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Here's mine, from an Academy historian (WARNING: POSTING OF A PRIVATE EMAIL):
Your Oscart Trivia book is wrong. Posthumous nominations in all the competititive categories have always been allowed. Therefore, Spencer Tracy, James Dean (twice), Massimo Troisi and Peter Finch were all nominated after they had died. (If your trivia book states that Peter Finch died after the nominations were announced that year, I suggest you get another trivia book. That one is not well researched. Peter Finch died January 14, 1977. The nominations were announced February 10, 1977.)*
The only categories where posthumous recognition is not allowed are four categories voted by the Board of Governors: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award and the Honorary Award. The key word here is "voted." Awards in these four categories can not be voted posthumously, but can be presented posthumously, as was the case with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Audrey Hepburn.
And, YES, Stanley Kubrick can be nominated for Achievement in Directing for the 1999 Awards year.
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I won't go so far as to give his name, but I figure no harm can come from posting the rest. Obviously I was wrong, but my book misled me! * Right here I really meant that he died after the ballots had already gone out (which is true, since ballots go out January 2).
The Creep, the Freak & the Loser
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