We’ve been carrying on the Reddit Oscars with my favourite decade for film, the 1990s, and I’ve been monitoring statistics for the fun facts! You can check out the 21st century statistics here (
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MOST NOMINATED FILMS Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon remains the king of the pile with 20 nominations.
Forrest Gump and
The Lion King joined joint second place films
Inglourious Basterds and
Parasite with 17 nominations apiece –
The Lion King took the animated record by a comfortable distance.
Other films joining the most nominated squad were
Goodfellas and
Saving Private Ryan (15 nominations each) and
Titanic (with 16, joining the cluster).
MOST AWARDED FILMS Joining the double-digit wins were
Fargo,
Goodfellas and
Schindler’s List, which each won 10.
Titanic meanwhile was at the top for the 90s with 11.
Return of the King is still number one most awarded film with 15. Additionally,
The Silence of the Lambs and
Fargo joined
Eternal Sunshine to be awarded the big 5.
MOST NOMINATED FILMS WITHOUT A WIN No change here –
The Prestige is still the recipient of this dubious honour thanks to losing all 14 nominations;
Gangs of New York,
True Grit,
Carol and
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl continue to round out the top 5 biggest losers.
MOST NOMINATED FILMS WITHOUT A BEST PICTURE NOMINATION Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,
Les Misérables and
Star Wars: The Force Awakens still have a three-way tie for this position with 9 nominations each.
Shakespeare in Love joined the crowd with 8, tying for fourth place with
Monsters, Inc.
FEWEST WINS FOR A BEST PICTURE WINNER Moneyball still has the fewest wins with a mere 2, Picture and Adapted Screenplay.
FEWEST NOMINATIONS FOR A BEST PICTURE WINNER Still
Moneyball,
Get Out and
Requiem for a Dream with six nominations each.
FEWEST NOMINATIONS FOR A BEST PICTURE NOMINEE The Crying Game and
Four Weddings and a Funeral join the bottom of this table alongside the four previously mentioned films that scored just 2 nominees.
LONGEST BEST PICTURE NOMINEES AND WINNER It’s all change here as many films for the 90s crashed into the top 10. Kenneth Branagh’s
Hamlet rolled into the top spot in some style, clocking in at a staggering 242 minutes. You could watch second place
The Irishman (209 minutes) and have room to watch a
Wallace and Gromit short afterwards!
Malcolm X (202 minutes) and
The Return of the King (201 minutes) both broke past the double century mark for runtime. The rest of the top 10 is now comprised solely of 90s films –
Schindler’s List,
Titanic, Magnolia,
The Green Mile,
JFK and
Dances with Wolves – all over 3 hours long.
Some things stay the same though –
The Return of the King is still the longest winner at 201 minutes. However, it has closer competition this time round, as second and third place films
Schindler’s List and
Titanic both clock in at 195 minutes.
SHORTEST BEST PICTURE NOMINEES AND WINNER Lots of 90s films entered onto this top 10 here too, mostly animated films. At a miniscule 76 minutes,
The Nightmare Before Christmas managed to supplant the 80-minute-long
Before Sunset as the shortest film to be nominated. Third-placed
Toy Story, at 81 minutes, managed to become the shortest winner, quite a way ahead of second shortest
Fargo (98 minutes).
The Squid and the Whale,
Borat,
Beauty and the Beast,
Frances Ha,
Fantastic Mr. Fox,
Mulan and
The Lion King round out this top 10.
FOREIGN/ANIMATED NOMINEES 19 foreign language films have been nominated for Best Picture –
Dreams, Three Colours: Blue, Chungking Express, Three Colours: Red, Life Is Beautiful, Princess Mononoke, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, In the Mood for Love, Amélie, Spirited Away, City of God, Oldboy, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Lives of Others, Pan's Labyrinth, A Separation, Amour, The Handmaiden, Roma and
Parasite. Of those two films,
Spirited Away and
Parasite, landed the win for Best Picture.
21 animated films scooped a Best Picture nomination –
Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Lion King, Toy Story, Princess Mononoke, Mulan,
Toy Story 2, Shrek, Spirited Away, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Up, Toy Story 3, The Lego Movie, Inside Out, Coco and
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Toy Story and the aforementioned
Spirited Away grabbed Best Picture victories. Of these 21, only six films were not from Disney or Pixar. Three of these films,
Toy Story,
Fantastic Mr. Fox and
Inside Out, won screenplay awards.
Incidentally, thirteen animated films were nominated in the Best Non-English Film category;
Only Yesterday, Ghost in the Shell, Whisper of the Heart, Perfect Blue, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Persepolis, Ponyo, Waltz with Bashir, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The Wind Rises and Your Name.
Spirited Away and
Howl’s Moving Castles were winners here. Notably, eight of these nominees were from Studio Ghibli.
MOST NOMINATED ACTORS (CORE 4) Moving into the lead with nine nominations in total is Leonardo DiCaprio. Not only does he have the most nods overall, he has the most in a leading category, with seven nominations in Best Actor.
Brad Pitt moved up to a joint second with the previous title holder, Amy Adams. Adams still holds the title of most supporting nominations with 5. Brad’s four Supporting Actor nominations is the most for a man, tying with Tommy Lee Jones. Cate Blanchett moved into fourth place with 7 nominations overall and Kate Winslet moved up to a joint fifth with Scarlett Johansson, both ladies having 6 nominations apiece.
With Brad having finally taken home an acting win for
Fight Club (he also has 3 wins for Best Picture), George Clooney and Al Pacino now move up to the unenviable position of most acting nominations without a win with 5 each.
MULTIPLE ACTING WINS Joining Leonardo DiCaprio and Viola Davis at the top of the acting table with 3 awards each was Cate Blanchett. With wins for
Elizabeth in 98,
The Aviator in 04 and
Blue Jasmine in 13 she became the first to win one award per decade. Joining the multiple wins club with the 90s were John Goodman, Frances McDormand, Natalie Portman, Marisa Tomei and Denzel Washington, joining Mahershala Ali, Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jake Gyllenhaal, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Meryl Streep in the multiple gold club.
MOST ACTING WINS FOR A FILM Goodfellas became the first film to win three awards for acting as Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and Lorraine Bracco scooped up acting wins. Six years later
Fargo did the same trick as William H. Macy, Frances McDormand and Steve Buscemi won their gold.
LONGEST TIME BETWEEN FIRST AND LAST NOMINATIONS Al Pacino and Joe Pesci were both nominated for awards in 1990 and then scooped up nominations in 2019 (both for
The Irishman) – this span of 29 years is the longest time span of nominations. Laura Dern meanwhile has the longest span for an actress with 28 years between her first nomination in 1991 (
Rambling Rose) and her last in 2019 (
Marriage Story).
LONGEST TIME BETWEEN NOMINATIONS Pacino strikes again – after his double nominations for
Scent of a Woman and
Glengarry Glen Ross in 1992, he lay dormant in the Oscars field for 27 years until
The Irishman gave him a Supporting Actor nomination. Dern takes the ladies record again, with a span of 26 years between
Jurassic Park and
Marriage Story.
LONGEST TIME BETWEEN WINS Frances McDormand had a span of 21 years between her wins for
Fargo (96) and
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (17). Joaquin Phoenix has the longest span for a man, with 12 years between
Gladiator (00) and
The Master (12).
YOUNGEST AND OLDEST ACTING NOMINEES (Note: the age was measured on the day the nominations for that year's ceremony was announced in real life. Similarly the winners were measured by the day of that year's ceremony.)
Quevenzhane Wallis is still the record holder of youngest acting nominee, being 9 years and 135 days when she was nominated for Best Actress for Beasts of the Southern Wild. The youngest Best Supporting Actress is still Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine (10 years, 284 days) and Actor is still Jamie Bell for Billy Elliot (14 years, 336 days). Supporting Actor changed though, with Haley Joel Osment in
The Sixth Sense (11 years, 311 days) being the new record holder.
Emmanuelle Riva still holds the record for oldest nominee at 85 years and 321 days for
Amour, beating narrowly the 85 years and 195 days of Zhao Shu-Zhen for
The Farewell, the most for Supporting Actress. Christopher Plummer in
Beginners is still the oldest man nominated, being 82 years and 42 days when he got his Supporting Actor. Richard Farnsworth took over the record for oldest Best Actor nominee at age 79 years and 167 days for
The Straight Story. Passing away in October 2000, Farnsworth took the record of shortest life span post nomination at just under 8 months (discounting the posthumous nomination of Heath Ledger).
YOUNGEST AND OLDEST ACTING WINNERS The gentlemen stayed the same, with Jake Gyllenhaal in
Brokeback Mountain (25 years, 76 days) and Timothee Chalamet in
Call Me by Your Name (22 years, 67 days) being the youngest winners in Supporting Actor and Actor respectively. The ladies changed though – Natalie Portman’s performance in
Leon (13 years, 291 days) and Anna Paquin in
The Piano (11 years, 240 days) being the youngest winners for Actress and Supporting Actress respectively.
No change on the old side – Christopher Plummer in
Beginners is still the oldest, whilst Ellen Burstyn, Laurie Metcalf and Mickey Rourke are still the oldest for Actress, Supporting Actress and Actor respectively.
The youngest batch of winners are the 1995 victors – Nicolas Cage (32 years, 78 days), Julie Delpy (26 years, 95 days), Kevin Spacey (36 years, 243 days) and Kate Winslet (20 years, 172 days) averaged out to 28 years, 330 days.
The oldest batch came in 2017 – despite featuring Timothee Chalamet’s win, the combination of Frances McDormand (60 years, 254 days), Willem Dafoe (62 years, 225 days) and Laurie Metcalf (62 years, 261 days) meant the average age of the winners was 52 years and 16 days.
LONGEST NOMINATED PERFORMANCE (SO FAR) Times come from Matthew Stewart at Screentime Central (
https://www.screentimecentral.com/) and are still a work in progress due to incomplete times.
Denzel Washington barely squeaked into the lead for longest nominated and winning performance, with the 2 hours, 21 minutes and 58-second-long performance for
Malcolm X running under a minute longer than Leo’s 2 hours, 21 minutes and 7 second performance from
The Wolf of Wall Street.
For nominees; Isabelle Huppert in
Elle (1 hour, 49 minutes, 55 seconds) and Ethan Hawke in
Training Day (1 hour, 14 minutes and 27 seconds) retain their records for Actress and Supporting Actor, whilst Marianne Jean-Baptiste rolled into the lead for Supporting Actress with her
Secrets and Lies performance running 1 hour and 38 seconds.
For winners, Natalie Portman in
Black Swan (1 hour, 29 minutes, 18 seconds) and Mahershala Ali in
Green Book (1 hour, 6 minutes, 38 seconds) maintain their records in Actress and Supporting Actor. Kate Winslet in
Sense and Sensibility (59 minutes, 32 seconds) is the new longest Supporting Actress winner.
SHORTEST NOMINATED PERFORMANCE (SO FAR) All change here – Judi Dench’s cameo as Elizabeth I in
Shakespeare in Love took the record for shortest performance nominated at just 5 minutes, 52 seconds. Another glorified cameo, Alec Baldwin in
Glengarry Glen Ross, became the shortest male performance nominated at a mere 7 minutes, 45 seconds.
In the leads, new data released found that Laura Linney’s performance in
The Squid and the Whale ran a mere 19 minutes and 29 seconds, the shortest for a lead. Finally, Anthony Hopkins in
The Silence of the Lambs, a mere 24 minutes and 52 seconds long, became the shortest Best Actor performance nominated.
Hopkins was also the shortest Best Actor winner – Frances McDormand became the shortest Best Actress winner, with her role in
Fargo clocking in at just 27 minutes and 9 seconds. Mahershala Ali and Viola Davis kept their shortest supporting records for
Moonlight and
Doubt respectively.
MOST NOMINATED ANIMATED/FOREIGN PERFORMANCES Thanks to a staggering
six nominations in a row, Gong Li blew into the lead but stumbled with none of those nominations bringing in any gold. Congregating at second we have four actors; Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Song Kang-ho and Tony Leung. Kang-ho and Binoche are tied with Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz and Irene Jacob for most victories in the Best Non-English Performance category.
Nobody has come close to dethroning Andy Serkis’ eight nominations in the Best Voiceover Performance, nor his five victories. Tom Hanks obtained four nominations solely for voicing Woody in
Toy Story, the most for a single character, and is at 2 wins, tying him second with Josh Brolin.
Twenty performances in the core 4 acting nominations have been non-English performances, though none have been victorious. Marion Cotillard’s three nominations is the most that fits this category.
MOST DIRECTING NOMINATIONS With 8 nominations each, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino lead the pack in nominations. David Fincher is right behind with 7, whilst P.T. Anderson, the Coen Brothers and Christopher Nolan racked up 6 nods apiece.
MULTIPLE DIRECTING WINS Cuaron is still on top with 3 wins; David Fincher joined the 2-director winner club and Steven Spielberg added two with
Schindler’s List and
Saving Private Ryan.
YOUNGEST DIRECTING NOMINATIONS/WINNER John Singleton became the youngest nominee at just 24 years and 44 days when he got nominated for Best Director for
Boyz n the Hood. Paul Thomas Anderson takes 2nd and 3rd place for
Boogie Nights and
Magnolia, knocking down previous champ Ryan Coogler (for
Creed) down to 4th.
Rushmore (Wes Anderson),
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino),
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle),
Juno (Jason Reitman),
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze) and
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp) round out the top 10. The youngest winner is now Quentin Tarantino, who won for
Pulp Fiction on his 32nd birthday.
OLDEST DIRECTING NOMINEES/WINNER The top 7 is the same as last time –
The Irishman,
Million Dollar Baby,
Silence,
Mystic River,
The Wolf of Wall Street,
Mad Max: Fury Road,
Hugo – Scorsese dominating as he did last time. Robert Altman is the new man in this list, with
Short Cuts and
The Player coming in at 8th and 10th. Terence Malick for
The Tree of Life finishes off the top 10. At 70 years, 362 days, George Miller is still the oldest winner for his
Fury Road victory. Additionally, if he had lived to his nomination Stanley Kubrick would have made the top 10 eldest nominees for
Eyes Wide Shut - the first posthumously nominated director would have been 71 years and 204 days, pushing him into the top 5.
MOST COMPOSING NOMINATIONS/WINS The same names as last time make up the top 5 nominations for Best Original Score but in a different order. Thanks to a strong decade (and a weak one for his main rival) John Williams moved up to first place with 15 nominations, supplanting Hans Zimmer, who now has 14 nominations (four of which being collaborations). Howard Shore moved up to third with 9 nods, surpassing Alexandre Desplat, whose 8 nominations make him the most nominated composer to not win. Thomas Newman fended off his cousin Randy, as well as Danny Elfman, to retain his spot in the top 5 with 7 nominations.
With three wins in the 90s John Williams moved up to joint first with Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer, who also added on a third Oscar for
The Lion King. Alan Menken’s back to back wins for
Beauty and the Beast and
Aladdin and Thomas Newman’s additional trophy for
American Beauty allowed the two to join Michael Giacchino and Jonny Greenwood in the multiple winners club.
When we take Original Song into consideration things change around a bit. Thanks to the Disney Renaissance Alan Menken’s nominations in Best Original Song swelled to 15 – add on three Original Score nominations and he moves into the lead with 18 music nominations, passing John Williams who added on a song nomination (Somewhere in My Memory from
Home Alone) to acquire 16 music nominations. Randy Newman’s 8 nominations for Song and 5 for Score combine to put him at fourth place musically, whilst three song nominations for Howard Shore gives him fifth place with 12 nominations total. With ten nominations combined from Song and Score, Danny Elfman leapfrogged past Desplat and Thomas Newman (who himself has another nomination for Song with Down to Earth from
WALL-E) with their 8 nominations each.
With seven nominations for Best Original Song, lyricist Tim Rice has the most nominations in the category without being nominated for Original Score. Howard Ashman, Stephen Schwartz and David Zippel congregate behind him with 5 nominations each. Some notable names in the pop world who have acquired multiple nominations include Elton John, who has taken 6 nominations and 2 wins, Bono and The Edge, who acquired 3 nominations (bandmates Adam Clayton and Larry Mullens Jr. were writers on two of these), and Sting, Eddie Vedder and Bruce Springsteen with 2 nominations each.
Overall, Alan Menken and Randy Newman tied for most wins in the Best Original Song category with 3 each – all their wins were for Disney and Pixar films respectively. Elton John and Tim Rice are behind with 2 each.
Eight films won both Best Original Score and Song –
Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Toy Story, Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Skyfall and
La La Land. Of those,
Beauty and the Beast,
Aladdin,
The Lion King,
Toy Story and
La La Land also won Best Soundtrack. Of those of those,
The Lion King was the only one to win Best Sound.
MOST CINEMATOGRAPHY NOMINATIONS/WINS Roger Deakins went from tying to being comfortably first, taking his nominations to 14. He moved right past former record tier Robert Richardson who settled in second with 11. Quite far behind them were Emmanuel Lubezki (6) and Wally Pfister (5).
Lubezki's 5 wins is still the most, but Deakins managed to come close as he bought his total wins to 4. Andrew Lesnie is third with his three LotR wins and Pfister tied with Janusz Kaminski to take 5th with two each.
LONGEST AND SHORTEST NOMINEES/WINNERS At a staggering 467 minutes, the longest running nominee was
OJ: Made in America, nominated for Best Documentary in 2016. Second place is the longest nominated narrative feature;
Satantango, nominated for Best Non-English Film in 1994, runs a crazy 432 minutes. Fifth place is the longest winner of the bunch;
A Brighter Summer Day, which won Best Non-English Film in 1991, is 237 minutes long… but it still looks like a Looney Tunes short next to the longest nominees!
On the other end of the scale,
Fires of Kuwait, nominated for Best Documentary in 92, runs at a mere 36 minutes, making it the shortest film we’ve nominated. The shortest narrative feature was
DragonBall Z: The Tree of Might (61 minutes) and
Following was the shortest live-action narrative film at a mere 68 minutes.
Paris Is Burning, the 1990 winner of Best Documentary, is the shortest winner at just 71 minutes, whilst
The Nightmare Before Christmas, at 76 minutes, is the shortest narrative feature to win. Clocking in at just 80 minutes,
Run Lola Run is the shortest live-action narrative winner.
BIGGEST LOSER Gong Li and Alexandre Desplat look like Andy Serkis compared to our biggest Oscar loser – nominated four times for Actor and once for Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Voice Performance and Directorial Debut but taking home no gold, George Clooney has reached the double digits mark of no victories. A record nobody wants, for sure.
MOST UNIQUE CATEGORIES NOMINATED IN But George can take some solace in the fact that he was nominated in 7 categories (mentioned in the above), tied for the most unique categories nominated in. He’s tied with Alfonso Cuaron, who has been nominated for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography and Non-English Film.
MOST NOMINATIONS, TOTAL? However, with 5 different category wins, Joel and Ethan Coen have the widest spread of wins overall – the duo has won for Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay and Editing. Add on a nomination for Best Original Song and the brothers have gotten into six different categories. Altogether, Joel and Ethan have acquired a crazy 33 nominations, putting the likes of Alan Menken (18) and Paul Thomas Anderson (19) to shame. If anybody can point out someone who’s got more than them, do point them out to me!
That’s all for now! If you want me to look at another stat, comment below and let me know. I’ll see you again when we kick off the 1980s!
We’ve been carrying on the Reddit Oscars with my favourite decade for film, the 1990s, and I’ve been monitoring statistics for the fun facts! You can check out the 21st century statistics here (
https://www.reddit.com/Oscars/comments/i4p3fe/reddit_chosen_oscars_the_21st_century_stats/) to compare and see what’s changed, though if you’ve got any questions do give a comment below and I’ll see if I can find out for you.
Anyway, off we go!
MOST NOMINATED FILMS Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon remains the king of the pile with 20 nominations.
Forrest Gump and
The Lion King joined joint second place films
Inglourious Basterds and
Parasite with 17 nominations apiece –
The Lion King took the animated record by a comfortable distance.
Other films joining the most nominated squad were
Goodfellas and
Saving Private Ryan (15 nominations each) and
Titanic (with 16, joining the cluster).
MOST AWARDED FILMS Joining the double-digit wins were
Fargo,
Goodfellas and
Schindler’s List, which each won 10.
Titanic meanwhile was at the top for the 90s with 11.
Return of the King is still number one most awarded film with 15. Additionally,
The Silence of the Lambs and
Fargo joined
Eternal Sunshine to be awarded the big 5.
MOST NOMINATED FILMS WITHOUT A WIN No change here –
The Prestige is still the recipient of this dubious honour thanks to losing all 14 nominations;
Gangs of New York,
True Grit,
Carol and
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl continue to round out the top 5 biggest losers.
MOST NOMINATED FILMS WITHOUT A BEST PICTURE NOMINATION Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,
Les Misérables and
Star Wars: The Force Awakens still have a three-way tie for this position with 9 nominations each.
Shakespeare in Love joined the crowd with 8, tying for fourth place with
Monsters, Inc.
FEWEST WINS FOR A BEST PICTURE WINNER Moneyball still has the fewest wins with a mere 2, Picture and Adapted Screenplay.
FEWEST NOMINATIONS FOR A BEST PICTURE WINNER Still
Moneyball,
Get Out and
Requiem for a Dream with six nominations each.
FEWEST NOMINATIONS FOR A BEST PICTURE NOMINEE The Crying Game and
Four Weddings and a Funeral join the bottom of this table alongside the four previously mentioned films that scored just 2 nominees.
LONGEST BEST PICTURE NOMINEES AND WINNER It’s all change here as many films for the 90s crashed into the top 10. Kenneth Branagh’s
Hamlet rolled into the top spot in some style, clocking in at a staggering 242 minutes. You could watch second place
The Irishman (209 minutes) and have room to watch a
Wallace and Gromit short afterwards!
Malcolm X (202 minutes) and
The Return of the King (201 minutes) both broke past the double century mark for runtime. The rest of the top 10 is now comprised solely of 90s films –
Schindler’s List,
Titanic, Magnolia,
The Green Mile,
JFK and
Dances with Wolves – all over 3 hours long.
Some things stay the same though –
The Return of the King is still the longest winner at 201 minutes. However, it has closer competition this time round, as second and third place films
Schindler’s List and
Titanic both clock in at 195 minutes.
SHORTEST BEST PICTURE NOMINEES AND WINNER Lots of 90s films entered onto this top 10 here too, mostly animated films. At a miniscule 76 minutes,
The Nightmare Before Christmas managed to supplant the 80-minute-long
Before Sunset as the shortest film to be nominated. Third-placed
Toy Story, at 81 minutes, managed to become the shortest winner, quite a way ahead of second shortest
Fargo (98 minutes).
The Squid and the Whale,
Borat,
Beauty and the Beast,
Frances Ha,
Fantastic Mr. Fox,
Mulan and
The Lion King round out this top 10.
FOREIGN/ANIMATED NOMINEES 19 foreign language films have been nominated for Best Picture –
Dreams, Three Colours: Blue, Chungking Express, Three Colours: Red, Life Is Beautiful, Princess Mononoke, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, In the Mood for Love, Amélie, Spirited Away, City of God, Oldboy, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Lives of Others, Pan's Labyrinth, A Separation, Amour, The Handmaiden, Roma and
Parasite. Of those two films,
Spirited Away and
Parasite, landed the win for Best Picture.
21 animated films scooped a Best Picture nomination –
Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Lion King, Toy Story, Princess Mononoke, Mulan,
Toy Story 2, Shrek, Spirited Away, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Up, Toy Story 3, The Lego Movie, Inside Out, Coco and
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Toy Story and the aforementioned
Spirited Away grabbed Best Picture victories. Of these 21, only six films were not from Disney or Pixar. Three of these films,
Toy Story,
Fantastic Mr. Fox and
Inside Out, won screenplay awards.
Incidentally, thirteen animated films were nominated in the Best Non-English Film category;
Only Yesterday, Ghost in the Shell, Whisper of the Heart, Perfect Blue, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Persepolis, Ponyo, Waltz with Bashir, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The Wind Rises and Your Name.
Spirited Away and
Howl’s Moving Castles were winners here. Notably, eight of these nominees were from Studio Ghibli.
MOST NOMINATED ACTORS (CORE 4) Moving into the lead with nine nominations in total is Leonardo DiCaprio. Not only does he have the most nods overall, he has the most in a leading category, with seven nominations in Best Actor.
Brad Pitt moved up to a joint second with the previous title holder, Amy Adams. Adams still holds the title of most supporting nominations with 5. Brad’s four Supporting Actor nominations is the most for a man, tying with Tommy Lee Jones. Cate Blanchett moved into fourth place with 7 nominations overall and Kate Winslet moved up to a joint fifth with Scarlett Johansson, both ladies having 6 nominations apiece.
With Brad having finally taken home an acting win for
Fight Club (he also has 3 wins for Best Picture), George Clooney and Al Pacino now move up to the unenviable position of most acting nominations without a win with 5 each.
MULTIPLE ACTING WINS Joining Leonardo DiCaprio and Viola Davis at the top of the acting table with 3 awards each was Cate Blanchett. With wins for
Elizabeth in 98,
The Aviator in 04 and
Blue Jasmine in 13 she became the first to win one award per decade. Joining the multiple wins club with the 90s were John Goodman, Frances McDormand, Natalie Portman, Marisa Tomei and Denzel Washington, joining Mahershala Ali, Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jake Gyllenhaal, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Meryl Streep in the multiple gold club.
MOST ACTING WINS FOR A FILM Goodfellas became the first film to win three awards for acting as Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and Lorraine Bracco scooped up acting wins. Six years later
Fargo did the same trick as William H. Macy, Frances McDormand and Steve Buscemi won their gold.
LONGEST TIME BETWEEN FIRST AND LAST NOMINATIONS Al Pacino and Joe Pesci were both nominated for awards in 1990 and then scooped up nominations in 2019 (both for
The Irishman) – this span of 29 years is the longest time span of nominations. Laura Dern meanwhile has the longest span for an actress with 28 years between her first nomination in 1991 (
Rambling Rose) and her last in 2019 (
Marriage Story).
LONGEST TIME BETWEEN NOMINATIONS Pacino strikes again – after his double nominations for
Scent of a Woman and
Glengarry Glen Ross in 1992, he lay dormant in the Oscars field for 27 years until
The Irishman gave him a Supporting Actor nomination. Dern takes the ladies record again, with a span of 26 years between
Jurassic Park and
Marriage Story.
LONGEST TIME BETWEEN WINS Frances McDormand had a span of 21 years between her wins for
Fargo (96) and
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (17). Joaquin Phoenix has the longest span for a man, with 12 years between
Gladiator (00) and
The Master (12).
YOUNGEST AND OLDEST ACTING NOMINEES (Note: the age was measured on the day the nominations for that year's ceremony was announced in real life. Similarly the winners were measured by the day of that year's ceremony.)
Quevenzhane Wallis is still the record holder of youngest acting nominee, being 9 years and 135 days when she was nominated for Best Actress for Beasts of the Southern Wild. The youngest Best Supporting Actress is still Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine (10 years, 284 days) and Actor is still Jamie Bell for Billy Elliot (14 years, 336 days). Supporting Actor changed though, with Haley Joel Osment in
The Sixth Sense (11 years, 311 days) being the new record holder.
Emmanuelle Riva still holds the record for oldest nominee at 85 years and 321 days for
Amour, beating narrowly the 85 years and 195 days of Zhao Shu-Zhen for
The Farewell, the most for Supporting Actress. Christopher Plummer in
Beginners is still the oldest man nominated, being 82 years and 42 days when he got his Supporting Actor. Richard Farnsworth took over the record for oldest Best Actor nominee at age 79 years and 167 days for
The Straight Story. Passing away in October 2000, Farnsworth took the record of shortest life span post nomination at just under 8 months (discounting the posthumous nomination of Heath Ledger).
YOUNGEST AND OLDEST ACTING WINNERS The gentlemen stayed the same, with Jake Gyllenhaal in
Brokeback Mountain (25 years, 76 days) and Timothee Chalamet in
Call Me by Your Name (22 years, 67 days) being the youngest winners in Supporting Actor and Actor respectively. The ladies changed though – Natalie Portman’s performance in
Leon (13 years, 291 days) and Anna Paquin in
The Piano (11 years, 240 days) being the youngest winners for Actress and Supporting Actress respectively.
No change on the old side – Christopher Plummer in
Beginners is still the oldest, whilst Ellen Burstyn, Laurie Metcalf and Mickey Rourke are still the oldest for Actress, Supporting Actress and Actor respectively.
The youngest batch of winners are the 1995 victors – Nicolas Cage (32 years, 78 days), Julie Delpy (26 years, 95 days), Kevin Spacey (36 years, 243 days) and Kate Winslet (20 years, 172 days) averaged out to 28 years, 330 days.
The oldest batch came in 2017 – despite featuring Timothee Chalamet’s win, the combination of Frances McDormand (60 years, 254 days), Willem Dafoe (62 years, 225 days) and Laurie Metcalf (62 years, 261 days) meant the average age of the winners was 52 years and 16 days.
LONGEST NOMINATED PERFORMANCE (SO FAR) Times come from Matthew Stewart at Screentime Central (
https://www.screentimecentral.com/) and are still a work in progress due to incomplete times.
Denzel Washington barely squeaked into the lead for longest nominated and winning performance, with the 2 hours, 21 minutes and 58-second-long performance for
Malcolm X running under a minute longer than Leo’s 2 hours, 21 minutes and 7 second performance from
The Wolf of Wall Street.
For nominees; Isabelle Huppert in
Elle (1 hour, 49 minutes, 55 seconds) and Ethan Hawke in
Training Day (1 hour, 14 minutes and 27 seconds) retain their records for Actress and Supporting Actor, whilst Marianne Jean-Baptiste rolled into the lead for Supporting Actress with her
Secrets and Lies performance running 1 hour and 38 seconds.
For winners, Natalie Portman in
Black Swan (1 hour, 29 minutes, 18 seconds) and Mahershala Ali in
Green Book (1 hour, 6 minutes, 38 seconds) maintain their records in Actress and Supporting Actor. Kate Winslet in
Sense and Sensibility (59 minutes, 32 seconds) is the new longest Supporting Actress winner.
SHORTEST NOMINATED PERFORMANCE (SO FAR) All change here – Judi Dench’s cameo as Elizabeth I in
Shakespeare in Love took the record for shortest performance nominated at just 5 minutes, 52 seconds. Another glorified cameo, Alec Baldwin in
Glengarry Glen Ross, became the shortest male performance nominated at a mere 7 minutes, 45 seconds.
In the leads, new data released found that Laura Linney’s performance in
The Squid and the Whale ran a mere 19 minutes and 29 seconds, the shortest for a lead. Finally, Anthony Hopkins in
The Silence of the Lambs, a mere 24 minutes and 52 seconds long, became the shortest Best Actor performance nominated.
Hopkins was also the shortest Best Actor winner – Frances McDormand became the shortest Best Actress winner, with her role in
Fargo clocking in at just 27 minutes and 9 seconds. Mahershala Ali and Viola Davis kept their shortest supporting records for
Moonlight and
Doubt respectively.
MOST NOMINATED ANIMATED/FOREIGN PERFORMANCES Thanks to a staggering
six nominations in a row, Gong Li blew into the lead but stumbled with none of those nominations bringing in any gold. Congregating at second we have four actors; Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Song Kang-ho and Tony Leung. Kang-ho and Binoche are tied with Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz and Irene Jacob for most victories in the Best Non-English Performance category.
Nobody has come close to dethroning Andy Serkis’ eight nominations in the Best Voiceover Performance, nor his five victories. Tom Hanks obtained four nominations solely for voicing Woody in
Toy Story, the most for a single character, and is at 2 wins, tying him second with Josh Brolin.
Twenty performances in the core 4 acting nominations have been non-English performances, though none have been victorious. Marion Cotillard’s three nominations is the most that fits this category.
MOST DIRECTING NOMINATIONS With 8 nominations each, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino lead the pack in nominations. David Fincher is right behind with 7, whilst P.T. Anderson, the Coen Brothers and Christopher Nolan racked up 6 nods apiece.
MULTIPLE DIRECTING WINS Cuaron is still on top with 3 wins; David Fincher joined the 2-director winner club and Steven Spielberg added two with
Schindler’s List and
Saving Private Ryan.
YOUNGEST DIRECTING NOMINATIONS/WINNER John Singleton became the youngest nominee at just 24 years and 44 days when he got nominated for Best Director for
Boyz n the Hood. Paul Thomas Anderson takes 2nd and 3rd place for
Boogie Nights and
Magnolia, knocking down previous champ Ryan Coogler (for
Creed) down to 4th.
Rushmore (Wes Anderson),
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino),
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle),
Juno (Jason Reitman),
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze) and
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp) round out the top 10. The youngest winner is now Quentin Tarantino, who won for
Pulp Fiction on his 32nd birthday.
OLDEST DIRECTING NOMINEES/WINNER The top 7 is the same as last time –
The Irishman,
Million Dollar Baby,
Silence,
Mystic River,
The Wolf of Wall Street,
Mad Max: Fury Road,
Hugo – Scorsese dominating as he did last time. Robert Altman is the new man in this list, with
Short Cuts and
The Player coming in at 8th and 10th. Terence Malick for
The Tree of Life finishes off the top 10. At 70 years, 362 days, George Miller is still the oldest winner for his
Fury Road victory. Additionally, if he had lived to his nomination Stanley Kubrick would have made the top 10 eldest nominees for
Eyes Wide Shut - the first posthumously nominated director would have been 71 years and 204 days, pushing him into the top 5.
MOST COMPOSING NOMINATIONS/WINS The same names as last time make up the top 5 nominations for Best Original Score but in a different order. Thanks to a strong decade (and a weak one for his main rival) John Williams moved up to first place with 15 nominations, supplanting Hans Zimmer, who now has 14 nominations (four of which being collaborations). Howard Shore moved up to third with 9 nods, surpassing Alexandre Desplat, whose 8 nominations make him the most nominated composer to not win. Thomas Newman fended off his cousin Randy, as well as Danny Elfman, to retain his spot in the top 5 with 7 nominations.
With three wins in the 90s John Williams moved up to joint first with Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer, who also added on a third Oscar for
The Lion King. Alan Menken’s back to back wins for
Beauty and the Beast and
Aladdin and Thomas Newman’s additional trophy for
American Beauty allowed the two to join Michael Giacchino and Jonny Greenwood in the multiple winners club.
When we take Original Song into consideration things change around a bit. Thanks to the Disney Renaissance Alan Menken’s nominations in Best Original Song swelled to 15 – add on three Original Score nominations and he moves into the lead with 18 music nominations, passing John Williams who added on a song nomination (Somewhere in My Memory from
Home Alone) to acquire 16 music nominations. Randy Newman’s 8 nominations for Song and 5 for Score combine to put him at fourth place musically, whilst three song nominations for Howard Shore gives him fifth place with 12 nominations total. With ten nominations combined from Song and Score, Danny Elfman leapfrogged past Desplat and Thomas Newman (who himself has another nomination for Song with Down to Earth from
WALL-E) with their 8 nominations each.
With seven nominations for Best Original Song, lyricist Tim Rice has the most nominations in the category without being nominated for Original Score. Howard Ashman, Stephen Schwartz and David Zippel congregate behind him with 5 nominations each. Some notable names in the pop world who have acquired multiple nominations include Elton John, who has taken 6 nominations and 2 wins, Bono and The Edge, who acquired 3 nominations (bandmates Adam Clayton and Larry Mullens Jr. were writers on two of these), and Sting, Eddie Vedder and Bruce Springsteen with 2 nominations each.
Overall, Alan Menken and Randy Newman tied for most wins in the Best Original Song category with 3 each – all their wins were for Disney and Pixar films respectively. Elton John and Tim Rice are behind with 2 each.
Eight films won both Best Original Score and Song –
Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Toy Story, Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Skyfall and
La La Land. Of those,
Beauty and the Beast,
Aladdin,
The Lion King,
Toy Story and
La La Land also won Best Soundtrack. Of those of those,
The Lion King was the only one to win Best Sound.
MOST CINEMATOGRAPHY NOMINATIONS/WINS Roger Deakins went from tying to being comfortably first, taking his nominations to 14. He moved right past former record tier Robert Richardson who settled in second with 11. Quite far behind them were Emmanuel Lubezki (6) and Wally Pfister (5).
Lubezki's 5 wins is still the most, but Deakins managed to come close as he bought his total wins to 4. Andrew Lesnie is third with his three LotR wins and Pfister tied with Janusz Kaminski to take 5th with two each.
LONGEST AND SHORTEST NOMINEES/WINNERS At a staggering 467 minutes, the longest running nominee was
OJ: Made in America, nominated for Best Documentary in 2016. Second place is the longest nominated narrative feature;
Satantango, nominated for Best Non-English Film in 1994, runs a crazy 432 minutes. Fifth place is the longest winner of the bunch;
A Brighter Summer Day, which won Best Non-English Film in 1991, is 237 minutes long… but it still looks like a Looney Tunes short next to the longest nominees!
On the other end of the scale,
Fires of Kuwait, nominated for Best Documentary in 92, runs at a mere 36 minutes, making it the shortest film we’ve nominated. The shortest narrative feature was
DragonBall Z: The Tree of Might (61 minutes) and
Following was the shortest live-action narrative film at a mere 68 minutes.
Paris Is Burning, the 1990 winner of Best Documentary, is the shortest winner at just 71 minutes, whilst
The Nightmare Before Christmas, at 76 minutes, is the shortest narrative feature to win. Clocking in at just 80 minutes,
Run Lola Run is the shortest live-action narrative winner.
BIGGEST LOSER Gong Li and Alexandre Desplat look like Andy Serkis compared to our biggest Oscar loser – nominated four times for Actor and once for Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Voice Performance and Directorial Debut but taking home no gold, George Clooney has reached the double digits mark of no victories. A record nobody wants, for sure.
MOST UNIQUE CATEGORIES NOMINATED IN But George can take some solace in the fact that he was nominated in 7 categories (mentioned in the above), tied for the most unique categories nominated in. He’s tied with Alfonso Cuaron, who has been nominated for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography and Non-English Film.
MOST NOMINATIONS, TOTAL? However, with 5 different category wins, Joel and Ethan Coen have the widest spread of wins overall – the duo has won for Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay and Editing. Add on a nomination for Best Original Song and the brothers have gotten into six different categories. Altogether, Joel and Ethan have acquired a crazy 33 nominations, putting the likes of Alan Menken (18) and Paul Thomas Anderson (19) to shame. If anybody can point out someone who’s got more than them, do point them out to me!
That’s all for now! If you want me to look at another stat, comment below and let me know. I’ll see you again when we kick off the 1980s!
Hiyas!
My name is Sever Bronny, and I've been a full-time author for almost six years now writing coming-of-age epic fantasy. I am looking to find an illustrator to not only kick off a new (third) series in December 2021, but re-do the covers of the entire first series, and eventually the entire second series (see below), for a total of 10+ book covers over the course of several years.
Please read this carefully, as the longterm nature of the relationship requires us to be a good fit for each other. I'm looking for professionalism, book cover design experience, accountability (I do not work with avatars, only real people), someone who understands the coming of age / young adult / epic fantasy genre, and has a top-tier skillset able to compete on an international stage with the best work out there.
I’m looking for traditional-style illustration, that “painted” look, as opposed to imagery that “looks digital” (see Dawn of Wonder by Jonathan Renshaw, or some of the original Dragonlance covers, or any major "painted" epic fantasy like LOTR for an example of the feel I’m going for). To clarify, I don't mind if it's done digitally, as long as it
looks epic and painted.
A little about me:
Here's a post I did on reddit a while back at the end of my first series, and
here's another a bit later.
Due to the scope of the project, I'm looking to find someone who will ideally read the work, as I have a diehard fanbase that knows the characters and plots intimately (many of my readers read the work multiple times over: see my
reader mail page on my website to get an idea of what I'm talking about, or even the Discussion page on said website). Thus, knowledge of the characters and world would be
crucial, particularly because I’d like all four of the main characters’ faces on the cover, faces that grow as they age with the books. For example, in
Arcane we have:
14-year-old Augum Stone (the main protagonist)
14-year-old Leera Jones (his eventual girlfriend)
14-year-old Bridget Burns (their best friend)
101-year-old Anna Atticus Stone (she looks like an older Judi Dench)
By the end of the second series, they’re seventeen and hardened. And I’ll eventually write a series (probably multiple) of the main trio as adults, so
continuity is key (not to mention I'll write spin-off series' that are tied to the flagship series'). Further, there is an epic nature to my work that combines the adventures of The Hobbit with the characterization and fun of Harry Potter, albeit a bit darker. There is no cursing, no sex, but plenty of violence and harrowing scenes. My reader base is essentially the same as Harry Potter’s – lots of parents reading it with their kids, but then you have the parents enjoying the work too. And retirees love it because they get to relive their youth through it, so there's variety, but epic fantasy covers all those bases anyway.
And if you have a concept idea that would still appeal to that audience, I'd still be interested in hearing it.
(Note: you do
not need to have read the work to apply for this project)
The cover rebrand would obviously be applied across all formats, which are ebooks, paperbacks, and audiobooks (the first series was narrated by Grammy and Hugo winner Stefan Rudnicki, known for Ender's Game).
The timeline is flexible, but I’m hoping to have the covers of the first series (
The Arinthian Line) ready for the summefall of 2021.
Basically I'm looking for an illustrator who would be a good fit all around, think they'd be able to read (and enjoy) the work, and will work with me as my catalogue expands over time.
My current catalogue is as follows, which is due for a rebrand:
The Arinthian Line Series: (You'd be shooting to have all the covers ready for summefall 2021)
Arcane (The Arinthian Line, book 1) Riven (The Arinthian Line, book 2) Valor (The Arinthian Line, book 3) Clash (The Arinthian Line, book 4) Legend (The Arinthian Line, book 5) Fury of a Rising Dragon series: (You'd likely do new covers for this in 2022/2023)
Burden's Edge (Fury of a Rising Dragon, book 1) Honor's Price (Fury of a Rising Dragon, book 2) Mercy's Trial (Fury of a Rising Dragon, book 3) Champion's Wrath (Fury of a Rising Dragon, book 4) (December 2020)*
Unannounced series Book 1 (December 2021 launch, and you'd be doing the cover for this series as well)
Again, you do
not need to have read my work to apply for this job, only be able to read it later should you be accepted.
I only publish about one book a year, so time frames shouldn't be an issue for future books.
I’d require a digital book cover, as well as a print-ready paperback PDF (I’d supply the paperback cover template for each book, which would include a spine and back), and an e-version of the audiobook cover. I don't mind bringing in a typographer into the project if that isn't something that you do. I’d also obviously provide you with the Kindle ebooks of all my work.
If you think you'd be a good fit for this project, please leave a link to your portfolio in the comments below, a link to your rates, as well as why you think you'd be a good fit. I'll contact you privately if I'm interested in taking the next step.
I don't micromanage, have worked with cover designers before, and respect the artists I work with and want to make sure they're happy and comfortable (I'm a former musician and now an author, so I know what it's like). Again, this is about establishing a longterm relationship across multiple series'.
Looking forward to your responses, but
don't feel rushed as I'll be monitoring this over the next few weeks, and me and my wife will vet each submission thoroughly. I mean that; take your time reading this post over and posting a submission. If you have any questions, please post them below (and please avoid messaging me directly as your submission might get lost in the shuffle).
Thank you to everyone who applies,
Sever Bronny
P.S.: If I don't contact you or reply, that does not AT ALL mean that I don't like your work (there's an abundance of ridiculously amazing talent here), it only means I might not think your particular style will necessarily be a good fit for what I'm looking for. After all, this is a huge commitment on both our ends, and I write in a somewhat-niche genre.
P.P.S. If you yourself aren't interested but know someone who might be a good fit, I'd be grateful if you forwarded this post to them.
P.P.P.S. The $500 budget is only an artificial stand-in for per-cover design, not reflective of your work. Please let me know your rates for cover design, or point me toward your website with your rates. I believe in paying artists fairly.
Hiyas!
My name is Sever Bronny, and I've been a full-time author for almost six years now writing coming-of-age epic fantasy. I am looking to find an illustrator to not only kick off a new (third) series in December 2021, but re-do the covers of the entire first series, and eventually the entire second series (see below), for a total of 10+ book covers over the course of several years.
Please read this carefully, as the longterm nature of the relationship requires us to be a good fit for each other. I'm looking for professionalism, book cover design experience, accountability (I do not work with avatars, only real people), someone who understands the coming of age / young adult / epic fantasy genre, and has a top-tier skillset able to compete on an international stage with the best work out there.
I’m looking for traditional-style illustration, that “painted” look, as opposed to imagery that “looks digital” (see Dawn of Wonder by Jonathan Renshaw, or some of the original Dragonlance covers, or any major "painted" epic fantasy like LOTR for an example of the feel I’m going for). To clarify, I don't mind if it's done digitally, as long as it
looks epic and painted.
A little about me:
Here's a post I did on reddit a while back at the end of my first series, and
here's another a bit later.
Due to the scope of the project, I'm looking to find someone who will ideally read the work, as I have a diehard fanbase that knows the characters and plots intimately (many of my readers read the work multiple times over: see my
reader mail page on my website to get an idea of what I'm talking about, or even the Discussion page on said website). Thus, knowledge of the characters and world would be
crucial, particularly because I’d like all four of the main characters’ faces on the cover, faces that grow as they age with the books. For example, in
Arcane we have:
14-year-old Augum Stone (the main protagonist)
14-year-old Leera Jones (his eventual girlfriend)
14-year-old Bridget Burns (their best friend)
101-year-old Anna Atticus Stone (she looks like an older Judi Dench)
By the end of the second series, they’re seventeen and more hardened. And I’ll eventually write a series (probably multiple) of the main trio as adults, so
continuity is key (not to mention I'll write spin-off series' that are tied to the flagship series'). Further, there is an epic nature to my work that combines the adventures of The Hobbit with the characterization and fun of Harry Potter, albeit a bit darker. There is no cursing, no sex, but plenty of violence and harrowing scenes. My reader base is essentially the same as Harry Potter’s – lots of parents reading it with their kids, but then you have the parents enjoying the work too. And retirees love it because they get to relive their youth through it, so there's variety, but epic fantasy covers all those bases anyway.
And if you have a concept idea that would still appeal to that audience, I'd still be interested in hearing it.
(Note: you do
not need to have read the work to apply for this project)
The cover rebrand would obviously be applied across all formats, which are ebooks, paperbacks, and audiobooks (the first series was narrated by Grammy and Hugo winner Stefan Rudnicki, known for Ender's Game).
The timeline is flexible, but I’m hoping to have the covers of the first series (
The Arinthian Line) ready for the summefall of 2021.
Basically I'm looking for an illustrator who would be a good fit all around, think they'd be able to read (and enjoy) the work, and will work with me as my catalogue expands over time.
My current catalogue is as follows, which is due for a rebrand:
The Arinthian Line Series: (You'd be shooting to have all the covers ready for summefall 2021)
Arcane (The Arinthian Line, book 1) Riven (The Arinthian Line, book 2) Valor (The Arinthian Line, book 3) Clash (The Arinthian Line, book 4) Legend (The Arinthian Line, book 5) Fury of a Rising Dragon series: (You'd likely do new covers for this in 2022/2023)
Burden's Edge (Fury of a Rising Dragon, book 1) Honor's Price (Fury of a Rising Dragon, book 2) Mercy's Trial (Fury of a Rising Dragon, book 3) Champion's Wrath (Fury of a Rising Dragon, book 4) (December 2020)*
Unannounced series Book 1 (December 2021 launch, and you'd be doing the cover for this series as well)
Again, you do
not need to have read my work to apply for this job, only be able to read it later should you be accepted.
I only publish about one book a year, so time frames shouldn't be an issue for future books.
I’d require a digital book cover, as well as a print-ready paperback PDF (I’d supply the paperback cover template for each book, which would include a spine and back), and an e-version of the audiobook cover. I don't mind bringing in a typographer into the project if that isn't something that you do. I’d also obviously provide you with the Kindle ebooks of all my work.
If you think you'd be a good fit for this project, please leave a link to your portfolio in the comments below, a link to your rates, as well as why you think you'd be a good fit. I'll contact you privately if I'm interested in taking the next step.
I don't micromanage, have worked with cover designers before, and respect the artists I work with and want to make sure they're happy and comfortable (I'm a former musician and now an author, so I know what it's like). Again, this is about establishing a longterm relationship across multiple series'.
Looking forward to your responses, but
don't feel rushed as I'll be monitoring this over the next few weeks, and me and my wife will vet each submission thoroughly. I mean that; take your time reading this post over and posting a submission. If you have any questions, please post them below (and please avoid messaging me directly as your submission might get lost in the shuffle).
Thank you to everyone who applies,
Sever Bronny
P.S.: If I don't contact you or reply, that does not AT ALL mean that your work is awful (there's an abundance of ridiculously amazing talent here), it only means I might not think your style will necessarily be a good fit for what I'm looking for. After all, this is a huge commitment on both our ends, and my genre is very niche specific.
P.P.S. If you yourself aren't interested but know someone who might be a good fit, I'd be grateful if you forwarded this post to them.
I just saw the movie and I have to say that even if I didn't quite like the trailers, I still had a little part of me that believed they could do a good movie.
Of course, normally Butler isn't black and Root is not a woman. But the books were written almost 20 years ago and you can bring changes for storytelling sake. If the characters are well written and the story they take part in is good, you can have your way.
I wondered if I should reread the bboks before seeing the movie. And boy what a good idea I had not to do it and let the books for after.
I can't even begin to understand how such a monstrosity of a movie can even see the light. And what angries and confuses me even more is that I really think there is potential for something in the middle of this.
The CGI was good in my opinion, I liked how they represented LEP uniforms and Haven city.
But then comes the fun. It seems like they have put books one and two in a blender and tried to make something viable with what came out. There are so many things that are thrown in you face without an explanation and even like that they don't hold by their own flawed logic. Shielding, time freeze, mesmer, lava ride....
And then come the characters. Each one flatter and blander that the next with incoherencies that would make anyone a little bit invested in the books scream. Who TF idea's was it to reveal Butler's name right away. It's meant to be a secret and that also part of what makes you bond with Juliet. And they could still have their little joke. Something like "He's not the butler, he's Butler". And if they gave it like 10 seconds more of thought than I did they could have come up with something really funny I think. And while I'm on Butler, why is he presented like a simple butler then ? Where is the dangerous man that can kill you 20 different ways without recurring to the armory he is wearing. What happened to the troll fight ? I wanted to see him fist fight a troll while wearing an armor. It's pat of the character developpement. Now he just assf***ed it with a chandelier.
Then, Artemis doing sports ? I get that they try to have an appeal for a young public but that's like Harry Potter being happy and well treatd at the Dursleys. That is so much out of character. And why does he act like a 12 years-old ? A great part of what makes him a menace in the books is that he speaks and acts like someone much older. Not making "friends forever" with a previous hostage 20 minutes after freeing her.
And Root ? What happened to the cigar somking, red-faced, prone to yelling commander ? The worst part is that Judi Dench is not the problem. Give her a cigar, a big gun at her belt and good lines to shout and you have yourself a perfecly good Root !
But the worst of all is Mulch. It's the only character that is somewhat resembling the book. Joking, always kind of sassy, overconfident, irrespectful. But why is he a giant dwarf ? Why take something good (or at least not a steaming pile of feces) and ruin it with a irrelevant flaw just because ?
And what about the Kelp brothers, Cudgeon, Foaly, Opale Koboï, Chix Verbil... who were butchered at best.
Now, I have to say that I really stongly suspect that the script was rewritten and changed countless times, as well as the movie we are given is certainly not the director cut. But I cannot fathom how someone could see a movie like this and just give it green light. It's unnecessary complicated for people who don't know the books and and insult to everyone who loves them. So what's their target.
I sincerely hope that if something good can come out of the movie is that some people will stumble upon the books and discover the wonderful universe Eoin Colfer put so much work into
submitted by Those books were my childhood, like, more than Harry Potter was to everyone else. I'm refusing to watch the film that came on to Disney+ a couple days ago based off the subreddit reaction
I now understand what the Percy Jackson and Eragon geeks were like when those films came out
They changed literally everything that made it a YA series to make it a Disney kids searies
Just a brief summary of what I've seen, Artemis' bodyguard is called Butler, from a long line of Butler's that serve the Fowls
The first rule of being in this bodyguard family is that you NEVER NEVER reveal your first name because emotional reasons
In the third book, this is really important 'cause Artemis' Butler thinks he's about to die so he tells him his name, which becomes a plot point that helps with memory wiping later (work with me here...)
One of the first things in the film is "Call me Dom"
And then there's shit about Butler's sister, but for some reason she's a niece
And Butler is a black dude because diversity, despite being labelled as Eurasian all through the books (I can get over that tbf, but the changed the serious hard man into comic relief man)
The captain of the fairy police is a woman, I guess because they managed to get Judi Dench on board, but that completely fucks the whole series arc about the main fairy girl being THE FIRST GIRL EVER TO BE IN THE LEPRECON FORCE
In the film, Artemis' mum died before it starts That fucks like, 12 different plots
Also Artemis the main character got turned from "ridiculously intelligent, could be a 50 year old mafia don" into your standard fantasy wondrous kid, turns out everyone knows about fairies which is just, the opposite of the books
And to top it all off, the author seems completely fine with all of this, so I'm just assuming he's got lots of Disney money, and a non disparagement contract
submitted by I was a huge Artemis Fowl fan when I was 12, and I was very excited about the movie adaptation.. till I saw that first trailer. It had been many years since I read the books but I knew something was very off.
I understand many things get changed from book to movie, most movie adaptations atleast retain the essence of the characters and the story, even the not-so-good adaptations. MCU does change up a lot of stuff from the comics, but they always ensure the final outcome is a good fucking movie. Kenneth Branagh, the guy who directed Thor which literally starts off with the main character being an asshole and redeems himself at the end of the movie decided that Artemis from the books was too unlikeable and decided to make him a sympathetic baby faced kid. That decision makes absolutely no sense, especially because it fucking worked in the books they were trying to adapt! The ones that had already sold millions of copies. If Disney wanted to make the next Harry Potter maybe they should have tried to atleast stuck to the essence of the story instead of trying so hard to appeal to everyone who hasn't read the books. Artemis surfing? WTF seriously? And by casting Judi Dench as Root, they effectively completely destroyed Holly's core arc. Diversity is fine. But that doesn't mean you sacrifice story.
After all the changes the end result isn't an Artemis Fowl movie adaptation. And sadly it's not even a good movie. Hope they do right by Percy Jackson.
submitted by What would the Harry Potter movies have been like if they had been made in the 90's? Actors suggested for roles must have been alive and in the proper age range during the 90's. The idea is for the movies to have been released from '91-'97.
British actors are preferred but not exactly required. Younger characters would probably be best if played by mostly British actors.
Oddly enough, many of the actors from the movies we got (David Thewlis, Maggie Smith, Kenneth Branagh) would still be a good option for their characters, and were at an even closer age to play their characters in the '90's then they were in the '00's.
Harry Potter - Tom Hiddleston
Hermione Granger - Billie Piper
Ron Weasley - James McAvoy
Severus Snape - Ralph Fiennes
Fred and George Weasley - Tom Hardy
Albus Dumbledore - Richard Harris
Alastor Moody - Jeremy Irons
Sirius Black - Johnny Depp
Horace Slughorn - Bernard Cribbins
Minerva McGonagall - Dame Judi Dench
Remus Lupin - David Thewlis
James Potter - John Hannah
Lily Potter - Jane Leeves
Who would you cast for a '90s release of the series?
submitted by Judi Dench [edit | edit source] Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. Originally trained as a set designer, Dench began her acting career in the mid 1950s in amateur productions, and made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. She branched into film work پرستار Art of I was glad they cast Judi Dench for شائقین of Harry Potter Vs. Twilight. spoof confession Dame Judi Dench in ‘great Dames Big Brother’ and Harry Potter star in BBC Arts season. It’s a Big Brother for acting’s grandest dames. A BBC documentary will follow Dames Joan Plowright 1 Judi Dench The Potter franchise had some celebrated actors and actresses in its luminous ensemble, each one contributing in their unique way to leave a lasting legacy for the films. Dame Maggie Smith is one such actress who played the feisty Professor McGonagall and became known to a generation of young movie-goers as such. Last week, Roger Ebert tweeted ‘Why haven’t Helen Mirren and Judi Dench ever made a Harry Potter film? As a Potions teacher, Slughorn was a key character in revealing who Voldemort really is and his way of attaining immortality. Broadbent is one of those character actors whose presence always add something special to any movie. He won an Oscar for his Best Supporting performance in And this also sums up the magnificent Judi Dench, an actress who’s made a career out of playing powerful women even though underneath you suspect she’s a bit of a softie. She won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth in 'Shakespeare in Love.' Who Is Judi Dench? Dame Judi Dench made her stage debut in Hamlet in 1957. After building a following for her theater,... Following the reports that Universal was sending an “improved” version of the film to more than a thousand cinemas at the insistence of director Tom Hooper, an image from the film has surfaced... Fan Art of I was glad they cast Judi Dench for Fans of Harry Potter oder Twilight. spoof confession Although all of the movies, except Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone (2001), have had a customized version of the Warner Brothers logo, this one has a scene (a replay from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) of Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) robbing Dumbledore's (Sir Michael Gambon's) grave) before the studio logo. The first time this has been done for a studio
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