List of fictitious Academy Award nominees

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There have been several fictional people nominated for Academy Awards:

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Robert Rich

Rich won the award that year, although he was actually a cover for blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. Shortly before his death, Trumbo revealed the much-suspected truth.

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Donald Kaufman

Co-nominated with his brother Charlie Kaufman - in fact, there is no Donald Kaufman, and the screenplay was written by Charlie alone. Donald was the first fictitious nominee not to be a cover for a real person. (Both appear as characters in the film.)

Roderick Jaynes

Actually writer-director brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, who have edited several of their films under the name.

P.H. Vazak

Actually Robert Towne, who used his dog's name as a pseudonym.

[edit] Actual people

Sometimes an actual person is used as a cover for another person.


[edit] Winners

Pierre Boulle

Despite not having written the screenplay and not even speaking English. Boulle had been credited with the screenplay because the film's actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, had been blacklisted as communist sympathizers

Ian McLellan Hunter

Like Robert Rich, a name used to cover black-listed Dalton Trumbo. Ian's son Tim Hunter refused to give the award to Trumbo, so the Academy presented a second Academy Award.