Clark Gable
(It Happened One Night 1934 and Mutiny on the Bounty 1935)

Walter Pidgeon
(How Green Was My Valley 1941 and Mrs. Miniver 1942)

Russell Crowe
(Gladiator 2000 and A Beautiful Mind 2001)

Gable and Crowe won Best Actor for their first Best Picture and were nominated
for another the second time around. Pidgeon was passed over for
How Green Was My Valley, but was nominated for Mrs. Miniver.
Gable starred in a third Best Picture in 1939: Gone With the Wind.

Other performers who appeared in back-to-back Best Pictures:

Christopher Walken
played the cameo role of Diane Keaton's disturbed brother
in Annie Hall (1977) and won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in The Deer Hunter (1978)

Meryl Streep
is the only actress to star in consecutive Best Pictures,
winning her first Oscar nomination for The Deer Hunter (1978)
and her first Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

John Gielgud
made cameo appearances in Chariots of Fire (1981) and Gandhi (1982)

Ian Charleson
starred in Chariots of Fire (1981) and had a supporting role in Gandhi (1982)

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