- "Roma" and "The Favourite" both scored 10 Academy Awards nominations
- "Roma" actress Yalitza Aparicio is the first Indigenous woman and only the fourth Latinx actress to be nominated for Best Actress in Oscar history.
- Spike Lee picked up his first-ever Best Director nomination.
- "Black Panther" is the first superhero movie to ever receive a nomination for Best Picture.
When Tracee Ellis Ross and Kumail Nanjiani announced the official 91st Academy Awards Nominations list, there was plenty of history being made throughout their presentation.
Here are all the moments that history will remember most.
"Black Panther" is the first-ever superhero movie to be nominated for Best Picture.
Ryan Coogler's unique vision of Wakanda also scored six other nominations from the Academy:
- Sound Editing by Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker
- Sound Mixing
- Production Design by Hannah Beachler
- Original Score by Ludwig Goransson
- Original Song ("All the Stars" by Kendrick Lamar and SZA
- Costume Design by Ruth E. Carter
"Roma" received 10 Oscar nominations — which ties it with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" for the most nominations for a foreign language film.
In total, Alfonso Cuarón's "Roma" is nominated in the following categories:
- Best Picture
- Lead Actress for Yalitza Aparicio
- Supporting Actress for Marina de Tavira
- Director
- Original Screenplay
- Cinematography
- Best Foreign Language Film
- Sound Editing
- Sound Mixing
- Production Design
Further for the first time in Oscar history, "Cold War's" Paweł Pawlikowski and Cuarón, two directors of movies nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, have also received Best Director nominations.
Alfonso Cuarón is now tied for the all-time Oscar record of most award nominations for a single film.
"Roma" scoring 10 nominations is impressive on its own — but four of those belong directly to Cuarón himself. Cuarón not only directed the film, but also produced, wrote, and was the cinematographer for it as well.
The only other individuals to have accomplished this feat in Oscar history are the Coen Brothers for "No Country for Old Men," Warren Beatty for both "Heaven Can Wait" and "Reds," and Orson Welles for "Citizen Kane, according to Deadline.
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