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This interdimensional screen legend became the first Malaysian lead actress nominee for “Best Actress” at the 2023 Oscars.
Who is Michelle Yeoh?
He is the overall record holder for Oscar nominations regardless of category. Bonus: He was nominated 59 times with 22 wins, not including his four honorary awards.
Who is Walt Disney?
This film is the first superhero film ever nominated for Best Picture.
What is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever?
This musician received her first-ever Oscar nomination for Best Original Song thanks to her single “Lift Me Up” in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Who is Rihanna?
This British-American entertainer holds the distinction of having hosted the Academy Awards a record 14 times.
Who is Bob Hope?
This A Raisin in the Sun actor became the first Black man to win “Best Actor” in 1964.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
She has earned the first Oscar nomination for an actor in the Marvel franchise.
Who is Angela Bassett?
This 1991 film is still the first and only traditional animated film nominated for Best Picture.
What is Beauty and the Beast?
The Academy announced last year that this many “BTL” Oscars categories would no longer be presented on the live broadcast.
What is five (Film Editing, Makeup/Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Production Design, and Sound?
Voting for Academy Awards nominations begins this month; all votes are tallied by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and then usually announced during this month.
What is late December and mid-January?
This Latina became the second-ever actress to win an acting Oscar starring in the 2021 film West Side Story.
Who is Ariana DeBose?
This filmmaker holds the record as the Best Original Screenplay nominee with 14 nominations. He's won twice. He's only attended the ceremony once, after September 11, 2001, to present a montage of New York films.
Who is Woody Allen?
This was the year that, collectively, Best Picture contenders grossed more at the U.S. box office than any previous group of nominees in history at the time of nominations.
What is 2023?
This 90-year-old composer is now the oldest person to be nominated for an Oscar and the most nominated living person, with 53 nods under his belt.
Who is John Williams?
The academy’s board consists of this many members.
What is 54?
In 2002, this woman became the first African-American actress to win an Oscar for a leading role and remains the only African-American woman to win the award.
Who is Halle Berry?
This National Treasure, Bad Boys, and Pirates of the Caribbean producer received his first Oscars nomination in 2023.
Who is Jerry Bruckheimer?
This Jean Renoir film was the first foreign film nominated for Best Picture in 1938.
What is Grand Illusion?
This famed English costume designer from Cruella has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design eleven times.
Who is Jenny Beavan?
This hashtag movement in 2015 caused the Academy to “reframe its voting rights.”
What is #OscarsSoWhite?
This song has become the first song from an Indian movie to be Oscar-nominated for “Best Original Song.”
What is "Naatu Naatu" from the film RRR?
This actor won the Best Actor award for his performance in The Godfather — but sent this Native American civil rights activist to decline it on his behalf.
Who is Marlon Brando and Sacheen Littlefeather?
These two franchises are the only trilogies to garner Best Picture nominations for all their films.
What is The Godfather and The Lord of the Rings?
This Memphis, TN, male hip-hop group received an Academy Award for Best Original Song thanks to this song featured in the 2005 film Hustle & Flow.
Who is Three 6 Mafia and "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp"?
This approximate percentage of the voting members at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences identified as white, and this percentage of the Oscars voters were men.
What is 81 percent and 67 percent?