By Lous Virtel
Our final task is a particularly fun one. Let's take the acting winners from Sunday's ceremony, compare each of them to an Oscar winner of yore based on similar roles, similar Oscar speeches, and similar presences. I've got four Oscar-winning ancestors lined up with the four Oscar winners actors from last night. Can you come up with better matches? I dare you.
1. Jennifer Lawrence is the new... Barbra Streisand
- Both won Oscars for playing quirky loudmouths (Funny Girl, Silver Linings Playbook).
- Both won Best Actress at or before the age of 26.
- Both tripped on their way to the stage.
- Both enjoyed award-nominated breakthroughs at age 19 (The Tony-nominated I Can Get It For You Wholesale for Streisand, the Oscar-nominated Winter's Bone for Lawrence).
2. Daniel Day-Lewis is the new Katharine Hepburn
- Both waited a generation (or more) between his/her first and second Oscar win.
- Their third Oscar wins are both for playing towering historical figures (Eleanor of Aquitaine, Abraham Lincoln).
- Both are known for their reclusiveness.
3. Christoph Waltz is the new Dianne Wiest
- Both won two supporting performance Oscars.
- Both owe their Oscar wins to one auteur (Quentin Tarantino in Waltz's case, Woody Allen in Wiest's)
- Both gush in their second Oscar speech about their colleagues, and both are clearly bowled over in surprise -- even after being obvious frontrunners when winning their first Oscar.
4. Anne Hathaway is the new Liza Minnelli
- Both secured their first nominations for playing oddball liars (Rachel Getting Married for Hathaway, The Sterile Cuckoo for Liza)
- Both won their Oscar on their second nomination for bombastic musical performances (Les Miserables, Cabaret)
- Both sported notably cropped hairstyles at the podium.
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