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Oscars 2024: 17 facts you need to know Adapted from: https://www.bbc.
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The film industry has had another eventful year - Super Mario ruled the box office, Barbenheimer became a
viral phenomenon, and Saltburn's Barry Keoghan made some questionable choices in a bathtub. Meanwhile,
the 2024 Oscar nominations reflect just how quickly fortunes can change in Hollywood.
This time last year, Margot Robbie had just starred in Babylon - a box office bomb which won zero Oscars.
This year, however, she is heading to the Academy Awards as the face of Barbie, the biggest film of 2023
which grossed $1.4bn and is nominated in eight categories.
When the nominations were announced, dozens of famous faces for the traditional class photo. gathered at
the Academy Awards luncheon We've been through the nominations and found 17 interesting facts, quirks
and possible milestones that could be reached at this year's Oscars.
1. Emma Stone could join an exclusive club The Poor Things star could become the eighth actress to win two
Oscars by the age of 35, having previously won for La La Land in 2017. She would follow in the footsteps of
Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, Luise Rainer, Olivia de Havilland and Hilary Swank.
No male actor has ever achieved the same feat. Stone is also only the second woman to be nominated for
both acting and producing for the same film, following Nomadland's Frances McDormand in 2020. But
Stone's best actress win is far from guaranteed - the category is seen as a dead heat between her and Killers
of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone.
2. The Holdovers has achieved a Christmas miracle The Holdovers is the first Christmas film to be nominated
for best picture since the original Miracle on 34th Street, in 1948. (It's A Wonderful Life was nominated a
year earlier.) The film tells the story of a grumpy teacher who must stay in his boarding school over
Christmas to supervise the children who aren't going home for the holidays. Starring best actor nominee
Paul Giamatti and best supporting actress favourite Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers is set at Christmas,
features Christmas trees and decorations, and has plenty of Christmas songs on its soundtrack. So naturally
the studio released it in the UK in the middle of January.
3. Barbie's soundtrack might have a better chance of a trophy than its director. Despite missing out on best
director and best actress, Barbie's nominations have already made Oscars history. Greta Gerwig, who
directed and cowrote the film, is the only director to have her first three movies nominated for best picture -
Lady Bird, Little Women and Barbie. However, it's possible that Barbie will only win one of the eight prizes it
is nominated for - best original song for What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish. That would mirror the path of
2018's A Star is Born, the Bradley Cooper film which also got eight nominations, but only won in the song
category, for Lady Gaga's Shallow.
4. Cillian Murphy is set to break a decade-long trend Oppenheimer is expected to sweep the Oscars, with
likely wins in major categories including best picture. If its Irish star Cillian Murphy wins too, it will be the first
time since 2012 that the same film has won both best actor and best picture. The last was The Artist and its
star Jean Dujardin. It's a different story in best actress, which recently has been matching up with best
picture more often. Two of the last three best picture winners, Nomadland and Everything Everywhere All At
Once, also won best actress for their stars, Frances McDormand and Michelle Yeoh respectively.
5. There are four Oscar-nominated couples this year Best director nominee Justine Triet is also recognised in
the original screenplay category alongside her partner Arthur Harari. The pair are jointly nominated for
writing Anatomy of a Fall, one of five nominations the film has. At the Golden Globes, Triet explained the
pair had written the film "stuck in our apartment" during the pandemic and "strangely", she joked, they
didn't kill each other as a result. Elsewhere, Barbie's Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are jointly
nominated for the film's screenplay, while Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley are nominated as producers in
best picture.
6. Bradley Cooper is the fifth most nominated living person never to have won an Oscar. The actor, who shot
to fame after appearing in The Hangover, has been nominated 12 times, thanks to his work acting, directing
and writing a variety of films. Cooper is unlikely to break his streak this year, as his film Maestro isn't
predicted to win in the categories he's nominated - best actor, best picture and best original screenplay.
7. Two nominees have set a record for gay actors. For the first time ever, two openly gay actors are
nominated for playing openly gay characters. They are Rustin's Colman Domingo, who portrays civil rights
activist Bayard Rustin, and Nyad's Jodie Foster, who plays swimmer Diana Nyad's friend and coach Bonnie
Stoll. The only other time an openly gay actor has been nominated was Sir Ian McKellen, for Gods and
Monsters in 1998, which was also for playing an openly gay character.
8. American Fiction has already broken a record The nominations for Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K Brown
mark the first time two black actors have been nominated in the lead and supporting categories for the
same film. American Fiction tells the story of a frustrated black author who jokingly writes a book which
plays up to racial stereotypes and tropes, only to find publishers falling over themselves to release it.
9. December's single nomination for best original screenplay keeps an Academy trend alive. A whopping 20
of the last 22 Oscar ceremonies have all seen at least one film nominated for screenplay, but nothing else.
This year, May December is nominated for its script, written by Samy Burch (pictured) - but the film missed
every other category. The Julianne Moore movie joins previous nominees Knives Out, Borat, My Big Fat
Greek Wedding, Molly's Game and Straight Outta Compton in pinning all its Oscar hopes solely on its
screenplay.
10. There would be no Oppenheimer without Twilight. Christopher Nolan decided to make the film about J
Robert Oppenheimer after working on Tenet with Twilight star Robert Pattinson. The actor gave Nolan a
collection of Oppenheimer's speeches as a gift when they finished filming, and when Nolan read them, he
was inspired to make the film. Edward Cullen, we owe you.
The 96th Academy Awards will be handed out at a ceremony in Los Angeles on 10 March.

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