# Movies with the most future Oscar winners **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 2, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532 "2021-01-02T18:17:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/1 "2021-01-02T18:17:45Z")
Watching _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ I was reminded that future Oscar winners Nic Cage, Sean Penn, and Forest Whitaker were among the cast. Not to mention frequently overlooked Jennifer Jason Leigh. Any other movies with a similar pedigree? Google was unhelpful. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/2 "2021-01-02T19:23:41Z")
Although none of these actors won a Oscar, a movie that was excellent at featuring actors who wouldn’t become well known until later was the 1983 film _The Outsiders_, whose cast included C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, and Sofia Coppola. ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/3 "2021-01-02T20:32:05Z")
_Beau Geste_ (1939) and _Winged Victory_ (1944) have four future winners each. _Beau Geste_: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward and Broderick Crawford. _Winged Victory_: Edmond O’Brien, Red Buttons, Judy Holliday and Karl Malden. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/4 "2021-01-02T20:42:50Z")
None of them had won prior? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/5 "2021-01-02T20:55:23Z")
> [@journeyman\_southpaw](#): > > _Beau Geste_ (1939) and _Winged Victory_ (1944) have four future winners each. > > _Beau Geste_: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward and Broderick Crawford. > > _Winged Victory_: Edmond O’Brien, Red Buttons, Judy Holliday and Karl Malden. Four in THE LONGEST DAY: Sean Connery (who later got it for THE UNTOUCHABLES), John Wayne (TRUE GRIT), Rod Steiger (IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT), and Henry Fonda (ON GOLDEN POND). ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/6 "2021-01-02T21:30:23Z")
_Angels in the Outfield_, the 1994 version, had one active Oscar winner (Brenda Fricker) and two future winners (Adrien Brody, Matthew McConaughey) in its cast. Not to mention Danny Glover and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as well. Neal McDonough was also in that film. ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/7 "2021-01-02T22:31:15Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > None of them had won prior? Nope. Gary Cooper had been nominated for _Mr. Deeds Goes to Town_ but that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/8 "2021-01-02T23:19:37Z")
_The Thin Red Line_: George Clooney, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jared Leto. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/9 "2021-01-02T23:28:53Z")
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) also had 4 future Oscar winners (Max Von Sydow(Pelle the Conqueror, 1987), John Wayne(True Grit, 1969), Shelley Winters(A Patch of Blue, 1965), Martin Landau(Ed Wood, 1994) It also had a trio of prior Oscar winners- Charlton Heston, Joseph Schildkraut and Jose Ferrer . ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/10 "2021-01-02T23:33:09Z")
I remember this coming up before, but it’s been a looong time: > [@Movie with the most future Oscar winners](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/440242): > > I’m looking for the movie with the most FUTURE Oscar winners in it. Actors that may have been nominated but hadn’t won until after this movie came out. I also want to rule out movies that the cast won a bunch of Oscars for that specific movie. It’s harder than I thought to come up with one. I thought of Platoon, but only Oliver Stone and Forest Whitaker had won Oscars since then, and you could eliminate Stone b/c he won for adapted screenplay previously. Berenger, Dafoe, Johnny Depp, etc al… ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/11 "2021-01-03T02:45:52Z")
Winters won two oscars: Diary of Anne Frank, 1959, and A Patch of Blue, 1965. Nominated twice more. Shoulda won for A Place in the Sun. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/12 "2021-01-03T04:00:18Z")
Five for Woody Allen’s CELEBRITY: Leonardo DiCaprio, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, JK Simmons, and Charlize Theron. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/13 "2021-01-03T07:37:45Z")
_Godfather Part 2_ had Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Robert De Niro ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/14 "2021-01-03T12:59:02Z")
_The Stolen Jools_ had Gary Cooper, Victor McLaglen, Loretta Young, Wallace Beery, and Joan Crawford — along with Stan Laurel and Edward G. Robinson and Barbara Stanwyck and Maurice Chevalier and Buster Keaton, each of whom later got an honorary-award statuette. (Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers arguably counts too.) ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-the-most-future-oscar-winners/929532/15 "2021-01-03T18:16:41Z")
Yeah, I counted her as a “future Oscar winner” for purposes of the movie, as when it was released, she had yet to win her second Oscar (that same year for a different movie in fact).