ABC Game

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  • JBeans
    JBeans Posts: 265
    edited March 2016

    Quentin Tarantino - won for Pulp Fiction (I've seen this) and Django Unchained (I've not seen this).

    I'd like to thank Google and The Academy for helping me with this. :-)

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Posts: 49,083
    edited March 2016

    Best Picture: 1940 Rebecca 1976 Rocky

    Best Director: Robert Redford 1980 Ordinary People

    * I would also like to thank Google for making me sound a lot more knowledgeable than I actually am

  • Mominator
    Mominator Posts: 1,173
    edited March 2016

    Meryl Streep, 18 nominations, 3 wins, the most nominations of anyone

    Martin Scorese, 7 nominations, 1 win, The Departed, one of the most nominations of any director

    Spencer Tracey, 9 nominations, 2 wins, Boys Town, Captains Courageous

    badger, Jbeans and Ruthbru are too funny!!

    I like this category since we can go by first names, last names, and name of film.

    Since we are on S already, may I suggest Downton Abbey for the next category? Hopefully everyone will have seen the last episode by then.

  • JBeans
    JBeans Posts: 265
    edited March 2016

    Elizabeth Taylor

    Jessica Tandy

    Tom Hanks

    Traffic

    Downton Abby next - a good idea! Hoping the ABC game will make it so that it is so cryptic that I don't catch on to any spoilers. (I borrow the DVDs from the library and they don't have season 6 yet or maybe they do now - will have to get on the wait list ASAP)

  • Mominator
    Mominator Posts: 1,173
    edited March 2016

    Jbeans, some Downton Abbey episodes are online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/series/downton-abbey-s6/

    1992 Best Picture, Unforgiven

    1964, 1960 Best Supporting Actor, Peter Ustinov, Topkapi, Sparticus





  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Posts: 49,083
    edited March 2016

    Best Actor: Jon Voight 1978 Coming Home

    Best Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander 2015 The Danish Girl

  • Mominator
    Mominator Posts: 1,173
    edited March 2016

    William Wyler, 12 nominations, 3 wins including Ben-Hur, THE most nominations of any director (sorry, Scorese was not the most)

    2009 Best Supporting Actor, Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

    2008, Best Actress, Kate Winslet, The Reader (her 6th nomination)

    2009, Best Actor, Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

  • Stratford
    Stratford Posts: 706
    edited March 2016

    Okay, it's a reach, but Malcolm X had two Academy Award nominations (including Denzel Washington as Best Actor).


  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Posts: 49,083
    edited March 2016

    1938 Best Picture & Best Director (Frank Capra) You Can't Take It With You

    1947 Loretta Young Best Actress The Farmer's Daughter

    1969 Gig Young Best Supporting Actor They Shot Horses, Don't They?


  • Mominator
    Mominator Posts: 1,173
    edited March 2016

    Rene Zellweger Ferrer, 3 nominations, 1 win, Cold Mountain

    Fred Zinnemann, 7 nominations, 2 wins, A Man for All Seasons, From Here to Eternity

    Best Supporting Actress, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago

    Best Director, Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump



    Next Category: All things Downton Abbey

    Downton Abbey

    aristocracy

    Anna Bates (Lady's maid to Mary)

    Atticus Aldrich (Rose MacClare's husband)

    Allen Leech (plays Tom Branson, the chauffeur who marries Lady Sybil)

    Amy Nuttall (plays maid Ethel Parks)

    And yes, I'm having lots of fun with this.

  • JBeans
    JBeans Posts: 265
    edited March 2016

    thanks for the tip Mominator. I'll check them out.

    Okay,

    The Bates' (married couple- lady's maid and valet)

    Tom Branson ( and eventually Sybil Branson) - what a love story.

    West Berkshire (near Highclere Castle)

    Thomas Barrow and Mrs Baxter (often up to something they were)


  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Posts: 49,083
    edited March 2016

    Oh my....the entire Crawley family, Mr. Carson

  • Mominator
    Mominator Posts: 1,173
    edited March 2016

    Downton Abbey

    Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary)

    Kevin Doyle (Mr. Moseley)

    David Robb (Dr. Clarkson)

    Dan Stevens (Matthew Crawley)

    Dowager Countess Violet Crawley

    Mr and Mrs Drewe, the estate's tenant farmers who adopt Marigold

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Posts: 49,083
    edited March 2016

    Robert Crawley, the 7th Earl of Grantham

    Lady Edith Crawley

  • Mominator
    Mominator Posts: 1,173
    edited March 2016

    Footmen

    Julian Fellowes (creator and author)

    Jessica Brown Findley (Lady Sybil)

    Siobhan Finneran (maid O'Brien)

    Michael Fox (footman Andy Parker)

    Joanne Froggatt (Lady's maid Anna Bates)



  • OncoWarrior
    OncoWarrior Posts: 3,326
    edited March 2016

    Earl of Grantham

    Michael Gregson


  • Mominator
    Mominator Posts: 1,173
    edited March 2016

    Mrs. Hughs, housekeeper

    Henry Talbot

    Hugh Bonneville = Lord Grantham

    Harry Hadden-Paton = Bertie Pelham, the Marquess of Hexham

    Thomas Howes = William Mason footman

    heirs

    hospital

    Hitler's brownshirts kill Gregson

    Highclere Castle in north Hampshire is used for exterior shots of Downton Abbey


  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Posts: 49,083
    edited March 2016

    Ivy Stuart, kitchen maid

    Isobel Crawley

  • JBeans
    JBeans Posts: 265
    edited March 2016

    Lily James

    Julian Fellowes

  • Mominator
    Mominator Posts: 1,173
    edited March 2016

    kitchen maids

    James Jimmy Kent, footman

    Prince Kuragin = Violet's love interest from long ago

    Kevin Doyle = Mr. Moseley

    Kent, United Kingdom, during the reign of King George V 

  • badger
    badger Posts: 25,045
    edited March 2016

    (just popping in to say hi... I have not watched Downton Abbey)

  • JBeans
    JBeans Posts: 265
    edited March 2016

    Hi Badger

  • Pheasantduster
    Pheasantduster Posts: 1,986
    edited March 2016
    Badger - and I thought I was the only one! :)
  • badger
    badger Posts: 25,045
    edited March 2016

    Pheasant, apparently there are at least two of us! :-)

    (edited to add - two of us who don't watch Downton Abbey, the current topic)

  • Stratford
    Stratford Posts: 706
    edited March 2016

    Make that three. :-)

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Posts: 49,083
    edited March 2016

    oh, oh.....we will have to hurry this topic along then:

    Lady Mary, Lady Edith, Lady Sybil, Lady Rosamund,

  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Posts: 10,075
    edited March 2016

    Count me in that club too! Never watched a single episode of Downton

  • Mominator
    Mominator Posts: 1,173
    edited March 2016

    Hi Badger and Pheasantduster, and Stratford and M0mmyof2,

    Sorry, I didn't mean to pick a topic that would leave you out.

    We're half-way done. Maybe one of you will pick the next topic.

    Lady Mary = Michelle Dockery

    Moseley

    Henry Talbot = Matthew Goode

    Lady Cora = Elizabeth McGovern

    maid Daisy = Sophie McShera 

  • JBeans
    JBeans Posts: 265
    edited March 2016

    Nobility

    Mr. Napier

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Posts: 49,083
    edited March 2016

    Sarah O'Brien, lady's maid

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