Sunday, July 15, 2012

IT'S COMPLETELY BAKED:  Fantastic trivia question via Edward Copeland: with the recent passing of Ernest Borgnine (Marty, 1961 1955) and now Celeste Holm (Gentleman's Agreement, 1947) today, who is now the longest-ago Oscar winner in each of the five major categories who's still living?

15 comments:

  1. Adam C.4:46 PM

    For Best Actress, it has to be Luise Rainer (The Good Earth, 1937). She's still chugging along at 100+.

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  2. Joseph J. Finn4:59 PM

    For director, I'm going to guess Mike Nichols (1968 for The Graduate).

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  3. Jordan5:02 PM

    For Best Actor, the name that popped into my head was Sidney Poitier (early 60's).  I asked my dad, he says Max Schell won it earlier.  Too lazy to look it up.

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  4. Joseph J. Finn5:07 PM

    Also, Marty was not 1961, it was mid-50s.

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  5. Corrected.  And Schell (Judgment at Nurenberg), Nichols, and Rainer are correct.  Poitier is older than Schell, but won later.

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  6. Adam C.7:11 PM

    1967, no?

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  7. Adam C.7:14 PM

    I cheated and looked up supporting actor/actress.  You might (and probably eventually would) guess the actress, but you probably wouldn't get the actor without the list of winners in front of you.

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  8. Joseph J. Finn7:31 PM

    Yep, I was off by a year.  1967 release.

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  9. John E.9:03 PM

    George Chakiris is still alive, I'd bet he's the earliest Supp. Actor winner. 

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  10. Whitey10:20 PM

    Olivia de Havilland would probably be runner up for Best Actress (1946 and 1949), since she turned 96 on July 1.

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  11. Adam C.6:56 AM

    Olivia would still lose out to her younger sister, Joan Fontaine (Suspicion, 1941).

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  12. Adam C.6:57 AM

    Yep, Chakiris is correct.

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  13. Joseph Finn10:34 AM

    In retrospect, the answer for Best Supporting is kind of obvious.

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  14. Joseph Finn10:34 AM

    <span>In retrospect, the answer for Best Supporting Actress is kind of obvious.</span>

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  15. Adam C.11:22 PM

    Should've been, at least.

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