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Theres got to be some specific component of the brain that makes Homo sapiens so persistently obsessed withstatistics.

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(Hell, how else to explain the entirety of sports?)

Feel free to play your partys color commentator and read this list aloud during the ceremony.

This year has also seen an all-time spike inactors appearing in multiple Best Picture nominees.

The wild card of the bunch isGet Out,the first horror contender sinceBlack Swan.

Irrespective of race, hes fifth in line behind some esteemed company, including Al Pacino and Marlon Brando.

Holly Hunter took Best Actress in 1993 for another forbidden romance while mute,The Piano.

Loganis the only superhero film though isnt it really more a noir Westerninfluenced by Ozu?

to land an Adapted Screenplay nod.

(The Incrediblesmade the cut for Original Screenplay in 2005.)