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You'll be the most in-the-know person at your Oscar party this year.
In 1989, he won the first-ever rap Grammy for "Parents Just Don't Understand," but refused to attend the show because the rap category would not be televised. He's bailing on the Oscars this year to protest the lack of racial diversity among the awards nominees.
Hilary Swank won for Boys Don't Cry and Jared Leto won for Dallas Buyers Club.
At 25, Lawrence, who's up for Best Actress for Joy and won three years ago for Silver Linings Playbook, broke the record held by Jennifer Jones, who was 27 when she received her fourth nomination for Duel in the Sun in 1947. Lawrence is also the youngest to earn three nominations, which she achieved at 23 with her supporting nomination for American Hustle.
He's up for "Earned It" from 50 Shades of Grey.
Seventeen years ago, Powell's work in Shakespeare in Love beat her costumes for Velvet Goldmine. She has won three Oscars total.
The new company making them, Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry, is basing them off the original statuettes given out in 1929, using digital scans and 3D printers to create exact replicas. The trophy will still be plated in 24-karat gold, of course.
Before Best Actor nominee Michael Fassbender ultimately played the Apple co-founder, both Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale were in talks for the film before passing on it. DiCaprio is up for Best Actor for The Revenant, while Bale is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Big Short.
They're the screenwriters, Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge and Alan Wenkus.
As in, he literally lost the physical statues. In his autobiography, he admitted he had misplaced his Best Actor award for On the Waterfront, and said he wasn't sure if he ever received the statue he had Sacheen Littlefeather accept on his behalf for The Godfather.
"Skyfall" won in 2013, while the iconic "Goldfinger" wasn't even nominated in 1965. "Writing's on the Wall" from Spectre is a contender for the prize this year.
So when the recipients say, "Wow, this is so heavy!" they're not kidding.
They are Wings (2 for 2), Grand Hotel (1 for 1), It Happened One Night (5 for 5), Gigi (9 for 9), The Last Emperor (9 for 9) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (11 for 11).
Since then, they've phrased it as, "And the Oscars goes to...". In 2010, producers brought back "And the winner is...," but it only lasted that year.
The only time she attended the Oscars was to present the Irving G. Thalberg Award to Lawrence Weingarten in 1974. "I'm the living proof that a person can wait 41 years to be unselfish," she said onstage.
He's up for Best Actor for Trumbo. If he wins, he'd only need a Grammy to complete the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony).
The Best Animated Feature Film nominee raised more than $400,000 on the crowdfunding platform, prompting the filmmakers to expand it from a short film to a feature-length one.
He's up for The Revenant. The other three were for The Aviator, Blood Diamond and The Wolf of Wall Street. His first nomination was for Best Supporting Actor for What's Eating Gilbert Grape. He was also nominated as a producer on Best Picture nominee The Wolf of Wall Street. He has never won, but this might finally be his year.
The only completely silent film to win an Oscar was the first Best Picture winner Wings. The Artist took home Best Picture in 2012 and has no dialogue until the very end, though it did have a score and some sound effects.
Composers Martin Charnin, John Kander and Charles Strouse, and producer Anne Garefino are also an Oscar away from an EGOT. Cross your fingers that Hamilton gets a movie deal!
They all have Oscars, but Winslet, Cher and Scorsese need a Tony; Minnelli and Mirren need a Grammy; and John and Menken need an Emmy.
She won Best Supporting Actress in 1940. Since then, 13 other black performers have won; Denzel Washington is the only one to win two.
When the #OscarsSoWhite controversy entered its second year in 2016, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced sweeping changes to membership rules, hoping to lead to more diverse nominees in coming years.
Winners were informed three months before the first ceremony, which was held May 16, 1929.
Of the 15 films that have received acting nominations in all four categories, My Man Godfrey, Sunset Boulevard and American Hustle are the only ones not to win any, while A Streetcar Named Desire and Network each took home three in 1951 and 1976, respectively.
Thirty-seven million people tuned in for the broadcast last year.
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