2013 Cosmo Trivia

Biggest, Mostest, and Other Trivia for the 2013 Awards Season

• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug received 12 nominations, making it the most nominated film of the 2013 Cosmique Movie Awards and the third most nominated film in a single year for Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films. (Return of the King received 26 nominations and The Two Towers received 21, while The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey received 11. The Fellowship of the Ring also received 11 nominations the year it was released, but with three Lifetime Achievement nominations it now has a total of 15 nods.)
• With The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’s nominations, all five to date of Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films have been nominated for Best Film, Best Director (Peter Jackson), and Best Supporting Actor (Ian McKellen).
• Chloë Grace Moretz received four individual nominations this year, two each for Carrie and Kick-Ass 2, making her the most individually nominated person for the 2013 Awards. She’s followed by Jennifer Lawrence with three individual nominations for American Hustle and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
• With ensemble nominations factored in, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jennifer Lawrence are the most nominated people of 2013 with five total nominations each (two individual and three ensemble for Cumberbatch, three individual and two ensemble for Lawrence).
• At the 2013 awards, two actors who died since the last awards received posthumous nominations: Philip Seymour Hoffman for Best Actor of All Time Lifetime Achievement Hall of Fame, and Paul Walker for Favorite Male Heroic Character for Hours. Hoffman previously won Best Actor for Capote. This is Walker’s first nomination.
• A total of 88 different films received one or more Cosmo nominations at the 2013 awards, the most films to be nominated in a single year, surpassing the record of 79 films at the 2004 Awards.
• 12 Years a Slave received three Best Supporting Actress nominations (for Adepero Oduye, Lupita Oyong'o, and Sarah Paulson), the most nominations for a single film to receive in one category at the 2013 Cosmique Movie Awards.
• Cate Blanchett has now received the most individual nominations ever, with a lifetime total of 14 individual nominations, followed by Rosalind Russell with 13, Meryl Streep with 11, and Ian McKellen with 10.
• With ensemble nominations factored in, Cate Blanchett has received a lifetime total of 19 nominations, followed by Ian McKellen with 18, Meryl Streep with 15, and Nicole Kidman and Rosalind Russell with 14 each.
• James Franco and his younger brother, Dave Franco, were both nominated for Cosmo Awards this year: the former for Favorite Male Heroic Character for Oz the Great and Powerful, and the latter for Actor’s Character You Would Most Like to be Intimate With for Now You See Me. James was previously nominated for Best Actor (127 Hours) and Best Male Villain (Spider-Man 2). This isn’t the first time siblings were both nominated the same year: Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal both received supporting acting nominations for Brokeback Mountain and Happy Endings, respectively, at the 2005 Awards.