List of fictitious Academy Award winners and nominees
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There have been several fictional people or people using false names nominated for actual Academy Awards, in several cases because the actual winners were blacklisted at the time. This list is current as of the 89th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 26, 2017.
Winners[edit]
- Despite not having written the screenplay and not even speaking English, Boulle was credited because the film's actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, had been blacklisted as communist sympathizers. On December 11, 1984, the Board of Governors voted posthumous Oscars to the duo.[1]
Nathan E. Douglas
- 1958 Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen for The Defiant Ones
- Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith co-wrote the screenplay, but Young was blacklisted and used a pseudonym for his screen credit.[2] As an inside joke, director Stanley Kramer cast Young and Smith in bit parts as truck drivers and had their screen credit appear while they were on screen together. In 1993, AMPAS restored Young's credit for this work.
- 1953 Best Story for Roman Holiday
- The name was used as a cover for blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.[3] On December 15, 1992, the Board of Governors voted to change the records and recognize Trumbo. Hunter's name was removed. However, Hunter's son, director Tim Hunter, refused to cede the award to Trumbo,[citation needed] so the Academy presented a second Academy Award.
Robert Rich
- 1956 Best Story for The Brave One
- This was another cover for Trumbo.[3] Shortly before his death, Trumbo revealed the much-suspected truth.[citation needed]
Nominees[edit]
Roderick Jaynes
- 1997 Best Film Editing for Fargo
- 2007 Best Film Editing for No Country for Old Men
- Writer-director brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have edited several of their films under this name.[4]
Donald Kaufman
- 2003 Best Writing Adapted Screenplay for Adaptation.
P.H. Vazak
- 1985 Best Writing Adapted Screenplay for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.
- Due to his disapproval of the final filmed script, Robert Towne used his dog's name as a pseudonym instead.[5]
John Mac McMurphy
- 2013 Best Film Editing for Dallas Buyers Club
- Director Jean-Marc Vallée edited his film using this pseudonym, inspired by the name of the character played by Jack Nicholson in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ "OSCARS GO TO WRITERS FOR 'KWAI'", New York Times, March 16, 1985, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F15F8345D0C758DDDAA0894DD484D81
- ↑ "6 Nonexistent People Who Were Nominated for Oscars". 24 January 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Acad honors Trumbo for 'Roman Holiday'" Variety, May 12, 1993, http://www.variety.com/article/VR106758.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
- ↑ Jada Yuan (January 22, 2008). "Roderick Jaynes, Imaginary Oscar Nominee for 'No Country'". New York Magazine. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Associated Press via the Augusta Chronicle: http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/021303/fea_adaptation.shtml
- ↑ "Oscar nom for Montreal 'Dallas Buyers Club' editor", Canadian Press in The Record, January 16, 2014.
Sources[edit]
- Oscars site
- Oscar trivia at the Wayback Machine (archived October 27, 2009)
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