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!)