Jimmy Kimmel said during The Oscars (2017) that judging by how fast they go through hosts, this would be his only time hosting the Oscars. Less than a week later, the Academy announced that Kimmel would be hosting the Oscars for the second year in a row.
Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington and Octavia Spencer all repeated their nominations from 2017 in the Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories respectively.
At age 88, Christopher Plummer became the oldest actor to be nominated for a competitive acting Oscar in the history of Academy.
With 26.5 million viewers, it was one of the least-watched Oscar ceremonies in the Academy's history.
Logan (2017) marks the first time that a superhero/comic book film receives an Oscar nomination for its screenplay.