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This 'test' is an interesting way of checking AA nominees and winners in the Best Actor category. However, all the dates are wrong. 1948 should be 1957, 1956 should be 1961, 1965 should be 1966, 1972 should be 1973, and 1978 should be 1979. These are the actual dates of the AA ceremonies. Go to the website www. academy awards. org and carry on with the good work. O Murr (talk) 21:43, 29 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Hi all, it seems to me that there is a mismatch between the list of awards with regards to Academy awards, and the description of such in the main Laurence Olivier page.
The main page says:
"For his work in films, Olivier received four Academy Awards: an honorary award for Henry V (1947), a Best Actor award and one as producer for Hamlet (1948), and a second honorary award in 1979 to recognise his lifetime of contribution to the art of film. He was nominated for nine other acting Oscars and one each for production and direction."
Assuming that the "one each for..." refers to his production and direction nominations for Hamlet (which is ambiguous given the "other" earlier in the sentence), it still doesn't match with the list on this page, which does not mention his producing win for Hamlet.
I'm reluctant to just change it, because maybe there is a wiki policy that assigns Best Picture wins to the film itself, rather than the producer. In which case, he happened to be a producer on a film which won Best Picture, rather than him being the winner of Best Picture. This would imply that this list is correct, and that the main article is factually correct (in that it refers to him having "received" awards) but misleading. Idioversal (talk) 19:20, 15 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
- Ah, I didn't realize that discrepancy on the primary Olivier page, thank you! So you'll notice here on the Best Picture page that from 1951 onward, the producers were specifically rewarded. But 1950 and prior, the studios were rewarded with only a representative (usually one of the producers, such as the ones named) accepted the award at the ceremony on behalf of the studio. But the award was not attributed to that person individually. Therefore, it is not actually Olivier's award as producer, but J. Arthur Rank & Two Cities Films as co-production companies. Feel free to change it and reword it on Olivier's main article, but the awards page is correct. Thanks again for speaking up! --Cinemaniac86TalkStalk 06:51, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
