The 96th Oscar nominations show how quickly fortunes can change in Hollywood. After ‘Babylon’ failed at the box office in 2022, it received three nominations at the 95th Oscars but returned empty-handed. Actress Margot Robbie from the same film is set to appear at the 96th Oscars in 2023 as the most commercialized ‘Barbie’ ad. The film grossed US$1.4 billion worldwide and received eight Oscar nominations. The word ‘Barbenheimer’ has gone viral worldwide due to the release of both the films ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ on the same day.
All the nominees for the 96th Oscars gathered for a luncheon at the invitation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It’s a tradition to take a party photo before the Oscars every year. Check out 17 fun facts, oddities and potential milestones that could happen at this year’s Oscars.
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‘Twilight’ wouldn’t have happened without ‘Oppenheimer’
“Twilight” star Robert Pattinson after directing the film “Tenet” atomic bomb inventor J. Christopher Nolan decided to make a biopic of Robert Oppenheimer. After filming Tenet, Pattinson gave Nolan a collection of Oppenheimer’s speeches. After reading them later, Nolan was inspired to make the film. In that case, the audience can be indebted to Pattinson!
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‘Barbie’ nomination history
History was created when ‘Barbie’ was nominated for Best Picture despite being overlooked in the Best Director and Best Actress categories at the Oscars. Greta Gerwig, creator and co-screenwriter of ‘Barbie’, is the only director whose first three films have been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. ‘Little Women’ (2019) and ‘Lady Bird’ (2017) were nominated before ‘Barbie’.
Out of the eight awards that ‘Barbie’ has been nominated for this year, only one is expected to win. Billie Eilish and her brother Phineas O’Connell won the Oscar for Best Original Song for ‘What Was I Made For?’ This reflects the Bradley Cooper-directed ‘A Star Is Born’. It also received eight Oscar nominations, but only won Best Original Song for Lady Gaga’s ‘Shallow’.
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Elite club handcuffs
Seven people in Oscar history have won the Best Actress category twice by the age of 35. They are – Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, Louise Rainer, Olivia de Havilland and Hilary Swank. Emma Stone, star of ‘Poor Things’ can be named at number eight in this elite list. He won the Oscar for the first time in 2017 for the film ‘La La Land’. No actor has ever won two Oscars at the age of 35.
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Can break the trend of an era
‘Oppenheimer’ is expected to win Oscars in front-line categories, including best picture. Meanwhile, if Irish star Cillian Murphy wins the award for best actor, then after 2012, the same film will again be named in the best actor and best film categories. This achievement has recently gone to ‘The Artist’ and its actor John Dujardin.
The picture is different for Best Actress, which has often coincided with Best Film in recent times. The star of two of the last three winners in the Best Picture category has won the Best Actress award. Frances McDormand for ‘Nomadland’ and Michelle Yeoh for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ won best actress.
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Another trend
In 20 of the last 22 Oscars, any film has been nominated for screenplay alone. Well, nothing else! Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman starrer ‘May December’ is only nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category this year. Also, the film is not named in any other category. Previous Oscars include ‘Knives Out’ (2019), ‘Borat’ (2006), ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ (2002), ‘Molly’s Game’ (2017), ‘Straight Outa Compton’ (2015). ).
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Short stories of four couples
Justin Trier, who was nominated for Best Director for Anatomy of a Fall, was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay along with his partner Arthur Harari. They wrote the story while under house arrest during the Corona epidemic.
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are jointly nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for ‘Barbie’. Australian actress Margot Robbie and her husband Tom Ackerley have been nominated as producers in the best film category for ‘Barbie’. Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas are nominated as producers as ‘Oppenheimer’ is nominated in the Best Picture category.
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Nominated multiple times, prize void
Bradley Cooper has received a total of 12 Oscar nominations for acting, directing and screenwriting in various films after gaining fame with the film ‘The Hangover’ (2009). But he never won an Oscar. At this year’s event, ‘Maestro’ has been nominated in the Best Actor, Best Producer and Best Original Screenplay categories, but there is a high possibility that he will return empty-handed.
Sound engineer Greg P. has never won an Oscar but has been nominated more times than Bradley Cooper. Russell (16 nominations), composer Thomas Newman (15), lyricist-composer Diane Warren (15) and special effects supervisor Daniel Sudick (13). Bradley Cooper is now number five on the list.
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Two gay records
It’s the first time two openly gay actors have been nominated at the same Oscars for playing characters who are both openly gay. Among them, Coleman Domingo was nominated in the Best Actor category for his portrayal of civil rights activist Baird Rustin in the film ‘Rustin’. On the other hand, Jodie Foster was nominated as the best actress for playing the role of Bonnie Stoll, friend and coach of swimmer Diana Naiad in the film ‘Nayad’.
Only one openly gay actor has ever been nominated for an Oscar. In 1998, Sir Ian McKellen was nominated for Best Actor for playing an openly gay character in Gods and Monsters.
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Velki in old bones!
Martin Scorsese has been nominated for the best director category at the Oscars a total of 10 times. He surpassed Steven Spielberg for the record among living directors. The late William Wyler of ‘Roman Holiday’ and ‘Ben Hur’ fame was nominated for the most 12 times in the best director category in Oscar history.
Martin Scorsese is the oldest nominee in the Best Director category. This time he got the nomination at the age of 81 years. This record was previously held by John Huston. In 1985, he was nominated for the Best Director Oscar at the age of 79 for the film ‘Pretty Honour’.
John Williams is the oldest composer to be nominated at the 96th Oscars. He received a nomination in the Best Ambient Music category for ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’. Now he is 92 years old. Clint Eastwood is the oldest winner in Oscar history. He was 74 years old when he won the best actor award for ‘Million Dollar Baby’.
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After 76 years
‘The Holdovers’ has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar after 76 years for a Christmas film. The last nomination was in 1948 for ‘Miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street’. The year before, the Christmas-themed “It’s a Wonderful Life” was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture. The story of the record-breaking movie ‘The Holdovers’ revolves around a grumpy teacher who has to stay at a boarding school to supervise the students who are not going home for Christmas break.
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First Native American to be nominated for an Oscar
Three Aboriginal women have been nominated in the Best Actress category in Oscar history. Among them, Lily Gladstone became the first American to do this thanks to the film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’. The 37-year-old star grew up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation community in northern Montana. Having won the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards and the Golden Globes, his chances of winning an Oscar are strong. As a result, she became the first Native American to win an Oscar for Best Actress.
Lily was preceded by Australian-New Zealand star Keisha Castle-Hughes for ‘Whale Rider’ (2004) and Mexican star Yalitza Aparicio for ‘Roma’.
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First nomination of 10 people in acting
10 stars from different countries have been nominated for Oscar for the first time through this year’s event. They include ethnic diversity. They are – Irish star Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer, Best Actor), British star Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, Best Actress), German star Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, Best Actress), American actress Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon, Best Actress), Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple, Best Supporting Actress), America Ferrera (Barbie, Best Supporting Actress), Devine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers, Best Supporting Actress), American actor Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction, Best Actor ), Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction, Best Supporting Actor) and Coleman Domingo (Rustin, Best Actor).
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A record of two black stars
Jeffrey Wright won Best Actor for ‘American Fiction’ and Sterling K. Brown was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. This is the first time in Oscar history that two black stars have been nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same film. The story of ‘American Fiction’ revolves around a depressed black fiction writer. He wrote under a pseudonym a satirical novel about black people. But the liberal elite think it is expensive literature! The book went on to sell well in the market and critics raved about it.
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Which is almost certain to win an Oscar
In 1993, Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for the best actor category at the Oscars for his portrayal of Charlie Chaplin in the film ‘Chaplin’. In 2008, he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for the film ‘Tropic Thunder’. But he lost to the late Heath Ledger who played the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’. Coincidentally, Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ is leading Robert Downey Jr. to win the Best Supporting Actor award at the 96th Oscars. In the 1950s, he won everyone’s hearts with his impeccable performance in the role of Louis Strauss, the head of the American Atomic Energy Commission.
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Posthumous nomination
Robbie Robertson, a member and composer of the Canadian rock group The Band, died in August last year. Two and a half months later, his background music ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ was released. He received a posthumous Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for the film. Robbie Robertson has worked in several of Martin Scorsese’s films. The list also includes ‘Raging Bull’ (1980), ‘The King of Comedy’ (1982), ‘The Color of Money’ (1986), ‘Casino’ (1995), ‘Gangs of New York’ (2002), ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ (2013) and ‘The Irishman’ (2019). Scorsese dedicated ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ to the memory of Robbie Robertson.
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A dozen Grammy-nominated stars have Oscar nominations
Of the 96th Oscar nominees, 12 received nominations at the Grammy Awards. Six of them have won Grammys. They are Billie Eilish and her brother Phineas O’Connell, Mark Ronson. Grammy nominees include Martin Scorsese, Bradley Cooper, Diane Warren, Jon Batiste, Daniel Brooks, Ludwig Goransson, John Williams and Dan Wilson.
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Best Director Oscar nomination for Music Video Producer
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland during World War II, ‘The Zone of Interest’ has received five nominations at this year’s Oscars. British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer has been nominated for the best director category. He has had a varied career. Three decades ago, he produced commercials for Belgian beverage brand Stella Artois and Irish beverage brand Guinness. Jonathan Glazer has also made music videos for British rock bands Radiohead, Massive Attack, Blur and Jamiroquai.
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