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
- La La Land (14)
- [tie] Moonlight and Arrival (8)
- [tie] Hacksaw Ridge and Lion and Manchester by the Sea (6)
- [tie] Hell or High Water and Fences (4)
- 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)
- Adapted Screenplay (5/5 nominees are newbies to Oscar)
- [tie] Original Score and Cinematography (4/5 nominees are newbies to Oscar)
- Best Director (4/5 nominees are first timers in this particular category though some have been nominated in other categories)
- Best Supporting Actor (3/5 nominees are newbies to Oscar)
- Original Screenplay (3/5 nominees are first time nominees for writing)
Other Curious Statistics after the jump...
not quite ubiquitous Idris Elba
- Octavia Spencer is the first black actress to receive a nomination AFTER winning an Oscar --isn't that crazy?
- Producer DeDe Gardner (Moonlight) is on her 4th consecutive nomination for Best Picture (Her 5th nomination in total)
- Laika currently has a perfect record with Oscar. They're 4 for 4 with Best Animated Feature nominations for their features (though they haven't won yet). Their next film won't arrive until 2018 but they're supposedly going to up production to one feature per year.
- One actor is in THREE Oscar nominated movies this year but he only shows his face in one of them: Idris Elba (Zootopia, The Jungle Book, and Star Trek Beyond)
- Twelve more actors are in two Oscar nominated film this year: Forest Whitaker (Rogue One & Arrival), Mahershala Ali (Hidden Figures, Moonlight), Greta Gerwig (20th Century Women, Jackie), Andrew Garfield (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge), Colin Farrell (Fantastic Beasts, The Lobster), Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals, Loving), Viola Davis (Fences, Suicide Squad), Janelle Monae (Hidden Figures, Moonlight), Amy Adams (Arrival, Nocturnal Animals), Sanniya Sidney (Fences, Hidden Figures), Billy Crudup (20th Century Women, Jackie), Chris Pine (Hell or High Water, Star Trek Beyond), Mads Mikkelsen (Rogue One, Doctor Strange) and Tilda Swinton (Doctor Strange, Hail Caesar). I think they're the only ones. Did I miss someone? (There are a few more but only from voice work credits)
People With Most Nominations Nominated
To Oscar voters, Meryl Streep's feet never touch the ground
- [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
- Meryl Streep - 20th nomination this year for Florence Foster Jenkins
- Greg P Russell - 17th nomination for Sound with 13 Hours. He's never won
- Thomas Newman - 14th nomination for composing. He's never won. (It took his cousin Randy Newman until his 16th nomination to win!)
- Colleen Atwood - 12th nomination for costume design with Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.
- [tie] Stuart Craig -11th nomination for production design for Fantastic Beasts . and Gary Summers 11th nomination for sound in 13 Hours
- Alan Robert Murray - 9th nomination in Sound for Sully
- [tie] Scott Rudin - 8th nomination in Best Picture with Fences. And Wylie Statement 8th nomination in Sound for Deepwater Horizon
- Denzel Washington - 7th and 8th nomination this year, and first outside of acting for producing Fences
- 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
- If Lucas Hedges wins Best Supporting Actor he becomes youngest winner in that category ever (beating Timothy Hutton from Ordinary People, 1980)
- If Damien Chazelle wins Best Director he becomes youngest winner in that category ever beating Norman Taurog from Skippy, 1931)
- If Lin-Manuel Miranda wins Best Song he becomes the youngest EGOT winner of all time (beating Robert Lopez, who completed the EGOT with "Let it Go" from Frozen, 2013)