Joscelyn Stoker, as her parents know her, made a minor bit of history this week, as both the youngest person ever nominated for the Mercury music prize and the first nominated for an album of cover versions.
While Moonlight co-editor Joi McMillan became the first African American woman ever nominated for film editing and, as noted, a woman received a nomination for best original score for Jackie, overall, women did abysmally in the non-acting categories.
Mr. Bardem's performance in Julian Schnabel's "Before Night Falls," based largely on the memoir that the AIDS-ravaged Arenas dictated in New York City before he committed suicide in 1990 at the age of 47, has not only won him an Oscar nomination for best actor but made him the first Spanish actor ever nominated.
The explanation was simple: no one had ever nominated Rod.
Janet Yellen, the first woman ever nominated for the position, is a great choice".
This was the first time the Czech Film Academy had ever nominated a foreigner.
LOS ANGELES — At one minute 45 seconds, with credits, "Fresh Guacamole" is the briefest film ever nominated for an Oscar.
It includes Luke Kennard - at 26 he's the youngest poet ever nominated for the best collection category.
The Lieutenant Gov. Peter Kinder called him, "The hardest left candidate ever nominated for president of the United States".
His last film, "Children of Heaven," was the first Iranian film ever nominated for an Academy Award.
It's impossible to imagine the uproar if President Obama ever nominated a British academic to work at the highest level of the Federal Reserve.
