New Trivia via the 95th Oscar Nominations!
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 9:12PM
By Nathaniel R
JUDD HIRSCH, record-breaker!
It used to be that Oscar experts were few and far between but now you throw a rock and you hit one! Are you wielding elaborate spreadsheets to track things at home? If so we salute you in solidarity and ask for your help in fleshing this out. We will add to this list as new trivia occurs to us or is told to us by you (or others) but for now here’s some “firsts” and rarities and other interesting factoids from the nominations for the 95th Oscars...
OLDEST NOMINEES THIS YEAR - INCOMPLETE (incomplete -- will fill in as we uncover)
- John Williams (90) for Best Original Score (The Fabelmans)
- Judd Hirsch (87) for Best Supporting Actor (The Fabelmans)
- Jerry Bruckheimer (79) for Best Picture (Top Gun Maverick) - first nomination!
- Bill Nighy (73) for Best Actor (Living) - first nomination!
- Roger Deakins (73) for Best Cinematography (Empire of Light)
John Williams is now the oldest competitive Oscar nominee of all time (90!) and Hirsch becomes the second oldest acting nominee of all time (Christopher Plummer holds that record with his final nomination when he was 88)
YOUNGEST NOMINEES THIS YEAR (incomplete -- will fill in as we uncover)
Happy birthday to Paul Mescal next week. He's very young for Oscar love!
- João Gonzalez (26) Best Animated Short (Ice Merchants) - 1st nomination
- Lachlan Pendragon (26) Best Animated Short (An Ostrich Told Me) - 1st nomination
- Tems (26) Best Original Song (Black Panther Wakanda Forever) - 1st nomination
- Paul Mescal (26) Best Actor (Aftersun) - first nomination!
- Barry Keoghan (30) for Best Supporting Actor (Banshees of Inisherin) -first nomination!
- Daniel Roher (30) for Best Documentary (Navalny) - first nomination!
NOTE: The same age people aren't in order exactly as we don't know when exactly their birthdays are.
BEST PICTURE & BEST DIRECTOR & SCREENPLAY
• RARE Top Gun Maverick is only the third traditional sequel ever nominated for Best Picture whose predecessor was not nominated in the category. The only others were Toy Story 3 (2010) and Mad Max Fury Road (2015) so this has only occurred in the 21st century. Maybe it will begin happening often? Speaking of...
• FIRST TIME This is the first time in Oscar history that two sequels (Top Gun Maverick and Avatar the Way of Water) have competed against each other in one Best Picture field. In short, the Academy had no choice but to embrace sequels since that's 80% of film culture now (sigh).
• UNPRECEDENTED STREAK This is the fourth consecutive year with Asian talent nominated for both producing and directing! The films that made it happen: Parasite for 2019, Minari/Nomadland for 2020, Drive My Car for 2021, and Everything Everywhere All At Once for 2022)
• UNCOMMON The Daniels are only the fourth directing pair nominated. The first were Robert Wise/Jerome Robbins who won for West Side Story (1961), then came Warren Beatty / Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (1978), and finally Joel and Ethan Coen who have been nominated twice together, winning for No Country For Old Men (2007)... spiritually they've been nominated thrice, though, since Joel was also up for Fargo (1996).
• RECORD BREAKER Steven Spielberg extends his run as the most nominated Producer in history with his 12th nomination in Best Picture. (It's worth noting though that producers weren't "nominees" until 1951 and prior to that the Best Picture Oscar went to the studio behind the movie).
• RECORD TYING Steven Spielberg has also tied William Wyler for being the director with the most nominated Best Pictures (13) which is not the same thing as being the most nominated in director or picture. Spielberg is nowhere close to William Wyler's Best Director nomination record: Wyler was nominated for 12 Directing Oscars, winning thrice. Spielberg has been nominated for 9 Directing Oscars, winning twice.
• DID YOU KNOW? For the second year in a row a remake of a former Best Picture winner is in the running (West Side Story / All Quiet on the Western Front)
• FIRST TIME EVER - Best Director & Best Original Screenplay are not only an exact match (it's never happened before) but the directors were also the screenwriters (or co-screenwriters) so it's a match in two different ways!
• SUPER RARE - Women Talking becomes the first film to be nominated for only Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay since... State Fair (1933) 89 years ago!
ACTING IN GENERAL
• RARE With only Austin Butler and Ana de Armas nominated for playing real people, this is the lowest amount of biographical performances nominated in the past 20 years. The lowest in that time was 2003 when only Charlize Theron in Monster was a biographical portrayal.
• FIRST TIME This is the first year in history when three Asian actors have been nominated simultaneously (Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu)
• RECORD TYING There are 16 first time acting nominees this year which hasn't happened since 1936 which was the very first year of the supporting categories!
• RARE Cate Blanchett is the only previous acting winner nominated which does not happen often. The last time was 2004 with Hilary Swank as the only previous winner nominated
• RARE This is the first year since 1977 (Julia/The Turning Point) when two different films have received 4 acting nominations (Everything Everywhere All At Once / The Banshees of Inisherin)
• RECORD BREAKING 25% of the acting nominees are Irish (the Banshees quartet plus Paul Mescal)
• UNCOMMON Tom Hanks and Cate Blanchett join the "starring in 10 Best Picture nominees" club this year with Elvis and TAR. This will begin to happen more often now that we have 10 Best Picture nominees each year. The all time leader is Robert DeNiro who haas starred in 11 but the most impressive stat belongs to 10 timer Jack Nicholson (who managed his 10 nominees *before* the Best Picture expansion years. He was retiring just as that started to happen)
• UNCOMMON This is the first year since 2016 that there's not a consecutive nominee in any of the acting categories. In the earlier days of Oscar this was slightly more common but is increasingly rare.
BEST ACTRESS
• FIRST TIME Michelle Yeoh is the first Asian actress to be nominated in this category*. Two Asian women have won Best Supporting Actress but none have competed in Best Actress unless you count * Merle Oberon (Dark Angel, 1935) was of Asian descent (her mother being mixed race) but Oberon hid her heritage in those days.
• A RECORD Ana de Armas is the first actor nominated for an NC-17 rated picture with Blonde. (There have been actors nominated for rated X films from Last Tango in Paris and Midnight Cowboy but the MPAA system has changed considerably since the late 60s early 70s).
• RECORD BREAKING ??? We haven't yet determined how exactly this broke records (help) but Andrea Riseborough's nomination for To Leslie is definitely unprecedented in some fashion or another. Are there any other women who received an Oscar nod in this category without anything other than a Spirit nomination and with literally no reported domestic box office for a film that wasn't a streaming release? Most of the other grassroots low profile films with Oscar campaigns have either not paid off OR have succeeded in hitting a major precursor somewhere before the Oscar nod, thereby predicted the Oscar nomination. For example people like to cite Sally Kirkland's grassroots fellow-actors-love-it support for Anna (1987) but she was already very buzzy before the nomination with the LAFCA and Golden Globe wins (back when there were only a small handful of precursors) and her film was an indie success, breaking the $1 million mark at arthouses.
• RARE Cate Blanchett, receiving her 8th nomination for acting become only the 7th woman to ever accomplish that after Meryl Streep (21 noms), Katharine Hepburn (12 noms), Bette Davis (10 or 11 noms depending on how you count them), and Geraldine Page, Judi Dench and Glenn Close (all with 8 like Cate). If she wins her 3rd, she'll join the very rarified ranks of Streep, Ingrid Bergman, and Frances McDormand as a 3 time winner (Katharine Hepburn will remain the champ with 4)
• UNCOMMON Michelle Yeoh and Ana de Armas join Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike, Naomie Harris, and Kim Basinger as "Bond Girls" (the loose definition of the term of course) who later became Oscar nominated actors. (Dame Judi Dench doesn't count since she was an Oscar player before the Bond films)
BEST ACTOR
• RARE This is the first time since 1934 (if you can believe) that we have an all first time nominee lineup in this category. Historically speaking the Best Actor categories is obsessed with repeat players.
• UNCOMMON Bill Nighy (73) is the 7th oldest man ever nominated for Best Actor. The oldest ever is Anthony Hopkins who won for The Father when he was 83.
• RECORD BREAKING Bill Nighy (73) is the oldest first time nominee ever in this particular category
• UNCOMMON Paul Mescal (26) turns 27 next week so he doesn't make the list of Top Ten Youngest Best Actor nominees but he *almost* does. He is the 11th youngest ever nominated.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• FIRST TIME Hong Chau is the first actress of Vietnamese descent to be nominated for an Oscar (though she was born in Thailand).
• SUPER RARE Jamie Lee Curtis becomes only the second actor ever nominated whose parents (Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh) were both Oscar-nominated actors. The only other is Laura Dern (Bruce Dern & Diane Ladd). Hollywood is a family town so there are a lot of people nominated whose family members were also nominees but for actors this combo is rare.
• UNCOMMON The majority of nominees in Supporting Actress are women of color this season which is not the norm but not unprecedented. It's happened a few times before, the first time being in 1985 when Meg Tilly, Oprah Winfrey, and Margaret Avery were up for the prize. It will surely become more common now given the progress Hollywood has made in racial equity in casting within high profile films.
• FIRST TIME This is the first time in history that two Asian women have been nominated together in for acting. (it's happened twice in male acting categories, first in 1984 when Dr Haing S Ngor and Pat Morita were both up for Supporting Actor and once for Best Actor 2020 when Steven Yeun and Riz Ahmed were nominated)
• FIRST TIME Angela Bassett is the first woman nominated for acting in a superhero film. It is rare in general but it's only happened to men previously
• RARE Angela Basset becomes only the third person in history to be Oscar nominated for reprising a role she wasn't nominated for the first time. Interestingly they've all been women. The other two were Talia Shire in The Godfather Part II (1974) and Sigourney Weaver in Aliens (1986)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
• RECORD BREAKER Judd Hirsch now holds the record for “longest time between nominations”. It has been 42 years since his nomination for Ordinary People (1980). This record was previously held by Henry Fonda (41 years) between The Grapes of Wrath and On Golden Pond (1981)
• RARE Brian Tyree Henry is not the first simultaneous “lone nominee” and “first time nominee” in Supporting but it’s not common!
• UNPRECEDENTED STREAK Two nominees from the same film used to be uncommon in Best Supporting Actor (but common in Supporting Actress). The past few years have changed that. This is the fourth consecutive year of double nominations in this category (a record)
INTERNATIONAL FILM
• FIRST TIME Ireland scores its first ever Oscar nomination for The Quiet Girl which is just a lovely movie. Can't wait for y'all to see it. They previously made the finals with the Cuban set film Viva.
• RECORD BREAKING Jerzy Skolimowski, the master behind the incredible EO from Poland, is now the oldest director whose film has ever been nominated in Best International Feature. He is 84. The previous record holder was also Polish, Andrzej Wajda was 82 when Katyń was nominated.
• RECORD BREAKING (FOR NOW) With All Quiet on the Western Front, Germany has now broken its tie with Denmark as Oscar's favourite foreign country of the 21st century. Germany has had 9 nominations and 2 wins since 2000 while Denmark has had 8 nominations and 2 wins in that same time frame. In short: they're shaping up to be what France & Italy were to the Oscars of the 20th century.
CRAFT CATEGORIES
• UNCOMMON (THUS FAR) Mandy Walker, nominated for Elvis, becomes only the third woman ever nominated for Best Cinematography (after Rachel Morrison for Mudbound and Ari Wegner for The Power of the Dog). None have yet won. All of those were in the past six years so the tide is turning.
• RECORD BREAKING (ALMOST) Two-time winner Roger Deakins with his 16th nomination in Best Cinematography (Empire of Light) is now just two nominations behind the all time record holder Leon Shamroy (who won 4 times)
• RECORD BREAKING With two new nominations in Costume and Production Design, Catherine Martin leapfrogs Cate Blanchett to become the "Most Nominated Australian of All Time" with 9 nominations to Cate's 8.
• FIRST TIME EVER All Quiet on the Western Front marks the first time a non-English language film has been up for Best Visual Effects
ANIMATED FEATURE / SHORT
• UNCOMMON (THUS FAR) Domee Shi, who won the Oscar for the Animated Short film Bao (2018), is now nominated for Animated Feature for Turning Red. She is the first woman to score this double in her career. This "promotion" has only previously happened for Michael Dudok de Wit (Father & Daughter / The Red Turtle), Glen Keane (Dear Basketball/Over the Moon), and Nick Park (Creature Comforts / The Curse of the Were-Rabbit). Nick Park was the first to do it and the only one to win in both categories. We suspect this will become more common but Animated Feature has only been around for 21 years.
SHORT FILMS
• DID YOU KNOW? Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro,The Wonders) is now a nominee. She's up for Best Live Action Short for Le Pupille.
• RECORD TYING? Alfonso Cuaron shares that Live Action Short nomination (producing) which means he's competed in 7 different categories now, tying with Kenneth Branagh for "nominations in most categories".
• RECORD... SOMETHING An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It is the longest title ever nominated in terms of number of worlds... if not quite the longest title in terms of number of letters!
SCORE & SONG
• UNCOMMON Ryan Coogler joins Lars von Trier in the very strange category of "famous directors who have never been nominated for directing but have been nominated for Best Original Song". Coogler co-wrote "Lift Me Up" For Black Panther Wakanda Forever
• RECORD BREAKING Diane Warren extends her own record for "Most nominations without a win" with her 14th nomination for "Applause" from Tell It Like a Woman
• RECORD BREAKING John Williams extends his own record as "Most Nominated Living Person" with his 53rd nomination. He's up for Original Score for The Fabelmans
Can you think of any others?
Reader Comments (59)
Imagine Top Gun getting nominated over A Room with a View. We would have died! We wouldn't be here right now.
1. Alfonso Cuarón shares that Live Action short nomination with Alice Rohrwacher. This makes 11 nominations in 7 different categories for him; he was previously nominated for Picture, Director, Editing, Cinematography, Original Screenplay, and Adapted Screenplay.
Kenneth Branagh also has nominations in 7 categories. Is that the record?
2. Not so much trivia as a lost opportunity: had Paul Dano been nominated today, we'd have three villains from last year's The Batman cited, along with Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan.
The Golden Globes did a little better with this specific criterion, nominating Farrell and Keoghan for their film, plus John Turturro nominated for TV.
There was a record set in the 91-year history of the Best Animated Short category, as An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It set a new record for longest title in words ever nominated in the category with 14 words. (It still falls short of the record for longest title by letters, as The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello still holds the lead 50 to 48).
Check my math but this is the first time in forever (since 2003?*) you've had only 2 nominees playing real people -- a near-impossibility in the biopic era. And since they're playing Elvis and Marilyn, they BARELY count as real people. The actors are playing the myth, especially Ana.
*only Charlize as Aileen Wuornos
I believe Ana de Armas is the first acting nominee from an NC-17 rated film for BLONDE
First time all Best Actor nominees were first-timers since 1934, when the category only had three nominees.
First time to have 16 first-time Acting nominees across the four categories since 1936, which was the very first year of 20 acting nominees across the four now standard categories.
Very rare to have only one previous acting winner nominated. Last time it happened was 2004 (Swank)... coincidentally the year Blanchett won her first. Happened in 1996 as well (Diane Keaton).
I don't have data on this but are the Daniels only the second duo nominated for Best Director after Joel & Ethan Coen?
@Brevity - yes Cuaron technically now has tied Branagh although really he should be ahead because he isn't "officially" getting credit for Roma's Best Foreign Language Film nomination (and win) since that goes to the country rather than the filmmaker. But really he has 8 now if you include it.
Here are some I heard about today. Can someone confirm these?
Stephanie Hsu becomes the first LGBTQ actor to be nominated playing an LGBTQ character since either Angelina Jolie in Girl Interrupted or Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters. How many times has this happened?
Apart from being the first actor to be nominated for an MCU film, Angela Bassett also becomes the first woman and first person of color to be nominated for acting in a superhero film.
"Naatu Naatu" is the first Indian song from an Indian film to be nominated for Best Original Song. "Jai Ho" is from the (technically) British film Slumdog Millionaire.
for the youngest nominees there's also:
Tems - best original song nominee for Black Panther - 27 years old
Daniel Roher - best documentary nominee for Navalny - 30 years old
Also, the last time all five lead actor nominees was 1933/34, a year with only three nominees
Clark Gable, It Happened One Night
Frank Morgan, The Affairs of Cellini
William Powell, The Thin Man
A lot of people are complaining about Andrea's nomination because she's not black and "white privilege" (which in the context of Oscars and Hollywood is hilarious to me), so do we think there's a chance of her nomination being annulled?
This is the first year since 1977 that two films got four acting nominations. That year, it was JULIA and THE TURNING POINT.
Catherine Martin edges ahead of Cate Blanchett as the most nominated Australian [9 to 8].
Also interesting, the double Supporting Actor streak becomes 5 of the last 6 years if you go back to 2017 with Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards.
One more:
Paul Mescal, Hottest Best Actor Nominee since Timothée Chalamet. 😎
Is this the first time that all the Director nominees were also the same people nominated for Original Screenplay?
Also worth noting about Bill Nighy: while he’s only the 7th oldest Best Actor nominee ever, he is the oldest first-time nominee ever in that category. (Gloria Stuart is still the oldest first-time acting nominee overall though.)
@Sad Man: I haven’t heard anything regarding backlash against Andrea’s nomination, but if why you’re saying is accurate, that’s reminding me of a certain key early scene in Tar.
A.G. Iñárritu has directed 7 feature films and all of them got nominated for at least one Oscar. I can't think of another director who's achieved that.
This is the most Irish Oscars ever.
Ireland received its first nomination for Best International Feature Film - An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl).
25% of the acting nominees are Irish: Kerry Condon, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan & Paul Mescal. This is pretty phenomenal for a country with a population of 5 million!
Come on the Irish!!
Source:
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2023/0124/1350548-kerry-condon-among-oscar-nominees/
With Jamie Lee Curtis' nomination, her family becomes the third to receive father-mother-child Oscar nominations (Tony Curtis: 1959: The Defiant Ones / Janet Leigh: 1961: Psycho).
Previous Father-Mother-Child Oscar nominees/winners
- Vincente Minnelli, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli
- Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, Laura Dern
Michelle Yeoh and Ana de Armas become the fourth and fifth "Eon Production Bond Girls" (Armas may or may not fit the typical definition) to score Oscar nominations after Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike, and Naomie Harris. Halle Berry and Rosamund Pike, interestingly, come from the same Bond film - Die Another Day.
This list gets larger if you consider the non-Eon Bond films (Deborah Kerr, Kim Basinger).
Any other actor besides Laura Dern who had both parents nominated for ACTING categories. I know folks are citing Liza (with Judy and Vincent for directing), but wondering about acting besides Dern and Curtis this year.
Michelle Yeoh IS NOT the first Asian actress to be nominated. Joan Fontaine was born in Japan, so she was the first Asian actress to be nominated e and the first to win best actress.
Is Jamie Lee Curtis the first member of the English nobility to be nominated for an Oscar? Via her marriage to Christopher Guest, she is a baroness.
This is more a question than an affirmation. How many times before an actor is nominated along with other actor that previously played the role for which receive the nomination?
I'm speaking of Ana de Armas being nominated with Michelle Williams who both played Marilyn Monroe.
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If Merle Oberon in her time did not consider herself Asian, much less Joan Fontaine and just in case her sister Olivia de Havilland.
@FabioDantasFlappers Agreed! lol
And yeah, the Andrea Riseborough thing might come back to bite her in the ass. I think many people in the industry that are not actors will not take kindly to her being nominated because of her friends. I mean, no one is saying she's not actually deserving, but I think she can forget to have a win or much work after this. She won't boost her career with this, as one would typically think.
I think the person that gets the most out of her nomination is actually Michelle Yeoh: Blanchett won't win any new votes by campaigning for Riseborough and that opens up the real chance for Yeoh to win a very deserved Oscar.
Besides, Vivien Leigh was the first Asian-born Best Actress winner. And she may have actually been part Asian (her mother, an orphan, was of sketchy ethnicity). In addition to Olivia and Joan, Julie Christie and Natalie Portman were also born in Asia -that's where Israel is. (Even 2-time nominee Liv Ullmann was born in Japan). We've been over this in other threads. None of these women considered themselves "Asian" - except maybe Portman - and perhaps the Middle East should be considered separately. They were Asian-born Europeans.
With Tár's nomination for Best Picture, Cate Blanchett becomes the first woman to appear in 10 Best Picture nominees, and with Elvis being nominated for Best Picture as well, Tom Hanks appears in his 10th Best Picture nomnated film. The only other actors to appear on 10 Best Picture nominees or (in one case) more are Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Robert DeNiro (he's the "more").
Also, does anyone know when was the last time that only one of the 20 nominees in acting was a previous winner?
I've also been doing my yearly excercise of finding connections among the 20 acting nominees, and it's proving to be quite difficult with this lot. This is what I have so far:
Encino Man: Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan
Eternals: Brian Tyree Henry and Barry Keoghan
Notes on a Scandal: Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy
In Bruges: Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson
The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan
Widows: Colin Farrell and Brian Tyree Henry
Knives Out: Ana de Armas and Jamie Lee Curtis
The School for Good and Evil: Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: Michelle Yeoh and Stephanie Hsu
Showing Up: Michelle Williams and Hong Chau
Andrea Riseborough leveraging her friendships in Hollywood to get an Academy Award nomination is impressive. Melissa Leo must be shaking in her furs by the pool.
Kazuo Ishiguro is the fourth Nobel Prize winner for literature to be nominated for an Oscar, after George Bernard Shaw, Harold Pinter, and Bob Dylan.
For the second year in a row we have a film that is a remake of a forner Best Picture Oscar winner.
By the way just watched To Leslie and Riseborough is absolutely wonderful in it.
@ Cesar
“This is more a question than an affirmation. How many times before an actor is nominated along with other actor that previously played the role for which receive the nomination?
I'm speaking of Ana de Armas being nominated with Michelle Williams who both played Marilyn Monroe.”
Answer -
2006 Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal) and Kate Winslet (Little Children) were both nominated for Best Actress. Each had been nominated for playing Iris Murdoch.
2013 Judi Dench (Philomena) and Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) were both nominated for Best Actress. Each had been nominated for playing Queen Elizabeth I.
@Peter--the Daniels are the fourth duo to be nominated for Best Director, after Robert Wise/Jerome Robbins (West Side Story), Warren Beatty/Buck Henry (Heaven Can Wait), and the Coens (twice, for No Country for Old Men and True Grit)
TOM CRUISE IS IN A SICK AND DANGEROUS CULT THAT ABUSES INNOCENT PEOPLE
@Richter Scale: “Showing Up” has a 3rd nominee in it.
Michelle Williams
Hong Chau
Judd Hirsch
This movie was delayed to come out this year, 2023. And the three apparently all have bigger parts, especially Hong Chau who gets to play a successful and well-liked visual artist, a nice change of pace. Hirsch’s part is more naturalistic than bravura, but that just reinforces that he is a master of the craft.
Have director and original screenplay matched 5 for 5 before?
@ David S
Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman were both nominated for Midnight Cowboy which at the time was Rated X
McGill: Oh, thank you, I hadn't seen that (I must admit I was frantically looking through IMDb pages to find connections and just put that in because I saw Michelle Williams and Hong Chau together).
@Richter Scale - I mentioned it upthread but last time with only 1 previous acting winner nominated was 2004 (Hilary Swank). Also Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell (briefly) were in Veronica Guerin, and Blanchett and Michelle Williams in I'm Not There (and Ben Whishaw alas).
On the all-first-time nominee Best Actor lineup, the last time it happened in any acting category was 1999 for Supporting Actress (Angelina Jolie, Catherine Keener, Chloe Sevigny, Samantha Morton, Toni Collette).
In 1995 Supporting Actor (Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Ed Harris, James Cromwell, Tim Roth) and Supporting Actress (Mira Sorvino, Joan Allen, Kate Winslet, Kathleen Quinlan, Mare Winningham) were BOTH all first-timers. This double also happened in 1971 and 1973.
For Best Actress you have to go back to 1970 (Glenda Jackson, Ali MacGraw, Carry Snodgrass, Jane Alexander, and Sarah Miles). That's the only time it's happened since 1933..
And for Best Actor as mentioned earlier, you go all the way to 1934 when there were only three nominees: Clark Gable, Frank Morgan, and William Powell.
@Peter: Oh, see, I hadn't considered 2004 because one of the nominees that year was Clint Eastwood, who at that time had already won Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for Unforgiven... but if you only count acting Oscars, you're right, Hilary Swank would be the only previous acting winner.
Also, thank you for adding to the list, let me update it:
Encino Man: Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan
Eternals: Brian Tyree Henry and Barry Keoghan
Notes on a Scandal: Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy
In Bruges: Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson
The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan
Widows: Colin Farrell and Brian Tyree Henry
Knives Out: Ana de Armas and Jamie Lee Curtis
The School for Good and Evil: Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: Michelle Yeoh and Stephanie Hsu
Showing Up: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau and Judd Hirsch
Veronica Guerin: Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell
I'm Not There: Cate Blanchett and Michelle Williams
@Richter Scale: If you want to exclude 2004 because of Eastwood I think that then puts you back to 1996 when Diane Keaton was the only previous winner nominated. Before that incredibly it's 1974, the year De Niro won for supporting and Art Carney beat a then-Oscarless Best Actor field of Nicholson, Hoffman, Pacino, and Albert Finney. Ingrid Bergman was the only previous winner nominated that year (and she won again).
I believe this is the first time in decades that not a single acting repeat-nominee from the past six years has shown up! Usually somebody's riding a hot streak! Of the four repeaters, the most recent nominee is Cate Blanchett for Carol, seven years ago.
Someone posted this potential record in another post, but has Spielberg surpassed William Wyler's record as director with the most Best Picture nominations? If anyone can solve this, I thank you.
@sandwichspy John Steinbeck too
The club: Jacques Demy, Barbra Streisand, Lars von Trier, James Schamus and now Coogler.
I had to check
brookesboy -- he has tied Wyler's record!
EVERYONE --- thank you. I have updated the post with many of these suggestions.
Thank you, Nathaniel! I love giving a shoutout any time I can to Wyler, who is my favorite director and I feel doesn't get enough attention in cinema discourse. Bless you for fact-checking.
De Niro is indeed the current record holder with 11 appearances in Best Picture nominees but only 7 of them predate the expanded field. All 10 of Jack Nicholson's were in the 5-nominee years (Departed being the most recent), and Harrison Ford and Dustin Hoffman both have 8 along with some classic stars like Henry Fonda, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, and Gary Cooper (with 9!) .
Blanchett herself actually had 7 in the 5-nom era believe it or not (Elizabeth, 3 LOTR movies, Aviator, Babel, and Benjamin Button) before a long gap and now a flurry of 3 more in the past two years!