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Who is the only actor never to get a nomination while alive but was to receive all of their multiple best actor nominations posthumously (more than 1 nomination and not in the same year)?

I'm thinking of an actor who had important supporting roles in 3 films in one year in which all three films were nominated for best picture (note - he appeared in more films than just 3 that year, but 3 of them were Best Picture nominees). Although only nominated in one of the 3 films in the supporting role category - he did win for that role. In one of the other pictures he appeared in - 2 of his co-stars where also nominated for best supporting actor nominations. If he was nominated in the 3rd best picture he appeared in that year, that picture would have had nominees in all 4 acting categories, to go along with many of its other record setting accomplishments. Can you name this actor?

This actor appeared in multiple movies (more than 3), and every single movie that he appeared in was nominated for Best Picture. Can you name him?

James Dean East of Eden and Giant

frogman042 wrote:Who is the only actor never to get a nomination while alive but was to receive all of their multiple best actor nominations posthumously (more than 1 nomination and not in the same year)?

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JAMES DEAN

frogman042 wrote:I'm thinking of an actor who had important supporting roles in 3 films in one year in which all three films were nominated for best picture (note - he appeared in more films than just 3 that year, but 3 of them were Best Picture nominees). Although only nominated in one of the 3 films in the supporting role category - he did win for that role. In one of the other pictures he appeared in - 2 of his co-stars where also nominated for best supporting actor nominations. If he was nominated in the 3rd best picture he appeared in that year, that picture would have had nominees in all 4 acting categories, to go along with many of its other record setting accomplishments. Can you name this actor?

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THOMAS MITCHELL (Stagecoach, Gone with the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

frogman042 wrote:This actor appeared in multiple movies (more than 3), and every single movie that he appeared in was nominated for Best Picture. Can you name him?

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My guess is JOHN CAZALE

franktangredi wrote:

frogman042 wrote:This actor appeared in multiple movies (more than 3), and every single movie that he appeared in was nominated for Best Picture. Can you name him?

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My guess is JOHN CAZALE

You are correct.

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All six of his films--"Dog Day Afternoon", "The Conversation", "The Deer Hunter", and all three "Godfather" films--were Best Picture nominees. Three of them won. The interesting thing about "The Godfather Part III" is that Cazale died 22 years before it was filmed.

We have our winners - all correct.

Both

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Thomas Mitchell

and

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John Cazale

were two of a number of my favoriate actors - that is they are in the set of actors that no matter what film they are in and regardless of the quality of the movie - I always enjoy their performances. Oliver Platt falls into that group as well as numerous others.

Another bit of trivia about

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John Cazale

, who was his Significant Other at the time of his death?

---Jay

frogman042 wrote:We have our winners - all correct.

Both

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Thomas Mitchell

and

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John Cazale

were two of a number of my favoriate actors - that is they are in the set of actors that no matter what film they are in and regardless of the quality of the movie - I always enjoy their performances. Oliver Platt falls into that group as well as numerous others.

Another bit of trivia about

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John Cazale

, who was his Significant Other at the time of his death?

---Jay

This I know.

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Meryl Streep.

Who is another actor has had major roles in 3 Best Picture nominees in the same year and was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor in one of them but unlike Mitchell he didn't win?

macrae1234 wrote:Who is another actor has had major roles in 3 Best Picture nominees in the same year and was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor in one of them but unlike Mitchell he didn't win?

I have no idea, but I'll guess

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Ward Bond

only because he was in so many high quality movies in his day...

danielh41 wrote:

macrae1234 wrote:Who is another actor has had major roles in 3 Best Picture nominees in the same year and was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor in one of them but unlike Mitchell he didn't win?

I have no idea, but I'll guess

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Ward Bond

only because he was in so many high quality movies in his day...

I should have remembered

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John C. Reilly who was in Chicago, Gangs of New York, and The Hours and was nominated for Chicago.

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In 2002 he was in Chicago, Gangs of New York and The Hours

He was

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John C Reilly proving he really was Cellophane, Mr Cellophane

macrae1234 wrote:

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In 2002 he was in Chicago, Gangs of New York and The Hours

He was

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John C Reilly proving he really was Cellophane, Mr Cellophane

What is interesting to me is that when Thomas Mitchell was in the Best Picture nominees - there were 10 nominees, but now there are only 5 - so

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John C. Reilly's

accomplishment is a little more impressive.

Here's one:

A number of actors have received Oscar nominations in consecutive films. But what performer received nominations in consecutive films that were made fifteen years apart?

And one more:

Whose only Oscar nomination is generally credited for the creation of the Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories?

silverscreenselect wrote:Here's one:

A number of actors have received Oscar nominations in consecutive films. But what performer received nominations in consecutive films that were made fifteen years apart?

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Piper Laurie for The Hustler in 1961 and Carrie in 1976. I think I used this in one of my games once.

silverscreenselect wrote:And one more:

Whose only Oscar nomination is generally credited for the creation of the Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories?

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My guess is Franchot Tone, who competed for Best Actor along with Gable and Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty, the year before supporting awards were introduced.[/i].

franktangredi wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:Here's one:

A number of actors have received Oscar nominations in consecutive films. But what performer received nominations in consecutive films that were made fifteen years apart?

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Piper Laurie for The Hustler in 1961 and Carrie in 1976. I think I used this in one of my games once.

You didn't. I did. And you should be permanently disqualified from answering any Oscar questions here because you know all the answers.

silverscreenselect wrote:And you should be permanently disqualified from answering any Oscar questions here because you know all the answers.

In that case, let me ask a question:

Who are the only two people ever to receive acting nominations five years in a row?

franktangredi wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:And you should be permanently disqualified from answering any Oscar questions here because you know all the answers.

In that case, let me ask a question:

Who are the only two people ever to receive acting nominations five years in a row?

One would be

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Bette Davis

not sure of the other.

---Jay

franktangredi wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:And you should be permanently disqualified from answering any Oscar questions here because you know all the answers.

In that case, let me ask a question:

Who are the only two people ever to receive acting nominations five years in a row?

I'm thinking

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Thelma Ritter

and

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Al Pacino

frogman042 wrote:

franktangredi wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:And you should be permanently disqualified from answering any Oscar questions here because you know all the answers.

In that case, let me ask a question:

Who are the only two people ever to receive acting nominations five years in a row?

One would be

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Bette Davis

not sure of the other.

---Jay

Was the second one once nominated for playing a mulitple nobel prize winner?

If so then I think it would be

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Greta Garson?

frogman042 wrote:

frogman042 wrote:

franktangredi wrote: In that case, let me ask a question:

Who are the only two people ever to receive acting nominations five years in a row?

One would be

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Bette Davis

not sure of the other.

---Jay

Was the second one once nominated for playing a mulitple nobel prize winner?

If so then I think it would be

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Greta Garson?

Greer Garson and Bette Davis are correct!

Al Pacino and Thelma Ritter were each nominated in four consecutive years.

I think we're running out of Oscar trivia, but let's try this one:

During only three Oscar ceremonies has six different films won the top six awards (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director). Can you name the three years, and the six films from each year that each won one of the top six awards?

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:I think we're running out of Oscar trivia, but let's try this one:

During only three Oscar ceremonies has six different films won the top six awards (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director). Can you name the three years, and the six films from each year that each won one of the top six awards?

The first one that comes to mind is

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1952: The Greatest Show on Earth, High Noon, Come Back Little Sheba, Viva Zapata, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Quiet Man

franktangredi wrote:

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:I think we're running out of Oscar trivia, but let's try this one:

During only three Oscar ceremonies has six different films won the top six awards (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director). Can you name the three years, and the six films from each year that each won one of the top six awards?

The first one that comes to mind is

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1952: The Greatest Show on Earth, High Noon, Come Back Little Sheba, Viva Zapata, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Quiet Man

There's also

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1956: Around the World in 80 Days, The King and I, Anastasia, Lust for Life, Written on the Wind, Giant

franktangredi wrote:

franktangredi wrote:

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:I think we're running out of Oscar trivia, but let's try this one:

During only three Oscar ceremonies has six different films won the top six awards (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director). Can you name the three years, and the six films from each year that each won one of the top six awards?

The first one that comes to mind is

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1952: The Greatest Show on Earth, High Noon, Come Back Little Sheba, Viva Zapata, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Quiet Man

There's also

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1956: Around the World in 80 Days, The King and I, Anastasia, Lust for Life, Written on the Wind, Giant

The last one is

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2005: Crash, Capote, Walk the Line, Syriana, The Constant Gardener, Brokeback Mountain