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- Fri May 10, 2024 4:09 am
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: It's way too long since we had a quiz
- Replies: 9
- Views: 219
Re: It's way too long since we had a quiz
I knew that Piaf and Garland met in real life and could have guessed that Churchill and the Iron Lady had met, but I probably would never have connected Hepburn and Goldman. That's quite a stretch. Just because Hepburn's mother entertained "the likes of Goldman" does not mean that she act...
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:52 am
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: It's way too long since we had a quiz
- Replies: 9
- Views: 219
Re: It's way too long since we had a quiz
Ok. A closure. The point (if there's any) – actors winning Oscars for portraying real people who met along the way. Magilla mentioned two such encounters – Jake LaMotta and Loretta Lynn meeting at the Oscars in 1981, Elizabeth II (who met everyone, from Churchill to Fredy Mercury, but contrary to pe...
- Tue May 07, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: It's way too long since we had a quiz
- Replies: 9
- Views: 219
Re: It's way too long since we had a quiz
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 ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 3:32 am
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: It's way too long since we had a quiz
- Replies: 9
- Views: 219
It's way too long since we had a quiz
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...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2767
Re: I'm always here for the Trivia
- 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...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:00 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Evaluating the nominees
- Replies: 7
- Views: 586
Re: Evaluating the nominees
Thank you all. I'm fine, on a day to day basis, at least.
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 2:30 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Evaluating the nominees
- Replies: 7
- Views: 586
Re: Evaluating the nominees
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...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Evaluating the nominees
- Replies: 7
- Views: 586
Evaluating the nominees
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 ...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2767
Re: I'm always here for the Trivia
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...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2767
Re: I'm always here for the Trivia
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. ...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2767
I'm always here for the Trivia
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.
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: BAFTA Nominations
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1379
Re: BAFTA Nominations
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...
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:05 pm
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: Current Oscar Record Holders
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12091
Re: Current Oscar Record Holders
And win their Oscars way, way younger - Hackman and Woodward are about the same age.
- Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:28 am
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: Oscar Trivia Quiz: Best Picture/Relatives Edition
- Replies: 36
- Views: 30125
Re: Oscar Trivia Quiz: Best Picture/Relatives Edition
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?
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?
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 2:02 am
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: Oscar Trivia Quiz: Best Picture/Relatives Edition
- Replies: 36
- Views: 30125
Re: Oscar Trivia Quiz: Best Picture/Relatives Edition
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.
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.