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Two of the five best-picture nominees are "Rachel Getting Married" and "The Wrestler"; "Synecdoche, New York" is a nominee for best first feature and best screenplay; "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," "Milk," and "Rachel" were nominated for their screenplays, too; and among the nominated actors and actresses are Anne Hathaway, Javier Bardem, and Sean Penn.
That imbalance will be on remarkable display Sunday night, when only one of the 20 nominated actors, Ruby Dee, is black.
I've taken a look at this year's nominated actors, actresses, and screenplays, as well as the diversity shakeup in the Academy's ranks.
OK, it helps that they are being worn by nominated actors Marion Cotillard and Jennifer Lawrence, but there is some stylistic mischief at work here too.
Leonardo DiCaprio's response to Lady Gaga's Golden Globe win, for example: As for the awards themselves, there was little indication that critics of the perceived lack of diversity among the nominated actors had their complaints heard.
Last week, the Hollywood Reporter gathered seven nominated actors – Leslie Odom Jr, Jeff Daniels, Gabriel Byrne, Zachary Levi, Reed Birney, Danny Burstein and Alex Brightman – for a roundtable that often focused on the diversity of the season.
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Sure, Jack Nicholson frequently wears shades to the Oscars – but he's the most nominated actor in history.
(Then again, Ms. Streep, the most nominated actor of all time, might as well be her own category at the Oscars).
8 P.M. (TCM) 31 DAYS OF OSCAR Day 2 of this tribute salutes Jack Nicholson (the most nominated actor: 12 nods and three wins) with four of his best-known films, starting with "Five Easy Pieces" (1970), in which he plays a classical pianist who returns to his upper-class family after dropping out of society to work in a California oil field, above.
But most people's parents aren't Oscar nominated actor and political activist James Cromwell.
The Hollywood icon has earned a whopping 21 Oscar nominations in her career ― four for Best Supporting Actress and 17 for Best Actress ― making her the most nominated actor in the ceremony's history.
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