Today's question comes courtesy of Colin Miller (pictured), an assistant professor at Chicago's John Marshall Law School. Readers following our "Oscar Countdown" may have noticed that Colin knows a thing or two about Oscar trivia!
Colin's question: Name the actor who appeared in multiple films, every one of which was nominated for Best Picture.
John Cazale? He was in Dog Day Afternoon, Godfather, the Conversation and Godfather II.
And Deer Hunter.
Wex, you got it right. He was also in The Deer Hunter, which was nominated as well (and he was in archive footage in The Godfather, Part III, which was also nominated). Sadly, he died of bone cancer soon after the filming of The Deer Hunter while engaged to Meryl Streep.
Safe to say that this is probably a record that will never be broken.
So, I don't know much about this topic, but IMDB says John Cazale was in a film called "The American Way," which doesn't appear to have been nominated for best picture.
Sure, it's only a 10 minute long short, but …
anon, that's interesting. I guess, then, that the question should be phrased, "Name the actor who appeared in multiple feature length films, every one of which was nominated for Best Picture."