TQOTD: Oscar Quiz

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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



Emma Thompson won an Oscar for Best Actress for Howard's End. (She also has a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Sense and Sensibility.) None of the others have won acting Oscars. They won for:

Mel Gibson: Best Director, and as producer, Best Picture for Braveheart
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon: Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting
Christine Lahti: Best Live-Action Short Film for Lieberman in Love
Clint Eastwood: Best Director, and as producer, Best Picture for Unforgiven
Kevin Costner: Best Director, and as producer, Best Picture for Dances With Wolves
Robert Redford: Best Director for Ordinary People

Source: IMdB.com

Comments

So much for women's history month

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

The only ones I didn't know were Christine Lahti and Emma Thompson for Howards End. Although you did trick me Cause I knew she one for her lousy adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.

Sidenote- did she not actually read sense and sensibility before she adapted it?!? Everyone in the entire movie is twenty years too old and she left out the most cinematic scene in the book! Shure Kate Winslet is cute as a button but that is not enough to base a film on!!!

Re: So much for women's history month

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Hey, I said I'd start off the month with a women's history question, I didn't say that was all I'd do! : > And Emma Thompson Is a women.... : > This is also the month of the Oscars, so I'll probably be doing a lot of Oscar questions. as well.

I actually liked Sense and Sensibility, but mainly because I got to drool over Alan Rickman.

Re: So much for women's history month

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

No no no. I meant so much for women's history because I knew all of the male oscar winners and what movie they won for but didn't know that Christine Lahti had won one nor that Emma Thompson had won for Howards End. I was criticizing my chauvanistic memory not you.

Sense and Sensibility would've been a fine movie if they hadn't made any pretense of being related to the book of the same name. On it's own, it was well acted and reasonably put together. I didn't find it completely un-enjoyable. It just had so very little to do with the actual book.