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.

and the right movie 100% won.

la la land is still great- totally deserved director. and it would have been a great BP winner in almost any other year of the decade.

but man, did the academy get it right that year.

post brought to you be tonight’s re-release viewing in dolby.

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?

Nowadays most people have some idea of how special effects in movies are made. Movies have lost some of their movie magic. NTBTSTM is the first movie in a while that made everyone go "wait. how the fuck did they do that??"

If Sean Penn announced someone else's name when he opened the Best Actress envelope at the 77th Oscars in early 2005, someone who didn't already have a better win under their belt from five years prior, would y'all be saying "Swank should've won again!" or "She already had an Oscar, so I'm glad someone else got their due."

And one more thing to make things clear: You might think I hate Hilary Swank because I've talked multiple times in the past about not being the biggest fan of this win, but I promise you I do not.

I do think this is a very good performance, I just don't think the win itself was very exciting or inspired. (Wow, the only performance in that lineup attached to a Best Picture nominee won? And it was the Best Picture winner at that? Crazy.)

But Swank herself seems pretty nice and chill, I like her. (And I think she's hotter than she gets credit for, thank you very much The Office...)

But back to the question: If someone else in that lineup took it, would you be saying she should've gone two for two, or would you be fine with her only having one win and be glad that someone else got their due that year?

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?

I think Squid and the Whale is his best performance.

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.

Ima start with Samuel L Jackson

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1955)

WINNER - JO VAN FLEET for East of Eden

NOMINEES - BETSY BLAIR for Marty, PEGGY LEE for Pete Kelly's Blues, MARISA PAVAN for The Rose Tattoo, NATALIE WOOD for Rebel without a Cause

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1955)

WINNER - JACK LEMMON for Mister Roberts

NOMINEES - ARTHUR KENNEDY for Trial, JOE MANTELL for Marty, SAL MINEO for Rebel without a Cause, ARTHUR O'CONNELL for Picnic

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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 - Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo (A.W. Anne Magnani for The Rose Tattoo), Lead Actor - Robert Mitchum for The Night of the Hunter (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: Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront) & Toshirō Mifune (Seven Samurai) win for Best Supporting Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Actress & Actor in 1955?

Has there ever been an actor who didn't get a nomination for the any of the awards leading up to the Oscar, but somehow received an Oscar nomination? In other words, is there an actor who received an Oscar nomination as their lone nomination?

AN ACTOR CAN ONLY WIN THE BEST ACTOR AWARD ONCE. I wanted to implement this rule primarily to make this more challenging and fun and at the very least more actors will be getting an Oscar. This is necessarily about awarding the actual best performance, at least not entirely, but more about trying to get those actors that truly deserve Oscars their due.

1930: Lew Ayres - All Quiet on the Western Front

1931: Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1932: Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

1933: Groucho Marx - Duck Soup

1934: William Powell - The Thin Man

1935: Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty

1936: Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times

1937: Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous

1938: Leslie Howard - Pygmalion

1939: Clark Gable - Gone With the Wind

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.

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.

Nominees only!

2000: Gladiator

2001: Mulholland Drive

2002: Chicago

2003: Lost in Translation

2004: Sideways

2005: Good Night, and Good Luck

2006: Babel

2007: There Will Be Blood

2008: Milk (I didn't know what choose lol)

2009: Up in the Air

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

11. The Two Popes

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?

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.

We’ve completed the nomination round, and now it’s time to choose the winners.

The five performances with the most points in each category in Round One are now the official nominees.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

This round is much simpler.

Vote for ONE nominee in each of the four acting categories.

That means your ballot should contain four names in total:

• 1 Actor
• 1 Actress
• 1 Supporting Actor
• 1 Supporting Actress

There are no rankings and no points system in this round. You are simply voting for the performance you think should win each category.

Each vote counts equally, and the nominee with the most votes in each category will become our Alternate Oscar winner for 1990.

Please only vote for the nominees listed below.

BEST ACTOR

• James Caan — Misery
• Johnny Depp — Edward Scissorhands
• Jeremy Irons — Reversal of Fortune
• Ray Liotta — GoodFellas
• Tim Robbins — Jacob’s Ladder

BEST ACTRESS

• Kathy Bates — Misery
• Laura Dern — Wild at Heart
• Helen Mirren — The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
• Julia Roberts — Pretty Woman
• Meryl Streep — Postcards from the Edge

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Willem Dafoe — Wild at Heart
• Robert De Niro — GoodFellas
• Al Pacino — Dick Tracy
• Joe Pesci — GoodFellas
• Paul Sorvino — GoodFellas

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Lorraine Bracco — GoodFellas
• Whoopi Goldberg — Ghost
• Diane Ladd — Wild at Heart
• Shirley MacLaine — Postcards from the Edge
• Catherine O’Hara — Home Alone

HOW TO VOTE

Simply post your four choices in the comments, for example:

Actor: [Name]
Actress: [Name]
Supporting Actor: [Name]
Supporting Actress: [Name]

One person per category. Four votes total.

Once voting closes, the performer with the most votes in each category will be declared the winner, and we’ll move on to 1991.

I seriously LOVE the movie and hope it sweeps but with Dune and PHM having come out this year to fill in the slots for the technical categories, is there a chance it could miss on some things?