FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever.

[Wichita Lineman]

If I post a batch at 3pm (for example) the earliest the following set will appear is 6pm - but it could be as late as 11pm - although I have done fairly ok on the 3 hours (ish) gaps a fair bit of the time. 

It's going great so far and I'm really enjoying it so i hope you all are too.

[Kol]

Annette Bening
Sigourney Weaver
Dwayne Johnson - Think he might be one of my noms, tough draw for him.
Geena Davis

[jp liz v1]

Annette Bening
Sigourney Weaver
Dwayne Johnson - Think he might be one of my noms, tough draw for him.
Geena Davis

Dwayne may not be an Oscar winner or nominee but he has so much charisma so hard to dislike and is box office gold king #Rock25

[quickbeam]

It's going great so far and I'm really enjoying it so i hope you all are too.

I am anyway. You're doing great Witchita!

[cee_jay]

Annette Bening
Sigourney Weaver
Dwayne Johnson
Geena Davis

[quickbeam]

Dwayne may not be an Oscar winner or nominee but he has so much charisma so hard to dislike and is box office gold king #Rock25

I've nothing against him. In fact I quite like him, unlike plenty of other contestants here who I've voted against. But he's no Alec Guinness.

[Wichita Lineman]

Some fairly one sided results yet there were some tricky ones all the same. Dwayne Johnson did well to take 4 off Alec Guinness in a tough draw. 

3 all lady clashes up next. There will be skin and hair flying. oh and Mike Myers will try to outdo the Ballymena giant. 
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Results:
Jessie Buckley 2 v 9 Annette Bening
Sigourney Weaver 9 v 3 Michael Clarke Duncan
Alec Guinness 8 v 4 Dwayne Johnson
Geena Davis 9 v 2 Ginger Rogers

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Round 1 - Matches 197 - 200

Kristen Stewart - Stewart agreed to a salary less than $200,000 so she could remain be part of On the Road (2012) after the film's budget was drastically cut. Stewart remained committed to the role of Marylou out of her love for the original novel by Jack Kerouac. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829576/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Isabella Rossellini - Her favorite Hollywood-film that her mother Ingrid Bergman made is Notorious (1946). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000618/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Mike Myers - A fan of the rock band Queen. 
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000196/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Liam Neeson - Is a member of the Dublin Shakespeare Theatre Festival, where his past credits include "Hamlet", "King Richard II" and "All's Well That Ends Well".
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000553/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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Greta Garbo - Gary Cooper was reportedly one of her favourite actors. She requested him for several of her films, but nothing ever materialized.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001256/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Chloe Grace Moretz - She loves comedy movies, especially the Legally Blonde (2001) movies. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1631269/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Gillian Anderson - She was voted "Class Clown", "Most Bizarre Girl" and "Most Likely to be Arrested" by her classmates in high school. In fact, she was arrested on graduation night for trying to glue the locks shut at her high school.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000096/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Audrey Tautou - Her parents named her after Audrey Hepburn.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851582/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Voting on post 49 remains open for at least 3 hours / until post 50 arrives.
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Kristen Stewart v Isabella Rossellini 
Mike Myers v Liam Neeson
Greta Garbo v Chloe Grace Moritz 
Gillian Anderson v Audrey Tautou 
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[Kol]

Isabella Rossellini
Liam Neeson
Greta Garbo - iirc, she retired from acting at quite a young age.
Gillian Anderson

[DejaBoo]

Isabella Rossellini
Liam Neeson
Greta Garbo
Gillian Anderson

[jp liz v1]

Kristen Stewart
Liam Neeson
Chloe Grace Moritz
Gillian Anderson

[Necro]

Kristen Stewart
Liam Neeson
Chloe Grace Moritz
Gillian Anderson

[quickbeam]

Kristen Stewart v Isabella Rossellini
Mike Myers v Liam Neeson
Greta Garbo v Chloe Grace Moritz
Gillian Anderson v Audrey Tautou

[RSOAPS]

Kristen Stewart
Liam Neeson
Chloe Grace Moritz
Gillian Anderson

[Sawduck]

Kristen Stewart
Liam Neeson
Greta Garbo
Gillian Anderson

[ari101]

Isabella Rossellini
Liam Neeson
Greta Garbo
Gillian Anderson

[nothing]

Kristen Stewart
Liam Neeson
Greta Garbo
Gillian Anderson

[Zaph]

Isabella Rossellini
Liam Neeson
Chloe Grace Moritz
Gillian Anderson

[ShaneU]

Kristen Stewart
Mike Myers
Greta Garbo
Gillian Anderson

[Mam of 4]

Isabella Rosselini
Liam Neeson
Greta Garbo
Gillian Anderson

[cee_jay]

Isabella Rossellini
Liam Neeson
Chloe Grace Moritz
Gillian Anderson

[Trigger]

Isabella Rossellini
Liam Neeson
Greta Garbo
Gillian Anderson

[Wichita Lineman]

3 classy ladies sail on to round 2 joined by Liam Neeson who fairly pounded Mike Myers. 

There's another GOT entrant in Peter Dinklage coming up. 

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results - 
Kristen Stewart 6 v 8 Isabella Rossellini
Mike Myers 1 v 13 Liam Neeson
Greta Garbo 9 v 5 Chloe Grace Moritz
Gillian Anderson 13 v 1 Audrey Tautou

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Round 1 - Matches 201 - 204

Joan Fontaine - Relations between she and sister Olivia de Havilland were never strong, but worsened in 1941 when both were nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. Their mutual dislike and jealousy escalated into an all-out feud after Fontaine won for Suspicion (1941). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000021/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Matthew McConnaughey - Has his own line of clothing, called "j.k. livin", named for his life's motto, "Just keep living", which is also the name of his charitable foundation.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000190/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Denis Leary - His interest in the perils of firemen and his co-creation of the series Rescue Me (2004) stemmed from a tragic 1999 warehouse fire in his hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts, that took the lives of six firemen, including his cousin and a childhood friend. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001459/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Rob Lowe - Quote -"One of the great gifts we get (as actors) is that we live on, frozen in time, forever... Truly, the most fulfilling moments I've ever had are on the stage. If you can't have that as an actor, then you might as well at least have that other great thing, which is immortality." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000507/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Hugh Grant - In an interview, Hugh Grant admitted he was accidentally sent a script for Jerry Maguire. When he called his agent to ask why he had been sent such a good script compared to other movies he had done, his agent admitted it was intended to be sent to Tom Cruise. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000424/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Warren Beatty - Said that if they ever made a movie about his life story, Colin Farrell is the only person he thinks could play him.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000886/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Tatiana Maslany - Her Emmy win in 2016 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a TV series for Orphan Black (2013) set a precedent for the number of characters she portrayed: "Sarah/Alison/Cosima/Helena/Rachel/M.K./Krystal and Beth".
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1137209/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Peter Dinklage - Dinklage is considered such a genuinely pleasant and amiable person by his co-stars on "Game of Thrones", that many of them found it quite difficult to act out scenes with him in which they were mistreating his character Tyrion.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227759/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Voting on post 51 remains open for at least 3 hours / until post 52 arrives. - Very hard to keep track of these numbers   
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Joan Fontaine v Matthew McConnaughey 
Denis Leary v Rob Lowe 
Hugh Grant v Warren Beatty
Tatiana Maslany v Peter Dinklage
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[Zaph]

Matthew McConnaughey
Rob Lowe
Warren Beatty
Peter Dinklage

[Sawduck]

Matthew McConnaughey
Denis Leary
Warren Beatty
Peter Dinklage

[jp liz v1]

Matthew McConnaughey
Rob Lowe
Hugh Grant
Peter Dinklage

[jp liz v1]

Jessie Buckley was one of my noms, an amazing Irish actress and singer

I think Kristen Stewart is the Oscar best actress front runner for her portrayal of Princess Diana in Spencer, I feel sorry for her and Rob Patterson as they are taking on risky, diverse and indie roles etc., to distant themselves from the Twillight franchise

[RSOAPS]

Matthew McConnaughey
Rob Lowe
Warren Beatty
Peter Dinklage

[ShaneU]

Jessie Buckley was one of my noms, an amazing Irish actress and singer

She was great in Fargo

Matthew McConnaughey
Rob Lowe
Hugh Grant
Peter Dinklage

[cee_jay]

Matthew McConnaughey
Rob Lowe
Hugh Grant
Peter Dinklage

[Kol]

Joan Fontaine - Tough call, I think Matthew will walk this anyway
Rob Lowe
Hugh Grant - Dont think I ever saw a Warren Beatty movie
Pass, dont know either

[Necro]

Matthew McConnaughey
Rob Lowe
Hugh Grant
Peter Dinklage

[Trigger]

Matthew McConnaughey
Rob Lowe
Hugh Grant
Peter Dinklage

[quickbeam]

Joan Fontaine v Matthew McConnaughey
Denis Leary v Rob Lowe
Hugh Grant v Warren Beatty
Tatiana Maslany v Peter Dinklage

[Wichita Lineman]

No whitewashes but no tight results either in that pot. 

A few lesser known talents coming up next but they are all stars to someone and entitled to be included. 
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RESULTS:
Joan Fontaine 2 v 8 Matthew McConnaughey
Denis Leary 1 v 9 Rob Lowe
Hugh Grant 7 v 3 Warren Beatty
Tatiana Maslany 1 v 8 Peter Dinklage

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Round 1 - Matches 205 - 208

JK Simmons - He was hospitalized because of a kidney stone after his role in 'New in Town', for which he gained 40+ pounds.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799777/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Charleze Theron - Always speaks Afrikaans with her mother, who lives two minutes from her in Los Angeles. They have matching fish tattoos.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000234/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Ron Glass - Was a member of the Soka Gakkai International, a lay Buddhist organization. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322002/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Maureen O'Hara - Had starred with John Wayne in five films: Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952), The Wings of Eagles (1957), McLintock! (1963) and Big Jake (1971). In all five, Wayne and O'Hara played husband and wife and, in all five, they were estranged at least briefly. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000058/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Matt Bomer - While touring Europe as a student in his early twenties, Matt was planning to travel to Israel from Ireland when his luggage was misplaced and he ended up spending a month in Dublin. He also spent time working as a bartender in Galway city in the west of Ireland. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093589/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Robert Downey Jnr - [on Mel Gibson] He's a stand-up guy - he's always has been for me - and certainly when I was not hire-able, he put his ass on the line and said, "I'll take that chance." He will always have my friendship, and that's just talking about business and Hollywood stuff, which to me is nowhere as important as friendship.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000375/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Joaquin Phoenix - He was personally chose by Johnny Cash to play him in Walk The Line (2005) after being impressed by his performance in Gladiator (2000).
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001618/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Hailee Steinfeld - In 2016, she starred in the teen dramedy The Edge of Seventeen (2016), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2794962/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Voting on post 52 remains open for at least 3 hours / until post 53 arrives. 
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JK Simmons v Charleze Theron 
Ron Glass v Maureen O'Hara 
Matt Bomer v Robert Downey Jnr
Joaquin Phoenix v Hailee Steinfeld 
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[Necro]

JK Simmons
Robert Downey Jnr
Joaquin Phoenix

[Sawduck]

JK Simmons
Maureen O'Hara
Robert Downey Jnr
Joaquin Phoenix

[Kol]

JK Simmons
Maureen O'Hara
Robert Downey Jnr
Joaquin Phoenix

Same please

[davetherave]

Maureen O'Hara
Robert Downey Jnr
Joaquin Phoenix

[RSOAPS]

JK Simmons
Ron Glass
Robert Downey Jnr
Hailee Steinfeld

[quickbeam]

JK Simmons v Charleze Theron
Ron Glass v Maureen O'Hara
Matt Bomer v Robert Downey Jnr
Joaquin Phoenix v Hailee Steinfeld