Joel and Ethan Coen, are the first siblings to win the directing honor for their movie No Country For Old Men, and only the second duo to share Hollywood's top filmmaking honor following Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for 1961's West Side Story.
The first, and only brother and sister to win acting Oscars were Lionel Barrymore, who won the Best Actor award for A Free Soul (1930/31), and Ethel Barrymore, who won the Best Supporting Actress award for None But the Lonely Heart (1944).
Jake and Maggie join other brother-sister acting nominees including Eric and Julia Roberts, and Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine. Julia won her Oscar, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Erin Brockovich, after back to back nominations for Steel Magnolias and Pretty Woman. Her brother Eric was first to get a nomination for nomination for his supporting role in Runaway Train (1985). Warren Beatty won for directing "Reds" while sister Shirley, got her first nomination in "Some Came Running" with Frank Sinatra in 1959, but it wasn't until 1983 that she finally won an Academy Award for "Terms of Endearment."
The only brothers nominated for acting Oscars were River Phoenix as Best Supporting Actor for Running on Empty (1988) and Joaquin Phoenix as Best Supporting Actor for Gladiator (2000).
The only mother-daughter duo to have won performance Oscars are Judy Garland (a special juvenile award winner) for The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Liza Minnelli (as Best Actress) for Cabaret (1972). Vincent Minnelli, Garland's husband and Minnelli's father, also won a Best Director Oscar for Gigi (1958).
Diane Ladd and Laura Dern are the first and only mother-daughter acting pair nominated for the same film in Oscar history. They both received nominations for Rambling Rose (1991). Add and Laura's father Bruce Dern was Oscar nominated Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) which. that makes them the only mother-father-daughter acting group with Oscar nominations.
Two pairs of sisters have competed against each other, nominated simultaneously, for the same Best Actress award. Joan Fontaine in Suspicion (1941) defeated sister Olivia de Havilland in Hold Back the Dawn (1941) Vanessa Redgrave for Morgan (1966) went up against her Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl (1966) with them both losing to Elizabeth Taylor. The only other sisters to have received acting Oscar nominations , supporting in this case, are Meg Tilly for Agnes of God (1985) and Jennifer Tilly for Bullets Over Broadway (1994).
Don't count out dads. Kirk Douglas was nominated three times; Champion (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and Lust for Life (1956) while his son Michael Douglas got a nom for Wall Street (1987). Another father son team was Raymond Massey received in a nomination for Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) and forty years later his son Daniel Massey for received his for Star!
Michael, Vanessa, and Lynn Redgrave are the only father-daughter-daughter group among acting nominees. Michael's single nomination was for Mourning Becomes Electra (1947).
And the father daughter combo? Well, Ryan O'Neal was nominated for Best Actor for Love Story (1970)and Tatum O'Neal for Best Supporting Actress for Paper Moon (1973). Jon Voight won for Best Actor for Coming Home (1978) and then daughter Angelina Jolie won Best Supporting Actress for Girl, Interrupted (1999). Acting great Henry Fonda won for Best Actor for On Golden Pond (1981) and while daughter Jane snagged two Best Actress awards for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). And the Fonda's made history as the only father-daughter duo nominated for the same film for On Golden Pond.
The Fonda's made history again as the only father-son-daughter Oscar nominees. Peter made that happen with his nomination as Best Actor for Ulee's Gold (1997).
This year's best picture nominee, Up in the Air, is the first time in 15 years that a father/son producing have been up for Best Picture. The last time was Mario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori for Il Postino in 1995.
There has been only one director in Oscar history to direct both his father and his daughter in Academy Award-winning performances. In 1948 John Huston directed his father, Walter Huston, to a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” Thirty-seven years later he directed his daughter Anjelica to a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in “Prizzi’s Honor.”
The Hustons are one of two families with three generations of Oscar winners. With Sofia Coppola’s win in 2003 for her original screenplay for “Lost in Translation,” the Coppolas became the second family to have three generations of Oscar winners, Carmine and Francis Ford preceded her.
But the family with most nominations and wins? The Newman's, and not Paul and Joanne.
Six members of the extended Newman family, have been responsible for much of the music you hear in movies. Brothers Alfred, Lionel and Emil and second generation Thomas, David and Randy(yup that Randy Newman) have earned a total of 81 nominations,with 11.
But if all my research is right, and I may have missed something, it looks like the Gyllenhaals have made their own Oscar history, being the only mother-daughter-son nominees.
But if all my research is right, and I may have missed something, it looks like the Gyllenhaals have made their own Oscar history, being the only mother-daughter-son nominees.
ReplyDeleteGreat research Special!
I think you missed a whole sentence. What were Eric and Julia Roberts nominated for??
ReplyDeleteWow, that is quite a history of families and Oscars. Thanks Special, for a very interesting post. Some of them I knew about, some I had long forgotten about, but a lot of them I didn't know about, like Garland's special Oscar.
ReplyDeleteMissing summat, thanks for noticing it, I think the sentence got eaten up as I was moving pictures around in the post. It is now fixed and Julia and Eric's noms are included.
ReplyDeleteInteresting stuff about the family ties. I see Ted has another letter that mentions Baby Tile today. The baby seems to be coming up with regular frequency now. They wont be able to keep him hidden for too much longer.
ReplyDeleteTook last night off as we went to see Avatar, then had drinks and a bite at the bar at our favorite restaurant. I love eating while sitting at a bar. Makes me feel cool. Anyway, about Avatar, I was blown away. First, it was my first full 3D movie, so that was a whole new experience. I'd seen bits and pieces in 3d, but never an entire film, and it was not used as a gimmick, but a natural element of the film. The acting was so-so, the plot corny and predictable, but the visuals on the screen made all of that incidental. It was a sight to behold and must be seen in 3d, on a big screen and with state of the art sound.
Now that I have seen 3d, I don't understand why Disney decided to leave POP in 2d. I think that will hurt its box office. Not sure what is involved to convert a film that was not shot that way, but Avatar has set a new visual benchmark, like it or not.
Avatar has set a new visual benchmark, like it or not.
ReplyDeleteIt has, but I still prefer good movies.
Dear Ted:
ReplyDeleteWe know that several of the most infamous Blind Vicers have children. How do these closeted parents expect the children to keep their secrets? I am especially asking about Baby Tile as he/she grows up, since the parents are both in the closet and/or with their beards. Will the child be in the dark like the public, too?
—Maybe now I know why celeb kids are nuts
Dear Best-Sellers to Be:
Darling, it's going to be a whole new generation of Mommie Dearests!
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"They wont be able to keep him hidden for too much longer."
ReplyDeletemaybe but if it's total BS.......
"It has, but I still prefer good movies."
ITA, Avatar shit.
I never dismiss movies whose message is about taking care of the environment as corny. I read this today and was shocked:
ReplyDelete"The Vatican newspaper and radio station are criticizing James Cameron’s 3-D blockbuster for flirting with the idea that worship of nature can replace religion – a notion the pope has warned against. They call the movie a simplistic and sappy tale, despite its awe-inspiring special effects.
“Not much behind the images” was how the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, summed it up in a headline.
Much of the Vatican criticism was directed at the movie’s central theme of man vs. nature.
L’Osservatore said the film “gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the worship of nature.” Similarly, Vatican Radio said it “cleverly winks at all those pseudo-doctrines that turn ecology into the religion of the millennium.”
So with this kind of mass thinking, now you know why the environment is in such a mess. Advocating respect and stewardship of nature, which I might add was given to us by a higher power, as many believe, is not worship, or something to be scoffed at. Western religions seem to miss this fact, sadly. Many cultures have respected the environment for centuries.
^^and dominate and destroy indigenous people of the countries they conquer - which Western religion as nauseatingly been a part of. A great message by James Cameron that has, over the years, been ignored, especially by Western religions.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm agreeing with you, Disgusted. lol. Alot of that went over my head.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what the Vatican is seeing as misplaced worship. I'm glad "green" is in. Besides, all of us have been entrusted with the earth and it is up to us to take care of it. And what the Vatican is neglecting to remember, maybe, is that anything can be turned into misplaced worship. Someone always has to be unhappy about something.
Booooooooo!!! Boo! Aw, lookit little Boo. Alas, to know the real whereabouts or cause of disappearance of Boo. It is probably in the top 3 or so Jake mysteries.
ReplyDeleteI love that set of pictures that that picture came from. He and his mom were fussing over that dog like crazy. Taking Boo in & out of that crate. And during the meal, Jake was just totally absorbed in that little dog.
And if anyone notices in that set of pictures, Jake holds Boo just like he would a baby. Just like a little baby. Very, very cute.
Anyway, thanks for putting up a picture of Boo today, Special. I think some day Boo needs his own post.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone else????????
Thanks (((((PG))))))
ReplyDeleteThe best guncle ever!
ReplyDeleteUncle Austin is best uncle too!
ReplyDeleteA term used by a family to describe their gay uncle. (mostly behind the uncle's back b/c he may not be out of the closet yet)
ReplyDeleteA noun used to identify a non-related gay male who is regarded as an "honorary uncle" by his friends and their children. Often used as a term of endearment.
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ReplyDeleteDear Ted:
ReplyDeleteNot up to date, so this question might be old news: Is Grey Goose Kevin Spacey?
—Jan
Dear 2009:
Definitely not. Goose has a sexy six-pack, which I'm pretty sure Spacey hasn't had since...forever.
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