Can you name the actors/directors from the hints given, then name the movie they all have in common?

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Source: IMDb.com
Only actors and directors are listed, but their Oscar wins can be for any category. Headings show number of Oscar winners and the year in which the connecting movie was released. Last names accepted.
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Seven (1991)
Best Supporting Actor for 'Good Will Hunting'
Best Actress for 'Erin Brockovich'
Best Actress for 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'
Best Actor for 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Best Actress for 'Shakespeare in Love'
Best Original Song for 'You'll Be In My Heart' from 'Tarzan'
Best Director for 'Schindler's List'
The movie that connects all seven...

Seven (1991 again!)
Best Director for 'Dances With Wolves'
Best Supporting Actor for 'The Fugitive'
Best Supporting Actor for 'Goodfellas'
Best Actor for 'Save the Tiger'
Best Actress for 'The Coal Miner's Daughter'
Best Supporting Actor for 'The Fortune Cookie'
Best Director for 'Platoon'
The movie that connects all seven...

Six (2006)
Best Original Screenplay for 'Good Will Hunting'
Best Supporting Actress for 'Girl, Interrupted'
Best Actor for 'Raging Bull'
Best Supporting Actor for 'Ordinary People'
Best Actor for 'Kiss of the Spider Woman'
Best Supporting Actor for 'Goodfellas'
The movie that connects all six...

Five (1976)
Best Director for 'Ordinary People'
Best Actor for 'Rain Man'
Best Supporting Actor for 'A Thousand Clowns'
Best Supporting Actor for 'Julia'
Best Actor for 'Amadeus'
The movie that connects all five...

Four (1992)
Best Supporting Actor for 'Mister Roberts'
Best Actor for 'Scent of a Woman'
Best Actor for 'American Beauty'
Best Supporting Actor for 'Little Miss Sunshine'
The movie that connects all four...

Four (2004)
Best Actor for 'Training Day'
Best Actress for 'Sophie's Choice'
Best Actor for 'Coming Home'
Best Director for 'The Silence of the Lambs'
The movie that connects all four...

Four (2008)
Best Actor for 'Philadelphia'
Best Actress for 'Erin Brockovich'
Best Actor for 'Capote'
Best Director for 'The Graduate'
The movie that connects all four...

Four (1991)
Best Supporting Actor for 'The Godfather Part 2'
Best Actress for 'Blue Sky'
Best Actor for 'To Kill A Mockingbird'
Best Director for 'The Departed'
The movie that connects all four...

Four (1987)
Best Actor for 'Leaving Las Vegas'
Best Actress for 'The Piano'
Best Actress for 'Fargo'
Best Original Screenplay for 'Fargo'
The movie that connects all four...

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Oscar Winner Connections Quiz

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Created Mar 5, 2010 in Movies
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	juviejay:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 05:11 GMT		7 points
	Me too...except for the 14 I didn't get. Still lots of fun.

	whitemale_98:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 06:00 GMT		4 points
	I can't believe the 1987 movie had 4 academy award winners involved, although it might be my favorite movie of the ones listed above.

	Golden:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 06:55 GMT		11 points
	I couldn't give this 5 sporcles because of the repeated names (and even repeated clues), which didn't feel necessary in a quiz with such broad possibilities. A great concept though.

	jefe_:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 07:11 GMT		1 point
	aww how did I not get Hook? that was one of my favorite movies growing up.

	Stillwater100:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 07:23 GMT		4 points
	I ended up backing into that Martin Balsam--I got All the President's Men (a personal favorite), and just started listing its supporting cast: "Hal Holbrook, no; Jack Warden, no; Martin Balsam, aha!" The only one I missed was the Manchurian Candidate, but that's because I apparently blocked its existence out of my memory. Damn Hollywood and its pointless remakes!

	princessjaney:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 10:22 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz!

	Fidelio:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 10:37 GMT		0 points
	I wouldn't call the remake of The Manchurian Candidate pointless. It's not as good as the original, of course, but it had a good reason for being remade - the fact that the threat of terrorism is now being exploited by those who just want to take other people's rights away, the same way the threat of communism was being used in the original version.

	rockgolf:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 13:07 GMT		3 points
	The Manchurian Candidate is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful motion picture I've ever known in my life.

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	DonnyB:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 14:03 GMT		2 points
	Does Phil Collins count as an actor or a director?

	tvfan2:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 14:49 GMT		-4 points
	Ok I've seen all of those films but I only got about half of them. The older films really threw me and with Julia I kept thinking of "Julie and Julia". Gwyneth Paltrow really threw me. Even after I saw the answer I couldn't figure it but IIRC she played Wendy right? Good idea for a quiz

	luke78:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 15:24 GMT		4 points
	i own all the presidents men and have seen it hundreds of times....i was SURE f murray abraham was NOT in it, but there he is on imdb....arresting officer#1....kinda cheap inclusion there.

	mlockwood:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 17:39 GMT		0 points
	this was hard.

	CoolerKing:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 17:49 GMT		-2 points
	Dammit! Got them all except 'All the President's Men'! F. Murray Abraham threw me off...

	CoolerKing:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 17:52 GMT		1 point
	Actually, instead of F. Murray Abraham you should change it screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid).

	StrohDaddy:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 18:44 GMT		-1 points
	WOW that was a lot tougher than I expected...wish I had more time

	tvfan2:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 19:11 GMT		1 point
	Also the spelling on Glengarry Glen Ross killed me. I tried it like five different time before it took

	btroup1:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 20:19 GMT		1 point
	Repeated names don't really bother me. Because the next time I play the Kevin Bacon game, I'll get to say "I RULE!" (Hat Tip: Kevin Spacey)

	Squinta:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 22:34 GMT		2 points
	Good quiz.

	PBRthur:	Jun 16th, 2010 at 01:23 GMT		5 points
	What about Nine? A piece of excrement cinematically, but: Day-Lewis, Cotillard, Cruz, Dench, Loren, Kidman ... who were sadly all upstaged by Fergie.

	D_Mac:	Jun 16th, 2010 at 02:05 GMT		1 point
	I got Kevin Spacey when I made a typo trying to type "Spacek" :P

	heyitsbryan:	Jun 16th, 2010 at 02:09 GMT		2 points
	Weren't Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-writers? I kept typing in both names together and it didn't count.

	moviefreak15:	Jun 16th, 2010 at 02:43 GMT		3 points
	There's one slight problem with this quiz. Joe Pesci only won one Oscar, for Goodfellas, not for Raging Bull (although he was nominated). Otherwise, great quiz!!!

	chikka2:	Jun 16th, 2010 at 03:02 GMT		1 point
	challenging and fun; Loved PS Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War; can still hardly believe the same man who managed that gravelly voice won for Capote