Notable Firsts and Records

[Reza]

Although Basinger should not be oficially considered a Bond girl as the movie she was in, Never say Never Again, is not an oficcial James Bond film.

I always find this nonsense. This insistence about it being "unofficial". Maybe it was but of course its a Bond film through and through. Who was Connery playing in the film? Simon Templar?

[mlrg]

Michelle Yeoh is now the second Bond girl to win the Best Actress Oscar after Halle Berry.

Add an asterisk for Kim Basinger.

I had a feeling I was forgetting someone although my comment was correct as Basinger was the first Bond girl to win but in the supporting category.

Although Basinger should not be oficially considered a Bond girl as the movie she was in, Never say Never Again, is not an oficcial James Bond film.

[Reza]

Michelle Yeoh is now the second Bond girl to win the Best Actress Oscar after Halle Berry.

Add an asterisk for Kim Basinger.

I had a feeling I was forgetting someone although my comment was correct as Basinger was the first Bond girl to win but in the supporting category.

[taki15]

Michelle Yeoh is now the second Bond girl to win the Best Actress Oscar after Halle Berry.

Add an asterisk for Kim Basinger.

[Reza]

Michelle Yeoh is now the second Bond girl to win the Best Actress Oscar after Halle Berry.

[anonymous1980]

Here’s a fun one: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are the sixth and eighth youngest Best Director winners respectively. The seventh is Lewis Milestone for the first All Quiet on the Western Front.

[dws1982]

According to iMDB's keyword search, it is one of only a few non-porn films to feature them. (At least I'm assuming most of the other films in that list were porn, Skinemax if not hardcore.)

[OscarGuy]

Is Everything Everywhere All at Once the first film to feature butt plugs? I can't imagine anything prior would have, but I could be misremembering. Not only were they referenced as trophies for an IRS agent (modestly clever), there is an incredibly memorable fight scene featuring set rectal implements.

[criddic3]

CODA's actress (mercifully) was not nominated.

Emilia Jones was my pick for best actress, and I didn't even nominate CODA for Best Picture.

[Big Magilla]

I'm pretty sure Bendan Faser is the only Oscar-winning actor whose then wife published a book on film history.

Afton Fraser's 2004 book, Hollywood Picks the Classics, featured a forward by Esther Williams and lists of their favorite films by famous actors. Brendan's picks were The Bride of Frankenstein, Citizen Kane, Duck Soup, East of Eden, High Noon, It's a Wonderful Life, Paths of Glory, The Philadelphia Story, Tarzan and His Mate, Umberto D., and The Wizard of Oz.

[Big Magilla]

Not sure if this is a first, but not only is this the first time since 1933 that all the Best Actor nominees were first-timers, but all five are presently single. The firstborn sons of both Fraser and Farrell were special needs children. Fraser's son is autistic, and Farrell's suffers from a slow-growth syndrome. Both were accompanied to the ceremony by their younger teenage sons, of which Fraser has two and Farrell one.

[Eenusch]

When looking for notable firsts I discovered this which I think is cool:

Acting Oscars were won by Marlon Brando (1954), Jack Lemmon (1955) and Ingrid Bergman (1956).

The same sequence was repeated by Marlon Brando (1972), Jack Lemmon (1973) and Ingrid Bergman (1974).

And the years themselves share a sequence…

5+4=9, 5+5=10, 5+6=11

7+2=9, 7+3=10, 7+4=11

[Mister Tee]

To note that the Everything Everywhere/Michelle Yeoh combo repeats Frances McDormand's feat of two years ago: a lead actress winner associated with a best picture winner. Prior to McDormand, Hillary Swank in 2004 had been the last previous case.

Yeoh also joins an even more select group, winning women who carried a best picture champ without a nominated male lead co-star. This is only the 5th such case, following Luise Rainer '36, Shirley MacLaine '83, Gwyneth Paltrow '98, and McDormand. And, as we discussed two years ago, the three cases prior to McDormand had other actors who might have been nominated (Powell in '36, Fiennes in '98) or a female co-nominee (Winger '83). Yeoh joins McDormand as the only lead actress winner to unquestionably single-handedly front a best best picture winner.

This is also the third year in a row where the best picture had a female lead character, though CODA's actress (mercifully) was not nominated. The last best picture winner fronted by a male lead was Green Book.

[Big Magilla]

As long as we're talking accuracy, 1/21/42 was the Los Angeles release date for Casablanca.

You mean 1/21/1943?

Thanks. Fixed.

Talk about accuracy! Don't know if it's my brain or my eyes, but I seem to be getting a lot of numbers mixed up these days. It's worse when it's a phone number or an address!

[Reza]

As long as we're talking accuracy, 1/21/42 was the Los Angeles release date for Casablanca.

You mean 1/21/1943?