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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
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 ...
Sidney Poitier was the first Black man to be honored, with his performance in "Lilies of the Field" in 1964, and Daniel Day-Lewis currently has the most best actor trophies, taking home three for ...
Too often pigeon-holed as a ‘character actor’ (a Hollywood euphemism for people who don’t look like your average pin-ups), Giamatti has stretched his range across blockbusters (Planet of the ...
This is the main Critics' Choice Movie Award category for leading performances by a male actor. Previously, two other genre-specific categories were presented: Best Actor in a Comedy (2012–2019) and Best Actor in an Action Movie (2012–2016).
At the Academy Awards, the so-called "Big Five" awards are those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay (either Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay). [1] As of the 94th Academy Awards (2021), a total of 43 films have been nominated in all five of these award categories.