Stats And Trivia From The 98th Academy Award Nominations

At long last, the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards are here. As always, each new crop of nominees brings plenty of trivia, fascinating stats, and a host of records. For Oscars obsessives, these records give us a glimpse into new Academy Awards history and curious stats to keep an eye on in our predictions. Between Neon’s unprecedented international feature slate, breaking countless records, and a brand new category altogether, these nominees truly mark a fresh era for the Academy.

Take a look at our comprehensive list of as much trivia as we could gather!

OVERALL STATS & TRIVIA

• “Sinners” is officially the most nominated film in Academy Awards history, with 16 nominations. This breaks the previous record of 14 nominations set by “All About Eve,” “Titanic,” and “La La Land.”
• “One Battle After Another” is the 13th film to receive 13 nominations. This is the third year in a row that a film has received 13 nominations, a new record.
• This is the first time in Oscar history that two films received 13 or more nominations in the same year.
• Josh Safdie received four Oscar nominations this year: Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, and Editing. He is the twelfth person to receive four nominations in a single year.
• For the third time in Academy Awards history, all five Best Director nominees are also nominated for writing their films. This is a growing trend with the Academy, following occurrences in 2022 and 2024.
• With three nominations this year, Paul Thomas Anderson has received 14 career nominations. If he were to fail to win any of these awards, he would be tied with Loren L. Ryder as the sixth-most-nominated individual without a win.
• With her two nominations this year, Emma Stone is the second-youngest person to receive their seventh Academy Award nomination, at 37 years old. Walt Disney still holds the record, receiving his seventh nomination at 34 in 1936.
• At 37, Emma Stone is the youngest woman to receive seven Academy Award nominations, unseating Meryl Streep, who received her seventh nomination at 38 for “Ironweed.” All of Streep’s nominations have been for Acting, while Stone has received two nominations for Best Picture.
• Though the definition of “horror” is subjective, this year saw 27 nominations for horror films (“Sinners,” “Frankenstein,” “Weapons,” “The Ugly Stepsister”), a new record. The previous record was 10 nominations, set in 2024 and 1973.
• Ryan Coogler joins Jacques Audiard and Spike Jonze as the only people to have received nominations for producing, directing, writing, and songwriting. Audiard is the only person to have achieved this for a single film,“Emilia Perez,” just last year.
• This is the first time in 20 years that Searchlight Pictures (or previously Fox Searchlight) failed to receive a single Academy Award nomination.

BEST PICTURE STATS & TRIVIA

• This is the ninth year in a row, excluding the Covid-hampered 2020, in which at least one Best Picture nominee was released outside of the fall-winter season. “Sinners” was released on April 18th, 2025.
• Adam Somner (“One Battle After Another”) is the sixth person posthumously nominated for Best Picture. The last posthumous nominations in the category were Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, both nominated for “The Reader” in 2008. If Somner wins, he would be the second posthumous winner, following Sam Zimbalist, who won for “Ben-Hur” in 1959.
• Leonardo DiCaprio now ties Robert De Niro for the most credited appearances in Best Picture nominees, with 12 appearances apiece. Cate Blanchett and Jack Nicholson are tied for the second-most credited appearances, with 10 each.
• If “One Battle After Another” wins Best Picture, Leonardo DiCaprio will have three credited appearances in Best Picture winners, tying the all-time record. The 16 others on the list: Donald Crisp, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman, Clark Gable, Beth Grant, John Gielgud, Jack Hawkins, Bernard Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton, Shirley MacLaine, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Talia Shire, and Meryl Streep.
• Timothée Chalamet received nominations for both Best Actor and Best Picture this year, making him the youngest person to do so at 30, narrowly beating Warren Beatty by 9 months. He is the eleventh overall person nominated for producing and acting in the same film, following Warren Beatty, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, Frances McDormand, and Emma Stone.
• Emma Stone received nominations for both Best Actress and Best Picture this year, the second time she’saccomplished this. She is the youngest person and the only woman to have done this. Overall, she’s the fourth person to have been nominated for acting and producing the same film twice.
• Chalamet and Stone’s nominations for both Best Picture and acting mark the second time two people have accomplished this in the same year, following Bradley Cooper and Stone both achieving this in 2023.
• Steven Spielberg (“Hamnet”) extends his record as the most-nominated person in Best Picture, with 14 nominations.
• Dede Gardner (“F1“) received her ninth nomination for Best Picture, becoming the most-nominated woman in the category’s history, breaking her tie with Kathleen Kennedy. She is now tied with Scott Rudin for the second-most nominations in the category, trailing only Steven Spielberg, also nominated this year.
• Six producers received Best Picture nominations for producing “F1,” a new record. According to Academy rules, no more than three producers may be nominated, but exceptions are made for producing teams of two.
• This is the eighth consecutive year that at least one non-English-language film has been nominated for Best Picture. The previous record was two in a row from 1972-1973.
• “Sentimental Value” and “The Secret Agent” are the 12th and 13th non-English language films nominated for Best Picture and Best International Feature.
• With “It Was Just An Accident” failing to receive a Best Picture nomination, it’s the Palme d’Or winner since“Titane” to miss, breaking a record-setting streak.
• “The Secret Agent” is the second Brazilian film nominated for Best Picture, following “I’m Still Here” just last year.
• This is a record seventh year in a row with at least one Best Picture nominee directed by a woman, thanks to Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet.”
• Ten women were nominated for Best Picture this year, a new record.
• “Sinners” is the eighth horror film nominated for Best Picture. Those previous nominees were “The Exorcist,” “Jaws,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” “The Sixth Sense,” “Black Swan,” “Get Out,” and “The Substance.”
• With “Avatar: Fire & Ash” failing to receive a Best Picture nomination, it’s the first franchise to receive Best Picture nominations for its first two installments, but not the third.
• Guillermo del Toro joins Alejandro González Iñárritu as the only Latin Americans to receive three Best Picture nominations.
• After its release was delayed to 2025, “The Life of Chuck” has officially missed a Best Picture nomination. That makes 2024 officially the first time since 2011 that the TIFF People’s Choice Award winner was not nominated for Best Picture. This year’s winner, “Hamnet,” did receive a nomination.
• Despite having won Best Picture twice, this is the first year Neon has had multiple films nominated for Best Picture, with two nominees.

BEST DIRECTOR STATS & TRIVIA

• Chloé Zhao (“Hamnet”) is the first woman to have won Best Director and received a follow-up nomination in the category. She is also the second woman to receive a second nomination for Best Director, following Jane Campion.
• Chloé Zhao remains the only woman of color ever nominated for Best Director.
• Ryan Coogler (“Sinners”) is the seventh black filmmaker nominated for Best Director.
• Ryan Coogler and Chloé Zhao are the second and third people to receive Best Director nominations after directing an MCU film, following Kenneth Branagh in 2021. Technically, Zhao’s first nomination for “Nomadland” came after she had filmed “Eternals,” but the film was released after her win.

ACTING STATS & TRIVIA

• This is the first time we’ve had two films receive four or more acting nominations each since 1976, when “Network” and “Rocky.”
• “Sentimental Value” is the first film to have received zero nominations at the Actor Awards (or previously SAG Awards) to go on to receive four acting nominations at the Oscars.
• This year, 16 of the 20 nominated performances came from Best Picture nominees, just shy of the all-time record of 17 in 1944. We’ve also had 16 out of 20 in 2013, 2018, 2023, and 2024. The lowest number in the expanded era was nine out of 20 nominees in 2011.
• Amy Madigan received her second nomination, 40 years after her first nomination for “Twice in a Lifetime.” This is the third-longest gap between nominations, following Judd Hirsch (42 years) and Henry Fonda (41 years).
• Michael B. Jordan (“Sinners“) is the second person to be Oscar-nominated for portraying a set of twins, following Nicolas Cage in “Adaptation.”
• Michael B. Jordan (“Sinners“) is the seventh person nominated for playing multiple roles in one film, following: Charlie Chaplin (1940, “The Great Dictator”), Peter Sellers (1964, “Dr. Strangelove”), Lee Marvin (1965, “Cat Ballou”), Meryl Streep (1981, “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”), Klaus Maria Brandauer (1984, “Out of Africa”), Nicolas Cage (2002, “Adaptation.”).
• This is the first year with four primarily non-English language performances in non-American productions nominated at the Academy Awards: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Wagner Moura.
• Wagner Moura is the third Brazilian, and the first Brazilian man, nominated for an acting Oscar, following Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro.
• Jessie Buckley, nominated for Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet,“ is now the only person to have been exclusively directed to multiple acting nominations by female directors. Carey Mulligan previously accomplished this with her first two nominations, but her third came from a male director.
• Benicio Del Toro is now tied with José Ferrer as the second-most-nominated Latin American actor at the Academy Awards. Both received three career nominations, one shy of the record-holder, Anthony Quinn.
• Stellan Skarsgård is the first Best Supporting Actor nominee for a majority non-English-language, non-American-produced film, “Sentimental Value.“ All previous non-English performances in the category came from American films, such as Robert De Niro in “The Godfather Part II.”
• Timothée Chalamet, 30, is the youngest male actor to have received three acting nominations since Marlon Brando, who received his third nomination just before his 30th birthday.
• Michael B. Jordan is the second person to receive an Oscar nomination for portraying a vampire, after Willem Dafoe in “Shadow of the Vampire.”
• Despite having the most acting Oscar nominations of any person, Meryl Streep has extended her longest streak without a nomination to eight years. Her previous longest streak between nominations was from 1991 to 1996, a span of 5 years.

SCREENPLAY STATS & TRIVIA

• This is the first year since 2022 with no “lone screenplay nominee,” a film nominated for Best Original or Adapted Screenplay with no other nominations. It’s only the third time this century this has happened, and it also occurred in 2000.
• Jafar Panahi is the second Iranian filmmaker nominated for Best Original Screenplay, following Asghar Farhadi for “A Separation” in 2011. 
• “Wake Up Dead Man” is the first Benoit Blanc Mystery not to receive a screenplay nomination. “Knives Out” had received a nomination for Best Original Screenplay, with “Glass Onion” receiving a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination.

CRAFT AND OTHER CATEGORIES STATS & TRIVIA

• A brand-new category was introduced this year: Best Casting. The last new category officially awarded was Best Animated Feature in 2001, a gap of 24 years. This ends the longest period between new categories in Academy history. Previously, the longest gap was between the introduction of Best Sound Editing in 1963 and Best Makeup and Hairstyling in 1981, an 18-year gap.
• The inaugural Best Casting nominees join Academy Honorary Award recipients Lynn Stalmaster and Juliet Taylor as the only Casting Directors recognized thus far by the Academy Awards.
• “The Perfect Neighbor” received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature, bypassing the Critics’ Choice curse. In the ten years since the inaugural Critics’ Choice Documentary Award for Best Documentary Feature, this is only the third time the Critics’ Choice winner received an Oscar nomination.
• Josh Safdie’s nomination for Best Editing marks the eleventh time a director has been nominated for editing their own film. He joins David Lean (1984), Joel & Ethan Coen (1996, 2007), James Cameron (1997, 2009), Alfonso Cuaron (2006, 2013), Jean-Marc Vallée (2013), Chloé Zhao (2020), and Sean Baker (2024).
• Ruth E. Carter (“Sinners“) received her fifth career Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design, making her the most-nominated Black woman in Academy Awards history.
• Natalie Portman (“Arco“) is the first person nominated in Best Animated Feature to have also received an acting Academy Award nomination (or win).
• Pixar is currently on its longest-running losing streak in the history of Best Animated Feature, having lost four years in a row. If “Elio” does not win, that would extend their record to five years.
• “KPop Demon Hunters” has been ruled ineligible for the BAFTAs. If it wins the Oscar, it would be the first time since both Animated Feature categories existed that the Oscar winner wasn’t nominated at the BAFTAs.
• “Golden” songwriter and vocalist Ejae is the second Korean nominated for Best Original Song, following Karen O in 2013.
• With “It Was Just An Accident,” France extends its record as the most nominated country for Best International Feature, with 43 nominations.
• “It Was Just An Accident” is the fourth Iranian film nominated for Best International Feature, though France submitted the film. This is the second year in a row that France has submitted a film entirely set and produced in another country.
• “Sentimental Value” is Norway’s seventh nomination for Best International Feature.
• “The Secret Agent” is Brazil’s sixth nomination for Best International Feature.
• With their nomination for “Sirāt,” Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, and Yasmina Praderas become the first all-women sound team nominated for a sound award.
• Autumn Durald Arkapaw (“Sinners“) is the fourth female cinematographer nominated for Best Cinematography. None has won.
• “Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless” and “Sweet Dreams Of Joy” from Viva Verdi! are the 10th and 11th songs from a documentary to be nominated for Best Original Song.
• Diane Warren (“Diane Warren: Relentless“) received her 17th Oscar nomination, all for Best Original Song. If she doesn’t win, she will become the most-nominated individual without a competitive Oscar win, though she has received an Honorary Academy Award. Re-recording mixer Greg P. Russell had received a 17th nomination in 2017, but it was rescinded for campaign violations, keeping his official record at 16 nominations without a win.
• With her 17th nomination for Best Original Song, Warren is officially the third-most nominated person ever in the category, breaking her tie with Paul Francis Webster. Only Johnny Mercer (18) and Sammy Cahn (26) surpass Warren and Webster for all-time nominations in Best Original Song.
• Diane Warren received her ninth consecutive nomination for Best Original Song. This is the most consecutive nominations among living people, breaking her tie with John Williams, who was nominated for eight consecutive years (1995-2002).
• “Kokuho” is the first Japanese film nominated for Best Makeup & Hairstyling.
• Geeta Gandbhir is the sixth individual to be nominated for both Documentary Feature Film (“The Perfect Neighbor“) and Documentary Short Film (“The Devil is Busy”) in the same year. This last happened in 2024.
• Charmaine Chan (“Jurassic World: Rebirth“) is the sixth woman nominated for Best Visual Effects.
• Excluding pandemic delays in 2020, this marks the first year in which no film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe landed on the Visual Effects Shortlist.

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