Lucky Characters

The nomination for Jeff Bridges brings up one of my favorite kinds of Oscar trivia: Characters that have yielded multiple Oscar nominations. This can be for remakes...

Leslie Crosbie	The Letter	1929	Jeanne Eagels
	The Letter	1940	Bette Davis
Vicki Lester	A Star is Born	1937	Janet Gaynor
	A Star is Born	1954	Judy Garland
Norman Maine	A Star is Born	1937	Fredric March
	A Star is Born	1954	James Mason
Henry Higgins	Pygmalion	1938	Leslie Howard
	My Fair Lady	1964	*Rex Harrison
Arthur Chipping	Goodbye Mr. Chips	1939	*Robert Donat
	Goodbye Mr. Chips	1969	Peter O’Toole
Joe Pendleton	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	1941	Robert Montgomery
	Heaven Can Wait	1978	Warren Beatty
Max Corkle	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	1941	James Gleason
	Heaven Can Wait	1978	Jack Warden
Henry V	Henry V	1946	Laurence Olivier
	Henry V	1989	Kenneth Branagh
Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	1950	*Jose Ferrer
	Cyrano de Bergerac	1990	Gerard Depardieu
Rooster Cogburn	True Grit	1969	*John Wayne
	True Grit	2010	Jeff Bridges

...for sequels...

Father O’Malley	Going My Way	1944	*Bing Crosby
	The Bells of St. Mary’s	1945	Bing Crosby
Michael Corleone	The Godfather	1972	Al Pacino
	The Godfather Part II	1974	Al Pacino
Vito Corleone	The Godfather	1972	*Marlon Brando
	The Godfather Part II	1974	*Robert DeNiro
Eddie Felson	The Hustler	1961	Paul Newman
	The Color of Money	1986	*Paul Newman
Elizabeth I	Elizabeth	1998	Cate Blanchett
	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	2007	Cate Blanchett

...for historical figures who appear in multiple dramatizations...

Henry VIII	The Private Life of Henry VIII	1933	*Charles Laughton
	A Man for All Seasons	1966	Robert Shaw
	Anne of the Thousand Days	1969	Richard Burton
Henry II	Becket	1964	Peter O’Toole
	The Lion in Winter	1968	Peter O’Toole
Elizabeth I	Shakespeare in Love	1998	*Judi Dench
	Elizabeth, etc. [see above]	1998	Cate Blanchett
Howard Hughes	Melvin and Howard	1980	Jason Robards
	The Aviator	2004	Leonardo DiCaprio
Richard Nixon	Nixon	1995	Anthony Hopkins
	Frost/Nixon	2008	Frank Langella

...and characters played by different actors within in the same film...

Rose DeWitt-Bukater/Calvert	Titanic	1997	Kate Winslet
			Gloria Stuart
Iris Murdoch	Iris	2001	Judi Dench
			Kate Winslet

There are also a few unofficial ones:

Basil Rathbone received a nod as Tybalt in the 1936 version of Romeo and Juliet; George Chakiris won the Oscar as Bernardo, the Tybalt-inspired character in West Side Story.

Lee Strasberg was nominated for playing Hyman Roth in The Godfather Part II, a fictionalized version of Meyer Lansky, while Ben Kingsley was nominated for playing Lansky in Bugsy.

Gregory Peck was nominated for The Yearling, based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Rawlings biopic Cross Creek portrays the man she based the character on, and Rip Torn was nominated for playing that role.

Mary Badham earned a nomination as "Scout" Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, a character generally regarded as Harper Lee's fictional counterpart; Catherine Keener was nominated for portraying Ms. Lee in Capote.

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Did I miss any? Please let me know if I did!