250,000: approx number of retweets at time of printing for this tweet from host Jimmy Kimmel to Donald Trump.
Hey @realDonaldTrump u up?
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) February 27, 2017
0: number of replies (so far) to Kimmel by Trump, or indeed references of any sort to the Oscars by the President. Probably one of the biggest surprises of the night. Sad!
20: number of previous nominations for Sound Mixer Kevin O’Connell who finally won this year for “Hacksaw Ridge.”
2: number of Oscars won by “Hacksaw Ridge” (Sound Mixing; Film Editing)
3: number of times the unfounded but nonetheless unavoidable worry stabbed at us during the ceremony that “Hacksaw Ridge” could pick up Director or Picture.
As many as necessary: number of second chances Hollywood appears prepared to give to Mel Gibson.
4: number of notable industry figures who passed away in the preceding year not included in the In Memoriam tribute, aside from Bill Paxton whom Jennifer Aniston tearfully mentioned in her intro. (Actors Robert Vaughn, Garry Shandling and Doris Roberts, and director Dan Ireland).
1: number of notable industry figures still living who were included erroneously in the In Memoriam tribute. Australian film producer Jan Chapman‘s photo was used in error for costume designer Janet Patterson‘s section of the slideshow. Patterson died in 2016. Chapman did not.
2: number of nominations for Best Actor-winning Casey Affleck (“The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford“; “Manchester By The Sea“)
2: number of women who have filed sexual harassment suits against Casey Affleck; both settled out of court. He is a very good actor and an alleged sexual abuser. Neither of these things deletes the other. The world is complicated.
3: total number of films written and directed by Best Original Screenplay winner Kenneth Lonergan (“You Can Count On Me“; “Margaret“; “Manchester By The Sea“)
3: total number of near-masterpieces written and directed by Best Original Screenplay winner Kenneth Lonergan, each of which featured one or several awards-worthy performances.
467: length in minutes of “O.J.: Made in America” now officially the longest film to have won an Oscar. Debate will rage on as to whether the 7hr 47m doc qualifies as a film, but taken on length alone, considering the previous holder of the record, Sergei Bondarchuk‘s 1967 “War and Peace” film series only ran half an hour shorter and won the Foreign Language Oscar, no real reason it shouldn’t.
229: length in minutes of last night’s telecast. That’s 17 minutes longer than 2016’s, just under half the length of “O.J.: Made in America” and exactly the same length as the original International cut of Sergio Leone‘s “Once Upon A Time In America,” which also has a divisive, ambiguous but curiously uplifting ending.
1: number of Oscars “Suicide Squad” now has, which is one more than Stanley Kubrick, but in fairness one less than Asghar Farhadi which just goes to show you numbers are inherently meaningless and this is all just hocus-pocus.
3-6: despite all that, number of years we estimate it will take us to get used to the concept of “‘Suicide Squad,’ Oscar-winner.”
0: number of ways in which any of this affects a single frame of any of the films involved, or needs to be factored into your relationship to said films ever again.
The Oscars are over! Our favorite film of 2016 won Best Picture! And we, like Australian producer Jan Chapman, are still alive! Long live cinema.