Can you name the people who won an Oscar in one category & won/were nominated in a significantly different category? by rockgolf

Can you name the people who won an Oscar in one category & won/were nominated in a significantly different category?

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A polymath is someone who is skilled in very different areas. For example, Leonardo da Vinci was not only a skilled engineer, but one of the greatest painters of all time.
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Nomination 1 (*=Win)	Oscar Winner	Nomination 2 (*=Win)
Director (Ordinary People)*		Actor (The Sting)
Producer (Argo)*		Supporting Actor (Syriana)*
Producer (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)*		Original Song (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)*
Producer (Rachel, Rachel)		Actor (The Color of Money)*
Original Screenplay (Hannah and Her Sisters)*		Actor (Annie Hall)
Producer (The Alamo)		Actor (True Grit (1969))*
Director (Dances With Wolves)*		Actor (Dances With Wolves)
Original Score (Limelight)*		Actor (The Great Dictator)
Producer (Unforgiven)*		Actor (Million Dollar Baby)
Director (Reds)*		Actor (Bugsy)
Producer (Hamlet (1948))*		Actor (Hamlet)*
Producer (Argo)*		Original Screenplay (Good Will Hunting)*
Original Song (Evergreen)*		Actress (Funny Girl)*
Original Screenplay (Citizen Kane)*		Actor (Citizen Kane)
Producer (Julius Caesar (1953))		Supporting Actor (The Paper Chase)*
Director (Treasure of the Sierra Madre)*		Supporting Actor (The Cardinal)
Adapted Screenplay (Sense and Sensibility)*		Actress (Howard's End)*
Director (Madame X)		Actor (A Free Soul)*
Producer (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)*		Actor (Wall Street)*
Producer (12 Angry Men)		Actor (On Golden Pond)*
Director (Life Is Beautiful)		Actor (Life Is Beautiful)*

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Oscar Polymaths Quiz

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Created Feb 26, 2013 in Movies
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	rockgolf:	Feb 25th, 2013 at 20:46 GMT		2 points
	There are a lot of Producer/Director combination, and probably as many again Director/Screenplay combinations, but with 2 exceptions I'm listing only people nominated in acting and another category. One double-winner exception is more widely known as an actor, and the Lord of the Rings double-winner was too bizarre to pass up.

	matfitz:	Feb 27th, 2013 at 03:51 GMT		1 point
	It's Benigni, not Begnini

	rockgolf:	Feb 27th, 2013 at 04:05 GMT		1 point
	@matfitz: Thanks. Still doesn't look right, but it is.

	DarkPhalanx:	Feb 27th, 2013 at 11:25 GMT		1 point
	Nice quiz -- suggest replacing Barrymore with Sylvester Stallone for writing/acting in Rocky

	rockgolf:	Feb 27th, 2013 at 12:55 GMT		1 point
	@Phalanx: Stallone was nominated in both categories but didn't win in either. I limited this list to people who won in at least one category. (Hence, no Mel Gibson either.)

	floydpink:	Feb 27th, 2013 at 14:09 GMT		1 point
	Um, Mel Gibson won in two categories for Braveheart--Director and Producer (Picture).

	crazylegs:	Feb 27th, 2013 at 14:10 GMT		2 points
	I think you should add Michael Douglas to this list. Won as an actor in Wall Street and as a producer for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

	rockgolf:	Feb 27th, 2013 at 16:16 GMT		1 point
	@CrazyLegs: Absolutely! he was one of the insprations for the quiz and I lost him in the shuffle. @Floydpink: But Gibson's never even been nominated in acting.

	Spacemaniac:	Feb 27th, 2013 at 16:55 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz! @rockgolf So you and the other 14 Crazy Ivans are also polymaths. Right?

	rockgolf:	Feb 27th, 2013 at 17:30 GMT		1 point
	I'm more like "polywannacracker".

	survivorfan:	Feb 28th, 2013 at 00:34 GMT		1 point
	Very fun quiz. Others to consider: Billy Bob Thornton (won Adapted Screenplay, 2 acting noms), Christine Lahti (won Best Live Action Short, 1 acting nom),Stanley Kubrick (won Visual Effects, nommed for Director, Screenplay, Picture), Alec Guinness (won Actor, Screenplay nom), Peter Ustinov (won Best Supporting Actor, Screenplay nom), Tim Robbins (won Best Supporting Actor, nommed Best Director) and Ruth Gordon (won Best Supporting Actress, nommed for Screenplay). These may have been considered, just throwing them out there. :)

	floydpink:	Feb 28th, 2013 at 02:00 GMT		1 point
	Ben Affleck has never been nominated for acting, either.

	rockgolf:	Mar 1st, 2013 at 13:30 GMT		1 point
	@Survivorfan: Those are great additions that I wasn't aware of! Thanks. I'll probably add most of them when I have time to look up the details.