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Impressive Starts
What do the following actors have in common?
- Barbra Streisand
- Glenn Close
- John Malkovich
- Jose Ferrer
- Julie Andrews
- Lee Grant
- Lily Tomlin
- Montgomery Clift
- Oprah Winfrey
- Orson Wells
- Richard Widmark
- Tatum O’Neal
- Whoopi Goldberg
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All were nominated for an Academy Award in their film debuts. Most went on to have impressive careers after their impressive starts.
Their nominations....
- Streisand for Funny Girl in 1968 and won the Oscar
- Close was nominated for Supporting Actress in The World According to Garp in 1982
- Malkovich was nominated for Places in the Heart in 1984 as Supporting Actor
- Ferrer received Support Actor nomination in 1948 for Joan of Arc
- Andrews won on her first try as Best Actress for Mary Poppins in 1964
- Grant was nominated for supporting role in 1951 for Detective Story
- Tomlin didn’t win for Nashville in 1975 as supporting actress
- Clift started in 1948 with lead role in The Search
- Winfrey and Goldberg were both nominated for The Color Purple in 1985. Neither won.
- Wells starred in his immortal classic, Citizen Kane in 1941 but didn’t win the Oscar.
- Widmark played a crazed killer in a supporting role in Kiss of Death in 1947
- O’Neal won for supporting actress in Paper Moon in 1973. Her father wasn’t even nominated.
Jack Wild, nominated for Oliver! In 1968 Jason Miller who started in The Exorcist in 1973 Katina Paxinou who won the award in For Whom the Bell Tolls in 1943 Mary Badham who played Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962 and sadly, there’s many more who thought they had grabbed the brass ring only to fade into obscurity and trivia.