2 days til Oscar.
Friday, April 23, 2021 at 11:00AM by Nathaniel R
Streep's 2 wins
Our final predictions will be up tonight but until then let's share a bunch of lists using the number two as inspiration...
All 2-time Best Actress winners
(14) Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Jodie Foster, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn x 2, Glenda Jackson, Vivien Leigh, Frances McDormand, Luise Rainer, Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, and Elizabeth Taylor
Brando's two wins
All 2-time Best Actor winners
(9) Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Daniel Day Lewis (+1), Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Fredric March, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Spencer Tracy
Mahershala's two wins
All 2-time Best Supporting Actress winners
(8) Mahershala Ali, Walter Brennan (+1), Michael Caine, Melvyn Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards, Peter Ustinov, and Christoph Waltz
Dianne's 2 wins
All 2-time Best Supporting Actress winners
(2) Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters
The only Best Picture nominees with the number 2 in the title
(3) A Tale of Two Cities (1936), The Godfather Part II (1974), and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The only Best Picture winners to win just 2 Oscars total
(6) Wings (1927), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Rebecca (1940), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and Spotlight (2015)
Best Picture nominees of the past 50 years with just 2 nominations total
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Blind Side (2009), A Serious Man (2009), Extremely Loud and Incredible Close (2011), Selma (2014), and The Post (2017)
OSCAR CATEGORY REVIEWS
- Picture
- Director
- Actress
- Actor
- Supporting Actress
- Supporting Actor
- Adapted Screenplay
- Cinematography
- Costume Design
- Makeup and Hair
- Original Song
- Sound
- Visual Effects
- Documentary Feature
- Shorts, Animated
- Shorts, Doc
- Shorts, Live Action
plus
- Um... who is winning best actress?
- Double acting nomination complications
- How often does Best Actor go to a non-Best Picture nominated film?
- New Oscar records
- History of Posthumous Oscars
- Oldest Best Actor Nominees of all time (two are from this year!)
- Oldest Best Supporting Nominees of all time (two are from this year!)
Reader Comments (19)
The only best picture winners to win just 2 total Oscars list is actually quite good! That said, I haven't seen The Greatest Show on Earth, so it might end up ruining a (surprisingly) good thing.
That 2-time Supporting Actress list is unimpeachable. I hope the next person who joins it is equal to her predecessors.
I'm surprised there are only two women to win two Best Supporting Actress Oscars. I would have thought it would be higher considering the other three categories have much higher amounts. I wonder why?
Four Weddings and a Funeral pulled off that crazy stat back when there were only five nominees. i really wish Hugh Grant could have slipped in as a Best Actor nominee.
I've got two balls.
Supporting actress is usually the category of veterans or newcomers and many of them as one hit wonders
I continue to find the double wins for Ali and Waltz so mysterious. I don't mind either performance or actor but... why?
In Ali's case, why not take the opportunity to reward a veteran character actor like Richard Grant or Sam Elliott?
In Waltz's case that was the odd situation where it was all previous winners, but it remains odd they didn't opt for a greybeard "career capper" Oscar for De Niro or Tommy Lee Jones.
Typically (give or take a Swank) voters have the good sense to spread the wealth a bit unless the performance itself is so undeniable or the actor has reached a certain stature that it makes sense for a double win career-wise. Especially in Supporting where the breadth of contenders is so much wider.
Ali's win makes sense since his film won BP and had a lot of passion. He is also really great in that film. I think he would have been competitive in the Best Actor race - it's hard to see how he wouldn't have been a nominee there.
The Waltz win has never made sense to me - especially since Tommy Lee Jones was so good.
Not to be mean, but Swank really struggled to turn her 2 wins into a lasting career. Her performances in those wins were great, but other than that, she's got a lot of bad. I wonder why Hollywood has had such a hard time finding projects for her.
I don't think people who have won three or more should count in the two-timers club. This would have been an opportunity to also ask who is close to getting a second win eventually?
Peter -- i've never understood it either but it's maybe as Joe says here that the BP passion helped a lot (and the fact that it was a leading role... which also helped Waltz)
I love both of Mahershala's winning performances, but wish he would have rightfully went lead for Green Book and allowing Grant's exceptional work a shot at winning.
I like Swank and she was great in I Am Mother, and royally snubbed for The Homesman, so pffft to the haters on that. She's also having a ball in her small role in The Hunt which is fun to watch.
I could see Octavia Spencer joining the 2-time supporting actress club with Wiest and Winters.
Cash - Octavia just feels so right I can't believe I didn't think of her joining the 2-time Supporting Actress winners straight away! Heck, she's probably slowly building up to being one of Three Artful's Inevitables if she keeps things up!!!
I love pics of actors with their awards, and I think that's one of the things I've missed most this year. I've even looked at some of the winner's Instagram pages to see if they've posed with their awards after the fact, and haven't seen anything. What a bummer.
@dave in Hollywood - I can't believe that Four Weddings stat, too, especially since Bullets Over Broadway received directing, writing, and acting nods but no best picture. I feel like in the days of 5, there'd sometimes be that 1 fun/wildcard/crowdpleasing choice in the bunch. (Full Monty, Field of Dreams, Big Chill).
In my dream scenario for the 2012 Sup Actor Race, I'd swap out Waltz for Samuel L Jackson in Django (what a fun performance!), and he'd finally have his oscar.
Most second wins are boring.
Ali’s win and speech for Green Book were both exhaustingly unbearable. He seemed like the worst kind of capital A actor up on that stage.
Which is of odd because he’s so, so lovely and natural in Moonlight.
A waste of a second trip, just like Waltz’s.
Favorites win performances of the four are Vivien in lead actress, Brando, Ustinov, and Winters.
Ali looked embarrassed and uncomfortable when he accepted his second Oscar. I believe he felt, as many of us did, that he wished it was for another movie. Green Book is so ridiculous and dumb.
Philip -- that would have been ideal since Samuel L Jackson was inspired in that and it was also an ACTUAL supporting performance.