| Inebriated screenwriter who never overcomes his addiction, instead succumbing to it. 'You can never, never ask me to stop drinking,' he tells his companion. And he doesn't' |
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| Brando was supposed to win but he happened to be up against an overdue Hollywood veteran in a bawdy drunk role, an alcoholic riverboat captain. |
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| Husband and wife team notorious for their boozy battles off screen, take their antics to the screen. She wins Oscar, he loses and later dies. |
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| A hard-drinking, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal teams up with a teenage tomboy (Kim Darby) to find her father's killer. |
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| This actress has won two Oscars for portraying women with a drinking problem. Once As a daytime-television star and the other as the Army wife of Tommy Lee Jones. |
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| It took this guy four unsuccessful bids before he finally won for portraying one of the academy's favorite roles: the alcoholic country-music singer. |
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| This legend portrayed drunken Pvt. Angelo Maggio in Oscar's Best Picture. When told that drinking is a weakness, Maggio responds, 'I don't like weakness … but I like to drink' |
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| She won for playing an uppity British actress who loses an Academy Award. Afterwards, she's so furious that she gets stinking drunk. |
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| 'I smell a water hole,' proclaims this winner when he sniffs the faint smell of liquor' One of the few comedic roles to win Best Actor, he beat Rod Steiger and Laurence Olivier. |
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| He portrays an alcoholic, abusive father who still strikes fear in the heart of his adult son who is also an alcoholic. |
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