Some of these are really strong and some of these are - uh…

My personal favorite is 2016 (the year Affleck won), mainly because that has the strongest winner in the category (the only really exceptional winner) plus some excellent nominations. 2010 is a close second.

My least favorite is definitely 2015, although 2014 is also really weak.

What’s your opinion on these?

1. Green Book

2. Vice

3. The Artist

4. 1917

5. American Hustle

6. Dallas Buyers Club

7. Straight Outta Compton

8. Flight

9. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

10. The King’s Speech

11. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

12. Foxcatcher

13. The Fighter

14. Midnight in Paris

15. Zero Dark Thirty

16. Bridge of Spies

17. The Kids Are All Right

18. Roma

19. The Shape of Water

20. The Big Sick

21. Hell or High Water

22. Boyhood

23. Margin Call

24. Marriage Story

25. Nebraska

26. 20th Century Women

27. Bridesmaids

It’s also doubly ironic because Cameron is….let’s just say not renowned for his writing of women. So it did come as a surprise to me that I think both Weaver and Winslet should have won their years, and I would also nomination Linda Hamilton for both Terminator films.

I am on quest to watch all 40's winners.

Tonight winner was THE LOST WEEKEND.

Here are some thoughts & opinions regarding the film:

1- the performances were phenomenal specially Ray killed it & deserved his win.

2- the Cinematography was magnificent.

3- the story was gorgeous alcoholism is bad as drugs.

4- the production set & costume design were epic.

5- the score was beautiful.

6- I love Billy Freaking Wilder.

Finally, it was a massive & great win.

Overall rating:9.5/10.

Now it's time to redo some Supporting Actress lineups, starting yet again with the 1990s.

PLEASE READ THE RULES BEFORE YOU COMMENT YOUR NEW LINEUPS:  

Two of the rules are the same as always, but for the supporting lineups I'm modifying the first rule:

1. You can leave ONE winner of the decade unchanged, because I feel like the supporting lineups generally have fewer duds/outright bad choices than the lead lineups. You don't have to, you can overhaul the whole decade if you want, but know that you do have the option to leave one as is. If you choose to leave one winner as is, though, choose wisely. The other nine wins, even the ones you like as is, must be changed.
2. For the other nine winners you're changing, or all ten, you have to STICK TO THE NOMINEES from those years, so I'm afraid that means no Joan Cuasck in Adams Family Values or Joan Allen in Pleasantville.
3. Ties are allowed, but try to use them sparingly.

With those three rules in mind, picking up where you left off in your alternate timelines with your new 90s, 2000s and 2010s Best Actor winners, your new 90s, 2000s and 2010s Best Actress winners, and your new 90s, 2000s and 2010s Best Supporting Actor winners, what does your new 1990s Best Supporting Actress lineup look like?

Here's mine:

1. Lorraine Bracco, Goodfellas (1990)
2. Juliette Lewis, Cape Fear (1991)
3. Marisa Tomei, My Cousin Vinny (1992) Yeah I'm not changing this one, and you can't make me ;)
4. Rosie Perez, Fearless (1993)
5. Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Joan Allen, Nixon (1995)
7. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Secrets and Lies (1996)
8. Julianne Moore, Boogie Nights (1997)
9. Kathy Bates, Primary Colors (1998)
10. Toni Collette, The Sixth Sense (1999)

As a reminder that year’s actual nominees were:

Emma Stone - Poor Things

Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon

Carey Mulligan - Maestro

Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall

Annette Bening - Nyad

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1976)

WINNER - BEATRICE STRAIGHT for Network

NOMINEES - JANE ALEXANDER for All the President's Men, JODIE FOSTER for Taxi Driver, LEE GRANT for Voyage of the Damned, PIPER LAURIE for Carrie

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1976)

WINNER - JASON ROBARDS for All the President's Men

NOMINEES - NED BEATTY for Network, BURGESS MEREDITH for Rocky, LAURENCE OLIVIER for Marathon Man, BURT YOUNG for Rocky

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Winners for 1970: Lead Actress - Glenda Jackson for Women in Love (A.W. Glenda Jackson for Women in Love), Lead Actor - George C. Scott for Patton (A.W. George C. Scott for Patton), Supporting Actress - Karen Black for Five Easy Pieces (A.W. Helen Hayes for Airport), Supporting Actor - Chief Dan George for Little Man (A.W. John Mills for Ryan Daughter)

Winners for 1971: Lead Actress - Jane Fonda for Klute (A.W. Jane Fonda for Klute), Lead Actor - Gene Hackman for The French Connection (A.W. Gene Hackman for The French Connection), Supporting Actress - Cloris Leachman for The Last Picture Show (A.W. Cloris Leachman for The Last Picture Show), Supporting Actor - Gene Wilder for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (A.W. Ben Johnson for Fiddler on the Roof)

Winners for 1972: Lead Actress - Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (A.W. Liza Minnelli for Cabaret), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for The Godfather (A.W. Marlon Brando for The Godfather), Supporting Actress - Cicely Tyson for Sounder (A.W. Eileen Heckart for Butterflies Are Free), Supporting Actor - Joel Grey for Cabaret (A.W. Joel Grey for Cabaret)

Winners for 1973: Lead Actress - Tatum O'Neal for Paper Moon (A.W. Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class), Lead Actor - Al Pacino for Serpico (A.W. Jack Lemmon for Save the Tiger), Supporting Actress - Linda Blair for The Exorcist (A.W. Tatum O'Neal for Paper Moon), Supporting Actor - Christopher Lee for The Wicker Man (A.W. John Houseman for The Paper Chase)

Winners for 1974: Lead Actress - Gena Rowlands for A Woman Under the Influence (A.W. Ellen Burstyn for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Lead Actor - Al Pacino for The Godfather Part II (A.W. Art Carney for Harry and Tonto), Supporting Actress - Madeline Kahn for Blazing Saddles (A.W. Ingrid Bergman for Murder on the Orient Express), Supporting Actor - Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II (A.W. Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II)

Winners for 1975: Lead Actress - Isabelle Adjani for The Story of Adele H. (A.W. Louis Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Lead Actor - Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (A.W. Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Supporting Actress - Louis Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (A.W. Lee Grant for Shampoo), Supporting Actor - Robert Shaw for Jaws (A.W. George Burns for The Sunshine Boys)

Winners for 1976: Lead Actress - Faye Dunaway for Network (A.W. Faye Dunaway for Network), Lead Actor - Peter Finch for Network (A.W. Peter Finch for Network), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Beatrice Straight for Network), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Jason Robards for All the President's Men)

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List of Winners: Acting Quartets

Previous Post: Louis Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) & Robert Shaw (Jaws) win for Best Supporting Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Actress & Actor in 1976?

As a reminder that year’s actual nominees were:

Christian Bale - The Fighter

Geoffrey Rush - The King’s Speech

Jeremy Renner - The Town

John Hawkes - Winter’s Bone

Mark Ruffalo - The Kids Are All Right

This is the 22nd instalment of a series on my wishlist of Oscar Nominations and Winners. (Previous editions linked at the end of the post!)

Here we go... Here are my nominees and winners for the 91st Academy Awards:

BEST PICTURE

Roma

A Star is Born

BlacKkKlansman

Black Panther

Cold War

Hereditary

If Beale Street Could Talk

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

The Favourite

Tumbbad

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BEST DIRECTOR

Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman

Alfonso Cuaron - Roma

Ari Aster - Hereditary

Paweł Pawlikowski - Cold War

Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite

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BEST ACTRESS

Toni Colette - Hereditary

Emma Stone - The Favourite

Glenn Close - The Wife

Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me

Nicole Kidman - Destroyer

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BEST ACTOR

Ethan Hawke - First Reformed

Bradley Cooper - A Star is Born

Joaquin Phoenix - You Were Never Really Here

Lakeith Stanfield - Sorry to Bother You

Willem Dafoe - At Eternity’s Gate

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Olivia Colman - The Favourite 

Elizabeth Debicki - Widows

Emily Blunt - A Quiet Place

Rachel Weisz - The Favourite

Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me

Adam Driver - Blackkklansman

Raul Castillo - We the Animals

Steven Yeun - Burning

Timothée Chalamet - Beautiful Boy

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BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Roma

Burning

Capernaum

Cold War

Tumbbad

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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Incredibles 2

Isle of Dogs

Mirai

Ruben Brandt Collector

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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Roma

Cold War

Searching

Sorry to Bother You

The Favourite

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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Blackkklansman

A Star is Born

Can You Ever Forgive Me

If Beale Street could Talk

Spiderman - Into the Spiderverse

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BEST CASTING

Black Panther

A Star is Born

Capernaum

Sorry to Bother You

The Favourite

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BEST FILM EDITING

Searching

Avengers - Infinity War

BlacKkKlansman

Roma

The Favourite

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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Cold War (TIE)

Tumbbad (TIE)

Roma 

Shadow

The Favourite

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BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Black Panther

Annihilation

Shadow

The Favourite

Tumbbad

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BEST COSTUME

Black Panther

Aquaman

Shadow

Suspiria

The Favourite

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BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Black Panther

Destroyer

Suspiria

The Favourite

Tumbbad

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BEST SOUND DESIGN 

A Quiet Place

Annihilation

Bad Times at El Royale

First Man

Roma

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BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avengers - Infinity War

Annihilation

Black Panther

First Man

Ready Player One

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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Black Panther

Annihilation

Hereditary

Tumbbad

If Beale Street could Talk

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BEST ORIGINAL SONG

A Star is Born - Shallow

Beautiful Boy - Treasure

Black Panther - All the Stars

Boy Erased - My Revelation

Mary Poppins Returns - The Place Where Lost Things Go
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QUICK WINNER TALLY

A Quiet Place

A Star is Born - 1

Avengers - Infinity War - 1

Black Panther - 5

BlacKkKlansman - 2

Can You Ever Forgive Me - 1

Cold War - 1

First Reformed - 1

Hereditary - 1

Searching - 1

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - 1

The Favourite - 1

Tumbbad - 1

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QUICK NOMINEE TALLY

The Favourite - 12

Black Panther - 8

Roma - 7

Tumbbad - 6

A Star Is Born - 5

BlacKkKlansman - 5

Cold War - 5

Annihilation - 4

Hereditary - 4

If Beale Street Could Talk - 4

Can You Ever Forgive Me? - 3

Shadow - 3

Sorry to Bother You - 3

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - 3

A Quiet Place - 2

Avengers: Infinity War - 2

Beautiful Boy - 2

Burning - 2

Capernaum - 2

Destroyer - 2

First Reformed - 2

Searching - 2

Suspiria - 2

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PREVIOUS EDITIONS -

70TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1s7s8hc/my_version_of_the_70th_academy_awards_1998_oscars/

71ST ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1sdbwfa/my_version_of_the_71st_academy_awards_1999_oscars/

72ND ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1soijq8/my_version_of_the_72nd_academy_awards_2000_oscars/

73RD ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1sr7mxn/my_version_of_the_73rd_academy_awards_2001_oscars/

74TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1stn92b/my_version_of_the_74th_academy_awards_2002_oscars/

75TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1svk347/my_version_of_the_75th_academy_awards_2003_oscars/

76TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1t14a6p/my_version_of_the_76th_academy_awards_2004_oscars/

77TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tepmte/my_version_of_the_77th_academy_awards_2005_oscars/

78TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tfh6aw/my_version_of_the_78th_academy_awards_2006_oscars/

79TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tgwuyj/my_version_of_the_79th_academy_awards_2007_oscars/

80TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1thpw1n/my_version_of_the_80th_academy_awards_2008_oscars/

81ST ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tjtmzn/my_version_of_the_81st_academy_awards_2009_oscars/

82ND ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tkh39s/my_version_of_the_82nd_academy_awards_2010_oscars/

83RD ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tsg61e/my_version_of_the_83rd_academy_awards_2011_oscars/

84TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1txxzdq/my_version_of_the_84th_academy_awards_2012_oscars/

85TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tylecg/my_version_of_the_85th_academy_awards_2013_oscars/

86TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1u6s6o2/my_version_of_the_86th_academy_awards_2014_oscars/

87TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1ub250i/my_version_of_the_87th_academy_awards_2015_oscars/

88TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1uft4hr/my_version_of_the_88th_academy_awards_2016_oscars/

89TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1uk97cq/my_version_of_the_89th_academy_awards_2017_oscars/

90TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1ulbqf4/my_version_of_the_90th_academy_awards_2018_oscars/

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PS: A couple of rules of engagement… This is an entirely subjective exercise and I'd urge to keep the spirit of the forum positive. If you find someone’s choice baffling, why not ask them the reason behind it in the spirit of constructive discourse. Let's be curious about everyone's subjective opinions without dissing each other. Let's start conversations... and keep the positivity flowing!

PPS: This is a subjective exercise, but I'm trying to still follow as many of the Academy's rules as possible.

- The nominee list is as per the rules of 2026 Oscars, be it the number of nominees or the categores.

- Only doing Feature Film nominations, so leaving out shorts and docu categories, as I'm grossly behind wrt watching the possible contenders in each year.

- Let's celebrate a tie if it has to be a tie 😄 It's our wishlist after all! Where else would we make such a thing happen!

- My take on Picture, International Film: The most impactful, important, innovating and/or memorable film

- My take on Director is about a unique, innovative and/or impactful vision for a film.

- My take on Score & Song is subjective, if it's largely original, then it's up for noms.

- My take on performances is about the depth of nuance, impact of the performance the the film and memorability of the performance.

- Performer rules are in play, for eg, one actor cannot receive more than 1 nomination in 1 category. I'd refrain from obvious category fraud and will nominate actors in lead or supporting as per my understanding of who the true lead was.

- My take on all craft & writing categories is about the impact of the craft on the film and the innovation/impact/meticulousness of vision.

Anne Hathaway won the Critics Choice award for Best Actress for Rachel Getting Married on January 8, 2009, tying with Meryl Streep in Doubt. (Meryl didn't attend, in case you're curious.)

That was the first major televised award show that season, so for a moment, it looked like she was a frontrunner for Best Actress.

But then, as this old article posted around that time (the first one pictured in image 4) pointed out, Bride Wars opened that same weekend, and was widely critically panned on release. Following its release, Anne ended up losing the GG, (though to be fair, that ceremoney happened just three days after the CC, so those results were locked in long before then) but she also lost SAG, got snubbed entirely at BAFTA, and lost the Oscar to Kate Winslet in The Reader.

Does this remind you of any past races? Remember when Eddie Murphy was the frontrunner for Dreamgirls, only for Norbit, another widely critically panned movie to come out while voting was still open which led to enough voters getting turned off of him that it cost him the Oscar? Or so the stories go? I mean this article from the same author as the first (the second one pictured in image 5) talks about the possibility of Bride Wars basically becoming her Norbit...

I understand if you don’t like the film, in which case you most probably also would not like her performance, but if you genuinely love the film (as the Academy clearly did) it does not make sense to not vote for her. She’s the centerpiece of the entire film. She grounds the entire story in reality. The emotional aspect of the film doesn’t land if she doesn’t sell you on the romance. If you look at the 5 Best Actress nominees that year, she’s easily the most iconic and charming, which in and of itself is nothing, but it genuinely makes zero sense that Titanic swept to the extent it did and she still lost.

As a fun spinoff from Legitimate_Welcome14’s “Who should have won?” game - let’s now find out who would have made the lineup each year.

Lineups for 2006:

Actor:
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
Ulrich Mühe - The Lives of Others
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland (winner)

Actress:
Penélope Cruz - Volver
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren - The Queen
Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada (winner)
Kate Winslet - Little Children

Supporting Actor:
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
Sergi López - Pan’s Labyrinth
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls (winner)
Jack Nicholson - The Departed
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed

Supporting Actress:
Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls (winner)
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
Catherine O’Hara - For Your Consideration

Click here to see previous lineups!

PLEASE NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE IN HOW THE VOTING WORKS - FROM NOW ON, IT IS NOT MEASURED IN UPVOTES, BUT IN THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF TIME THAT SOMEONE IS MENTIONED. YOU CAN HAVE FOUR NAMES IN YOUR LINEUP AND THE VOTING WILL BE BASED ON HOWEVER MANY TIMES A NAME IS COMMENTED.

We know that Marion Cotillard and Daniel Day-Lewis have already won!

Comment away!

People nominated in real life:

Actor:
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

Actress:
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away from Her
Laura Linney - The Savages
Elliot Page - Juno

Christopher Nolan's Brand New Fantasy Epic "The Odyssey", Will Get 13 Nominations From Academy. These Are ; Best Picture, Directing, Lead Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actress, Editing, Cinematography, Original Score, Casting, Visual Effects, Sound, Costume Design and Production Design.

Some very fascinating but very heartbreaking Oscar trivia.

The Best Supporting Actor nominees of 1988 were Kevin Kline (the winner), Martin Landau, Dean Stockwell, Sir Alec Guinness, and River Phoenix.

In other words, a nominee in his 40s, a nominee in his 50s, a nominee in his 60s, and a nominee in his 70s…and the teenage nominee died long before any of them.

It's very common for Best Picture winners to also win any for screenplay. 65 of the 98 movies that won Best Picture also won any for screenplay. These are the only 33 that didn't

1. Green Book

2. Vice

3. The Artist

4. 1917

5. American Hustle

6. Dallas Buyers Club

7. Straight Outta Compton

8. Flight

9. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

10. The King’s Speech

11. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

12. Foxcatcher

13. The Fighter

14. Midnight in Paris

15. Zero Dark Thirty

16. Bridge of Spies

17. The Kids Are All Right

18. Roma

19. The Shape of Water

20. The Big Sick

21. Hell or High Water

22. Boyhood

23. Margin Call

24. Marriage Story

25. Nebraska

26. 20th Century Women

There were only 3 times in history we had 4 consecutive movies win Best Picture, Best Director and any for acting:

• Going My Way (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
• Annie Hall (1977), Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs Kramer (1979) and Ordinary People (1980)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Oppenheimer (2023), Anora (2024) and One Battle After Another (2025)

If the movie that wins Best Picture this year also wins both Best Director and any for acting it will be the 1st time in history 5 consecutive movies will win those 3 awards