This year ’s Academy Awards nomination were announced on Thursday , and if you were hope for a fresh tidbit to add to your reserve of Oscars trivia , await to the tolerate worker family . Forty years after first playing the character inRocky(1976 ) , Sylvester Stallone has been nominated for the second time for his performance as Rocky Balboa inCreed(2015 ) . This adds him to a short list of actors who have been nominated doubly for separate performance of the same part .
Prior to the later exercise set of nominees , only five other actor hold the eminence . The last someone to join the club was Cate Blanchett for her performance as the deed of conveyance reference inElizabeth : The Golden Age(2007 ) followingElizabethin 1998 ( Blanchett is also the only woman who appears on the list ) . Before that , Paul Newman occupy home the award for his second rendition of pool shark Fast Eddie Felson in 1986’sTheColor of Money , a role he start and was nominate for with the 1961 filmThe Hustler .
Perhaps the easiest - to - guess worker on the list is Al Pacino for his first two performances as Michael Corleone . While he was put up for bothThe GodfatherandThe Godfather : II , he was make pass up for the Oscar on both occasions . Peter O’Toole became the second person to receive the honor after he was nominate forThe Lion in Winter(1968 ) for his performance of Henry II , whom he had also portrayed four class earlier inBecket(1964 ) . And the first - ever worker to achieve this anomaly is someone you may not suspect but will likely recognize : Bing Crosby . He win hisfirst and only Oscarfor his 1944 performance of Father Charles “ Chuck ” O’Malley in the wartime musicalGoing My Wayand was nominated again a year by and by when he reprise the theatrical role inThe Bells of St. Mary’s(1945 ) .
So far , no actor has been able to actually win multiple Oscars for play the same character , and Stallone is n’t in the position to be the first as he’snever won the accolade . One matter that does make Stallone ’s position singular is the amount of meter that ’s pass between his nominations — at least 14 geezerhood more than anyone else on the list . Though it is deserving noting that he gave five execution of Rocky Balboa that were n’t nominated for Oscars in the clip in between .
[ h / t : Smithsonian ]
