Oscar Photos

Philip Seymour Hoffman (Best Actor)

Reese Witherspoon (Best Actress)

Rachel Weisz (Best Supporting Actress)

George Clooney (Best Supporting Actor)

2006

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Related Oscar Nominees

Oscar recognition is thrilling for an individual, but imagine making the history books with your family. Here's a look at the most notable Oscar winners/nominees who are/were related.

Ethan Hawke

2015 Best Supporting Actor Nominee

(1 additional nomination)

and his ex-wife, Uma Thurman

1995 Best Supporting Actress Nominee

Ben Affleck

2013 Best Picture Winner

1998 Best Screenplay Winner

and his brother, Casey Affleck

2008 Best Supporting Actor Nominee

Jon Voight

1979 Best Actor Winner

(3 additional nominations)
his daughter, Angelina Jolie

2000 Best Supporting Actress Winner

(1 additional nomination)
and her husband, Brad Pitt
2014 Best Picture Winner
(4 additional nominations)

Ethel Barrymore

1945 Best Supporting Actress Winner 

(3 additional nominations)

and her brother, Lionel Barrymore

1931 Best Actor Winner 

(1 additional nomination)

Olivia de Havilland
1950 Best Actress Winner
1947 Best Actress Winner
(3 additional nominations)
and her sister, Joan Fontaine
1942 Best Actress Winner
(2 additional nominations)

Walter Huston
1949 Best Supporting Actor Winner
(3 additional nominations)

and his son, John Huston
1949 Best Director and Best Screenplay Winner
(13 additional nominations)

and John's daughter, Anjelica Huston
1986 Best Supporting Actress Winner
(2 additional nominations)

Henry Fonda
1982 Best Actor Winner
(2 additional nominations and an Honorary Win)

his daughter, Jane Fonda
1979 Best Actress Winner
1972 Best Actress Winner
(5 additional nominations)

and his son, Peter Fonda
1998 Best Actor Nominee
(1 additional nomination)

Maggie Gyllenhaal
2010 Best Supporting Actress Nominee

her brother, Jake Gyllenhaal

2006 Best Supporting Actor Nominee

and their mother, Naomi Foner

1989 Best Screenplay Nominee

River Phoenix

1989 Best Supporting Actor Nominee
and his brother, Joaquin Phoenix
2013 Best Actor Nominee
(2 additional nominations)
and Joaquin's brother-in-law, Casey Affleck
(see above, under Ben Affleck)

Meg Tilly
1986 Best Supporting Actress Nominee

and her sister, Jennifer Tilly
1995 Best Supporting Actress Nominee

Julia Roberts
2001 Best Actress Winner
(3 additional nominations)

and her brother, Eric Roberts
1986 Best Supporting Actor Nominee

Shirley MacLaine
1984 Best Actress Winner
(5 additional nominations)

her brother, Warren Beatty
1982 Best Director Winner
(13 additional nominations and an Honorary Win)
and his wife, Annette Bening
2011 Best Actress Nominee
(3 additional nominations)

 

Vanessa Redgrave
1978 Best Supporting Actress Winner
(5 additional nominations)
her sister, Lynn Redgrave
1999 Best Supporting Actress Nominee
(1 additional nomination)
and their father, Michael Redgrave
1948 Best Actor Nominee

Ethan Coen

2008 Best Director, Writing, and Picture Winner

1997 Best Writer Winner

(9 additional nominations)

and his brother, Joel Coen

2008 Best Director, Writing, and Picture Winner

1997 Best Writer Winner

(9 additional nominations)

Diane Ladd
1992 Best Supporting Actress Nominee
(2 additional nominations)
her ex-husband, Bruce Dern
2014 Best Actor Nominee
(1 additional nomination)

and their daughter, Laura Dern
2015 Best Supporting Actress Nominee
(1 additional nomination)

Roman Coppola
2013 Best Screenplay Nominee
his sister, Sofia Coppola
2004 Best Screenplay Winner
(2 additional nominations)
and their father, Francis Ford Coppola
1975 Best Director, Screenplay, and Picture Winner
1973 Best Screenplay Winner
1971 Best Screenplay Winner
(9 additional nominations and an Honorary Win)

Francis' sister, Talia Shire
1975 Best Actress Nominee
(1 additional nomination)

Francis and Talia's father, Carmine Coppola

1995 Best Score Winner

(1 additional nomination)
and Francis and Talia's nephew, Nicolas Cage
1996 Best Actor Winner
(1 additional nomination)

Douglas Shearer

1952 Best Sound Winner

1948 Best Effects Winner

(6 more Wins and 7 Honors)

(14 additional nominations)

and his sister, Norma Shearer

1930 Best Actress Winner

(5 additional nominations)

Vincente Minnelli
1959 Best Director Winner
(1 additional nomination)

his daughter, Liza Minnelli
1973 Best Actress Winner
(1 additional nomination)
and Liza's mother, Judy Garland
1940 Best Juvenile Performance Winner
(2 additional nominations)

Kirk Douglas
1996 Honorary Winner
(3 additional nominations)

his son, Michael Douglas
1988 Best Actor Winner
1976 Best Picture Winner

and Michael's wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones
2003 Best Supporting Actress Winner

Jose Ferrer

1951 Best Actor Winner

(2 additional nominations)

and his nephew, George Clooney

2013 Best Picture Winner
2006 Best Supporting Actor Winner

(6 additional nominations)

Kate Hudson

2001 Best Supporting Actress Nominee
and her mother, Goldie Hawn

1970 Best Supporting Actress Winner
(1 additional nomination)

Ryan O'Neal
1971 Best Actor Nominee

and his daughter, Tatum O'Neal
1974 Best Supporting Actress Winner

Fun Shoots

For the past few years, Newsweek has done various interviews with possible Oscar nominees. Here are some of the shots from past Oscars Actors Roundtables. The Roundtables took place before Oscar nominations were announced for that particular year. These actors were asked to participate because they were all front-runners.

2007: Brad Pitt (Babel), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond), Helen Mirren (The Queen), Penelope Cruz (Volver), and Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal)

*Pitt did not receive a nomination that year

*Whitaker and Mirren won Oscars that year

2008: Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood), Ellen Page (Juno), Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose), Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart), James McAvoy (Atonement), and George Clooney (Michael Clayton)

*McAvoy and Jolie did not receive nominations that year

*Day-Lewis and Cotillard won Oscars that year

2009: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)

Not pictured: Robert Downey, Jr.(Tropic Thunder), and Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky)

*Hawkins did not receive a nomination that year

2010: Woody Harrelson (The Messanger), Morgan Freeman (Invictus), Gaboruey Sidibe (Precious), Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), Carey Mulligan (An Education), and Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)

*Bridges and Bullock won Oscars that year

2011: James Franco (127 Hours), Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole), Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine), Colin Firth (The King's Speech), Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right), and Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

*Firth and Portman won Oscars that year

2012: Michael Fassbender (Shame), Charlize Theron (Young Adult), Christopher Plummer (Beginners), Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin), George Clooney (The Descendants), and Viola Davis (The Help)

*Fassbender, Theron, and Swinton did not receive nominations that year

*Plummer won an Oscar that year

Oscar Photos

The Best Actor Nominees: Gary Oldman, Jean Dujardin,

Demian Bichir, Brad Pitt, and George Clooney, 2012

Fun Shoots

Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Christopher Plummer,

Tilda Swinton, George Clooney, and Viola Davis participate in

Newsweek's Oscars Roundtable, 2012

Fun Shoots

George Clooney gets very close to

Brad Pitt during a game of croquet

Hollywood Awards (2011 films)

HOLLYWOOD DISCOVERY AWARDS

Best Short Film

Clear Blue: Eun Kyung Nam, Mattias Troelstrup,

S. Brent Martin, Lindsay Mackay

Best Feature

Fort McCoy: Andy Hirsch, Eric Stoltz, Kate Connor

HOLLYWOOD FILM AWARDS

Actor of the Year

George Clooney: The Descendants

Actress of the Year

Michelle Williams: My Week with Marilyn

Supporting Actor of the Year

Christopher Plummer: Beginners

Supporting Actress of the Year

Carey Mulligan: Drive and Shame

Ensemble of the Year

The Help: Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer,

Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney,

Sissy Spacek, Cicely Tyson, Chris Lowell, Ahna O'Reilly,

Aunjanue Ellis, Mary Steenburgen

Animation of the Year

Rango: Gore Verbinski

NEW HOLLYWOOD AWARDS

Hollywood Breakthrough Award

Felicity Jones: Like Crazy

Actor of the Year

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 50/50

Actress of the Year

Jessica Chastain: Take Shelter, The Help,

The Tree of Life, The Debt, Coriolanus

Spotlight Awards

Andrea Riseborough: W.E.

Anton Yelchin: Like Crazy

Shailene Woodley: The Descendants

Elle Fanning: Super 8

Amber Heard: The Rum Diary

Jean Dujardin: The Artist

Berenice Bejo: The Artist

Hollywood Career Achievement Award

Glenn Close: Albert Nobbs


You Say It's Your Birthday!

Happy 46th Birthday, Jeffrey Wright!!!!!!

the consummate cool guy

starring with Al Pacino in "Angels in America", 2003

winning a Best Supporting Actor Emmy for

his work in "Angels in America", 2004

winning a Golden Globe for the same role, 2004

playing 'Muddy Waters' in "Cadillac Records", 2008

at the premiere of "The Ides of March" with costars

Ryan Gosling and (good friend) George Clooney, 2011

on the set of "Source Code" with costar Vera Farmiga, 2011

playing 'Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.' in "Boycott", 2001

the Tony award winner with his wife Carmen Ejogo (an actor) and kids

with Benicio Del Toro on the set of "Basquiat", 1996