# Power couples / award wins **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-couples-award-wins/722376 "2015-06-12T18:45:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-couples-award-wins/722376/1 "2015-06-12T18:45:01Z")
Has a married couple ever won Oscars at the same time – that is, on the same night? How about Emmys? Tonys? ---
**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:** [June 12, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-couples-award-wins/722376/2 "2015-06-12T21:35:24Z")
John and Faith Hubley shared a best animated short subject Oscar in 1959. I would think other production teams had spouses winning together. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-couples-award-wins/722376/3 "2015-06-12T21:43:02Z")
Joel Coen and Frances McDormand both won Oscars for _Fargo._ ---
**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:** [June 12, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-couples-award-wins/722376/4 "2015-06-12T23:32:48Z")
William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett won matching Emmys for _St Elsewhere_ on the same night, roughly twenty years after Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne did likewise with their performances in _The Magnificent Yankee_. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-couples-award-wins/722376/5 "2015-06-13T01:11:32Z")
On further research, John and Faith Hubley shared three Oscars – 1959, 1962, and 1966. Betty Comdon and Adolf Green won Tonys for their scores to _Hallelujah, Baby!_, _On the 20th Century_, and _The Will Rogers Follies._ ---
**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:** [June 13, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-couples-award-wins/722376/6 "2015-06-13T01:24:52Z")
_Master Class_ earned Tonys for actress Zoe Caldwell and producer Robert Whitehead. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-couples-award-wins/722376/7 "2015-06-13T02:32:39Z")
Other married couple collaborators who won Oscars in the same year and category: Dante Ferretti & Francesca Lo Schiavo, 3 times (Best Art Direction) Alan & Marilyn Bergman, 3 times (2 for Song and 1 for Score) Julia & Michael Phillips (Best Picture, _The Sting_) Richard & Lili Fini Zanuck (Best Picture, _Driving Miss Daisy_) Muriel & Sydney Box (Best Screenplay, _The Seventh Veil_) Earl & Pamela Wallace (Best Screenplay, _Witness_) Edward & Edna Anhalt (Best Story, _Panic in the Streets_) Christina Innis & Bob Murawski (Best Editing, _The Hurt Locker_) Kristina Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (Best Song, _Frozen_) Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh both won 3 Oscars for _LOTR:ROTK_, 2 in the same category (Picture, Screenplay) and 1 different from the other (Director and Song, respectively) Holly Hunter won Best Actress for **The Piano** the same year Janusz Kaminski won Best Cinematography for **Schindler’s List**. They would marry a year later but weren’t spouses at the time. Similarly, John Toll and Lois Burwell both won Oscars for **Braveheart** (Cinematography & Makeup, respectively) but wouldn’t marry until 2 years later. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-couples-award-wins/722376/8 "2015-06-15T21:33:29Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh …are not married. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.