Best Films – 1938
Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can’t Take It with You
FILM
The Adventures of Robin Hood
d: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; scr: Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine
Bringing Up Baby
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Dramatic School
d: Robert B. Sinclair; scr: Ernest Vajda, Mary McCall Jr.
L’Etrange Monsieur Victor
d: Jean Grémillon; scr: Albert Valentin, Charles Spaak, Marcel Achard
Four Daughters
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein
If I Were King
d: Frank Lloyd; scr: Preston Sturges
The Lady Vanishes
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Marie Antoinette
d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda
Vivacious Lady
d: George Stevens; scr: P. J. Wolfson, Ernest Pagano
You Can’t Take It with You
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
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by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Oscar Answer #6
Oscar Answer No. 6
That’s Barry Fitzgerald (right, with Bing Crosby and Rise Stevens), who received best actor and best supporting actor nominations for his role as the cranky but golden-hearted elderly priest in Leo McCarey’s syrupy Going My Way (1944). Fitzgerald lost the best actor Oscar to Bing Crosby, the official star of Going My Way, but won the best supporting actor award.
Academy rules were then changed to prevent any more double nominations for the same role.
Other performers who have been nominated in the same year, but for different films, are:
Fay Bainter in 1938 (lead in White Banners, supporting in Jezebel);
Teresa Wright in 1942 (lead in The Pride of the Yankees, supporting in Mrs. [...]
by Andre Soares | February 11, 2007
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William Wyler’s Oscar Nominated Actors
William Wyler
36 Acting Nominations
(s) supporting category
(*) Academy Award winner
William Wyler: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
1936
Walter Huston (above, with Ruth Chatterton) Dodsworth
Walter Brennan (s) Come and Get It * (Wyler replaced Howard Hawks, who received co-directing credit)
Bonita Granville (s) These Three
Maria Ouspenskaya (s) Dodsworth
1937
Claire Trevor (s) Dead End
1938
Bette Davis Jezebel *
Fay Bainter (s) Jezebel *
1939
Laurence Olivier (above, with Merle Oberon) Wuthering Heights
Geraldine Fitzgerald (s) Wuthering Heights
1940
Bette Davis The Letter
Walter Brennan (s) The Westerner *
James Stephenson (s) The Letter
1941
Bette Davis The Little Foxes
Patricia Collinge (s) The Little Foxes
Teresa Wright (s) The Little Foxes
1942
Walter Pidgeon Mrs. Miniver
Greer Garson Mrs. Miniver *
Henry Travers (s) Mrs. Miniver
Teresa Wright (s) Mrs. Miniver *
Dame May Whitty (s) Mrs. Miniver
1946
Fredric March The Best Years of Our [...]
by Andre Soares | January 27, 2007
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Major Oscar Comebacks
Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath (top); Fonda and Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond (bottom)
Below are the performers and directors who had a 20-year or longer gap between Academy Award nominations.
Unless otherwise noted, the nominations are for leading roles; years in bold means Oscar wins.
41 years between nominations
Henry Fonda (1940, The Grapes of Wrath — 1981, On Golden Pond)
38
Helen Hayes (1931-32, The Sin of Madelon Claudet — 1970, supporting, Airport)
Jack Palance (1953, supporting, Shane — 1991, supporting, City Slickers)
Alan Arkin (1968, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter — 2006, supporting, Little Miss Sunshine)
35
Ralph Richardson (1949, supporting, The Heiress — 1984, supporting, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes)
33
John [...]
by Andre Soares | February 1, 2006
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Tags: Academy Awards, Fay Bainter, Film Awards, Helen Hayes, Henry Fonda, Jack Palance, Julie Christie, Lynn Redgrave, On Golden Pond, Ralph Richardson, The Grapes of Wrath
