Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

They all won Oscars for playing real-life people. Rainer and Streisand were Ziegfeld girls. DeNiro and Spacek won in the same year playing people who were still living and attended the Oscars with them. Blanchett and Stapleton played legends in bios of other legends. Cotillard and Zellweger played ...

Luise Rainer & Barbra Streisand. Robert De Niro & Sissy Spacek. Cate Blanchet & Maureen Stapleton. Marion Cotillard & Rene Zellweger. Meryl Streep & Garry Oldman. Eddie Redmayne & Helen Mirren. These pairs, along with quite a few more (I left out some more obvious ones), have...

- Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas are now the second married duo to win best picture, with “Driving Miss Daisy” producers Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck as the first. They are at least the fourth. Julia and Michael Philiips won for The sting, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson did for that Ring...

Thank you all. I'm fine, on a day to day basis, at least.

I hope the dreadful part of 2023 was more global than personal for you, Uri. We are all too aware of the global part, which of course can have a big impact personally. Actually, it was harsh on a very personal way. My father was diagnosed with a heart failure back in January and was in and out of t...

2023 was a dreadful, dreadful year. On all levels. And the movies weren’t that great too. My rating: A- the ultimate best of the year, B- very good, would make a decent, worthy winner, C- a nomination should suffice, D- not necessarily bad, but not award material, F- a failure. Best Picture 1. Past ...

I had to check it, but my intuition was (kind of) right. For only the third time, none of the nominated actors is under 30. The previous two times it happened? 1931-32 and 1933-34 (although back then Claudette Colbert was officially 29, not 31). Not once since they had four categories has this happe...

After 42 years, Katharine Hepburn is finally off the records books. Not only De Niro's 49 years span between his first and last nominations knocks off Hepburn's 48, him being nominated along Foster, 47 years after they were both up for Taxi Driver, breaks Hepburn's and Henry Fonda's 41 years span. ...

After 42 years, Katharine Hepburn is finally off the records books. Not only De Niro's 49 years span between his first and last nominations knocks off Hepburn's 48, him being nominated along Foster, 47 years after they were both up for Taxi Driver, breaks Hepburn's and Henry Fonda's 41 years span.

making some ask, do Brits even know that indigenous Americans count as diverse? Aha? Why should Brits be fully adjust to American sensitivities? Indigenous Americans being count as diverse is not a given. It's a political perception. (And are these the same Americans who refer to Guillermo del Toro...

Big Magilla wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:06 pm Further proof that women live longer than men.

And win their Oscars way, way younger - Hackman and Woodward are about the same age.

I'm with CalWilliam. A great anal fun.

Speaking of which - Lydia Clarke, Charlton Heston's wife, made an uncredited appearance in The Greatest Show on Earth.

And shouldn't we include Liam Neeson among the Redgrave clan?

Since I can't come up with more answers, I'll add a question:

Two actors appeared in and were nominated/won for their associations with these Oscar winning films - one's sister was married to the other's brother.

Mister Tee wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 1:18 pmI really wish Uri would look/chime in on this.

Thank you! Alas - I'm not in the best of shapes - back problems - so I'd struggle sitting for a long time, researching.

But, beside the obvious ones, the one that came straight to my mind was the Gene Kelly/Betsy Blair connection.

Reza wrote:I think its especially disgraceful if a former Oscar nominee is omitted. Melinda Dillon was nominated twice but was ignored. Ditto Hugh Hudson who was nominated for Chariots of Fire. Weird.

And Chaim Topol. Although he died after that segment was probably already produced.