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Oscar for Best Actor
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Prior to the 49th Academy Awards...
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Forest Whitaker
Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director. Whitaker won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland. Whitaker has also won a Golden Globe...
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- x Year:
- 2006
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Last King of Scotland
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Idi Amin
- x Year:
- 2007
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Last King of Scotland
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Idi Amin
- x Year:
- 2006
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Last King of Scotland
- x Notes/Description:
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an American stage and film actor and director.
Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year began appearing in films. His work in a diverse range of supporting films roles brought...
Jamie Foxx
Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and singer. For his work in the film Ray, Foxx won the Academy Award and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA...
Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American film actor and director, also known for being a political activist. He is a two-time Academy Award winner for his roles in Mystic River and Milk, as well as the recipient of a Golden Globe Award...
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- x Year:
- 2008
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Harvey Milk
- x Year:
- 2003
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Mystic River
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Jimmy Markum
- x Year:
- 2004
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Mystic River
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Jimmy Markum
Adrien Brody
Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He received widespread recognition and subsequent acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). He is notable as the youngest actor ever to receive an Academy Award for Best...
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- x Year:
- 2002
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Pianist
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Wladyslaw Szpilman
Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and film producer. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such...
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- x Year:
- 1996
- x Award:
- Harvard Foundation
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 2001
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Training Day
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Alonzo
- x Year:
- 1989
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Trip
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Russell Crowe
Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an Australian actor and musician. His acting career began in the early 1990s with roles in Australian TV series such as Police Rescue and films such as Romper Stomper. In the late 1990s, he began appearing in...
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- x Year:
- 2000
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Maximus Decimus Meridius
- x Year:
- 2002
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- A Beautiful Mind
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: John Nash
- x Year:
- 2001
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- A Beautiful Mind
- x Notes/Description:
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He...
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- x Year:
- 1999
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- American Beauty
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Lester Burnham
- x Year:
- 1995
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Usual Suspects
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Roger 'Verbal' Kint
- x Year:
- 1999
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- American Beauty
- x Notes/Description:
Roberto Benigni
Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television. Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Life Is Beautiful....
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- x Year:
- 1998
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Life Is Beautiful
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Guido
- x Year:
- 2002
- x Award:
- Razzie Award for Worst Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1998
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Life Is Beautiful
- x Notes/Description:
Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. He moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s via Brisbane and Sydney and currently lives in the suburb of Camberwell, Victoria. He is one of 20 (as of June 2009) people to have won the "Triple...
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- x Year:
- 1996
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: David Helfgott
- x Year:
- 2009
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Exit the King
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 2005
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964) is an American actor.
Cage pursued acting as a career, making his debut on television in 1981. Cage has been featured in numerous "bad boy" roles, and has won numerous awards, beginning in...
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- x Year:
- 1996
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Leaving Las Vegas
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Ben Sanderson
- x Year:
- 1996
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Leaving Las Vegas
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Ben Sanderson
Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American film actor, director, voice-over artist, writer and film producer. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying several notable roles,...
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- x Year:
- 1993
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Philadelphia
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Andrew Beckett
- x Year:
- 1994
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Forrest Gump
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Forrest Gump
- x Year:
- 1999
- x Award Winner:
- Edward Burns,
- Jeremy Davies,
- Vin Diesel,
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- Jeremy Davies,
- x Winning work:
- Saving Private Ryan
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. He is best known for his roles as Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon, Tony Montana in Scarface, Carlito...
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- x Year:
- 1992
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Scent of a Woman
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Lt. Col. Frank Slade
- x Year:
- 2001
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 2004
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Angels in America
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh film, stage and television actor. Considered to be one of film's greatest living actors, he is known for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991's...
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- x Year:
- 1991
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Silence of the Lambs
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Dr. Hannibal Lecter
- x Year:
- 2006
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1981
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Bunker
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English film, television, and stage actor. He has won the Academy Award, the Tony Award, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to many other awards and...
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- x Year:
- 1990
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Reversal of Fortune
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Claus Von Bulow
- x Year:
- 1988
- x Award:
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Let the River Run
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 2006
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Elizabeth I
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English actor with British and Irish citizenship. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five...
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- x Year:
- 2007
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- There Will Be Blood
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Daniel Plainview
- x Year:
- 1989
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- My Left Foot
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Christy Brown
- x Year:
- 2008
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- There Will Be Blood
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Daniel Plainview
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Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. Douglas's first television exposure was that of Karl Malden's young college-educated partner, Insp. Steve Keller, in the 1970s...
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- x Year:
- 1987
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Wall Street
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Gordon Gekko
- x Year:
- 1975
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Winner:
- Saul Zaentz
- x Winning work:
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1968
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 — September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin...
William Hurt
William M. Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor. He won both the Academy and BAFTA Awards for his work in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Claire Isabel (née McGill), who worked at Time, Inc., and...
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- x Year:
- 1985
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Kiss of the Spider Woman
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Luis Molina
- x Year:
- 1985
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Kiss of the Spider Woman
- x Notes/Description:
F. Murray Abraham
Fahrid Murray Abraham (in Arabic فريد مراد ابراهيم الاحمد Farīd Murād Ibrāhīm Al-Aḥmad; born October 24, 1939) is an American actor. He became known during the 1980s, after winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Amadeus, and has since...
Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
He began his career appearing in theatre during the late 1950s, moving into small to...
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- x Year:
- 1983
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Tender Mercies
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Mac Sledge
- x Year:
- 2005
- x Award:
- National Medal of Arts
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 2007
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Broken Trail
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE (born 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has won four major motion picture acting awards, receiving Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards throughout his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas...
Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
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- x Year:
- 1981
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- On Golden Pond
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Norman Thayer, Jr.
- x Year:
- 1980
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1982
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- On Golden Pond
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Norman Thayer
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Robert De Niro
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director, and producer.
De Niro is well-known for what some people call method acting and portrayals of conflicted, troubled characters and for his enduring collaboration with...
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- x Year:
- 1980
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Raging Bull
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Jake LaMotta
- x Year:
- 1974
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Godfather Part II
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Vito Corleone
- x Year:
- 1981
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Raging Bull
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Jake LaMotta
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor who has had an active career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He first drew critical praise for the 1966 Off-Broadway play Eh? for which he won a Theatre World Award and a...
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- x Year:
- 1979
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Ted Kramer
- x Year:
- 1988
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Raymond Babbitt
- x Year:
- 1997
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Jon Voight
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American film and television actor. He came to prominence at the end of the 1960s, with a performance as a would-be hustler in 1969's Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, for which he...
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- x Year:
- 1978
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Coming Home
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Luke Martin
- x Year:
- 1979
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Coming Home
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1986
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Runaway Train
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Oscar Manheim
Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in a number of films, television and theater roles since the late 1960s. He is probably best known for his roles in the films Jaws, The Goodbye Girl, Close...
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- x Year:
- 1977
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Goodbye Girl
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Elliot Garfield
- x Year:
- 1978
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Goodbye Girl
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Eilliot Garfield
- x Year:
- 1978
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Goodbye Girl
- x Notes/Description:
Peter Finch
Peter Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was a British - born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as 'crazed' television anchorman Howard Beale in the film, Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best...
Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters.
Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards twelve times. He won the...
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- x Year:
- 1975
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Randle Patrick McMurphy
- x Year:
- 1997
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- As Good as It Gets
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Melvin Udall
- x Year:
- 1975
- x Award Winner:
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Art Carney
Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. Carney portrayed the upstairs neighbor and sewer worker Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the...
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- x Year:
- 1974
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Harry and Tonto
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Harry
- x Year:
- 1956
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Honeymooners
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1955
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Jackie Gleason Show
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple,...
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- x Year:
- 1973
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Save the Tiger
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Harry Stoner
- x Year:
- 1955
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Mister Roberts
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Ensign Pulver
- x Year:
- 1991
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American actor and currently a novelist.
Hackman has made 80 films. He came to fame in 1967 when his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde earned him his first Oscar nomination. His...
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- x Year:
- 1971
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The French Connection
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle
- x Year:
- 1973
- x Award:
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The French Connection
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1992
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Unforgiven
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Little Bill Daggett
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George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an Academy Award-winning American stage and film actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his bravura stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in...
John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), born Marion Robert Morrison, better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American...
Cliff Robertson
Clifford Parker "Cliff" Robertson III (born September 9, 1923) is an American actor with a film and television career that spans half of a century. Robertson won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the movie Charly. In addition to...
Rod Steiger
Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor known for his performances in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Waterloo, The Pawnbroker, On the Waterfront, and Doctor Zhivago.
Steiger was born in Westhampton...
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- x Year:
- 1967
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- In the Heat of the Night
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Police Chief Bill Gillespie
- x Year:
- 1968
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- In the Heat of the Night
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1966
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Pawnbroker
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008), better known as Paul Scofield, was an English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his...
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- x Year:
- 1966
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- A Man for All Seasons
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Sir Thomas More
- x Year:
- 1969
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Male of the Species
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1967
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- A Man for All Seasons
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6' 2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers and other hardboiled characters, but after...
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- x Year:
- 1965
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Cat Ballou
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn
- x Year:
- 1966
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Cat Ballou
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1965
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Cat Ballou,
- The Killers
- x Notes/Description:
Rex Harrison
Sir Reginald “Rex” Carey Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison won both an Academy Award and a Tony Award.
Harrison was born in Huyton, then part of Lancashire, and educated at Liverpool College....
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- x Year:
- 1964
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- My Fair Lady
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Professor Henry Higgins
- x Year:
- 1965
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- My Fair Lady
- x Notes/Description:
Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (pronounced /ˈpwɑːtjeɪ/ or /ˈpwɑːtieɪ/; born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author, and diplomat. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by...
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- x Year:
- 1963
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Lilies of the Field
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Homer Smith
- x Year:
- 1982
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1964
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Lilies of the Field
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.
One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1990s. His notable performances included that of...
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- x Year:
- 1962
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Atticus Finch
- x Year:
- 1969
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1969
- x Award:
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell (born December 8, 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Austrian actor. He is also a writer, director and producer of several films.
Schell was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Margarethe (née Noe von Nordberg), an actress, and...
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- x Year:
- 1961
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Hans Rolfe
- x Year:
- 1962
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- x Notes/Description:
Burt Lancaster
Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American film actor and star, noted for his athletic physique, distinct smile (which he called "The Grin") and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his...
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- x Year:
- 1960
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Elmer Gantry
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Elmer Gantry
- x Year:
- 1961
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Elmer Gantry
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1962
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Birdman of Alcatraz
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Charlton Heston
Heston was born John Charles Carter in No Man's Land, an unincorporated area between Evanston and Wilmette, Illinois, the son of Lilla (née Charlton) and Russell Whitford Carter, a mill operator. (However, the 1930 Census for Richfield,...
David Niven
James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983), known as David Niven, was an English actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Litton, a.k.a. "the Phantom," in The Pink...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1958
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Separate Tables
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Major Pollock
- x Year:
- 1954
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Moon Is Blue
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1959
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Separate Tables
- x Notes/Description:
Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. He featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. Guinness later won the Academy Award for...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1957
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Colonel Nicholson
- x Year:
- 1977
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1979
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
Yul Brynner
Yuliy "Yul" Borisovich Brynner (Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер, Ûlij Borisovič Briner; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born actor of stage and film, best known for his portrayal of the Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers &...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1956
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The King and I
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: The King
Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (born January 24, 1917) is an American actor whose career has spanned for over five decades. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the motion picture Marty. On television, he is known for playing the title character in the 1960s...
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century, a prodegy of Stella Adler, at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting which boasts students including Robert DeNiro, Melanie...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1954
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- On the Waterfront
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Terry Malloy
- x Year:
- 1972
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Godfather
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Don Vito Corleone -- Mr. Brando refused the award
- x Year:
- 1996
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- x Notes/Description:
- more ▼
William Holden
William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American film actor.
Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954, and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974. One of the top stars of the 1950s, he was named one of the "Top 10 stars...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1953
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Sefton
- x Year:
- 1974
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Blue Knight
- x Notes/Description:
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor.
After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1951
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The African Queen
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Charlie Allnut
José Ferrer
José Vincente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), best known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor, as well as a theater and film director.
Ferrer was born in the Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1950
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Cyrano de Bergerac
- x Year:
- 1951
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- x Notes/Description:
Broderick Crawford
Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American actor.
Crawford was born William Broderick Crawford in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Lester Crawford and Helen Broderick, who were both vaudeville performers. His father appeared...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1949
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- All the King's Men
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Willie Stark
- x Year:
- 1950
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- All the King's Men
- x Notes/Description:
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (pronounced /ˈlɒrəns ɵˈlɪvieɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries...
Ronald Colman
Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English actor.
He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1947
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- A Double Life
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Anthony John
- x Year:
- 1948
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- A Double Life
- x Notes/Description:
Fredric March
Fredric March (August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American stage and film actor. He won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives.
March was born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel in...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1946
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Al Stephenson
- x Year:
- 1932
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
- x Year:
- 1952
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Death of a Salesman
- x Notes/Description:
Ray Milland
Ray Milland (January 3, 1907 – March 10, 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best-remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945)....
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1945
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Lost Weekend
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Don Birnam
- x Year:
- 1946
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- The Lost Weekend
- x Notes/Description:
Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American popular singer and actor whose career stretched over more than half a century from 1926 until his death. Crosby was the undisputed best-selling artist until well into the...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1944
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Going My Way
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Father O'Malley
- x Year:
- 1960
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- x Year:
- 1969
- x Award:
- Peabody Award
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
- a Personal Award
Paul Lukas
Paul Lukas (May 26, 1895 – August 15, 1971) was a Hungarian-born actor.
Born Pál Lukács in Budapest, he arrived in Hollywood in 1927 after a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria where he worked with Max Reinhardt. He made...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1943
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Watch on the Rhine
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: Kurt Muller
- x Year:
- 1944
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Watch on the Rhine
- x Notes/Description:
James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American film actor. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked...
- Awards Won
-
- x Year:
- 1942
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Actor
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
- x Notes/Description:
- Role: George M. Cohan
- x Year:
- 1984
- x Award:
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
- x Award Winner:
- x Winning work:
- x Notes/Description:
