Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Big Magilla wrote:Sophia Coppola was nominated for an Oscar for acting?

No she wasn't nominated for her acting but Coppola, Streisand and Winfrey are the only actresses who have received nods as producers.

Sofia Coppola was not.

Sophia Coppola was nominated for an Oscar for acting?

FilmFan720 wrote:Only actress, I believe: Barbra Streisand.

Also Oprah Winfrey (Selma) and Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation).

dws1982 wrote:

mlrg wrote:And you have Leonardo di Caprio with a best actor Oscar and a best picture nomination

Also Robert DeNiro and Denzel Washington.

And Henry Fonda (the first), John Wayne, and Paul Newman

Plus nominees Matt Damon and (supporting actor) Mark Wahlberg.

Only actress, I believe: Barbra Streisand.

mlrg wrote:And you have Leonardo di Caprio with a best actor Oscar and a best picture nomination

Also Robert DeNiro and Denzel Washington.

And you have Leonardo di Caprio with a best actor Oscar and a best picture nomination

And Bradley Cooper and Warren Beatty with multiple combinations

People didn't receive Best Picture Oscars until 1951.

Douglas, Clooney, and Pitt are the three. Costner and Eastwood are Oscar nominees for acting with a Best Picture win.

Olivier would not count for Hamlet. At the time, studios were given the trophies, not producers. J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films is the listed nominee.

HarryGoldfarb wrote:Is Brad Pitt the fourth person to win an acting Oscar and Best Picture?

Laurence Olivier, Michael Douglas and George Clooney did it, but I am not sure if I am forgetting someone.

Did Laurence Olivier win a Best Picture Oscar? He’s listed as an uncredited producer for Hamlet, which makes me wonder if he received an actual Oscar for Best Picture.

Is Brad Pitt the fourth person to win an acting Oscar and Best Picture?

Laurence Olivier, Michael Douglas and George Clooney did it, but I am not sure if I am forgetting someone.

I almost argued Batman Begins!

Okri wrote:b) Laurence Olivier has three solo nominations as well - Richard III, The Entertainer and Marathon Man.

It's disheartening that The Boys from Brazil wasn't also limited to the one.

dws1982 wrote:

Mister Tee wrote: Closest runners-up, I believe, with 3 apiece, would be Peter O'Toole (The Ruling Class, My Favorite Year, Venus) and Robert Duvall (The Apostle, A Civil Action, The Judge).

You're forgetting that A Civil Action got the most forgettable Cinematography nomination of the past thirty years.

I indeed did.

Like okri, I looked through 30 years of nominees, and it's hard to argue your point (maybe a half-hearted Batman Forever). The cinematographers' branch has cleaned up its act, since those days when they'd slip in a Butterflies Are Free or The Formula every year.

a) I looked through the last 30 years of cinematography nominees to provide a counterpoint to dws' re: A Civil Action. I could not

b) Laurence Olivier has three solo nominations as well - Richard III, The Entertainer and Marathon Man.