5 – number of acting nominees who aren’t American: Dev Patel and Naomie Harris are British, Isabelle Huppert is French, Ruth Negga is Irish and Nicole Kidman is Australian. Natalie Portman and Andrew Garfield both hold dual citizenship: Portman was born in Jerusalem to an Israeli father and American mother and moved to the U.S. aged 3; while Garfield moved to the U.K. aged three, but was born in Los Angeles to an American father and British mother. Last year, 10 of the nominees hailed from outside the U.S.
7 – number of acting nominees who are anything other than white — Denzel Washington, Ruth Negga, Mahershala Ali, Dev Patel, Viola Davis, Naomie Harris and Octavia Spencer. That’s seven more than last year.
4 – Number of Best Documentary nominees directed or co-directed by black directors (all but “Fire At Sea”).
3 – African-American filmmakers nominated for Best Director before Barry Jenkins became the fourth today (John Singleton, Lee Daniels and Steve McQueen).
2 – actors in more than one Best Picture nominee — Janelle Monae and Mahershala Ali, who are both in both “Moonlight” and “Hidden Figures.” Tom Hardy and Domhnall Gleeson both managed that feat last year.
2 – actors who appear in a Best Picture nominee this year who were also in one last year: Ryan Gosling and Finn Wittrock were both in “The Big Short” last time and are in “La La Land” this time.
21 – Largest number of career nominations by a nominee. That’s for sound mixer Kevin O’Connell, who picked his latest up for “Hacksaw Ridge.” His first was for “Terms Of Endearment” in 1984, his most recent for “Transformers” in 2008. Remarkably, he’s never won the award.
$47 million – Estimated budget for the most expensive of the Best Picture nominees, “Arrival.” “Hacksaw Ridge” is just behind at $40 million. The last time there was a year without a blockbuster-budgeted movie nominated was 2007, when “Atonement” was the most expensive film nominated at $30 million (two years ago, “American Sniper” was the most costly of the nominees, with a $60 million budget).
$5 million – Estimated budget for the cheapest of the Best Picture nominees, “Moonlight.”
98% – Highest Rotten Tomatoes score of the nine Best Picture nominees, shared by “Moonlight” and “Hell Or High Water.”
86% – Lowest Rotten Tomatoes score of the nine Best Picture nominees, taken by “Hacksaw Ridge” (one percentage point behind “Lion”). That’s five points ahead of “The Revenant,” last year’s lowest scorer.
99 – Highest Metacritic score for a Best Picture nominee, for “Moonlight” (“Manchester By The Sea” was second, with 96). That’s six points higher than last year’s top scorer, “Spotlight.”
69 – Lowest Metacritic score for a Best Picture nominee, for “Lion” (“Hacksaw Ridge” is just ahead, with 71). That’s eight lower than “The Revenant,” the lowest of last year’s batch.
7 – Number of Best Picture nominees that premiered at a festival. Venice had an impressive three, with “Arrival,” “La La Land” and “Hacksaw Ridge” (it also premiered the last two winners with “Birdman” and “Spotlight”), Cannes had “Hell Or High Water,” TIFF had “Lion,” Sundance had “Manchester By The Sea” and Telluride had “Moonlight.” “Fences” and “Hidden Figures” went straight into release.
2 – Number of Best Picture nominees that went into wide release their first weekend: “Arrival” and “Hacksaw Ridge.”
$15 million – lowest domestic gross to date of the lowest-grossing Best Picture nominee, “Moonlight” (just a million behind “Lion”). Last year, “Room” was the lowest, with $5 million (it went on to add another $9 million to its total after nominations).
$95 million – highest domestic total to date of the highest-grossing Best Picture nominee, “Arrival,” though it’ll likely soon be overtaken by “La La Land” (currently at $89 million) and “Hidden Figures” (currently at $83 million). Last year, “The Martian” was the top grosser with $228 million.
$476 million – Domestic box office to date of the nine Best Picture nominees. That’s down from the $597 million earned by the eight last year, which were bolstered by smash hits “The Martian,” “The Revenant” and “Mad Max: Fury Road.”
$730 million – Worldwide box-office total of the nine Best Picture nominees, slightly more than half the $1.322 billion earned by the eight last year (though still significantly more than the $418 million earned by the line-up in 2014). It’s worth noting that all but “Arrival” are still rolling out in major territories around the world, and “Fences,” “Moonlight,” “Hidden Figures” and “Lion” have so far barely been released outside the U.S.
$52 million – Domestic average box office of a 2017 Best Picture nominee.
$81 million – Worldwide average box office of a 2017 Best Picture nominee.
$176,221 – Highest screen average earned by a 2017 Best Picture nominee, taken by “La La Land” on its opening weekend. “Moonlight” came second, with $100,519.
14 – Acting nominations earned by the nine Best Picture nominees out of a possible 20. Last year, it was just nine.
50 – Total nominations, out of 86 they were eligible for, earned by the nine Best Picture nominees, slightly down on 53 last year.
467 minutes – length of “O.J.: Made In America,” which is almost certainly the longest film ever nominated for an Oscar.
11 – Years that have passed since August Wilson, a Best Adapted Screenplay nominee today for “Fences,” died, on October 2nd, 2005. Remarkably, that’s not even the longest time between a death and a posthumous Oscar nomination: Larry Russell won an Oscar in 1972 for co-writing the score to Charlie Chaplin’s “Limelight,” 18 years after he passed away (the film was completed in 1952 but not eligible for Oscar consideration until it was re-released in the U.S. in 1972. Russell’s co-writer, Raymond Rasch, also won posthumously, having died in 1964).
2 – number of times Best Actor nominee Casey Affleck has been sued for sexual harassment (both cases were settled privately out of court).
1 – number of times on record Best Director nominee Mel Gibson blamed Jewish people for being “responsible for all the wars in the world” while being arrested for drunk-driving.
1 – number of times on record Best Director nominee Mel Gibson told the mother of his child that he hoped she would be “raped by a pack of n*****s.”