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Gibson and Penn were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Penn was nominated as Best Director, and both Bancroft (portraying Sullivan) and Duke (portraying Keller) won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.
Unlike Hoffman, Bancroftâs career was rocking even before The Graduate, having won the Best Actress Oscar as Helen Kellerâs teacher in The Miracle Worker (1962) and Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for The Pumpkin Eater (1964).ven so, the smash success of The Graduate made Hoffman a hot commodity, earning two more nominations for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Lenny (1974) before winning the Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).