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.