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Ok, I know, the Academy awards is not yet till the next year but just can’t help but to share these info below on Oscar’s firsts. The feeling of making it to the first spot of whatever category, either in a good or in a bad way, unfortunately, gives one a feeling of importance.

1. The acting talent who has received the most number of Oscar nominations is the late great Katherine Hepburn. All in all, the legendary actress had 12 nominations under her belt and bagged 4 wins. She was nominated and won for Morning Glory, Alice Adams, The Philadelphia Story, Woman of the Year, The African Queen, Summertime, The Rainmaker, Suddenly, Last Summer, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Guess who’s coming to dinner, The Lion in the Winter, and on Golden Pond.

2. The first Oscar Best Actor winner was Emil Jannings for The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh while the first Best Actress winner was Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven , Street Angel, and Sunrise. The two won in 1928.

3. The first Africa-American to win as Oscar was Hattie McDaniel, who received the Best Supporting Actress award in 1939 for her role in Gone with the wind.

4. The first person to receive consecutive Oscars was Luise Rainer, Best Actress for The Great Ziegfield in 1936 and The Good Earth in 1937. The first back-to-back Best Actor award was Spencer Tracy, who pulled off the record-setting feat for Captain’s Courageous in 1937 and Boys Town in 1938.

5. The first deaf person to grab an Oscar was Marlee Martin. She was the 1986 Best Actress honoree for Children of a Lesser God.

6. The first full-blooded Asian to be nominated for an Oscar acting award was Japanese actress Miyoshi Umeki. She subsequently won the Best actress award for the movie Sayonara in 1957.

7. The first Oscar-rated movie to have received an Oscar Best Picture nomination was Midnight Cowboy. The X-rating that was given,however, didn’t necessarily imply pornographic because the rating system back then was still in its stage of infancy. The official rating of the Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman-starrer was later reduced to R.

There, this actors and actresses and this film were the firsts to be on the firsts list of the Academy awards.