Live Poll: Double Nominees That Could Have Been

Perhaps also Ingrid Bergman in Spellbound (1945). Nominated for The Bells of St. Mary's.

I could add Chalamet, though I guess it wasn't very likely.

I agree that Bergman qualifies. I haven't done research earlier than the 90s, but if I add Bergman I should perhaps find some other earlier options.

@Peter_pbn​ It's a bit more likely than Meryl Streep being nominated for It's Complicated- tepidly received by both audience and critics.

@Tsarstepan​ Then again, she won for The Iron Lady, a film with an even more tepid reception by audience and critics.

@Tsarstepan​ 

Streep was nominated for a Golden Globe for It's Complicated (and won for Julie & Julia), which is the main reason I chose to include it. Given her number of nominations, I think a Streep nomination is never completely unlikely.

I see now that there other double Globe nominees that I didn't include, though. One of them would be Streep in Mamma Mia and Doubt.

@ACT_1​ 

The "copy" option is available by just clicking the copy icon in the list, so I see no reason to post it here.

@TheOldJalapenoman​ ,

I agree that Victor Fleming could easily have been nominated for both Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. However, if that had happened, the Oscar could have gone to Lionel Banks, James Basevi or one of the other nominated directors for 1939 film due to the dilution effect of multiple nominations. 

The other directing nominees were John Ford, Frank Capra, William Wyler and Sam Wood.

It seems a director could only be nominated for one film that year, based on the rules linked below.

https://www.atogt.com/askoscar/display-voting-rules-text.php?yr=12&origin=rules-text

Michael Curtiz had actually been nominated for directing for two different films the year before.

The rule must have been changed long ago, not recently. Steven Soderbergh was nominated twice for directing in 2001.