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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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 Posted - 07/20/2006 : 12:23:04
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Still, you have to admit that O'Toole does have a very singular achievement. He is the only actor to play the same character (Henry II) in two totally unrelated films (one James Goldman play and screenplay and the other a Jean Anouilh play, Edward Anhalt, screenplay). What's more, he was nominated for Oscars for both performances (he won for only Lion in Winter) and that is something that's even more unlikely to happen ever again. I'd say its even rarer than two different actors getting even nominations for playing the same character.
Absolutely a rare achievement, no doubt about that. But at the risk of sounding like a broken record, it's even less likely that two actors could ever again win for playing the same role...
Well, we're both sounding like broken records, then. I guess I'm just more impressed with O'Toole and you're more impressed by the two wins for the same (non-Shakespearean*) characters. We'll just have to agree to disagree on which one we find more impressive.
(*By the way, if you think about it, with all the different versions of all the different Jane Austen stories, it could easily be possible for two actors to win for one of her characters in different movies. You never know... )
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RockGolf 
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."
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Posted - 07/26/2006 : 21:13:56
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Actually, O'Toole has never won a regular Oscar. Nominated 7 times. Never won.
Oscar trivia:
- People nominated for playing the same person in two different movies: Al Pacino (Michael Corleone, Godfather & Godfather II). Peter O'Toole.
- Different people winning for playing the same character: Marlon Brando & Robert DiNiro as Vito Corleone.
- I believe at least 2 people have been nominated for playing Queen Elizabeth I of England: Glenda Jackson (Mary, Queen of Scots) & Judi Dench (Shakespeare In Love), with Dench winning. Three others, playing her father Henry VIII were also nominated: Robert Shaw (A Man for All Seasons), Richard Burton (Anne of a Thousand Days), and Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII). Only Laughton won.
- Two people nominated for playing the same character in the same movie: Kate Winslet & Gloria Stuart as Rose in Titanic.
- I believe Cate Blanchett is the only person to win an Oscar playing a real-life Oscar winner: Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing a fictional Oscar loser in California Suite.
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MM0rkeleb 
"Better than HBO."
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Posted - 07/27/2006 : 01:37:27
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Originally posted by R o � k G o 1 f
I believe at least 2 people have been nominated for playing Queen Elizabeth I of England: Glenda Jackson (Mary, Queen of Scots) & Judi Dench (Shakespeare In Love), with Dench winning.
Cate Blanchett was also nominated for playing Elizabeth I in Elizabeth - in the same year Dench won for playing the same character. |
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