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Originally Posted by Stumptown
I'm following liamenator's excellent pick with a very similar one in the It's an Honour Just to be Nominated category. Like Kubrick, he's a widely acclaimed writer/director whose movies are on pretty much everyone's top 10 lists. Like Kubrick, he won once for writing, but it was a shared award. Unlike Kubrick he was only ever nominated in any category for one of his many great films, which I think is a travesty. Unlike Kubrick he was also an excellent and prolific actor. And, unlike Kubrick he did get a "Lifetime Achievement" award - the "we didn't really appreciate you enough during your career, but you showed us" award.
If you guessed Orson Welles, you're correct. In particular, I'm thinking about Touch of Evil, which was considered a failure in its day, but now (partly thanks to a new edit based on Orson's production notes, and not the studio's hack job) is considered his masterpiece, even over Citizen Kane. IMHO, he also should have won best supporting actor for The Third Man.
Newly edited amazing crane shot from the opening sequence of Touch of Evil:
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I saw the new cut of Touch of Evil at the Plaza in Calgary when it came out... My jaw was on the floor for the entire 2 hours after that opening crane shot on the big screen. Probably my favorite shot in any movie, ever.
However... we will have to get a ruling from The Comish - technically, Welles wasn't nominated for an Oscar for anything other than Citizen Kane... So I think that would be the only one that fits in Proto's criteria? Not sure, I'll wait for Proto to rule on that.