Most Best Actress Wins
Katharine Hepburn won a towering four Best Actress Oscars—for Morning Glory in 1934, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1968, The Lion in Winter in 1969 (she tied with Funny Girl star Barbra Streisand) and On Golden Pond in 1982—and she never showed up to accept any of them in person. Nor did she attend the ceremony any of the 12 times she was nominated, though she did have her statuettes on display at her home in Connecticut.
Most Best Actor Wins
Daniel Day-Lewis has the most with three, for My Left Foot (1990), There Will Be Blood (2008) and Lincoln (2013).
Most Best Director Wins
John Ford remains the all-time leader with four Oscars, for The Informer (1936), The Grapes of Wrath (1941), How Green Was My Valley (1942) and The Quiet Man (1953). Three-time winner William Wyler leads in nominations with 12.
Most Acting Nominations
Three-time winner and 20-time nominee Meryl Streep left the competition in behind long ago. Jack Nicholson and Katharine Hepburn are next in line with 12.
Most-Nominated Movie
It's a three-way tie among La La Land, Titanic and the 1950 classic All About Eve with 14 apiece—and if La La Land wins Best Picture, that means all three of the most-nominated films did so.
Most Oscar Wins
Ben-Hur, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King are tied with 11 apiece, including Best Picture.
Most Nominated Musical
La La Land's 14 nominations topped the 13 previously earned by Chicago and Mary Poppins. My Fair Lady is next with 12 and both West Side Story and Oliver! garnered 11. (And because you're now wondering, The Sound of Music had 10.)
Lord of the Sweep
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King went 11 for 11 in 2004, the only Best Picture winner aside from Wings (2 for 2 in 1929) and It Happened One Night (5 for 5 in 1935) to sweep every category it was nominated for.
The Real King of the World
Adjusted for inflation, Gone With the Wind remains the highest-grossing Best Picture winner, theoretically raking in close to $600 million more than runner-up Titanic with $1.75 billion domestically. The 1939 classic was also the first Best Picture winner to be entirely shot in color.
The Biggest Losers
It's an honor just to be nominated, but...sigh. The Color Purple and The Turning Point both went 0 for 11.
Longest Oscar Speech Ever
The reason for that usually unfortunate "wrap it up" music may be Greer Garson's 5 1/2-minute-long, Guinness World Record-setting response to winning Best Actress for Mrs. Miniver in 1943. No matter how long you think anyone has gone on since, Garson went on longer—and while 5 1/2 minutes is the widely reported time, one Academy historian said she clocked in at 7 minutes.
Shortest Oscar Speech Ever
Patty Duke went with a simple "thank you" when she won Best Supporting Actress for The Miracle Worker at the age of 16 in 1963—making her the youngest at the time to win in that category.
Sometimes Less Is More
Argo and Gigi are tied for shortest Best Picture winner titles.
All in the Family
Ethel and Lionel Barrymore—Drew's great aunt and uncle—are the only siblings to have both won acting Oscars. Lionel was named Best Actor for Free Soul in 1931, while Ethel, who was a little more than a year older than her brother, won Best Supporting Actress for None But the Lonely Heart in 1945.
Most Familiar Face of 2003
John C. Reilly appeared in three of the 2003 Best Picture nominees—Gangs of New York, The Hours and the year's winner, Chicago, for which he was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
Best at Picking Winners
Three-time Oscar winner Jack Nicholson has appeared in 10 Best Picture nominees over the years, including three winners: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Terms of Endearment and The Departed..
Always a Groomsman
Peter O'Toole was 0 for 8, the most nominated actor to not ever win. The Academy gave him an honorary Oscar in 2003, four years before his final Best Actor nomination, for Venus.
Check In, Check Out
Grand Hotel remains the only Best Picture winner to be nominated in that category alone.
What Good Is Winning 8 Out of 10
Still damn good, though Cabaret missed out on Best Picture, the most winning film to not also take the top Oscar.
Tale as Old as Time
Disney's Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film to receive a Best Picture nomination—and it remains the only traditionally animated (i.e. no Pixar) film to get the honor.
She Stands Alone
Kathryn Bigelow remains the first and only female Best Director winner, for The Hurt Locker in 2009, as well as the only female director of a Best Picture winner.
More Oscars Than Anyone
Walt Disney has more Oscars wins than any one person with 22, including four from 1964 for four different projects—and not including four honorary Oscars he also received over the years. He also has the most nominations ever, with 59. It paid to corner the market in animation for a few decades.
A Force to Be Reckoned With
Composer John Williams is the most-nominated person currently alive with 50, his most recent nomination coming in 2016 for scoring Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. He's won five times, for Fiddler on the Roof and the Steven Spielberg-directed Jaws, Star Wars, E.T. and Schindler's List.
Dressed for Success
Legendary costume designer Edith Head won eight Oscars—including two in 1951, for All About Eve and Samson and Delilah, when they awarded costume design for black and white and color films separately—and is the most-nominated woman ever with 35.