namelesslurker:

Everyone currently in their thirties is a millennial.

Just wanted to put that out there.

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94th Academy Awards: Trivia!

This incredibly long awards season is officially behind us! The Oscars brought us a slap and a lot of wacky bits of trivia (most of them about our Best Picture winner). Let’s start with ourCODA-centric bits of trivia first.

• With its three wins, including Best Picture, CODAis the seventh Best Picture winner ever to win every single award it’s nominated for. It joins the likes of Wings(1928, 2 noms and wins), Grand Hotel (1932, 1 nom and win), It Happened One Night (1934, 5 noms and wins), Gigi(1958, 9 noms and wins), The Last Emperor (1987, 9 noms and wins), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, 11 noms and wins).
• CODAis the first film to win Best Picture without a Best Director and Best Film Editing nomination since Grand Hotel in 1932. An almost ninety-year streak has been broken!
• Siân Heder is the third woman to ever direct a Best Picture winner, joining Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, 2009) and Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, 2020).
• Distributed by AppleTV+, CODAis the first film from a streaming service to win Best Picture. It’s also the first Best Picture winner to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
• With actors Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, and Daniel Durant, CODAis the first Best Picture with multiple principal roles played by Deaf actors.
• CODAis the third remake to win Best Picture, joining Ben-Hur(1959) and The Departed (2006). Like The Departed,CODAis an English-language remake of a foreign-language film: in this case, the 2014 French film La Famille Bélier. Unlike CODA,La Famille Bélier had a cast consisting of mostly hearing actors, facing severe blowback from the French Deaf community.
• Best Supporting Actor winner Troy Kotsur is the second Deaf actor and the first Deaf man to win an acting Oscar.
• CODAis the first Best Picture winner whose title is an acronym.
• CODAis an international co-production from the United States, France, and Canada. This makes it the first Canadian film to win Best Picture and the second French film to win, following 2011’s The Artist.
• Director and writer Siân Heder is the first solo woman to win Best Adapted Screenplay since Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, 1995).
• CODAis the first Best Picture winner with a female protagonist withouta Best Actress nomination since My Fair Lady (1964).
• CODAis the sixth film to win Best Picture without a Best Director nomination, joining Wings(1928),Grand Hotel (1932),Driving Miss Daisy (1989),Argo(2012), and Green Book (2018).
• CODAis the third movie to win Best Picture withouta DGA nomination, joining Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and Hamlet(1948).
• This marks the second time that a movie about queer cowboys won Best Director but lost Best Picture to an indie drama that starts with the letter “C.”

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