The Academy Awards sometimes sees double
Scarlett Johansson is the latest double nominee in a line of luminaries.
This year, Scarlett Johansson is up for her first Oscar – make that Oscars, plural.
The actress is nominated for both lead and supporting actress at the Academy Awards (ABC, Feb. 9, 8 p.m. EST/5 PST) for playing two distinct, compassionate mothers in “Marriage Story” and “Jojo Rabbit.” The last time an actor received nominations for two films in the same year was more than a decade ago.
Who else has been a double nominee? Here’s a look at the 11 other celebrated actors who were on the ballot twice.
2008: Cate Blanchett
Blanchett has won two Oscars, but she was 0-for-2 in 2008. That year, she was nominated for playing two rather different real people: Queen Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (best actress) and Bob Dylan in “I’m Not There” (supporting actress).
2005: Jamie Foxx
Foxx never has been up for just one Academy Award. The sole year he was nominated (2005), he won best actor for embodying musician Ray Charles in “Ray” while also being nominated for supporting actor as Tom Cruise’s cab driver in “Collateral.”
2003: Julianne Moore
Moore went on to win an Oscar for “Still Alice” in 2015, after competing (and losing) in both the lead and supporting actress categories in 2003. The roles: housewives with complicated lives below the surface in “Far From Heaven” and “The Hours.”
1994: Emma Thompson
She was nominated for playing both the romantic lead in “The Remains of the Day” and a supporting character, a lawyer, in “In the Name of the Father.” Thompson didn’t take home Oscars in 1994, but did in 1993 for lead actress and 1996 for screenplay.
1994: Holly Hunter
The actress Oscar field was a bit smaller than usual in 1994, as Thompson and Hunter were nominated in both the lead and supporting categories. Hunter wound up winning best actress for starring as a mute mother in “The Piano.” Her “Piano” daughter, Anna Paquin, won supporting actress. Hunter also was nominated for supporting actress in “The Firm.”
1993: Al Pacino
Pacino is nominated for the ninth time this year, for supporting actor in “The Irishman.” He has just one nomination this year, but in 1993 he won best actor for “Scent of a Woman,” while also competing for supporting actor in “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
1989: Sigourney Weaver
Weaver was nominated for three Oscars in the same number of years. In 1987, she was up for best actress for “Aliens,” and in 1989 she was nominated for both leading and supporting categories for “Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey” and “Working Girl,” respectively. So far, she hasn’t taken home the Academy Award.
1983: Jessica Lange
She’s been nominated for best actress five times. Lange won the first time she was in contention, for her supporting role opposite Dustin Hoffman in “Tootsie,” but she also was nominated that year for lead actress as Frances Farmer in “Frances.”
1945: Barry Fitzgerald
Lange’s double nomination came nearly 40 years after Fitzgerald was up for both best actor and supporting actor. But here’s what was particularly unusual about Fitzgerald’s nominations: They were for the same role. After Fitzgerald won best supporting actor in “Going My Way” (and lost lead actor for the same character), the Academy changed its voting rules to prevent double nominations for the same role.
1943: Teresa Wright
Wright was nominated for best supporting actress in 1942 for “The Little Foxes,” and then won the category in 1943 for “Mrs. Miniver.” In the latter year, she was also up for best actress for “The Pride of the Yankees.”
1939: Fay Bainter
Bainter was the first person to ever receive double acting nominations. She was in contention twice in 1939, for her leading role in “White Banners” and her supporting role in “Jezebel,” which she won.