How many people total in every category have been nominated for an Oscar since the award was given out?

Answer 1

24: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Score, Visual Effects, Makeup, Song, Foreign Language Film, Animated Feature Film, Short Film, Animated Short, Documentary and Documentary Short.

Answer 2

459 movies were nominated for Best Picture (80 won), 207 directors were nominated for Best Director (63 won, including two double-winners), 421 actors have been nominated (132 won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor), 415 actresses have been nominated (132 won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress), You can count the nominees in the rest of the categories.

Answer 3

It depends on the category. There are either three nominees, five nominees or ten nominees. The most usual is five nominees; however, some categories, some years only have three. For 2009, the Academy decided to restore a previous standard of nominating ten films for the Best Picture award.

Answer 4

There are usually 5 nominations per category in the Academy often it might be lesser for the categories that fall within the Science like Sound, Special FX, and Animated categories etc. Moreover It is not binding on the 'Academy of Motion Pictures Art and Science' to have only 5 nominations, the 86th Academy Awards there were 9 Movies chosen as Best-Pic Nominees from which "12 Years A Slave" won this Award selected on the basis of Merit.

Answer 5

24 current awards and 5 special awards (since 1927, 1929 or thereabouts)

Answer 6

24 Oscars and 5 Special awards my lord.