legacy Oscar

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legacy Oscar (plural legacy Oscars)

(film) An Academy Award perceived to have been given in recognition of the awardee's career and performances in prior films, rather than for the performance specifically nominated.
- 2023, Charles Bramesco, A brief history of the “legacy Oscar” and its winners, Little White Lies:
  Scanning the recent slates of winners, the legacy Oscar appears more and more frequently; even the most dedicated Jessica Chastain fans (also known as “Chastainiacs”) would have a hard time calling The Eyes of Tammy Faye her finest hour, but she’d accrued a reputation as an altogether deserving thespian by that point in her career, and that was enough.