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At the 90th Academy Awards, James Ivory became the oldest-ever Oscar winner in any category, at age 89, after receiving the award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Call Me by Your Name. [2] At the 93rd Academy Awards , Ann Roth became the oldest-ever woman to win an Oscar in any category, at age 89, after receiving the award for Best ...
Duvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as an alcoholic former country music star in the film Tender Mercies (1983). His other Oscar-nominated films include The Godfather (1972), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Great Santini (1979), The Apostle (1997), A Civil Action (1998), and The Judge (2014).
Borgnine won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Marty Piletti in the film Marty. [16] At the time of his death, he was the oldest living recipient of the Best Actor Oscar. [31] For his contributions to the film industry, Borgnine received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
Hopkins on Sunday won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Father. At 83, he becomes the oldest actor to ever win a competitive Oscar. He was also the oldest person to ever ...
In 1991, John Gielgud became the fourth person to win all four awards, the oldest (at age 87), ... Academy Awards: 1982: Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Arthur;
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.
At age 83, Best Actor winner Anthony Hopkins was the oldest performer to ever win a competitive acting Oscar. [19] Best Actress winner Frances McDormand became the seventh person to win a third acting Oscar, the third to win three leading performance Oscars, and the second to win Best Actress three times. [20]
He is also, at age 74, the oldest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Director. Eastwood has also directed five actors in Academy Award–winning performances: Gene Hackman in Unforgiven , Tim Robbins and Sean Penn in Mystic River , and Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby .