7. “That’s life. It’s all change” was delivered by America Ferrera who has been nominated for best supporting actress in Barbie.

8. Oppenheimer’s Matt Damon has previously won an Oscar for best original screenplay for Good Will Hunting in 1997.

9. The 1985 version of The Color Purple was nominated for 11 Oscars but won none. This year the 2023 version received one nomination: best supporting actress.

10. Lily Gladstone is the first Native American to be nominated for best actress in a leading role, for Killers of the Flower Moon.

11. Maestro is based on Leonard Bernstein, though all four Leonards are considered musical maestros in some way.

12. Rustin best actor nominee Colman Domingo also appears in The Color Purple. He is the first Afro Latino to earn a lead actor nomination.

13. Margot Robbie could still be up on the podium holding an Oscar for best picture, as one of the Barbie producers.

14. Greta Gerwig has directed three feature films, which have all been nominated for best picture - Lady Bird, Little Women and Barbie. Three best picture nominations have female directors - a first.

15. Of the five nominated best action short films two have Australian producers; Sarah McFarlane for Red, White and Blue and Nicky Bentham for The After.

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16. This year marks the oldest best director nominee, Martin Scorsese, he’s 81.

17. Australian Tony McNamara is nominated for best adapted screenplay for Poor Things. McNamara is Victorian.

18. Poor Things received 11 nominations, the second most nominations next to Oppenheimer.

19. The Zone of Interest was nominated for both best picture and best international picture. It is a UK/Polish film.

20. The 91-year-old composer John Williams has been nominated for 54 Oscars, he is second only to Walt Disney.

The 96th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday evening LA time (Monday morning AEDT) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. You can follow our live coverage from 8am Monday, March 11, as stars arrive on the red carpet.