Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Alex

Very international group of winners tonight. I wonder if this this the first time that not one of the acting awards went to an American?

To answer my own question (and having done so the hard way), I only went back to 1950 but since then it has happened one other time. In 1965 Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, and Peter Ustinov all won having been born in the UK (using birthplace s the standard, don't want to get into citizenships) while Lila Kedrova born in Russia was the fourth.

Twice in that time frame 3 out of the 4 were foreign-born. 1957 (Yul Brynner, Ingrid Berman, and Anthony Quinn) and then again in 1990 (Brenda Fricker, Jessica Tandy, and Daniel Day-Lewis).

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Alex

To answer my own question (and having done so the hard way), I only went back to 1950 but since then it has happened one other time. In 1965 Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, and Peter Ustinov all won having been born in the UK (using birthplace s the standard, don't want to get into citizenships) while Lila Kedrova born in Russia was the fourth.

Twice in that time frame 3 out of the 4 were foreign-born. 1957 (Yul Brynner, Ingrid Berman, and Anthony Quinn) and then again in 1990 (Brenda Fricker, Jessica Tandy, and Daniel Day-Lewis).

This year, however, at least two of the winners (Day-Lewis and Swinton) were playing Americans, thank God. I don't recall if Anton Chigurh was American or not.