Friday 12 November 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 180

Here’s a loooooooooooong connect.

Connect these personalities. Or, more appropriately, what is common to all these real-life personalities?

1.

Harvey Milk

2.

Idi_Amin

3.

M K Gandhi

4.

Ray Charles

5.

Szpilman

6.

Truman Capote

Filenames have not been changed to help you out. Therefore, please give me a very specific connect.

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FOURTEEN replies! Great! But some of them are incomplete. The answer that I was looking for was that actors who portrayed these characters in films received the Academy Award for Best Actor!

Here’s the list, copied from the oncologist’s reply:

1. Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk (2008).
2. Forest Whittaker as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
3. Ben Kingley as M K Gandhi in Gandhi (1982)
4. Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004)
5. Adrien Brody as Władysław Szpilman in The Pianist (2002)
6. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote (2005).

People who got this entirely correct are sid, partha - the oncologist with a heart, Jagdish, shivajyoti, Karthike Ramesh, Movin, pritfloyd, Srikanth, and Sunny Lyngdoh. I got the 14th answer from Girish, but that was after I had published the replies. So I am not considering it.

14 comments:

  1. All of them have been immortalized in biopics. More specifically, they all have had eponymous biopics. (Except for Szpilman)

    Harvey Milk: Milk
    Idi Amin: The Rise & Fall of Idi Amin
    M. K Gandhi: Gandhi
    Ray Charles: Ray
    Władysław Szpilman: The Pianist (an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Szpilman)
    Truman Capote: Capote

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  2. All actors who have played these characters in the following movies have received best actor award at the Oscars
    Milk (2008): Based on the life of Harvey Milk played by Sean Penn
    The Last king of Scotland (2006): Based on the life of Idi Amin played by Forest Whitaker
    Gandhi(1982): Based on the life of MK Gandhi played by Ben Kingsley
    Ray (2004): Based on the life of Ray Charles played by Jamie Foxx
    The Pianist (2002): Based on the life of Władysław Szpilman played by Adrien Brody
    Capote (2005): Based on the life of Truman Capote played by Philip Seymour Hoffman

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  3. All these real life personalities have been portrayed by different actors who have won an Oscar for their performance.
    1. Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in "Milk"(2008).
    2. Forest Whittaker as Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland" (2006)
    3. Ben Kingley as M K Gandhi in "Gandhi" (1982)
    4. Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in "Ray" (2004)
    5. Adrien Brody as Władysław Szpilman in "The Pianist" (2002)
    6. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in "Capote" (2005).
    Additional info - The first and the last personalities were documented homosexuals.

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  4. All have been portrayed in films. The actors portraying them have won oscars for their performances.

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  5. they have films made on their lives!!!!!!!!!!!

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  6. All have been portrayed in movies which won the actors Best Actor award in the Oscars.

    1. Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk
    2. Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland
    3. Ben Kingsley as Gandhi in Gandhi
    4. Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray
    5. Adrien Brody as Władysław Szpilman in The Pianist
    6. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote.

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  7. The first looks like Milk, the gay senator. Sean Penn, Forrest Whittaker, Ben Kingsley.....all these actors won Oscars for Best Actor for playing these roles (can't identify the rest). Is that the connect?

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  8. actors playing them have won Best Acting oscars

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  9. Movies on these personalities where made and all of them went on to win oscars for specific categories...

    Kevin...

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  10. best actor Oscar winners for playing the roles of these gentlemen:
    1.2008 Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk
    2.2006 Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
    3.1982 Ben Kingsley – Gandhi as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
    4.2004 Jamie Foxx – Ray as Ray Charles
    5.2002 Adrien Brody – The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman
    6.2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote

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  11. The actors who portrayed these men in movies, all of them won best actor award at the Oscars.
    2008 - Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk
    2006 Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
    1982 Ben Kingsley – Gandhi as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
    2002 Adrien Brody – The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman
    2004 Jamie Foxx – Ray as Ray Charles
    2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote

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  12. okay...i needed no googling and even names of the files...but i am quite sure about this one!!!
    these are the people who have been portrayed by oscar winning actors...

    harvey milk by sean penn in milk...

    the dictator of uganda id amin...the last king of scotland... forest whitaker

    gandhi of course...

    ray charles in the movie ray ...dont remember the actors name...

    dont know the last two!!!!

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  13. Oscars for Best Actor - Milk, The Last King of Scotland, Gandhi, Ray, The Pianist, Capote

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  14. Actors have won Best actor Oscars for portraying these characters on screen.

    Girish Ramesh

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