The 92nd Academy Awards will be held on February 9, 2020.Over the last century, there have been many records set and careers changed after winning an Oscar.Only one woman has ever won Best DirectorKathryn Bigelow won for "The Hurt Locker" in 2010.Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.The 92nd Academy Awards are quickly approaching. This year's nominees were announced on January 13, 2020.In honor of Hollywood's biggest night, here are 21 records that have been set over the past nine decades, from the youngest winner to the longest movie that won Best Picture.Keep scrolling to learn more about the awardsand check back after the ceremony. Depending on who wins, some of these records could change!Christopher Plummer is the oldest person to ever be nominated for an Oscar ' and the oldest person to ever win.He was 82 when he won for "Beginners," and 88 when he was nominated for "All the Money in the World." He was also nominated in 2010 for "The Last Station."The youngest person to ever be nominated for an Oscar was 8-year-old Justin Henry for "Kramer vs. Kramer" in 1979.Henry is now 48 and acts sporadically.And the youngest winner was 10-year-old Tatum O'Neal for "Paper Moon" in 1974. She won Best Supporting Actress.O'Neal co-starred in "Paper Moon" with her father, Ryan O'Neal.But the true youngest winner is Shirley Temple, who was 6 when she won the Academy Juvenile Award in 1935. This category doesn't exist anymore.Other notable winners include Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Bobby Driscoll, and Margaret O'Brien.Three movies are tied for the most wins. "Ben-Hur" (1959), "Titanic" (1997), and "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" (2003) all won 11 awards.This year, "Joker" was nominated 11 timesso if it wins all 11, it'll join the list.Three movies are also tied for the most nominations with 14 Oscar nods: "All About Eve" (1950), "Titanic" (1997), and "La La Land" (2016).As previously stated, "Titanic" went on to win 11 awards. "All About Eve" and "La La Land" each took home six statues.The longest winner of Best Picture in Oscars history is 1939's "Gone with the Wind," which clocks in at 3 hours, 58 minutes.So even if the notoriously long "The Irishman" picks up Best Picture, it still won't top the list.The country that's taken home Best Foreign Language Film the most is Italy, which has produced 14 winners from 32 nominations.Most recently, Italy won for "The Great Beauty," or "La grande bellezza" in 2014, directed by Paolo Sorrentino.Meryl Streep is the most-nominated actress in Oscar history, with a staggering 21 nominations under her belt. She's won three times.Streep has won Best Actress twice, for "Sophie's Choice," and "The Iron Lady." She won Best Supporting Actress for "Kramer vs. Kramer."However, with 22 wins from 59 nominations, Walt Disney is the most-decorated Oscar winner in history. He even won four in a single night.In one night, Disney took home the Oscars for Best Documentary (Feature), Best Documentary (Short Subject), Best Short Subject (Cartoon), and Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) in 1953.The most prestigious award of the night is Best Picture ' but it doesn't always go to the best movie. The worst-reviewed winner, according to Rotten Tomatoes, is 1929 winner "The Broadway Melody." It has a 35%."'The Broadway Melody' is interesting as an example of an early Hollywood musical, but otherwise, it's essentially bereft of appeal for modern audiences," writes Rotten Tomatoes.This year, people were upset that women were again shut out of the Best Director category. The first woman to win was Kathryn Bigelow in 2009 for "The Hurt Locker."Prior to Bigelow, just three women had been nominated for directingLina Wertmller for 1975's "Seven Beauties," Jane Campion for 1993's "The Piano," and Sofia Coppola for 2003's "Lost in Translation."Only one movie to win Best Picture has been rated X: "Midnight Cowboy" (1969).It was mainly rated X simply because it wasn't suitable for kidsthe "X" rating was almost brand new in 1969, and didn't have the same connotations as it does today. However, MTV does point out the film has "a fair amount of nudity and some brief scenes of sexual activity."When it was later re-rated, it earned an R rating.Only two sequels have won Best Picture: "The Godfather Part II" (1974) and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003).In total, seven sequels have been nominated for Best Picture"Toy Story 3," "Mad Max: Fury Road," "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," "The Godfather Part III," and "The Bells of St. Mary's," plus the two winners.You may be wondering, what about "The Silence of the Lambs'" The Anthony Hopkins/Jodie Foster jointcouldbe considered a sequel to "Manhunter," but it's really more of a reboot.When Cate Blanchett earned an Oscar for playing Katharine Hepburn in 2004's "The Aviator," she became the first person to win an Oscar for playing an Oscar winner.She's not the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying an icon, but she wasthe first to win an Oscar for portraying an Oscar winner.Hepburn herself holds the record for most Oscars for acting ' she won four times.Hepburn won in 1933, 1967, 1968, and 1981 for "Morning Glory," "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "The Lion in Winter," and "On Golden Pond," respectively. Though, famously, she never attended an awards show to collect her statues in person.The first African-American entertainer to win an Oscar was Hattie McDaniel in 1939.McDaniel won the Best Supporting Actress award for "Gone with the Wind," in which she played Mammy, a role that's since been mired in controversy.Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win when he was awarded Best Actor for "Lilies of the Field" (1963).Poitier had previously been nominated for his role in 1958's "The Defiant Ones."Marlee Matlin became the first deaf person to win an Oscar when she won for 1986's "Children of a Lesser God."In addition to being the first deaf person to win, Matlin is also the youngest woman to win Best Actress.Only two people have won Oscars posthumously: Heath Ledger for "The Dark Knight" and Peter Finch for "Network."Joaquin Phoenix recently thanked Ledger in his SAG Awards acceptance speech, calling Ledger his "favorite actor." Phoenix is also nominated for an Oscar for his version of the Joker.Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro are the only people who have won Oscars for playing the same role, Vito Corleone, in "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II," respectively.Brando portrayed Vito Corleone as an old man, with adult kids and grandkids. De Niro played Corleone as a young man who had just emigrated from Italy.If Joaquin Phoenix wins for "Joker" this year, it'll mark the second time this has happened.Read more:The worst movies that 50 Oscar winners have been in, according to criticsThe 18 best Oscar hosts of all time, rankedEvery single Oscar-nominated superhero movie, ranked from worst to bestTHEN AND NOW: What the 2020 Oscar nominees looked like when they first started acting
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