Wait, isn't that the girl from The Next Karate Kid? Seemingly overnight, the star of the absolutely devastating Boys Don't Cry was a thespian to be reckoned with—and now she's a two-time Oscar winner!
A decade before terrorizing Timothy Olyphant on Justified, Goggins starred in and coproduced the Oscar-winning short film The Accountant.
So, we've got the guys who adapted The Dependants for the big screen: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and...Dean Pelton from Community?! Hey, Robin Williams' son in The Birdcage wrote Capote (didn't win though). These things happen.
Before marrying Angelina Jolie, suiting up as Bad Santa and further cultivating his bad-boy image, the Arkansas native did a beautiful job starring in—and writing—Sling Blade. He was no match for the Geoffrey Rush-in-Shine momentum in the Best Actor category, though.
Though not exactly known for his versatility when it comes to being on-camera, that famous monotone apparently got it done behind the scenes of eventual Best Picture winner Dances With Wolves—which is usually mentioned these days in sentences like, "Goodfellas was robbed by Dances With Wolves."
We're glad DJ Paul, Juicy J and Lord Infamous got in on the Oscars when they were still setting aside time for nominees to actually perform their music. And with the group's win, "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" joined "Over the Rainbow," "Moon River" and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" as the most honored movie music of all time.
Seventeen years before taking to TV full-time as a cohost on The View and four years before hosting the Oscars for the first of four times, the outspoken actress actually won one of these things for playing a sassy, initially skeptical psychic in Ghost. So, you know, for playing herself, if she could talk to dead people.
One minute it's "Business Time," the next it's Oscar time for one half of Flight of the Conchords.
The NCIS: Los Angeles star remains the only female Oscar recipient who won for playing a man. Not a woman dressed as a man, or a woman who wants to be a man—just a man who befriends (or does he?) Mel Gibson, in The Year of Living Dangerously.
Long before Burlesque, her Vegas revue and tweeting in support of Chaz, the Moonstruck star, supposedly still sore at being snubbed for her role in Mask, took home the Oscar in Bob Mackie's most head-scratching creation ever.