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4 – Number of Oscars won by streamers Netflix and Amazon this year. All came from Netflix (3 for “Roma,” 1 for documentary short “Period. End Of Sentence”). Their first Oscar win only came last year, for documentary “Icarus.” Amazon only had two nominations this year, both for “Cold War.”

7 – Number of years since a film not from Disney or Pixar has won Best Animated Feature until “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse” took the prize last night (the last was “Rango” in 2012).

$50 million – Amount of money lost by “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a movie that Disney fired Phil Lord & Chris Miller, producers of “Spider-Verse,” from and re-shot at great expense with Ron Howard.

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5 – Number of nominations Alfonso Cuaron received for “Roma”

3 – Number of Oscars Alfonso Cuaron won last night (Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Film). Only Walt Disney has managed more at one ceremony.

10 – Number of people who’ve also achieved this feat – Billy Wilder in 1961 for “The Apartment,” Marvin Hamlisch in 1974 for “The Way We Were” and “The Sting,” Francis Ford Coppola in 1975 for “The Godfather Part II,” James L. Brooks in 1984 for “Terms Of Endearment,” James Cameron in 1998 for “Titanic,” Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh in 2004 for “Return Of The King,” the Coens in 2008 for “No Country For Old Men” and Cuaron’s pal Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for “Birdman.”

0 – Number of African-Americans to have won Best Costume Design or Best Production Design before this year – Ruth E. Carter and Hannah Beachler were the record breakers for “Black Panther.”

0 – Number of African-Americans to win the Best Animated Feature Oscar until last night, when Peter Ramsey got to take one home for co-directing “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.”

0 – Number of directors who have won the Best Cinematography Oscar before Alfonso Cuaron took it last night.

15 – Number of women who won Oscars last night. That’s NINE more than last year, when just six picked up statuettes.

5 – Number of times in the last ten years that Best Picture and Best Director has been split, as it was last night.

3 – Number of times in the previous ten years that Best Picture and Best Director had been split.

12 – Number of times, as we go to press, that we’ve watched Olivia Colman’s acceptance speech.

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1 – Stars that Spike Lee would give “Green Book” on Letterboxd. Probably.

1 – Number of times that Supporting Actor winner Mahershala Ali thanked his piano-playing double during his speech, which is classy.

0 – Number of times that Actor winner Rami Malek thanked his singing double during his speech.

80% – rough estimate of how many Academy voters probably thought Rami Malek did his own singing in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

1 – Number of actors that fell off the stage after picking up their award (Rami Malek)

0 – Number of times that anyone thanked or mentioned Bryan Singer, credited director of the film that won the most awards last night. (We are fine with that, obviously).