Forget Heartburn, this is the lead you need to follow, but there is someone much more prominent than an obscure writer who has these two films in common. Getting very warm…
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This was a mainstream release back in `86, and not some obscure indie/arthouse film. It may not be remembered much now (certainly not like Top Gun or Aliens–both incorrect btw), but any child of the 80s would’ve heard of it.
You are definitely in the ballpark, too. One last thing…
Hey, this is the best movie trivia question I know, so it certainly ain’t no walk in the park. You’re so close to Part 1 (the commonality) I can taste it ; Part 2’s pretty straightforward after that (though a tad labor intensive :rolleyes: )
I have been reading this thread, and trying to come up with the connection among these movies.
I have various theories. But, I can’t come up with a final connection.
There is an actor named Thomas Mitchell who was in both Stagecoach and Gone with the wind, and he won an Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Stagecoach.
Each of the years nominations for the Best Supporting Actor award went to two different actors who were in the same. Neither of them won, in any of the years.
Does any of that bring us closer to the answer? Great question, by the way. Mind boggling.
Okay, if the connection is actors in the Best Supporting Actor category nominated for the same film who lost to another actor in a different film, I’d guess:
Back to School
It had Burt Young and Ned Beatty, who were both nominated in 1976 for Best Supporting Actor. They lost to Jason Robards (All the President’s Men).
Plus, I think that “any child of the 80s would’ve heard of it.”
Thanks pricciar (and Archive Guy) for the heads up.
Does it have something to do with all/most of the major folks involved in making the movie having oscars? Perhaps these four movies employed the most oscar winners? Or employing folks whose total combined oscar wins were high?
I’m terrible at movie trivia, but I can’t help guessing randomly.
First things first–If you are trying to guess the film without knowing the connection, you are never going to get it. So, no on Salvador, 9 1/2 Weeks or Back to School (not to mention Paul the Younger’s intriguing-yet-fruitless conjecture ) However…
This is the key. You are 90%, no 95% there to finding the connection. These are the facts as listed previously:
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[li] Thomas Mitchell appeared in both GWTW and Stagecoach, winning the Oscar for the latter[/li][li] Both Streetcar and Network hold records for most acting Oscars[/li][li] GWTW has two acting Oscars–Actress and Supporting Actress–to its credit[/li][/ul]
A+B+C=?. It’s all right there. Find the specific connection and then the IMDB will lead you to the fourth.
Is it The Men’s Club? This movie was made in 1986, its director is Hungarian, its producer is also the producer of Network, wasn’t nominated for any awards, is an adaptation of a written work (like Gone With The Wind and Streetcar), and it has Stockard Channing in it, who later won the award for Actress in a leading role, in another movie.
ArchiveGuy, there’s a fourth and fifth clue that seem to be important, and yet contradictory to the first clue…can you clear this up?
Okay, that’s clear enough, but…
So, even though the film has no oscar nominations, the connection has nothing to do with what an actor may have won on a previous or subsequent film, even in the same year.
Then why would Thomas Mitchell’s win for Stagecoach be a key to solving?
One more query: You said that it would be possible for another film to be made that could join this list. Would that then make five films on the list, or would it replace one of the films currently on the list?
Actually, Jack Batty’s question asked if the relationship had to do with films made immediately before or after the film in question. I truncated the question and apologize if this accounted for any confusion.
Actually, the answer does have to do with what certain actor(s)–male or female–may have won an Oscar for in other films (of the same or different year). It sounds like people are on the cusp of getting it… Again, sorry if this answer to JB was misleading.
So, here is the connection I came up with.
Each of these films had three actors/actresses in their casts who won acting academy awards in the same year.
GWTW
Thomas Mitchell
Vivien Leigh
Hattie McDaniel
A Streetcar Named Desire
Vivien Leigh
Karl Malden
Kim Hunter
Network
Peter Finch
Faye Dunaway
Beatrice Straight
These three have that in common.
The film for '86 would have three actors/actresses who each won an acting academy award in the same year. Not necessarily in 1987 (When awards for 1986 movies are given out.) I thought finding the connection was tough. Finding which film in 1986 had three academy award winners will be just as difficult. (Assuming my guess at the connection is correct, which is a large assumption.)
If your assumption is correct, then I’d say The Delta Force. It featured Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam and Shelley Winters. They all won Academy Awards in the same year, 1965.
Best Actor – Lee Marvin, Cat Ballou (1965)
Best Supporting Actor – ** Martin Balsam**, A Thousand Clowns (1965)
Best Supporting Actress – Shelley Winters, *A Patch of Blue * (1965)
Yes, in any other situation, The Delta Force would be odd man out in the company of those other three, but it turns out there is one unique thing they all have in common (and who knows what lies in the future?).
Way to go one_madJack, pricciar, and everyone else who played! Good Job.
; Part 2’s pretty straightforward after that (though a tad labor intensive :rolleyes: )