Jimmy Kimmel said during La 89e cérémonie des 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.
Frances McDormand's Oscar was briefly stolen by a party crasher at the Governors Ball right after the event (said man actually had a real invitation to the Ball). The statuette was easily recovered a few minutes later and the man was arrested.