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Feud
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Feud — Career & Awards (9 facts)
- #005
Three Oscar winners — Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon and Catherine Zeta-Jones — play three other Oscar winners: Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland, respectively.
- #008
The scenes of the 35th Academy Awards (1963) in episode 5 were shot at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, the actual venue of the 1963 Oscars.
- #010
Months of preparation went into staging the unbroken tracking shot at the Oscars in which Joan Crawford accompanies David Lean backstage to the press room. The original theatre was extensively remodelled, so a replica set was meticulously recreated.
- #015
In 2006, Susan Sarandon narrated the Emmy-winning Turner Classic Movies documentary Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006). Sarandon went on to play Davis in this series.
- #021
Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon were both nominated at the 67th Annual Academy Awards (1995), the ceremony at which Lange won the Oscar for Blue Sky (1994). Sarandon would win the following year for her performance in Dead Man Walking (1995).
- #027
In real life, Freddie Francis, the B-movie director of Trog (1970), had a more successful career in Hollywood as a cinematographer, winning two Oscars for that work.
- #034
The series features many Oscar winners and nominees; the winners include Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kathy Bates. The nominees include Judy Davis, Stanley Tucci, Diane Lane, Naomi Watts, Demi Moore and Chloë Sevigny.
- #037
At one point in the series the two divas discuss their Oscar rivalry, and Joan Crawford says that Bette Davis has "Bookend Oscars whereas I only have one." In reality, Jessica Lange has two Oscars to Susan Sarandon's one. Total nominations: Lange 6, Sarandon 5.
- #041
The series features many Oscar winners and nominees; among the winners are Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Catherine Zeta-Jones, along with two Oscar nominees: Judy Davis and Stanley Tucci. Interestingly, Judy Davis is an Emmy winner and won for portraying another Oscar nominee, Judy Garland.
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