An Annual Round of Oscar Trivia Following The Nominations...
Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 10:00PM by Nathaniel R
Amy Madigan breaking things onscreen and off!
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THIS LIST IN THE COMMENTS. These stats will also probably show up on the Oscar charts too but why not collect them here first or simultaneously while still hopped up on Oscar fever...
RECORDS BROKEN OR SET
• Longest Gap Between Acting Nominations for a Woman
Weapons standout Amy Madigan's 40 year gap between Oscar nominations (her first nomination was in 1985's Twice in a Lifetime) is not an all time record but it is the record for a female actor...
The record, either gender, is currently held by Judd Hirsch with 42 years between nominations (Ordinary People to Fablemans), followed by Henry Fonda who had a 41 year gap (between The Grapes of Wrath and On Golden Pond). Before Madigan's unexpected witchy slay in last summer's horror hit, the longest gap for a female actor between nominations was Helen Hayes's 39 years (between The Sin of Madelon Claudet and the disaster epic Airport).
• Most Nominated Movie of All Time
The big story, already covered in the initial reactions is that Sinners broke the all time record for Most Oscar Nominations for a single film with 16. The previous record (14) was held jointly by All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). While we knew Sinners had a shot to break it we figured at least the Makeup and Visual Effects branches would look elsewhere (since Sinners doesn't offer what they usually look for). We are wrong. We sincerely hope Sinners keeps the record for ever because no film needs to be nominated in every category. No film is the Best at everything!!!
SINNERS has fun color-coded costumes
• Most Nominated / Winning Black Woman of All Time
Ruth E Carter, nominated for Best Costume Design for the 5th time, breaks the tie she shared with Viola Davis as the most nominated black woman in Oscar history. She's also the most winning in terms with two Oscars to date! Her nominations: Malcolm X, Amistad, Black Panther (win), Black Panther Wakanda Forever (win), and now Sinners.
• First Vampires in Best Picture Lineup
Sinners marks the first time a vampire film has ever cracked the Best Picture list. One wonders if Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) might have done it if there had been 10 nominees back then (though I kind of doubt it as Oscar voters were stuffier back then about genre pieces.)
• Dual Roles ... Doubled!
This is the first time two performances in the same category have come from someone playing dual roles: In Best Actor Wagner Moura plays a father and his son and Michael B Jordan plays twins. Jordan's twin achievement follows Nicolas Cage in Adaptation (2002) and Klaus Maria Brandauer in Out of Africa (1985)... though the latter is only credited for one role (his twin is in the movie only very briefly). No actress has ever been nominated for playing twins though Meryl Streep was nominated for playing a dual role (French Lieutenant's Woman). Strangely multiple roles from the same actor in one film don't impress voters all that often. Consider the cold shoulder Robert Pattinson and Dylan O'Brien got this very year for their inventive performances in Mickey 17 and Twinless. A lot of famous multiple role performances have been snubbed over the years even when they received a lot of acclaim: Sonia Braga in Kiss of the Spider-Woman, Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers, Lupita Nyong'o in Us, Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap, Miranda Richardson in Spider, Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood are some that come immediately to mind for this cinephile.
• First Black Woman Nominated in Best Cinematography
Autumn Durald Arkapaw is the third black DP ever to be nominated, after Remi Adefarasin (Elizabeth) and Bradford Young (Arrival), but she's the first black woman. More on Arkapaw's history-making career here.
• Most Nominated Person Without A Competitive Win
Diane Warren, with her 17th nomination in Best Original Song (ugh) has now broken the tie with once-frequent Sound nominee Greg P. Russell as the most nominated (living) individual without a competitive win.
• First Oscar winning actor to be Nominated in Animated Feature
That'd be Natalie Portman who is up for producing Arco.
• First All-Woman team and First Spanish film ever nominated in Sound
That'd be for the incredible soundscape of Sirāt
• Longest Consecutive Streak of Nominated Foreign Language Performances Ever
We've now had a solid five years in a row of at least partially subtitled performances in the Best Actress category (2021 Parallel Mother, 2022 Everything Everywhere All At Once, 2023 Killers of the Flower Moon and Anatomy of a Fall, 2024 Emilia Perez and I'm Still Here, and 2025's Sentimental Value). The previous longest streak was three years and that happened once in Best Actress (2016 - Elle, 2017 - Shape of Water, and 2018 - Roma) and once in Best Supporting Actor (2020 - Sound of Metal, 2021 - Coda, and 2022 -Everything Everywhere All At Once). If you include all categories we're also experiencing this record extending itself repeatedly. The last time we had an Oscar race without a subtitled performance of some kind was all the way back in 2005 ! So it's been 20 years of multilinguistics in a row. The previous longest stretch lasted only 5 years (1974 through 1979).
On this same note (whew) this is the second consecutive year in which all four acting categories had an at least partially non-English performance nominated. 2024 was the first time (via nominees from The Brutalist, Anora, Emila Perez, and I'm Still Here) and it's now happened again in 2025 albeit from fewer films (via nominees from Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent).
Number of subtitled performances by category over Oscar's 98 years
01 Best Actress - 35 performances
02 Best Actor - 21 performances
03 tie Best Supporting Actor & Best Supporting Actress - 12 performances in each
• Most Best Picture Nominations Ever
Steven Spielberg extends his own incredible record in Producing with Hamnet. He's now received 14 nominations in the Best Picture category. His nearest rivals, Scott Rudin and DeDe Gardner (the woman with the most Best Picture nominations of all time) are tied for second with 9 nominations each. Like Spielberg, Gardner is up again this year (F1 The Movie).
• First Woman To Be Nominated For Best Director AFTER Winning
With her Best Director nomination for Hamnet, Chloe Zhao becomes the first woman to score a Best Director nod after having already won the prize. She's only the second woman to secure a second nomination in the category but in the other case (Jane Campion) the auteur had to wait for the second race to win.
• First film to score 4 Acting nominations after a shut-out from SAG
That'd be Sentimental Value but SAG voters weren't interested in the international films this season for whatever reason.
• First Norwegian Actor Ever Nominated Outside of Best Actress
Inga Ibsdottir Lilleas is the first Norwegian to compete in any of the acting categories beyond Best Actress (where Liv Ullmann was an intermittent presence in the 1970s). And speaking of...
• Most Scandinavian Talent Ever Nominated in a Single Year!
With nominations for Norwegians and Danes and Swedes I am pretty sure we have the most Scandinavian talent (13 people) ever nominated in a single year: Renate Reinsve, Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt, Olivier Bougge Coute, Inga Lilleeas, Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentson Ottmar, and Stellan Skarsgård (all from Sentimental Value), Dan Laustsen (Frankenstein), Thomas Foldberg, Anne Catherine Sauerberg (Ugly Stepsister), Lars Knudsen (Bugonia), and Ludwig Goransson (Sinners). Wow.
Skål! Surely lots of celebrations happening in those countries this weekend.
• The Long Streep Drought Continues
The longest gap between Meryl Streep nominations since her film debut in 1977 was previously 4 cycles (from 1990's Postcards from the Edge to 1995's The Bridges of Madison County). Now though she's been out of the contender pool since 2017's The Post so the record has doubled. We've now gone through 8 Oscar seasons without her. She hasn't even made a feature since Don't Look Up (2021). She's finally working again though: The Devil Wears Prada 2 arrives this year and she's got a thriller with Sigourney Weaver in pre-production.
THERE'S PROBABLY SOME COOL STATS HERE BUT I'M TOO TIRED TO CONTEMPLATE HOW TO RESEARCH IT...
• Fastest Collection of Best Picture Nominees on the Filmography?
Timothée Chalamet has already appeared in 8 Best Picture nominees (Marty Supreme being the latest) which is not a record (Leonardo DiCaprio is currently in second place of all time with 12) but the speed at which it has happened might be. It's only taken him 9 years to do that which means he's basically averaging 1 Best Picture appearance a year since he became famous! Next up: Dune Part Three
• "All of them Witches!"
Oscar voters don't usually go for genre films but Madigan isn't the first witch nominated -- but is there more than just Ruth Gordon's satan-loving "Minnie Castevet" in Rosemary's Baby before her? I cannot recall and I've been staring at the computer screen all day and my eyes are soooooo tired. Tannis, anyone?
Thanks to David in the comments for adding to this list given my fatigue: Streep in Into the Wood, Erivo in Wicked, Grande in Wicked (how did I forget Wicked so quickly!). That's five. Are there any more?
NOT A RECORD BUT INTERESTING
A great year at the Oscars for Nordic talent
• Following in Liv Ullman & Max Von Sydow's Footsteps
Renate Reinsve breaks the long drought following Liv Ullman's stellar career to become the second Norwegian woman to score an Oscar Best Actress nomination. Similarly Stellan Skarsgárd becomes only the second Swedish man to compete for Best Supporting Actor (the first and only other was Max Von Sydow (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close). So in a way the most iconic Nordic auteur of all time, Ingmar Bergman, has blessed this year's Oscar race from the great beyond.
• Judy & Liza Have Company
For over 50 years Judy Garland (A Star is Born) & Liza Minnelli (Cabaret) were the only Mom & Daughter to both receive Best Actress nominations during their career (other mom & daughter nominees exist but not in Best Actress for both of them). Now in two consecutive years they suddenly have company! Last year the record was matched by way of Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station) & Fernanda Torres (I'm Still Here) and this year a third pair join that quartet via Goldie Hawn (Private Benjamin) & Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue).
• Most Nominated Individual This Time Around
That'd be Writer/Director/Producer/Editor Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme. (Sean Baker won those exact categories last year for Anora... the first person to win four Oscars for the same film)
• Second Film to Score Three Acting Nominations for Black Actors / Third Film to Feature Black Nominees in Both Supporting Categories
Sinners isn't the first film to accomplish either of these things but it's not common. For landing in both supporting categories the first was Dreamgirls (2008) followed by Moonlight (2016)... in both cases one of the pair won the Oscar which is either very good or very misleading news for Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku. For three acting nominations for Black talent, Sinners is the first since Color Purple (1985).
Brad Pitt 4evah 🖤
• Brad Pitt, Multihyphenate
With his nomination for producing F1, Brad Pitt's Producing career track has now equalled his acting track in Oscar eyes: He now has 4 nominations and 1 win (12 Years A Slave) as a Producer and 4 nominations and 1 win (Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood) as an Actor.
• Shakespeare Always Comes with Costumes
Hamnet is the third film with William Shakespeare as a character to score Oscar nominations after Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Anonymous (2011). The only uniting factor is that they were all nominated for Best Costume Design.
• Second Favourite Frankenstein Riff
Frankenstein will have to win 5 Oscars to take the title of "Oscar's Fav' Frankenstein Riff" away from Poor Things which won 4 trophies two Oscar cycles ago. But we think it's unlikely since Frankenstein has two fewer nominations and isn't half as good.
• CCA Predictions Gone Awry
Though no awards group should consider predicting the Oscars their goal, CCA does often brag about it (ugh) so we have to note that this is the first time since 1999 (Man on the Moon and Three Kings) that two of their Best Picture nominees (Wicked For Good and Jay Kelly) received zero Oscar nominations ... but at least in 1999 those were very good films!
• Whoever Wins, It Won't Be A Repeat
While we don't have a category of all newbies (well, i haven't researched the shorts yet so hold that thought) there are a couple of categories with no previous winners in them so someone is about to have a once-in-a-lifetime experience. They are BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, and BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. Are there any others... I'm not done looking.
THEY'LL SET A RECORD IF THEY WIN
• If Ryan Coogler wins Best Director he'll be the first black director to win (Sinners)
• Dan Laustsen could become the first Dane to win Best Cinematography (Frankenstein)
• Autumn Arkapaw could become the first woman to win Best Cinematography (Sinners)
THEY WON'T SET A RECORD IF THEY WIN BUT IT'LL STILL BE INTERESTING
• If Brazil wins a second consecutive Oscar with The Secret Agent (following I'm Still Here's triumph) it will be the first time in almost 40 years that a country has won back-to-back Oscars (that'd be Denmark who won back to back with Babette's Feast (1987) and Pelle the Conqueror (1988). Back-to-back wins happened a lot in the first thirty years of the categories when less countries submitted to the Academy but then it got (and stayed) real competitive.
Reader Comments (44)
Other witches: Erivo, Grande, Streep in Into the Woods.
I was wondering about this one: Emma Stone has now been nominated three times for performances directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Is this an actress record for being nominated for working with the same director? Off the top of my head, I can think of actors who have more (De Niro has four Scorsese nominations), but what about actresses?
First year ever no film got between 5-7 nominations??? It goes from 4 to 8!!
Bette Davis was nominated thrice for working with William Wyler: Jezebel, The Letter, and The Little Foxes.
Diane Ladd is kind of a witch in Wild at Heart.
I'm not sure if this is a record, but it's gotta be near the bottom (refreshingly) of total acting nominations for playing real people: just Hawke, Hudson, and Buckley. Chalamet is borderline but ultimately fictional imo.
Also, this might be the first time there are three nominated actors playing non-people - Elordi, Madigan, and someone else.
Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson became the 3rd mother-daughter duo nominated for Best Actress.
1st - Judy Garland/Liza Minnelli
2nd - Fernanda Montenegro/Fernanda Torres.
EDIT: I believe Diane Ladd/Laura Dern also apply if someone could fact check me on that?
I’m pretty sure this is the first time all four acting categories include at least one foreign language performance.
@Marsha Mason: you’re so right about how refreshing it is for nominating actors playing original characters.
My contributions: I’m just throwing out some ideas in case others know if these are records:
1) I see Geeta Gandbhir nominated for separate films in Documentary and also Documentary Short. Has that been done before?
2) Diane Warren’s record continues (at least I think she has the record).
3) Natalie Portman is nominated for best animated feature. Is she the first Best Actress winner to do so?
4) Michael B. Jordan was nominated for playing twins. The last one was, what, Nicolas Cage in Adaptation? That’s gotta be a short list of actors to do that.
5) Out of 20 possible films, we only have 12 represented films amongst all the acting categories. That’s probably not a record but it seems lower than usual.
6) If Ryan Coogler wins Best Director, he’d finally be the first black director to win that category.
One tiny correction: The Sin of Madelon Claudet is not a silent film.
David Feldman: Another actress who has been nominated three times for working with the same director is Jennifer Lawrence, who got three nominations for working David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle and Joy).
One of my yearly traditions is to look for connection among the acting nominees, though I can't seem to find many this year. These are the only ones I got so far:
Don’t Look Up: Leonardo Dicaprio & Timothée Chalamet
21 Grams: Sean Penn & Benicio Del Toro
The French Dispatch: Timothée Chalamet & Benicio Del Toro
Dune: Timothée Chalamet & Stellan Skarsgard
A Complete Unknown/A Rainy Day in New York: Timothée Chalamet & Elle Fanning
I am Sam: Sean Penn & Elle Fanning (yes, she appears briefly as a younger version of Dakota Fanning's character, so I'm counting her)
Gangster Squad: Emma Stone & Sean Penn
Glass Onion, A Knives Out Mystery: Kate Hudson & Ethan Hawke
Cymbeline: Ethan Hawke & Delroy Lindo
Also, this might not be a record, but Timothée Chalamet is not the only actor who got his 8th Best Picture nominee this year. With Bugonia, Jesse Plemons has also made it to 8 Best Picture nominees, and even though it took him a couple of years more than Chalamet, what's interesting about him is that there was a five-year stretch in which he appeared in a Best Picture nominee every year (2017-2021, he was in The Post, Vice, The Irishman, Judas and the Black Messiah and The Power of the Dog)... before that, he was in Brodge of Spies, afterwards he was in Killer of the Flower Moon and now Bugonia.
Will repost this from the other thread..
3 entries for SAG+GG but no Oscar: Chase Infiniti, Jesse Plemons, Ariana Grande
1 entry for SAG+GG but got Oscar: Delroy Lindo
And in terms of spreading the wealth among acting nominees, this was a rather lean year, with the 20 acting nominations coming from just 11 films (oddly, the same as 2024 and 2023). The all-time record remains 2007, where 18 films were represented among the 4 acting categories:
18 - 2007
17 - 1992
16 – 1999, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1945, 1938
15 – 2015, 2010, 2005, 1998, 1995, 1984, 1964, 1960, 1955, 1946, 1937, 1936
14 – 2020, 2016, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2003, 2000, 1997, 1996, 1993, 1987, 1975, 1973, 1971, 1952, 1947, 1941
13 – 2019, 2017, 2014, 2010, 2004, 1994, 1986, 1985, 1983, 1979, 1972, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1965, 1940
12 – 2022, 2021, 2012, 2002, 2001, 1991, 1980, 1978, 1974, 1966, 1963, 1961, 1956, 1954, 1953, 1948, 1942, 1939
11 – 2025, 2024, 2023, 2018, 1982, 1967, 1962, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1950, 1949, 1944
10 – 2013, 1977, 1976, 1951, 1943
9 – 1981
Whoops -- it's 12 this year!
Ludwig Göransson is Swedish, no?
charlea - Shirley Maclaine was nominated for documentary, but it was before her actress win.
Sirat All-Women Sound Team.
All of Them Witches- If you include wizards, then Ian McKellan who was nominated playing Gandalf should be included. Mary Poppins may not be a witch but she is a magical being so Julie Andrews is also included. If you want to be super pedantic Joan Allen was nominated playing an accused witch in The Crucible.
Emma Stone also received 2 nominations this year for acting and producing- the exact nominations she got last time for Poor Things.
If Buckley wins would Chloe be the first female director to direct 2 people to Oscar victories.
As Peggy Sue pointed out, SIRAT marks the first time an all-women sound team has been nominated for any sound category at the Oscars.
With Hudson and Byrne, there are exactly 100 lone Best Actress nominees in Academy history.
Kleber Mendonça Filho is the only director of a Best Picture nominee this year to have no individual nomination of his own. Indeed, THE SECRET AGENT is the first Cannes Main Competition film to score a Best Picture Oscar nomination without a corresponding Best Director mention since MOULIN ROUGE! in 2001.
Stellan Skarsgård marks the first time a Best Supporting Actor nominee comes from a non-English-language production.
SENTIMENTAL VALUE is also the first film to score 4 acting Oscar nominations after being shut out by SAG.
Diane Warren finally gets ahead of Greg P. Russell to become the living nominee with most Oscar nominations (17) without a single competitive win.
Considering the VIVA VERDI! song was recorded and posted publicly in 2017, this might be the largest gap ever for such a thing in the Best Original Song category. This is mostly due to the film being in production for almost a decade and them divulging the song while the documentary was still far from complete.
Josh Safdie is this year's most-nominated individual with 4 nominations. Geeta Gandbhir is the only director to be nominated for two separate films, however, as she is in both the Feature and Short Documentary categories with THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR and THE DEVIL IS BUSY.
I would have to check, but is this the first time 4 out of 5 Best International Film nominees got nominated in other categories?
It's the first time a single distributor has been behind 3 out of 5 Best Actress nominees since the 1930s. Focus Features has Stone, Hudson and Buckley.
KOKUHO is the first Japanese film ever nominated in the Best Makeup category. SIRAT is the first Spanish film nominated in Best Sound. SENTIMENTAL VALUE is the first Norwegian film in Best Editing. There's a bunch of these, of course, since so many international movies nominated outside their main category remains unusual.
I believe Paramount is the only big Hollywood studio in the present American movie industry to have gone without a single nomination.
It's the first time since 1999 that two films nominated for the Critics Choice Award for Best Picture received zero Oscar nominations.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are one movie away from tying Thomas Mitchell as the actors in the most Best Editing-nominated films ever. DiCaprio ties Robert De Niro as the actor with the most Best Director-nominated films in his filmography.
I believe Ryan Coogler might be the Black director whose films have earned the most nominations ever.
Thanks to HAMNET, Spielberg broke his own record again. He's the producer with most Best Picture nominations under his belt in Oscar history. With F1, Dede Gardner broke the tie with Kathleen Kennedy to become the most nominated woman in the Best Picture category.
That thumbnail of MBJ just shows how the costuming did the lot of the work for him,i'd have been happier if he'd have been nominated for one of his better turns in Creed or Fruitvale Station.
I really hope he gets a role where he can better show his dramatic range again.
David S:
Diane Ladd was never nominated for Actress, only Supporting (I think a total of 3x). But both she and her daughter Laura Dern were nominated in the same year (Ladd supporting/Dern Lead) for the same film: Rambling Rose, an odd (and very unsatisfying) drama from 1991.
Surprised no one has said this yet, but I do believe this is the first ever appearance of vampires in the Best Picture line up.
The Streep Drought grows. This is the longest Streep has gone without a nomination, her last being The Post (2018)
I do think the actor/producer slope has gotten extremely slippery where now if you're Margot Robbie or Emma Stone or Timothee Chalamet, you're essentially vying for two Oscars each time you put a movie out—it's only been in the last 5-10 years that you see A-list actors getting Best Picture citations ever. single. year.
It's kind of shitty for Oscar statistics. Like Emma is a 7-time Oscar nominee? Come on.
One more that seems sort of obvious but I only just now thought of it: as far as I know this year there's been more acting noms from horror films than ever before. There's 5 total: Elordi, Jordan, Lindo, Madigan & Mosaku.
Looking ahead a bit, one I haven't seen discussed is if One Battle wins Best Picture as many expect that will give Leo 3 Best Picture winners that he was clearly the star of (after Titanic and the Departed).
There are a number of examples of actors appearing in 3 best picture winners (Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Ralph Fiennes, Shirley MacLaine, Colin Firth etc etc), but the only other example I can find of 3 starring roles in Best Picture winners is Clark Gable (It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty, and Gone With the Wind).
Are there any other examples with 3 or more?
Mr Ripley - Campion directed Hunter and Paquin to Oscar wins
Meryl is also going to be the voice of Aslan in the Greta Gerwig Narnia movie.
Richter Scale - Ethan Hawke and Rose Byrne worked together in Juliet, Naked. It's a very cute romcom.
Also interesting: this is the first time two actors in one category have been nominated for playing dual roles -- Moura and Jordan.
@calroth I meant for different films.
Autumn Durald Arkapaw is not just black, she's also part Filipino, so also Asian.
3) Natalie Portman is nominated for best animated feature.
@charlea:
When the Oscar nominations are announced, I always look for famous people in non-famous or unexpected categories. This year there are two:
-- Natalie Portman as a producer of ARCO, nominated for Best Animated Feature
-- Tig Notaro as a producer of COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT, nominated for Best Documentary Feature
That documentary also has a few celebrities as executive producers (who don't share the nomination): musicians Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile, soccer star Abby Wambach, and actor Kevin Nealon.
It's been 4 years since we've seen something like this:
-- Questlove was nominated (and won) as a producer of SUMMER OF SOUL, under Best Documentary Feature
-- Riz Ahmed was nominated (and won) for THE LONG GOODBYE, a Live Action Short Film
They join an offbeat list of "They won an Academy Award?" that includes Peter Capaldi, Christine Lahti, Fisher Stevens, and Steven Wright. (You could probably include Keith Carradine on this list, too.)
Fun facts: The year Lahti won for Live Action Short Film, she beat fellow celebrity nominees Griffin Dunne and Jeff Goldblum. Capaldi won in the same category a year earlier, defeating (among others) Sean Astin and JoBeth Williams.
Michael C - maybe they will enjoy seeing Meryl be Miranda again and nominate her for Prada 2. She would become only the second female to be nominated twice for playing the same character - Cate Blanchett being the only one as of now. Side note - is Cate the last person to be double nominated in the same year, Lead and Supporting? These are the thoughts in my head as I wake up today lol :)
Tony L - I think it was Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story / Jojo Rabbit).
Oh good call Tiago! Totally forgot about that one haha. Thanks!
The big story, already covered in the initial reactions is that Sinners broke the all time record for Most Oscar Nominations for a single film with 16. The previous record (14) was held jointly by All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016).
It should be noted that SINNERS received its 16 nominations in 16 different categories, with no double dipping in, say, Supporting Actor or Supporting Actress or Original Song.
Of the three films with a total of 14 nominations, only TITANIC did it in 14 different categories. LA LA LAND was nominated in 13 categories (two Original Song contenders). ALL ABOUT EVE was nominated in 12 categories (two nominees each in Lead Actress and Supporting Actress).
Furthermore, the only way that SINNERS could have been (hypothetically) nominated in a 17th category is if it had a nominee for Lead Actress. It wasn't eligible for Adapted Screenplay or International Film.
Has an actor ever been nominated for playing William Shakespeare? Because Paul Mescal joins Joseph Fiennes in being oddly snubbed for playing him.
Since Marty Supreme and The Smashing Machine both got nominations, is this the first time that sibling filmmakers’ films were both nominated in the same year?
Emma Stone joins Jeff Bridges in being nominated for playing [spoiler]. Anyone else?
@Claudio - I counted 99 lone Best Actress nominees. Who am I missing?
1. Louise Dresser, A Ship Comes In
2. Janet Gaynor, Street Angel*
3. Betty Compson, The Barker
4. Jeanne Eagels, The Letter
5. Mary Pickford, Coquette*
6. Nancy Carroll, The Devil’s Holiday
7. Ruth Chatterton, Sarah and Son
8. Norma Shearer, Their Own Desire
9. Gloria Swanson, The Trespasser
10. Marie Dressler, Min and Bill*
11. Marie Dressler, Emma
12. Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet*
13. Katharine Hepburn, Morning Glory*
14. Bette Davis, Of Human Bondage (write-in)
15. Elisabeth Bergner, Escape Me Never
16. Claudette Colbert, Private Worlds
17. Bette Davis, Dangerous*
18. Miriam Hopkins, Becky Sharp
19. Gladys George, Valiant is the Word for Carrie
20. Greta Garbo, Camille
21. Fay Bainter, White Banners
22. Margaret Sullavan, Three Comrades
23. Rosalind Russell, My Sister Eileen
24. Joan Fontaine, The Constant Nymph
25. Rosalind Russell, Sister Kenny
26. Joan Crawford, Possessed
27. Barbara Stanwyck, Sorry, Wrong Number
28. Deborah Kerr, Edward, My Son
29. Bette Davis, The Star
30. Julie Harris, The Member of the Wedding
31. Jane Wyman, Magnificent Obsession
32. Sophia Loren, Two Women*
33. Katharine Hepburn, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
34. Leslie Caron, The L-Shaped Room
35. Anne Bancroft, The Pumpkin Eater
36. Sophia Loren, Marriage Italian Style
37. Kim Stanley, Séance on a Wet Afternoon
38. Ida Kamińska, The Shop on Main Street
39. Edith Evans, The Whisperers
40. Audrey Hepburn, Wait Until Dark
41. Vanessa Redgrave, Isadora
42. Carrie Snodgress, Diary of a Mad Housewife
43. Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
44. Diahann Carroll, Claudine
45. Isabelle Adjani, The Story of Adele H.
46. Glenda Jackson, Hedda
47. Carol Kane, Hester Street
48. Marsha Mason, Chapter Two
49. Gena Rowlands, Gloria
50. Jane Alexander, Testament
51. Jessica Lange, Country
52. Jessica Lange, Sweet Dreams
53. Jane Fonda, The Morning After
54. Sally Kirkland, Anna
55. Jodie Foster, The Accused*
56. Meryl Streep, A Cry in the Dark
57. Jessica Lange, Music Box
58. Kathy Bates, Misery*
59. Julia Roberts, Pretty Woman
60. Joanne Woodward, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
61. Bette Midler, For the Boys
62. Michelle Pfeiffer, Love Field
63. Stockard Channing, Six Degrees of Separation
64. Jodie Foster, Nell
65. Jessica Lange, Blue Sky*
66. Susan Sarandon, The Client
67. Sharon Stone, Casino
68. Meryl Streep, The Bridges of Madison County
69. Diane Keaton, Marvin’s Room
70. Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves
71. Julie Christie, Afterglow
72. Meryl Streep, One True Thing
73. Janet McTeer, Tumbleweeds
74. Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream
75. Renée Zellweger, Bridget Jones’s Diary
76. Diane Lane, Unfaithful
77. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Whale Rider
78. Diane Keaton, Something’s Gotta Give
79. Annette Bening, Being Julia
80. Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
81. Penélope Cruz, Volver
82. Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
83. Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
84. Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
85. Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
86. Naomi Watts, The Impossible
87. Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
88. Julianne Moore, Still Alice*
89. Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
90. Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
91. Isabelle Huppert, Elle
92. Ruth Negga, Loving
93. Glenn Close, The Wife
94. Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
95. Kristen Stewart, Spencer
96. Ana de Armas, Blonde
97. Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
98. Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
99. Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Since Marty Supreme and The Smashing Machine both got nominations, is this the first time that sibling filmmakers’ films were both nominated in the same year?
@charlea:
Looks like siblings Garry Marshall and Penny Marshall directed films in 1988 and 1990 that were each Oscar-nominated, though neither were ever nominated themselves.
BEACHES (1988): Art Direction
BIG (1988): Lead Actor, Original Screenplay
PRETTY WOMAN (1990): Lead Actress
AWAKENINGS (1990): Picture, Lead Actor, Adapted Screenplay
There are probably other sibling pairs who qualify. I looked at Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, but they (almost defiantly) didn't seem to make many films in the same year, almost as if they alternated.
Tyler – STREET ANGEL was nominated for another Oscar the following year (there was some weird eligibility stuff going on in the first couple of Academy Awards editions). Also, MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE was nominated in another category, and SHOP ON MAIN STREET won Best Foreign Language Film. Either way, you missed…
Joanne Woodward in THE THREE FACES OF EVE (1957) – winner
Charlize Theron in MONSTER (2003) – winner
Rosamund Pike in GONE GIRL (2014)
Andra Day, THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY (2020/1)
@Brevity @Charlea - I'm sure there are other sibling pair unless you mean Directing only. For example. Norma Shearer and her brother Douglas Shearer both won Oscars in the same year -- her for Best Actress in the Divorcée and he for Sound Recording for The Big House (1930) -- both of their films were up for Best Picture but lost.
Warren Beatty & Shirley Maclaine were also nominated in the same year once (1975) - he lost Best Screenplay but she lost Best Documentary Feature.
Brevity, Charlea and NATHANIEL -- If we're not just thinking about directors, I think the most flagrant example is probably Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave, both nominated for Best Actress in 1966.
Thank you so much, Claudio! :)
The sound category trivia is not quite true. The two-woman team of Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan was nominated for Sound Editing in 2017 for La La Land. There were men on the sound mixing team, but of course, that was a separate nomination at the time.
All the same, it's a rare occurrence worth celebrating!
I don’t know if anyone is still looking at these comments but what about this:
Is Elle Fanning the first acting nominee to be nominated for an English language performance in a foreign language film?