Despite the fact that controversy surrounds them year after year, the Oscars continue to be the most coveted awards in the film industry.
The cache of a star in Hollywood suffers an excessive boom when he receives a award like the oscar Even when the film she appears in is award-winning, it resonates with the star herself.
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That makes it sometimes strange that some Oscars received by movie stars Hollywood go unnoticed by many.
Today, at Hobby Consolas, we review 9 stars who have won an Oscar, although many are surprised by that fact.
The actors and actresses we are going to talk about are:
Oprah Winfrey
He is one of the most famous stars on the planet, especially for his television work. Oprah WinfreyIn addition, he has an Oscar award on his shelf.
Winfrey was able to take the award for films in which she was nominated, such as the color purple o Selma.
The actress and presenter also saw how the Academy passed her performance in The Butlerin 2013, perhaps because, two years earlier, he had been awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
If we are strict, this award ceased to be an Oscar years ago, since it was delivered at the Governor Awards. However, in practice, it is still considered as such.
Jim Rash
Many of you will know Jim Rash for his role in Communitywhere he plays Dean Pelton, whose closet is like a shopping mall.
The Oscar that the Hollywood Academy awarded him, however, is due to his scriptwriting skills, one in particular.
The 2011 comedy The descendantswith George Clooney, won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, which received Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne y, sí, Jim Rash.
Walton Goggins
A Walton Goggins You may recognize him as a regular Quentin Tarantino collaborator in the 2010s: he’s been in movies like Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight.
He was also a more than capable villain in Justified: Raylan’s Lawa role that earned him an Emmy nomination.
Despite his acting chops, Walton Goggins had an Oscar in his house since the early 2000s.
It was in 2001 when Goggins got his Oscar for producing the short film The Accountantwhich won the Best Short Film category.
EMINEM
In the early 2000s, thinking that a rap song could win an Oscar was unthinkable: then came EMINEM con 8 miles.
The film, starring Mr. Mathers himself, brought a unique approach to the music scene in those years.
It is very probable that those of you who lived it, do remember that the song “Loose Yourself“was raised with the statuette that night.
Of course, you probably also remember it because EMINEM himself had such low expectations that, when his name was heard at the then Kodak Theatre, he was at home, sleeping while his daughter watched cartoons.
Lionel Richie
Like actor, Lionel Richie has a long career with some memorable roles. However, none of them led him to pick up an Oscar.
It was his song, “Say You, Say Me“, which gave him the Oscar in 1855 for appearing in the film sunny nights.
The film itself, despite getting two nominations in the Best Song category, isn’t much remembered, except for seeing Hellen Mirren meet her future husband, director Taylor Hackford.
Peter Capaldi
He twelfth Doctor from Doctor Who He is another of those actors who has an Oscar on the shelf for merits unrelated to acting.
Peter Capaldi received the Oscar for Best Short Film in 1993 for Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life.
Annie Lennox
Outside of music video clips for his own songs, Annie Lennox has less interpretive repertoire.
During the 1990s, Lennox was a regular name on the British pop charts, but none of them landed her on the Oscars.
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It was in 2003, when The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King hit theaters, that the industry surrendered to it.
The end credits song from Peter Jackson’s film, “Into the West“, gave Lennox his Oscar for Best Song.
Phil Collins
Phil Collins’s is indeed a name that will ring a bell for many of you, especially those of you who grew up with some of his most iconic songs.
Up to three times, the Hollywood Academy nominated one of Phil Collins’ songs in the category of Best Original Song.
The jackpot was taken in 2000 You’ll Be in My Heartthe theme that appears in the Disney animated film, Tarzan.
Nicholas Cage
When many people think of Nicolas Cage, they only see memes with the faces the actor makes. That, in addition to being reasonable, is very sad.
Cage demonstrated on more than one occasion that he had a chameleonic capacity on set and an enormous aptitude for drama.
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He won the Oscar in 1996 for Leaving Las Vegaswhere he played a suicidal alcoholic.
Beyond the politicking that always surrounds these awards, the Oscars are the highest honor in the industry and those who have it deserve to be remembered for it.
