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Tuesday, November 11th, 2025

Live Poll: Oscar Nominations in Prison

These actors nominated for an Academy Award for portraying a prison character. Which one gave the best performance?

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4153163353/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/Y8GqTJnR9-xpwqs9qrLMNQ/

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1 month ago

Colman Domingo: https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt28479262/mediaviewer/rm3744567810/ https://www.imdb.com/de/name/nm0231458/awards/ Oscar for Leading Role in 'Sing Sing' (2025)

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Sean Penn: https://www.imdb.com/de/name/nm0000576/awards/ Oscar for Leading Role in 'Dead Man Walking' (1996)

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6 days ago

Please edit:

These actors were nominated for an Academy Award for portraying a prison character.

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Done.

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5 days ago

William Hurt as Luis Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman (he won)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089424/mediaviewer/rm3727947521/?ref_=ttch_ph_4_2

There are more here:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089424/mediaindex/?relatedNames=nm0000458&contentTypes=still_frame&ref_=ttch_sm

(Oh and most are of the character in prison, even if his clothes don't look like it.)

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5 days ago

Good poll with well chosen images.

I suggest one small edit:

Each of these actors were nominated for an Academy Award for portraying a prison character.  

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5 days ago

FYC:

Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs

Renee Zeweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago

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4 days ago

FYC:

Wallace Beery in The Big House

Ronald Colman in Condemned!

Burt Lancaster in Birdman of Alcatraz

Geoffrey Rush in Quills

Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola

Telly Savalas in Birdman of Alcatraz

Edward Norton in Primal Fear

It's a prisoner of war camp, not a regular prison, but you might also want to consider

William Holden in Stalag 17

Robert Strauss in Stalag 17

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Also 

Susan Hayward in I Want to Live!

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Thanks for the suggs!

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Sorry. It was my mistake. I only meant to suggest Telly Savalas for Birdman of Alcatraz since you already got Burt Lancaster, but I suggested both and now Lancaster is duplicated.

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1 day ago

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/Y8GqTJnR9-xpwqs9qrLMNQ/

Congratulations, Paok!

(Please mark this thread as "Praise" and change "Poll Suggestion" to "Live Poll."

Thank you!)

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1 day ago

You forgot Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier for "The Defiant Ones."  Tony Curtis won the Oscar.  Sidney Poitier was the first black man nominated for an Oscar for his role.

I would have voted for either of them.  

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Yes to the old timers.  I am still alive.  I had my 4th stroke in early November and am still in recovery.  

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@TheOldJalapenoman​ 

4 strokes! Do you smoke?

Welcome back. :D

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22 hours ago

Paok, as j-man pointed out above, Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier from "The Defiant Ones" are missing. Please add them and request a re-push:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/faq-poll-authors-repush-requests/5f4a7ad08815453dbabc3d05?page=161

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@Jessica​ ok

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They are not really "in prison" given that they escape at the start of the film.