* One-Hit Oscar Wonders

Dexter Gordon – Round Midnight!
As a celebrated jazz great, it wasn’t a stretch for Dexter “Long Tall Dex” Gordon to play a musician in his first major role in a feature film. Although he didn’t take home the best actor Oscar, he did pick up a Grammy that year for the film’s soundtrack.

Jack Wild – Oliver!
In all probability. Unless you are a real movie buff with an extraordinary memory, you won’t remember Jack Wild playing Oliver Twist. He was only sixteen years old when he received a nomination for best actor in a supporting role as the Artful Dodger.

Jaye Davidson!
When it came to combining the fashion world with the movies, Jaye Davidson proved a point. He was a fashion assistant by profession and was spotted at a gathering, soon to be cast as an enigmatic woman, actually a transgender in The Crying Game, the most talked-about film of 1993. The role was difficult and Davidson played it to perfection, earning him the huge praise of even the most severe film critics and a nomination for an Oscar in a best supporting role.

Jocelyne LaGarde
When the super hit Broadway musical Hawaii was made into a film and released in 1967, it took the world by storm. It also brought Jocelyne LaGarde to public attention in the role of Malama Kanakoa, the three-hundred pound queen of Hawaii in the film. Polynesian by birth, Lagarde barely spoke English, French and Tahitian being more her forte