Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar in 1992 for his role as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs – despite his character appearing on screen for just 16 minutes. He is still not the shortest Oscar-worthy performance in movie history. In 1977, Beatrice Straight won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, despite appearing on screen in the movie Network for just five minutes.

The sound of the T-rex’s growl in Jurassic Park is partly made by slowing down the growl of a koala bear.

Before Kate Winslet was offered the role, Gwyneth Paltrow, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, and Reese Witherspoon were all considered to play Rose in Titanic. Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, Chris O’Donnell, and Stephen Dorff were all considered for the role of Jack that eventually went to Leonardo di Caprio.

The movie Toy Story 2 was almost deleted from Pixar’s servers before it was completed when a glitch began automatically undoing the computer-generated movie’s code.

When Parasite was named Best Picture at the 2020 Oscars, it became the first non-English-language film to win the award in history.

In the summer of 2023, it was announced that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has so far grossed $30 billion.