# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/81 "2019-11-02T01:50:45Z")
Close and Adams are pretty good choices for most snubbed. Robert Redford never won an Oscar for acting, which I think might surprise a lot of people. He won one for directing. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/82 "2019-11-03T21:20:02Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Glenn Close has her beat with seven nominations. She was favored to win for The Wife a couple of years ago, but didn’t. That was earlier this calendar year (though yes, it _did_ feel like a long time ago, didn’t it?) ---
**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:** [November 3, 2019, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/83 "2019-11-03T22:13:12Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Casey Affleck. How he has an Oscar and Denzel Washington doesn’t is one of the great mysteries of the universe. He is a totally unremarkable actor, and “Manchester by the Sea” did absolutely nothing for me. I believe the Afflecks and Matt Damon have four Oscar wins among them. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/84 "2019-11-03T22:17:03Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I believe the Afflecks and Matt Damon have four Oscar wins among them. Yep. 2 for Ben. 1 for Casey. 1 for Matt. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/85 "2019-11-04T00:41:12Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I believe the Afflecks and Matt Damon have four Oscar wins among them. But only Casey Affleck’s Oscar was for acting, and while they have four statuettes, they only have three Oscars in the sense of winning three awards in a category; Damon and Ben Affelck won an Oscar for the same thing, writing “Good Will Hunting.” ---
**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:** [November 4, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/86 "2019-11-04T14:51:03Z")
Estelle Parsons, best know for playing Roseanne’s mother Beverly Harris won an Oscar for her portrayal of Bonnie & Clyde’s Blanche Barrow in 2967, and was nominated the following year for her portrayal of Calla Mackie in Rachel Rachel. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/87 "2019-11-05T21:20:57Z")
Hal Ashby. Not for directing. For editing **In the Heat of the Night.** ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/88 "2019-11-05T21:45:48Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Not a person, but the movie \* Bill and Coo\* won a special honorary Oscar I 1948. It’s a movie starring birds, with no people in it. Really. And it’s not a documentary: > > [Bill and Coo (1948) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039188/) Thanks for that. Now I’ve got to watch it.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/89 "2019-11-05T21:54:21Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > But only Casey Affleck’s Oscar was for acting, and while they have four statuettes, they only have three Oscars in the sense of winning three awards in a category; Damon and Ben Affelck won an Oscar for the same thing, writing “Good Will Hunting.” William Goldman wrote that script. :mad: Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [February 4, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990/90 "2020-02-04T03:59:43Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > William Goldman wrote that script. Is that a whoosh? I know Goldman said he wrote the script but he also made it clear that he was joking when he said this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-may-not-know-have-an-oscar/841990.md?page=4)