Oscar Category Confusion

I didn’t bother w/mere double losses.

Lead Bafta, Sup Oscar/Globe: Clift/Judgment at Nuremberg, Tandy/Fried Green Tomatoes, Davis/Husbands and Wives, Thurman/Pulp Fiction, Streep/Deer Hunter

Comedy Globe, Sup Oscar Win: O’Neal/Paper Moon, Burns/Sunshine Boys, Ustinov/Topkapi, Matthau/Fortune Cookie

Lead Bafta, Sup Oscar Win: Kline/Fish Called Wanda

Lead Bafta, Sup Oscar, Sup Globe Win: Smith/Room with a View, Hudson/Almost Famous, Pavan/Rose Tattoo

Lead Bafta, Sup Oscar Win, Sup Globe: Caine/Hannah & Her Sisters

Sup Bafta Win, Lead Oscar/Globe: Page/Interiors

Com Globe, Sup Oscar/Bafta Wins: Zeta-Jones/Chicago

Lead Bafta, Sup Oscar/Globe Wins: Hawn/Cactus Flower, Streep/Kramer vs. Kramer, Lange/Tootsie, Basinger/LA Confidential, Broadbent/Iris, Weisz/Constant Gardener

Lead Bafta, Com Globe Win, Sup Oscar Win: Smith/California Suite

Lead Bafta/Oscar Wins, Sup Globe: Neal/Hud

Lead Bafta Win, Sup Oscar/Globe Wins: Ngor/Killing Fields, Ashcroft/Passage to India (both 1984)

Lead Bafta/Oscar Wins, Sup Globe Win: Winslet/Reader

By far the most common category diff is Bafta pushing things lead (18), with a handful of Comedy Globe nominees otherwise in supporting; Globe pushes sup twice (both ending in Actress wins), Bafta pushing sup once (Page), and Oscar disagreeing with Bafta/Globe once (Smith). Given that the 2 exceptions happened in the same year, it’s the most confusing year; it also contained Streep’s Bafta lead vs. Oscar/Globe sup. It makes me wonder what the different permutations could have been w/different campaigns. I don’t think the lead winner would have changed, but overdue Page could have won sup which I think would keep the # of winning Allen perfs the same as then Smith would have collected #2 for Room with a View in place of Wiest.

Most of the time that a mostly agreed-upon support is bumped up to lead thus helping those left behind, the sup winner doesn’t matter because he/she doesn’t get an Oscar nom anyway. Exceptions: York who lost against Hawn after all, Streep who lost against Zeta-Jones after all.

Tony Awards

Oscar & Tony Winning Roles – Actress: Havilland & Jones/The Heiress, Lapotaire & Cotillard/Edith Piaf, Frelich & Matlin/Children of a Lesser God, Caldwell & Smith/Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Rosemary Harris & KHep in a tie/Lion in Winter (/2 noms), Julie Harris & Minnelli/Sally Bowles, Shirley Booth/Come Back Little Sheba (/2 noms), Anne Bancroft/Miracle Worker, Hagen & Kelly/Country Girl, Hagen & Taylor/Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (/3 noms), Tandy in a tie & Leigh/Streetcar Named Desire (/2 noms).

Other: Olivier & Fiennes/Hamlet (/3 noms), Abraham & McKellen/Amadeus (/2 noms), PSH & Morse/Truman Capote, Paul Scofield/Man for All Seasons, Lemmon & Fonda/Mister Roberts, Jose Ferrer/Cyrano, Jack Albertson/The Subject was Roses. Only The Heiress won the Oscar 1^st.

3+ play Tony Performers: Julie Harris, Caldwell, Tandy. Booth, Frank Langella

Of 2-Tony roles (mostly a phenomenon w/2000s revivals), ones w/2+ Drama Desk noms (All have had 2 Tony noms since Drama Desks started), in winning order: Medea, Fences’ Rose, Real Thing’s Henry, Angels in America’s Prior, Private Lives’ Amanda, Virginia Woolf’s George, Long Day’s Journey’s James.

The most Tonys acting-dominant play in a year is 1984’s Real Thing with its two lead wins and a supporting win. The most actressing-dominant is August Osage County, and the most actor-dominant is Angels in America which did equally well both years. I understand the latter two given the writing/roles, but not the 1^st one at all.

Tony sweeps (Actor/Actress/Director) Real Thing, Fences, Woolf.
Overall (Pulitzer/Tony/Drama Desk) Doubt, Angels, August

No Off-Broadway play has won Actor + Actress Drama Desks. No play has won Actor + Actress at Tonys and Drama Desks. Musicals are much less of a factor at the Oscars, but South Pacific is the only one to get 4 acting Tonys. The adaptation was mostly ignored. The other 2 to get the so-called Big 6 were also adapted, with decent but not memorable awards results. 

Picture & Director: Surprises, Classic Showdowns, & Robberies

For classic showdowns, only counting BPs nommed for BD. Classics aka movies with 100+ points on They Shoot Pictures Don’t They.

29 Divine Lady only Pic-snubbed BD (though only triple nom) – It lost its acting nom, as did Broadway Melody. Lloyd won on this his 1^st try & his 2^nd. Beaumont wasn’t nommed otherwise

39 Gone/Wizard/Stagecoach – Oz is a special case as Fleming had 2 BP nominees that are considered amazeballs the first year that a director couldn’t get 2 BD noms, though it didn’t get acting noms (Garland got like a kids’ prize.). However, arguably Fleming who didn’t get another dir nom wasn’t the source of the films’ visions. Still, John Ford does not need 5 wins. And Gone with the Wind is the biggest film evah with the most iconic actressing evah w/2 wins/4. Stagecoach won its only acting nom.

41 How Green>Citizen Kane +1200 point difference on TSPDT – Ford had 4 wins (inc none of his 4 movies in the T100); this was the only one that also won BP. Plus, Hearst’s power. Welles wasn’t nominated again despite other iconic directorial and acting efforts; the film’s only acting nom. Green also won ½ acting noms.

44 Going My Way>Indemnity +107 – McCarey’s 2^nd nom & 2^nd win, Wilder’s 1^st nom w/2 later wins. Both of the former’s acting nominees won. Stanwyck lost for an iconic perf because Bergman (in her 1^st of 3 wins) lost the year before as the frontrunner.

48 Hamlet only Edit/Wtg-snubbed T2 win – John Huston won BD in a split, of 5 noms vs. Olivier’s 1. Walter Huston won the former’s only acting nom, while Olivier won his only Oscar (of 9 noms) of his film’s 2 acting noms.

49 A Letter to 3 Wives only Edit/Act-snubbed T2 win – Split. Mankiewicz’ 1^st nom. Rossen’s King’s Men was his 1^st of 2 losses and won 2 acting Oscars of 3 noms.

50 Eve/Sunset – Mankiewicz’ 2^nd consecutive win, Wilder had 1. One of 2 years with full slate of nominees having a combo of 4 noms/wins (w/each having a career win).

64 Fair Lady>Strangelove +221 – Cukor’s 5^th try through 30+ years, Kubrick’s 1^st. Kubrick’s only BD nominee w/an acting nom, Fair won 1/3.

71 French>Clockwork +112 – Kubrick’s 3^rd nom, Friedkin’s 1^st (w/1/2 acting noms).

74 Godfather Two/Chinatown – Polanski’s 1^st nom, Coppola’s 2^nd after winning BP but not BD. Polanski got his makeup about 3 decades later. 1/5 & 0/2 acting noms.

75 One Flew #132>Barry & Nashville – Forman’s 1^st, Kubrick’s 4^th & last try, Altman’s 2^nd of 5 tries.  Flew won both lead Oscars, Nashville lost 0/2 sup. One of 2 years with full slate having a combo of 4 noms/wins – w/4 never winning (of 5 icons, only Hitchcock’s out) & 1 w/2 wins.

77 Annie Hall/Star Wars – Lucas’ 2^nd & last try, Allen’s 1^st w/5 later losses. Annie Hall ½ lead noms, Star Wars had a sup nom.

80 Ordinary>Raging Bull +275 – 1^st tries for both though Redford was previously nommed for acting; Scorsese’d wait for his 6^th before winning (a # not even including Taxi Driver which was pushed for 2 foreigns). Raging & Ordinary each won an acting award considered among the best choices ever. DGA: Ordinary.

89 Daisy only Dir-snubbed BP w/full dir slate; only DGA-snubbed Bafta-losing T2 win

90 Wolves>Goodfellas +104 – Costner’s only try, Scorsese’s 3^rd. Wolves had one more acting nom but Goodfellas had one more win. DGA: Wolves.

95 Sense & Sensibility only T2 snub despite T3 precursor noms & winning one, only snub when the year’s only contender w/T3 precursor noms, only snub winning 3/T6 precursors 3 diff orgs

00 Crouching Tiger only loss (& a double loss in fact) w/DGA/Bafta T2 win/GG Dir vs. Traffic only Bafta-snubbed win after losing DGA to BD nominee (Crouching is also only foreign language film to get T3 precursors.)

05 Brokeback only T2 loss w/critics’ consensus, only T2 loss to winner it beat for DGA/Bafta, only T2 loss w/top prize at T4 precursors (/8 who did this) vs. Crash ½ GG Dir snubbed T2 win w/o Bafta or DGA – Ang Lee: Only 2-time DGA winner w/o 2 T2 Oscars, only 2xGG-Dir-winning Bafta winner w/o T2 awards, only director w/o BP w/a lifetime haul of the Globe, Bafta, DGA, & NYFCC. Gibson’s only nom w/0 acting noms vs. Sense’s 2. Soderbergh was only nommed that year, though Traffic won its only acting nom. Haggis hasn’t been nommed since and Crash lost its only acting nom while Brokeback lost its 3.

Notable also is Kubrick, though his most-acclaimed missed BP; at least his T4 efforts were all nominated (a la Wilder) unlike Hitchcock. Hitchcock got BD w/o BP 3x, while Rebecca won BP, but Vertigo/Northwest/Notorious were ignored for the likes of Spellbound/Lifeboat.

Decades’ Top Pairs besides 39/50/74: 46 Wonderful/Best Years, 67 Graduate/Bonnie, 82 Tootsie/ET, 93 Schindler/Piano, 03 Return of the King/Lost in Translation.

In summary: OMG Precursors: Divine Lady, Hamlet, 3 Wives, Daisy…Ang Leex3

OMG Robbed: Green/Kane 1200, Ordinary/Raging 275, Fair/Strange 221, French/Clockwork 112, Way/Indemnity 107, Wolves/Goodfellas 104

OMG Awesome: Gone/Wizard/Stagecoach, Eve/Sunset (lineup), Godfather Two/Chinatown, One Flew/Barry/Nashville (lineup esp losers), Annie Hall/Star Wars + Wonderful/Best, Graduate/Bonnie, Tootsie/ET, Schindler/Piano, King/Translation

They Shoot Pictures Don't They Agreement w/Oscar BP choices: Sunrise, It Happened, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, Lawrence, Godfather ½, Annie Hall, Unforgiven, Schindler, Locker 
T5: All Quiet, How Green, Best Years, All About Eve, On the Waterfront, Sound of Music, Apartment, West Side Story, Midnight Cowboy, One Flew, Deer Hunter, Amadeus, Silence of the Lambs, Return of the King, Million Dollar Baby, Departed, Country

Bolded are the T10 rated winners/T100 overall, italicized are T200 overall.

Acting Races T5 Notable by Decade

1930s: 4 Davis write-in leads to removal of possibility, change in tabulation, back to 5 noms>3 forever; 5 3 noms in 1 category leads to sup awards; 6 My Man Godfrey only film w/#2-6 noms but not BP; 8 3 people get their 2^nd Oscars; 9 1^st black winner/Leigh

1940s: 0 Darwell/Anderson, Brennan #3 leads to extras not voting anymore, 1 Fontaine beats down her sister, 4 actor gets lead/sup noms for same film, 6 March>Stewart

1950s: 0 Holliday>Swanson + Davis in only movie w/4 actress noms, 1 3 generally praised Streetcar Named Desire Oscars esp Leigh/Hunter, 4 On the Waterfront 3 strong fairly matched sup actors & Brando/Saint, 6 only 2^nd lead Oscar w/o BP nom

1960s: 2 Lansbury/Duke & Peck/O’Toole, 6 Taylor/Dennis but Scofield>Burton, 8 exact tie/KHep #3 but Robertson>O’Toole

1970s: 2 Brando as one of 3 6x actor nominees for same film (out of 6 that year), 4 Bergman #3 & Carney>Nicholson (& Pacino), 5 Nicholson/Pacino in another of their 4 showdowns, 8 6 6x actress nominees

1980s: 0 Spacek/De Niro/Hutton most acclaimed trio evah?, 1 KHep #4, 8 Foster only under-17 nominee to get another nom

1990s: 1 Foster/Hopkins, 7 Nicholson #3, 8 Benigni/Paltrow/Dench/Coburn maybe most unpopular lineup ever

2000s: 1 1^st black lead actress win/Washington in an upset, 2 youngest lead actor winner ever in a surprise decision, 9 Mo’Nique/Waltz among most acclaimed sup duos evah

Also T10 (arguably) iconic lead wins – Vivien Leigh/Streetcar Named Desire & Gone with the Wind, Marlon Brando/On the Waterfront & Godfather, Meryl Streep/Sophie’s Choice, Robert De Niro/Raging Bull, Jack Nicholson/One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Daniel Day-Lewis/My Left Foot, Liz Taylor/Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Gregory Peck/To Kill a Mockingbird

Acting Sweeps & Lineup Oddities

Oscar/Bafta/Globe Winners in BP/BD nominees (* NY winner): 10 Firth*/Portman, 09 Mo’Nique*/Waltz*, 08 Winslet, 07 Day-Lewis*/Bardem*, 06 Mirren*, 05 PSH, 04 Foxx, 02 Kidman, 01 Connelly, 00 Del Toro*/Roberts

96 Rush*, 93 Hunter*, 92 Thompson*/Hackman*, 91 Foster*, 87 Dukakis, 84 Ashcroft/Ngor, 82 Kingsley*, 77 Keaton*, 76 Finch, 75 Nicholson*/Fletcher, 72 Minnelli, 71 Hackman*/Johnson*, 67 Steiger*, 66 Scofield*, 57 Guinness*, 55 Borgnine*, 54 Brando*, 53 Audrey Hepburn*

Before their categories existed at the Baftas, Oscar/Globe/NY winners in BP/BD nominees: 49 Crawford/Havilland, 48 Olivier, 45 Milland, 44 Fitzgerald

More helping factors: Audrey won Tony & Oscar within days of each other because she’s amazing. Winslet is the only performer who outright won 2 movie Golden Globes on the same day, and The Reader has the only Oscar-nominated lead who won the Bafta outright against its portrayer in another role. Mirren won a movie & a TV Globe (as did someone else who lost the Oscar/Emmy) and was a dual Oscar & Emmy winner subsequently. Hunter won her Oscar & Emmy in a similar time frame and was a double Oscar nominee that year. Fitzgerald is the only person nominated lead and supporting for the same role in a film. On his last nom, DDL lost as the frontrunner. Olivier was on nom 4/10 and was a BD nominee for the same film; given Hamlet’s rep and his as the Shakespeare guy, fitting. Brando was on his 4^th consecutive bid. Finch won posthumously. Scofield won a Tony for the role. Foxx had a double nom. Winslet, Mirren, and DDL each also have 2 movie Sags.

2006 Best Actress is the only perfect precursor predicted lineup. The closest Actor lineup is 1979; 4/5 Oscar with Globe/Bafta, with the 5^th being a Globe comedy loser. The best supporting actress one is 98 w/4 consensus and the Oscars going with Sag’s Griffifths over Globes’ Stone, though 1966 is the only GG/Oscar agreement.

Sup actor is the weakest; the most interesting is 2007 – 3 Bafta noms went to Oscar w/another getting into lead; same w/Sag exc 4; 4/5 Globe. This was basically so the old men could honor the old men better; the last lead slot looked like it was a fight among 3 young men, so the Academy bumped up old Jones who could have siphoned votes from his frontrunner co-star into lead. They were thus able to fit in old nomless veteran Holbrook in sup (over the lead frontrunner’s young supporting actor).

The weird Sag Awards era year for females was 2003; instead of Wood or Johansson in breakouts (leaving the BP field w/o any nommed female lead), Oscar went for previous nominee Morton out of nowhere. And rather than going for Bello’s 1^st nom they went for Aghdashloo’s since the latter’s film was in for lead actor previous winner Kingsley, and rather than Mystic River’s previous nominee Linney they got Mystic River’s previous winner Gay Harden.

Since introducing supporting categories, only once has a lead category had all new nominees: 1970 Actress. Previous nominees who were contenders: Dunaway, Mercouri.

Aside from the weird 94, all previous nominees in Actress were 3 years in 40s: 48, 44, 41. All inc Stanwyck, 2 each for Bergman/Havilland/Davis/Garson. As for males, 3 years in 6 years: 75, 79, 80 which includes Pacino/Lemmonx2, Nicholson/Hoffman/De Niro/O’Toole. Dreyfuss, Woods/Sheen, and Sutherland could’ve come in. No supporting. So it’s largely a matter of a bunch of Oscar T10 All-Time Favorites (for their respective genders) working during the same time period.

Upon establishing a set 5 directing nominees, all previous nominees were in 38/50 while all new nominees were in 48/95/97. Though 97’s BP nominee As Good as it Gets was by a BD winner.