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February 09, 2010

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Lance McMillian

Glory is one of them, unsure about the other. The Color Purple perhaps?

Colin Miller

I think that the other is "American Gangster" with Denzel Washington and Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Tim Zinnecker

When I originally drafted this question, I was looking for the only movie to feature two Best Actor winners (and there's only one movie, to my knowledge, that fits). But I thought that the Best Actor limitation would make the question too easy. So I expanded the parameters (still thinking only one film fit the question). A colleague (Maxine) ran the question by her brother (Larry), a trivia master, and he came up with a second movie (that fit the question as drafted above). Now Lance and Colin have offered correct answers -- but both different from the two films I had in mind.

Bottom line? I now believe FOUR films fit the call of the question as written (but only one of which features two Best Actor winners).

Thanks, Lance and Colin. Any idea on the other two films that I had in mind?

Lance McMillian

A Raisin in the Sun

Since Pottier, Denzel, and Jamie Foxx are the only African-Americans to win for best actor, the movie has to star two of them, but I don't know what that movie would be. Unless we're counting Halle Berry, too, but I still don't know what that movie would be.

Lance McMillian

I forgot about Forrest Whitaker, which means The Great Debaters in the answer.

Tim Zinnecker


Lance, correct! So here's a summary. If the question is asked in a manner limited to Best Actor winners, the answer is THE GREAT DEBATERS (Denzel Washington for TRAINING DAY and Forest Whitaker for THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND). If you expand the question to include all acting awards, the additional answers are A RAISIN IN THE SUN (Sidney Poitier for LILIES OF THE FIELD and Louis Gossett Jr. for AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN), GLORY (Denzel again, and Morgan Freeman for MILLION DOLLAR BABY), and AMERICAN GANGSTER (Denzel again, and Cuba Gooding Jr. for JERRY MAGUIRE).


Tim Zinnecker

If Morgan Freeman were to win this year (INVICTUS), then GLORY would join THE GREAT DEBATERS as films with dual Best Actor winners.

The difference (which could be used to fashion additional trivia questions) is that GLORY would feature two future Best Actor winners, and THE GREAT DEBATERS would feature two previous Best Actor winners.

Just Curious

Does removing the "for my acting talents" condition change the answer?

Tim Zinnecker

Just Curious: I don't know. But given the number of awards given to non-actors (e.g., directors, screenwriters, musicians, set designers, wardrobe, etc.), removing the phrase could add additional movies to the list of answers.

Stephen

I think Jamie Foxx was also in Ali with Will Smith.

Stephen

Whoops, just realized that Will Smith didn't win an Oscar for that film. Could have fooled me.

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