The Academy Awards are back at the Dolby Theatre tonight with three hosts and over a dozen performers and presenters. Follow our live blog all night from the red carpet to the final award.
Here’s a rundown of some of the notable numbers that have shaped the ceremony over the years.
Oscar nominees continue to be overwhelmingly white across the eight marquee categories. According to Insider, from 2011 to 2020, white people accounted for 79 percent to 98 percent of nominees across the best picture, best director, acting and writing categories. In 2020, the year “Parasite” won best picture, 85 percent of the nominees in those categories were white.
Fourteen nominations is the most any movie has received; three movies have done it: “All About Eve,” “Titanic” and “La La Land.” Adrien Brody was the youngest person to earn the best actor Academy Award when he won for “The Pianist” in 2003, at 29. Marlee Matlin was the youngest person to earn the best actress Oscar when she won for “Children of a Lesser God” in 1987, at 21.Jamie Lee Curtis on the Oscars red carpet explained the"ribbon ring" she's wearing to honor Ukrainian refugees."The ribbon is about the refugee crisis," Curtis said.
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