Q: Exactly 50 years ago on this day, August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon became the first and only president to leave office. Nixon also brought significant Best Actor nominations to two actors who portrayed him on screen. Who are they?
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A: Anthony Hopkins was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his 1995 film Nixon. Frank Langella was nominated in the same category for his 2008 film Frost/Nixon. Langella had previously won a Tony Award for the play on which that film was based. Only one actor has ever won a Best Actor Oscar for playing a real American president. Daniel Day Lewis won his third Best Actor Oscar for his 2012 film Lincoln. Raymond Massey was also previously nominated for Best Actor as Lincoln in 1940's Abe Lincoln In Illinois. Nixon and Lincoln are the only real American presidents to have garnered multiple Oscar nominations for those who played them.
QUESTION: Carroll O'Connor, who died in 2001, would have turned 100 today, August 2, 2024. He is one of two male actors in television history to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead in Both a Comedy and a Drama Series. Who is the other?
ANSWER: Robert Young won Emmys in 1957 for Continuing Performance by an Actor and in 1958 for Continuing Performance in a Leading Role by an Actor in a Drama or Comedy Series for his role as Jim Anderson on the sitcom Father Knows Best. In 1970, he won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Marcus Welby M.D.
