Who is the only actress to win an Oscar for portraying an actress who won an Oscar?
Answer = Kate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett won an Oscar playing Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn
What’s the only movie role for which two different actors have won an Oscar?
Elizabeth I. (Dench and Cate Blancett again)
ETA: woops, nevermind, Blanchett didn’t win for that role.
Vito Corleone (Brando in The Godfather, DeNiro in The Godfather Part II)
Vito Corleone (Brando in the first film, De Niro in GF2).
What’s the only movie for which 2 actresses have received Oscar nominations for playing the very same character?
Titanic?
Ah, there’s actually two:
Titanic, as was said - Kate Winslet and Gloria Stewart
Iris - Kate Winslet and Judy Dench
Who is the only winner of both the Oscar and the Nobel Prize (and to head it off at the pass, Al Gore didn’t actually win an Oscar).
George Bernard Shaw, who won the Oscar for Best Screenplay, after adapting his own play “Pygmalion” for Hollywood.
Is this all about movies and plays, or would a question like “How many outs in an inning of baseball” do?
What actress won an Oscar for portraying an actress who didn’t win an Oscar?
Six
How many Oscars did Charlie Chaplin receive?
What is the only* movie role for which two different actors have been nominated, but neither won.
*I *think *it’s the only one. Probably.
1964 - Laurence Olivier as Henry V
1989 - Kenneth Branagh as Henry V
Who was the first actor/actress to win an Oscar in consecutive years?
I thought my question was pretty easy; surprised no one got it.
Maggie Smith, as Diana Barrie in California Suite.
And while confirming this, I ran across another interesting bit of trivia. Maggie Smith won that Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for 1978. She had something in common with the next three winners of that award. Who were they, and what did they have in common?
Luise Rainer
What they had in common was initials: Meryl Streep (Kramer vs Kramer, 79), Mary Steenbergen* (Melvin and Howard, 80) and Maureen Stapleton (Reds, 81)
*May have butchered the spelling on that one
What actress who played another actress who won an Oscar also won an Oscar herself, but not for that role? (There might be more than one.)
Who is the only Oscar to win an Oscar? (Twice!)