I was researching a bitching oscar trivia page and i found so many fun facts about the oscar that i rather share with all instead of coming up with a question. So, in leiu of Soul Patch Tony re-appearance on 24, who let the dawgs out: 

Films In Which The Entire Cast Was Nominated for Oscars:

Sleuth (1972) 
Give 'em Hell Harry (1975)

The Only Films To Win Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress And Screenplay:

It Happened One Night (1934) 
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

The Only Actors To Win Consecutive Oscars:

Luise Rainer (1936-37) 
Spencer Tracy (1937-38) 
Katharine Hepburn (1967-68) 
Jason Robards (1976-77) 
Tom Hanks (1993-94)

The Only People To Direct Themselves To Acting Oscars:

Laurence Olivier, Hamlet, 1948 
Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful, 1998

Only Tie For Best Actor, Only Tie For Best Actress:

Wallace Beery (The Champ) and Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) 1931/32 
Katharine Hepburn (The Lion In Winter) and Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl)

The Only Consecutive Double Oscar Winners:

Joseph L. Mankiewicz won Directing and Screenplay Oscars for A Letter To Three Wives in 1949, and All About Eve in 1950 
Alan Menken won Oscars for Best Song and Best Original Score in 1991 for Beauty and the Beast and again the following year for Aladdin.
The First Film To Be Released On Video Before Winning Best Picture:

The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

The Only Television Film To Be Adapted Into A Best Picture Winning Film:

Marty (1955)

The First Posthumous Oscar Winner:

Sidney Howard, for the screenplay of Gone With The Wind (1939)

The Only Posthumous Acting Award Winner:

Peter Finch, Best Actor, Network (1976)

The Shortest Performance To Win An Oscar:

Judi Dench won Best Supporting Actress in 1998 for her less than 8 minutes of screen time as Queen Elisabeth in Shakespeare In Love. 
Beatrice Straight is second place, she won Best Supporting Actress for Network in 1976 for about 10 minutes of screen time.

The Shortest Performance To Win A Leading Oscar:

Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor in 1991 for less than 16 minutes of screen time as Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter in The Silence Of The Lambs.

The Only Twins To Win Oscars:

Julius J Epstein and Philip G. Epstein shared the shared the Screenplay with Howard Koch for Casablanca (1943)
 

The Only Oscar To Win An Oscar:

Oscar Hammerstein II (Best Song: 1941, 1945)
The only films to win three Oscars for acting: 

A Streetcar Named Desire(1951) 
Network (1976) 
The only films to win both Best Actor and Best Actress: 

It Happened One Night (1934) 
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 
Network (1976) 
Coming Home (1978) 
On Golden Pond (1981) 
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 
As Good as It Gets (1997)
 

The only African-American actors to win Oscars:

Hattie McDaniel (Best Supporting Actress, Gone With the Wind) 
Sidney Poitier (Best Actor, Lilies of the Field) 
Louis Gossett Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, An Officer and a Gentleman) 
Denzel Washington (Best Supporting Actor, Glory) 
Whoopi Goldberg (Best Supporting Actress, Ghost) 
Cuba Gooding Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, Jerry Maguire) 
Halle Berry (Best Actress, Monster's Ball) 
Denzel Washington (Best Actor, Training Day)

Youngest performer to receive an Academy Award:

Shirley Temple (1934, Special Award; she was 6 years old) 

Oldest performer to receive an Academy Award:

Groucho Marx (1973, Honorary Award; 83 years old)

The Longest Gap Between Nomination And Victory:

Henry Fonda was first nominated as an actor for The Grapes Of Wrath (1941), and didn't win an acting award until 41 years later for On Golden Pond (1982).  However, was given an honorary award the previous year. 
Jack Palance was nominated for Sudden Fear (1952), but had to wait 39 years before his victory for City Slickers (1991) 

Two Families With Three Generations Of Oscar Winners:

Walter Huston (Best Supporting Actor, The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, 1948) 
John Huston (Best Director, The Treasure Of Sierra Madre, 1948) 
Anjelica Huston (Best Supporting Actress, Prizzi's Honor, 1985)
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Carmine Coppola (Best Original Dramatic Score, The Godfather: Part II, 1974) 
Francis Ford Coppola (Best Original Screenplay, Patton, 1970; Best Adapted Screenplay, The Godfather, 1972; Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, The Godfather: Part II, 1974) 
Nicolas Cage A.K.A. Nicolas Coppola: Francis Ford Coppola's nephew (Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas, 1995) 
Sophia Coppola Daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, Grandaughter of Carmine, Cousin of Nicolas Cage (Best Original Screenplay, Lost in Translation, 2003) 
  

The Only Women Nominated As Best Director:

Lina Wertmuller, Seven Beauties (1976) 
Jane Campion, The Piano (1994) 
Sophia Coppola, Lost in Translation (2003)