Oscars for best juvenile performance

Drew Barrymore in ET?

Dakota Fanning for War of the Worlds?

Macauley Culkin for Home Alone?

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Grey Wolf
 
Lindsay Lohan - The Parent Trap (1998)
Haley Joel Osment - 6th Sense (1999)
Jamie Bell - Billy Eliot (2000)
Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Nicholas Hoult - About a Boy (2002)
Holes - Shia LaBeuof (2003)
Rupert Grint - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Skandar Keynes - The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe (2005)
Abigail Breslan - Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Emma Watson - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaires (2008)
Quinton Aaron - The Blind Side (2009)
 
Lindsay Lohan - The Parent Trap (1998)
Haley Joel Osment - 6th Sense (1999)
Jamie Bell - Billy Eliot (2000)
Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Nicholas Hoult - About a Boy (2002)
Holes - Shia LaBeuof (2003)
Rupert Grint - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Skandar Keynes - The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe (2005)
Abigail Breslan - Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Emma Watson - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaires (2008)
Quinton Aaron - The Blind Side (2009)

Would Hairy Porter win twice? And didn't Abigail Breslin actually get a proper Oscar nomination for that film? Could she have been nominated in 2 categories for the same film role?

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Grey Wolf
 
And didn't Abigail Breslin actually get a proper Oscar nomination for that film? Could she have been nominated in 2 categories for the same film role?
She did indeed. As for the two categories idea I don't think that's likely if you have a specific juveniles category, which could end up with it being something of a minors ghetto that's seen as something lesser. Of course the question then becomes what's the cut-off point between when you get put in for the juvenile version and the adult ones?
 
Would Hairy Porter win twice? And didn't Abigail Breslin actually get a proper Oscar nomination for that film? Could she have been nominated in 2 categories for the same film role?

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Grey Wolf

I think because the series is so hugely successful that each of the three leads would each get a win as the series progressed. Sort of an achievement award, not that they were necessarily ever the best juvenile actor for the particular year. If there was no true standout in a given year the voters would "conspire" and say hey, it's time Emma Watson won for the body of work she's been providing all these years in Harry Potter.
 
Would Hairy Porter win twice? And didn't Abigail Breslin actually get a proper Oscar nomination for that film? Could she have been nominated in 2 categories for the same film role?

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Grey Wolf

Well, it wouldn't be without precedent- Harold Russell netted two Oscars (one Honorary, one for Best Supporting Actor) off The Best Years of Our Lives.
 
Considering that the Harry Potter franchise was an exhibition of some of the finest juvenile acting of the age, a couple of awards wouldn't surprise me.
 
Some people I would have chosen:

Macauley Culkin: The Good Son

Holiston Coleman, Bless the Child

Dakota Fanning: Uptown Girls
 
I have definite reservations about the continuing survival of this category. As others have pointed out, it effectively creates a "ghetto" for youthful actors. That said, a few additional winners, some of whom have been overlooked:

1968: Mark Lester, Oliver!
1971: Peter Ostrum, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
1973: Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon (who won Best Supporting Actress for the role IOTL).
1977: Cary Guffey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (who would become the youngest-ever Oscar recipient, ahead of Shirley Temple).
1979: Justin Henry, Kramer vs. Kramer
1980: Danny Lloyd, The Shining
1982
: Henry Thomas, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (He definitely would have won over Drew Barrymore. He was the star!)
1984: Molly Ringwald, Sixteen Candles
1985: Sean Astin, The Goonies
1986: Corey Haim, Lucas
1988: Winona Ryder, Beetlejuice
1990: Macaulay Culkin, Home Alone
1991: Christina Ricci, The Addams Family
1993: Anna Paquin, The Piano (Another OTL winner, for Best Supporting Actress.)

Those are the ones off the top of my head. Note that these are listed by award year, not the year in which the ceremony takes place.
 
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