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« Reply #766 on: May 06, 2024, 06:41:59 PM »

Bennett? Glad you asked. Roughly 15.
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« Reply #767 on: May 07, 2024, 10:19:42 AM »

Doh!  Forgot Fiennes.


Ralph Fiennes = 35


Schindlers List - 7

English Patient - 9

Prince of Egypt - 1

The Constant Gardener - 1

Wallace and Grommit: Curse of the Were Rabbit - 1

The Duchess - 1

The Hurt Locker - 6

The Reader - 1

Skyfall - 2

Grand Budapest Hotel - 4

Spectre - 1

No Time to Die - 1
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« Reply #768 on: May 07, 2024, 10:44:02 AM »

Generally movies racking up large numbers of Oscars seems to be a more recent phenomenon.  For one thing, award categories proliferated.  Most of the high numbers (approaching or at double digits) are mid-50s or later, with GWTW the exception, and most of those cluster post-80s AFAICT.  So Bernard Hill's cohort is mainly contemporary actors of high ubiquity.  Wonder if there are other non-household word actors like Hill lurking up in the thirties.
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« Reply #769 on: May 08, 2024, 03:27:55 PM »

Yeah, you need to be in at least three juggernauts to be in contention, and a bunch of one offs. I was thinking maybe Malden who had four movies with three or more Oscars (On the Waterfront 8, Patton 7, Streetcar! 4, How the West Was One 3) but no singles so he topped at 22. Brando had a couple solid performers, but Waterfront was his only huge one, leaving him at 23. O'Toole had 19 for his three BP winners (Last.Emperor 9, Larry of the Sands 7, Lion in Winter 3) but only two one offs, so 21.

Of course, we are talking about credited roles, or someone like Franklyn Farnum (non-exhaustive count: 52) or Bess Flowers (not even going to try) clearly wins. But the imdb entry "Sarah Siddon Award Guest (uncredited)" should not count. Though admittedly that knocks Ward Bond down.
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« Reply #770 on: May 08, 2024, 06:40:24 PM »

Bond deserves special mention, however, for starting life in Benkelman, Nebraska and getting as far as he did.  That is not too far from my ancestral land, and a sleepier little patch of dust is hard to find.

And then all those towering eminences, like James Stewart, who appear in films slathered with nominations but which reap only one win. Smith --> DC got 11 noms, and one win. (for a category, best original story, which was eliminated in 1956).  Or that cinematic poster child of Academy obtuseness, Rear Window, with four noms and zero wins. (On the Waterfront sucking all the oxygen from the room that year, becoming one of the early juggernauts)  Yeah, I would have thought Malden would rack up more than he did. 

Jack Lemmon is another one - an actor's actor who seems to have been more lauded by Cannes, BAFTA or the Golden Globes than the Academy.  AFAICT only in The Apartment does he get multiple counts on the ticker (5). 

An interesting romp through cinema history, thank you.  (not a valediction, just wanted to get that in)  I didn't look at Henry Fonda, but expect that would have a similar low count.  (another escapee from Nebraska)
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« Reply #771 on: May 08, 2024, 07:19:15 PM »

Since except in with movies that rhyme with "mabaret" the list of BP winners includes the movies with the most wins, looked up the actors with three or more BP winners. For credited roles, I am calling it for Fiennes.
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« Reply #772 on: May 08, 2024, 10:44:41 PM »

Fiennes looking good for it.

And I forgot Nicholson, who also has three BPs (and a ton of near misses)

The Departed, Terms of Endearment, and One Flew Over. 

Alas, that means that asylum resident Billy Bibbit may end with higher numbers than RP  McMurphy, since Bibbit (Brad Dourif) was in at least two LOTR films.

If one ran this number game on nominations, Mr Gittes might be a contender. 

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« Reply #773 on: May 09, 2024, 10:47:26 AM »

Fiennes looking good for it.

And I forgot Nicholson, who also has three BPs (and a ton of near misses)

The Departed, Terms of Endearment, and One Flew Over. 

Alas, that means that asylum resident Billy Bibbit may end with higher numbers than RP  McMurphy, since Bibbit (Brad Dourif) was in at least two LOTR films.

If one ran this number game on nominations, Mr Gittes might be a contender. 

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Jack is at 21. Dourif was not in the theatrical cut of Return of the King, so he is stuck with the 5 from Cuckold's Nest, plus a few other scattered among Two Towers, Missississippippi Burning and Bride of Chucky 2.
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« Reply #774 on: May 09, 2024, 10:49:59 AM »

So that autocorrected Dourif to during, Chucky to Chuck and Cuckoo to Cuckold. But it let Missississippippi through.
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« Reply #775 on: May 09, 2024, 06:32:24 PM »

A river reallly runs through that.

BTW, an honorable mention to Jack Hawkins who managed a score of 27 whilst dying in 1973 at age 62 and never going anywhere near a CGI.

Ben Hur   11

Bridge/Kwai  7

Larry of Sands  7

Nicholas and Alexandra 2



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Colin Firth,  24

Speer schutteln im Liebe   7

English Patient 9

The Kings Peach 4

1917                 3

Barbie              1
(cameo, as Darcy)(a stretch, it being a clip, but he does speak)

So, will just make this observation.  Fiennes and Firth are both in their early sixties, in seeming good health and looking like the sort of durable Limey that can easily make it to 90 before considering retirement.  Fiennes could say on top for a while, or be surpassed by the 49 year old DiCaprio who also seems in it for the long haul, or by Firth as a longshot.  Perhaps in a Bridget Jones The Musical that takes Tinseltown by storm, shortly after Fiennes and DiCaprio both perish in tragic gardening accidents.  Or possibly Fiennes in a gardening accident and DiCaprio in a drinking accident. 



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« Reply #776 on: May 09, 2024, 06:40:04 PM »

Surely one of those Scorsese films will hit big. Leo's upcoming projects include a PTA film, a Scorsese helmed TR biopic and another where he plays I presume THE Jim Jones. Sounds like a lot of Oscar bait. He could overtake Fiennes's 36 - your list omitted Henry Sugar.
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« Reply #777 on: May 10, 2024, 10:39:19 AM »

Yes, Fiennes is more a rat catcher when it comes to film roles.  Moriarty, Harry Waters, Voldemort, Nazi commandant, the psycho in Red Dragon...

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« Reply #778 on: May 10, 2024, 11:42:06 AM »

Yes, Fiennes is more a rat catcher when it comes to film roles.  Moriarty, Harry Waters, Voldemort, Nazi commandant, the psycho in Red Dragon...
He should have won the Oscar for his delivery of "YOU'RE an inanimate fucking object" alone.
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« Reply #779 on: May 12, 2024, 08:51:07 AM »

I only hope the cause of death was by being attacked by crab monsters.

Roger Corman, Hollywood Mentor And 'King Of The Bs,' Dies At 98
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roger-corman-hollywood-dies-98_n_66402c3de4b0866a5b2c088f
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