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John Williams broke his own record as having the most Oscar-nominations of any person alive. He received his 50th Oscar nomination in 2016.

Two performances nominated in the Best Supporting Actresses category were seen as category fraud; Rooney Mara in Кэрол (2015) and Alicia Vikander in Девушка из Дании (2015). Mara agreed with her misplacement, but claims she wasn't in charge of the campaign. Meanwhile, Vikander, who has more screen-time than Eddie Redmayne, her male counterpart in the film, has not commented on the controversy.

Domhnall Gleeson stars in four films nominated for an Oscar this; Бруклин (2015), Из машины (2014), Выживший (2015), Звёздные войны: Пробуждение Силы (2015).

First time in Oscar history that all five Original Song nominees have been the only nomination for their films.

The most nominated films is Выживший (2015) with 12 nominations, followed by Безумный Макс: Дорога ярости (2015) with 10 nominations. Both films stars Tom Hardy, who also received his first Academy Award nomination this year.

Марсианин (2015) was the highest grossing film of the Best Picture nominees by the time the nominees were announced, while the lowest-grossing was Комната (2015).

Leonardo DiCaprio's Best Actor win became the most-tweeted moment in Oscar history.

Will Smith, Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith decided to boycott the ceremony, following the lack of representation among the nominees. Will Smith was campaigning for a nomination among Best Actor in a Leading Role, for his performance in Защитник (2015), but failed to receive a nomination. However, more voices weighed in, such as 'Viola Davis, who said the problem didn't lie with the Academy, but the business overall, which failed to offer a variety of roles to non-Caucasian actors.

Бруклин (2015) received three nominations: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture, for which Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey received credit. They previously produced An Education (2009), which exclusively received the exact same Oscar Nominations. Furthermore, Nick Hornby is the screenwriter of these two films.

Выживший (2015) was the only film among the Best Picture nominees not to premiere at a film festival.

The first film among the Best Picture nominees to be screened was Бруклин (2015), which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, almost a year before the nominees were announced. However, it reached theaters in November 2015. The first Best Picture nominee to be released theatrically was Безумный Макс: Дорога ярости (2015), from May 2015, which also was the only among the nominees in the Best Picture category to premiere in the first half of the year, and only one not to be in theaters when the nominations were announced.

The 39-year hiatus between Sylvester Stallone's Academy Award nominations (Рокки (1976) and Крид: Наследие Рокки (2015)) is a record. The previous record of 38 years was held by Helen Hayes (1931/32; 1970), Jack Palance (1953; 1991) and Alan Arkin 1968; 2006).

Domhnall Gleeson, Tom Hardy and Billy Magnussen all appear in two Best Picture nominees.

They are two double nominees in a single category this year; Sandy Powell for the Costume Design of Кэрол (2015) and Золушка (2015), as well as Andy Nelson, nominated for his Sound Mixing for Шпионский мост (2015) and Звёздные войны: Пробуждение Силы (2015).

15 Australian people received a nomination, 10 of them were for Безумный Макс: Дорога ярости (2015), which is highest amount of Australian nominees in the same year. The original record was set in 2002, with 13 nominations, most of them awarded to Мулен Руж (2001).

В центре внимания (2015) won the first award and the last award to be presented in this ceremony.

Second time that Chris Rock hosts the Oscars.

President of the Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, promised radical changes to the voting, following the criticized lack of representation. The president of the organization that bestows the Oscars said she was "heartbroken and frustrated" by the lack of diversity among this year's nominees, and announced the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would take "dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership."

At age 87, Ennio Morricone was the oldest nominated person of the 2016's Oscars and also in the Best Original Score category.

With her 4th nomination in 2016, Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence beat out Best Supporting Actress nominee Kate Winslet as the youngest actress to receive 4 Oscar nominations.

The first time nominees among the actors are Bryan Cranston, Tom Hardy, Brie Larson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Rylance and Alicia Vikander.

Composer Thomas Newman and cinematographer Roger Deakins both received their 13th nomination. They are also the most nominated person among the nominees this year who has never won.

Шпионский мост (2015) is the 11th film by Steven Spielberg to receive a Best Picture nomination. Hereby Spielberg is the director with second most Best Picture nominees.The record holder William Wyler who directed 13 Best Picture nominations throughout his career.

Some of the nominations have also got nominations for the 36th Golden Raspberry Awards. Simon Kinberg who is nominated for Best Picture for Марсианин (2015) is nominated for Worst Picture for Фантастическая четвёрка (2015), Rooney Mara who is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Кэрол (2015) is also nominated for Worst Supporting Actress for Пэн: Путешествие в Нетландию (2015) and Eddie Redmayne who is nominated for Best Actor for Девушка из Дании (2015) is also nominated for Worst Supporting Actor for Восхождение Юпитер (2015) (which also Lana Wachowski had involvement in both films). Also Пятьдесят оттенков серого (2015) has become the 69th feature film to be nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Raspberry Award nomination.

First time since The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) that the Best Picture winner only won in two categories (Besides in the "Best Picture" category, В центре внимания (2015) also won for "Best Original Screenplay".)

Four of the five Best Director nominees received an additional nomination; George Miller and Alejandro G. Iñárritu also received a nomination Best Picture as producers, while Tom McCarthy and Adam McKay are also nominated in the screenplay categories.

Third consecutive year where four of the five nominated actors in the Best Actor category are playing real life characters.

Sacha Baron Cohen reprising his role as Ali G was a last-minute addition and a suggestion by his friend. To do this before presenting with Olivia Wilde, Cohen had to cover his face around the Dolby Theater after his wife applied a fake goatee on him in the washroom as well as practicing his lines to a few people. After presenting Комната (2015) on stage, Cohen was approached by the ceremony producers, who were unhappy with him presenting as Ali G instead of himself.

Пятьдесят оттенков серого (2015) was officially the first film of 2015 to be nominated for an Academy Award. The first category announced was 'Best Original Song', where "Earned It" by The Weeknd was revealed as the first nomination.

Кэрол (2015) is the most nominated film not to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, after the same category was expanded, with six nominations without one of them being for Best Picture.

By winning Best Director in 2016, Alejandro G. Iñárritu joins Joseph L. Mankiewicz and John Ford as one of three directors to win back-to-back directing Oscars. Iñárritu won for Бёрдмэн (2014) in 2015.

Third consecutive year that Roger Deakins and Emmanuel Lubezki are competing with each other in the cinematography category. Lubezki won all three times.

When winning "Best Original Song", Sam Smith said during his acceptance speech that he read that actor Ian McKellen stated that there have been no openly gay Oscar winners before, meaning that Smith thought he was the first one to do so. While McKellen was actually referring to no openly gay actors winning "Best Actor", there haven been openly gay Oscar winners before Smith, also in the "Best Song" category, among them Melissa Etheridge, Howard Ashman, Stephen Sondheim and Elton John.

All acting nominees were Caucasian, an instance which again, after no POC were nominated for acting Oscars in 2015, caused some upheaval.

Rachel McAdams is the first actress born in 1978 to be nominated for an Oscar.

Best Animated Feature Winner Inside Out (2015) was widely considered a snub for Best Original Score and Best Picture.

Oscar nominee Ron Moody was left out of the 'In Memoriam' segment. Moody was nominated as Best Actor in the 1968 Best Picture winner Оливер! (1968)

Star Wars characters C-3PO & R2-D2 made a return to the Oscars for the first time in a cameo.