All You Need To Know Before Watching the 88th Oscars

Shouldn't take long, just some interesting things you should know...

When is it?

28th February! Coming Sunday at 7pm EST (For Hong Kong folks, Monday morning 8am instead!)

Who is hosting?

Yep, there goes Chris Rock. Might have Will Smith, Idris Elba or Samuel L Jackson to host next year if they and many other well-deserved actors/actresses still don't get nominated.

Including The Revenant, Leo would have been nominated 4 times for Best Actor, and still no Oscar for him at all. This should be his year and moment though!!

Leo's Oscar records:

• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - Nominated for Best Actor
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - Nominated for Best Picture
• Blood Diamond (2006) - Nominated for Best Actor
• The Aviator (2004) - Nominated for Best Actor
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) - Nominated for Best Supporting Actor

If director Alejandro G. Inarritu wins Best Director and Best Picture for The Revenant, he will become the first ever director to win both these titles in two consecutive years.

Past directors who have won Best Director twice consecutively:

• John Ford - The Grapes of Wrath (1940) & How Green Was My Valley (1941)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives (1949) & All About Eve (1950)

Looks ancient history, eh?

Sylvester Stallone became the first ever male nominee to have been nominated twice for playing the same character, same role. He was Rocky Balboa nominated for Best Actor in Rocky (1976), and now he is still Rocky Balboa nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Creed (2015).

Stallone is still in good shape, eh? After all these 40 years, we remember Rocky and those final steps.

Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki would become the first ever to win three in a row for Best Cinematography if he were to win for The Revenant.

His last two consecutive wins:

• Birdman (2014)
• Gravity (2013)

Including his nomination for Sicario, cinematographer Roger Deakins has surmounted his number of nominations for Best Cinematography to 13. Is it time for the Oscars to show a little sympathy?

Ennio Morricone is now 87 of age and he is still writing masterpieces for film scores. Tarantino was right about him being more than Beethoven and Schubert. Including The Hateful Eight, it is his 6th nomination for Best Original Score, and yet he has never won too, except an Honorary Oscar.

That's enough for the day. More analysis to come before Monday. Stay tuned :)