The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree — especially at the Oscars.
I’m Still Here‘s Fernanda Torres and Conclave‘s Isabella Rossellini joined their mothers, Fernanda Montenegro and Ingrid Bergman, respectively, as Oscar nominees on Thursday, becoming the fifth and sixth pairs of mother-daughter duos to be nominated for acting Oscars.
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Torres, who cracked the top five in the Best Actress odds after her Golden Globe victory, is up for the award alongside Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Mikey Madison (Anora), and Demi Moore (The Substance). The nomination comes 26 years after Montenegro was shortlisted in the same category for Central Station and lost to Shakespeare in Love‘s Gwyneth Paltrow.
Rossellini, 72, received her long-awaited maiden Oscar bid in Best Supporting Actress, where she was third in the odds, in Edward Berger‘s papal thriller. She faces Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Felicity Jones (The Brutalist), and Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez). A three-time Oscar winner, Bergman won Best Actress twice for 1944’s Gaslight and 1956’s Anastasia and Best Supporting Actress for 1974’s Murder on the Orient Express.
Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli were the first mother and daughter to achieve this feat. The former was a two-time nominee for 1954’s A Star Is Born in Best Actress and 1961’s Judgment at Nuremberg in Best Supporting Actress. Garland was heavily favored to win for her comeback performance in A Star Is Born, and a camera crew was set up in her hospital room, where she had just given birth, to film her speech. Alas, Grace Kelly pulled off the upset for The Country Girl. Minnelli received a supporting bid for 1969’s The Sterile Cuckoo before winning Best Actress for her iconic turn in 1972’s Cabaret.
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The second pair to join this club were Diane Ladd and Laura Dern. Ladd earned two supporting nominations for 1974’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and 1990’s Wild at Heart. She and Dern then made history as the first mother-daughter thespians to be nominated in the same year when Ladd was up for Best Supporting Actress and Dern for Best Actress for 1991’s Rambling Rose. Dern followed with two more supporting nominations for 2014’s Wild and 2019’s Marriage Story, winning for the latter.
Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson were the third duo and have three nominations between them. Hawn won on her first time at bat in supporting 1969’s Cactus Flower. She received a lead bid for 1980’s Private Benjamin. Twenty years later, Hudson was nominated for her supporting performance in Almost Famous.
Before Thursday, the most recent pair entered the list just two years ago: Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis. The former received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for 1960’s Psycho, while the latter won that award on her first nomination for Everything Everywhere All at Once — one of the Best Picture champ’s seven wins. Curtis was in the running for a follow-up Best Supporting Actress nomination for The Last Showgirl this year and bagged Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA nominations.
Coincidentally or not, there’s one winner from each of the first four duos, three of whom are the daughter. Since Bergman is an Oscar winner, the Bergman-Rossellini pair already fits this trend even if Rossellini loses on March 2. But if Torres loses, she and Montenegro, who also appears in I’m Still Here, will be the only mother-daughter double act to be Oscar-less.
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