Tuesday Trivia: Oscar winners

Name the actor. Roles listed are not necessarily Oscar-winning roles, but each actor has at least one naked gold man on his or her mantle.

1. A superhero. A supervillain. A covert political operative. A real-life movie star (made for TV movie).
Solved by Melville (comment #17).

2. A Quaker. The new husband of a Quaker. A fake suicide.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

3. A princess. A beatnik-turned-model. A mother superior.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

4. A supervillain. A real-life singer. A cuckolded husband.
Solved by Trevor J. (comment #4).

5. A mother superior. The mother of a rabbi.A philandering music-hall performer.
Solved by Evn (comment #9).

6. A murderer on death row. A newly-inducted soldier about to ship out. A jazz guitarist.
Solved by Melville (comment #1).

7. The First Lady. A painter. A wealthy daughter planning her father’s party.
Solved by Melville (comment #17). (But maurinsky knew it.)

20 comments

  1. Melville says:

    #2 is Gary Cooper (Friendly Persuasion, High Noon, Meet John Doe)

    #3 is Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday, Funny Face, Robin and Marian)

    #6 is Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, Racing With The Moon, Sweet and Lowdown)

  2. Melville says:

    Where is everybody else? I think I know 4, 5, and 7, too, but I don’t want to ruin it before the others get here.

  3. Trevor J says:

    #4 is Kevin Spacey (Superman Returns/Se7en/Usual Suspects, Beyond the Sea, American Beauty)

  4. Deborah Lipp says:

    Trevor, Se7en and Usual Suspects are not “super” villains, they are real-life (ish) villains. I meant Lex Luthor.

  5. Trevor J says:

    I gotcha. I figured you meant Lex, but your “(ish)” is what I was thinking about.

  6. George says:

    So is #7 Ellen Burstyn? Won the Oscar for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. She’s First Lady Barbara Bush (or the ex, as it turns out to be) in W, not sure when she’s a painter though, and she’s planning her father’s party in Providence.

  7. Evn says:

    #5 is Anne Bancroft. (Agnes of God, Keeping the Faith and… um, that other one.)

  8. George says:

    Ok, I’ve got another guess for #7 that I don’t have all the parts for. Emma Thompson (Oscar winner as actress and screenwriter) played Hillary, more or less, in Primary Colors was Dora Carrington, painter, in Carrington, and have no idea when she was planning a party for her father.

  9. George says:

    Is the final Bancroft role the Elephant Man?

  10. Deborah Lipp says:

    Evn is better at not knowing all three than you are, George.

  11. George says:

    I’m really good at knowing all two though. In baseball I’d be a star.

  12. Melville says:

    The missing Anne Bancroft is To Be or Not To Be. The one I didn’t know was Keeping The Faith.

  13. Melville says:

    #7 is Marcia Gay Harden in American Dreamz (I had to IMDB that one), Pollock, and Meet Joe Black.

    #1 is Halle Berry in X-Men, Catwoman, Bulworth, and The Dorothy Dandridge Story on t.v.

  14. maurinsky says:

    Ugh, Melville, you didn’t give me time! I was just coming here to post the answer to #7. And I didn’t have to IMDB it!

  15. Deborah Lipp says:

    maurinsky, I totally believe you.

    Finding interesting professions is hard. Like, it’s hard to do Gary Cooper, and not have “cowboy, cowboy, cowboy, soldier, soldier, cowboy.” Hence, scraping the barrel with American Dreamz.

  16. Melville says:

    Sorry, maurinsky, I didn’t want to be greedy. I figured that most of the regulars had stopped in by 2:30 ET.