Taking the 2020 Oscar slate by the numbers reveals some fascinating truths about this year’s ballot
Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Netflix and Know Your Meme The Academy Awards can be appreciated on many levels: as celebrity stargazing, as artistic competition, as a celebration of popular artists and entertainers, as social commentary, as a flashpoint for sociocultural frustration. It can also be appreciated on a mathematical level. With 92 years’ worth of data at the ready, the annals of the Oscars make for a perfect source of facts and figures, statistics and trivia.
Number: 63 That’s the percentage of all feature-film nominations that went to the nine Best Picture nominees. Sixty-three percent! Sixty-nine of the 109 total nominations. And if you take away the Documentary Feature, Animated Feature, and International Feature categories — which rarely match up with Best Picture in any year — that climbs up to 72 percent .
Number: 2003 That was the year that Charlize Theron and Renee Zellweger won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively, on the same night. Now they’re nominated against each other in the same Best Actress category. It’s only the fourth time that’s happened — that the Best Actress and Supporting Actress winners from the same year have squared off after the fact in the same category:
Number: 14 That’s the number of Best Original Score nominations that composer Thomas Newman has to his name after his nomination for 1917. He also has one nomination for songwriting. He’s never won. Number: 20 The number of years since Pedro Almodóvar was nominated in Best International Film , for 1999’s All About My Mother. Though in the interim he was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for 2002’s Talk to Her.
Number: 5 That’s how many of this year’s Best Costume Design nominees come from Best Picture nominees, making this the first year EVER that no non-Best Picture nominees got a Costume nomination.
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