| ETHELHS | The second African-American, after Hattie McDaniel, to be nominated for an Oscar |
| BODIDDLEY | Otha Ellas Bates McDaniel, to the world |
| ANGELA | Bassett who was the first person to be nominated for an Oscar for acting in a Marvel movie |
| NADINE | ___ Labaki, first female Arab director to be nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film |
| WHATSUP | ["Give me 'The Academy' for $600"] This was only the second animated film to be nominated for Best Picture, after "Beauty and the Beast" |
| PLUMMER | Oldest person to be nominated for an acting Oscar, at age 88 (7) |
| STUART | MARY WHO WAS FIRST SHOWN PREGNANT ON DAYTIME AND FIRST TO BE NOMINATED FOR AN EMMY |
| DEBORAHKERR | First Scottish woman to be nominated for an Academy Award (7,4) |
| LAIDLAW | Greig - - - , the second Scot to be nominated for World Rugby Player of the year after Mike Blair (7) |
| EXORCIST | The ___ (1973) was the first horror film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar |
| LAURADERN | Half of the only mother/daughter duo to be nominated for acting Oscars for the same film |
| LINA | Wertmuller who was the first woman to be nominated for a best-director Oscar |
| RICHMAN | Tommy with a song that spent 22 weeks at the top of the hip-hop charts this year, and which is expected to be nominated for at least one Grammy next month |
| MURPHYBITCHED | What happened, perhaps, after "Tower Heist" failed to be nominated for Best Picture? |
| DYAN | Cannon, the first woman to be nominated for Oscars both in front of and behind a camera (4) |
| ASTARISBORN | First colour film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar 1938, remade in 1954, 1976 and 2018 (1,4,2,4) |
| PRECIOUS | This drama had no distributor until winning three prizes at Sundance in 2009; it went on to be nominated for six Oscars |
| GONEWITHTHEWIND | Hattie McDaniel willed her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for this film to Howard University |
| CAMPANELLA | Second African-American in the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| OBAMA | Time's second African-American Person of the Year |
