• two 79th Academy Award Best Visual Effects nominees employed mathematician Ronald Fedkiw's model for their special effects?
• Academy Award-winning film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the pilot of "The Ruptured Duck," one of 16 USAAF bombers in the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II?

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• electronic musician DJ Champion played percussion on a bicycle alongside Benoît Charest and Béatrice Bonifassi at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony?

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• Academy Award nominated screenwriter Ivan Moffat was the grandson of Victorian actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree?
• Academy Award winner Glen Hansard was a regular visitor to Dublin's Road Records store before its closure in January 2009?
• Academy Award winner Going My Way was filmed at St. Monica's (pictured), and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor?
• Academy Award-winning film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the pilot of "The Ruptured Duck," one of 16 USAAF bombers in the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II?
• Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Nancy Oliver considered leaving show business shortly before being offered her first full-time position writing for Six Feet Under?
• Academy Award-nominee Tamara Jenkins spent time at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, to write her screenplay for The Savages?
• Oscar-winning executive producer Randy Stone co-founded The Trevor Project, which provided the first 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hotline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States?
• film editor Sam O'Steen collaborated on twelve films by Mike Nichols, earning Academy Award editing nominations for Silkwood and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf??
• Golden Raspberry Awards founder John Wilson's marketing work has included publicity for the Academy Awards?
• J. D. Chakravarthy's Telugu film Homam drew inspiration from Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning film The Departed?