Homemade spaghetti dinners and a glamorous photo shoot: Eight quirky Oscar nominations

The campaign on behalf of Andrea Riseborough is the latest to cause controversy, but it is not the most memorable.

When actress Andrea Riseborough completed a 19-day shoot on the microbudget indie film "To Leslie" in Los Angeles at the height of the pandemic, her hopes were likely stretched to critics positive reviews from critics and independent film enthusiasts.

But now, after a social media campaign on his behalf by famous friends including Gwyneth Paltrow, Edward Norton and Sarah Paulson, she was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar — an honor she can keep, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ruled on Tuesday after reviewing unorthodox lobbying on her behalf . In the social media era, Riseborough's campaign wasn't the first to stretch rule s, which prohibit, among other things, directly mentioning contestants or their films or personally calling out academy members. /p>

Here are eight memorable auctions for a statuette gone rogue.

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1961

Chill Wills, ' The Alamo'

After Chill Wills was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Davy Crockett's pal, the beekeeper in "The Alamo", he hired the veteran publicist W.S. "Bow-Wow" Wojciechowicz to lead his campaign. Wojciechowicz submitted an ad to Variety with a photo of the film's cast and text that read, "We of the 'Alamo' cast pray harder — than real Texans prayed for their lives at the Alamo — that Chill Wills wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor."

Variety declined to direct it, and John Wayne, the film's director and star, has released its own ad berating Wills that said neither he nor his production company was involved in the effort in any way."I'm sure his intentions aren't as bad as his taste," a writes Wayne of Wills, who later blamed Wojciechowicz.) After that fiasco - Wills lost to Peter Ustinov for "Spartacus" - it became rare for actors to run their own campaigns, which have since been mostly the purview of studios. and teams of publicists.

1974

Candy Clark, 'America n Graffiti'

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The nostalgic coming-of-age feature film "American Graffiti" included future big names like Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford among its ensemble cast, but Candy Clark, then a little-known actress, was the only one going for an Oscar campaign. She paid $1,700 to take out a series of quarter-page ads in The Hollywood Reporter and Variety — a strategy that paid off when she was the film's only cast member to be nominated, for Best Supporting Actress. (She lost to 10-year-old Tatum O'Neal for "Paper Moon.")

1975

Liv Ullmann, "Scenes from a Wedding"

Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann delivered an outstanding performance in Ingmar Bergman's domestic drama "Scenes From a Marriage," but a potential nomination was sparked by a technicality that