Academy Award Best Actor · birth-card coordinate
Jack Lemmon's Birth Card: The 4 of Spades
The Rigid Truth
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Academy Award.
In the record
John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for February 8 is the 4 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1974 Best Actor — Save the Tiger win.
Academy Award record
- 1974 Best Actor — Save the Tiger
The 4 of Spades coordinate
Jack Lemmon's birthday maps to the 4 of Spades (The Rigid Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Jack Lemmon. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build enough container that change can happen without the floor disappearing.
Jack Lemmon in the public record
Considered proficient in both dramatic and comic roles, he was known for his anxious, middle-class everyman screen persona in comedy-drama films. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and one Volpi Cup. He also received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1988, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1991, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1996. The Guardian labeled him as "the most successful tragi-comedian of his age". Lemmon received two Academy Awards: for Best Supporting Actor for Mister Roberts (1955) and for Best Actor for Save the Tiger (1973). He was Oscar-nominated for Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The China Syndrome (1979), Tribute (1980), and Missing (1982). He is also known for his roles in Irma la Douce (1963), The Great Race (1965), and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jack Lemmon (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 8 of Spades
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Jack Lemmon, and not a forecast of an Oscar.
Cards in Jack Lemmon's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 4♠ — Birth Card: The Rigid Truth
- 4♥ — Karma — Environment: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 10♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Master Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- Q♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 9♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Universal Provider
- 3♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Success Communicator
- 9♥ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Compassionate Idealist
- 7♣ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Analytical Creator
- 5♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Wise Guide
- J♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Creative Messenger
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
You take the hard lead and you stay with the work after the call is made.
For his work on television, Lemmon received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Tuesdays with Morrie (1999).
Paired on shared wording: lead, work. This line comes from the Mars position of the 4♠'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- He produced two films in which he did not appear, Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Kotch (1971), the latter of which he also directed, both through his production company, Jalem Productions.
- For his work on television, Lemmon received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Tuesdays with Morrie (1999).
- He was Emmy-nominated for The Entertainer (1975), The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988), 12 Angry Men (1997), and Inherit the Wind (1999).
- On stage, Lemmon made his Broadway debut in the play Room Service (1953).
Other winners with this card
- No other winner in this set shares the 4 of Spades.
FAQ
- What is Jack Lemmon's birth card?
- The 4 of Spades. February 8 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Oscar?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Jack Lemmon's dates come from?
- Birth date 1925-02-08 is the day-precision date on Jack Lemmon's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Oscars.org (AMPAS ceremony record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Best Actor list, Best Actress list, Jack Lemmon) + Wikidata CC0 (Q94123). Birth date 1925-02-08 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).