legacy Oscar
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
legacy Oscar (plural legacy Oscars)
- (film) An Academy Award perceived to have been given in recognition of the awardee's career and performances in prior films, rather than for the performance specifically nominated.
- 2023, Charles Bramesco, A brief history of the “legacy Oscar” and its winners, Little White Lies:
- Scanning the recent slates of winners, the legacy Oscar appears more and more frequently; even the most dedicated Jessica Chastain fans (also known as “Chastainiacs”) would have a hard time calling The Eyes of Tammy Faye her finest hour, but she’d accrued a reputation as an altogether deserving thespian by that point in her career, and that was enough.