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Oscar Winning Performers Who Have Also Had Kids Meal Toys (A Thread)

Joaquin Phoenix

Oscar for: Joker
Kids Meal Toy for: Brother Bear

Renee Zellweger

Oscars for: Judy, Cold Mountain
Kids Meal Toy for: Shark Tale

Brad Pitt

Oscar for: Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Kids Meal Toy for: Megamind, Happy Feet 2 (Will The Krill)

Rami Malek

Oscar for: Bohemian Rhapsody
Kids Meal Toy for: Night At The Museum 3

Oscars for: Green Book, Moonlight
Kids Meal Toy for: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

Gary Oldman

Oscar for: Darkest Hour
Kids Meal Toy for: Quest for Camelot, Kung Fu Panda 2

Sam Rockwell

Oscar for: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Kids Meal Toy for: Trolls World Tour

Emma Stone

Oscar for: La La Land
Kids Meal Toy for: The Croods

Brie Larson

Oscar for: Room
Kids Meal Toy for: Captain Marvel

J.K. Simmons

Oscar for: Whiplash
Kids Meal Toy for: Kung Fu Panda 3 (Kal), Yellow M&M

Matthew McConaughey

Oscar for: Dallas Buyers Club
Kids Meal Toy for: Sing

Cate Blanchett

Oscars for: Blue Jasmine, The Aviator
Kids Meal Toys for: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Jennifer Lawrence

Oscar for: Silver Linings Playbook
Kids Meal Toy for: X-Men: Days of Future Past (Mystique)

Anne Hathaway

Oscar for: Les Miserables
Kids Meal Toy for: Rio (Jewel)

Meryl Streep

Oscars for: The Iron Lady, Sophie's Choice, Kramer vs. Kramer
Kids Meal Toy for: The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Christopher Plummer

Oscar for: Beginners
Kids Meal Toy for: Rock-a-doodle

Octavia Spencer

Oscar for: The Help
Kids Meal Toy for: Onward (Manticore)

Natalie Portman

Oscar for: Black Swan
Kids Meal Toy for: Star Wars Episode 1- The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Episode 2- Attack of the Clones

Christian Bale

Oscar for: The Fighter
Kids Meal Toy for: The Dark Knight (Batman)

Jeff Bridges

Oscar for: Crazy Heart
Kids Meal Toy for: Iron Man

Sean Penn

Oscars for: Milk, Mystic River
Kids Meal Toy for: The Angry Birds Movie

Kate Winslett

Oscar for: The Reader
Kids Meal Toy for: Flushed Away

Heath Ledger

Oscar for: The Dark Knight
Kids Meal Toy for: The Dark Knight (Joker)

Tilda Swinton

Oscar for: Michael Clayton
Kids Meal Toy for: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Reese Witherspoon

Oscar for: Walk The Line
Kids Meal Toy for: Sing, Monsters vs. Aliens

George Clooney

Oscar for: Syriana
Kids Meal Toy for: The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Mr. Fox)

Rachel Weisz

Oscar for: The Constant Gardener
Kids Meal Toy for: Eragon (Saphira)

Jamie Foxx

Oscar for: Ray
Kids Meal Toy for: Soul, Rio 2, Amazing Spider-Man 2

Morgan Freeman

Oscar for: Million Dollar Baby
Kids Meal Toy for: The Lego Movie

Charlize Theron

Oscar for: Monster
Kids Meal Toy for: Kubo and the Two Strings

Nicole Kidman

Oscar for: The Hours
Kids Meal Toy for: Happy Feet

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Oscar for: Chicago
Kids Meal Toy for: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (Marina)

Halle Berry

Oscar for: Monster's Ball
Kids Meal Toy for: X-Men: The Last Stand (Storm)

Jim Broadbent

Oscar for: Iris
Kids Meal Toy for: Robots

Kevin Spacey

Oscar for: American Beauty, The Usual Suspects
Kids Meal Toy for: A Bug's Life

Angelina Jolie

Oscar for: Girl Interrupted
Kids Meal Toy for: Maleficent, Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda, Shark Tale

Roberto Benigni

Oscar for: La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful)
Kids Meal Toy for: Pinocchio {editor's note: which is good, you guys}

James Coburn

Oscar for: Afflicton
Kids Meal Toy for: Monster's Inc.

Robin Williams

Oscar for: Good Will Hunting
Kids Meal Toy for: Happy Feet 2, Happy Feet (not pictured), Aladdin and the King of Thieves (not pictured), Flubber, Aladdin, Hook

Nicholas Cage

Oscar for: Leaving Las Vegas
Kids Meal Toy for: The Croods (Grug), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

Tom Hanks

Oscars for: Forrest Gump, Philadelphia
Kids Meal Toy for: Toy Story, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4

Holly Hunter

Oscar for: The Piano
Kids Meal Toys for: The Incredibles 2, The Incredibles

Tommy Lee Jones:

Oscar for: The Fugitive
Kids Meal Toys for: Small Soldiers, Batman Forever

Anna Paquin

Oscar for: The Piano
Kids Meal Toy for: X-Men: Days of Future Past (Rogue)

Please note: All four acting awards recipients from the 66th Academy Awards (Tom Hanks, Holly Hunter, Tommy Lee Jones, Anna Paquin) have also had at least one kids meal toy.

Jack Palance

Oscar for: City Slickers
Kids Meal Toy for: The Swan Princess

Jeremy Irons

Oscar for: Reversal of Fortune
Kids Meal Toy for: The Lion King

Whoopi Goldberg

Oscar for: Ghost
Kids Meal Toy for: The Lion King

Dustin Hoffman

Oscars for: Rain Man, Kramer vs. Kramer
Kids Meal Toy for: Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda, Hook

Kevin Kline

Oscar for: A Fish Called Wanda
Kids Meal Toy for: The Road to El Dorado, Wild Wild West, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Michael Douglas

Oscar for: Wall Street
Kids Meal Toy for: Green Eggs & Ham

Paul Newman

Oscar for: The Color of Money
Kids Meal Toy for: Cars

Linda Hunt

Oscar for: The Year of Living Dangerously
Kids Meal Toy for: Pocahontas

Diane Keaton

Oscar for: Annie Hall
Kids Meal Toy for: Green Eggs & Ham

George C. Scott

Oscar for: Patton
Kids Meal Toy for: The Rescuers Down Under

George Kennedy

Oscar for: Cool Hand Luke
Kids Meal Toy for: Small Soldiers

Julie Andrews

Oscar for: Mary Poppins
Kids Meal Toy for: Mary Poppins

Alec Guinness

Oscar for: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Kids Meal Toy for: Star Wars

Ernest Borgnine

Oscar for: Marty
Kids Meal Toy for: All Dogs Go To Heaven 2

*correction

Jeff Bridges also had a kids meal toy as Big Z in the film Surf's Up

That, as of now, concludes the thread, at least until next Oscars.

However, this thread only covered performance Oscars. There could indeed be rare cases like:

Mel Brooks

Oscar for: Best Original Screenplay (The Producers)
Kids Meal Toy for: Robots

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