# Michael Jackson fans?!  WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

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**Created:** [November 17, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-fans-who-are-these-people/137181 "2002-11-17T17:53:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-fans-who-are-these-people/137181/41 "2002-11-21T15:41:12Z")

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Well… it was a great, moving song, but it’s not the body of his work. Even so, sure - I’m sure he received the award partly out of sympathy. Nothing new there. In 1968, Spencer Tracy won the Oscar for _Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?_, partly because he had died shortly after the movie was completed.

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**Author:** ![Fish42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@Fish42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish42)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-fans-who-are-these-people/137181/42 "2002-11-21T17:26:35Z")

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> \*Originally posted by dantheman \*  
> \*\*Well… it was a great, moving song, but it’s not the body of his work. Even so, sure - I’m sure he received the award partly out of sympathy. Nothing new there. In 1968, Spencer Tracy won the Oscar for _Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?_, partly because he had died shortly after the movie was completed. \*\*

\<Hijack\>Actually, Rod Steiger won the Oscar that year for “In  
the Heat of the Night”. The only actor to win a posthumous Oscar was Peter Finch for “Network.”

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-fans-who-are-these-people/137181/43 "2002-11-21T17:28:28Z")

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I stand corrected; Tracy was only nominated. Still, that’s why he was nominated. It was a good performance, but not a great one.

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