Michael Keaton has been in back-to-back best picture winners.
Hanks later won back-to-back best actor Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump in 1993 and 1994.
Another Academy Award, for the phenomenally popular Forrest Gump (1994), made him the first actor to win back-to-back best actor Oscars since Spencer Tracy.
With back-to-back best actor nominations, a public that loves him and a pack of critics that worships him, Bridges has the pick of any role.
To star as Strauss MGM imported the Belgian musical comedy star Fernand Gravey, changing his name to Gravet to avoid any unfortunate culinary associations, and paired him with the German-born Luise Rainer, who had won back-to-back best actress Oscars for her work in "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936) and "The Good Earth" (1937).
Should he win, Iñárritu will be the third film-maker to net back-to-back best director Oscars: John Ford won for The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and How Green Was My Valley (1941), and Joseph L Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve.
The only problem: The academy has never given back-to-back best picture Oscars to movies from the same director, and Inarritu's "Birdman" won last year.
Producer Sean McKittrick, coming off back-to-back best picture nominations for "Get Out" and "BlacKkKlansman," is pleased by the level of anticipation and conversation already surrounding the film.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who won back-to-back best director Oscars for "A Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve" in 1949 and 1950, was given the D.W. Griffith award for career achievement.
Although Hall did not win back-to-back best and fairests in 2009, he was described as North Hobart's "star player", represented the TFL in a match against the QAFL, and was his team's only representative in the top 10 of the Tassie Medal, awarded to the league's best and fairest player.
She won a 1988 Best Actress Tony Award co-starring with Malkovich on Broadway in Burn This, and early roles in films including Tucker: A Man and His Dream and Ethan Frome led to back-to-back Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations for Nixon (1995) and The Crucible (1996), and critically lauded performances in The Ice Storm and Pleasantville.
