On Sunday, the 89th Academy Awards take the stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Hosted by late-night talk show funnyman Jimmy Kimmel, it's guaranteed to be a night of glitz and glamour like no other.
This year's Oscars are likely to be all about La La Land. With 14 nominations, the Damian Chazelle-directed movie musical is tied with Titanic and All About Eve for the most nods ever received by a film at the Academy Awards. Last month, the song-and-dance showcase broke the record for the most Golden Globe wins in a single night, nabbing all seven of the awards it was up for.
Whether first time nod or veteran nominee, every actor nominated will be on the edge of her seat. For Meryl Streep, it's potentially record-breaking: She earned her 20th nomination this year for Florence Foster Jenkins. If she wins, Streep will tie Katharine Hepburn's tally for the most wins by an actress with four statuettes. Streep already has more Oscar nominations than any other actor (Hepburn and Jack Nicholson come close with 12 apiece).
Viola Davis earned her third Oscar nomination for 'Fences', a record for a black actress. (Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection)
On Sunday, the 89th Academy Awards take the stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Hosted by late-night talk show funnyman Jimmy Kimmel, it's guaranteed to be a night of glitz and glamour like no other.
This year's Oscars are likely to be all about La La Land. With 14 nominations, the Damian Chazelle-directed movie musical is tied with Titanic and All About Eve for the most nods ever received by a film at the Academy Awards. Last month, the song-and-dance showcase broke the record for the most Golden Globe wins in a single night, nabbing all seven of the awards it was up for.
Whether first time nod or veteran nominee, every actor nominated will be on the edge of her seat. For Meryl Streep, it's potentially record-breaking: She earned her 20th nomination this year for Florence Foster Jenkins. If she wins, Streep will tie Katharine Hepburn's tally for the most wins by an actress with four statuettes. Streep already has more Oscar nominations than any other actor (Hepburn and Jack Nicholson come close with 12 apiece).
In 2015, the lack of diversity among nominees prompted the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite to trend in protest; once again last year, zero non-white actors earned nominations. Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs moved to add 638 new members in 2016, 46% of whom were female and 41% people of color, in an effort to offset the previously 75% male and 92% white membership of the 6,700-odd industry insiders who vote on the awards.
This year's nominations are more inclusive: Seven of the 20 acting nominations went to people of color, thanks largely to the critical success of this year's slate, which included great roles for actors of color in Hidden Figures, Moonlight, Fences and Loving, among others. For the first time ever, there is at least one black nominee in each of the acting categories.
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This year's Oscars will be awarded on February 26 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, airing at 8.30 p.m. ET on ABC.
As TV screens and Twitter feeds turn to Hollywood ahead of the show, here are the facts and figures behind the movie industry's biggest night provided by the Academy Awards and Wallethub:
1 hour, 40 minutes: Running time of the shortest Oscar telecast, the 31st Academy Awards in 1959
3rd: Oscar nomination for Viola Davis (Best Supporting Actress, Fences), a record for a black actress
4 hours, 23 minutes: Running time of the longest telecast ever, which was the 74th Oscars show in 2002
5¼ inches: Diameter of Oscar statuette base
8½ pounds: Weight of Oscar statuette
13½ inches: Height of Oscar statuette
14: Nominations received by La La Land this year
16: Oscar shows held at the Dolby Theatre (formerly Kodak Theatre), including this year's awards
19: Shows hosted by Bob Hope, who has helmed more Oscars than anyone else
20: Nominations by Meryl Streep, who has won three Academy Awards
21: Nominations by sound mixer Kevin O’Connell (Hacksaw Ridge), who holds the record for the most Oscar nominations without a single win.
24: Competitive award categories for the 89th Oscars
26: Nominations received by Lionsgate, more than any other studio
Approx. 33 feet: Width of the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre
52: Years that ABC has broadcast the Academy Awards since 1976
60: Ushers inside the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center
85: Countries submitting foreign language films
Approx. 100: Production vehicles and trailers (including press and catering)
More than 225: Countries in which the 89th Oscars telecast will be seen
Approx. 250: People who work in the Oscar® telecast production office
Approx. 270: Crew members working during the telecast
336: Features eligible for Best Picture this year, of which nine were nominated
$696: Current estimated value of the 24-karat gold-plated Oscar statuette
735: Red Carpet fan bleacher seats
Approx. 900 feet: Length of the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre
3,048: Total number of Oscar statuettes presented since the first Oscars
3,300: Seating capacity of the Dolby Theatre on Oscar night
$30,000: Estimated cost of the 16,500-square-foot Oscars red carpet
$2.1 million: Estimated cost of a 30-second commercial during the Oscars telecast
$12 million: Host Jimmy Kimmel's pretax salary from late night TV last year
34.4 million: Average U.S. television audience of last year's Oscars
$42.8 million: Total estimated cost of this year's Oscars ceremony
$144.2 million: Domestic box office gross of Hidden Figures, the top-grossing Best Picture nominee at the U.S. box office.
$340.5 million: Worldwide Box Office Gross of La La Land, the top-grossing Best Picture nominee at the global ticketing booth.
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