I just have one question, though I suppose since the Academy Awards are nea, people can pose other questions in this thread.
My question is : Many successful films (for whatever reason) get remade, not always as successfully, but sometimes at least as well if not better. Have there been any films which won Academy Awards remade into other films which have also won an Academy Award?
( I saw a film at the store today which I thought would have fit until I noticed it was only nominated to win, and did not.) Doesn’t have to be in the same category, though if that happened that’d be pretty interesting. Films which are both based on the same source material (i.e. two versions of Frankenstein can be considered here, even if one is not based on the film material of the other.)
There’s Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, which won for cinematography and costume design, and Shakespeare in Love, which revolves around that play and won Best Picture and a couple others a few years ago.
Oh yeah, there was also a little movie called West Side Story based off of Shakespeare’s play that won Best Actor, Actress, Art Direction, Costume Design, Director, Film Editing, Music Score, Sound, and Picture.
That’s all I could come up with though.
Unless you want to count Laurence Olivier’s and Kenneth Branagh’s versions of Henry V. Branagh’s version won costume design, while Olivier took home an Honorary Academy Award - “For his Outstanding achievement as actor, producer and director in bringing Henry V to the screen.”
Interestingly enough, out of Branagh, Zeffirelli, and Olivier, only Olivier’s version of Hamlet seems to have won any Academy Awards.
Of course these aren’t remakes, but based on the same source material.
I presumed that you were asking about Best Picture winners. Are you counting films which won any Oscars at all, even minor ones? That would be a harder question.
I was actually thinking of the film having won an award in any category. Of course, I know that isn’t something that’s easy to research; I was just wondering if anyone had happened across it.
This puts Olivier’s Henry V in as a borderline case; something like Sling Blade was more like what I was thinking of. I know ‘remake’ is a vague term, but I think I’d feel better matching Zeffirelli’s Romeo & Juliet with West Side Story than either with Shakespeare in Love.
The film that inspired this thread, by the way, was Profumo di donna (Scent of A Woman). It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976, but did not win. The 1992 remake of course had Al Pacino winning for Best Actor.
I suppose a potentially answerable question might be requiring that at least one of the films has won for Best Picture.