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hiama
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 03:16 am
Which is the odd man out :-

Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks.
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LarryBS
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 03:48 am
I can only think of Scorsese for not getting anything from the Academy, yet. I think the others won for Director or Picture, except Hitchcock who got some kind of apology award, maybe the Thalberg.
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hiama
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 03:57 am
Unbelievably Coppola is the only one of them to win the best director Oscar (so far)
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LarryBS
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 04:24 am
Wow thanks. I thought Hawks won for sure. I wonder if Kubrick ever got anything from the academy? Don't remember him ever getting an honorary award.
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hiama
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 05:41 am
Who has the most nominations for Best Director without a single win?
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 10:25 am
Hiama: I'll guess that the director with the most nominations without a win is Alfred Hitchcock. I don't think he ever got an Oscar.
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Equus
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 10:55 am
Yes, "Cavalcade" was right about the Titanic.
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hiama
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 04:50 pm
Reaggedy -you were very close:-

It was actually Clarence Brown who has 6 nominations and never won. A three way tie for second place exists between King Vidor, Alfred Hitchcock (who was eventually given an honorary award) and Robert Altman.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 05:24 pm
Ah, but not close enough Hiama. No million dollars for me. Crying or Very sad

Do you know the names of the two directors who won back-to-back Oscars, one in the 40s; one in the 50s?
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Booman
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 05:42 pm
Wow that's a helluva' lot of great pictures, that directed themselves huh? Shocked
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LarryBS
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 06:31 pm
Just a guess out of the blue, raggedy - Capra and Kazan?
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 06:46 pm
Not them, Larry. Do you want a hint?
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LarryBS
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 06:54 pm
Give me a few minutes first. Let me think. Did you mean one director in the 40s got consecutive oscars, and one in the 50s - or both of them got their first in the 40s and the second one in the 50s.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 07:02 pm
I thought that question was awkwardly phrased when I typed it. Laughing Thanks for rewording it for me. One director in the 40s got consecutive Oscars and one in the 50's got consecutive Oscars.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Fri 14 Mar, 2003 07:14 pm
Oh, good grief. I made a mistake. After you answer this one you may throw me out of the game. I deserve it. Embarrassed One director got consecutive Oscars in the 40s and, as I just discovered, the other director got his consecutive Oscars in the 40s and 50s. That certainly narrows the second part of the question down, doesn't it?
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LarryBS
 
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Reply Sat 15 Mar, 2003 01:54 am
I'll guess out of the blue again and say John Huston and Billy Wilder.
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hiama
 
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Reply Sat 15 Mar, 2003 03:24 am
No you're Ok Raggedy, we forgive you :

John Ford for Grapes of Wrath 1940 and How Green was my Valley 1941

and

Joseph Manciewicz for A Letter to Three Wives 1949 and All about Eve in 1950
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Sat 15 Mar, 2003 05:50 am
Yes to John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. My hint for John Ford would have been that he filmed nine of his movies in Monument Valley.

Thanks for the encouraging words, Hiama. Smile
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hiama
 
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Reply Sat 15 Mar, 2003 06:28 am
What four actors have each been nominated twice for playing the same character in two different movies?
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Sat 15 Mar, 2003 09:33 am
Great question, Hiama.
I'll guess :

Bing Crosby for Going My Way and Bells of St. Marys (Father O'Malley)
Paul Newman for The Hustler and The Color of Money (Fast Eddie)
Al Pacino for The Godfather and Godfather II ( Michael)

I'm thinking the fourth one might be an actress.
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