Oscar fun facts that can come out of tonights Broadcast, winners - TopicsExpress



          

Oscar fun facts that can come out of tonights Broadcast, winners depending: 1. If Jennifer Lawrence wins an Oscar tonight, she will be just the 6th person to win back-to-back acting Oscars, after Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Jason Robards and Tom Hanks...and the first to win in different categories each time 2. We could very well see the first Black or Latino Best Director winner 3. If Barkhad Abdi or Lupita Nyongo win Supporting Actor/Actress, they would be the 19th/20th persons to win an Oscar for their acting debut, following Gale Sondergaard, Katina Paxinou, Harold Russell, Claude Jarman, Jr., Ivan Jandl, Mercedes McCambridge, Shirley Booth, Eva Marie Saint, Vincent Winter, Jo Van Fleet, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Tatum ONeal, Timothy Hutton, Haing S. Ngor, Marlee Matlin, Anna Paquin and Jennifer Hudson 4. If Lupita, Barkhad or Chiwetel Ejiofor win, they would be the 13th/14th/15th black person... after Hattie McDaniel, James Baskett, Sidney Poitier, Louis Gossett Jr., Denzel Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jamie Foxx, Morgan Freeman, Forest Whitaker, MoNique, Octavia Spencer to win an acting Oscar. 5. If Gravity wins Best Picture, it would be the first sci-fi film to win Best Picture and the first winner to be directed by a Latino. 6. If Twelve Years a Slave wins Best Picture, it would be the first winner to be directed by a Black person (hes British and therefore, not African-American) 7. If Jared Leto wins Supporting Actor, this would be the 7th LGBTQ performance to win an Oscar, following William Hurt, Tom Hanks, Charlize Theron, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sean Penn and Christopher Plummer. 8. If Get a Horse! wins Best Animated short film, it will be the 3rd Oscar dedicated to Mickey Mouse. The creation of this classic toon won Disney a special Oscar in 1932, and the character was featured in the 1941 Oscar winning toon short, Lend a Paw 9. If Frozen wins Best Animated Feature film, it will be the first given solely to the legendary production house. They shared the prize with Pixar for each of that companys 7 wins 10. If Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto win acting Oscars for Dallas Buyers Club, it will be the first time since 2004 (10 years exact) that one film has won both male acting Oscars
Posted on: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 17:47:51 +0000

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