Well, it’s a simple, if weird, question…how many Academy Award winning actors and actresses have action figures modeled after them (Or, more accurately, character’s they’ve played)? I started thinking about this the other day when I realized that the “X-Men” movie’s series of figures included TWO academy award winners (Halle Berry, and Anna Paquin). Can anyone else think of any others?
Well, thanks for your patience,
Ranchoth
Kevin Spacey, kind of, for “Hopper” in A Bug’s Life.
Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Batman.
Alec Guiness has been immortalized in a number of Obi-Wan Kenobi figures; he’s won an Oscar for Bridge Over the River Kwai, among other things.
Can we expand “action figures” to any kind of doll? Then add Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Hattie McDaniel, and Olivia de Havilland from Gone With the Wind; and Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly from High Noon.
Quentin Tarantino doesn’t have an acting award, but he does have a 1994 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and he is available as an action figure in the Reservoir Dogs line.
Robert Forster didn’t win, but was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Jackie Brown. He is available as an action figure from the Black Hole movie, seen here.
Warren Beatty (Best Director, 1981) and Al Pacino (Best Actor, 1992) are both available as part of the Dick Tracy line, as Dick Tracy and Big Boy Caprice, respectively. Come to think of it, so is Dustin Hoffman (Best Actor, 1988 & 1979) as Mumbles.
The Alec Guinness/Obi-Wan Kenobi figure is notable because Guinness was actually nominated for an Oscar for that role as well. (He lost, to Jason Robards, I believe.)
William Hurt (Best Actor, 1985) is an action figure for the Lost In Space movie, but I’ll be damned if I can find a picture anywhere.
F. Murray Abraham (Best Actor, 1984) has a figure in the Star Trek line. So does Whoopi Goldberg (Best Supporting Actress, 1991).
Tommy Lee Jones (Best Supporting Actor, 1994) has action figures from two different movies: Batman Forever and Men In Black.
Angelina Jolie - (Best Supporting, for Girl, Interrupted 2000) has several Tomb Raider figures.
If Hopper counts for Kevin Spacey, then Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting 1998) has a Genie figure. (Maybe Jumanji, too, I’m not sure). And Jeremy Irons has Scar figures.
Were there figures for Superman, the Movie? If so: Gene Hackman.
Sean Connery has a (mini) Henry Jones Sr. Figure.
Mary Steenburgen might have a Back to the Future figure, I’m not sure.
Christopher Walken’s got a Sleepy Hollow figure, I think.
Louise Fletcher has a Star Trek figure.
Kim Basinger - There might be a figure of her as Vicky Vale from Batman 1.
Is there a figure or a doll of her as the Veronioca Lake look-alike from LA Confidential.
Was there any figures out for Gladiator, either Russell Crowe as the General Maximus or the Gladiator Maximus. If so, I wouldn’t mind having Russell Crowe in a Toga, or Armor.
I forgot,
There might be figures for that awful movie Hook.
Julia Roberts - Tinkerbell
Robin Williams - Peter Pan
Robert DeNiro - Captain Hook
I forgot,
There might be figures for that awful movie Hook.
Julia Roberts - Tinkerbell
Robin Williams - Peter Pan
Robert DeNiro - Captain Hook
Dustin Hoffman played Captain Hook.
Kevin Costner had a Robin Hood figure as well as Morgan Freeman.
Peter Cushing (dunno if he was a winner for sure) has a Star Wars figure.
Sigorney Weaver had an Aliens figure (“Aliens War” if you want to get technical)
There’s a couple more I’m sure, but I cant think of them right now. Were there any oscar winners in the movie Dune? They had action figures for that movie.
Peter Cushing and Sigourney Weaver never won Oscars.
