Who has got a nominations sweep? Who has had most nominations? Here are our top Oscar stats…
9: The actors nominated this year who have already got an Oscar in their downstairs loo – including all of the supporting actors . Still, it’s 20 years since Robert De Niro’s last nod and almost 30 since Sally Field won, so we guess they’re allowed another go…
11: The most Oscars ever won by a single film. It’s happened three times, with Ben Hur, Titanic and The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.
2: People who’ve been nominated for all ‘the big ones’ – picture, director, writing and acting. Until this year, it was just Warren Beatty, but now Gorgeous George Clooney has matched his achievement with this year’s Best Picture nod for Argo .
4: The highest achieving actor is Katharine Hepburn, who won four best actress Oscars .
64: The most Oscar nominations ever received by one person, Walt Disney. He won 26.
45: The maximum amount of seconds a winner should gush for, imposed by organisers in 2010 to ‘eliminate embarrassing displays of emotion’.
420 seconds: The longest-ever acceptance speech by Greer Garson in 1934. Alfred Hitchcock and William Holden share the record for the shortest ever acceptance speeches, with ‘Thank you’. Watch and learn Gwyneth, watch and learn…
10: The years since a nominee for Original Song was also a Top 10 chart hit (Eminem’s Lose Yourself), Adele’s Bond theme Skyfall is a strong contender, and the Oscars will be her first performance since Baby Whatsisname was born last summer.
7: The delay time in seconds when the awards go out on TV, to cover any expletives. Which might well be needed with first-time host Seth Macfarlane – the man behind Family Guy and Ted, a film about a swearing, boozing teddy bear – at the helm.
3 out of 5 of this year’s Best Actor nominees have also been named Sexiest Man Alive: Hugh Jackman and Bradley Cooper (both newbies at this Oscarlark ) and fellow hopeful Denzel Washington . Be still our beating hearts.
6: Members of the Coppola family to have been nominated for Oscars. This year, Roman Coppola is nominated for best achievement in writing on Moonrise Kingdom. His dad Francis Ford has won five, his actress aunt Talia Shire has been nominated twice, his cousin Nicolas Cage won one, as did sis Sofia and grandad Carmine.
1940: The year the LA Times printed the names of all the winners before the ceremony – which is why from then on, the results have been in sealed envelopes.
77: The age difference between this year’s youngest Best Actress nominee Quvenzhane Wallis and oldest nominee Emmanuelle Riva.
8: Age of youngest Oscar nominee Justin Henry, who received a nod for Best Supporting Actor in 1979’s Kramer vs Kramer
10: Tatum O’Neal was only just in double digits when she won Best Supporting Actress for Paper Moon in 1974.
87: Titanic’s Gloria Stewart is the oldest ever nominee, earning a Best Supporting Actress nod in 1977 aged 87.
82: Christopher Plummer takes the prize for the oldest winner, landing a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Beginners at the age of 82.
2: The number of Best Actor Oscars Daniel Day-Lewis already has. If he wins for Lincoln he will become the first three-time winner in that category.
$1: The amount a winner must offer to sell their award back to the Academy for, before selling it to someone else.
