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The list does not include people who were retrospectively honoured with an Academy Award and were dead at the time the Academy made the decision to make the retrospective award. For example: in 1993, seventeen years after his death, Dalton Trumbo was retrospectively awarded the 1953 Oscar for Academy Award for Best Story for Roman Holiday .
1981 Best Actor nomination for Absence of Malice 1982 Best Actor nomination for The Verdict 1985 Honorary Award 1987 Best Actor win for The Color of Money 1993 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 1994 Best Actor nomination for Nobody's Fool (1994 film) 2002 Best Supporting Actor nomination for Road to Perdition [14] Maila Nurmi: actress: December ...
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.
William Hurt, who became a top leading man in the 1980s, winning an Oscar for 1985’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and starring in “The Big Chill” and “Body Heat,” died Sunday of ...
The Best Years of Our Lives — — Jack Benny — Shrine Auditorium: 20th: Movies released in 1947: Saturday, March 20, 1948: Gentleman's Agreement — — Agnes Moorehead, Dick Powell — Shrine Auditorium: 21st: Movies released in 1948: Thursday, March 24, 1949: Hamlet — — Robert Montgomery — The Academy Award Theater: 22nd: Movies ...
First person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award. Billie Eilish, for Best Original Song, "No Time to Die" from No Time to Die (2021) First person born in the 21st century to be nominated for an Academy Award. Quvenzhané Wallis, for Best Actress, Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) First Icelander to win an Academy Award. Hildur ...
Winning Best Supporting Actor at age 71, Edmund Gwenn became the oldest Oscar winner, taking the record from Charles Coburn, who was 66 at the time of his win in 1943 for The More the Merrier. Darryl F. Zanuck , bitter over the failure of the 1944 biopic Wilson to win Best Picture, accepted the prize for Gentleman's Agreement by saying "this ...
At age 29, Adrien Brody was the youngest person to win Best Actor. [14] With her 13th nomination, Meryl Streep became the most nominated actor in Oscar history. [ 15 ] Meanwhile, Best Actor nominee Jack Nicholson earned his 12th nomination, extending his record as the most nominated male performer. [ 16 ]