2015 Cosmo Trivia

Which was the first? Which had the most? Some trivia about the winners of the 2015 Cosmique Movie Awards as well as lifetime records through the 2015 Awards.

2015 Cosmo Awards Trivia

• Four films tied for the most awards, each winning four awards: Avengers: Age of Ultron; Ex Machina; Mad Max: Fury Road; and The Revenant. They tie with The Aviator and Garden State in 2004 for the fewest wins for the top-winning films of the year.
• This year, no films with multiple nominations swept all of their awards. The highest winning ratios were for Ex Machina and Mad Max: Fury Road, which each won four out of five (80%) of their nominations. There have been multi-nominated film sweeps in six other years, while four other years – 2002, 2003, 2010, and 2014 – also did not have any multi-nominated sweeps.
• No individual won more than one award this year. This has only happened three other times in Cosmo history: in 2006, 2013, and 2014. Usually someone wins two awards, though only once (in 2003 with Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron) has more than one person won two awards in the same year. No one has ever won more than two awards in the same year.
• In 2015, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara tied for the most individual nominations of the year with four nominations each, the first year that more than one person has received that many nominations in a single year. No one has ever had more than four nominations in a single year, though five others tie this record (Ian McKellen in 2003, Natalie Portman in 2004, Anne Hathaway in 2012, Chloë Grace Moretz in 2013, and Scarlett Johansson in 2014).
• For the second year in a row, and for only the second time in Cosmo history, the winner or one of the winners (in the event of a tie) of Best Film did not also win for either of the two major genre awards: Best Drama or Best Comedy (which was Best Comedy/Musical in some years). In 2015, The Martian won Best Film but wasn’t even nominated for either of the two major genre awards. In 2014, Boyhood won Best Film but similarly wasn’t nominated for either of the two major genre awards.
• The Martian is the first Best Picture winner in Cosmo history to not win any other awards. It was nominated for a total of ten awards.
• Cate Blanchett, who received four individual nominations in 2015 (including one win), has received a total of 20 individual Cosmo nominations, more than any other individual, and has won five individual awards, also the most. Ian McKellen, who was nominated and won this year’s Best Actor of All Time Lifetime Achievement, has received the second-most individual nominations, 14, but Julianne Moore and Charlize Theron are tied for receiving the second most number of awards with four each. 
• Cate Blanchett also hold the record for receiving nominations in the most years of the awards (ten out of the awards’ 12 years), followed by Ian McKellen, Rosalind Russell, and Meryl Streep who have received nominations in eight out of 12 years. Cate Blanchett also holds the record for the most years winning an award, having won awards in five of the ten years she was nominated.

Overall as of the 2015 Awards

• Rosalind Russell’s three individual awards over eight individual nominations are both records for anyone whose career and lifespan predates the origination of the Cosmique Movie Awards. Her most recent nomination was at the 2012 awards.
• A total of 567 performers and directors have received at least one individual nomination over the years. Of these, 381 (67%) have only received nominations in a single year. Of the 186 (33%) who’ve received nominations in multiple years, 89 (16%) have received nominations in two different years, 51 (9%) have received nominations in three different years, 24 (4%) received nominations in four different years, and 22 (4%) have received nominations in five or more years.
• Of the 567 performers and directors who have received nominations over the years, 337 (59%) have only received one nomination, while another 103 (18%) have received just two nominations over the years. Of these 103, 41 of them received both nominations the same year. The remaining 127 people have received three or more nominations over the years.
• Of the individuals who’ve only been nominated in a single year, Rooney Mara holds the record for the most individual nominations with four, followed by Sean Astin and Katharine Hepburn with three each.
• Nicole Kidman continues to hold the record for the most individual nominations (ten nominations over seven years) without winning an individual award. She has also shared in five ensemble nominations but none of them won, tying with Halle Berry, Jennifer Lawrence, and Julia Roberts for the most ensemble nominations without an ensemble win. But Berry, Lawrence, and Roberts all have individual wins.

How ensemble nominations affect the best of the best

The Cosmique Movie Awards have two ensemble categories: Best Ensemble, which rewards an entire cast for their collective acting (the Screen Actors Guild's equivalent of a Best Picture), and Sexiest Ensemble, rewarding the cast as a whole for their overall attractiveness (shallow, but fun).

Usually when we speak of most-nominated actors and actresses, we generally focus on their individual achievements. Rosalind Russell has had 13 individual nominations, winning three of them, making her the person with the most individual nominations and tying with Meryl Streep and Charlize Theron for the most individual awards.

But how do those figures change when ensemble nominations are factored in?

Rosalind also has shared an ensemble win for The Women (1939), which won Movie With the Best Ensemble Cast at the first Cosmos, bringing her to four wins out of 14 nominations.

But it's Cate Blanchett whose ensemble awards put her at the top. She's won two of her 12 individual nominations, but she's also shared in winning two out of five ensemble nominations, bringing her to four Cosmos out of 17 total individual and ensemble nominations.

Nipping at her heels is her Lord of the Rings costar Ian McKellen, whose eight ensemble nominations (and two wins) -- more than any other actor thanks to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and the X-Men franchises -- are paired with another eight individual nominations (one win), giving him 16 nominations with three wins.

Rosalind's collective 14 nominations are followed by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, who each have 13 collective nominations. Meryl won three of her 10 individual nominations but none of her three ensemble nominations. Nicole has eight individual and five ensemble nominations, but has never won.

They're followed by Anne Hathaway with a four awards out of eight nominations, winning two of her seven individual nominations and two of her five ensemble nominations.

Orlando Bloom has a total of 11 nominations, four individual and seven ensemble. All four of his awards were ensemble wins (two for Lord of the Rings films, one for a Pirates of the Caribbean film, and one for Troy). And our list is rounded out with Natalie Portman, with two awards for her collective 10 nominations. Both of her awards were for individual performances out of seven individual nominations. She has shares in three ensemble nominations.

When ensemble awards are factored in with individual awards, five actors are tied for the most awards, with four awards each: Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, and Rosalind Russell. All required ensemble wins to round out their wins. Rosalind Russell has the most individual awards, while Orlando Bloom is unusual in that he's tied for first for overall wins, but all of his awards are for ensembles.

That's where the vote totals stand after nine years of Cosmo Awards. We'll see what happens next year. Will Rosalind Russell receive another Hall of Fame nomination? Will Cate Blanchett be recognized for Blue Jasmine? And three of these actors appear in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, a favorite franchise for Cosmo voters that could well get more individual or ensemble nominations. We shall see.

Who has appeared in the most Cosmo-nominated movies?

Which Cosmo-nominated actor or actress has appeared in the most Cosmo-nominated movies? The answer might surprise you.

We don't mean the person who has received the most individual nominations (that would be Rosalind Russell, with 13 individual nominations). We're looking for the person who has appeared in the most films that have received at least one Cosmo nomination, even if the nomination wasn't for that actor. (Could be an actress who appeared in a film whose sole nomination was for Actor's Character You Most Would Like to be Intimate With.)

The answer is ... Ian Holm!

Ian Holm's sole nomination (and win) was for Best Villain for his appearance in From Hell (2001). But he has appeared in a total of 13 movies that have received Cosmo nods, including, in chronological order of film's release:

• Alien (1979) 
• Brazil (1985) 
• The Fifth Element (1997) 
• eXistenZ (1999) 
• From Hell (2001) 
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 
• The Aviator (2004) 
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004) 
• Garden State (2004) 
• The Cabin in the Woods (2012) 
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

It's unclear whether he will be in the upcoming The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (IMDB lists him but Rotten Tomatoes does not), but it seems like that he will be in next year's The Hobbit: There and Back Again.

Ian's 13 nominations are followed by Helena Bonham Carter and Jude Law, who have each appeared in 12 Cosmo-nominated films, and then by Alec Baldwin, Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Jim Broadbent, Johnny Depp, and Judi Dench, who have all appeared in 11 Cosmo-nominated films.