Oscar nomination question

[skullturfq]

This question may have come up before (it can sometimes be hard to be truly original).

According to something I read today, there are only two actors who have been nominated for acting Oscars in each decade from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Who are they?

[rockgolf]

There's actually a Sporcle quiz on this:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/SolS/nomin ... ve-decades

Two actors actually skipped an entire decade and STILL made it into the "Five decade" club. Meryl Streep has been nominated in every decade since the 1970's and is the newest inductee.

[skullturfq]

Here's another movie-related question:

Who's the "highest-grossing film actor" of all time, in the sense that the total box office gross for all his films is greater than for any other film actor.

[braggtastic]

Samuel L Jackson. This would have been a harder question for me before the recent article in the Times.

[skullturfq]

Samuel L Jackson. This would have been a harder question for me before the recent article in the Times.

Heh, that's where I got the idea for the question. Note to self: Other people read the Sunday New York Times as well.

[rockgolf]

Actually, there's somebody with more gross than Samuel L Jackson: Frank Welker.

Admittedly, most of Welker's contributions were voice work, but then no one outside his family made the decision to see "Jurassic Park" because SLJ was in it and it still counts in his gross.

Perhaps Avengers will make this a moot point, if it earns more than $1.4 billion.

[gwynn1984]

On the subject of Oscar nomination decade streaks, I came up with this list of all of those who have current streaks of 3 or more decades. I did this from memory, so I may be missing someone.

5 Decades (with the possibility of making it 6 in the 2010s):
Jack Nicholson (1969,1970,1973,1974,1975,1981,1983,1985,1987,1992,1997,2002)
Michael Caine (1966,1972,1983,1986,1999,2002)

5 Decades (waiting for 2020 for a chance at 6): Meryl Streep (1978,1979,1981,1982,1983,1985,1987,1988,1990,1995,1998,1999,2002,2006,2008,2009,2011)

4 Decades (with the possibility of making it 5 in the 2010s): Diane Keaton (1977,1981,1996,2003)

3 Decades (with the possibility of making it 4 in the 2010s):
Ben Kingsley (1982,1991,2001,2003); Denzel Washington (1987,1989,1992,1999,2001); Morgan Freeman (1987,1989,1994,2004,2009);Tom Hanks (1988,1993,1994,1998,2000); Daniel Day Lewis (1989,1993,2002,2007); Holly Hunter (1987,1993,2003); Frances McDormand (1988,1996,2000,2005); Julia Roberts (1989,1990,2000)

3 Decades (waiting for 2020 for a chance at 4): Geoffrey Rush (1996,1998,2000,2010); Brad Pitt (1995,2008,2011); Annette Bening (1990,1999,2004,2010)
*I didn't include Paul Newman (1981,1982,1986,1994,2002), since he's very unlikely to continue the streak in the 2010s