Special Events
This year, the actors nominated for an Oscar did not have a clip shown of their performance as their names were announced, as had been done in years past. Instead, the Academy showed clips from every single actor or actress that ever won an Oscar for Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor or Actress in the past 75 years.
As a celebration of 75 years of the Academy, the Academy invited a large portion of actors and actresses that were past Oscar winners, although this year there were 59 past winners as opposed to the 70 that attended the 70th Academy Awards.
This was also the only year the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature had 5 nominees until 2010.
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