Multiple Character Nominations (appended)
Actors Nominated (or Winning) for Playing the Same Role in Different Movies
Nominations Character
3 actors nominated for the same part
A Star Is Born
Fredric March, James Mason, Bradley Cooper, Norman/Jackson Maine in A Star Is Born (1937), A Star Is Born (1954) & A Star is Born (2018)
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Cyrano de Bergerac
José Ferrer (winner) and Gérard Depardieu as Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) & Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Van Gogh
Kirk Douglas and Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956) & At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
Nixon
Anthony Hopkins and Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Nixon (1995) & Frost/Nixon (2008)
Henry V
Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh as Henry V in Henry V (1944) & Henry V (1989)
Abraham Lincoln
Raymond Massey and Daniel Day-Lewis (winner) as Abraham Lincoln in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) & Lincoln (2012)
Color of Money
Paul Newman as Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) & The Color of Money (1986) (winner)
Henry VIII
Charles Laughton (winner) and Richard Burton as Henry VIII in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) & Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Henry II
Peter O’Toole as Henry II in Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968)
Bing Crosby as Chuck O’Malley in Going My Way (1944) (winner) & The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Henry Higgins
Leslie Howard and Rex Harrison (winner) as Henry Higgins in Pygmalion (1938) & My Fair Lady (1964)
True Grit
John Wayne (winner) and Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969) & True Grit (2010)
Joe Pendleton
Robert Montgomery and Warren Beatty as Joe Pendleton in Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) & Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Robert Donat (winner) and Peter O’Toole as Arthur Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) & Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
