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If Ledger wins, they will both have been winning for playing severely mentally unbalanced people.Big Magilla wrote:If Heath Ledger wins the Best Supporting Actor award for The Dark Knight, he'll be only the second posthumous acting winner ever, after Network's Peter Finch in 1977. Like Ledger, Finch had earned one prior nomination, and like Ledger, it was for playing a gay man, in 1971's Sunday Bloody Sunday.
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More, from E.W.:
With his Best Director nomination for The Reader, Stephen Daldry has become the first director ever to receive nods for his first three films. (The other two were Billy Elliot and The Hours.)
This year, three of the four winning lead-acting performances at the Golden Globes (Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road, Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky, and Colin Farrell for In Bruges) weren't nominated for the Oscar. That marks the first time that's happened since 1954, when Spencer Tracy (The Actress), David Niven (The Moon is Blue), and Ethel Merman (Call Me Madam) failed to score Oscar nods after winning the Globe.
Best Supporting Actress nominee Penélope Cruz has become the fourth actor to receive nominations for performing in two different languages. Ingrid Bergman’s seven noms include a Swedish-language role in Autumn Sonata, Robert De Niro spoke Sicilian in The Godfather Part II, and Benicio Del Toro spoke Spanish in Traffic (and English in 21 Grams).
Waltz With Bashir is the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
This year marks only the fifth time in Oscar history that the Best Picture and Best Director races matched 5 for 5. It last happened just three years ago, when Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck, and Munich were recognized in both categories.
With Frank Langella's nod for Frost/Nixon, Richard Nixon is the first president more than one man has been Oscar-nominated for playing. (Anthony Hopkins scored a nod for Nixon in 1996.)
If Heath Ledger wins the Best Supporting Actor award for The Dark Knight, he'll be only the second posthumous acting winner ever, after Network's Peter Finch in 1977. Like Ledger, Finch had earned one prior nomination, and like Ledger, it was for playing a gay man, in 1971's Sunday Bloody Sunday.
With his Best Director nomination for The Reader, Stephen Daldry has become the first director ever to receive nods for his first three films. (The other two were Billy Elliot and The Hours.)
This year, three of the four winning lead-acting performances at the Golden Globes (Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road, Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky, and Colin Farrell for In Bruges) weren't nominated for the Oscar. That marks the first time that's happened since 1954, when Spencer Tracy (The Actress), David Niven (The Moon is Blue), and Ethel Merman (Call Me Madam) failed to score Oscar nods after winning the Globe.
Best Supporting Actress nominee Penélope Cruz has become the fourth actor to receive nominations for performing in two different languages. Ingrid Bergman’s seven noms include a Swedish-language role in Autumn Sonata, Robert De Niro spoke Sicilian in The Godfather Part II, and Benicio Del Toro spoke Spanish in Traffic (and English in 21 Grams).
Waltz With Bashir is the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
This year marks only the fifth time in Oscar history that the Best Picture and Best Director races matched 5 for 5. It last happened just three years ago, when Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck, and Munich were recognized in both categories.
With Frank Langella's nod for Frost/Nixon, Richard Nixon is the first president more than one man has been Oscar-nominated for playing. (Anthony Hopkins scored a nod for Nixon in 1996.)
If Heath Ledger wins the Best Supporting Actor award for The Dark Knight, he'll be only the second posthumous acting winner ever, after Network's Peter Finch in 1977. Like Ledger, Finch had earned one prior nomination, and like Ledger, it was for playing a gay man, in 1971's Sunday Bloody Sunday.
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Viola Davis only has one Tony; I think you must have her confused with Audra McDonald, who has four.Sonic Youth wrote:A Tony winner.
Frank Langella, Meryl Streep, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman all have one. Viola Davis has FOUR Tony awards.
If I'm wrong and a second person in a category has one, I confess I didn't research it so deeply.
Frank Langella has three.
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Well, here's something unusual I noticed -- and I might as well just tell you, because it's too obscure to be picked up on except by accident:
Each of the four acting categories, and the directing category, features at least one former winner, one non-winning former nominee and one first-timer.
How unusual is this quinella? I killed an hour by scanning the lsts, and found only two prior years -- 1956 and 1998 -- featured the same configuration.
(You could expand the list to include 2003 if you counted Tim Robbins' earlier directing nomination against his acting nod, but that wasn't the spirit of my search)
Each of the four acting categories, and the directing category, features at least one former winner, one non-winning former nominee and one first-timer.
How unusual is this quinella? I killed an hour by scanning the lsts, and found only two prior years -- 1956 and 1998 -- featured the same configuration.
(You could expand the list to include 2003 if you counted Tim Robbins' earlier directing nomination against his acting nod, but that wasn't the spirit of my search)
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Sonic Youth wrote:A Tony winner.
Frank Langella, Meryl Streep, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman all have one. Viola Davis has FOUR Tony awards.
If I'm wrong and a second person in a category has one, I confess I didn't research it so deeply.
Nope. Streep and Hoffman have been nominated for Tony awards, but never won.
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barrybrooks8 wrote:Here is one I came up with:
Each acting category has exactly one nominee that is......what?
either:
...going to be one of the few new Oscar winners not connected with Slumdog Millionaire in two weeks.
or:
...the only person nominated for his or her film in any category.
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To get back to my questions for a second. Frost/Nixon also had opening credits. Benjamin Button, The Reader and Slumdog did not.
Filmfan, you're right about the birthday question. Harvey Milk's birthday plays a very important role in the film. But if Jamal celebrated a birthday in Slumdog, I need a reminder when in the film that was.
Handkerchief: In Frost/Nixon, Swifty Lazar was a hygeine freak, and uses one after a handshake; in Milk, a business owner across the street promptly wipes his hands after meeting Milk.
Magilla, you said "all". Maybe, but I have no memory of it in the other films. Where else?
Filmfan, you're right about the birthday question. Harvey Milk's birthday plays a very important role in the film. But if Jamal celebrated a birthday in Slumdog, I need a reminder when in the film that was.
Handkerchief: In Frost/Nixon, Swifty Lazar was a hygeine freak, and uses one after a handshake; in Milk, a business owner across the street promptly wipes his hands after meeting Milk.
Magilla, you said "all". Maybe, but I have no memory of it in the other films. Where else?
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