Posthumous Oscar Nominations/Wins

[Big Magilla]

Something called The Big Picture has come up with a ghoulish list ranking posthumous performances.

If Natalie Wood was in Dreamscape it would have indeed been something as the film was made several years after she died. I'm pretty sure they meant Brainstorm.

Here's the list:

The Top Five Posthumous Performances

6 November 2008 11:05 PM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net |

5 - Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

4 - Bruce Lee - Enter the Dragon

3 - Massimo Troisi - Il Postino

2 - James Dean - Giant

1 - Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Heath Ledger: Oscar-bound?

We're fortunate this week that Bernie Mac left us with a very funny final performance in Soul Men. He's never been better, so watching his work in that comedy is certainly bittersweet, but it's better to go out on top than, say, Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 from Outer Space or Emmitt Smith with the Arizona Cardinals.

Thanks for all the suggestions, which included Stanley Kubrick for directing Eyes Wide Shut, Brandon Lee in The Crow, John Candy (Wagon's East), Natalie Wood for Dreamscape, Adrienne Shelly (who wrote, directed and co-starred in Waitress), Oliver Reed in Gladiator, Clark Gable in The Misfits, and John Ritter's very funny supporting performance as the mall manager in Bad Santa.

[Damien]

The wonderful composer Victor Young, who won his only Oscar (for Around The World In 80 Days) after he died.

[Uri]

The first was actually Jeanne Eagles for The Letter back in 1929.

[rain Bard]

Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

[anonymous1980]

Heath Ledger is poised to receive a posthumous Oscar nomination and perhaps even a win. Who are the other posthumous Oscar noms/wins in the past in ALL categories?

PICTURE

DIRECTOR

ACTING
Jeanne Eagles, The Letter
James Dean, East of Eden
James Dean, Giant
Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Peter Finch, Network*
Ralph Richardson, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Massimo Troisi, Il Postino

WRITERS
Sidney Howard, Gone With The Wind*
Massimo Troisi, Il Postino

TECHS
Victor Young, Around the World in 80 Days* (score)
Victor Young, Written on the Wind (song)
Howard Ashman, Beauty and the Beast* (song)
Howard Ashman, Aladdin (song)
Conrad L. Hall, Road to Perdition* (cinematography)
Marit Allen, La Vie En Rose (costume design)
Gretchen Rau, The Good Shepherd (art direction)

Who else?



Edited By anonymous on 1227604438