ever nominated for best Sound Editing, 13 won Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. 12 won Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects. 8 won all three:
Star Wars,
Raiders of the Lost Ark,
E.T.,
Terminator 2,
Jurassic Park,
Titanic,
The Matrix and
King Kong.
More later
