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1. Daniel Day-Lewis could be the first man in history to win three Best Actor Oscars.
2. Oscar host Seth Macfarlane is dating Khaleesi.
3. Bradley Cooper (up for Best Actor for his role in Silver Linings Playbook) was once just a bright-eyed acting student with floppy hair and big dreams. Look at him asking Sean Penn a question during Inside The Actor's Studio!
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PRECIOUS.
4. Emmanuelle Riva (85!) and Quvenzhané Wallis (9!) are the oldest and the youngest Best Actress nominees in Oscar history.
5. How to pronounce Quvenzhané Wallis's name.
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It's Kwah-VAHN-Jah-Nay (skip to 2:35 to hear her say it!)
6. No, that is not a real moustache.
7. No, that is not a real tiger.
8. Yes, that is real blood.
9. Despite that, Leo still isn't getting an Oscar.
Baby you tried.
10. Silver Linings Playbook is the first film with nominations in all four acting categories plus Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay since 1981.
11. In Zero Dark Thirty, they kill Osama Bin Laden.
Spoiler Alert.
12. Anne Hathaway sang 'On My Own' to Hugh Jackman at the Academy Awards in 2011. Later, Jackman was cast in Les Misérables and he suggested Hathaway for the role of Fantine. She is now the favorite to win Best Supporting Actress.
13. This is this first time since 2002’s Insomnia that a Christoper Nolan film received zero Oscar nominations.
14. Oscar voting was a hot mess. The Academy tried to move to an online balloting system, but since the internet is hard (and the average Oscar voter's age is 62) this didn't work. They had to extend the deadline and allow for paper ballots.
15. Chris Pratt got SUPER RIPPED for his role in Zero Dark Thirty. Like whoa.
16. No actor or actress has EVER won an Oscar for a performance in a Steven Spielberg film.
17. Dwight Henry (Hushpuppy's father in Beasts of the Southern Wild) had no experience as an actor. He was discovered when production for the film set up near his bakery. He accepted the role only after shooting was arranged around baking hours.
18. If you didn’t see Argo, just say Argofuckyourself a lot and people will think you did.
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