Scripps Howard put together a fun by the numbers piece leading up to Sunday’s Oscars. Here are some of the fun ones.
» Sunday will be the 9th time that Billy Crystal hosts the show.
» 265 films were eligible for the Academy Awards.
» With her nomination for “The Iron Lady,” Meryl Streep is a 17-time Oscar nominee. She has won three times.
» The Oscar itself weighs 8.5 pounds.
» PricewaterhouseCoopers has counted around 450,000 Oscar ballots in the 78 years they’ve been doing the tabulations.
