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Walter Huston—Devil and Daniel Webster, Pro se party9
Edmund Gwynn—Miracle on 34th Street, Defendant
Jack Nicholson—A Few Good Men, Witness
Only Harrelson and Nicholson did not win the Oscar for their roles.
I chose not to include a Judge category. But to avoid a contempt citation, I’ll note some possible nominations: Spencer Tracy (see note 5), Robert Duvall, Louis Calhern (as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.), and perhaps Sylvester Stallone (for Judge Dredd).
Of the 28 Acting nominations, only five
are women in roles as lawyers. Television seems to do a better job portraying the legal profession as it exists today.
Only two of the movies I’ve mentioned deal with Law School and while both feature
9 He is Mr. Scratch, the devil but is representing himself (so if he is a lawyer, he is a fool).
some traumatic classroom scenes, they don’t deal with what I always viewed as the most fascinating subject. So, we have our final nomination:
Best Nominated Picture about the Rule Against Perpetuities
The Descendants10
For voting, a survey will be sent to all Convention registrants in mid-August. (It will take just a minute of your time and the results will be announced at the Saturday Academy Awards® party).
You can disagree with any or all of my suggestions. I do have a warning for you, if you start to research these (or any) movies on the Internet be prepared to meet a hookah smoking caterpillar, because you will wind up going down the rabbit hole.11
10 This was the only movie about the rule that was ever nominated, but Body Heat had one Oscar winner and two more Oscar® nominees in the cast.
11 And that brings us to our final legal movie reference; “Sentence first—verdict afterwards” from Alice in Wonderland.
John Weaver is a retired professor of law from Seattle University School of Law. He began teaching at UPS School of Law in 1972. He is a resident of Tacoma and serves as the Law School Liaison to the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association. He is an honorary life-time member of the TPCBA.
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