By Daniel Howat

It’s been a long and hard-fought Oscar season, but we got a lot of answers today when the nominations were announced for the 90th Academy Awards. The Shape of Water led the nominations with 13, followed by Dunkirk with eight, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with seven. There were plenty of snubs and surprises, like the lack of The Florida Project, Martin McDonagh missing Best Director, and James Franco missing Best Actor.

Still, that’s not what we’re here to talk about. As with every year, there are tons of stats and trivia that come with this fresh crop of nominees. Take a look at some interesting info about the 90th Academy Awards nominees.

Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman nominated for Best Director, following Lina Wertmuller (Seven Beauties), Jane Campion (The Piano), Sofia Coppola (Lost In Translation), and Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker). She’s the first of those nominated for her solo directing debut. Bigelow is the only female winner of Best Director.

Jordan Peele became the fifth black person nominated for Best Director, after John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood), Lee Daniels (Precious), Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave), and Barry Jenkins (Moonlight). No black director has ever won.

With Get Out, Peele is also the third person ever to receive nominations as producer, director, and writer for his debut film, and the first black person to do so.

Speaking of Get Out, it’s the first film released in February to be nominated for Oscars since The Silence of the Lambs. It’s also the first film nominated for Best Picture since Erin Brockovich to be released prior to the previous year’s Academy Awards ceremony.

Guillermo del Toro scored a Best Director nomination as well, making this the most diverse year of nominees ever, with only two white men nominated (Paul Thomas Anderson and Christopher Nolan).

Del Toro is the third Mexican filmmaker nominated for Best Director, following Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity), and Alejandro Iñárritu (Babel, Birdman, and The Revenant). Cuarón and Iñárritu both won (Iñárritu had previously lost for Babel, but won back-to-back in 2014 and 2015).

For The Shape of Water, Octavia Spencer scored her third Oscar nomination. She’s now tied Viola Davis’s record for the most nominations by a black actress.

Denzel Washington extended his record for the most nominations by any black actor, with eight. He’s also the first black actor nominated in two consecutive years.

With Washington and Daniel Kaluuya both scoring Best Actor nominations, this is the first year that category had two black actors nominated.

This was also the first time since Bugsy in 1991 to have two Best Supporting Actor nominees from the same film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Kumail Nanjiani scored a Best Original Screenplay nomination, along with his wife, Emily V. Gordon, for The Big Sick. This makes Nanjiani the first Pakistani nominee for a feature film. Previously, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy received two nominations for Best Documentary Short Subject.

Netflix broke ground, scoring their first nominations outside the Documentary categories. Mudbound received four nominations: Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Song, Best Cinematography, and Best Adapted Screenplay. These are the first nominations for a film whose release was primarily through a streaming service.

Each one of Mudbound's four nominations broke a record of some kind: their Best Cinematography nominee was Rachel Morrison, who became the first woman ever nominated in that category. This was the last active category to not have a female nominee, outside of Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

Dee Rees scored a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Mudbound, making her the first black woman nominated there. She’s only the second black woman to receive a writing nomination, following Suzanne de Passe (Lady Sings The Blues). She failed to receive a Best Director nomination, which would've been a first for a black woman.

Snagging Mudbound’s final two nominations, Mary J. Blige was nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song (Mighty River). She’s now the only person nominated for both acting and songwriting Oscars in the same year.

There were a few age-related records this year as well. Timothée Chalamet scored a Best Actor nomination at 22 years-old. This makes him the third youngest Best Actor nominee ever, following Jackie Cooper (age 9 in 1931) and Mickey Rooney (age 19 in 1939). This makes him the youngest nominee in that category in 79 years.

Christopher Plummer, already the oldest winner of an acting award at age 82, became the oldest acting nominee ever at age 88. His Best Supporting Actor nomination for All The Money In The World is especially notable, since he was cast in the role on November 8th, 2017, and nominated on January 23rd, 77 days later.

Plummer would’ve been the oldest nominee in any category, but two others beat him out this year for that honor. James Ivory scored a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me By Your Name at 89 years, 7 months, and 16 days, making him the oldest ever writing nominee.

Still, Ivory was beaten out for the record of oldest Academy Award nominee overall. Agnès Varda is sixteen days older than Ivory, making her the oldest nominee for any competitive Academy Award. Her nomination for Best Documentary Feature, for her film, Faces Places, comes in the same year that Varda was given an Honorary Academy Award for her contributions to film.

John Williams continues his extraordinary streak of Academy Award nominations, receiving his 51st nomination, this time for his score for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. He extended his honor as the most nominated living individual, and second most nominated person in history. Only Walt Disney has more nominations, at 59.

Meryl Streep extends her streak as the most nominated actor of all time with her 21st nomination for The Post. How close is the next actor to her record? Jack Nicholson has 12 nominations.

Interestingly, every time Streep has been nominated for an Oscar in a Best Picture nominee, that film has won Best Picture: The Deer Hunter, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Out of Africa. Should The Post lose Best Picture, it will be a first for her.

The Post became Steven Spielberg’s 11th film to be nominated for Best Picture. That’s the most for any living director. William Wyler holds the all-time record with 13 films nominated for Best Picture.

Call Me By Your Name was the only film with an Adapted Screenplay to be nominated for Best Picture this year. Thus, in the expanded era, this is the fewest number of Adapted Best Picture nominees.

The highest grossing Best Picture nominee this year (as of January 23rd) was Dunkirk, which grossed $188,373,161.

The lowest grossing Best Picture nominee (as of January 23rd) was Phantom Thread, which grossed $6,059,449.

Though Wonder Woman scored a PGA nomination for Best Picture, it failed to receive a single Oscar nomination, becoming only the second film in the expanded era to do that. Deadpool was the first.

Logan, on the other hand, became the first live-action superhero film to ever receive a nomination in either screenplay category. It’s also the first superhero film ever nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Not even The Dark Knight did that. The Incredibles was the first superhero film to receive a screenplay nomination but in Best Original Screenplay.

There were so many records broken this year, and there could be more with the winners. Any stats or interesting trivia we missed? Let us know! Find us on Twitter @screenerscast and give us a shout.