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Title: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: RGMike on September 06, 2006, 03:53:14 PM
If mark has already asked this one, I apologize, but I just came across it:

What 4 Actors are the only thesps to be nominated for playing the same character in 2 different films?
Title: Re: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: mshray on September 07, 2006, 08:38:40 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
If mark has already asked this one, I apologize, but I just came across it:

What 4 Actors are the only thesps to be nominated for playing the same character in 2 different films?


I haven't asked it before, but I have conceived of the same question, but I thought there only were two.  Now I have more thinking to do.
Title: Re: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: RGMike on September 07, 2006, 12:30:15 PM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "RGMike"
If mark has already asked this one, I apologize, but I just came across it:

What 4 Actors are the only thesps to be nominated for playing the same character in 2 different films?


I haven't asked it before, but I have conceived of the same question, but I thought there only were two.  Now I have more thinking to do.


hint: in 3 cases the second film of the pair is a sequel. But in the other case the films are unrelated.
Title: Re: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: urth on September 07, 2006, 03:21:02 PM
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Quote from: "mshray"
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If mark has already asked this one, I apologize, but I just came across it:

What 4 Actors are the only thesps to be nominated for playing the same character in 2 different films?


I haven't asked it before, but I have conceived of the same question, but I thought there only were two.  Now I have more thinking to do.


hint: in 3 cases the second film of the pair is a sequel. But in the other case the films are unrelated.


Just going to take a couple of wild swings at it here and say Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins are two of 'em.
Title: Re: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: RGMike on September 07, 2006, 03:30:01 PM
Quote from: "urth"
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If mark has already asked this one, I apologize, but I just came across it:

What 4 Actors are the only thesps to be nominated for playing the same character in 2 different films?


I haven't asked it before, but I have conceived of the same question, but I thought there only were two.  Now I have more thinking to do.


hint: in 3 cases the second film of the pair is a sequel. But in the other case the films are unrelated.


Just going to take a couple of wild swings at it here and say Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins are two of 'em.


nope and nope.
Title: Re: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: mshray on September 07, 2006, 03:55:31 PM
Quote from: "urth"
Just going to take a couple of wild swings at it here and say Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins are two of 'em.


Harrison Ford only has one nom, which was for Witness.

One of these should be obvious, we heard a clip from him yesterday.  The other actor I know got his noms for two movies over 20 years apart & he actually won the second time around (unlike the first guy).  Also, both of them have precisely one win & in each case it was widely held to be a 'make-up' after earlier, greater achievements had gone unrewarded.

The idea that there are four such individuals still stumps me.
Title: Re: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: RGMike on September 07, 2006, 03:59:46 PM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "urth"
Just going to take a couple of wild swings at it here and say Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins are two of 'em.


Harrison Ford only has one nom, which was for Witness.

One of these should be obvious, we heard a clip from him yesterday.  The other actor I know got his noms for two movies over 20 years apart & he actually won the second time around (unlike the first guy).  Also, both of them have precisely one win & in each case it was widely held to be a 'make-up' after earlier, greater achievements had gone unrewarded.

The idea that there are four such individuals still stumps me.


I can tell you've got the first 2, keep thinkin' about the others  -- If I hadn't seen this elsewhere, I'd've never gotten them either.
Title: Re: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: urth on September 07, 2006, 04:39:47 PM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "urth"
Just going to take a couple of wild swings at it here and say Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins are two of 'em.


Harrison Ford only has one nom, which was for Witness.

One of these should be obvious, we heard a clip from him yesterday.  The other actor I know got his noms for two movies over 20 years apart & he actually won the second time around (unlike the first guy).  Also, both of them have precisely one win & in each case it was widely held to be a 'make-up' after earlier, greater achievements had gone unrewarded.

The idea that there are four such individuals still stumps me.


OK, your mention of the films being 20 years apart tipped me on one of them. Fast Eddie, yes? Otherwise, I'm clueless--but what else is new?
Title: Re: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: mshray on September 07, 2006, 06:20:32 PM
Quote from: "urth"
Fast Eddie, yes?


Yes.  The other is often impersonated by Little Steven (big hint).
Title: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: mshray on September 07, 2006, 06:36:01 PM
Okay, I stumbled across another after looking through Oscar.com, ironically my folks and I were just talking about him while driving past the house in Burlingame where I was born, as he used to live about a mile from there up in Hillborough.

The non-sequel one still has me stumped, was it for a historical figure?
Title: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: RGMike on September 07, 2006, 08:58:47 PM
Quote from: "mshray"
Okay, I stumbled across another after looking through Oscar.com, ironically my folks and I were just talking about him while driving past the house in Burlingame where I was born, as he used to live about a mile from there up in Hillborough.

The non-sequel one still has me stumped, was it for a historical figure?


Yes, it was.
Title: Judy Dench?
Post by: ggould on September 07, 2006, 09:23:37 PM
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Quote from: "mshray"
Okay, I stumbled across another after looking through Oscar.com, ironically my folks and I were just talking about him while driving past the house in Burlingame where I was born, as he used to live about a mile from there up in Hillborough.

The non-sequel one still has me stumped, was it for a historical figure?
Yes, it was.
Title: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: RGMike on September 11, 2006, 11:20:19 AM
So, last call for anyone to make a guess or two before I give it away.
Title: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: princessofcairo on September 11, 2006, 11:38:06 AM
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So, last call for anyone to make a guess or two before I give it away.


i'm still trying to figure out who the hell fast eddie is.
Title: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: mshray on September 11, 2006, 12:39:54 PM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
Quote from: "RGMike"
So, last call for anyone to make a guess or two before I give it away.


i'm still trying to figure out who the hell fast eddie is.


Fast Eddie Felson, played by Paul Newman in 1961's "The Hustler" and 1986's "The Color Of Money".
Title: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: princessofcairo on September 11, 2006, 12:44:52 PM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
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So, last call for anyone to make a guess or two before I give it away.


i'm still trying to figure out who the hell fast eddie is.


Fast Eddie Felson, played by Paul Newman in 1961's "The Hustler" and 1986's "The Color Of Money".


aha! i was thinking of a guitar player for some reason. :) i don't remember seeing "color." i'm too much of a minnesota fats purist, i guess.
Title: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: mshray on September 13, 2006, 11:47:44 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
So, last call for anyone to make a guess or two before I give it away.


Please give it away now.
Title: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: RGMike on September 13, 2006, 12:01:47 PM
Quote from: "mshray"
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So, last call for anyone to make a guess or two before I give it away.


Please give it away now.


whatIgotyougottagetitputitinyou!

OK...

Pacino as Michael Corleone in both Godfather flicks (too bad he didn't get nommed for #3!).

Paul Newman as Fast Eddie in Hustler and Color of Money.

Those you knew.

This one I'd've never got: Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in Going My Way and Bells of St Mary's -- in consecutive years, no less, '44 and '45 -- yeesh!

Finally, Peter O'Toole as King Henry II in Becket and Lion in Winter. And this trivia came up because O'Toole is said to give an Oscar-worthy, career-capping perf in the upcoming Venus, as an old man with a crush on a twentysomething woman.
Title: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: mshray on September 13, 2006, 12:29:54 PM
Quote from: "RGMike"
This one I'd've never got: Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in Going My Way and Bells of St Mary's -- in consecutive years, no less, '44 and '45 -- yeesh!


I found that one by research, but clearly never would have known it off the top of my head.  OTOH, I own Lion in Winter & have used both Becket & it in my history teaching days, and Peter O'Toole is one of my all-time faves, so I'm gently kicking myself for not coming up with that one.
Title: Oscar 2-Timers
Post by: princessofcairo on September 13, 2006, 01:18:24 PM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "RGMike"
So, last call for anyone to make a guess or two before I give it away.


Please give it away now.


whatIgotyougottagetitputitinyou!

OK...

Pacino as Michael Corleone in both Godfather flicks (too bad he didn't get nommed for #3!).

Paul Newman as Fast Eddie in Hustler and Color of Money.

Those you knew.

This one I'd've never got: Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in Going My Way and Bells of St Mary's -- in consecutive years, no less, '44 and '45 -- yeesh!

Finally, Peter O'Toole as King Henry II in Becket and Lion in Winter. And this trivia came up because O'Toole is said to give an Oscar-worthy, career-capping perf in the upcoming Venus, as an old man with a crush on a twentysomething woman.


my first thought was corleone, but i was thinking of "winners," not "noms." imho, the third version should never have been made into a film. just horrible.

and i thought of o'toole, but not of becket...what fun trivia!