The first actor to ever win two consecutive Oscars didn't exactly break the mould to do so.

Spencer Tracy snagged his first trophy for the 1937 sleeper hit — a Rudyard Kipling adaptation starring Tracy as a questionably accented Portuguese fisherman, forced to care for and educate a belligerent youngster — a youngster who, it turns out, wants and needs nothing more desperately than a velvet-glove father-figure to thrive under.

Then the next year he followed it up with — a movie based on a true story about a Catholic priest so self-sacrificing, he founded an entire boarding school ( still in operation today ) for misbegotten street kids with nowhere else to go.

It was a tale apparently so affecting that in his acceptance speech , Tracy himself claimed the Oscar shouldn't go to him bu

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