by Nathaniel R
It's 120 days until the Oscars. So for today's random number celebration let's talk Moses! According to the Bible he lived to be 120 years old. The most famous Moses film is inarguably The Ten Commandments (1956). We always forget that Charlton Heston wasn't actually Oscar-nominated for playing Moses in that now camp classic despite the film receiving seven Oscar nods including a Best Picture citation. Curiously and conversely, the film's only Golden Globe nomination was in Best Actor, Drama for Charlton Heston. How about that?
More Moses movie trivia after the jump...
- The Ten Commandments (1923) - silent film.
Theodore Roberts as Moses - The Ten Commandments (1956) - Cecil B Demille's remake of his own silent film. (7 Oscars nominations including Best Picture.)
- History of the World - Part 1 (1981) - comedy.
Mel Brooks as Moses - Moses (1995) - miniseries. 1 Emmy nomination (Outstanding Miniseries)
Ben Kingsley as Moses
- The Prince of Egypt (1998) -animated feature. 2 Oscar nominations (score & song)
Val Kilmer as Moses. It had the misfortune of arriving a few years before the Best Animated Feature began but we think it definitely would have won. - The Ten Commandments (2006) - miniseries. 3 Emmy nominations (craft categories only)
Dougray Scott as Moses - The Ten Commandments (2007) - animated feature.
Christian Slater as Moses - The Bible (2013) - miniseries. 3 Emmy nominations (including Outstanding Miniseries)
William Houston as Moses
- Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) -feature.
Christian Bale as Moses. Remember how much flack Ridley Scott got for this one? It was the first Moses feature to arrive after conversations about whitewashing and racial inequities in casting had gone mainstream.
Nobody has ever been Oscar-nominated OR Emmy nominated for playing Moses, unless you count nicknames and then we've got one: Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman in Harriet (2019), the formerly enslaved hero and Underground Railroad icon who was nicknamed "Moses" for leading so many out of slavery.