Favorite Piece of Oscar Trivia?

[Thomas]

Poor Lone Scherfig. Just outside the top ten!

Exactly!

Patriotic bitterness!
Although Katía Lund is who gets the shit end of the stick here.

[guany]

Exactly!

Patriotic bitterness!
Although Katía Lund is who gets the shit end of the stick here.

Katia Lund is no Loveleen Tandan.

[Thomas]

Katia Lund is no Loveleen Tandan.

Ah, I don't think you can compare the two, and neither does Tandan apparently.

[Habsburg]

Ida Lupino, though never had her films nominated by AMPAS, deserves pioneering credit.

The de Havilland girls were born in Edo, Japan. Just sayin' (did they secretly support IJN bombing of Darwin???)

[Thomas]

There are far more female directors with Oscar wins in the foreign language category.

[Jim]

Interesting point. Ethnically, Portman is half-Israeli, and Israel is obviously in Asia, so describing her as half-Asian is technically not incorrect. But of course, colloquially, I don't think anyone would use the adjective "Asian" to describe Israelis (especially since Israel was explicitly formed as a homeland for persecuted Jews, most of whom came from Europe). But, if one were to actually think about "what does it mean to be 'Asian'?", there is really no single answer, because of how diverse the countries of Asia are. A man who is ethnically Saudi Arabian is obviously going to look different from a man who is ethnically Russian vs one who is ethnically Chinese vs Indian. But, in the most literal sense, these are all Asians. Essentially, I think that, today, in general conversation, there's this spectrum of "Asian-ness". "East Asians" (another somewhat ambiguous term, but generally Chinese, Japanese, Korean...) seem to typically be what come to mind when someone says "Asian", followed perhaps by people from "Southeast" Asia (e.g. Thai), "South" Asia (e.g. Indian)...etc. Russians and Israelis probably come in last in this spectrum of "Asian-ness", and they themselves may not even identify as Asians (especially people from Russia, since it's partially in eastern Europe), but this doesn't necessarily mean that they are any less "Asian" than, say, a Chinese person.

(Sorry, I love discourse about geography and race.)

Yes. Thanks for taking the time to reply in depth..... and no need to be sorry.

[jjj]

Director w/3 6x Oscar-winning films: William Wyler. I suppose him being the only 3x BP winner makes sense. The other directors with 3 different films that won BP or BD had at least 2 of them win nothing else or just one other award outside of the T2 categories.

2000+ multiple 10x nominees: Lee, Scorsese. Surely Scorsese's going to win again...

[ReadyForMyCloseUp]

In 1979, Sally Field won Best Actress for Norma Rae over Jill Clayburgh and Marsha Mason. Both actresses had turned the role down.

Joan Fontaine was the first to win Best Actress on her second nomination.

Margaret Avery's Oscar nomination for The Color Purple is the only recognition that she has ever received from any award-giving organization.

[jjj]

10 most impressive female directors so far:
Kathryn Bigelow - Director winner
Jane Campion - Director/T5 Pic nominee, Acting wins
Randa Haines - T5 Pic nominee, Acting win
Sofia Coppola - Director/T5 Pic nominee
Lina Wertmuller - Director nominee
Penny Marshall/Barbara Streisand - T5 Pic nominee & Patty Jenkins/Kimberly Pierce/Phyllida Lloyd - Acting win

I decided to add a 4th criterion, which sadly as far I can tell adds just one woman - directors who made a movie that won multiple Oscars.
I see Hurt Locker - 6, Piano - 3, Iron Lady - 2, Frida by Julie Taymor - 2. 4 women - the same as the number who have directing noms.

Since from the above: Lost in Translation/Monster/Boys Don't Cry/Lesser God 1 & Prince of Tides/Seven Beauties/Awakenings 0 Oscars
If Taymor were to replace someone, it'd probably be Patty Jenkins since Monster only got the one nom. But either way, Phyllida Lloyd is higher ensconced on the list than I would have expected. But since the list is dominated by achievements in 2000+, progress is definitely being made. Slowly.