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The Best Actor award has been presented 97 times, to 86 actors. The first winner was German actor Emil Jannings for his roles in The Last Command (1928) and The Way of All Flesh (1927). [ 1 ] The most recent winner is Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (2023), who simultaneously became the first Irish-born actor to win this award.
AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
Year Winner Film(s) Role 1999 Jackie Chan: 2000 Russell Crowe: The Insider: Jeffrey Wigand: 2001 Ewan McGregor: Black Hawk Down / Moulin Rouge!: SPC John "Grimesey" Grimes / Christian
Since the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, one actor each year has been awarded for having the greatest performance in a leading role. Here's a list of the best actor Oscar winners since the ...
Patrick T. Fallon / AFP Cillian Murphy received the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 2024 Oscars for his performance in Oppenheimer. “I’m a little overwhelmed,” Murphy, 47, said ...
He is a full-body actor, capable of elevating mediocre fare to vibrant watchability (The Big Short) and, as with American Psycho or The Prestige, coaxing greatness out of stronger material. It’s ...
This rule was implemented after Barry Fitzgerald received a Best Actor and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Going My Way. [3] As of 2024, 45 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Katharine Hepburn holds the record with four Oscars (all Best Actress). [4]
A total of 980 actors appear in the list—494 males and 486 females. Non-winning nominees include 335 males and 328 females—a total of 663. Actors that have won at least once include 159 males and 158 females—a total of 317. Only 45 actors—23 males and 22 females—are multiple Academy Award winners.