Golden Globes 2009: Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange, Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Tom Hanks, Sally Hawkins © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Dev Patel, Freida Pinto © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

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. [...]

Jessica Lange Speaks Out in the BELFAST TELEGRAPH

Jessica Lange interviewed by Michael Coveney for the Belfast Telegraph:
"George Bush really has whipped up the most poisonous scenario of neighbour against neighbour over the war in Iraq. It’s disgusting. I can’t tell you. There were times when it was really lovely to be out there and against the war. But then I had anti-war stickers on my car and some big fucking pick-up with an American flag tried to drive me off the road. It was scary and I was scared."
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After Coveney suggests that things could be worse if "President Bush wasn’t defending her ‘way of life’ and ‘civilised’ (read privileged) values against the Islamic threat," Lange responds, "What? What are you saying here? I thought you were a [...]