mlrg wrote:Third time this century that all supporting nominees are coattails from leading nominees or from best picture nominees, the other years being 2013 and 2006.
Haven’t got the time to check prior 2000 yet.
Just checked and since the inception of the supporting categories it only happened 4 times: 1949, 2006, 2013 and this year.
Are you mistakenly remembering Dreamgirls as a best picture nominee in 2006? Because, otherwise, I don't see how that year qualifies.
I'm guessing we'll see more of this, with the ten-wide fields -- not just because of the number of best picture contenders involved, but because, ever since the expansion, there's been more emphasis on performers in best picture candidates and fewer successful campaigns for singletons. Which should have alerted us that Ruth Negga, despite her stellar early showing, was always going to have a uphill battle.
This has to be the first time that three of the actors in the year's biggest box-office hit are nominated for Oscars for performances in other films - Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Garfield, and J.K. Simmons all had prominent roles in Spider-Man: No Way Home . A fourth nominee, Kirsten Dunst, was Toby Maguire's MJ in the first of the three modern Spider-Man series.
mlrg wrote:Third time this century that all supporting nominees are coattails from leading nominees or from best picture nominees, the other years being 2013 and 2006.
Haven’t got the time to check prior 2000 yet.
Just checked and since the inception of the supporting categories it only happened 4 times: 1949, 2006, 2013 and this year.
Third time this century that all supporting nominees are coattails from leading nominees or from best picture nominees, the other years being 2013 and 2006.
More from Awards Watch edited to include only things not already mentioned or to expand on those that have been.
At 179 minutes, Drive My Car the third-longest Picture nominee of any kind this or last decade, behind only The Irishman (209 minutes) and Return of the King (200 minutes) and tied with The Two Towers.
Denzel Washington is now tied in third as the most-nominated male actor ever with nine acting nominations: Spencer Tracy, Al Pacino and Paul Newman, just behind Jack Nicholson (12) and Laurence Olivier (10). Washington has 10 nominations overall, including one as a producer on 2016’s Fences.
Washington also joins his The Tragedy of Macbeth co-star Frances McDormand as the first two actors to be nominated across the 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, 10’s, and now 20’s.
Cate Blanchett appears in two Best Picture nominees this year (Nightmare Alley and Don’t Look Up) and becomes the actress that has starred in most BP nominees with 9 (tying her with Tom Hanks). The only actors that have more are DiCaprio (10) who also adds one this year (Don’t Look Up), Jack Nicholson (10) and Robert De Niro (11).
At 87 years and two months old, Judi Dench (Belfast) is the third oldest acting nominee of all time, behind only Christopher Plummer in All the Money in the World and Gloria Stuart in Titanic. She is the first non-American actress to break the barrier of seven nominations. The only actresses who were nominated 8+ times have all been Americans so far: Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn, Glenn Close, Bette Davis and Geraldine Page. Finally, Dench also is now the most-nominated British actress of all time, surpassing Greer Garson. Fun fact, Dench earned all eight of her nominations after the age of 63.
Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) joins Isabelle Adjani, Liv Ullmann, Sophia Loren and Marion Cotillard as the only actresses with two nominations for 100% full non-English language speaking roles, the first in Spanish.
Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos) is tied with Charles Boyer as the Continental European (not British) male actor with second most nominations at four. Paul Muni is the first with five (one write-in).
Tying Cruz and Bardem together, this is first time ever two off-screen life couples have nominated together in the same year; Bardem and Cruz join Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst, both in The Power of the Dog.
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) is the only female director to have directed seven performances to Oscar nominations.
The Power of the Dog is the first film to earn four acting nominations at the Oscars without a SAG Cast nomination since the category was created in 1995.
With Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture in addition to her previous Director and Original Screenplay nominations, Campion is the only woman to be nominated in the four distinct categories. If she wins Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay, she’ll be the first woman and third person overall to win in those four categories. Chloé Zhao was also nominated in four categories last year and won two. Joel and Ethan Coen did it with Fargo (Original Screenplay) and No Country for Old Men (Picture/Director/Adapted Screenplay).
Steven Spielberg ties Billy Wilder as the third most-nominated director of all time with 8, behind only Martin Scorsese (9) and William Wyler (12). He is also the first director to be nominated in six consecutive decades. With West Side Story as his 12th film as Best Picture, he is now just one behind Wyler with 13.
Being the Ricardos is the first film to receive three acting nominations and nothing else since 2012’s The Master from Paul Thomas Anderson.
Anderson’s Licorice Pizza is the first movie to be nominated for only Picture, Directing, and Writing since 1957’s 12 Angry Men.
With his nominations for Best Picture and Original Screenplay for Belfast, Kenneth Branagh surpasses Walt Disney and George Clooney as the sole individual with the nominations across the most categories at seven. He was previously nominated for Best Director and Best Actor (1989’s Henry V), Best Supporting Actor (2011’s My Week with Marilyn), Adapted Screenplay (1996’s Hamlet) and Live Action Short Film (1992’s Swan Song).
Branagh also now has the second-longest the longest gap between Best Director nominations at 32 years between Henry V and Belfast. John Huston is still at #1 with a 33-year gap. Campion is third at 28 years between nominations.
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt are the first Nordic (and first non-Swedish) nominees in Original Screenplay since 1983, breaking the stranglehold of Ingmar Bergman.
Billie Eilish is the second-youngest nominee for Original Song at 20 years old. Markéta Irglová was one month shy of her 20th birthday when she was nominated for “Falling Slowly.” If No Time to Die had not been delayed, Eilish would have been the youngest nominee ever.
Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter) is the third woman to be nominated in both acting and writing after Emma Thompson and Ruth Gordon.
This is the first year since 1991 that three women are credited screenwriters on three different films in adapted screenplay and the first time ever as sole screenwriters (Siân Heder, CODA; Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter; Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog).
This is the first time that Best Cinematography and Best Production Design matched up 5/5 since the black-and-white and color cinematography categories merged in 1967.
Having starred in Don't Look Up and Nightmare Alley, Cate Blanchett became the first female actor in history to have credited roles in nine Best Picture nominees, beating Olivia de Havilland's record of eight.
This is interesting considering how few of her Oscar nominated performances have been for Best Picture nominees--only Elizabeth and The Aviator. She definitely could've gotten a few more nominations if the races in individual years had broke differently: She certainly could've gotten in Supporting Actress this year for Nightmare Alley (and who knows, maybe she ate into her own support with her Don't Look Up performance) in a slightly different race--imagine if it had been as in-flux as Best Actress or Supporting Actor were--and there's no reason why she couldn't have gotten nominated for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. She wasn't getting in for the Lord of the Rings movies (outside of the first one, she's barely in them, and she's not even in that one all that much), and she doesn't get a lot to do in Babel, but it's an interesting contrast between her seven Oscar nominations and her nine Best Picture nominees.
Having starred in Don't Look Up and Nightmare Alley, Cate Blanchett became the first female actor in history to have credited roles in nine Best Picture nominees, beating Olivia de Havilland's record of eight.
In this same vein: Timothee Chalamet in five years has appeared in FIVE Best Picture nominees and he's only 26.
Having starred in Don't Look Up and Nightmare Alley, Cate Blanchett became the first female actor in history to have credited roles in nine Best Picture nominees, beating Olivia de Havilland's record of eight.
"If you place an object in a museum, does that make this object a piece of art?" - The Square (2017)
rolotomasi99 wrote:Apparently, Kristen Stewart and Ariana DeBose are the first out actors nominated since Ian McKellan in 2002.
I'm fairly certain Lady Gaga was openly bisexual when she got nominated a few years ago.
Yes, Lady Gaga has said she is gay (she specifically used that word), but much like Jared Leto, folks have accused her of queer baiting.
This is, after all, the same person who claimed she had bone ridges growing out of her face, and also adopted a male persona and let rumors fly that she actually had a penis.
I have no doubt that most of the folks nominated for Oscars in this century and the last were not a Kinsey 0, but I believe the word "out" should be reserved for those who want the public to know they are not heterosexual. In my mind, Ian McKellan is out, while Queen Latifah is not. Where Lady Gaga and Jared Leto fall...is too complicated for me to definitively say.
"When it comes to the subject of torture, I trust a woman who was married to James Cameron for three years."
-- Amy Poehler in praise of Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow
Yes, queer actors are still discouraged by their agents from coming out, though thankfully there are a growing number of out queer actors finding enduring success. The queer boys can always find work in those ubiquitous Ryan Murphy productions! One could go through the list of actors nominated since 2002 and find plenty of not-out queer actors. I just had to look at the following year and there hiding in plain sight was Queen Latifah.
Apparently, Kristen Stewart and Ariana DeBose are the first out actors nominated since Ian McKellan in 2002.
I mean, I guess "out" is a relative term. For example, Jared Leto said he was gay while doing press for ALEXANDER but then his team claimed it was just a joke.
Still, very strange to think how few out stars there are in an industry that is supposedly so queer friendly.
"When it comes to the subject of torture, I trust a woman who was married to James Cameron for three years."
-- Amy Poehler in praise of Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow
dws1982 wrote:
- It seems impossible but apparently this is the first time since 1976 that two foreign films were nominated in the Screenplay categories.
It has happened four times since 1976 and before this year: Au Revoir Les Enfants and My Life as Dog in 1988; Talk to Her and Y tu mama tambien... in 2002; The Barbarian Invasions and City of God in 2003; Pan's Labyrinth and Letters from Iwo Jima in 2006.
So that was something I saw on Twitter in a replied or quote-tweeted form...I'm guessing the actual stat was that this is the first time that two films from the International Feature lineup have both gotten Screenplay nominations since 1976.
Licorice Pizza is the first film from MGM to receive a Best Picture nomination in 33 years!
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