Thomas Mitchell
1940 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:
Gone With the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Stagecoach
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Poll: Character Actors' Oscar-Nominated Best Picture Triples
Created in 2018, the "John C. Reilly Award" is Hollywood's unofficial award for character actors, Hollywood's unofficial award for character actors, which serves as a badge of honor for those who specialize in character actor roles. It is bestowed on any actor who makes credited appearances in at least three Oscars Best Picture nominees in a single year. Only thirteen actors have achieved this rare feat; eleven were between 1935 and 1943 during Hollywood's Golden Age. Those awards happened when Best Picture nominees averaged 10-12 movies per year and contract players made several pictures every year. The “John C. Reilly Award” is the awards namesake by virtue of being the only actor to remarkably accomplish a triple in a year when only five movies were Best Picture Oscar nominated.
In your opinion, which "John C. Reilly Award" recipient has the best Oscar-nominated Best Picture threesome?
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Michael Stuhlbarg
2018 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:Call Me by Your Name, The Post and The Shape of Water
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Charles Laughton
1936 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:Les Miserables, Mutiny on the Bounty and Ruggles of Red Gap
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John C. Reilly
2003 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:Chicago, The Hours and Gangs of New York
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Adolphe Menjou
1938 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:One Hundred Men and a Girl, Stage Door and A Star Is Born
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Claudette Colbert
1935 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:Cleopatra, Imitation of Life and It Happened One Night
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Ivan F. Simpson
1936 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:Captain Blood, David Copperfield and Mutiny on the Bounty
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Edward Fielding
1941 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:All This, Kitty Foyle and Rebecca
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Douglas Croft
1943 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:Kings Row, The Pride of the Yankees and Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Jessie Ralph
1936 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:Captain Blood, David Copperfield and Les Miserables
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Henry Daniell
1941 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:All This, The Great Dictator and The Philadelphia Story
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Fritz Leiber
1937 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:Anthony Adverse, The Story of Louis Pasteur and A Tale of Two Cities
(Note: Fritz Leiber and Donald Woods appear in the same threesome, use the actor themselves or one of these same year movies: Sins of Man, Down to the Sea, Hearts in Bondage or Under Two Flags as a tiebreaker)
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Donald Woods
1937 Oscars Best Picture Nominee Triple:Anthony Adverse, The Story of Louis Pasteur and A Tale of Two Cities
(Note: Fritz Leiber and Donald Woods appear in the same threesome, use the actor themselves or one of these same year movies: Isle of Fury, A Son Comes Home, The White Angel or Road Gang as a tiebreaker)
