Scarlett Johansson at Oscars: 11 performers who got lead and supporting nominations in the same year
With her Best Actress nomination for “Marriage Story” and her Best Supporting Actress bid for “Jojo Rabbit,” Scarlett Johansson joined an elite group of performers to score multiple Oscar noms in the same year. It’s of special note in Johansson’s case, considering both are her career-first citations from the academy.
Who are the other actors and actresses to pull off this neat trick? Tour our photo gallery to see all 10 people, with each person listed from most recent to furthest back. By the way, only two of this nominees went home on Oscar night without a trophy for either category, which could be good news for ScarJo.
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In the early years of the Oscars, there were no rules preventing performers for competing multiple times in the same category. As a result, the 1929/1930 ceremony found George Arliss (“Disraeli” and...
Who are the other actors and actresses to pull off this neat trick? Tour our photo gallery to see all 10 people, with each person listed from most recent to furthest back. By the way, only two of this nominees went home on Oscar night without a trophy for either category, which could be good news for ScarJo.
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In the early years of the Oscars, there were no rules preventing performers for competing multiple times in the same category. As a result, the 1929/1930 ceremony found George Arliss (“Disraeli” and...
- 1/31/2020
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Since 2000, slightly more than half the lead actor and actress Oscars (21 out of 38) have gone to portrayals of real-life individuals. It’s a bias that dates back to George Arliss and “Disraeli” (1929), although award-winning impersonations have become increasingly stark, even critical, in the latter years.
Notwithstanding Oliver Cromwell’s plea to “Paint me as I am, warts and all!,” early Hollywood awarded acting honors to a near-dozen respectful, even adoring bio-pics. Arliss turned the moody, depressive Disraeli into a matchmaking Dutch uncle. Charles Laughton went cute, not cruel, as Henry VIII. Paul Muni sidestepped Louis Pasteur’s alleged data tampering, just as James Cagney’s George M. Cohan in 1942 ignored the opposition to Actors’ Equity that earned Cohan actors’ enmity.
Honoring real-life subjects virtually dried up for the next 40 years, with the rare exceptions going easy on the likes of George Patton, Thomas More, Fanny Brice and Annie Sullivan. (Who...
Notwithstanding Oliver Cromwell’s plea to “Paint me as I am, warts and all!,” early Hollywood awarded acting honors to a near-dozen respectful, even adoring bio-pics. Arliss turned the moody, depressive Disraeli into a matchmaking Dutch uncle. Charles Laughton went cute, not cruel, as Henry VIII. Paul Muni sidestepped Louis Pasteur’s alleged data tampering, just as James Cagney’s George M. Cohan in 1942 ignored the opposition to Actors’ Equity that earned Cohan actors’ enmity.
Honoring real-life subjects virtually dried up for the next 40 years, with the rare exceptions going easy on the likes of George Patton, Thomas More, Fanny Brice and Annie Sullivan. (Who...
- 1/31/2020
- by Bob Verini
- Variety Film + TV
On this day in history as it relates to showbiz...
1868 George Arliss, who won the Oscar for Disraeli (1929) born
1912 Rms Titanic set sail on this day from England on her first and last voyage. The rest is the subject of history, lore, and several plays and movies, most famously James Cameron's Oscar devouring Titanic (1997)
1925 The Great Gatsby is published. The classic novel failed at first but after F Scott Fitzgerald's death it became an indisputable classic, lateradapted to plays and movies and so on...
1868 George Arliss, who won the Oscar for Disraeli (1929) born
1912 Rms Titanic set sail on this day from England on her first and last voyage. The rest is the subject of history, lore, and several plays and movies, most famously James Cameron's Oscar devouring Titanic (1997)
1925 The Great Gatsby is published. The classic novel failed at first but after F Scott Fitzgerald's death it became an indisputable classic, lateradapted to plays and movies and so on...
- 4/10/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Paul Lukas and Bette Davis in "Watch on the Rhine"
It's ten days until Oscar and soon this post may be obsolete! To date, unless I've miscounted, ten actors have won the leading Oscar for reprising a role they won praise for first on the Broadway stage. Soon there could be 11 depending on how well Denzel Washington fares on Oscar night for Fences.
Actors Who Won Lead Oscars Reprising Their Broadway Roles
They are...
• George Arliss for Disraeli (1929/30)
Arliss had played this role in the Broadway production in 1911
• Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine (1943)
He previously played this role from 1941 through early 1942 on Broadway -- the transfer to the screen was mighty quick!
• Jose Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
He won the Tony for this iconic role in 1947. Later in 1990 Gerard Depardieu would also be nominated for playing the same role -- and Steve Martin arguably should have been...
It's ten days until Oscar and soon this post may be obsolete! To date, unless I've miscounted, ten actors have won the leading Oscar for reprising a role they won praise for first on the Broadway stage. Soon there could be 11 depending on how well Denzel Washington fares on Oscar night for Fences.
Actors Who Won Lead Oscars Reprising Their Broadway Roles
They are...
• George Arliss for Disraeli (1929/30)
Arliss had played this role in the Broadway production in 1911
• Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine (1943)
He previously played this role from 1941 through early 1942 on Broadway -- the transfer to the screen was mighty quick!
• Jose Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
He won the Tony for this iconic role in 1947. Later in 1990 Gerard Depardieu would also be nominated for playing the same role -- and Steve Martin arguably should have been...
- 2/16/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Norma Shearer: The Boss' wife was cast in 'The Divorcee.' Norma Shearer movies on TCM: Early talkies and Best Actress Oscar Note: This Norma Shearer article is currently being revised and expanded. Please Check back later. Norma Shearer, one of the top stars in Hollywood history and known as the Queen of MGM back in the 1930s, is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month of Nov. 2015. That's the good news. The not-so-good news is that even though its parent company, Time Warner, owns most of Shearer's movies, TCM isn't airing any premieres. So, if you were expecting to check out a very young Norma Shearer in The Devil's Circus, Upstage, or After Midnight, you're out of luck. (I've seen all three; they're all worth a look.) It's a crime that, music score or no, restored print or no, TCM/Time Warner don't make available for viewing the...
- 11/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
This year’s best actor race is filled with strong contenders, and if Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo and Jack O’Connell all land nominations for best actor, this year could break the record for the most English actors to score a nomination in the same category in the same year.
Redmayne’s incredible portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, based on Jane Hawking’s memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, could result in his first Oscar nomination. Redmayne will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Jan. 3, whose past seven recipients have gone on to receive Oscar nominations.
Cumberbatch won the best actor award at the Hollywood Film Awards for his portrayal of Alan Turing, who helped crack the Nazi Enigma Code during World War II. (Redmayne...
Managing Editor
This year’s best actor race is filled with strong contenders, and if Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo and Jack O’Connell all land nominations for best actor, this year could break the record for the most English actors to score a nomination in the same category in the same year.
Redmayne’s incredible portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, based on Jane Hawking’s memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, could result in his first Oscar nomination. Redmayne will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Jan. 3, whose past seven recipients have gone on to receive Oscar nominations.
Cumberbatch won the best actor award at the Hollywood Film Awards for his portrayal of Alan Turing, who helped crack the Nazi Enigma Code during World War II. (Redmayne...
- 11/25/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
Playing real-life people has always been a way to win Oscars. Indeed, the third-ever Best Actor award went to George Arliss for his portrayal of Victorian Pm Benjamin Disraeli in "Disraeli" back in 1929. This year, another Brit, Eddie Redmayne, could be a contender for his performance as famed physicist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything." -Break- It is never too early to dish the Oscars Join the red-hot debate in our fiery forums right now The fiilm follows the love affair between Hawking and Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) from the time they meet as students at Cambridge and marry, through his diagnosis with Als at age 21 and in their years together afterwards. James Marsh, who won an Oscar in 2008 for his documentary "Man on Wire" about aerialist Philippe Petit helms, while Anthony McCarten adapted Wilde's memoir "Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen." The ...'...
- 8/6/2014
- Gold Derby
Charlton Heston: Moses has his ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day Charlton Heston is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" star on Monday, August 5, 2013. TCM will be presenting one Heston movie premiere: Guy Green’s Hawaiian-set family drama Diamond Head (1963), in which Heston plays a pineapple grower, U.S. Senate candidate, and total control freak at odds with his strong-willed younger sister, the lovely Yvette Mimieux. Also in the Diamond Head cast: France Nuyen, Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner George Chakiris (West Side Story), The Time Tunnel‘s James Darren, and veteran Aline MacMahon (Gold Diggers of 1933, Five Star Final) in one of her last movie roles. And last but not least, silent film star Billie Dove reportedly has a bit role in the film. (Photo: Charlton Heston ca. 1955.) (Charlton Heston movies: TCM schedule.) Now, with the exception of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil, in which Charlton Heston...
- 8/5/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
For Daniel Montgomery's rebuttal in favor of Viola Davis, click Here. 1. She plays a real-life person This can’t be overstated. Since the earliest days of Oscar, when George Arliss won for "Disraeli," Charles Laughton won for "The Private Life of Henry VIII" and Paul Muni won for "The Story of Louis Pasteur," the Academy has shown a tendency to reward actors for playing historical figures. In the past 12 years, an astounding 14 of the 24 lead acting awards have gone to actors who played real people: Colin Firth in "The King’s Speech," Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side," Sean Penn in "Milk," Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose," Forest Whitaker in "The Last King of Scotland," Helen Mirren in "The Queen," Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Capote," Reese Withersoon in "Walk the Line," Jamie Foxx in "Ray," Charlize Theron in &q...
- 2/5/2012
- Gold Derby
Modern presidential campaigns and Oscar campaigns share several things in common: both have become months-long affairs; both cost sums of money that would have been unimaginable just a generation ago; and above all, both are now shaped tremendously by publicity strategists.
Because most Academy members do not follow the annual Oscar race nearly as regularly or closely as the pundits who cover it, it has become imperative for studios to hire publicity strategists to try to corral their attention — and to make the “case” for their clients in the most succinct and digestible manner possible when they have it.
From conversations with strategists in both the political and cinematic arenas, I learned that two of the oldest and most effective ways to do so are to…
1. Create and hammer home short, general, and easy-to-remember narratives describing their client. For example…
Obama: “the candidate who has shown good judgment in the...
Because most Academy members do not follow the annual Oscar race nearly as regularly or closely as the pundits who cover it, it has become imperative for studios to hire publicity strategists to try to corral their attention — and to make the “case” for their clients in the most succinct and digestible manner possible when they have it.
From conversations with strategists in both the political and cinematic arenas, I learned that two of the oldest and most effective ways to do so are to…
1. Create and hammer home short, general, and easy-to-remember narratives describing their client. For example…
Obama: “the candidate who has shown good judgment in the...
- 2/24/2011
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
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