Numbers Behind the Academy Awards

NUMBERS BEHIND ACADEMY AWARDS $500 $0 Cost to create Cost to sit on the bleach- one 13.5 inch ers around the red carpet Oscar statuette. 24: number of Oscar categories 01111 Number of films that won both best actor and best actress 36 21% RIP Average age of best actor and actress Oscar winners* Oscar Curse: Percent of actors whose careers plummeted after winning an Oscar Died prematurely after winning an Oscar Number 17 35 of streakers to interrupt the Oscar ceremonies Number of highest paid actors that are Oscar winners Marty1h 31m Gone With the Wind 3h 40m Shortest vs. longest winning feature films "We want to thank all of you for watching us congratulate ourselves tonight." -Warren Beatty Number of films to get the most nominations Number of films to get the most Oscar wins 10 10 13 9 10 $5,000,000 Cost of a campaign to convince voters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to back a film for Oscar consideration. $1,500,000 Cost to run a commercial during the broadcast of the Academy Awards. $50 $500 How much the average person wins in most Oscar prediction Cost to use high-speed Internet in the press booth of the 2009 Academy Awards. contests. Sources: http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/. http://www.imdb.com/. http://www.oscars.org/awards/ http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/09/movies-sandler-depp-business-media -hollywood_slide_2.html http://www.casio.edu.shriro.com.au/products/fx9860gau/pdf/Age_of_Oscar_Winners.pdf http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9730814 • "Note: average ages of Oscar winners are through 2007 Creative credit: Seth K. Hughes Nominations