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Academy Awards by the numbers

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The 86th annual Academy Awards air Sunday night on ABC

2007 Year Ellen DeGeneres first hosted the awards (she’ll be hosting for the second time this year)

10 Nominations for both ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Gravity’

18Total acting nominations for Meryl Streep (her latest is for ‘August: Osage County’), a record

84 Age of this year’s oldest acting nominee, June Squibb (‘Nebraska’)

49 Total nominations for John Williams (he’s up for best original score for ‘The Book Thief’ this year), more than any other living person