First Woman to Win Outstanding Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood | Love & Basketball
Youngest Outstanding Actress Winner: Quvenzhane Wallis | Beasts of the Southern Wild
Oldest Outstanding Actress Winner: Irma P. Hall | The Ladykillers
Number of Oscar nominated/winning performances: Halle Berry | Monster’s Ball* (Oscar winner) Viola Davis | The Help* (Oscar nominee) Sophie Okonedo | Hotel Rwanda* (Oscar nominee) Gabourey Sidibe | Precious* (Oscar nominee) Quvenzhane Wallis | Beasts of the Southern Wild* (Oscar Nominee)
Most nominations w/o a win: Rosario Dawson (4 nominations)
Most nominations: Sanaa Lathan (5 nominations)
Most wins: Sanaa Lathan (2 wins)
Youngest Outstanding Actor Winner: Dev Patel | Slumdog Millionaire
Oldest Best Actor Winner: Morgan Freeman | Invictus
Number of Oscar nominated/winning performances performances: 11 Don Cheadle | Hotel Rwanda (Oscar nominee) Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave* (Oscar nominee) Jamie Foxx | Ray* (Oscar Winner) Morgan Freeman | Invictus* (Oscar nominee) Terrence Howard | Hustle & Flow* (Oscar nominee) Will Smith | Ali* (Oscar nominee) Will Smith | The Pursuit of Happyness* (Oscar nominee) Denzel Washington | Flight* (Oscar nominee) Denzel Washington | The Hurricane* (Oscar nominee) Denzel Washington | Training Day* (Oscar Winner) Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland* (Oscar Winner)
Most nominations w/o a win: Samuel L. Jackson (5 nominations)
Most nominations: Denzel Washington (11 nominations)
Most wins: Denzel Washington (4 wins)
Lowest Grossing Outstanding Picture Winner: Lighting in a Bottle, $201,711
First Foreign Language film to earn an Outstanding Picture nomination: Attack the Block in 2011.
First Documentary to earned an Outstanding Picture nomination: Standing in the Shadows of Motion in 2002.
Producer with the most nominations: Spike Lee (6 nominations)
Studio with the most Outstanding Picture wins: Fox Searchlight (3 wins) – Antwone Fisher, Beasts of the Southern Wild, 12 Years a Slave
Films with the most wins: 12 Years a Slave & Selma (8 wins)
Highest Grossing Outstanding Picture Winner: The Help, $169,708,112
First Animated Film to earned an Outstanding Picture nomination: The Princess and the Frog
Numbers of wins by an individual in a single year: 3 Jamie Foxx in 2004 (Outstanding Actor | Ray, Outstanding Supporting Actor | Collateral & Outstanding Actor, TV Movie or Limited Series | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story) Jennifer Hudson in 2006 (Outstanding Supporting Actress & Breakthrough Performance | Dreamgirls, Outstanding Song | “And I Am Telling You (I’m Not Going) from Dreamgirls)
Most nominated individual: Spike Lee (27 nominations)
First Documentary to win Outstanding Picture: Lighting in a Bottle (Note: The film won in the Outstanding Musical/Comedy category, the first and only film to win in this category).
Most nominations by an individual in a single year: 4 – Spike Lee in 2000, Denzel Washington in 2002, Jamie Foxx & Mario Van Peebles in 2004, Jennifer Hudson in 2006 , Reggie Rock Bythewood & Zoe Saldana in 2014
Most wins by a woman: Anika Noni Rose & Cicely Tyson (4 wins)
Most individuals wins: Denzel Washington (6 wins)
Film with the most nominations without a single win: Baby Boy (10 nominations)
Most nominated female: Angela Bassett (12 nominations)
Individuals who earned nominations/wins in all four Acting categories (Film & TV): Angela Bassett Alfre Woodard Gabrielle Union
Number of performers who earned double acting nominations (Lead and supporting) in a single year: 7 Jamie Foxx in 2004 for Ray* and Collateral* Terrence Howard in 2005 for Hustle & Flow* and Crash* Rosario Dawson in 2005 for Rent and Sin City Mos Def in 2008 for Be Kind Rewind & Cadillac Records Nate Parker in 2012 for Red Tails and Arbitrage David Oyelowo in 2014 for Selma* and a Most Violent Year Chiwetel Ejiofor in 2015 for Z for Zachariah and The Martian Note: * indicates winning Black Reel Award performance.
Most nominated film: For Colored Girls (14 nominations)
Most individuals wins: Denzel Washington (6 wins)
Number of performers who earned multiple nominations in a single category: 3 Chiwetel Ejiofor became the first actor to achieve this in 2007. Ejiofor was nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actor category with Children of Men and Kinky Boots. Denzel Washington became the first actor to achieve this feat in 2010. Washington was nominated in the Outstanding Actor category for Unstoppable and The Taking Pelham 123. Washington would go on to lose the category to Morgan Freeman in Invictus. In 2014, Gugu Mbatha-Raw earned multiple nominations in the Outstanding Actress category for Belle and Beyond the Lights. Mbatha-Raw would go on to win for Belle.
Most Nominations: Spike Lee (9 nominations)
Most Nominations w/o a Win: John Singleton (4 nominations)
Most Wins: Gina Prince-Bythewood, Ava DuVernay & Steve McQueen (2 wins)
First Director to earn a Outstanding Director nomination for an Animated Film: Peter Ramsey | Rise of the Guardians
Number of Oscar nominated/winning Directors: 2 Lee Daniels | Precious* (Oscar nominee) Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave* (Oscar nominee)
Number of Actors/Actress who earned Outstanding Director wins/nominations: Chris Rock | Top Five Denzel Washington | Antwone Fisher
