# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/21 "2019-10-19T17:28:01Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > 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. Alas, only a nomination, and not a win, but Seth MacFarlane and Walter Murphy (best known for his 1970s disco song “A Fifth of Beethoven”) were nominated for the song “Everybody Needs a Best Friend,” from _Ted_. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/22 "2019-10-19T17:40:59Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > 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. It also seems to be the best path to an [EGOT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_won_Academy,_Emmy,_Grammy,_and_Tony_Awards#Winners_of_all_four_awards). ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/23 "2019-10-19T18:30:50Z")
Kobe Bryant won for Best Animated Short last year. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/24 "2019-10-19T19:02:35Z")
I just learned that Taikia Waititi (sorry I probably butchered that) of Thor Ragnarok fame has one for a short he did. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/25 "2019-10-19T19:38:30Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Brett McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords has one for best original song. This I did not know. How cool. > [@Yodalicious](#): > > 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.” It’s true. I have to give credit to Phil Collins, he did a great job on that movie. Better than the movie, actually. > [@sciurophobic](#): > > Kobe Bryant won for Best Animated Short last year. True and kind of amazing. > [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I just learned that Taikia Waititi (sorry I probably butchered that) of Thor Ragnarok fame has one for a short he did. I knew about this and came in here to point it out. You beat me to it! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/26 "2019-10-20T17:23:27Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > It also seems to be the best path to an [EGOT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_won_Academy,_Emmy,_Grammy,_and_Tony_Awards#Winners_of_all_four_awards). The hard one for the grand slam is the Tony. ---
**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 20, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/27 "2019-10-20T18:09:31Z")
Actually, I think the Grammy is the one that makes it tough, particularly for a non-musical actor. Helen Hayes and John Gielgud received their Grammy awards for spoken word recordings. And then you have non-acting types like the choreographer Bob Fosse or the set designer Tony Walton, who have won the Tony, Emmy and Oscar but have no clear path to a Grammy. ---
**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 20, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/28 "2019-10-20T21:04:01Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Alas, only a nomination, and not a win, but Seth MacFarlane and Walter Murphy (best known for his 1970s disco song “A Fifth of Beethoven”) were nominated for the song “Everybody Needs a Best Friend,” from _Ted_. Another “alas,” but Adam Duritz and Counting Crows were nominated for “Best Original Song” for _Shrek 2_ tune “Accidentally In Love,” quite possibly the most upbeat and against-type song they’ve ever written, since Duritz is the most depressing son of a bitch on the face of the Earth. Johnny Cash would have told the man to lighten up. ---
**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 20, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/29 "2019-10-20T21:37:59Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > The hard one for the grand slam is the Tony. How many times have we seen somebody win a Nobel, a Hugo, and a Superbowl Ring and then fall short on the Tony? It’s practically become a cliche. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/30 "2019-10-20T22:45:52Z")
Three Six Mafia for the song “It’s hard out here for a pimp” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/31 "2019-10-20T22:59:24Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > 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. My first reaction was that Shaw must have been pissed, because the award was clearly for _Pygmalion_, for which they notably did NOT use the version he had written for the screen, and because THEY CHANGED THE ENDING!!! It turns out that he _was_ pissed, but for other reasons (although it was, indeed, for _Pygmalion_) > [@](#): > > Best Writing, Screenplay > Pygmalion (1938) > Shared with: > Ian Dalrymple > Cecil Lewis > W.P. Lipscomb > George Bernard Shaw was not present at the ceremony. When presenter Lloyd C. Douglas announced that Pygmalion has won the Oscar he joked “Mr. Shaw’s story now is as original as it was three thousand years ago”. Shaw’s reaction to the award was not enthusiastic as he is quoted as saying “It’s an insult for them to offer me any honour, as if they had never heard of me before - and it’s very likely they never have. They might as well send some honour to George for being King of England”. Although popular legend says Shaw never received the Oscar, when Mary Pickford visited him she reported that he was on his mantle. When Shaw died in 1950 his home at Ayot St Lawrence became a museum. By this time his Oscar statuette was so tarnished, the curator believed it had no value and used it as a door stop. It has since been repaired and is now on displayed at the museum. > **[George Bernard Shaw - Awards - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0789737/awards/)** > > George Bernard Shaw - Awards - IMDb - Awards, nominations, and wins > [@](#): > > Despite his contempt for Hollywood and its aesthetic values, Shaw was enthusiastic about cinema, and in the middle of the decade wrote screenplays for prospective film versions of Pygmalion and Saint Joan.[188][189] The latter was never made, but Shaw entrusted the rights to the former to the unknown Gabriel Pascal, who produced it at Pinewood Studios in 1938. Shaw was determined that Hollywood should have nothing to do with the film, but was powerless to prevent it from winning one Academy Award (“Oscar”); he described his award for “best-written screenplay” as an insult, coming from such a source.[190][n 23] > **[George Bernard Shaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw)** > > George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading d... ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/32 "2019-10-21T00:44:00Z")
Clint Eastwood has won two Oscars - _both_ for directing and _neither_ for acting. The films were “Unforgiven” (1992) and “Million Dollar Baby” (2004) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/33 "2019-10-21T01:14:52Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Clint Eastwood has won two Oscars - _both_ for directing and _neither_ for acting. > The films were “Unforgiven” (1992) and “Million Dollar Baby” (2004) He has four Oscars. But the other two are for producing the movies he won the directing awards for. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/34 "2019-10-21T01:55:20Z")
I was at a concert by Buffy Sainte Marie, a Saskatchewan First Nations singer-songwriter. As she was tuning her guitar she said: “Writing music is funny. It’s sort of like raising a little bird and letting it go into the world. You never know where it will end up.” “This one came home one day with an Oscar.” Then she sang “Up Where We Belong” from _An Officer and a Gentleman_. ---
**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 21, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/35 "2019-10-21T02:44:47Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I was at a concert by Buffy Sainte Marie, a Saskatchewan First Nations singer-songwriter. As she was tuning her guitar she said: > > “Writing music is funny. It’s sort of like raising a little bird and letting it go into the world. You never know where it will end up.” > > “This one came home one day with an Oscar.” > > Then she sang “Up Where We Belong” from _An Officer and a Gentleman_. I was unaware that Jack Nitzsche …who wrote with The Stones and did the soundtrack for The Razors Edge and Village of the Giants also won an AA for that same song. ---
**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 21, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/36 "2019-10-21T02:48:37Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > The hard one for the grand slam is the Tony. You’d think Bacharach would have one, but he only has the grammy and three Oscars. Guess ‘Promises Promises’ didn’t win enough awards. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/37 "2019-10-21T03:39:08Z")
If we’re mentioning nominations as well, try this one: What two regular cast members of _All in the Family_ have been nominated for Academy Awards? Rob Reiner, nominated as a producer for _A Few Good Men_, and Danielle Brisebois (who played Edith’s niece Stephanie in AitF’s last season), nominated for Best Original Song from _Begin Again_. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/38 "2019-10-21T04:02:05Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > He has four Oscars. But the other two are for producing the movies he won the directing awards for. Wow I was totally unaware of that. I stand corrected - and thank you **Mahaloth**. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/39 "2019-10-21T04:23:01Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Peter Capaldi, the twelfth Doctor, and top swearer Malcolm Tucker from _The Thick of It_ has an Oscar. I enjoyed the story he tells about being on the plane back to England and passing the Oscar around to all the passengers. Another Oscar winner for best short is Christine Lahti. She was nominated for Swing Shift but her win came from her short. > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Bruce Springsteen damn well deserved his best original song Oscar for Streets of Philadelphia. You will never convince me that the more deserving song was by Neil Young from the same movie. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/40 "2019-10-21T04:23:56Z")
William Zabka was nominated but did not win. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990.md?page=3)