# Celebrities remembered for incidental career points

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**Created:** [January 1, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688 "2015-01-01T17:18:33Z")\
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Vanessa Redgrave, one of the truly great actresses in the history of film, was nominated for many Academy Awards and won one in 1978 for _Julia_. Her acceptance speech was a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rant. It didn’t exactly derail her career–she released three films the following year–but she was certainly better known for that for a while.

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