These you probably know:
Michael Douglas’s first was as a producer on One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Brad Pitt as a producer, George Clooney (2) one as a producer.
Here’s an obscure one, Lisa Blount…the redhead in “Prince of Darkness” who goes through the mirror at the end. She had one for a short film she produced.
Peter Capaldi, the twelfth Doctor, and top swearer Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It has an Oscar.
That scene of her and the mirror still chills me to the bone. When she appears in the dream sequence, brrrr
That short film also had her husband, one of my favorite Hollywood “that guys,” Ray McKinnon.
Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy (for “Bridesmaids”) had a bit part in “The Life of David Gale,” which featured Oscar winners Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet. She was the goth girl who turned Oscar nominee Laura Linney’s house into a tourist attraction.
And oddly, although not listed as an Oscar winner, Walton Goggins received the Oscar with McKinnon and Blount and even gave a speech: The Accountant Wins Live Action Short: 2002 Oscars. So maybe he has one of the two they received.
Brett McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords has one for best original song.
Dean Pelton, from COMMUNITY — “Would That This Desk Were A Time Desk!” — was played by Jim Rash, who’s got one. (Uh, an Oscar, not a time desk.)
It always surprised me that the X-Men movies had two Oscar laureates, neither of whom was Ian McKellan nor Patrick Stewart. (They were Anna Paquin and Halle Berry.)
Actor Keith Carradine has an Oscar (and Golden Globe) for best original song.
Ditto Tim Rice Andrew Lloyd Webber for You Must Love Me from Evita, written for the movie.
Mel Brooks
He won for best original screenplay (The Producers) in 1969
People probably know Charlie Chaplin has honorary Oscars, but he also won a competitive Oscar for Best Original Score for Limelight in 1972 – twenty years after the film was originally released.
Phil Collins has an Oscar. choke
George Bernard Shaw has one for best adapted screenplay. For a long time, he was the only person with both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award.
Movies these days often show several people as “producer.” 12 Years a Slave had seven producers including Brad Pitt. Do all of them get credit for an Oscar if the film wins Best Picture?
Wikipediasays:
Not only is “You’ll Be In My Heart” a good song, the entire Tarzan soundtrack is great. Phil has two other nominations, “Two Hearts,” and “Against All Odds.”
Eminem, of course, has an Oscar. Best Original Song is a fountain of odd Oscar winners: Lionel Richie, Annie Lennox, Juicy J, Isaac Hayes, Bob Dylan.
Bruce Springsteen damn well deserved his best original song Oscar for Streets of Philadelphia.
