Friday, 12th October 2007

From Oscar to Nobel

I think I am right that Al Gore and George Bernard Shaw are the only two people ever to have won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Can Coffee Housers confirm this?

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Mr Eugenides

October 12th, 2007 11:12am Report this comment

I think that's correct - though I would expect that Harold Pinter has had a hand in Oscar-nominated screenplays, and there may be others (Eugene O'Neill? Steinbeck? Gunter Grass?) A little rage.

Teesbridge

October 12th, 2007 1:04pm Report this comment

Apart from James Purnell, obviously.

James Campbell

October 12th, 2007 1:56pm Report this comment

Technically Shaw did not win an Oscar. Pymgmalion (1938) won best adapted screen play but Shaw had no hand in it. Adaptations of Sinclair Lewis (Dodsworth) and John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath) have also won Oscars but not for their scripts.

Max Kaye

October 12th, 2007 3:07pm Report this comment

I'm surprised Yasser Arafat didn't win an Oscar. (For SFX: fictional transformation from terrorist to statesman).

David Lindsay

October 13th, 2007 1:01pm Report this comment

What exactly has Al Gore ever done for peace? That is the question. Not whether or not global warming exists, or what causes it, or anything like that. Simply, what has Al Gore ever done for peace? On the contrary, he supported and supports the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he was Vice-President during the dismemberment of Yugoslavia.

Iain Murray

October 13th, 2007 1:28pm Report this comment

Gore technically didn't win an Oscar either - his producer Davis Guggenheim did. And Melissa Etheridge won Best Song for her direge accompanying the film.