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More Oscar trivia: Name the 11 Actors or Actresses who nominated for two categories in the same year. Name the films they were in as well. -- nm

Posted by Inigo (aka Inigo) Feb 10 '14, 09:51

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Hints for the last three: Two actresses from the late 1930s and early 1940s. One was an actor who was nominated two times for the same film. - Inigo Feb 10, 10:14 2
- Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver (heartbreaking in that)/Pride of the Yankees (also...tears) -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 10:20 1
  - Correct. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 10:22
didn't they nominate some guy once for both acting categories in the same movie? (weird) -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 10:02 5
- Yes. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 10:03
- You're thinking of Harold Russell for The Best Years of Our Lives. -- nm - Baron Business Feb 10, 10:02 3
  - i thought he rec'd a special award for that. -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 10:03 1
    - He got a special Oscar, and then won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the same role. Hence, my brain fart. -- nm - Baron Business Feb 10, 10:05
  - Oh no, wait. Different trivia. -- nm - Baron Business Feb 10, 10:02
Pacino for scent of a woman and glengarry. -- nm - kelly Feb 10, 10:00 1
- Correct. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 10:02
Julianne Moore - The Hours/Far From Heaven -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 10:00 7
- Gah, I knew it was someone in The Hours, but couldn't recall who. -- nm - Baron Business Feb 10, 10:02 5
  - If they wanted to name that movie aptly, it would have been The Days...cause that's how long it felt. -- nm - Jim Feb 10, 10:07 4
    - Also, Phillip Glass needs to die needs to die needs to die needs to die for that score. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 10:12 1
      - Word. -- nm - Jim Feb 10, 10:12
    - Heh. I called it The Years at the time. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 10:08 1
      - That joke is how Liz Lemon met the pager guy. -- nm - Roger More Feb 10, 10:10
- Correct. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 10:01
Holly Hunter - The Piano/The Firm -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 09:59 6
- Holly Hunter just *disappeared*. -- nm - Andie Feb 10, 10:18 4
  - That's gonna make for a great movie. -- nm - David Feb 10, 10:37 1
    - (Do we want Nic Cage to co-star, or do we really really NOT want that? ...) -- nm - con_carne Feb 10, 10:57
  - Not really. She was in Top of the Lake, and Saving Grace was on for a few seasons -- nm - con_carne Feb 10, 10:26
  - She's actually worked steadily since her "star" days, just on a much smaller scale. - kelly Feb 10, 10:22
- Correct. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 10:01
Blanchett (Elizabeth 2 and that Dylan movie) -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 10, 09:57 2
- (I'm not there) -- nm - kelly Feb 10, 10:01
- Correct -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 10:00
Clooney - Michael Clayton & Syriana? -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 09:57 2
- Nope. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:59
- i'm a disaster today. Scratch. -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 09:57
Matt Damon (GWH), Eastwood (unforgiven, million dollar baby( -- nm - Jim Feb 10, 09:54 2
- ah, nevermind -- nm - Jim Feb 10, 09:54 1
  - Sorry, there's a reason I worded it so vaguely, though. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:57
Are we counting stuff like Matt Damon for Actor and Screenplay? -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 09:54 2
- Sorry, no. Just acting categories. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:54 1
  - then scratch Emma and Clooney X2. -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 09:55
Emma Thompson - Sense & Sensibility (Best Actress/Adapted Screenplay) - Diva Feb 10, 09:53 4
- Emma is one just not for that film. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 10:04 2
  - oh yeah - Remains of the Day and In the Name of the Father. -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 10:05 1
    - Correct. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 10:06
- Correct on the two inside. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:55
Jamie Foxx. Ray (lead) and Collateral (supporting). -- nm - Baron Business Feb 10, 09:53 2
- He supports Collateral by being the protagonist. - David Feb 10, 10:33
- Correct. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:55
Jaime Foxx - Ray, Collateral -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 09:53
Sigourney Weaver - Aliens, Gorillas in the Mist -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 09:53 6
- Sigourney and Gorillas in the Mist are correct. Aliens is not. -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:54 5
  - ah right. Compressed that timeline. -- nm - Reagen Feb 10, 09:55
  - Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 10, 09:55 3
    - I love Working Girl so much. One of those movies i can't turn off if i find it on tv. -- nm - kelly Feb 10, 10:03 2
      - I watch it whenever it's on. -- nm - Diva Feb 10, 10:04 1
        
        ~ let the river run ~ -- nm - kelly Feb 10, 10:07
who *were* nominated ^ -- nm - Inigo Feb 10, 09:52

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