The Coens dominate with an unusually high number of records and trivia that could transpire on Sunday night. With four nominations (producing, directing, screenwriting, and editing under pseudonym Roderick Jaynes), the Coens have the potential to tie Walt Disney's record of four Oscars in one night. While the editing award would be one statuette engraved to Mr. Jaynes (thus maintaining Disney's sole technical ownership of the record), the Coens would do something Disney did not: win all four awards for the same film.

Other potential Oscar trivia includes sound mixer Kevin O'Connell's first win after a record-setting 20 nominations for "Transformers." His previous nominations range from "Terms of Endearment" to "Twister" to "Memoirs of a Geisha." His main competition this year seems to come from "No Country," whose sound team picked up the telling Cinema Audio Society Award this past week.

Acting nominees Ruby Dee and Hal Holbrook both have the potential, at 83 and 82 respectively, to become the oldest winners in their categories' history. Holbrook already holds the distinction of being the oldest male acting nominee of all-time. The best actress category features a trio of possible winners, each with a record-setting agenda. "La Vie En Rose"'s Marion Cotillard would become the first foreign-language best actress winner since Sophia Loren won in 1961, while "Juno"'s Ellen Page could take Marlee Matlin's distinction of the youngest winner in the category, and she may also become the first Canadian to win a lead acting prize since the 1928-1930 hat trick of Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer and Marie Dressler. Oddly enough, her favored competition, "Away From Her"'s British-born Julie Christie, would become the first acting winner ever from a Canadian production (in addition to having the longest period - 42 years - between wins).