Many thanks!!!

Wow!!  It looks like they changed things at Chess.com again!!  It used to be that any tournament with 12 or fewer players only awarded a trophy for 1st place, but the Top 3 all got Paul Newman Trophies!!!  How cool is that!?!  Congrats Diana, Hammers, and Lizarondo!!!  Enjoy your trophies!!!

Ops!!! LOL. Me??? NOTHING!!!

It's the year I was born.  What were YOU thinking? 

How naughty, Billium! Ha ha!

There are 69 completed games in this tournament right now (You know I just love the number 69)!! 

Thanks for a really fun tourney guys!! I guess I placed where I should, but still had fun.

mez

That's funny.  You know they actually tried to recruit me at one point.  If it paid, I'd be super happy to do it.  Otherwise, my free time belongs to Chess.com. 

Wow, Billium, it's a wikipedia.

Paul Newman's final Oscar nomination came in 2002, when he joined Tom Hanks (who had beaten him out for their last Oscar) in Road to Perdition.  He lost to Chris Cooper in Adaptation.  The other nominees for Best Supporting Actor that year were Ed Harris (The Hours), John C. Reilly (Chicago), and Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can).

Road to Perdition was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, and won for Cinematography.  The other losses went to Frida, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and the year's Best Picture Chicago.

This was the same year as Gangs of New York, The Pianist, 8 Mile, Spider-man, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.  This was also the year the "I can't believe you've never won an Oscar" Honorary Award went to Peter O'Toole "whose remarkable talents have provided cinema history with some of its most memorable characters."  Unlike many other Best Actors before him (like Paul Newman), Peter O'Toole was unable to turn this honor into a competitive Oscar win and is now 0-8 in the Best Actor category.

This concludes our lesson of Paul Newman's time in Club Oscar.  I hope everyone enjoyed it.  Now maybe someone else can talk about his life as a race car driver and/or food entrepreneur.

In 1993, Paul Newman received his 3rd and final Oscar Statuette, this time winning the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award given to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry."

The following year, Paul earned his 8th Best Actor nomination for playing "Sully" in Nobody's Fool.  He lost to Tom Hanks who won an Oscar for the 2nd year in a row (this time for playing "Forrest Gump").  The other nominees that year were Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption), Nigel Hawthorne (The Madness of King George), and John Travolta (Pulp Fiction).

Nobody's Fool was nominated for only 2 Oscars (Best Actor and Best Writing) and lost both of them to Forrest Gump.  This was the same year as Ed Wood, Interview with a Vampire, Bullets over Broadway, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Quiz Show, Legends of the Fall, Little Women, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Clear and Present Danger, The Lion King, The Mask, True Lies, and Speed.

This was also the year that Quincy Jones won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, and Clint Eastwood won the Irving G. Thalberg Award.

In 1985 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Paul Newman with his first Oscar Statuette: an Honorary Award "in recognition of his many and memorable compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft."

And just like Henry Fonda and all the other actors to receive the "I can't believe you've never won an Oscar yet, here have this one" consolation prize, he came back the next year to win it for real (based largely on the previous year's hooplah about how he never won it before, no doubt).  He won the Oscar as "Fast Eddie Felson" in The Color of Money (beating out James Woods, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, and Dexter Gordon).

The Color of Money was nominated for 4 Oscars, but only Paul walked away with a win (losing the others to A Room with a View and Hannah and Her Sisters).  Best Picture (which The Color of Money was not nominated for) went to Oliver Stone's Platoon.

This was the same year as Top Gun (say whatever you want, it's still one of my favorite movies), Little Shop of Horrors, Aliens, Children of a Lesser God, Hoosiers, Peggy Sue Got Married, Blue Velvet, Crocodile Dundee, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

This is also the year that Steven Spielberg won the Irving G. Thalberg Award (for "creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production").

The next year (1982), Paul earned his sixth Best Actor nomination as "Frank Galvin" in The Verdict which he lost to Ben Kingsley in and as Ghandi.  The other nominations that year were Jack Lemmon, Peter O'Toole, and Dustin Hoffman (for Tootsie).

The Verdict was nominated for 5 Oscars, but (once again) won none of them.  It lost three times (Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture) to Ghandi, and once each to An Officer and a Gentleman (Best Supporting Actor) and Missing (Best Writing).

This was the same year as E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Blade Runner, Annie, The World According to Garp, Victor/Victoria, Sophie's Choice, Das Boot, Tron, Quest for Fire, Poltergeist, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and Rocky III.

Despite making such great films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973), The Towering Inferno (1974), and Slap Shot (1977), among others, Oscar didn't call on Paul for another 13 years until 1981's Absence of Malice earned him his 5th Best Actor nomination as "Michael Gallagher" (which he lost to Henry Fonda as "Norman Thayer, Jr." in On Golden Pond).  The other nominees that year were Warren Beatty, Burt Lancaster, and Dudley Moore.

Absence of Malice was nominated for 3 Oscars, but won none of them.  It lost the writing award to the year's Best Picture Chariots of Fire, and the Best Supporting Actress to Reds.  This was the same year as Raiders of The Lost Ark, and it was the first year for a new Oscar Category: Best Makeup (won by Rick Baker for An American Werewolf in London - his first of 11 nominations and 6 wins).

Sorry I've been gone so long.  Here is the continuation of Paul Newman's dance with Oscar:

After 4 Oscar nominations for Best Actor in 10 years (1958-1967), Paul switched it up in 1968 with Rachel, Rachel.  He not only did not get a Best Actor nomination, he didn't even act in it.  This was his 1st time as a Producer and Director, and he earned a a Best Picture nomination as the film's producer.

Rachel, Rachel was nominated for 4 Oscars, but won none of them.  The Best Director (for which Paul was not nominated) and Best Picture both went to Oliver!  The other half of one of Hollywood's most successful marriages, Joanne Woodward, lost the Best Actress Oscar that year to both Barbra Streisand (as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl) and Katherine Hepburn (as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter) in one of the very rare cases of an Oscar Tie.

Rachel, Rachel's nomination for Best Writing also fell to The Lion in Winter, and the Best Supporting Actress went to Rosemary's Baby.  This was the same year as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, The Odd Couple, The Producers, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

The massacre scene in the rain is one of best scenes I have ever seen and I have watched a lot of movies. The photography and music are excellent. To get so great and important role when Paul was in the end, it's something that only a few actors get, surely the good ones.

Colour of Money and Hutsler are great, perhaps because I like billiard :-)

I thought Butch Cassidy was the ultimate Paul Newman role - and it's the movie that made me a fan.  But Road to Perdition is my favorite.  The depth and nuance of his characterization is incredible - and that scene at the piano with Tom Hanks is a classic - makes the penultimate massacre scene in the rain almost heartbreaking.

No wonder why you know so much about cine because you are an actor!

Paul Newman's 3rd Oscar Nomination came in 1963 for the role of "Hud Bannon" in Hud.  He lost to Sidney Poitier as "Homer Smith" in Lilies of the Field.  The other nominees that year were Albert Finney, Richard Harris, and Rex Harrison.

Hud was nominated for 7 Oscars (but not Best Picture).  It won 3 of them (Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Cinematography).  It lost Best Director and Best Writing to the year's Best Picture Tom Jones.

Hi Domesday.  Good to see you again.  Since you go by the name "Luke Coolhand," we'll do this one next:

Paul Newman's 4th Oscar Nomination came in 1967 for the role of "Luke Jackson" in Cool Hand Luke.  He lost to Rod Steiger as "Police Chief Bill Gillespie" in the film In the Heat of the Night.  The other nominees that year were Warren Beaty, Dustin Hoffman, and the ever present Spencer Tracy.

Cool Hand Luke was nominated for 4 Oscars.  It won Best Supporting Actor (George Kennedy - "Dragline").  The Best Writing Oscar was also lost to In the Heat of the Night, which also won Best Picture (Cool Hand Luke was not nominated for Best Picture).

This was the same year that Gregory Peck won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, and Alfred Hitchcock won the Irving G. Thalberg Award.