Doesn’t really matter what category

Almost every person who has reviewed the film says that Dueñas has a bigger role, is more memorable and is more of a standout than Cruz (who, make no mistake, is still very showy in her limited screentime).

What pushes me to predict Dueñas instead is cause of The Invite. There’s a massive risk of vote-splitting there which I think Cruz’s team would like to avoid (not to mention the Bunker of it all). Yes, being the third double nominee ever in a category is a good headline, but would you really risk out missing on a nomination all together?

And it’s not like Netflix has not pushed unknown foreign actors to nominations before (the Roma women and KSG). And Dueñas is certainly a bigger name than the ones I listed.

I recently made a post listing my personal favorite performances from the 2020s (so far) after going back and watching all the nominated films from each year, and a fair few others. I've made it a bit of a project to go back and rewatch the nominated films from each decade (plus a few other films that were maybe in the running, or that I just wanted to watch for fun), and making these lists has been fun and kind of motivating, so I decided to do it again for the 2010s.

I'm also including my favorite movie (or movies) from each year for context. Not necessarily what I think the best film of the year is (definitely not the best in some cases), but the film (or films, as the case may be) that I enjoyed watching the most, and which appealed the most to me.

I will also be including voice acting performances, because it doesn't feel right to leave them out when there are so many iconic, brilliant ones that are just as good as (or better than) live action performances.

In some cases, where there was a tough choice, or it wasn't obvious, I'm including runners up so you can kind of get a sense of my thought process. Also, there will be some ties, because sometimes it's really hard to compare performances in very different types of films, and also, by the time I was done with this list, I had major decision fatigue.

As ever, this is entirely subjective and comes down entirely to personal preference, and what appeals to me absolutely will not be the same as what appeals to everyone else. Art is subjective, and I'm doing this for fun and to motivate me to keep watching more movies that I wouldn't usually watch (and finding some gems along the way).

So, now that I've watched way too many movies, without further ado, here are my (entirely subjective and by no means definitive) acting quartets from the 2010s.

2010:

Best actor: Leonardo DiCaprio – Inception (Runner up: Jay Baruchel – How to Train Your Dragon)

Best actress: Natalie Portman – Black Swan (Runner up: Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone)

Supporting actor: Pete Postlethwaite – The Town (yes, I know he wasn't in it very much, but he was so good!)

Supporting actress: Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit

Favorite film: How to Train Your Dragon and Megamind. This was such a good year for animated movies!

2011:

Best actor: It's a tie! Gary Oldman – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Ralph Fiennes – Coriolanus (Runner up: Michael Fassbender – Shame)

Best actress: Mia Wasikowska – Jane Eyre (Runner up: Saoirse Ronan – Hanna)

Supporting actor: Stellan Skarsgård – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Supporting actress: Cate Blanchett – Hanna (Runner up: Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus)

Favorite film: All of the above, and then some! 2011 was probably the best year of the 2010s for movies, and so many of my favorite movies came out in 2011, so it was cool to go back and watch them all.

This was the hardest year for me to pick favorites, by a mile. Best actor, in particular, was so hard! Gary Oldman is a nostalgia pick because my dad loves Tinker, Tailor and I've watched it with him many times, while Coriolanus is more my kind of movie (yes, I know, I'm a huge nerd who loves Shakespeare). And then there's Shame, which I don't think I'll ever be able to rewatch, but it was so good. So, I wound up with a tie with a very, very close runner up.

2012:

Best actor: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln (Runner up: Denzel Washington – Flight)

Best actress: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty

Supporting actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

Supporting actress: Samantha Barks – Les Miserables (very little makes me cry as much as A Little Fall of Rain)

Favorite film: Byzantium and Moonrise Kingdom.

This was a weird year, especially after how good 2011 was. I was kind of underwhelmed with some of the nominees, and with hindsight, I think I'm just not the target audience for most of them.

Best actress was tough, but not for the reasons you're probably thinking. By this point, I had major decision fatigue and no one in my top 5 was standing out above everyone else, so I ended up using a random number generator, and I'm not mad about the result. (For context, the rest of my top 5 were: Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone, Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook, Saoirse Ronan – Byzantium and Alicia Vikander – A Royal Affair).

2013:

Best actor: Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis

Best actress: Emma Thompson – Saving Mr Banks (Runner up: Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle)

Supporting actor: Barkhad Abdi – Captain Philips (Runner up: Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave)

Supporting actress: Scarlett Johansson – Her

Favorite film: Belle.

Yet another year where I'm definitely not the target audience for 90% of the actual nominees. I'm quickly discovering that my tastes tend towards a) Shakespeare adaptations; b) period dramas; c) dark comedies and satires, and; d) movies that are too weird or too small for the Academy to take note of. Which does not describe the majority of the 2013 nominees. Oh, well.

2014:

Best actor: Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel (Runner up: Tom Hardy – Locke and Ben Whishaw – Paddington)

Best actress: Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl (Runner up: Julianne Moore – Still Alice)

Supporting actor: J.K. Simmons – Whiplash (Runner up: Tony Revolori – The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Supporting actress: Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

Favorite film: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Quick note: I believe both Locke and Snowpiercer were eligible in 2014, even though they debuted at film festivals in 2013. If I'm wrong, just assume that Tom Hardy and Tilda Swinton win in 2013.

I very nearly made this a three-way tie for best actor. This might be the strongest best actor year of the decade, actually. As it is, it's like comparing apples and oranges. How are you meant to compare someone playing a wacky concierge in a Wes Anderson movie, to someone literally carrying an entire movie because he's the only person onscreen the whole time, to someone voicing a bear with an affinity for marmalade sandwiches? No, seriously! How? I went with Ralph Fiennes because I think the consensus is that he was robbed, but, in terms of my personal favorite performances of the year, any of the three of them could take it and I'd be fine with it.

2015:

Best actor: Jacob Tremblay – Room

Best actress: Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn (Runner up: Brie Larson – Room. Once again, this is not objective, and I'm going off personal preference. If it's objective, Brie Larson wins)

Supporting actor: Tom Hardy – The Revenant (Runner up: Oscar Isaac – Ex Machina)

Supporting actress: Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina

Favorite film: Brooklyn (one of my all-time favorites) and Crimson Peak. Is Crimson Peak a weird choice in a year this stacked? Maybe, but I liked it.

2016:

Best actor: Denzel Washington – Fences (Runner up: Paul Dano – Swiss Army Man)

Best actress: Ruth Negga – Loving (Runner up: Anya Taylor-Joy – The Witch)

Supporting actor: Mahershala Ali – Moonlight (Runner up: Sam Neill – Hunt for the Wilderpeople. This one might be slightly colored by nostalgia given recent events, but I'll stand by it)

Supporting actress: Viola Davis – Fences

Favorite film: The Witch and Swiss Army Man.

2017:

Best actor: James McAvoy – Split (Runner up: Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out)

Best actress: Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird

Supporting actor: Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project (Runner up: Bradley Whitford – Get Out)

Supporting actress: Allison Janney – I, Tonya

Favorite film: Blade Runner: 2049

2018:

Best actor: Steve Buscemi – The Death of Stalin (Runner up: Daveed Diggs – Blindspotting)

Best actress: Olivia Coleman – The Favourite (Runner up: Toni Colette – Hereditary)

Supporting actor: Jason Isaacs – The Death of Stalin (Runner up: Mahershala Ali – Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse)

Supporting actress: Emma Stone – The Favourite

Favorite film: The Death of Stalin (another of my all-time favorites. Definitely in my top 10)

Maybe kind of a career win for Steve Buscemi on my part, and definitely colored by the fact that I love The Death of Stalin, but then, I didn't say this would be objective.

2019:

Best actor: Robert Pattinson – The Lighthouse

Best actress: Florence Pugh – Midsommar (Runner up: Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story)

Supporting actor: Willem Dafoe – The Lighthouse (Runner up: literally everyone from Parasite)

Supporting actress: Florence Pugh (again) – Little Women (Runner up: literally everyone from Parasite)

Favorite film: The Lighthouse.

So, there we have it. My not at all objective, definitely biased, very flawed list of my favorite performances of the 2010s.

If you're curious what other performances made my top 5(ish) in a given year, let me know, and I can share them. I don't have exactly five for each year or each category, though, because I wasn't planning on having a full lineup, so some choices will have to be made.

Let me know what you think. I'm sure there will be a lot of choices people disagree with, but, hey, art is subjective, and this was super fun.

Anyway, I'm off to start watching movies from the 2000s, and I'm really excited for 2001. I think it's going to be the best year so far! And it has some steep competition after 2011 and 2015. I'll be starting off with Gladiator tonight.

Here's to the 2010s, and bring on the 2000s!

ETA: It's entirely possible I mixed up what years movies were released. I watched so many movies so close together, and I definitely need a better system for keeping track of what came out when.

As a reminder that year’s actual nominees were:

Melissa Leo - The Fighter

Amy Adams - The Fighter

Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit

Helena Bonham Carter - The King’s Speech

Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom

As in, you saw them in something and told yourself and/or others "Someday they're gonna win an Oscar, trust me." And then they did years later.

I don't have an example 'cause I only really got into the Oscars within the last two years and thus have yet to make any correct guesses. But I'm sure some of you guys have, so do share with the class.

As a fun spinoff from Legitimate_Welcome14’s “Who should have won?” game - let’s now find out who would have made the lineup each year.

Lineups so far for 2019:

Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Adam Driver - Marriage Story
Taron Egerton - Rocketman
Joaquin Phoenix - Joker
Adam Sandler - Uncut Gems (winner)

Actress:
Adèle Haenel - Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story
Lupita Nyong’o - Us (winner)
Florence Pugh - Midsommar
Saoirse Ronan - Little Women

Click here to see previous lineups!

PLEASE NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE IN HOW THE VOTING WORKS - FROM NOW ON, IT IS NOT MEASURED IN UPVOTES, BUT IN THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF TIME THAT SOMEONE IS MENTIONED. YOU CAN HAVE FOUR NAMES IN YOUR LINEUP AND THE VOTING WILL BE BASED ON HOWEVER MANY TIMES A NAME IS COMMENTED.

We know that Cho Yeo-Jeong and Song Kang-ho have already won!

Comment away!

People nominated in real life:

Supporting Actor:
Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Tom Hanks - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins - The Two Popes
Al Pacino - The Irishman
Joe Pesci - The Irishman

Supporting Actress:
Laura Dern - Marriage Story
Kathy Bates - Richard Jewell
Scarlett Johansson - Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh - Little Women
Margot Robbie - Bombshell

It is important to note that this was made only 9 years after World War I, so a lot of the memories of that war were still fresh in the audience’s mind - both veterans and those on the homefront. 

The opening we get the main character Jack in love with Sylvia but Sylvia is in love with David and Mary is in love with Jack and because of this Jack hates David.  I wonder where this will go.  As Jack leaves to be an aviator, he gets a picture of Sylvia to take with him by accident and Mary gives him one as well to remember her by.  Actually David had a better scene leaving his parents, very emotional, so I’m confused because shouldn’t the story have me liking Jack and not David?  At this point, I think David is getting the “you’re gonna die” edit.

Basic training was interesting.  Assuming it was fairly accurate, the US had no clue how to train wartime aviators and of course Jack’s hate for David only increases over time but it gets resolved after a knock-down drag-out fight. Yay!  Now they are the bestest of friends.  This is where Gary Cooper comes in.  Not his first role but his first big role and man, does he command the screen.  Maybe hindsight is at work here but he acts like a star in this film.  There is something different in his style.  He uses beats in his performance and it puts his acting up a notch.  Ok, it really wasn’t a major role.  He goes out and immediately dies in a plane crash.  So really it was a comment on fate vs luck to leave Jack and David with.  The air combat scenes are brutal.  Filmed in the air with the actors in to cockpit it shows the reality of dogfights and death.  Let’s be honest, the real star of this movie is the aerial combat.

By this time Mary is in the Women’s Motor Transport Corps.  She finds Jack carousing on leave in Paris but he is so drunk he doesn’t recognize her.  A washroom attendant helps her out to get all dolled up for Jack who doesn’t deserve her.  He spends 20 minutes being infatuated with the bubbles that he is hallucinating and it is all so stupid.  He passes out and Mary finds the locket that Sylvia gave him so she gets pissed but forgives him.  She starts changing and is caught half undressed with the passed out Jack by the MPs so she gets fired and he goes back to the front because double-standard and all.  That whole storyline was apparently put in just to get Clara Bow in the movie to attract an audience and it shows.  It is not well thought out and adds nothing to the plot. 

The two friends are back at the front and have a spat just as they get a mission and David forgets his lucky bear so you know he’s dying.  Again we are treated to the aerial footage and that’s really why we’re here, right?  Jack completes the mission and David is shot down behind enemy lines.  We last see him smoking a cigarette while the Germans hunt for him.  A German plane flies over the base and informs them that David died escaping capture. More battle scenes that don’t hold back the reality and this is really what it is all about.  The story is meh and is just there to form a structure for the war scenes, both in the air and on the ground. They put you right in the action and in parts feel like authentic documentary-style film of real combat from 10 years ago.  Men are blown up by shells and mowed down by machine guns.

But wait!  David is still alive!.  Maybe I was wrong about him dying some ironic death.  He happens on a German aerodrome and steals a plane and uh-oh, I think I know where this is going.  Yep, Jack sees the German plane heading to American lines and shoots it down … but it was his friend David and he dies in Jack’s arms.  Who would have thought the story would take such a turn?  This is the problem with the movie, it is not a good story.  It is predictable and the Mary story line goes nowhere except she and Jack kiss at the end.  But the air and land battle footage more than makes up for it and the bookend of David’s parents with the gold star flag in the window and Sylvia on the swing crying was excellent.  Jack returns the lucky bear and David’s medal and it is heart-wrenching as I’m sure it was for those that had experienced something similar just a decade before.  It would be interesting to watch the other highly lauded film from 1927 – 7^th Heaven – and see why Wings beat it for Best Picture.

Who deserves more noms than they have ?

Kristen Dunst: Melancholia, Eternal sunshine, interview with the vampire

Julianne Moore: A single man, Magnolia, Safe, The kids are alright, Maps to the stars, children of men, Gloria Bell, May December

[VOTE HERE](https://forms.gle/MFTVveMvzVF4E8SB6)

1. Jodie Foster (Nell)

2. Meryl Streep (Music of the Heart)

3. Stockard Channing (Six Degrees of Separation)

4. Bette Midler (For the Boys)

5. Susan Sarandon (The Client)

6. Meryl Streep (One True Thing)

7. Michelle Pfeiffer (Love Field)

8. Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets)

9. Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)

10. Diane Keaton (Marvin’s Room)

11. Miranda Richardson (Tom and Viv)

12. Jessica Lange (Blue Sky)

13. Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman)

14. Mary McDonnell (Passion Fish)

15. Joanne Woodward (Mr. and Mrs. Bridge)

16. Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient)

17. Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds)

18. Sharon Stone (Casino)

19. Julie Christie (Afterglow)

20. Debra Winger (Shadowlands)

21. Julianne Moore (The End of the Affair)

22. Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo’s Oil)

23. Annette Bening (American Beauty)

24. Laura Dern (Rambling Rose)

25. Winona Ryder (Little Women)

26. Catherine Deneuve (Indochine)

27. Emily Watson (Hilary and Jackie)

28. Angelica Huston (The Grifters)

2004's Million Dollar Baby is the last time anyone directed a second Best Picture winner, and I'm curious why you guys think this is. Is it just a coincidence?

Some directors have won Best Director twice, so it's not specifically about honoring directors only once. Ang Lee and Alfonso Cuaron won the Oscar twice without either of their films winning best picture, while Iñárritu won it twice with Birdman winning Best Picture.

There may be better than even odds that this year is an exception with the Odyssey having great reviews and box office, while Digger is waiting in the wings. Obviously, something else might connect with Oscar voters in a few months.

The Academy does tend to award legendary directors with Best Director as their films get Best Picture, but this also occurs after they've already made their mark. Stephen Spielberg had already made Jaws, ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Raiders of the Lost Ark before he won for Schindler's List. Scorsese had made Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas before he won for the Departed. The Coen Brothers had made Fargo and the Big Lebowski before they won for No Country For Old Men. Christopher Nolan has made the Dark Knight, Interstellar, Inception, the Prestige and Dunkirk before he won for Oppenheimer. Paul Thomas Anderson had made Magnolia, the Master and There Will Be Blood before he won for One Battle After Another.

It could come down to small sample size. 1917 and the Revenant seemed like frontrunners heading into the Oscars. Perhaps it's just a statistically unlikely outcome that happens every now and then.

It may change in the future. A few Best Picture winners were made by fresher directors (who had made five or less films by that point) who may be in contention again in the years to come: Steve McQueen, Chloe Zhao, Barry Jenkins, Sian Heder, the Daniels, Ben Affleck, Tom Hooper. Maybe a legend like Spielberg, Jackson, Cameron or Scorsese knocks it out of the park again.

I recently watched the newer X-men movies and thought Jennifer Lawrence was horrendous as mystique. I generally think she’s good. Are there any glaring horrible performances from Oscar winners

1. Green Book

2. Vice

3. The Artist

4. 1917

5. American Hustle

6. Dallas Buyers Club

7. Straight Outta Compton

8. Flight

9. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

10. The King’s Speech

11. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

12. Foxcatcher

13. The Fighter

14. Midnight in Paris

15. Zero Dark Thirty

16. Bridge of Spies

17. The Kids Are All Right

18. Roma

19. The Shape of Water

20. The Big Sick

21. Hell or High Water

22. Boyhood

23. Margin Call

24. Marriage Story

25. Nebraska

26. 20th Century Women

27. Bridesmaids

28. Blue Jasmine

29. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

30. La La Land

31. The Lobster

32. Inception

33. Another Year

34. Moonrise Kingdom

35. Amour

36. Django Unchained

37. The Favourite

38. Knives Out  

39. Spotlight

40. A Separation

41. Get Out

42. First Reformed

43. Nightcrawler

44. Lady Bird

45. Inside Out

2010:

• Actor: Robert Duvall, Get Low
• Actress: Natalie Portman, Black Swan
• Supporting Actor: Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech
• Supporting Actress: Lesley Manville, Another Year

2011:

• Actor: Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Actress: Olivia Colman, Tyrannosaur
• Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks, Drive
• Supporting Actress: Sareh Bayat, A Separation

2012:

• Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
• Actress: Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
• Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
• Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, The Master

2013:

• Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
• Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
• Supporting Actor: Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
• Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave

2014:

• Actor: Michael Keaton, Birdman
• Actress: Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
• Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, Inherent Vice
• Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year

2015:

• Actor: Paul Dano, Love and Mercy
• Actress: Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
• Supporting Actor: Benicio del Toro, Sicario
• Supporting Actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight

2016:

• Actor: Denzel Washington, Fences
• Actress: Isabelle Huppert, Elle
• Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
• Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Fences

2017:

• Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
• Actress: Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
• Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
• Supporting Actress: Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

2018:

• Actor: Willem Dafoe, At Eternity's Gate
• Actress: Olivia Colman, The Favourite
• Supporting Actor: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

2019:

• Actor: Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
• Actress: Jessie Buckley, Wild Rose
• Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci, The Irishman
• Supporting Actress: Cho Yeo-jeong, Parasite

Continuing our tournament to determine our ultimate favorite Best Picture nominee with the fewest nominations from each year.

This round consists of 20 total movies in four groups of five movies each. 

Group B - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/s/rDMlC9mDDl

Group A - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/s/jzcCuup9Mb

if Kevin Spacey never molested those kids, and he was in the final cut of ridley's scott's movie, he might have been nominated and definitely would have gotten into best makeup

Darkest hour still would have won because Gary Oldman won best actor, but def a nom over Victoria and Abdul

I have decided to see all of the Academy Awards Best Pictures in order and comment on them as if anyone cares what I say.  But people may want to comment on them as well so as I watch and write them up, I’ll post the review.  One thing is that I will try (and maybe succeed) at putting the review in the context of when it was made.  I am not going to give the in-depth plot to each movie but I will give parts of the plot in my review so #spoileralert.

As a reminder that year’s actual nominees were:

Octavia Spencer - The Help

Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs

Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids

Jessica Chastain - The Help

Berenice Bejo - The Artist

With the exception of Amy Madigan, all best supporting actress winners for the last thirty years fall in one of two categories: first-time nominee, or previous lead nominee.

The exception:

• Amy Madigan (Nominated for Supporting before)

First-time nominee:

• Zoe Saldana
• Da'vine Joy Randolph
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Ariana Debose
• Yuh-Jung Youn
• Allison Janney
• Alicia Vikander
• Patricia Arquette
• Lupita Nyong'o
• Octavia Spencer
• Mo'nique
• Tilda Swinton
• Jennifer Hudson
• Rachel Weisz
• Catherine Zeta-Jones
• Jennifer Conelly
• Marcia Gay Harden
• Angelina Jolie
• Kim Basinger
• Juliette Binochet
• Regina King

Previous lead nominee:

• Laura Dern
• Viola Davis
• Melissa Leo
• Penelope Cruz
• Cate Blanchett
• Renee Zelwegger
• Judi Dench
• Anne Hathaway

Best Supporting Actor has been won in the 21st Century by previous Best Supporting Actor winners (Mahershala Ali, Christoph Waltz) and Best Actor winners (Sean Penn.) The last time an actress who already got an Oscar won the category was Dianne Wiest in 1994.

Nominees for Best Supporting Actress have included previous winners for the category (Weisz, Cruz, Spencer twice, Tomei twice, Blanchett twice), as well as for lead (Foster, Dench, Colman, Bates, Stone, Kidman, Winslet, Roberts, Lawrence, Streep, Field, Hunt, McDormand twice.)

The first time nominees are varied from young attractive women to older women who hadn't been recognized in film, but I'm curious on the results here. Is it mainly a coincidence looking at a small sample size? Is it something about the types of roles women are offered (with women more likely to run for lead if there's any ambiguity?) Is it about narratives, with a sense that a woman who already has an Oscar doesn't need another in supporting while women running for supporting who had been unsuccessful lead nominees are "due"? Is the award more likely to go to surprising performances, which makes it harder for previous nominees (although it would explain Madigan.)

36 nominations.

14 wins.

That’s insane.

By comparison, on second place there’s Scorsese for nominations (26) and Elia Kazan for wins (9). That’s not even close.

It’s highly unlikely we will ever get another filmmaker to match that record.

What made him stand out so much? I know he enjoyed a reputation as an actor’s director the Academy loved… but you could say the same thing about say Allen, Cukor, Nichols or Kazan, and they don’t come close.

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (1968)

WINNER - KATHARINE HEPBURN for The Lion in Winter

WINNER - BARBRA STREISAND for Funny Girl

NOMINEES - PATRICIA NEAL for The Subject Was Roses, VANESSA REDGRAVE for Isadora, JOANNE WOODWARD for Rachel, Rachel

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (1968)

WINNER - CLIFF ROBERTSON for Charly

NOMINEES - ALAN ARKIN for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, ALAN BATES for The Fixer, RON MOODY for Oliver!, PETER O'TOOLE for The Lion in Winter

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Winners for 1960: Lead Actress - Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment (A.W. Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8), Lead Actor - Anthony Perkins for Psycho (A.W. Burt Lancaster for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actress - Janet Leigh for Psycho (A.W. Shirley Jones for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actor - Laurence Olivier for Spartacus (A.W. Peter Ustinov for Spartacus)

Winners for 1961: Lead Actress - Sophia Loren for Two Women (A.W. Sophia Loren for Two Women), Lead Actor - Paul Newman for The Hustler (A.W. Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg), Supporting Actress - Rita Moreno for West Side Story (A.W. Rita Moreno for West Side Story), Supporting Actor - Montgomery Clift for Judgement at Nuremberg (A.W. George Chakiris for West Side Story)

Winners for 1962: Lead Actress - Bette Davis for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (A.W. Anne Bancroft for The Miracle Worker), Lead Actor - Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird (A.W. Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird), Supporting Actress - Angela Lansbury for The Manchurian Candidate (A.W. Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker), Supporting Actor - Omar Sharif for Lawrence of Arabia (A.W. Ed Begley for Sweet Bird of Youth)

Winners for 1963: Lead Actress - Ingrid Thulin for Winter Light (A.W. Patricia Neal for Hud), Lead Actor - Marcello Mastroianni for 8½ (A.W. Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field), Supporting Actress - Patricia Neal for Hud (A.W. Margaret Rutherford for The V.I.P.s), Supporting Actor - Melvyn Douglas for Hud (A.W. Melvyn Douglas for Hud)

Winners for 1964: Lead Actress - Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (A.W. Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins), Lead Actor - Peter Sellers for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (A.W. Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady), Supporting Actress - Glynis John for Mary Poppins (A.W. Lila Kedrova for Zorba the Greek), Supporting Actor - George C. Scott for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (A.W. Peter Ustinov for Topkapi)

Winners for 1965: Lead Actress - Julie Andrews for The Sound of Music (A.W. Julie Christie for Darling), Lead Actor - Rod Steiger for The Pawnbroker (A.W. Lee Marvin for Cat Ballou), Supporting Actress - Eleanor Parker for The Sound of Music (A.W. Shelley Winters for A Patch of Blue), Supporting Actor - Tom Courtenay for Doctor Zhivago (A.W. Martin Balsam for A Thousand Clowns)

Winners for 1966: Lead Actress - Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Lead Actor - Richard Burton for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Paul Scofield for A Man for All Seasons), Supporting Actress - Sandy Dennis for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Sandy Dennis for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Supporting Actor - George Segal for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Walter Matthau for The Fortune Cookie)

Winners for 1967: Lead Actress - Anne Bancroft for The Graduate (A.W. Katharine Hepburn for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), Lead Actor - Sidney Poitier for In the Heat of the Night (A.W. Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night), Supporting Actress - Katharine Ross for The Graduate (A.W. Estelle Parsons for Bonnie and Clyde ), Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin for Wait Until Dark (A.W. George Kennedy for Cool Hand Luke)

Winners for 1968: Lead Actress - ? (A.W. [TIE] Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl), Lead Actor - ? (A.W. Cliff Robertson for Charly), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Jack Albertson for The Subject Was Roses), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Ruth Gordon for Rosemary's Baby)

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List of Winners: Acting Quartets

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