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I want to look at some of the actors who fall in the curious category of being beloved enough, or having an undeniable enough performance, or just being in the right movie at the right time, to be able to win an Oscar on their very first nomination, but then were never able to (or at least in some cases, haven’t yet been able to) duplicate that enough to get another nomination.
- F. Murray Abraham
- Jack Albertson
- Don Ameche
- George Arliss
- Patricia Arquette
- Peggy Ashcroft
- Mary Astor
- Martin Balsam
- Lionel Barrymore
- Kim Basinger
- Warner Baxter
- Ed Begley
- Roberto Benigni
- Halle Berry
- Shirley Booth
- Ernest Borgnine
- Jim Broadbent
- Adrien Brody
- Yul Brynner
- George Burns
- Red Buttons
- Art Carney
- George Chakiris
- James Coburn
- Olivia Colman
- Jennifer Connelly
- Sean Connery
- Chris Cooper
- Broderick Crawford
- Donald Crisp
- Jane Darwell
- Sandy Dennis
- Michael Douglas
- Jean Dujardin
- Olympia Dukakis
- Patty Duke
- James Dunn
- Louise Fletcher
- Brenda Fricker
- Cuba Gooding Jr.
- Louis Gossett Jr.
- Joel Grey
- Van Heflin
- Charlton Heston
- Judy Holliday
- John Houseman
- Jennifer Hudson
- Josephine Hull
- Linda Hunt
- Kim Hunter
- Timothy Hutton
- Jeremy Irons
- Burl Ives
- Dean Jagger
- Allison Janney
- Emil Jannings
- Ben Johnson
- Shirley Jones
- Lila Kedrova
- George Kennedy
- Regina King
- Kevin Kline
- Brie Larson
- Cloris Leachman
- Jared Leto
- Paul Lukas
- Rami Malek
- Dorothy Malone
- Lee Marvin
- Marlee Matlin
- Matthew McConaughey
- Hattie McDaniel
- Ray Milland
- John Mills
- Mo’Nique
- Rita Moreno
- Haing S. Ngor
- David Niven
- Lupita Nyong’o
- Tatum O’Neal
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Anna Paquin
- Katina Paxinou
- Mary Pickford
- Donna Reed
- Tim Robbins
- Cliff Robertson
- Ginger Rogers
- Mercedes Ruehl
- Harold Russell
- Margaret Rutherford
- Mark Rylance
- Eva Marie Saint
- George Sanders
- Joseph Schildkraut
- J. K. Simmons
- Mira Sorvino
- Mary Steenburgen
- Beatrice Straight
- Tilda Swinton
- Miyoshi Umeki
- Jo Van Fleet
- Alicia Vikander
- Forest Whitaker
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
Some of the entries on this list are completely fascinating to me. There’s a few names on here that I always forget only have the one nomination, like Abraham, Connelly, Cooper, Douglas, Heston, Irons, Kline, Niven, Robbins, Swinton, and Whitaker.
Which, if any, of the actors on this list still working do you think are most likely to get a second nomination someday? I could easily see ones for Arquette, Berry, Colman, Connelly, Cooper, Irons, Janney, King, Larson, McConaughey, Nyong’o, Rylance, Simmons, Swinton, Vikander, and Whitaker, and don’t think it would be too much of a stretch to see it happening for some of the other names as well.
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