Once you have overcome all the confusion, all the snafus, all the complaints, this year's Oscars could become a historic ceremony.
Here are 25 landmarks that could take place on the stage of the Dolby Theater on Sunday night.
• If "Black Panther" wins the Best Film Award, it will be the first film in 86 years to win this award without any nomination for directing, scripting or directing. The last film to do so was "Grand Hotel", which won the Best Film Award in 1932, but had not yet been nominated.
• If "Black Panther" wins the Best Film Award, it will also be the first superhero movie and the first Marvel Studios release to do so.
• This film would also be the first Disney film to win the Best Film Award, not to mention the four wins Miramax won at the time, which was a subsidiary of the studio: "The English Patient," "Shakespeare in Love," " Chicago "and" No Country for Old Men. " "
• If "Roma" wins the Best Film Award, it will be the first foreign-language film to do so.
• Also the first published by Netflix.
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• If "BlacKkKlansman" wins the Best Film Award, it will be the first Focus Features movie to win.
• If "Vice" wins the Best Film Award, it will be the first version of Annapurna to win.
• If "Bohemian Rhapsody" wins, first for 20th Century Fox since "The French Connection" in 1972.
• If "Green Book" wins, the first for Universal since "Schindler's List" in 1994.
• If "The Favorite" wins, this will be Fox Searchlight's fourth victory over the last six years, after "12 Years a Slave", "Birdman" and "The Shape of Water".
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Oscars through the decades: 1989
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American actress Meryl Streep, at the 1989 Oscars. (Photoshot / Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES CA – MARCH 29: Actress Jodie Foster arrives and is interviewed before winning the Oscar for best actress in the movie "The Accused". At the 61st Academy Awards on March 29, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California (Photo Paul Harris / Getty Images)
Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn at the 61st Academy Awards – Press Room at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Barry King / WireImage)
American actress Melanie Griffith, at the 1989 Oscars. (Photoshot / Getty Images)
Drew Barrymore and Corey Feldman at the 61st Academy Awards – Governor's Ball at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Jim Smeal / WireImage)
Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr at the 61st Oscars – Arrivals at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Jim Smeal / WireImage)
American actor Kiefer Sutherland, at the 1989 Oscars. (Photoshot / Getty Images)
Actor Michael Caine and his wife Shakira Caine attend the 61st Academy Awards on March 29, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Actress Candice Bergen and her mother Frances Bergen attend the 61st Academy Awards on March 29, 1989 at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Musician Carly Simon attends the 61st Academy Awards on March 29, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Actress Sharon Wyatt attends the 61st Academy Awards on March 29, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Actor Dustin Hoffman and actor Tom Cruise participate in the 61st Academy Awards to be held on March 29, 1989 at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
The American actor Ryan O'Neal and his girlfriend FARRAH FAWCETT, at the 1989 Oscars. (Photoshot / Getty Images)
Actress Mimi Rogers and actor Tom Cruise attend the 61st Oscars After Party organized by Irving & # 39; Swifty & # 39; Lazar on March 29, 1989 in Spago, West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Jacqueline Bisset and Vincent Perez at the 61st Oscars – Arrivals at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Barry King / WireImage)
Donna Rice attends the 61st Academy Awards on March 29, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Actor Patrick Swayze and his wife Lisa Niemi attend the 61st Academy Awards on March 29, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
American actor Kim Novak poses on the red carpet at the Oscars of the Shrine Civic Auditorium, in Los Angeles, California on April 29, 1989. (Photo by Fotos International / Getty Images)
BURBANK, CA – APRIL 10: Actor Patrick Duffy and his wife Carlyn participate in the 24th Academy Awards of Country Music on April 10, 1989 at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
American actress Jodie Foster, at the 1989 Oscars. (Photoshot / Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES – MARCH 29: Actress Martha Plimpton and actor River Phoenix attend the 61st Academy Awards on March 29, 1989 at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd / WireImage)
Tippi Hedren at the 61st Oscars – Arrivals at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Barry King / WireImage)
Bo Derek at the 61st Academy Awards – Arrivals at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Barry King / WireImage)
Brian Robbins, Holly Robinson and Dolores Robinson (Photo by Barry King / WireImage)
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans at the 61st Academy Awards – Arrivals at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Barry King / WireImage)
Tom Selleck at the 61st Academy Awards – Shrine Auditorium Press Room in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Barry King / WireImage)
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• If "A star is born" wins, this will be the first of four "Star is Born" movies to win the Best Film Award.
• If Alfonso Cuarón is elected best director, he will become the first person to do it for a film in a foreign language.
• If Cuarón wins the Best Director Award, it will be the fifth time in six years that this prize will be awarded to one of three directors of Mexican origin: Alejandro G. Inarritu, who won the "Best Birdman "and" The Revenant "; Guillermo del Toro, who won the prize "The form of water"; and Cuaron, who had already won for "Gravity".
• A win by Cuarón, Pawel Pawlikowski or Yorgos Lanthimos would also mean that only two of the last 10 winners of the best director were born in the United States, the most dominant segment of filmmakers born abroad to history Oscars. The other winners born abroad at this time are Ang Lee (Taiwan), Michel Hazanavicius (France) and Tom Hooper (UK). Only Kathryn Bigelow and Damien Chazelle are from the United States.
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• If Cuarón wins the best photograph, he will become the first person to win Oscars for directing and cinematography. Another person, Jack Cardiff, was nominated in both categories for different films, but did not win in production.
• If the following people win, they will be the first Blacks to win victories in their categories:
Spike Lee, "BlacKkKlansman" – Best Director Hannah Beachler, "Black Panther" – Best Production Scenography Ruth Carter, "Black Panther" – Best Costume Design Peter Ramsey, "Spider-Man: In The Spider" – Best animation film
• If "All My Stars" of "Black Panther" wins the Best Song Award, SZA will be only the second black woman to win in this category, and the first since Irene Cara co-wrote the song " Flashdance "in 1984.
• If Beachler, Carter or SZA wins, she will become the second black woman to win an Oscar in a category other than that of actress. (Cara was the first and the only one.)
• If "Black Panther" wins the sound mix, it will be Willie Burton's third win and make him the biggest African-American in the history of the Oscars.
• If "Shallow" of "A Star Is Born" wins the Oscar for Best Original Song, co-writer Bradley Cooper will become the second person to win an Oscar for Best Song for a movie that he / she also realized. The first was Joseph Brooks for "You Light Up My Life" from the 1977 film of the same name.
• If Glenn Close does not win the best actress for "The Wife", she will set a new record for the highest number of winless nominations for an actress, seven.
• If Glenn Close wins for "The Wife" but Amy Adams does not win for "Vice", Adams will tie Thelma Ritter and Deborah Kerr to the rank of actresses with the most winless nominations, six. She will also become the living actress with the most winless nominations.
• If Regina King wins Best Supporting Actress, she will be only the second actress or actress to win an Oscar after being nominated by the Screen Actors Guild or BAFTA. Marcia Gay Harden was the first for "Pollock" in 2001.
• If "Roma", "Cold War" or "Never Look Away" win the Best Film Award, it will be the first foreign-language film to do so since "Pan & # 39; s Labyrinth" in 2006, and the fifth in total after this movie, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Fanny & Alexander" and "Cries and Whispers".
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Donald Trump and Melania Trump at the Oscars over the years
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA – FEBRUARY 29: Donald Trump and Melania Knauss attend the 2004 Vanity Fair Oscars at Mortons on February 29, 2004 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Billy Farrell / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – FEBRUARY 29: (G-D) Teresa Barrick, Steven Tyler, Melania Knauss, and Donald Trump attend the 2004 Vanity Fair Oscars (Exclusive Inside Cover) at Mortons on February 29, 2004 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Donald Trump during the 2004 Vanity Fair Oscars – Arrivals at Mortons in Beverly Hills, California, USA. (Photo by Tony Barson Archive / WireImage)
Sharon Osbourne, Donald Trump and Melania Knauss at the 12th Annual Academy Awards Elton John AIDS Foundation, organized jointly by In Style – Inside at Pearl in West Hollywood, California, USA. (Photo by KMazur / WireImage)
Donald Trump and Melania Knauss at the 12th Annual Academy Awards organized by the Elton John AIDS Foundation, co-hosted by In Style – Arrivals at Pearl in West Hollywood, California, USA. (Photo by J. Merritt / FilmMagic)
386900 83: Donald Trump and his girlfriend, model Melania Knauss, arrive for the 73rd Academy Awards on March 25, 2001, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Weeks / Getty Images)
386900 171: Donald Trump and his girlfriend, model Melania Knauss, arrive for the 73rd Academy Awards on March 25, 2001, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Weeks / Getty Images)
Donald Trump at the 73rd Academy Awards – Arrivals at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by SGranitz / WireImage)
Donald Trump and Samuel L. Jackson at the 73rd Oscars – Arrivals at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by SGranitz / WireImage)
(Original caption) Donald Trump with a friend. (Photo of Frank Trapper / Corbis via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 27: (Lt) Donald Trump, Melania Knauss Trump, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale attend the Vanity Fair Oscars at Morton's Restaurant on February 27, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Patrick McMullan / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 27: Donald Trump and Melania Knauss Trump attend the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Morton's Restaurant on February 27, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Billy Farrell / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Donald J. Trump (right) and new model woman Melania Knauss Trump arrive at the Vanity Fair Academy Awards® at Mortons Restaurant. (Photo by Chris Farina / Corbis via Getty Images)
Donald Trump and Melania Trump at the Vanity Fair Oscars 2005 – Arrivals at Mortons in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by George Pimentel / WireImage)
Melania Trump and Donald Trump at the 13th Annual Academy Awards organized by the Elton John AIDS Foundation, organized by Chopard – Arrivals at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Jean-Paul Aussenard / WireImage)
Melania Trump and Donald Trump at the 13th Annual Academy Awards organized by the Elton John AIDS Foundation, hosted by Chopard – Inside, at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California, USA. (Photo by KMazur / WireImage)
Tim Allen, Jane Hajduk, Melania Trump and Donald Trump (Photo by KMazur / WireImage)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 27: Donald Trump and Melania Trump arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscars on February 27, 2011 at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire / FilmMagic)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 27: Donald Trump and Melania Trump arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscars on February 27, 2011 at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire / FilmMagic)
Portrait of married couple Donald and Melania Trump posing together on the red carpet at the Kodak Theater during the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, Hollywood, California, February 27, 2011. (Photo by Bob Riha, Jr. / Getty Images)
Donald Trump and his wife Melania at the 83rd Academy Awards, held at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. (Photo of Frank Trapper / Corbis via Getty Images)
(G-D) Actress Helena Bonham Carter, Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump arrive at the 83rd Academy Awards to be held at Kodak Theater on February 27, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic)
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• If Yalitza Aparicio or Marina de Tavira win the Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress for "Roma", she will become the eighth actor or actress to win a performance in a foreign language. The eight others: Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni, Benicio del Toro, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz and Christoph Waltz. (If you count American Sign Language as a foreign language, you can add Marlee Matlin to the list.)
• If "Incredibles 2" wins the best animated feature, Brad Bird will become the most awarded director in the category, with three Oscars. (His first two were for "The Incredibles" and "Ratatouille.")
• An "Incredibles 2" win will extend Pixar's Oscar winning streak to eight consecutive loss-free appointments. The series debuted with Bird's "Ratatouille" in 2007 and included "WALL-E", "Up", "Toy Story 3", "Brave", "Inside Out" and "Coco". when Pixar did not have a candidate – but every year he was named, he won the prize.)
• If "Incredibles 2" does not win the best feature film, it will only be the third defeat of 12 nominations for Pixar Animation Studios. This will end Pixar's seventh win streak
• If "BlacKkKlansman", "The Favorite", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Vice" or "One Star is Born" wins the best film, it will be the first film to win without having previously won the Producers Guild Award, the Director Guild Award, Writers Guild Award or Screen Actor's Guild Ensemble Award at the time of the award of these four awards, from 1995 to the present day.
• If "Black Panther" wins the Best Film Award, it will be the first movie to win with only one winning set of SAGs among the top four guilds.
• If "Roma" wins the Best Foreign Language Film Award, it will be the first Mexican film to win the award for 51 nominations and nine nominations.
• If Marc Shaiman wins the Oscar either for the score of "Mary Poppins Returns", or for the song "The Place Where Lost Things Go" of this movie, he will become the 16th person to win the Emmy-Grammy Grand Prize -Oscar-Tony. slam known as EGOT, and the fourth to complete the EGOT in the last six months. He will also become the seventh composer / composer to win the EGOT Award.
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The transformation of Nicole Kidman's Oscars style
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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (picture by Ron Galella / WireImage)
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise (photo by S. Granitz / WireImage)
Diandra Douglas, Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise and Jodie Foster (photo by Ron Galella / WireImage)
Director Barry Levinson, actress Nicole Kidman and actor Tom Cruise participate in the 64th Oscars After Party organized by Irving & # 39; Swifty & # 39; Lazar on March 30, 1992 at Spago in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Actress Nicole Kidman and actor Tom Cruise attend the 66th Academy Awards on March 21, 1994 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Actress Nicole Kidman attends the 68th Academy Awards on March 25, 1996 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Actor Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman attend the 68th Academy Awards on March 25, 1996 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise (photo by Ke.Mazur / WireImage)
Nicole Kidman at the 2000 Academy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic, Inc.)
Nicole Kidman and her sister Antonia Kidman at the 74th Oscars – Arrivals at Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California, USA. (Photo by SGranitz / WireImage)
Nicole Kidman at the 74th Oscar Nominated Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, United States. (Photo by SGranitz / WireImage)
Nicole Kidman and her Oscar for Best Actress in The Hours (Photo by Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic, Inc)
UNITED STATES – MARCH 01: Oprah Winfrey and Nicole Kidman attend the 2004 Oscar Vanity Fair at Morton & # 39; s in Beverly Hills, CA 02/29/04 (Photo by Vinnie Zuffante / Getty Images)
Nicole Kidman at the 76th Oscars – Arrivals at Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California, USA. (Photo by Jeffrey Mayer / WireImage)
Nicole Kidman, dressed in a Balenciaga dress, at the 78th Academy Awards (Photo: Ian West – PA Images / PA Images via Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD – FEBRUARY 25: Actress Nicole Kidman attends the 79th Academy Awards ceremony to be held at Kodak Theater on February 25, 2007 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Stephen Shugerman / Getty Images)
Nicole Kidman at the 79th Academy Awards at Kodak Theater, Los Angeles. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images)
(LR) Country Music singer, Keith Urban and his wife, Nicole Kidman, wearing a CRISTOBAL BALENCIAGA dress, L 's jewelry? WREN SCOTT (necklace containing 7,645 diamonds for a total of nearly 1,400 carats) and CHANEL BEAUTY makeup arrive at the 80th Academy Awards® held at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Farina / Corbis via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 22: (EDITOR'S NOTE: NO ONLINE, NO INTERNET, REPRESENTED FROM INTERNET AND TELEVISION USE UNTIL THE CONCLUSION OF LIVE TELECAST OSCARS) L & # 39; Actress Nicole Kidman presents the Best Actress on Stage Award at the 81st Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theater on February 22, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter / Getty Images)
THE 83RD ACADEMY AWARDS – RED MATTRESS ARRIVALS – The 2010 Oscars for Outstanding Film Achievement will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood & Highland Center, and broadcast live under the title "83rd Annual Academy Awards" . on the ABC television network. (Photo by Rick Rowell / ABC via Getty Images) NICOLE KIDMAN
Nicole Kidman at the 83rd Academy Awards, which was held at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. (Photo of Frank Trapper / Corbis via Getty Images)
THE 85th ACADEMY PRIZE – ARRIVALS ON RED CARPETS – The Oscars (r) for Outstanding Film Achievement in 2012 will be presented on Sunday, February 24 (8:30 pm, ET / 5:30 pm local time) at Dolby Theater ™ at Hollywood & Highland Center (r), live on the ABC television network. ((Rick Rowell ABC / via Getty Images))
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Nicole Kidman arriving for the 85th Academy Awards at Dolby Theater, Los Angeles. (Photo by Ian West / PA Images via Getty Images)
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban arriving for the 85th Academy Awards at Dolby Theater, Los Angeles. (Photo by Ian West / PA Images via Getty Images)
Actress Nicole Kidman arrives at the 87th Academy Awards held in Hollywood and the Highland Center of Hollywood. (Photo of Frank Trapper / Corbis via Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 22: Actress Nicole Kidman poses in the press room at the 87th Academy Awards at the Loews Hollywood Hotel on February 22, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by C Flanigan / Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 26: Singer Keith Urban (left) and actress Nicole Kidman arrive at the 89th Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Dan MacMedan / Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 26: Actress Nicole Kidman arrives at the 89th Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Dan MacMedan / Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD, CA – MARCH 04: Actor Nicole Kidman attends the 90th Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Dan MacMedan / WireImage)
HOLLYWOOD, CA – MARCH 4: Nicole Kidman arrives at the 90th Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz / WireImage)
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