2 Best Picture winners set in Los Angeles
- Million Dollar Baby
- Crash
5 Nominees whose characters saw dead people
- Roland Young, Topper
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost
- Haley Joel Osment, The Sixth Sense
- Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
2 Nominees for Oscar and Razzie in same role
- Amy Irving, Yentl
- James Coco, Only When I Laugh
13 Actors directed by William Wyler in winning performances—more than any director
- Walter Brennan, Come and Get It and The Westerner
- Bette Davis, Jezebel
- Fay Bainter, Jezebel
- Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver
- Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver
- Frederic March, The Best Years of Our Lives
- Harold Russell, The Best Years of Our Lives
- Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress
- Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
- Burl Ives, The Big Country
- Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur
- Hugh Griffith, Ben-Hur
- Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl
3 Actors nominated for playing fictional American presidents
- Lee Tracy in The Best Man,
- Jeff Bridges in The Contender
- Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
6 Directors who won for their first film
- Delbert Mann, Marty, 1956
- Jerome Robbins, West Side Story, 1962
- Robert Redford, Ordinary People, 1980
- James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment, 1984
- Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves, 1991
- Sam Mendes, American Beauty, 2000
5 Actors nominated for playing multiple people
- Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator
- José Ferrer, Moulin Rouge
- Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou
- Nicolas Cage, Adaptation
2 Best Picture nominees narrated by dead characters
- Sunset Boulevard
- American Beauty
9 Actors who won Tony and Oscar for the same role
- José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac (Tony: 1947; Oscar: 1951)
- Shirley Booth, Come Back, Little Sheba (T: 1950; O: 1953)
- Yul Brynner, The King and I (T: 1952; O: 1957)
- Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady (T: 1957; O: 1965)
- Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker (T: 1960; O: 1963)
- Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons (T: 1962; O: 1967)
- Jack Albertson, The Subject Was Roses (T: 1965; O: 1969)
- Joel Grey, Cabaret (T: 1967; O: 1973)
- Lila Kedrova, Zorba the Greek (O: 1965) and Zorba (T: 1984)
62 Actors who won for playing real people*
- George Arliss as Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli
- Charles Laughton as King Henry VIII in The Private Life of Henry VIII
- Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur
- Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan in Boys Town
- Gary Cooper as Alvin C. York in Sergeant York
- James Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy
- José Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano de Bergerac
- Yul Brynner as King Mongkut of Siam in The King and I
- Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons
- George C. Scott as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. in Patton
- Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull
- Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Gandhi in Gandhi
- F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown in My Left Foot
- Jeremy Irons as Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune
- Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott in Shine
- Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman in The Pianist
- Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote
- Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland
- Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk
- Colin Firth as King George VI in The King’s Speech
- Luise Rainer as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld
- Jennifer Jones as Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette
- Ingrid Bergman as Anna Koreff in Anastasia
- Susan Hayward as Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!
- Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker
- Katharine Hepburn as Queen Eleanor of Acquitaine in The Lion in Winter
- Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl
- Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter
- Susan Sarandon as Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking
- Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry
- Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich
- Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours
- Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster
- Reese Witherspoon as June Carter in Walk the Line
- Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen
- Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose
- Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side
- Joseph Schildkraut as Captain Alfred Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola
- Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean in The Westerner
- Anthony Quinn as Eufemio Zapata in Viva Zapata!
- Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life
- Peter Ustinov as Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus
- Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee in All The President’s Men
- Jason Robards as Dashiell Hammett in Julia
- Haing S. Ngor as Dith Pran in The Killing Fields
- Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood
- Jim Broadbent as John Bayley in Iris
- Chris Cooper as John Laroche in Adaptation
- Christian Bale as Dicky Eklund in The Fighter
- Shelley Winters as Petronella Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank
- Patty Duke as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker
- Estelle Parsons as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde
- Mary Steenburgen as Lynda Dummar in Melvin and Howard
- Maureen Stapleton as Emma Goldman in Reds
- Brenda Fricker as Bridget Brown in My Left Foot
- Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love
- Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner in Pollock
- Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind
- Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator
- Melissa Leo as Alice Ward in The Fighter
*The breakdown: 22 for Lead Actor, 17 for Lead Actress, 12 for Supporting Actor and 11 for Supporting Actress
5 Ties for the Oscar
- 1932, Best Actor
- 1950, Documentary Short Subject
- 1969, Lead Actress
- 1987, Documentary Feature
- 1995, Live-Action Short Film