Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

FilmFan720 wrote:

mlrg wrote:I wonder when was the last time two acting nominees from the same category skipped the ceremony

Other than that, a deserved win.

I said the same thing...I’ve been watching since 1991 and don’t remember it

Absent acting nominees

first year since 2001 that there were two absent nominees in an acting category. What was a common thing up until the 70s became a big exception in the last decades:

2020 - Hopkins, Pesci
2017 - Portman
2014 - Dench
2008 - Ledger (posthumously)
2007 - Dench
2003 - Newman
2002 - Penn, Will Smith
2001 - Finney
2000 - Penn
1999 - Duvall
1998 - Hopkins
1996 - Penn, Troisi (posthumously)
1995 - Scofield, Rosemarie Harris
1994 - Malkovich
1992 - De Niro
1991 - Depardieu, Streep, Woodward
1990 - Brando

mlrg wrote:I wonder when was the last time two acting nominees from the same category skipped the ceremony

Other than that, a deserved win.

I said the same thing...I’ve been watching since 1991 and don’t remember it

I appreciated Brad's coattails comment to Leo since that is exactly how I felt.

I wonder when was the last time two acting nominees from the same category skipped the ceremony

Other than that, a deserved win.

Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood