if you've seen any of the Best Picture
nominees for 2018 you might have noticed
something unusual a lot of the actors
crossover into some of the other films
some of them are very obvious and some
of them are a little more obscure so
this got us thinking how deep does this
go there are nine nominees for Best
Picture in 2018
we connected each Best Picture nominee
with the actors they have in common
here's how we did it now warning some
spoilers if you haven't seen these
movies yet let's start with the obvious
ones
Timothy sha'lame appears in Lady Bird as
Saoirse Ronan 's love-interest Kyle he
also stars and call me by your name as
Elio and call me by your name michael
stuhlbarg plays illios father stool park
is also into other Best Picture nominees
he plays dr. Robert Hoff Statler in the
shape of water
this creature is intelligent capable of
language and he is New York Times editor
Abe Rosenthal in the post through those
two alone we have four of the film's
covered
now let's take another look at ladybird
ladybirds father Larry is played by
Tracy Letts who also plays Fritz Beebe
in the post
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ladybirds other love interests danny has
played but Lucas hedges ladybird always
says that she lives in the wrong side of
the tracks
but I always thought that it was like a
metaphor hedges also stars in three
billboards outside of a Missouri as
Mildred's son Robbie Catherine Newton
plays Mildred's dead daughter Angela she
also happens to be in ladybird playing
the minor role of Darlene also in three
billboards is Caleb Landry Jones who
plays red Welby he's the guy who Mildred
pays to put up the billboards that's
right Jesus man he might look familiar
because he's also in get out where he
plays roses violent brother Jeremy also
in get out is Bradley Whitford
he appears in the post as a fictional
character named Arthur Parsons all right
so now we have six of the films on the
board that just leaves Dunkirk darkest
hour and phantom thread and this is
where things get a little tricky an
actor named Davy Jones plays a soldier
in both Dunkirk and darkest hour yeah
it's a small role but it's still a
connection
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also in darkest hour is an actor named
Chris Harris who plays a Downing Street
kV Chris Harris also happens to play a
musician in phantom thread so now we
connected those three films together but
we're still missing a connection to the
first six this is where things get even
trickier we combed through IMDB
searching for any actor that might be
the missing link just when we thought it
wasn't possible we found her
Tracy Rouge ero whenever you're on sets
like that you definitely have a feeling
that it's going to be something big
Tracy is a stunt performer who had roles
in both Dunkirk and the post yes there
were stunts in the post so in the post
there was a protest scene I was like
running behind the car I know that Meryl
was in the car she'd be looking at out
the back as like Tom Hanks was like
walking down the street and so I knew
like I was like running through that
scene a bunch in Dunkirk I played a
nurse in the big boat scene and actually
like a stunt nurse was what she was
called because it's a stunt performer
literally you felt like you were
drowning it really felt like the boat
was getting involved it's quite an honor
to just have been just to even work a
day on any of those movies a movie that
Steven Spielberg director Christopher
Nolan directs
so there you go all nine films connected
six degrees of Kevin Bacon style
- Kevin Bacon
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