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And this time was no different with Rami Malek picked up the Best Actor for his film Bohemian Rhapsody while Olivia Colman bagged a surprise win Best Actress for her role in The Favorite. Black Panther also bagged several awards, as did the Mexican visual masterpiece Roma.
But while much is written about the Best Actor / Actress / Director awards, fans are often staring for more details, especially about some of the lesser known celebrities . To help these drowning fans out, a journalist has put together a list of interesting Oscar trivia regarding this year's winners. And the list is hilarious.
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In a Twitter thread, Ben Zauzmer is quoted as truly ingenuous trivia gems covering each film and documentary from Period. End of Sentence to The Green Book to Roma to Spiderman. He even shared weird facts about make-up artists and other crew memebers who generally go unnoticed amid the glamor of the ceremony.
The tweets have been going viral amidst the Oscar buzz and can not be more thankful for the dark tidbits.
Check out the thread and match all the things you already knew.
. @ReginaKing (If @BealeStreet Could Talk) is the first person to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Miniseries / TV Movie in the same year. #Oscars
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @ReginaKing is the first person named Regina to win an Oscar.
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Free Solo is the 5th Documentary nominee with the word "Free," and the first winner.
-Little Isles of Freedom (1942)
-Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years / Bridge to Freedom 1965 (1987)
-Freedom on My Mind (1994)
-Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015)– Ben Zauzmer (@ BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
This is Greg Cannom's ( @ViceMovie ) 4th makeup win, following Dracula (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and Benjamin Button (2008). He moved into the second possession behind possession @TheRickBaker 's 7 wins. #Oscars
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @IAMRuthECarter ( @TheBlackPanther ) Wins Her First Oscar Costume Design 26 years after her first appointment for Malcolm X (1992). That's the longest wait between first suit and first win win in #Oscars history.
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @TheBlackPanther Best Production Design for bringing a comic book to the silver screen, following Batman (1989) and Dick Tracy (1990).
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019 [19659006]. @AlfonsoCuaron ( @RomaCuaron ) is the first person in #Oscars history to have wins for both directing and cinematography in his career.
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Nina Hartsone (@NHartsone, @BoRhapMovie ) is the second female sound editor in the last two decades to win an Oscar, joining Karen Baker Landers (Bourne Ultimatum, Skyfall).
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Neither na Hartsone (@NHartsone, @BoRhapMovie ) is the first person named Nina to win an Oscar
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @BoRhapMovie is the 6th film with a focus on music to win Best Sound Mixing this century. Others:
-Chicago (2002)
-Ray (2004)
-Dreamgirls (2006)
-The Miserables (2012)
-Whiplash (2014)– Ben Zauzmer ( @BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @RomaCuaron Wins Mexico's First Foreign Language Film Oscar on its 9th nomination. Mexico was one shy of Israel's leading 10 nominations without an Oscar.
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @RomaCuaron Wins Mexico's First Foreign Language Film Oscar it's 9th appointment. Mexico was one shy of Israel's leading 10 nominations without an Oscar.
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
John Ottman ( @BoRhapMovie ) is the first person to win Best Movie Editing for a movie that he also wrote the score for. #Oscars
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Mahershala Ali ( @GreenBookMovie ), who also won for Moonlight (2016), is the 8th multi-time Best Supporting Actor winner. Others:
-Walter Brennan (3 wins)
– @TheMichaelCaine
-Melvyn Douglas
-Anthony Quinn
-Jason Robards
-Peter Ustinov
-Christoph Waltz– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Though gender is subjective, Spider-Man: Into the @SpiderVerse is the third superhero movie to win Best Animated Feature at the #Oscars . The first two were The Incredibles (2004) and Big Hero 6 (2014).
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Spider-Man: Into the @SpiderVerse ] @RodneyRothman is the first person named Rodney to win an Oscar
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Bao is the 5th @DisneyPixar film to win Best Animated Short, joining Tin Toy (1988), Geri's Game (1997), For the Birds (2001), and Piper (2016). #Oscars
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Period. End of Sentence. is the second Oscar-winning Documentary Short set in India this century, along with Smile Pinki (2008).
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Paul Lambert (Blade Runner 2049, @FirstManMovie ) back-to-back wins VFX #Oscars something only 7 others have accomplished:
Jim Rygiel, Randall Cook, Alex Letteri, Alex Funke: Lord of the Rings
Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, Louis Mesenkop: I Wanted Wings / Reap the Wild Wind– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Paul Lambert (Blade Runner 2049, @FirstManMovie ) wins back-to-back VFX #Oscars something only 7 others have accomplished:
Jim Rygiel, Randall Cook, Alex Letteri, Alex Funke: Lord of the Rings
Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, Louis Mesenkop: I Wanted Wings / Reap the Wild Wind– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019 [19659006] With @JaimeRayNewman 's Live-Action Short win for Skin, this marks the second year in a row that an actor produced the winning film in this category. Last year, Chris actors @ Overton54 and @RachelShenton won for The Silent Child.
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @GreenBookMovie is the first film to win Best Screenplay for multiple screenwriters who are all nominated as producers for Best Picture (Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly).
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Spike Lee 's Oscar for writing @BlacKkKlansman comes 29 years after his 1st nomination for Do the Right Thing. Among screenwriters, this is the 2nd-longest gap between 1st nomination and 1st win, Larry McMurtry's 34 years between The Last Picture Show & Brokeback Mountain.
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019 [19659006] Spike Lee's Oscar for writing @BlacKkKlansman comes 29 years after his 1st nomination for Do the Right Thing. Among screenwriters, this is the 2nd-longest gap between 1st nomination and 1st win, Larry McMurtry's 34 years between The Last Picture Show & Brokeback Mountain.
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019 [19659006] @TheBlackPanther is the first superhero movie to win Best Original Score. #Oscars
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @LadyGaga Best Song wins for "Shallow" ( @StarIsBornMovie ), becoming the 4th person to win Best Song while also nominated in a non-musical category.
-Irving Berlin 1942: Story
-Alan Jay Lerner 1958: Adapted Screenplay
-Fran Walsh 2003: Picture, Adapted Screenplay– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Both the 1976 and 2018 versions of @StarIsBornMovie won Best Original Song. This is the 5th time film of the same name. Others:
-Cinematography: Cleopatra (34, 63)
-Costume: Moulin Rouge (52, 01)
-Costume: Great Gatsby (74, 13)
-PD: Moulin Rouge (52 , 01)– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @ItsRamiMalek ( @BoRhapMovie ) is the first person ever to have won for the Best Actor for the Best Actor in the Drama. He won the Emmy two years ago for @WhoIsMrRobot .
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @BoRhapMovie is the first film in #Oscars history to win Best Actor, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing.
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @GreenBookMovie is the 6th film to win The Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay. The first 5:
-Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
-The Usual Suspects (1995)
-Good Will Hunting (1997)
-Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
-Django Unchained (2012)
None of these won Best Picture.– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Olivia Colman Wins Best Actress for @The_Favourite ! And once again, Glenn is now off the podium – 7 nominations and no wins. #Oscars
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019 @AlfonsoCuaron ( @RomaCuaron ) is the first person to win Best Director for directing a foreign-language film. Directors nominated for foreign-language films were previously 0/30.
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @AlfonsoCuaron Best Director winner for Gravity (2013 ) and @RomaCuaron Frank Borzage (7th Heaven in 1928, Bad Girl in 1932) as the only multi-time director winners without a loss. #Oscars
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
. @GreenBookMovie Wins Best Picture! It's the first movie in #Oscars history to win Best Picture, Original Screenplay, and Supporting Actor.
– Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019
Before this, Zausmer had also posted a series of fascinating facts about the Oscars presenters. And now this trivia bouquet is sure to make many a fun dinner.
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