In reading Besty's thread "Lost the Tony, Won the Oscar," I began thinking about situations in which it happened in reverse.
How many situations have there been where an actor/actress won a Tony for playing a role on Broadqay and then the actor/actress in the film adaptation of that role was nominated for but did not win the Oscar?
The ones that spring to my mind immediately are RABBIT HOLE and DOUBT. Cynthia Nixon and Cherry Jones won the Tony. Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep were nominated for but did not win the Oscar.
Any others?
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Ethel Merman won the Tony for CALL ME MADAM, wasn't Oscar nommed for recreating the role on film.
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Richard Griffiths (RIP) and Frank Langella both won Tony's, for THE HISTORY BOYS and FROST/NIXON respectively, but not Oscars. (Langella was at least nominated.)
Wilson Jermaine Heredia won the Featured Actor Tony for RENT, needless to say the movie did not win any Oscars.
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"How many situations have there been where an actor/actress won a Tony for playing a role on Broadqay and then the actor/actress in the film adaptation of that role was nominated for but did not win the Oscar?"
tony win/oscar nomination but no win
actor musical/actor movie: Zero Mostel/Topol Tevye, Fiddler Len Cariou/Johnny Depp Sweeney Todd
actor musical/supp. actor movie: George Rose/Stanley Holloway, Alfred Doolittle My Fair Lady
featured actor musical/supp actor movie: Cleavant Derricks/Eddie Murphy James "Thunder" Early Dreamgirls
actor play/actor movie: Rex Harrison/Richard Burton Henry VIII Anne of the Thousand Days Paul Muni/Spencer Tracy Henry Drummond Inherit the Wind Arthur Hill and Bill Irwin/Richard Burton George Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? James Earl Jones/James Earl Jones Jack Jefferson The Great White Hope Cliff Gorman/Dustin Hoffman Lenny Bruce Lenny John Rubinstein/William Hurt James Leeds Children of a Lesser God Brian Dennehy/Fredric March Willy Loman Death of a Salesman Frank Langella/Frank Langella Richard Nixon Frost/Nixon
actor play/supporting actor movie: Basil Rathbone/Ralph Richardson Austin Sloper The Heiress
featured actor play/supp. actor movie Arthur Kennedy/Kevin McCarthy Biff Loman Death of a Salesman Liev Schreiber/Al Pacino Richard Roma Glengarry Glen Ross
featured actor play/best actor oscar nom. Frances L. Sullivan/Charles Laughton Sir Wilifred Robarts Witness for the Prosecution
Worth noting that Stanley Holloway originated the role of Alfred Doolittle in MY FAIR LADY and played the role in that film, and that George Rose won the Tony for the revival.
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tony winning and oscar nominated (but not winning): the female roles:
best actress in a musical/best actress (nom. for a musical):
Gertrude Lawrence/Deborah Kerr Anna Leonowens The King and I Mary Martin/Julie Andrews Maria Von Trapp The Sound of Music
best actress in a musical/best actress (nom. for a non-musical version) Rosalind Russell/Rosalind Russell Ruth Sherwood Wonderful Town/My Sister Eileen Gwen Verdon/Greta Garbo New Girl in Town/Anna Christie Angela Lansbury/Rosalind Russell Mame/Auntie Mame Lauren Bacall/Bette Davis Margo Channing Applause/All About Eve Lauren Bacall/Katharine Hepburn Tess Harding Woman of the Year Glenn Close/Gloria Swanson Norma Desmond Sunset Boulevard La Chanze/Whoopi Goldberg Celie Johnson The Color Purple
best actress in a play/best actress
As Joan of Arc (different and non-different material): Ingrid Bergman tony win for Joan of Lorraine Julie Harris tony win for The Lark -Ingrid Bergman oscar nomination for Joan of Arc
Shirley Booth/Katharine Hepburn as Leona Samish in The Time of the Cuckoo/Summertime Nancy Kelly/Nancy Kelly as Christine Penmark in The Bad Seed Margaret Leighton/Deborah Kerr as Sibyl Railton Bell in Separate Tables (Leighton won the tony doubling as Sibyl and Ann Shankland; the role of Ann was played in the film by Rita Hayworth who was not nominated for an oscar) Maureen Stapleton/Marsha Mason as Evy Mears/Georgia Hines in The Gingerbread Lady/Only When I Laugh Ellen Burstyn/Ellen Burstyn as Doris in Same Time Next Year Irene Worth/Geraldine Page as Princess Cosmonopolis in Sweet Bird of Youth Pauline Collins/Pauline Collins as Shirley Valentine Vanessa Redgrave/Katharine Hepburn as Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night Cherry Jones/Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Doubt Cynthia Nixon/Nicole Kidman as Becca Corbett in Rabbit Hole
best actress in a play/best supporting actress (same role, different work) Julie Harris/Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln in The Last of Mrs. Lincoln/Lincoln
best featured actress in a musical/best supporting actress Patricia Neway/Peggy Wood as The Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music
best featured actress in a musical/best actress Tammy Grimes/Debbie Reynolds as The Unsinkable Molly Brown
best featured actress in a play/best supporting actress Peggy Cass/Peggy Cass as Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame Elizabeth Franz/Mildred Dunnock as Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman Amanda Plummer/Meg Tilley as Agnes of God Adriane Lenox/Viola Davis as Mrs. Muller in Doubt
best featured actress in a play/best actress Jane Alexander/Jane Alexander as Eleanor Bachman in The Great White Hope
best featured actress in a play/best actress (same role in related material - prequel/"prequelled") Patricia Neal/Bette Davis as Regina Hubbard/Regina Hubbard Giddens in Another Part of the Forest/The Little Foxes