As I wrote last week, The Master is already a front runner for Oscar gold.

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Annette Bening may also be considered for Oscar gold for her portrayal as his brittle wife Carolyn.

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Oscar Pistorius won gold medals at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012.

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In 1972, the "Theme from Shaft" and Hayes's gold-studded Oscar-stage performance made him a star.

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Jones is also much closer to being a solo gold medalist in track than Oscar Pistorius, the South African sprinter who lost both legs at the knee as a child and yet became a world-class athlete using curved carbon blades for feet.

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Oscar Pistorius was just 17 when he won gold at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens.

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The actress was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar last year for her work in the hit movie The Help but she was overshadowed in that movie and Oscar category by Octvia Spencer who took home the gold statue last year.

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He was a left-handed pitcher with no right hand who threw a no-hitter for the New York Yankees. (Jim Abbott.) He ran in the Olympic Games on prosthetic legs. (Oscar Pistorius.) She sprinted to an Olympic gold even though they once nearly amputated her feet. (Gail Devers.) You can't make up stories like those.

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