From Lance McMillian:
Javier Bardem is nominated for Best Actor for his performance in Biutiful, and Geoffrey Rush is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his work in The King's Speech. Wins by Bardem and/or Rush would put the winning individual(s) into an exclusive club: actors and actresses who have won Oscars in both the lead and supporting acting categories. There are eleven such individuals. Name them.
Pictured: Shakespeare in Love (1998), a Best Picture winner that brought Geoffrey Rush his first (and only other) nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He lost to James Coburn (Affliction).
Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver (supporting actress), Silence of the Lambs and The Accused (best actress).
Denzel Washington won a supporting actor Oscar for Glory, and a best actor Oscar for Training Day.
Kevin Spacey for The Usual Suspects (Supporting Actor) and American Beauty (Actor).
Gene Hackman for The French Connection (Actor) and Unforgiven (Supporting Actor).
Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice (Actress) and Kramer vs. Kramer (Supporting Actress).
Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment (Supporting); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest & As Good As It Gets (Lead)
Jack Lemmon (supporting in Mister Roberts, and leading in Save the Tiger).
Ingrid Bergman (supporting for Murder on the Orient Express, and leading in both Gaslight and Anastasia).
"Save the Tiger" is a forgotten gem and maybe Lemmon's best performance ever. Here was my review of it when it was released on DVD:
http://www.media-party.com/discland/2005/12/save-the-tiger.html
Washington, Spacey, Hackman, Streep, Nicholson, Lemmon, and Bergman are correct. Foster is incorrect, as she did not win for Taxi Driver. Four more left.
Helen Hayes (supporting for Airport, lead for The Sin of Madelon Claudet).
Helen hayes is correct. Three left.
Robert DeNiro won best supporting actor for Godfather 2 and best actor for Raging Bull.
Jessica Lange won best supporting actress for Tootsie and best actress for Blue Sky.
De Niro and Lange are correct. And then there was one.
Maggie Smith for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Actress) and California Suite (Supporting Actress).
Maggie Smith is the last correct answer.