# People you may not know have an Oscar: **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2019, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990 "2019-10-19T06:06:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/1 "2019-10-19T06:06:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/2 "2019-10-19T06:57:46Z")
Peter Capaldi, the twelfth Doctor, and top swearer Malcolm Tucker from _The Thick of It_ has an Oscar. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/3 "2019-10-19T07:04:14Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > 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. That scene of her and the mirror still chills me to the bone. When she appears in the dream sequence, brrrr ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/4 "2019-10-19T07:04:42Z")
That short film also had her husband, one of my favorite Hollywood “that guys,” [Ray McKinnon](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0571964/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0). 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. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/5 "2019-10-19T08:13:29Z")
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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0ES5okUM2E). So maybe he has one of the two they received. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/6 "2019-10-19T09:44:10Z")
[Homer Simpson has one.](http://www.pajiba.com/assets_c/2018/01/Homer%20Simpsons%20Oscar-thumb-700x540-191439.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/7 "2019-10-19T09:48:01Z")
Brett McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords has one for best original song. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2019, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/8 "2019-10-19T10:28:08Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/9 "2019-10-19T11:38:21Z")
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.) ---
**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:** [October 19, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/10 "2019-10-19T12:01:40Z")
Actor Keith Carradine has an Oscar (and Golden Globe) for best original song. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/11 "2019-10-19T13:37:51Z")
Ditto Tim Rice Andrew Lloyd Webber for You Must Love Me from Evita, written for the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/12 "2019-10-19T13:49:38Z")
Mel Brooks He won for best original screenplay (_The Producers_) in 1969 ---
**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:** [October 19, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/13 "2019-10-19T14:17:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/14 "2019-10-19T14:42:04Z")
Phil Collins has an Oscar. _choke_ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/15 "2019-10-19T15:12:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/16 "2019-10-19T15:37:32Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/17 "2019-10-19T16:05:55Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > 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? [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture)says: > [@](#): > > As of 2014, the “Special Rules for the Best Picture of the Year Award” limit recipients to those who meet two main requirements:[11] > > ``` > Those with screen credit of "producer" or "produced by" > those three or fewer producers who have performed the major portion of the producing functions > > ``` > > The rules allow "bona fide team[s] of not more than two people to be considered to be a single ‘producer’ if the two individuals have had an established producing partnership for at least the previous five years and as a producing team have produced a minimum of five theatrically released feature motion pictures during that time.[11] ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/18 "2019-10-19T16:41:13Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Phil Collins has an Oscar. _choke_ 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.” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/19 "2019-10-19T17:21:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/20 "2019-10-19T17:26:32Z")
Bruce Springsteen damn well deserved his best original song Oscar for Streets of Philadelphia. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990.md?page=2)