TQOTD: Oscar Quiz

All of the actors listed below have won Oscars, but only one of them has won an Oscar for acting. Who was it? Bonus: Can you identify what the others won their Oscars for?

Mel Gibson
Ben Affleck
Christine Lahti
Clint Eastwood
Emma Thompson
Matt Damon
Kevin Costner
Robert Redford

( Well, they're all winners.... )

Old Movie Poll Results

A few weeks ago, I posted a poll about old movies. Here are the results:

As a group, people on my friends list strongly prefer (by two-thirds or more) musicals to film noir, Alfred Hitchcock to Frank Capra, Katherine Hepburn to Bette Davis, Jimmy Stewart to Cary Grant (and no one voted for Clark Gable at all), Bing Crosby to Frank Sinatra, and Humphrey Bogart to Spencer Tracy. We prefer Judy Garland to Marilyn Monroe, Rodgers and Hammerstein to Lerner and Lowe and (sob!) Gene Kelly to Fred Astaire. And we slightly prefer Buster Keaton to Charlie Chaplin -- that was the closest.

I'm not sure what conclusions one can draw from this: a seeming tendency towards sentimentality as evidenced by a preference for musicals, Jimmy Stewart and Rogers and Hammerstein is counterbalanced by a preference for Alfred Hitchcock and Humphrey Bogart.

This was fun.