Multiple Acting Oscars®

These actors and families have won more than one Oscar®

Four
Katherine Hepburn (Morning Glory, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond) - I would argue that they missed her best early peformance in Adam's Rib, while only Golden Pond was a standout among her wins.

Three Each
Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight, Anastasia, supporting for Murder on the Orient Express) - I think they were more entranced by her beauty than her talent photo right

Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, As Good as It Gets, supporting for Terms of Endearment) - and they missed Five Easy Pieces, arguably his best, most subtle performance

Walter Brennan (all supporting: Come and Get It, Kentucky, The Westerner, all in a 5 yr span, 36-40)

Actor twice:
Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront, The Godfather) - and he was the only non-winner in A Streetcar Named Desire photo left
Gary Cooper (Sergeant York, High Noon)
Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood) - and they missed his best in Gangs of New York, when he won 17 awards for Bill the Butcher
Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump)
Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs Kramer, Rain Man) - his own fave and mine is still Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy
Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Best Years of Our Lives) - one of the best, deserved another for his last, Seven Days In May
Sean Penn (Mystic River, Milk)
Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous, Boys Town) - not exactly his best peformances, Adam's Rib was my favorite, impeccable comedy photo right

Actress twice:
Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth)
Bette Davis (Dangerous, Jezebel) - maybe the greatest ever, could've also won for All About Eve, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? photo right
Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight, Anastasia)
Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire)
Olivia de Haviland (To Each His Own, The Heiress)
Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Glenda Jackson (Women in Love, A Touch of Class)
Jane Fonda (Klute, Coming Home)
Sally Field (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart)
Jodie Foster (The Accused, Silence of the Lambs)
Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry, Million Dollar Baby) - she joins Vivien Leigh as 2 for 2 in this category

Both lead and supporting Oscars
Robert De Niro (Raging Bull, supporting for Godfather II) photo left
Gene Hackman (French Connection, supporting for Unforgiven)
Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger, supporting for Mister Roberts)
Kevin Spacey (American Beauty, supporting for The Usual Suspects)
Denzel Washington (Training Day, supporting for Glory)
Helen Hayes (Sin of Madeleine Claudet, supporting for Airport)
Jessica Lange (Blue Sky, supporting for Tootsie)
Maggie Smith (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, supporting for California Suite)
Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice, supporting for Kramer vs Kramer)

Supporting actor twice:
Anthony Quinn (Viva Zapata, Lust for Life)
Peter Ustinov (Spartacus, Topkapi)
Melvyn Douglas (Hud, Being There)
Michael Caine (Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules)
Jason Robards (All the President’s Men, Julia)

Supporting actress twice:
Shelly Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank, A Patch of Blue) photo rt.
Diane Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway, Hannah and Her Sisters)

Most nominations for actor
Spencer Tracy (9)
Laurence Olivier (9)
Paul Newman (8)
Peter O'Toole (8) – with no wins, a record
Jack Nicholson (8)
Marlon Brando (7) – four were consecutive, 51-54, still a record
Dustin Hoffman (7)
Jack Lemmon (7)
Richard Burton (6) - with no wins
Gary Cooper (5)
Tom Hanks (5)
Robert De Niro (5)
Fredric March (5)
Paul Muni (5)
Al Pacino (5)
Gregory Peck (5)
Sean Penn (5)
James Stewart (5)

Henry Fonda (76) is the oldest winner, On Golden Pond.
Adrien Brody (29) is the youngest winner, The Pianist.
Jackie Coooper was the youngest nominee at 9 for Skippy.
Richard Farnsworth was the oldest nominee at 79 for The Straight Story.

Most supporting actor nominations
Walter Brennan (4), Arthur Kennedy (4), Jack Nicholson (4), Claude Rains (4)

Most Best Actress Nominations
Meryl Streep (12) – a record total 15 nominations when supporting is included (photo right)
Katharine Hepburn (12)
Bette Davis (10)
Greer Garson (7)
Ingrid Bergman (6)
Jane Fonda (6)
Deborah Kerr (6) - with no wins
Norma Shearer (6)
Sissy Spacek (6)
Anne Bancroft (5)
Ellen Burstyn (5)
Audrey Hepburn (5)
Susan Hayward (5)
Jessica Lange (5)
Shirley MacLaine (5)
Susan Sarandon (5)
Elizabeth Taylor (5)
Irene Dunne (5)

Jessica Tandy (80) is the oldest winner, Driving Miss Daisy (photo left); also the oldest nominee, beating Dame Edith Evans (also 80 in The Whisperers) by half a year.
Marlee Maitlin (21) is the youngest winner, Children of a Lesser God.
Keisha Castle-Hughes (13) is the youngest nominee, The Whale Rider, and winner of 5 international awards.

Most Supporting Actress nominations
Thelma Ritter (6) - with no wins
Ethel Barrymore (4), Lee Grant (4), Agnes Moorehead (4), Geraldine Page (4), Maureen Stapleton (4), Maggie Smith (4)

Tatum O’Neal (10) is the youngest supporting actress winner, Paper Moon, photo right. Anna Paquin was one year older in The Piano. Tatum should have been in the lead actress category, she's in nearly every scene in the movie.
Peggy Ashcroft (77) is the oldest supporting actress winner, A Passage to India.
Gloria Stuart (87) is the oldest nominee, The Titanic. O’Neal is the youngest.

The only brother and sister to win Oscars:
Lionel Barrymore (supporting for A Free Soul), Ethel Barrymore (supporting for None But the Lonely Heart). Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, and Julia Roberts each need their brothers to win now.

Winning father-daughter combos:
Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond), daughter Jane Fonda (Klute, photo left, Coming Home)

Jon Voight (Coming Home), daughter Angelina Jolie (Supporting for Girl, Interrupted)

Liza Minelli (Cabaret), is the only acting winner whose parents, Judy Garland and Vincente Minelli (director, An American in Paris), both won Oscars®

Three generation winners:
Walter Huston (supporting actor for Treasure of the Sierra Madre), son John Huston (director and writer of Treasure of the Sierra Madre), grand-daughter Angelica Huston (supporting actress winner for Prizzi’s Honor, directed by her father John)

Carmine Coppola (music for The Godfather), son Francis Ford Coppola (director of Godfather II), grand-daughter Sofia Coppola (writer of Lost in Translation). If you add in Francis’ nephew Nicholas Coppola (aka Nicholas Cage), add his best acting Oscar (Leaving Las Vegas).

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Screen Actors Guild Awards

The SAG awards results (held on Jan 25th). They give awards only to actors (the award is called The Actor®) - and the word "actress" is prohibited. They also give awards for ensemble acting, and for both film and tv.
Can't you just hear the kids at home: "Hey, mommy won The Actor" - "Wow! Is it Tom Cruise?"

2009 SAG Winners (career totals shown)

Film
Ensemble Cast: Slumdog Millionaire
Lead Actress: Meryl Streep (Doubt, 2nd, but 1st for film)
Lead Actor: Sean Penn (Milk, 1st)
Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet (The Reader, 2nd)
Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (Dark Knight, 1st)
Stunt Ensemble, film: The Dark Knight

TV
Ensemble Cast, Comedy: 30 Rock
Lead Actress, Comedy: Tina Fey (30 Rock)
- Tina Fey – 2nd and 3rd awards
Lead Actor, Comedy: Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
- Alec Baldwin – 3rd and 4th awards
Ensemble Cast, Drama: Mad Men
Lead Actor, Drama: Hugh Laurie (House, 2nd)
Lead Actress, Drama: Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters, 1st)
Actress, Movie or Miniseries: Laura Linney (John Adams, 1st)
Actor, Movie or Miniseries: Paul Giamatti (John Adams, 1st)
Stunt Ensemble, tv: Heroes

Lifetime Achievement: James Earl Jones (who has NO Oscars, while Denzel Washington has two, and Forrest Whitaker, Morgan Freeman, and Halle Berry one each; is there no justice in Oscar-ville? That's the greatest voice in film history we're talking about, and the 2nd greatest, John Houseman, also has an Oscar)

Quotes
“I can’t decide if I want to make out with Tony Hopkins or Diane Lane. Doesn’t Tony look great?” – Alec Baldwin

“My daughter puts on makeup and says ‘I look like Barack Obama’ – I don’t know where she got the idea that it’s cool to look like a politician. One day she’s gonna see 30 Rock on YouTube and ask ‘what do you mean, no residuals?’” – Tina Fey

“My dad was a stuntman, and I think you just saw some of his work underneath the horses.” – Sally Field (after a montage of great film stunts)

"Thanks for this ensemble award - some of these folks we just picked up off the street" - Jane Krakowski (30 Rock)

“In Genesis, it says that God shaped man from the dust of the earth and breathed life into his nostril; I don’t mean to embarrass any of you, but an actor does the same thing with a role.” – James Earl Jones

“I would just like to add, Paul Newman, somebody down here likes you.” – James Earl Jones (a reference to Newman’s first big film, “Somebody Up There Likes Me”)

“Something happened to me making this film, and I now notice that these statues have nice packages.” – Sean Penn

The official SAG site nominations and winners:
Screen Actors Guild


My Comments: I discovered 30 Rock on dvd, and love it. The beauty of the dvd's is 8 episodes per disk (about 3 hrs) with no commercials! Excellent writing, and Alec Baldwin is perfect, he's a terrific comic actor. Best thing on network tv right now, which isn't saying much at all unless you like amateur singing, amateur dancing, amateur's surviving, or people losing weight as a contest. How LOW have we sunk?

I read Bernard Schlink's book "The Reader" and liked it a lot. I like the SciFi premise of Benjamin Button, if done right these stories can be enchanting. My favorite so far is Wall-E, sadly, it's destined to win nothing but animation awards. I haven't seen Slumdog yet, but I look forward to it.

Too late for wagering! -- the Jman, El Presidenté

Slumdog Millionaire wins Critics Choice Award

Director Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire won the Critic's Choice award as Best Picture, Boyle won director and the film won five awards overall at Thursday nights Critic's Choics awards for 2008 films.

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Action Picture: The Dark Knight
Best Comedy Picture: Tropic Thunder
Best Animated Picture: Wall-E
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress: (tie) Meryl Streep, Doubt; Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Supp. Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Supp. Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Foreign Film: Waltz with Bashir - this animated film about Palestine took four years to complete and the director had three kids while working on it!
Best TV Movie: John Adams - before presenting this award, Sarah Silverman said "because we all know the best films are being made for tv"

Here's a link to all nominations and winners:
2009 Critics Choice Awards

Note: When Dustin Hoffman went to announce Best Picture, he first said "it's a three-way tie!" -- then "Just kidding...."

Heath Ledger may become the second posthumous Oscar winner for acting, after Peter Finch (Network - "I'm mad a hell!") Here is his first award; personally, I prefer Jack Nicholson, the Joker was a joker, remember, not a morbid sadistic psycho; Ledger was better in Brokeback Mountain, imo, even though that's my least favorite Larry McMurtry (Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, Comanche Moon) screenplay.