I may not be a churchgoer, but this Sunday is a holy day for me. It's the mecca of movie mania. The most fabulous festival of film. The ultimate big screen bash. Come Sunday night, I will be glued to the TV shoving food into my mouth in celebration of the day I live for. My Super Bowl.
THE OSCARS!!!
I know that the Oscars aren't always awarded accordingly, and that they don't necessarily reflect all of the best movies of the year (I'm an indie fan, too), and about half of the ceremony is just spectacle and stupid celebrity banter, but I looooooove the Oscars! I love deliberating whether Anne Hathaway or Hilary Swank is wearing the better dress. I love that awful feeling of suspense as you wait to hear whether your favorite flick of the year has won Best Picture (that is, until that awful feeling of let down when they reveal that your favorite movie of the year has just lost to "The Hurt Locker.") I love it all. But really, I love it because it's an entire night of nationwide celebration over what I love the most: movies.
For me, Oscar night isn't just a night, it's a full-blown, built up celebration that begins weeks in advance. One of the ways I psyche myself up is to review what went down at the most previous Academy Awards ceremony. That gets me reminiscing about the year before that, and the year before that... you get the point. I have a lot of fun with it, so I thought I'd share it with you. Below is a list of Oscar trivia. I hope it gets you stoked for the big night!
- The youngest person in history to win any kind of Oscar was Shirley Temple. She was 5.
- The youngest person in history to win a standard Oscar was Tatum O'Neal for "Paper Moon," at 10 years old.
- The five major Academy Awards are for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay (original or adapted). Only 3 films in history have ever won all five awards: "It Happened One Night," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and "The Silence of the Lambs."
- Meryl Streep holds the record for most Best Actress Oscar nominations, at a total of 16.
- The youngest person in history to win a Best Actress Oscar was also the only deaf actress to win an Oscar, period - Marlee Matlin, for "Children of a Lesser God."
- Alfred Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director 5 times throughout his life, but he never won once.
- Hailee Steinfeld, who plays Mattie Ross in 'True Grit," has African American ancestry. If she wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress this year, she'll qualify as one of 14 black actors who have won Academy Awards throughout history.
- The first Academy Awards ceremony took place in 1927, and the winner of Best Picture was a silent movie called "Wings."
Sources:
http://www.seeing-stars.com/awards/oscartrivia.shtml
http://www.reelclassics.com/Articles/General/oscar-trivia-article.htm
- The youngest person in history to win any kind of Oscar was Shirley Temple. She was 5.
- The youngest person in history to win a standard Oscar was Tatum O'Neal for "Paper Moon," at 10 years old.
- The five major Academy Awards are for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay (original or adapted). Only 3 films in history have ever won all five awards: "It Happened One Night," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and "The Silence of the Lambs."
- Meryl Streep holds the record for most Best Actress Oscar nominations, at a total of 16.
- The youngest person in history to win a Best Actress Oscar was also the only deaf actress to win an Oscar, period - Marlee Matlin, for "Children of a Lesser God."
- Alfred Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director 5 times throughout his life, but he never won once.
- Hailee Steinfeld, who plays Mattie Ross in 'True Grit," has African American ancestry. If she wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress this year, she'll qualify as one of 14 black actors who have won Academy Awards throughout history.
- The first Academy Awards ceremony took place in 1927, and the winner of Best Picture was a silent movie called "Wings."
Sources:
http://www.seeing-stars.com/awards/oscartrivia.shtml
http://www.reelclassics.com/Articles/General/oscar-trivia-article.htm
I'm excited to read what you thought of the show. I wasn't wowed by the hosts.
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