Lionel and Ethel Barrymore
won Oscars as performers; he as Best Actor of 1931/32
as an alcholic lawyer in the melodrama A Free Soul, she
as Best Supporting Actress of 1944 for None But the Lonely Heart.

Other brothers and sisters to receive acting nominations were
Jane and Peter Fonda, Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty,
and Eric and Julia Roberts.

Coincidentally, three of the four brothers received nonacting nominations,
Barrymore for Best Director of 1928/29 for Madame X and
Fonda for Best Story and Screenplay - Based on Material Not
Previously Published or Produced in 1969 for Easy Rider.
Beatty, of course, received nomination as a producer, writer,
and director on several occasions; winning the Best Director Oscar for
Reds (1982) and the Irving Thalberg Award (2000).
Eric Roberts' only nomination came for Best Supporting Actor
for Runaway Train (1985).

1929/30 Best Actress Norma Shearer had an Academy Award-winning sibling:
sound director Douglas Shearer, who won Oscars in six competitve
categories as well as six awards for technical achievement.

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