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Poll: Oscar Winners on TV

A poll by rubyfruit76.
Several actors, such as George Clooney, Jodie Foster, and Denzal Washington went from starring in TV series onto winning Academy Awards for their work in motion pictures, but these actors joined the casts of TV series after they won their Oscars. Instead of voting for your favorite actor, whose work do you think is most distinguished in both TV and film?

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    Patricia Arquette

    TV after Oscar: CSI: Cyber. (TV before Oscar: Medium; Boardwalk Empire.) Oscar for Supporting Role in Boyhood.
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    Kathy Bates

    TV: Six Feet Under; Harry's Law; American Horror Story. Oscar for Leading Role in Misery.
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    Halle Berry

    TV: Extant. Oscar for Leading Role in Monster's Ball.
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    Ernest Borgnine

    TV: McHale's Navy; Future Cop; Airwolf; The Single Guy. Oscar for Leading Role in Marty.
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    Ellen Burstyn

    TV: Louie. Oscar for Leading Role in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.
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    Richard Dreyfuss

    TV: The Education of Max Bickford. Oscar for Leading Role in The Goodbye Girl.
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    Sally Field

    TV: Brothers & Sisters; ER. Oscars for Leading Roles in Norma Rae and Places in the Heart.
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    Jane Fonda

    TV: The Newsroom; Grace and Frankie. Oscars for Leading Roles in Klute and Coming Home.
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    Whoopi Goldberg

    TV: Liberty Kids: Est. 1776; Whoopi. Oscar for Supporting Role in Ghost.
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    Marcia Gay Harden

    TV: Code Black; The Newsroom; Trophy Wife; Damages;The Education of Max Bickford. Oscar for Supporting Role in Pollack.
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    Dustin Hoffman

    TV: Luck. Oscars for Leading Roles in Rain Man and Kramer vs. Kramer.
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    Linda Hunt

    TV: Carnivale; NCIS: Los Angeles. Oscar for Supporting Role in The Year of Living Dangerously.
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    Holly Hunter

    TV: Saving Grace; Top of the Lake. Oscar for Leading Role in The Piano.
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    Anjelica Huston

    TV: Smash. Oscar for Supporting Role in Prizzi's Honor.
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    Timothy Hutton

    TV: A Nero Wolfe Mystery; Kidnapped; Leverage; American Crime. Oscar for Supporting Role in Ordinary People.
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    Jeremy Irons

    TV: The Borgias. Oscar for Leading Role in Reversal of Fortune.
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    Kevin Kline

    TV: Bob's Burgers. Oscar for Supporting Role in A Fish Called Wanda.
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    Jessica Lange

    TV: American Horror Story. Oscars for roles in Tootsie and Blue Sky.
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    Cloris Leachman

    TV: Raising Hope, The Ellen Show, The Facts of Life, etc. Oscar for supporting role in The Last Picture Show.
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    Melissa Leo

    TV: Treme; Wayward Pines. Oscar for Supporting Role in The Fighter.
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    Marlee Matlin

    TV: The West Wing; The L Word; Switched at Birth. Oscar for Leading Role in Children of a Lesser God.
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    Matthew McConaughey

    TV: True Detective. Oscar for Leading Role in Dallas Buyers Club.
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    Anna Paquin

    TV: True Blood. Oscar for Supporting Role in The Piano.
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    Donna Reed

    TV: Dallas; The Donna Reed Show. Oscar for Supporting Role in From Here to Eternity.
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    Tim Robbins

    TV: The Brink. Oscar for Supporting Role in Mystic River.
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    Maggie Smith

    TV: Downton Abbey. Oscars for roles in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and California Suite.
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    Sissy Spacek

    TV: Bloodline. Oscar for Leading Role in Coal Miner's Daughter.
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    Kevin Spacey

    TV: House of Cards. Oscars for American Beauty and The Usual Suspects.
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    Octavia Spencer

    TV: Mom; Red Band Society. Oscar for supporting role in The Help.
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    Mary Steenburgen

    TV: Justified; The Last Man on Earth; Ink; Joan of Arcadia. Oscar for Supporting Role in Melvin and Howard.
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    James Stewart

    TV: Hawkins; The Jimmy Stewart Show. Oscar for Leading Role in The Philadelphia Story (as well as an honorary Oscar in 1985).
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    Jon Voight

    TV: Ray Donovan; 24. Oscar for Leading Role in Coming Home.
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    Forest Whitaker

    TV: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior; The Shield. Oscar for Leading Role in The Last King of Scotland.
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    Dianne Wiest

    TV: Law & Order; In Treatment; Life in Pieces. Oscars for Supporting Roles in Bullets Over Broadway and Hannah and Her Sisters.
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    Robin Williams

    TV: The Crazy Ones. Oscar for Supporting Role in Good Will Hunting.

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