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Oscar trivia: How many times has Meryl Streep been nominated?
Think you know everything there is to know about the Oscars 2014? Read on.
We’ve discussed the nominees, we’ve lamented the omissions, and we’ve looked at each of the major categories.
But that’s never all, is it?
Oscar season would be nothing without a look at the astounding facts that mark out the year’s nominees.
Here’s what you should know about those in the running for the 86th Annual Academy Awards:
1. Meryl Streep -- who is nominated this year for her alarming hysterics in August: Osage County -- has set a new record for most acting nominations ever, with this being her 18th.
The previous record holder? Also Streep, who received her 17th nomination back in 2011.
She has won three Oscars of her 17 nominations before this one (The Iron Lady in 2012, Sofie's Choice in 1983 and Kramer vs Kramer in 1980).
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2. Jennifer Lawrence makes a new record
Jennifer Lawrence is up for Best Supporting Actress for American Hustle.
The actress won the award last year for Silver Lining’s Playbook, and was nominated in 2010 for Winter’s Bone.
The nomination this year makes Lawrence, 23, the youngest actress ever to be nominated for three Oscars.
3. Megan Ellison's double joy
Megan Ellison, the 28-year-old producer and founder of Annapurna Pictures, became the first woman to ever receive two Best Picture nominations in the same year, with her films American Hustle and Her both slugging it out for the top prize.
It’s something even Harvey Oscar-lovin’ Weinstein hasn’t been able to do, and we have to look to Scott Rudin (The Social Network and True Grit in 2011) and Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather II and The Conversation in 1974) to see people dominating that category thus.
4. Woody Allen's 16th nomination!
Woody Allen’s nomination for Best Original Screenplay sets him far above anyone else in the category.
This nomination for Blue Jasmine is a record-breaking 16th screenwriting nomination for Allen, the old record being his 15th nomination (and win) for Midnight In Paris in 2011.
Allen has won three screenplay Oscars and one for directing -- but it's not like he shows up to the ceremony to accept them.
5. And John Williams' 44th!
But when it comes to nominations, you can add up Woody’s and Meryl’s and still fall well short of the nomination tally for composer John Williams.
Williams, who has won five times -- Fiddler On The Roof, Jaws, Star Wars, ET The Extra Terrestrial and Schindler’s List -- is up for The Book Thief this year, the Best Original Score nomination marking his 44th nomination in the category and his 49th overall.
6. Hobbit makes history
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug is up for three Academy Awards -- Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing -- and with that Peter Jackson’s Tolkien-mining franchise, including the first Hobbit film and The Lord Of The Rings movies, stands tall with a whopping 36 nominations, more than any other movie series in history.
7. Bruce Dern: Age is just a number
Bruce Dern, at 77, the leading man in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska is the second-oldest actor to be nominated in the Best Actor category.
The oldest was Richard Farnsworth, who was 79 when nominated for The Straight Story (1999).
8. June Squibb to make history?
Also in Nebraska we see veteran actress June Squibb, who, at 84, is the third-oldest woman to be nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award, and, should she win, will become the oldest woman to receive an Oscar for acting.