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Half Man, Half Shark Equals One Complete Gentleman Bylines: Popular Mechanics, Biography, Best Products, Yahoo, CBR Co-host: You're Missing Out: A National Film Registry podcast

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And finally, Sebastian Stan scored a Best Actor nomination for a film that acts like the dark mirror image of John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, The Apprentice.

Can Donald Trump defeat the likes of Laszlo Toth or Bob Dylan? Christ knows, wouldn't be the first surprise Trump win.

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Six years later, in 2018, Sam Rockwell played second-fiddle to Christian Bale in Vice, earning a Supporting Actor nomination by portraying George W. Bush playing second-fiddle to Dick Cheney.

Rockwell would lose to Mahershala Ali for Green Book.

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The second repeat President is also the only time to date someone has *won* an Oscar for portraying a President, Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln.

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In 2008, we get our first repeat President, as this time it was Frank Langella getting a Best Actor nod for his performance as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon.

Langella lost to a different portrayal of a seismic 70s political figure, Sean Penn in Milk.

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Just two years later, Anthony Hopkins earned another Oscar nomination, this time in the Supporting Actor category for his portrayal of John Quincy Adams in Steven Spielberg's courtroom drama Amistad.

Hopkins lost to Robin Williams for Good Will Hunting.

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While the previous nominees were varying degrees of hagiography, 1995 saw Anthony Hopkins (a few years after his Hannibal win) get a nod as Richard Nixon in Oliver Stone's towering paranoid biopic Nixon.

Hopkins lost to Nicholas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas.

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Next was a rare film where every member of the cast received Oscar nominations: the filmed one-man show Give 'em Hell, Harry, where James Whitmore scored a truly unique Oscar nomination as Harry Truman.

Whitmore lost to Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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Four years later, character actor Alexander Knox got a rare lead role as Woodrow Wilson in 1944's Wilson. FDR famously adored the film, and screened it for Churchill (who went to bed halfway through).

Knox lost to Bing Crosby for Going My Way

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The first such case was Raymond Massey in 1940 for the film Abe Lincoln in Illinois. The film saw Massey reprise his role from the Pulitzer Prize-winning stage show of the same name.

He ultimately lost to James Stewart for The Philadelphia Story

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With Sebastian Stan's nomination today, he becomes only the 9th actor in the 97 year history of the Oscars to be nominated for playing a US President.

It's an interesting list:

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This week, it’s our biggest episode ever when @nkoas.bsky.social makes his triumphant return to discuss a film near and dear to his ticker: Francis Coppola’s unjustly maligned 1982 flop β€œOne from the Heart”, the Reprise edition.

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