On Sunday evening, the Hollywood glitterati will gather for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. The big buzz this year is that Kathryn Bigelow has a real chance to become the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar. She’s only the fourth woman to ever be nominated.

If Bigelow wins, it will be a huge step for women in the film industry. Yet, female representation in mainstream film is still alarmingly low. In 2009, women comprised only 7% of all directors, 8% of writers, and 17% of all executive producers. 35% of 2009's top films had no female producers at all.

Today’s Random Five focuses on women and girls in Oscar history – how far we’ve come and how far we’ve yet to go.

1. Shirley Temple at age 6 was the youngest person to receive an Oscar – she was presented with an honorary (non-competitive) miniature statuette in 1934. Tatum O'Neale at age 10 was the youngest person to be nominated and win an Oscar.

2. When Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Oscar, for playing a slave in “Gone With the Wind,” she had to sit in a segregated part of the auditorium. The Oscar that McDaniel won is missing. After her death, she willed it to Howard University, where it disappeared during civil disturbances at the college in the 1960s. The Academy has refused to replace it.

3. A woman has never been nominated in the sound or cinematography categories.

4. In 1994, Whoopi Goldberg became the first woman to host the Oscars solo. She hosted four times. Ellen Degeneres is the only other woman to host the show alone – she did so in 2007.

5. A video tribute to all the women nominated this year – good luck!!