Think you know everything there is to know about the Oscars? Well we think you should try some of this trivia on for size.
The statue itself stands 13.5 inches tall and weighs 8.5 pounds and the longest Oscar show in history ran for 4 hours and 23 minutes.
Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg was the host on that night and it happened back in 2002. And speaking of Whoopi, she was both the first female and first African American to host the show when she took the reigns in 1994.
In 2009 Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman in history to win the Best Director statue for her work for Hurt Locker.
Cate Blanchett has an interesting honor, because when she won an Academy Award for playing the role of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator in 2004, he became the first actress to win an Oscar for playing another Oscar winner.
Jack Nicholson is the most nominated male actor with 12 nominations… while Catherine Zeta Jones’ first Oscar nomination in 2002 resulted in her winning the Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Chicago. Other stars to win first time round include Lupita Nyong’o and Kim Basinger.
Adrian Brody’s work in The Pianist earned him a Best Actor award at the age of 29, the youngest in history in that category.
But you can’t talk about Oscar trivia without Meryl Streep. The iconic star has been nominated a record 20 times, which includes 16 for actress in a leading role and four for supporting actress.
She has taken home gold 3 times.
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