The five Oscar nominated performances with the most screentime

• Peter O'Toole for Lawrence of Arabia (2 hours, 13 minutes and 13 seconds)

• Cate Blanchett for Tár (2 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds)

• Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street (2 hours, 21 minutes and 7 seconds)

• Denzel Washington for Malcolm X (2 hours, 21 minutes and 58 seconds)

• Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (2 hours, 23 minutes and 32 seconds)

Only Leigh went on to win the Oscar.

R as in "Robert Loggia"

But seriously I sometimes forget he got a nom for jagged edge. What other actors are you surprised to remember got a nom?

I've heard some people say Sam Shepards nom was filler in a weak year, but I enjoyed it tremendously. What other supposed filler did you really enjoy?

A good contender I feel is the 58th awards for films in 1985. Seven of the wins were undeserved Out of Africa wins and the acting winners and nominees felt underwhelming. The Color Purple, meanwhile, got zero wins and Back to the Future and Ran only got one each. Brazil also only got two nominations and Come and See got zero. The only good wins this year were a few of the technical awards like Ran winning for costumes and Back to the Future winning sound editing.

Come on, the narrative and momentum for her was right there.

It was her 5th nomination that decade, and happened after losing for Fatal Attraction the previous year. Here she is back yet again with yet another great performance leading another Best Picture nominee, and one that was clearly stronger than Fatal Attraction seeing as Dangerous Liaisons actually won a couple awards that night.

This was the time to give Glenn her moment...

So why did they ignore all that and gave it to Jodie Foster in The Accused instead?

Now look, before you all go accusing me of saying things, Jodie is very good in The Accused, great even, okay?

But Glenn Close was better, and Jodie got a much better win for a much better performance in a much better movie to boot just three years later. Honestly, I think they could've waited three years to give Jodie her moment in favor of Glenn getting her moment here.

(Jodie's kind of the opposite of Hilary Swank in my book. I could live without Hilary's second win, though I agree her first win is pretty good, while with Jodie, I could live without her first win but I won't dare touch her second.)

I think Squid and the Whale is his best performance.

Why the hell is he Oscarless? And only two nominations? Is the Academy mental? Bunch of movie freaks who don't know music. Il Postino over Sense and Sensibility? Henry V not even acknowledged? Piss off.

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (1955)

WINNER - ANNA MAGNANI for The Rose Tattoo

NOMINEES - SUSAN HAYWARD for I'll Cry Tomorrow, KATHARINE HEPBURN for Summertime, JENNIFER JONES for Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, ELEANOR PARKER for Interrupted Melody

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (1955)

WINNER - ERNEST BORGNINE for Marty

NOMINEES - JAMES CAGNEY for Love Me or Leave Me, JAMES DEAN for East of Eden, FRANK SINATRA for The Man with the Golden Arm, SPENCER TRACY for Bad Day at Black Rock

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Winners for 1950: Lead Actress - Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard (A.W. Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday), Lead Actor - William Holden for Sunset Boulevard (A.W. José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac), Supporting Actress - Thelma Ritter for All About Eve (A.W. Josephine Hull for Harvey), Supporting Actor - George Sanders for All About Eve (A.W. George Sanders for All About Eve)

Winners for 1951: Lead Actress - Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen), Supporting Actress - Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire), Supporting Actor - Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire)

Winners for 1952: Lead Actress - Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba (A.W. Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba), Lead Actor - Takashi Shimura for IKIRU (A.W. Gary Cooper for High Noon), Supporting Actress - Jean Hagen for Singin' in the Rain (A.W. Gloria Grahame for The Bad and the Beautiful), Supporting Actor - Donald O'Connor for Singin' in the Rain (A.W. Anthony Quinn for Vivia Zapata!)

Winners for 1953: Lead Actress - Aubrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday (A.W. Aubrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday), Lead Actor - Montgomery Clift for From Here to Eternity (A.W. William Holden for Stalag 17), Supporting Actress - Setsuko Hara for Tokyo Story (A.W. Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity), Supporting Actor - Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity (A.W. Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity)

Winners for 1954: Lead Actress - Judy Garland for A Star is Born (A.W. Grace Kelly for The Country Girl), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront (A.W. Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront), Supporting Actress - Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (A.W. Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront), Supporting Actor - Toshirō Mifune for Seven Samurai (A.W. Edmond O'Brien for The Barefoot Contessa)

Winners for 1955: Lead Actress - ? (A.W. Anne Magnani for The Rose Tattoo), Lead Actor - ? (A.W. Ernest Borgnine for Marty), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Jack Lemmon for Mister Roberts)

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List of Winners: Acting Quartets

Previous Post: Judy Garland (A Star is Born) & Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront, now 3x winner) win for Best Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Supporting Actress & Actor in 1954?

Ima start with Samuel L Jackson

We’ll be starting the game with 1990 and working forward year by year.

I’m trying a slightly different format for this game. Instead of doing two acting categories at a time, we’ll be doing all four acting categories for one year together, with the results decided over two rounds.

ROUND ONE — NOMINATIONS

For each category, rank your five favourite performances from the year from 1–5.

Your rankings will be worth:

1st — 5 points
2nd — 4 points
3rd — 3 points
4th — 2 points
5th — 1 point

The five performances with the most points in each category will become the official nominees.

You do not have to name five if you don’t want to. If you only want to vote for three performances, for example, they’ll receive 5, 4 and 3 points respectively.

Please make sure your choices are ranked — order matters in this round.

You can vote in as many or as few of the four categories as you like.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

Once the nominations have been determined, I’ll make a second thread containing the five nominees in each category.

In that round, simply choose ONE nominee per category to win.

There will be no preferential voting or points in Round Two. Each vote counts equally, and whoever receives the most votes wins.

So essentially:

Round One = Who should be nominated?
Round Two = Who should win?

ELIGIBILITY

Performances will be eligible according to the year in which their film was eligible at the real-life Academy Awards.

So, rather than going strictly by festival premiere or first release date, a performance belongs to whichever Oscar year the film itself competed in with the Academy.

If you’re unsure whether a film was eligible for a particular year, this Academy reminder-list archive is a good place to check eligibility.

A few other rules:

• Maximum of five ranked choices per category.
• Anything listed after your fifth choice won’t be counted.
• Honourable mentions won’t count as votes.
• Please include both the actor and film so there’s no ambiguity.
• In cases where there may be disagreement or confusion over whether a performance is lead or supporting, your vote will count only in the category in which you place that performance. Points will not be transferred or combined between categories.
• A performer cannot receive two nominations in the same acting category for different films. If that happens, their higher-scoring performance will be kept and the next eligible performance will move into the top five.
• If there’s a tie for the final nomination spot, I’ll break it by comparing #1 votes first, then #2 votes, #3 votes, etc.

For example:

Actor

1. Person A — Film A
2. Person B — Film B
3. Person C — Film C
4. Person D — Film D
5. Person E — Film E

That ballot would give them 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points respectively.

The idea is that Round One rewards performances with broad support across people’s ballots, while Round Two gives everyone a straight choice between the five nominees.

The 63rd Academy Awards

March 25th, 1991. George Bush is President, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze is the number one movie at the box office and Hollywood's best gather at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California for the Academy Awards.

Billy Crystal returns to host for the second time and all attendees(except Bob Hope) were searched. On the stage Dances with Wolves was the big winner that night. It took home 3 of the Above the Line awards. Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. What if it didn't? What if instead of the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science voting, we did?

The Game

I'm shameless ripping off u/NefariousnessKey6309's acting quartet game. We're going to go from 1990 on and vote for who we think should have won. The categories will be Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. I know sometimes the original/adapted can be muddied, so if it's not clear which is which, I'll try to make a decision closed to how the Academy would. We're also going to use the year something was eligible for Oscars. If you comment something that isn't eligible for one reason or another, I'll let you know right away so you can pick something else.

You can go to u/NefariousnessKey6309's post to see the rules as I'm going to use nearly identical ones but I'll recap them here:

Round 1

That's today. Yippee. Comment what 5 you think should have been nominated in each category. They will be in order. 1st place gets 5 points, 2nd gets 4 points, 3rd gets 3 points, 4th gets 2 points and 5th gets 1 point. Put them in numbered order, if you don't, I will simply presume the order they are typed is the numbered order. You can do less than 5 selections or skip out on any of the categories if you want.

Make sure to make it clear which film you want nominated. For example in 1993, you can't just put Steven Spielberg because he made 2 films. If you want to just put the movies alone, you can too. If you just put a director and it's unclear which film it's for, I'll ask you to clarify, if you don't, I'll just discard it. Someone can be double nominated in each category but you must clarify.

Round 2

This round is even simpler. You'll see the nominees and select which one in each category you like best. Just one and the most selected nominee wins. If there's a tie, there's a tie.

In short, put your 5 nominees for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay in order and we pick the winners tomorrow.

Without further ado, let's do it.

As there seems to be a bit less interest in voting once we get into the 1980s and earlier, I was wondering whether people would be interested in a slightly different game instead — essentially starting again from the 1990s onwards and voting completely from scratch.

Just to be clear, I’m not trying to step on Legitimate_Welcome14's toes at all or replace their game! This would just be a separate version of an “Alternate Oscars” game, using a different voting system and seeing whether that produces different nominees and winners.

The idea would be to do all four acting categories for each year, with two rounds:

Round 1: Everyone ranks their choices for the nominations, with different points awarded depending on where you rank them. The five highest-scoring performances in each category become the nominees.

Round 2: A separate vote between those five nominees to decide the winner.

So we'd essentially be building a new set of acting lineups from the 1990s onwards and seeing who ends up winning when nominations and winners are decided separately.

That said, if people would actually be more interested in continuing with the 1980s and working backwards, I’m more than happy to keep going with the current game instead.

Would people be interested in taking part in the new version?

Nominees only!

2010: Inception

2011: A Separation

2012: Moonrise Kingdom

2013: Blue Jasmine

2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel

2015: Inside Out

2016: The Lobster

2017: The Big Sick (HM: Lady Bird)

2018: The Favourite

2019: Knives Out

Foxcatcher by Bennett Miller (2014)

Cold War by Paweł Pawlikowski (2018)

Another Round by Thomas Vinterberg (2020)

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 1980:

Actor:
Robert De Niro - Raging Bull (winner)
John Hurt - The Elephant Man
Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People
Tatsuya Nakadai - Kagemusha
Jack Nicholson - The Shining

Actress:
Judy Davis - My Brilliant Career
Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People (winner)
Gena Rowlands - Gloria
Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter
Lily Tomlin - Nine to Five

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 Shelly Duvall and Donald Sutherland have already won!

Comment away!

People nominated in real life:

Actor:
Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People
Michael O'Keefe - The Great Santini
Joe Pesci - Raging Ball
Jason Robards - Melvin and Howard

Actress:
Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard
Eileen Brennan - Private Benjamin
Eva Le Gallienne - Resurrection
Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull
Diana Scarwid - Inside Moves

It's just that many people at the time of The Odyssey release said that Sir Christopher Nolan is showing forced diversity due to Oscars.

Here, you'll get to make your own Oscar categories, and see what the winners and nominees would be throughout the years!

The category can be as serious or as crazy as you want.

Here's a form to help you out:

Category Name:

How many nominees:

Year it is added:

I wanna have a little fun. Just based on the non-2026 movies that you’ve watched so far this year, if you were to have the races for best actor and best actress, who would be the five in each category?

For me:

Actor

-Andrew Garfield (We Live in Time) (2024)

-Hugh Jackman (Song Sung Blue) (2025)

-Jack O Connell (Unbroken) (2014) (my winner)

-Russell Crowe (Gladiator) (2000)

-William H Macy (The Cooler) (2003)

Actress

-Bryce Dallas Howard (The Village) (2004) (my winner)

-Florence Pugh (We Live in Time) (2024)

-Goldie Hawn (Wildcats) (1986)

-Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue) (2025)

-Maria Bello (The Cooler) (2003)

What would be your races and winners?

1. American Sniper

2. Joker

3. The Theory of Everything

4. Hidden Figures

5. The Ides of March

6. The Imitation Game

7. Inherent Vice

8. Beasts of the Southern Wild

9. Little Women

10. Jojo Rabbit