Post-Ceremony Oscar Trivia

[AMGParticipant Joined: Sep 20th, 2012 Topics: 154 Posts: 3900 View Predictions]

#219420

Another year done and dusted. So, what Oscar trivia do we now have to add to our growing lists?

Last year, this thread (http://www.goldderby.com/forum/topics/view/10729) contained all the Oscars trivia we could summon.

What trivia do we now have then after last nights ceremony?  

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[AMGParticipant Joined: Sep 20th, 2012 Topics: 154 Posts: 3900 View Predictions]

#219422

I believe Carol has set a rather unfortunate record, as the film went ZERO for THIRTY nominations across the Oscars, BAFTA, Golden Globes, SAG and Critic’s Choice Awards. 

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[ChrisMember Joined: Oct 18th, 2014 Topics: 0 Posts: 21 View Predictions]

#219423

MAD MAX FURY ROAD The Biggest Winner this Awards Season. It won more than 150 awards including 6 Oscars, the most of the night.  

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[Anonymous Joined: Jan 1st, 1970 Topics: 36 Posts: 1622 View Predictions]

#219424

With Bridge of Spies, five time nominee and two time Oscar winner Tom Hanks has now starred in six Best Picture nominees without a Best Actor nomination.

1. Bridge of Spies
2. Captain Phillips
3. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
4. Toy Story 3
5. The Green Mile
6. Apollo 13

 

This dubious achievement now ties him with Cary Grant.

1. The Bishop’s Wife
2. The Talk of the Town
3. Suspicion
4. The Philadelphia Story
5. The Awful Truth
6. She Done Him Wrong

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[AMGParticipant Joined: Sep 20th, 2012 Topics: 154 Posts: 3900 View Predictions]

#219425

Just to put the ones we already know about out there:

Spotlight becomes the first film to win only 2 Oscars in total since The Greatest Show On Earth in 1952.

Alejandro G Inarritu is the third director to win back to back Best Director Oscars, following John Ford in 1940/41 and Joseph L Mankiewicz in 1949/50. He is the first Mexican director to do so.  

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[Eddy QParticipant Joined: Oct 13th, 2012 Topics: 18 Posts: 2783 View Predictions]

#219426

At 87 years old, Ennio Morricone is most likely the oldest Oscar winner in any category. (They don’t keep age records except for Director and Acting categories, but I think George Bernard Shaw might have previously been the oldest winner of all other categories, winning for Pygmalion at 82.)

 

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[Eddy QParticipant Joined: Oct 13th, 2012 Topics: 18 Posts: 2783 View Predictions]

#219427

I believe Carol has set a rather unfortunate record, as the film went ZERO for THIRTY nominations across the Oscars, BAFTA, Golden Globes, SAG and Critic’s Choice Awards. 

0/31 actually!

Oscars: 0/6 
BAFTA: 0/9
Golden Globes: 0/5
SAG: 0/2
Critics Choice: 0/9 

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[Anonymous Joined: Jan 1st, 1970 Topics: 26 Posts: 2386 View Predictions]

#219428

I believe Carol has set a rather unfortunate record, as the film went ZERO for THIRTY nominations. 

I believe that ignoring the newbie awards, it’s the only one to be 0/20 at Oscars+Baftas+Globes.

Random: for Metascores, last 7 winners’ rankings within BP field critically:

Spotlight 1st w/93

Birdman T3 w/88

12 Years a Slave 1st w/97

Argo T3 w/86

Artist 1st w/89

King’s Speech 4th w/88

Hurt Locker 1st w/94

So I guess next year will be won by the 3rd-4th best in initial reviews?

Though overall the last 10 years’ winners have been 86+.
 
 The 2 Best Supporting Actress winners in the last 50 years with the fewest tickets sold – Danish Girl and Mighty Aphrodite, over Bafta+Globe winner and over Bafta+Sag winner Kate Winslet.

In the last half-century, there are 3 directors with multiple BP wins: Coppola who twice got 4 male actors in with a win apiece, Forman who got the Big Five then got an Actor win despite internal competition, and Eastwood who twice directed himself to lead noms and who scored 4 acting wins in 2 years including the rare Actor/S Actor combo. STILL TRUE, and why I correctly predicted Revenant would lose.

 Winslet pulls off the unenviable feat of losing with a Bafta+Globe winning performance AND with a Bafta+Sag winning performance.
The only pre-Sag Awards era actress who lost with a Bafta+Globe winning performance AND a Bafta-winning, Globe/Oscar nominated performance is Jane Fonda. But she won her 2nd lead Oscar in between those, so who cares. 

Mad Max ties Star Wars for most Oscars without either BP or BD. 

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[Eddy QParticipant Joined: Oct 13th, 2012 Topics: 18 Posts: 2783 View Predictions]

#219429

At $15m, Ex Machina is the lowest-budgeted film to win Visual Effects since the original Alien in 1979 according to multiple sources (although according to Wikipedia E.T. was cheaper at $10.5m. Can anyone verify that?) I expect Ex Machina is probably the lowest-budgeted winner ever adjusted for inflation. 

Edit: Ex Machina is also the first non-nominee for Best Picture to beat a Best Picture nominee (or 3) for Visual Effects since Tora! Tora! Tora! beat Patton in 1970.  

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[Rooney MooreParticipant Joined: Aug 2nd, 2014 Topics: 11 Posts: 1398 View Predictions]

#219430

 Winslet pulls off the unenviable feat of losing with a Bafta+Globe winning performance AND with a Bafta+Sag winning performance.
The only pre-Sag Awards era actress who lost with a Bafta+Globe winning performance AND a Bafta-winning, Globe/Oscar nominated performance is Jane Fonda. But she won her 2nd lead Oscar in between those, so who cares. 
 

 
The first one should be considered as an exception based on the fact that she never had to face with the eventual Oscar winner’s winning performance on neither of her victories.
It’s like putting J.K Simmons in Lead in other award shows and then questioning why he always ended up losing to Redmayne and why Norton always won in Supporting.

And her Sense and Sensibility loss, along with her other losses eventually helped her to build an overdue narrative and that led to her undeserving win for The Reader. So…. 

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[Anonymous Joined: Jan 1st, 1970 Topics: 26 Posts: 2386 View Predictions]

#219431

It’s still factually true. 

I believe that in the last 20 years, the only director who made 3 acting winning films is Hooper.

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[Eddy QParticipant Joined: Oct 13th, 2012 Topics: 18 Posts: 2783 View Predictions]

#219432

It’s still factually true. 

I believe that in the last 20 years, the only director who made 3 acting winning films is Hooper.

His accomplishment mirrors Hal Ashby’s when he directed 4 Oscar-winning performances across 3 films from 1975-79 (Supporting Actress for Shampoo, Actor and Actress for Coming Home, Supporting Actor for Being There) 

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[ChrisMember Joined: Oct 18th, 2014 Topics: 0 Posts: 21 View Predictions]

#219433

Mad Max is the 11th film in Oscar history to win 6 Oscars 

1. All about Eve(1950)- 6 wins 
2. Forrest Gump(1994)- 6 wins 
3. Chicago(2002)- 6 wins 
4. Mrs. Miniver(1942)- 6 wins 
5. The Godfather, Part II(1974)- 6 wins 
6. Star Wars(1977)- 6 wins 
7. A Place in the Sun(1951)- 6 wins 
8. The Hurt Locker(2009)- 6 wins 
9. An American Paris(1951)- 6 wins 
10. A man for All Seasons(1966)-6 wins
11. Mad Max Fury Road(2015)- 6 wins 

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[ChrisMember Joined: Oct 18th, 2014 Topics: 0 Posts: 21 View Predictions]

#219434

Five women won Oscars for Mad Max Fury Road, more than any other film. 

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[AMGParticipant Joined: Sep 20th, 2012 Topics: 154 Posts: 3900 View Predictions]

#219435

Spotlight becomes the first film since The Kings Speech to not win the Drama Globe yet go on to win the Best Picture Oscar. It’s the first film since No Country For Old Men to win Best Picture after losing the Drama Globe and BAFTA for Best Film.

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