Oscars 2023: 16 bitesize facts - from Cate Blanchett to Michelle Yeoh

Hollywood has had an eventful 12 months - portion Tom Cruise's accountants astir apt enjoyed the champion twelvemonth of their lives, determination was little bully quality for Batgirl and Chris Rock's little jaw.

A slayer robot called M3GAN, Channing Tatum's disobedient dog, Colin Farrell's donkey and a carnivore addicted to cocaine were among the astir colourful characters to look connected the large surface arsenic audiences returned to cinemas.

Meanwhile, the sheer unpredictability of awards play has made this year's Oscars contention 1 of the astir breathtaking and enjoyable successful caller representation - with the winners varying wildly betwixt different ceremonies successful the build-up.

Here are 16 quirky coincidences and imaginable grounds breakers among this year's nominees.

1. All Quiet connected the Western Front has already won champion picture.

Admittedly, that was astir a period ago, erstwhile the 1930 adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's caller won the apical Oscar.

Netflix's latest mentation is, strictly speaking, a caller adaptation of the publication alternatively than a remake of the earlier film.

The lone different movie adaptations to person been nominated for champion representation doubly are Mutiny connected the Bounty (1935 and 1962) and West Side Story (1961 and 2021).

2. A mole who loves barroom whitethorn beryllium the best-known Oscar nominee successful the UK.

Which of this year's Oscar-nominated films person been the astir wide seen? You'd deliberation possibly the Top Gun oregon Avatar sequels, which dominated astatine the container office.

But they person contention from 1 movie successful the champion animated abbreviated category.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, adapted from Charlie Mackesy's best-selling book, was watched by a whopping 8.7 cardinal viewers connected BBC One implicit Christmas.

3. The mean champion picture-nominated movie this twelvemonth is 144 minutes long.

They scope from the comparatively abbreviated Women Talking (1hr 44m) to the bladder-challenging Avatar: The Way of Water (3hrs 12m).

4. One directing duo person joined an exclusive club.

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are nominated for jointly directing Everything Everywhere All At Once, marking lone the 5th clip the champion manager class has featured a duo.

The antecedently nominated pairs are Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story, Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait, and Joel and Ethan Coen (aka the Coen Brothers) for No Country for Old Men and True Grit.

5. Judd Hirsch has breached the grounds for the longest spread betwixt acting nominations.

The Fabelmans prima was nominated for champion supporting histrion successful January, precisely 41 years and 341 days aft his motion for 1980's Ordinary People.

It is simply a twelvemonth of large gaps successful wide - it took Todd Field 16 years to marque Tár, portion determination was a 13-year spread betwixt the 2 Avatar films, and 36 years betwixt the 2 Top Gun movies.

6. Both frontrunners for champion histrion play characters who were primitively imagined arsenic male.

"They wrote it that mode with Jackie and maine arsenic the wife, truthful the roles were wholly reversed," the histrion recalled.

Cate Blanchett's disgraced orchestra conductor Lydia Tár, meanwhile, was besides primitively conceived arsenic antheral - thing the histrion felt would person made for a little absorbing quality study.

"Because the movie is simply a meditation connected power, you would've had a overmuch little nuanced introspection of that [if the quality had been male]," Blanchett said.

"We recognize what the corruption of antheral powerfulness looks like, but we request to unpack what powerfulness is itself."

7. Darren Aronofsky, who directed The Whale, whitethorn beryllium a concealed instrumentality of British people music.

The merchandise of his latest movie means helium has present directed films called some Noah and The Whale.

We anticipation those 2 choices are intended arsenic a tribute to the Twickenham-based set of the aforesaid sanction (and that Aronofsky embarks connected a Mumford and Sons biopic next).

8. Women Talking stars 2 actresses with Dragon Tattoos.

Before appearing unneurotic successful Sarah Polley's champion representation nominee, Rooney Mara and Claire Foy some played the aforesaid starring relation successful 2 antithetic iterations of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

The 2011 English-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson's best-selling caller saw Mara play the titular relation other Daniel Craig.

Seven years later, Foy took connected the aforesaid relation successful the The Girl successful the Spider's Web - the 4th caller successful the series, which was written by David Lagercrantz aft Larsson's death.

9. Angela Bassett is the archetypal idiosyncratic to beryllium nominated for acting successful a Marvel movie.

She played Queen Ramonda successful Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, netting her a champion supporting histrion nomination.

But with Kerry Condon winning the class astatine Bafta, and Jamie Lee Curtis scooping that grant astatine the Screen Actors Guild, Marvel's archetypal ever triumph for acting is acold from certain.

10. Six antithetic donkeys starred arsenic the lovable titular carnal successful EO.

Their names are Rocco, Marietta, Tako, Hola, Mela, and Ettore - each of whom were cruelly snubbed successful the champion histrion category.

The beautifully-shot movie is Poland's nominee for champion planetary diagnostic - although, with precise small dialogue, determination is minimal subtitle-reading required.

11. No movie has won 3 acting prizes since 1976's Network.

But that could beryllium equalled this twelvemonth if Everything Everywhere All At Once manages to repetition the 3 acting victories it enjoyed astatine the SAG Awards - for Yeoh, Curtis and Ke Huy Quan.

In fact, determination are 2 chances for it to triumph champion supporting histrion astatine the Oscars, with Stephanie Hsu nominated alongside Curtis.

12. Two movies person 4 nominations each successful the acting categories this year.

Between them, Everything Everywhere All At Once and The Banshees of Inisherin relationship for a whopping 8 of the 20 disposable acting slots.

This has not happened successful 45 years astatine the Oscars. The past clip 2 movies some got 4 acting nominations was successful 1978, erstwhile Julia and The Turning Point dominated the categories.

13. Zoe Saldana is the archetypal histrion to look successful 4 antithetic films that made much than $2bn (£1.6bn) astatine the container office.

Before the champion picture-nominated Avatar: The Way of Water deed the milestone, the histrion enjoyed the aforesaid occurrence with the archetypal Avatar, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

14. Songwriter Diane Warren is nominated for her opus Applause, from the movie Tell It Like a Woman.

Coincidentally, 1 of the song's competitors is Hold My Hand, performed by Lady Gaga - who besides antecedently released a opus called Applause.

But volition Warren get immoderate Applause connected the night? Statistically, it's unlikely. This is the 14th clip the legendary songwriter has been nominated successful this category, and she has ne'er won.

15. All of Cate Blanchett's erstwhile nominations for starring histrion person been for films successful which she played the titular character.

Before playing disgraced composer Lydia Tár successful the eponymously titled Tár, she was the pb successful Carol, Blue Jasmine, Elizabeth and its sequel Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

The histrion dominates Tár, appearing successful astir each scene. In the past of champion actress, lone Viviene Leigh's show successful Gone with The Wind has much surface clip than Blanchett's successful Tar.

16. At 90 years old, John Williams is the oldest ever Oscar nominee.

The composer, who is recognised for his people for The Fabelmans, surpasses precocious manager Agnès Varda, who was 89 erstwhile she was nominated successful 2018. (Williams has turned 91 since the nominations were announced.)

Williams has racked up a full of 53 Oscar nominations passim his career, making him the astir nominated idiosyncratic alive, and conscionable six abbreviated of Walt Disney's grounds of 59.