| "Zero Dark Thirty" and 'Skyfall' each win Oscars for best sound editing in rare tie in 2013. The last Oscars tie was in 1969, when Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn tied for Best Actress. |
| UK's Daniel Day-Lewis is 1st person to win Best Actor 3 times (Lincoln - 2013, My Left Foot - 1990 and There Will Be Blood - 2008). |
| Ang Lee won best director for Life of Pi at Oscars 2013. |
| Life of Pi wins 4 awards; Les Mis and Argo have 3; and Django, Lincoln and Skyfall won two awards at Oscars 2013. |
| Sitar legend Ravi Shankar was posthumously awarded the best world music album trophy at the 55th Grammys in 2013. |
| Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" spent 741 weeks on the Billboard charts from 1973 to 1988 - longer than any other album in history. |
| In the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, a special "Supporting Actor" award was created just for Samuel L. Jackson, for his performance in "Jungle Fever" as a crack cocaine addict. |
| The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences included both the oldest and youngest women ever nominated for a Best Actress awards in 2012. The youngest is Quvenzhane Wallis, 9-years-old now, but she was only 6 when she shot "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; and the oldest is Emmanuelle Riva, an 85-year-old who's been acting since 1958. |
| Macaulay Culkin was paid $ 100,000 for his role in "Home Alone". He was paid USD 4.5 million for his role in "Home Alone 2". |
| "Civilization IV" was the first video game ever to be nominated for and win a Grammy! |