The 2019 Oscars By The Numbers

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Despite the bad rep it has in some quarters, there are many things that are great about the Oscars. Well-deserved recognition for actors who’ve been working for years, the highlighting of bright new talents, moments in the spotlight for undersung behind-the-camera talent, spontaneous speeches, good jokes, great frocks.

Another thing we love? Cold, hard stats. Trivia and facts and figures are always a fun thing to parse the afternoon after the ceremony once the shock and the hangover have passed, and luckily, we’ve found some of the more interesting ones and collected them below. Take a look, and add your own in the comments.

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0 – Number of hosts of the 2019 Academy Awards

2 — Sets of presenters who should be considered to host next year – Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, & Maya Rudolph, or Awkwafina & John Mulaney.

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10 – Pairs of presenters who should be considered to star in “True Detective” Season 4 together – Helen Mirren and Jason Momoa, Elsie Fisher and Stephan James, Melissa McCarthy and Brian Tyree Henry, James McAvoy and Danai Gurira, Angela Bassett and Javier Bardem, Awkwafina and John Mulaney, Paul Rudd and Sarah Paulson, Krysten Ritter and Kiki Layne, Tessa Thompson and Michael B. Jordan, Constance Wu and Chadwick Boseman.

9 – Pairs of presenters who should be considered to star in a rom-com together – all of those except Elsie Fisher and Stephan James (Because she is 15, obviously)

4 – Biggest haul for a single film this year – for “Bohemian Rhapsody.” “Roma,” “Green Book” and “Black Panther” all took 3.

6 – Number of years since a film, as “Green Book” did, won Best Picture without a Best Director nomination. That was “Argo.”

13 – Number of years since a film as bad as “Green Book” won Best Picture (“Crash” in 2006).

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7 – Number of years since a film as bad as “Green Book” was nominated for Best Picture (“Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close” in 2012).

1.6666 – Average number of Best Director Oscars now owned by each of the Three Amigos (1 for Guillermo Del Toro, 2 for Alfonso Cuaron, 2 for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu).

5 – Number of Mexican filmmakers to win Best Director in the last ten years (Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu).

2 – Number of American filmmakers to win Best Director in the last ten years (Kathryn Bigelow and Damien Chazelle). The other three – Tom Hooper, Michel Hazanavicius, Ang Lee – are British, French and Taiwanese respectively).

1 – Number of women to win Best Director in the last ten years.

1 – Number of women to win Best Director in the history of the Oscars. Still.

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8 – Number, out of 8, of Best Picture nominees to win an Oscar last night. Full house!

4 – Number of years since every Best Picture nominee took a prize home – that was at the 2015 ceremony, when “Birdman,” “American Sniper,” “Boyhood,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The Imitation Game,” “Selma,” “The Theory Of Everything” and “Whiplash” all got at least one.

6 – Oscars won by the studio that took home the most trophies: 20th Century Fox, thanks to “The Favourite” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

0 – Number of Oscars 20th Century Fox will win after this year, at least as an independent entity — they’ll be absorbed into Disney later this year.