By: Natasha Archary

The 2024 Oscar Awards ceremony took place on Sunday, 10 March at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles and there were a few records broken this year.
During the 96th Academy Awards, Oscar-nominated films released in 2023 were presented awards in 23 categories.
Not only did actress Emma Stone join 26 other actresses who have won 2 or more Oscars for leading performances, but Cillian Murphy who starred in Oppenheimer and Peaky Blinders became the first Irish-born actor to win Best Actor.
USBets.com shares a few records that were broken this year, which include:
- Emma Stone joined 26 other actresses who have won 2 or more acting Oscars for leading performances – Stone won Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2019 for “La La Land” and she won this year for “Poor Things” (including Stone, 27 actors have won 2 or more Oscars for leading performances – 17 women and 10 men; when also counting supporting performances, 45 actors have won 2 or more acting Oscars – 24 women and 21 men)
- Cillian Murphy became the first Irish-born individual to win in the Best Actor category after he won for “Oppenheimer” (*Daniel Day-Lewis is a three time Best Actor winner and he has dual British-Irish citizenship, but he was born in London, while Murphy was born in Cork, Ireland)
- Mark Ruffalo became the living actor with the most nominations in the Best Supporting Actor category without any Oscar wins (nomination for “Poor Things” was Ruffalo’s fourth nomination)
- Justine Triet became the first French woman to win in the Best Original Screenplay category after she won for “Anatomy of a Fall”
- Diane Warren (nominated for the song “The Fire Inside” from the movie “Flamin’ Hot”) extended her record for the most nominations in the Best Original Song category without a win – Warren has been nominated 15 times (*however, she did win the Honorary Academy Award last year)
- “The Zone of Interest” became the first UK movie to win the Best International Feature Film Oscar (*since the main dialogue of the movie is not English, it allowed for United Kingdom to submit it for the Best International Feature Film category – their previous nominations in the category were for films with Welsh dialogue)
- “The Boy and The Heron” (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan) became only the second non-English movie to win in the Best Animated feature category (with Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” being the first and last non-English speaking winner up until now)
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