Tuesday
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And The Winner Is... Julie. No, the Other Julie.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 12:32AM 137 days until the Oscars. Random Trivia Attack!
Did you know that Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music) losing to Julie Christie (Darling) for the 1965 Best Actress Oscar is one of only two times that the Best Actress winner has beaten a fellow nominee with the same first name?! Now you do!
The Only Other Time It Happened
1989 Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy) beating Jessica Lange (Music Box)
P.S. Though if you aren't terrible strict about it you could say three times given the case of Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets) and Helena Bonham Carter (Wings of Dove) but that one hurts to bring up so never mind!
Reader Comments (20)
That brings to mind the 2002 Best Supporting Actress race, when Sean Connery only read out he name 'Catherine', and for a second or two Kathy Bates seemed to wonder whether he might be referring to her.
(I guess we're all too young to remember the 'Frank' debacle at the 6th Academy Awards.)
Two other ones that may have caused a split-second of panic/hope:
Julia Roberts vs. Juliette Binoche
Jennifer Lawrence vs. Jessica Chastain
It's a different category, but Robert Zemeckis beat Robert Redford (and three others) as Best Director in 1994. The presenter, Steven Spielberg, got around the issue by not saying "Robert" at all. He told Zemeckis' kid to smile because his Daddy just won the Oscar.
I don't particularly like that moment, but I found it relevant here.
I love these bits of trivia. Keep em coming.
How about the Richards for Best Actor in 1977 ? Richard Burton apparently thought he had won for EQUUS when the presenter said "Richard ...", but it was Richard Dreyfuss who got the little gold fella !
Dianne Wiest's 3 nominated characters their names start with H. Holly (Hannah and Her Sisters), Helen (Parenthood), Helen St Clair (Bullets Over Broadway).
Marisa Tomei vs Miranda Richardson
Miranda actually thinks it's her before she does a 180
Watching old Oscar clips is a guilty pleasure watching the tiniest details on faces to see what it reveals,I also like the Spielberg/Streisand/Julia "love in" announcments.
Random Oscar trivia I stumbled upon over the weekend: 2007 was the most "diverse" year among the acting nominees.. meaning, in the 4 acting categories, it had the most unique films represented (18 different films had acting nominations; only Michael Clayton had multiple nods, with 3, including Tilda's win). No ceremony has ever had all 20 acting nominations come from different films.
18 films - 2007
17 films - 1992
16 films - 1999, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1945, 1938
The least "diverse" years were 1981 (only 9 films spread across the acting categories), and a handful of years with 10 (1943, 1951, 1976, 1977, 2013).
MARK Rylance and MARK Ruffalo, boo!
These 3 should host the Oscars every year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5rPOATuJAc
Denny: I think of that every time I watch the clip of Marisa winning, which is all the time. If I was Miranda, I would have thought that, too.
What about Christopher Plummer and Christoph Waltz in 2009?
Craver - true. But i was talking best actress here. It's happened twice in supporting actress too. i wonder how many times in other categories. Hmmmm
A different piece of trivia:
The four supporting actress winners from 1978 through 1981 all had the initials MS:
Maggie Smith
Meryl Streep
Mary Steenburgen
Maureen Stapleton
What's more: two of the actresses that Maggie Smith beat out in 1978 were Maureen Stapleton and Meryl Streep. That is, 3 MS in the same year!
Marcos -- whoa. that's cool.
Is this the only instance where two winners back to back had the same first name? I can't imagine that's possible, particularly for men (who have a more limited range of names usually).
Julie vs Julie--how do you choose! That pic lifts my soul. Sigh.
... and they picked the wrong Julie! Julie Andrews was undoubetdly the best actress of that year. Though Christie did a good job, nobody cared about it - nobody saw her in Darling. As a matter of fact, "The Sound of Music'' turns out to be a gem, a true classic and really, one of our favorite things. Last year's Oscars recognized the mistake they made and had Andrews on stage to be honored for it.
Lest we forget 1987's supporting actress lineup:
Olympia Dukakis
Norma Aleandro
Ann Sothern
Anne Archer
Anne Ramsey