ABC Game

JBeans

Quentin Tarantino - won for Pulp Fiction (I've seen this) and Django Unchained (I've not seen this).

I'd like to thank Google and The Academy for helping me with this. :-)

ruthbru

Best Picture: 1940 Rebecca 1976 Rocky

Best Director: Robert Redford 1980 Ordinary People

* I would also like to thank Google for making me sound a lot more knowledgeable than I actually am

Mominator

Meryl Streep, 18 nominations, 3 wins, the most nominations of anyone

Martin Scorese, 7 nominations, 1 win, The Departed, one of the most nominations of any director

Spencer Tracey, 9 nominations, 2 wins, Boys Town, Captains Courageous

badger, Jbeans and Ruthbru are too funny!!

I like this category since we can go by first names, last names, and name of film.

Since we are on S already, may I suggest Downton Abbey for the next category? Hopefully everyone will have seen the last episode by then.

JBeans

Elizabeth Taylor

Jessica Tandy

Tom Hanks

Traffic

Downton Abby next - a good idea! Hoping the ABC game will make it so that it is so cryptic that I don't catch on to any spoilers. (I borrow the DVDs from the library and they don't have season 6 yet or maybe they do now - will have to get on the wait list ASAP)

Mominator

Jbeans, some Downton Abbey episodes are online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/series/downton-abbey-s6/

1992 Best Picture, Unforgiven

1964, 1960 Best Supporting Actor, Peter Ustinov, Topkapi, Sparticus

ruthbru

Best Actor: Jon Voight 1978 Coming Home

Best Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander 2015 The Danish Girl

Mominator

William Wyler, 12 nominations, 3 wins including Ben-Hur, THE most nominations of any director (sorry, Scorese was not the most)

2009 Best Supporting Actor, Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

2008, Best Actress, Kate Winslet, The Reader (her 6th nomination)

2009, Best Actor, Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Stratford

Okay, it's a reach, but Malcolm X had two Academy Award nominations (including Denzel Washington as Best Actor).

ruthbru

1938 Best Picture & Best Director (Frank Capra) You Can't Take It With You

1947 Loretta Young Best Actress The Farmer's Daughter

1969 Gig Young Best Supporting Actor They Shot Horses, Don't They?

Mominator

Rene Zellweger Ferrer, 3 nominations, 1 win, Cold Mountain

Fred Zinnemann, 7 nominations, 2 wins, A Man for All Seasons, From Here to Eternity

Best Supporting Actress, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago

Best Director, Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump

Next Category: All things Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey

aristocracy

Anna Bates (Lady's maid to Mary)

Atticus Aldrich (Rose MacClare's husband)

Allen Leech (plays Tom Branson, the chauffeur who marries Lady Sybil)

Amy Nuttall (plays maid Ethel Parks)

And yes, I'm having lots of fun with this.

JBeans

thanks for the tip Mominator. I'll check them out.

Okay,

The Bates' (married couple- lady's maid and valet)

Tom Branson ( and eventually Sybil Branson) - what a love story.

West Berkshire (near Highclere Castle)

Thomas Barrow and Mrs Baxter (often up to something they were)

ruthbru

Oh my....the entire Crawley family, Mr. Carson

Mominator

Downton Abbey

Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary)

Kevin Doyle (Mr. Moseley)

David Robb (Dr. Clarkson)

Dan Stevens (Matthew Crawley)

Dowager Countess Violet Crawley

Mr and Mrs Drewe, the estate's tenant farmers who adopt Marigold

ruthbru

Robert Crawley, the 7th Earl of Grantham

Lady Edith Crawley

Mominator

Footmen

Julian Fellowes (creator and author)

Jessica Brown Findley (Lady Sybil)

Siobhan Finneran (maid O'Brien)

Michael Fox (footman Andy Parker)

Joanne Froggatt (Lady's maid Anna Bates)

OncoWarrior

Earl of Grantham

Michael Gregson

Mominator

Mrs. Hughs, housekeeper

Henry Talbot

Hugh Bonneville = Lord Grantham

Harry Hadden-Paton = Bertie Pelham, the Marquess of Hexham

Thomas Howes = William Mason footman

heirs

hospital

Hitler's brownshirts kill Gregson

Highclere Castle in north Hampshire is used for exterior shots of Downton Abbey

ruthbru

Ivy Stuart, kitchen maid

Isobel Crawley

JBeans

Lily James

Julian Fellowes

Mominator

kitchen maids

James Jimmy Kent, footman

Prince Kuragin = Violet's love interest from long ago

Kevin Doyle = Mr. Moseley

Kent, United Kingdom, during the reign of King George V 

badger

(just popping in to say hi... I have not watched Downton Abbey)

JBeans

Hi Badger

Pheasantduster

Badger - and I thought I was the only one!

badger

Pheasant, apparently there are at least two of us! :-)

(edited to add - two of us who don't watch Downton Abbey, the current topic)

Stratford

Make that three. :-)

ruthbru

oh, oh.....we will have to hurry this topic along then:

Lady Mary, Lady Edith, Lady Sybil, Lady Rosamund,

M0mmyof3

Count me in that club too! Never watched a single episode of Downton

Mominator

Hi Badger and Pheasantduster, and Stratford and M0mmyof2,

Sorry, I didn't mean to pick a topic that would leave you out.

We're half-way done. Maybe one of you will pick the next topic.

Lady Mary = Michelle Dockery

Moseley

Henry Talbot = Matthew Goode

Lady Cora = Elizabeth McGovern

maid Daisy = Sophie McShera 

JBeans

Nobility

Mr. Napier

ruthbru

Sarah O'Brien, lady's maid