19 Nominations for actors playing kings and queens of England
$325,000 – Cost of It Happened One Night (Best Picture, 1935)
$237 million – Cost of Avatar (Best Picture nomination, 2010—it lost)
23 – Best Picture nominees in which Bess Flowers appeared, the most of any actor (and she was an extra in all 23 films)
5 minutes – Length of shortest Oscar ceremony (1929)
4 hours 23 minutes – Length of longest Oscar ceremony (2002)
16 Best Picture winners set in New York
- The Broadway Melody
- The Great Ziegfeld
- You Can’t Take It With You
- Going My Way
- The Lost Weekend
- Gentleman’s Agreement
- All About Eve
- Marty
- The Apartment
- West Side Story
- Midnight Cowboy
- The French Connection
- The Godfather
- The Godfather, Part II
- Annie Hall
- Kramer vs. Kramer
2 Best Picture winners set in Los Angeles
- Million Dollar Baby
- Crash
And, twenty-two more quirky facts at – Oscar by the Numbers