Live Poll: Multiple Best Actor Nominations For The Same Film

Amadeus (1984)

My favorite film is Judgement at Nuremberg, but when it comes down to acting, The Dresser has two fantastic performances.

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Please do not change the caption for Going My Way. However, I thought you may find this interesting in case you were not award of this trivia.

FYI: Not only was Barry Fitzgerald nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Going My Way (1944), but won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the same role in Going My Way. The Academy changed the rules for succeeding academy awards to disallow multiple awards for the same role in the same film.

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Barry Fitzgerald was nominated by the Academy for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards for the same performance, for the same film, the only time this has happened. (Al Pacino received a Best Supporting Actor nomination and a Best Actor nomination for his role as Michael Corleone, but his nominations were for the first and second Godfather films, respectively.). Fitzgerald won the Oscar in the supporting category but lost in the lead category to co-star Bing Crosby. (This is no longer possible under Academy guidelines.) Due to wartime metal shortages, Fitzgerald received a plaster Oscar (instead of a gold-plated britannium one) for his performance. A few weeks after he won, he broke the head off his plaster Oscar while practicing his golf swing.

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