Oscar noms for same character?
I just saw BECKET on TCM. At the end of the show, Robert Osbourne said something to the effect that Peter O'Toole was one of the "few" actors to be nominated for the Oscar for playing the same character in two different films -- both BECKET and THE LION IN WINTER.
Who else has been so nominated, and for what films and characters? I suppose a good guess is actors in something like THE GODFATHER and its offspring. I'd love to learn that actors in a much more attenuated situation had received the honor. What a good bar bet!
And if O'Toole doesn't win an Oscar for his next role, even if it's for SAW VII, I may commit mayhem!
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