What Anonymous Oscar Ballots Ultimately Show: From ‘Fernanda Torres Is a Goddess’ to Voters Mistakingly Believing Ralph Fiennes Won Before
Surprisingly, two separate voters who didn’t vote for Fiennes said they did not vote for him because “he won before.” They both believed he won an Oscar for “Schindler’s List” (1993), which he didn’t, as he lost to Tommy Lee Jones for “The Fugitive.”
“Oh shit!” one chuckled after being corrected. Coincidentally, they voted for Brody, who actually won an Oscar for “The Pianist” (2002). As you can tell, sometimes these things tend not to make much sense.