From Arrival to La La Land: fascinating facts about this year's best picture Oscar nominees
Five things you didn't know about each of this year's top Academy Award contenders.
Five things you didn't know about each of this year's top Academy Award contenders
Did you know that test screenings of La La Land went so badly that director Damien Chazelle was sure it would flop?
Or that Paramount Pictures purchased the rights to Fences way back in 1987, and that the original screenplay had been fashioned around Eddie Murphy and James Earl Jones?
Or that Hidden Figures writer Allison Schroeder grew up near Cape Canaveral and as a teenager interned at NASA, where her grandparents worked?
The Oscars are right around the corner, and to mark the occasion, we've gathered five fascinating facts about each and every one one of this year's Academy Award best picture nominees.
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The 89th Academy Awards are happening Sunday.
— Jennifer Van Evra, q digital staff