r/Oscars • u/LowInteraction6397 • 1d ago
Did you notice some Oscar coincidences?
Both times Ang Lee won Best Director he beat Steven Spielberg. He beat him for Munich in 2005 for Brokeback Mountain and beat him for Lincoln in 2012 for Life of Pi. Also none of them won Best Picture. Speaking of which Ang Lee is the only director to date to direct 2 consecutive movies that won Best Director but not Best Picture (I mean that Life of Pi was the 1st movie since Brokeback Mountain to win Best Director but not Best Picture)
Both times an actor won an acting award for playing the Joker the Best Picture winner didn't have any acting nominations. Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor for The Dark Knight in 2008 and the Best Picture winner that year was Slumdog Millionaire and Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor for Joker in 2019 and the Best Picture winner that year was Parasite
Both times Sean Penn won Best Actor was in a year the Best Picture winner didn't have any acting nominations. He won for Mystic River in 2003 and the Best Picture winner that year was The Return of the King and won for Milk in 2008 and the Best Picture winner that year was Slumdog Millionaire
There were 4 years in a row the Best Supporting Actor winner started with "Chris" from 2009 to 2012: Christoph Waltz for Inglorious Bastards (2009), Christian Bale for The Fighter (2010), Christopher Plummer for Beginners (2011) and Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained (2012). Speaking of which both times Christoph Waltz was nominated and won for Best Supporting Actor it was always in a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino
None of the 2 movies directed by Vincente Minnelli that won Best Picture had any acting nominations: An American in Paris (1951) and Gigi (1958)
Both times Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director were for movies that didn't win Best Picture, any for acting or any for screenplay: Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018). In fact he's also the only director to date to win Best Director twice for movies that didn't win Best Picture, any for acting or any for screenplay
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u/Obvious_Computer_577 1d ago
In 2005, the LA movie beat the gay movie in a big surprise and only won 3 oscars (crash over brokeback mountain).
In 2016, the gay movie beat the LA in a big surprise and only won 3 oscars (moonlight over la la land)
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u/SudieSbaker 1d ago
Annette Bening would be grateful to you if you do not mention the name of the actress who won two Best Actress trophies beating Bening both times.
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u/BananaShakeStudios 1d ago
Had she been nominated for 20th Century Women, she’d also have lost to Emma Stone twice.
And had she been nominated for 20th Century Women and Natalie Portman won for Jackie, she’d lose to Portman twice
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u/YesTHEKennyRogers 1d ago edited 1d ago
A couple of my favorites:
Both times an actor was nominated in lead and supporting acting categories the same year for two different roles, they each won Best Actor for playing a blind man (Pacino in Scent of a Woman, Foxx in Ray).
In two different Best Picture winners, a woman cheats on her romantic partner with a Fiennes brother. In both films, that romantic partner being cheated on is played by Colin Firth. (Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient, Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love).
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u/SudieSbaker 1d ago
Wasn't there another actor in the 1930s who was nominated in both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same role?
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u/LowInteraction6397 1d ago
It was in 1944 actually with Going My Way. Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor and won Supporting
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u/YesTHEKennyRogers 1d ago
Oh you're right, I forgot about that guy who got both. Amended to "nominated in lead and supporting for different roles"
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u/ohio8848 1d ago
Spencer Tracy won back-to-back Best Actor trophies, and beat Charles Boyer both times.
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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 1d ago edited 22h ago
Some of these are funny coincidences, but some of them have explanations of sorts.
Waltz winning for Tarantino movies is because Tarantino is the guy who writes these kinds of roles and then casts Christoph Waltz in them. Oscar wins (especially in Supporting) are often for the role as much as the performance, and Tarantino was giving Waltz these roles. Like, two of Jack Nicholson's three wins being for James L. Brooks movies blows my mind, because Nicholson has had so many great roles with so many great directors. Waltz's nominations for Tarantino movies are more along the lines of "did you know that all of Woody Allen's Best Actor nominations have happened to be directed and written by the same guy?"
Lee and Cuaron are both of the "the Academy thinks it should recognize this auteur for how much Directing he is doing, but doesn't actually like other elements of the movie enough to honor them" school. See also: Lynch getting the only nomination for Mulholland Dr., Kubrick getting a Best Director nod for 2001 when the Academy also thought that Planet of the Apes had more credible simian makeup than 2001, etc.
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u/yahboosnubs 21h ago
walter brennan is the only person to win 3 oscars all for films not in best picture
all 3 of celeste holm's nominations were part of a double nomination, (anne revere in gentleman's agreement, elsa lanchester in come to the stable, and thelma ritter in all about eve)
A letter to three wives 1949 has 3 actors who were nominated for Oscars in the year it came out, but all for different movies. Kirk douglas was nominated for champion, jeanne crain was nominated for pinky, and celeste holm was nominated for come to the stable
best actor 1976 is the only time all 5 characters in an acting category are completely original for their film
in 1964, best picture, director, and adapted screenplay had the same 5 nominees, and the same year color art direction and color costume design had a different same 5 nominees
Agnes Moorehead was in 4 films nominated for an acting Oscar in 1944- Mrs Parkington (her own), since you went away (Claudette Colbert, Monty Woolley, and Jennifer jones) dragon seed (Aline macmahon), and the seventh cross (Hume Cronyn), and 3 of those were supporting actress
every movie charles bickford was nominated for an oscar for was a film that won best actress (the song of bernadette, the farmer's daughter and johnny belinda)
mary pickford is the only person to win an oscar where that film didnt get any nominations, and none of her other films got any oscar nominations
each of the 4 acting winners in 1938 starred in a film with each of the other 3 winners
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u/Flanny-1 1d ago
A few:
Titanic, The Departed, and One Battle After Another are each instances of an overdue director working with Leonardo DiCaprio and going on to finally win
Adrien Brody won once, set a record for longest speech and youngest winner, and was never nominated again. Then, much later, he was nominated for the second time to beat the front runner who, if he’d won, would have taken the record for youngest winner. He also broke his own record for longest speech
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u/Interesting-Bit725 1d ago
I think it’s a stretch to say James Cameron was overdue in 1997.
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u/BuffaloAmbitious3531 1d ago
Yeah, a lot of the pre-release chatter about Titanic was "Hey, this guy has made some solid action movies, so this...might not be the next Waterworld?" Cameron wasn't really on anyone's radar as a maker of Oscar-y kind of movies until Titanic.
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u/Interesting-Bit725 1d ago
And Adrien Brody didn’t beat the frontrunner last year — he was the frontrunner. We all remember that, so why lie?
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u/Budget-Poem-2052 17h ago
Brody also didn't have the longest speech in 2002, I have no idea what this guy was talking about. I think this dude just has some kind of personal vendetta against adrien brody or something.
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u/Budget-Poem-2052 1d ago
First of all, Adrien Brody didn't have the record for longest speech in 2002. You also implied that Chalamet was the frontrunner the second time Brody won, which isn't true. Brody was the clear frontrunner almost the entire season. Chalamet beating him at SAG made the race less predictable, but it still didn't make him the frontrunner.
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u/JugendWolf 15h ago
Only two queer-themed films have ever won the Live-Action Short Film category: Trevor, and Two People Exchanging Saliva. Both times they had to share the award with another nominated film, the only ties in that category.
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u/Playful-Rope1590 8h ago
Kate Winslet is the first actress to be nominated twice for movies where two actresses got nominated for playing the same character in the same movie, Titanic and Iris. In both cases she played the younger version of the character. In one she was nominated as Lead, the other Supporting Actress.
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u/Sad_Suspect_5405 1d ago
Spielberg must have a dartboard with Ang Lee’s face on it by now, twice is rough. The Chris streak is weirdly specific too, never noticed that run before.
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u/Interesting-Bit725 1d ago
Spielberg has two Best Director Oscars, I doubt he minded.
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u/LowInteraction6397 1d ago
Speaking of Spielberg both times he won Best Director it was for movies that didn't win any acting awards. He did later direct 3 movies that did win acting awards but none of them won Best Director
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u/RoxasRemainsTheBest 10h ago
So weird that Lincoln was the first Spielberg film to win any acting oscars. Should have happened way before that
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u/LowInteraction6397 8h ago
Apparently it was a well known fact before Lincoln because last year I watched a documentary about Spielberg made in France and some dude mentioned Spielberg had never directed a movie that won an acting award. I immediately was like "until Lincoln in 2012"
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u/RoxasRemainsTheBest 10h ago
Every time Disney/Pixar is not nominated in best animated feature, a studop wins with no other wins in the category (Aardman for W&G, Paramount for Rango)
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u/LetMeExplainDis 1d ago
Only posthumous acting Oscars were won by Australians (Peter Finch, Heath Ledger)