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\t\t\tThe first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 had 13 categories. Now there are 24, and while the categories have changed over time, the honors for best actor and actress have remained steady for 90 years. Some of the actors’ wins were groundbreaking, while others are mystifying. But all are interesting. Here are all the best actor winners since the beginning.
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\t\t\t“Oppenheimer”
\nCillian Murphy won best actor at the 2024 Oscars for his lead role as the atomic scientist in Christopher Nolan’s historical epic, which won seven Oscars including best director and best picture.
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\t\t\t“The Whale”
\nThough critics were divided on Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” Oscar voters agreed that Brendan Fraser’s performance as a 600 lb. English teacher was a standout.
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\t\t\t“King Richard”
\nFew best actor winners had an evening as memorable as Will Smith’s. Less than an hour before winning for “King Richard” (his third acting nomination), he set off one of Oscars’ all-time jaw-dropping moments. When presenter Chris Rock joked about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, the actor strode onstage and smacked the comic, then returned to his seat and twice shouted, “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!” When Smith’s name was announced as the winner, he got a standing ovation and, in a tearful speech, said he was “overwhelmed by what God is calling me to do and be in this world.” Social media exploded over the event, while generally ignoring other aspects of the overlong and awkward Oscar show. After five days of Academy meetings, rumors, speculation, theories and gossip, Smith resigned from the Academy — a first for a brand-new winner.
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\t\t\t“The Father”
\nWhen Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Father” debuted at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, critics predicted Anthony Hopkins would win the Oscar. During the next 15 months, the competition became more intense and he seemed a probable also-ran to the late Chadwick Boseman. But Hopkins’ depiction of dementia proved unforgettable, giving him a second best actor win after 1991’s “The Silence of the Lambs,” and making him the oldest acting winner at age 83. The film marked Florian Zeller’s directing debut, an adaptation of his own play.
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\t\t\t“Joker”
\n“Joker,” directed by Todd Phillips, is an origin story about how the Batman villain came to be. The film could only be described as a comic-book movie in the broadest sense, as director and co-writer Phillips made it a tale of people who suffer from mental illness and feel alienated. Though expectations were low before it caused a sensation at the Venice Film Festival, it earned more than $1 billion at the box office and universal praise for star Joaquin Phoenix, who made Joker/Arthur Fleck into a character who was sympathetic, yet scary.
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\t\t\t“Bohemian Rhapsody”
\nThree of 2018’s four acting winners depicted real-life characters, and Rami Malek was playing easily the most well known: Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. “Bohemian Rhapsody” was a crowd-pleaser, earning $869 million and winning four Oscars; while critics were split on the film, everybody was rhapsodic about Malek’s work.
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\t“Darkest Hour”
\nAnother British WWII drama? Another depiction of Winston Churchill? Over the years, there have been a flood of both, but “Darkest Hour” seemed smart and fresh, thanks in large part to Gary Oldman. The actor has elevated many movies over the decades, but this was only his second Oscar nomination. And ever since the film first screened at the Telluride and Toronto festivals in September 2017, Oldman was correctly predicted to be the Oscar front-runner.
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\t\t\t“Manchester by the Sea”
\nCasey Affleck played an inarticulate man haunted by his past in “Manchester by the Sea.” The wins for Affleck and for screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan were Hollywood validations of Amazon, which had expanded from selling online books to becoming a giant powerhouse in entertainment and other industries. Affleck bowed out of presenting best actress of 2017 (a longtime Oscar tradition) due to renewed attention around a 2010 legal settlement.
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\t\t\t“The Revenant”
\nFrontiersman Hugh Glass survives a brutal bear attack, is left for dead, then exacts revenge on those who abandoned him. The big prize every year is best picture, but the no. 1 question for 2015 Oscar mavens was: Is this finally Leo’s year? It was. He became the ninth person in 12 years to win best actor for playing a real person and the fifth best actor winner for a western, after Warner Baxter, Gary Cooper, Lee Marvin and John Wayne. (Robert Duvall and Jeff Bridges get honorable mention here.)
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\t\t\t“The Theory of Everything”
\nIt was considered a neck-and-neck race between Michael Keaton (“Birdman”) and Eddie Redmayne, though there were three other great performances nominated that year (including Benedict Cumberbatch for “The Imitation Game”). But Redmayne won for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking, in the biopic that spans 25 years in Hawking’s unorthodox but touching relationship with his wife (Felicity Jones).
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\t\t\t“Dallas Buyers Club”
\nMatthew McConaughey won by playing real-life homophobe Roy Woodroof, who learns compassion when he contracts AIDS in the 1980s and becomes an activist. Supporting actor Jared Leto was also Oscar’d for his work in the film.
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\t\t\t“Lincoln”
\nMany actors have been nominated for playing kings, but not so many as U.S. Presidents, and Day-Lewis was the first to win. He also became the first person to win three best actor Oscars. Only 23 individuals so far have won two leading actor/actress trophies; that includes Day-Lewis and Katharine Hepburn, who lead the pack with three and four, respectively, while Jack Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman and Meryl Streep have each won two leads and one supporting.
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\t\t\t“The Artist”
\nHollywood (and the rest of the world) was charmed by the offbeat daring of “The Artist,” a black-and-white silent film about an actor in the early days of moviemaking, written and directed by the little-known French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius. Star Jean Dujardin won over audiences with his funny-sad portrayal of the struggling former star.
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\t\t\t“The King’s Speech”
\nColin Firth had a breakthrough role in the play “Another Country” and its 1984 film adaptation. He became a sexy leading man with TV’s “Pride and Prejudice” and worked for two decades, including roles in best picture winners “The English Patient” and “Shakespeare in Love.” He entered a new realm in the 2009 Tom Ford film “A Single Man,” followed by his knockout work in “The King’s Speech” as England’s King George VI. The film was directed by Tom Hooper, who steered actors to seven Oscar nominations and three wins in only five films.
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\t\t\t“Crazy Heart”
\nJeff Bridges won on the fifth of his seven (so far) Oscar nominations. Like Robert Duvall years earlier, the veteran actor won for playing a country music performer who’s having a hard time with his career and personal life.
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\t\t\t“Milk”
\nSean Penn earned his second win in six years, playing San Francisco’s ground-breaking gay politician Harvey Milk, which showed a softer and more fun side of Penn than he had previously demonstrated. Gus Van Sant directed from Dustin Lance Black’s Oscar-winning screenplay.
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\t\t\t“There Will Be Blood”
\nDaniel Day-Lewis earned his second best actor win in the Paul Thomas Anderson film, loosely based on Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel “Oil!” The actor also uttered one of film history’s memorable lines while bullying Paul Dano as he shouts “I drink your milkshake!”
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\t\t\t“The Last King of Scotland”
\nThis was an often-fictionalized account of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 1970s, and his relationship with his physician (James McAvoy). Forest Whitaker had played dozens of roles in TV and film, but this established him as an actor of great range, in his best role since the Clint Eastwood-directed “Bird,” about jazz musician Charlie Parker.
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\t\t\t“Capote”
\nThis was one of two films about Truman Capote writing his true-crime book “In Cold Blood” in Kansas. (Toby Jones starred in the other film, “Infamous”). Capote, who also wrote “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” was well known from TV talk show appearances; while Hoffman didn’t resemble him, Oscar voters were wowed by his multi-layered performance.
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\t\t\t“Ray”
\nIt’s not easy to play a personality as well-known as Ray Charles, but Jamie Foxx won every award possible that year for his work as the influential musician. Foxx got his big break on the sketch-comedy TV series “In Living Color” and proved his versatility in 2004, also earning a supporting actor Oscar nomination for “Collateral” with Tom Cruise.
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\t\t\t“Mystic River”
\nSean Penn won as a man grieving the murder of his daughter in the Clint Eastwood-directed film, from a Dennis Lehane novel. The film was nominated for six Oscars and Tim Robbins also won for his supporting turn as a childhood friend of Penn’s character, who becomes a suspect.
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\t\t\t“The Pianist”
\nAt 29 (22 days before his 30th birthday), Adrien Brody became the youngest best actor winner ever. Pundits declared that the best actor prize that year was a contest between Jack Nicholson (“About Schmidt”) and Daniel Day-Lewis (“Gangs of New York”), but Brody and director Roman Polanski pulled off major upsets by winning for the widely admired “The Pianist.”
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\t\t\t“Training Day”
\nDenzel Washington became the 11th actor to win in both the lead and supporting categories. The actor had won a supporting Oscar for the 1989 “Glory.” “Training Day” was a change of pace for the charismatic actor: A villainous role as a corrupt cop. This was the fifth of his eight acting noms (with another as a producer of the 2016 “Fences”).
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\t\t\t“Gladiator”
\nRussell Crowe won for his performance in the best picture winner “Gladiator,” a Ridley Scott-directed spectacle that combined classic Hollywood storytelling with state-of-the-art CGI work. This movie was the second of Crowe’s three consecutive nominations, between “The Insider” and “A Beautiful Mind.”
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\t\t\t“American Beauty”
\nLong before his 2017 scandal and banishment from Hollywood, Kevin Spacey won two Oscars. The first was supporting actor for “The Usual Suspects,” and the second was for his work in the best picture winner “American Beauty,” a dark satire of suburbia. The 1999 contest seemed to be a tight race for best actor between Denzel Washington of “The Hurricane” and Spacey, but the latter won, possibly because of mudslinging that questioned the accuracy of biopic “Hurricane.”
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\t\t\t“Life is Beautiful”
\nRoberto Benigni is an Oscar rarity, winning for a performance not in the English language. He also became only the second actor to win this prize in a film that he also directed, after Laurence Olivier in “Hamlet.”
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\t\t\t“As Good as it Gets”
\nJack Nicholson earned his third Oscar, and his second under the direction of James L. Brooks (after a supporting win for “Terms of Endearment”) as an obsessive-compulsive man who falls in love with a waitress (Helen Hunt, who also won an Oscar that year). Nicholson has won three Academy Awards — and in each case, his female costar also won.
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\t\t\t“Shine”
\nAustralian actor Geoffrey Rush dominated the film as real-life David Helfgott, a talented pianist with schizophrenia (Noah Taylor played adolescent Helfgott). It was one of Rush’s first movies, and certainly the first seen around the world. He subsequently has earned three additional Oscar nominations.
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\t\t\t“Leaving Las Vegas”
\nPart of the Coppola family, Nicolas Cage won an Oscar as a down-on-his luck alcoholic. Mike Figgis wrote (from a story by John O’Brien) and directed the tale. The film earned four key nominations: two for Figgis, plus Cage and best actress contender Elisabeth Shue. Like the 1971 “Sunday, Bloody Sunday,” it earned all of those key noms, but surprisingly no best picture bid.
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\t\t\t“Forrest Gump”
\nTom Hanks became the fifth person to win back-to-back acting Oscars, after Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Jason Robards Jr. “Forrest Gump” won six Oscars, including best film, director (Robert Zemeckis), screenplay (Eric Roth) and editing (Arthur Schmidt).
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\t\t\t“Philadelphia”
\nThough TV movies had addressed AIDS many years earlier, this was the first bigscreen movie from a major studio to tackle the issue. Tom Hanks was considered brave for playing the role of a gay man who hires an attorney (Denzel Washington) after he is terminated from his white-collar job.
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\t\t\t“The Scent of a Woman”
\nAl Pacino was a double nominee that year, also as supporting actor for “Glengarry Glen Ross.” These were his seventh and eighth nominations, but his first win. After “The Godfather” movies and “Dog Day Afternoon,” among many others, “The Scent of a Woman” was not his most admired performance, but the general feeling was that he was overdue.
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\t\t\t“The Silence of the Lambs”
\nSome people think the supporting actor category should be defined by a character’s time onscreen, but Anthony Hopkins disproves that theory. Though he is onscreen for less than 20 minutes, Hannibal Lecter is the movie’s most vivid character and remains indelible decades later. This was the third film to win the top five awards of picture, director (Jonathan Demme), actress (Jodie Foster), actor, and screenplay (Ted Tally), following “It Happened One Night” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
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\t\t\t“Reversal of Fortune”
\nJeremy Irons was appropriately charming and unsettling as real-life Claus Von Bulow, who was convicted twice of attempted murder of his rich wife Sunny. Irons had his big breakthrough in the 1981 landmark miniseries “Brideshead Revisited” and supplied the memorable voice of Scar in the 1995 film “The Lion King.”
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\t\t\t“My Left Foot”
\nDaniel Day-Lewis won the first of his three Academy Awards in this biopic of Irish Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy but learned to paint and write poetry with his only movable limb, his left foot.
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\t\t\t“Rain Man”
\nThis was the second win for Dustin Hoffman, here playing savant Raymond Babbitt, who tries to forge a relationship with his long-estranged brother Charlie (Tom Cruise). In all, Hoffman has earned seven best-actor noms.
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\t\t\t“Wall Street”
\nIn the Oliver Stone movie, Michael Douglas’ character created the catchphrase (though slightly misquoted line) “Greed is good,” which embodied the character and, for many, summed up the decade. Douglas had also won an Oscar as producer of best-picture winner “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
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\t\t\t“The Color of Money”
\nPaul Newman was a movie star for 30 years, creating many memorable roles, before winning his first Oscar. A surprising career twist: He won for a sequel after being nominated (but win-less) as Fast Eddie Felson for the 1962 “The Hustler.” Martin Scorsese directed this sequel, which also stars Tom Cruise.
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\t\t\t“The Kiss of the Spider Woman”
\nIn the five years before his Oscar win, William Hurt appeared in a series of high-profile films such as “Altered States” (1980), “Body Heat” (1981), and “The Big Chill.” In “The Kiss of the Spider Woman,” he plays an effeminate gay man sharing a cell with a political prisoner.
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\t\t\t“Amadeus”
\nF. Murray Abraham was known and respected in the industry, but mostly for stage work. One of the many examples of an unpredictable actor’s life: Not long before winning the Oscar, Abraham supported himself by appearing in commercials for such products such as Listerine and Fruit of the Loom.
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\t\t\t“Tender Mercies”
\nRobert Duvall had made his film debut as Boo Radley in “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962) and starred in films for Francis Coppola, George Lucas, Sidney Lumet, Sam Peckinpah, Robert Altman, and Arthur Penn, among others. He won as a country singer in the film written by Horton Foote (who had also scripted “Mockingbird”) and directed by Bruce Beresford.
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\t\t\t“Gandhi”
\nThe actor, born in England of Indian descent, had done 15 years in TV and many years with the Royal Shakespeare Company before becoming a movie star in Richard Attenborough’s epic biopic about Mahatma Gandhi. The other nominees were strong that year, with Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Lemmon, and Peter O’Toole, but Ben Kingsley took top honors for his memorable performance.
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\t\t\t“On Golden Pond”
\nHenry Fonda became the oldest best actor winner at 76 years, 317 days. He won a year after being given an honorary Oscar, in recognition of his great work over the decades. He and Katharine Hepburn both won as a retired couple in a film produced by (and co-starring) his daughter Jane Fonda.
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\t\t\t“Raging Bull”
\nRobert De Niro had won as supporting actor for “The Godfather Part II.” His work in the 1980 “Raging Bull” seemed like a gimmick — mid-production, filming was delayed so he could gain weight to depict boxer Jake LaMotta in his later years — but De Niro and director Martin Scorsese pulled it off.
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\t\t\t“Kramer vs. Kramer”
\nThis was Dustin Hoffman’s fourth Oscar nom, and his first win. Backstage after his Golden Globes victory a few weeks before the Academy Awards, Hoffman told the press, “I think that awards are very silly. I think they pit very talented and good people against each other and they hurt the hell out of the ones that lose.”
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\t\t\t“Coming Home”
\nThough Hollywood made many war films during WWII, it ignored the Vietnam war until after it ended. The Hal Ashby-directed “Coming Home” earned Oscars for Jon Voight and Jane Fonda, a post-Vietnam version of “The Best Years of Our Lives,” showing the difficulty of veterans readjusting. Voight played a paraplegic veteran who falls in love with a married woman.
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\t\t\t“The Goodbye Girl”
\nRichard Dreyfuss won as an actor playing an actor, in a rare comedy win, for this Neil Simon-written romantic comedy. At 30, Dreyfuss was the youngest best-actor winner and held that honor for 25 years, until Adrien Brody took the title.
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\t\t\t“Network”
\nPeter Finch won the first posthumous award given to an actor. He won as a news anchor whose on-camera freak-out helps the station boost its ratings in the Sidney Lumet-directed film of Paddy Chayefsky’s dark satire of American TV and shifting values.
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\t\t\t“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
\nJack Nicholson built a career under legendary indie-genre maestro Roger Corman in the 1950s, and had a breakthrough role in “Easy Rider” (1969). After a string of hits and Oscar nominations (“Seven Easy Pieces,” “The Last Detail,” “Chinatown”), Nicholson won Oscar gold for this adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel and Dale Wasserman play. It was the first of Nicholson’s three Oscar wins. And the film became the second of three films to win the top five awards.
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\t\t\t“Harry and Tonto”
\nArt Carney, a veteran of showbiz more than 50 years, was best known as the comic sewer worker Ed Norton in the TV series “The Honeymooners.” But he won for his serio-comic turn as a retired schoolteacher, beating tough competition, including Jack Nicholson for “Chinatown” and Al Pacino for “The Godfather, Part II.”
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\t\t\t“Save the Tiger”
\nJack Lemmon had won a supporting actor Oscar for “Mr. Roberts,” and in several Billy Wilder films, he became the quintessential pained-but-funny neurotic American everyman. “Save the Tiger” was one of his most dramatic roles, as a man involved in an insurance fraud.
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\t\t\t“The Godfather”
\nThe Francis Coppola-directed movie, adapted from Mario Puzo’s best-selling novel, became a mega-hit. Marlon Brando, only 48 when the film opened, created a classic performance as the Mafia chief. Brando also created a classic non-acceptance speech; he refused to attend the Oscars and sent Sacheen Littlefeather instead, where she read Brando’s refusal, due to Hollywood’s shoddy treatment of Native Americans.
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\t\t\t“The French Connection”
\nGene Hackman had become a movie star as Clyde Barrow’s brother in “Bonnie & Clyde” and the William Friedkin-directed “The French Connection” became one of his signature roles, as real-life N.Y. narcotics detective Jimmy (Popeye) Doyle. The film won five Oscars, also including best picture, director, screenplay (Ernest Tidyman), and editor (Gerald Greenberg).
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\t\t\t“Patton”
\nGeorge C. Scott’s towering performance as Gen. George Patton made him the clear front-runner, but he had criticized the entire Oscar process in his two previous nominations. And before Academy Awards day, he told “60 Minutes,” that the ceremony was a “meat parade … I resent being put on a show like a buffoon” and vowed that if he won the Oscar, he would return it. Could Academy voters overlook this? The answer was clearly yes.
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\t\t\t“True Grit”
\nJohn Wayne had been a movie star for nearly 40 years, the symbol of American soldiers during WWII (even though he never served in the military), and a symbol of U.S. conservative values during the Hollywood blacklist and Vietnam War. He won as the ultimate cowboy, Rooster Cogburn, who is both a spoof of, and a salute to, his earlier Western roles.
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\t\t\t“Charly”
\nCliff Robertson had starred in a 1961 TV adaptation of “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes and the actor fought to get a big-screen version made, which resulted in his sole Oscar nomination. The work centers on a developmentally disabled man who partakes in a science experiment that triples his IQ.
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\t\t\t“In the Heat of the Night”
\nIt was a strong year for actors (Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate,” Warren Beatty in “Bonnie & Clyde”), but Rod Steiger was a popular winner on his third nomination. He plays racist Southern sheriff who has to work with a black detective (Sidney Poitier) from the North to solve a murder.
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\t\t\t“A Man for All Seasons”
\nPaul Scofield had a distinguished stage career, and performed less often in films, but won by playing Sir Thomas More, re-creating his stage performance in Robert Bolt’s adaptation of his play. The film was directed by c (“From Here to Eternity,” “Julia”).
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/lee-marvin.jpg?w=200\")
\t\t\t“Cat Ballou”
\nLee Marvin won with a rare comedy performance, and a western to boot. The Hollywood veteran of movies (“The Wild One,” “Gorilla at Large,” “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”) and TV (“M Squad”) plays two roles, the villain and the drunken would-be hero.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/rex-harrison.jpg?w=241\")
\t\t\t“My Fair Lady”
\nRex Harrison re-created his stage role as Professor Henry Higgins in this Lerner & Loewe musical, based on Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” There was tough competition that year, including Anthony Quinn in “Zorba the Greek” and Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove,” two memorable performances. Harrison was yet another actor to win under director George Cukor, who was responsible for 21 acting nominations and five wins for Oscar.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/sidney-poitier.jpg?w=239\")
\t\t\t“Lilies of the Field”
\nActors want to believe they can change the world, but Sidney Poitier actually did. By carefully choosing his roles, he created a positive image of a black man for audiences around the world who didn’t personally know any blacks. Poitier became one of the biggest box office draws of the 1960s in films like this, where he displayed common sense, charm, and integrity, often against difficult odds, as he helps nuns build a church.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/gregory-peck.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“To Kill a Mockingbird”
\nGregory Peck scored with his fifth Oscar nomination as Atticus Finch, everybody’s favorite movie dad, who was honorable and loving as he defended a black man unjustly accused of raping a white woman. The film, adapted from Harper Lee’s novel, was a big box office hit.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/maximilian-schell.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“Judgment at Nuremberg”
\nThe Vienna-born actor made Oscar history by re-creating his TV performance in a 1959 “Playhouse 90” version of the script about the trial of Nazi war criminals.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/burt-lancaster.jpg?w=270\")
\t\t\t“Elmer Gantry”
\nThe former circus acrobat turned into a charismatic star (“The Crimson Pirate”) who proved to have serious acting chops as well. He won on the second of his four nominations, as the preacher-evangelist in writer-director Richard Brooks’ adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel about an evangelist. Lancaster was also the producer, usually uncredited, of many classy and serious films, like “Sweet Smell of Success.”
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/charlton-heston.jpg?w=202\")
\t\t\t“Ben-Hur”
\nThis was a big-screen remake of a silent film (1925) based on the successful novel written by Lew Wallace. The movie had a huge budget ($15 million) and was directed by William Wyler, whose films earned a record 14 Oscar wins for their actors. Heston was the star of many classic films, but this was his only Oscar nomination.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/david-niven.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“Separate Tables”
\nDavid Niven was onscreen less than 25 minutes (including appearing wordlessly in some group scenes). The film is an ensemble, but he was considered a lead. After Ernest Borgnine, this was the second time in four years that an actor won the top prize under director Delbert Mann.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/alec-guinness.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“The Bridge on the River Kwai”
\nTo some, he is best known as Obi-Wan Kenobi, but Alec Guinness has an amazing roster of film, TV, and stage work in his 50-year-plus career. This was the third of his six collaborations with the great filmmaker David Lean. Guinness made his film debut in Lean’s 1946 “Great Expectations” and among the actor’s many achievements are the 1979 miniseries “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” as George Smiley.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/yul-brynner.jpg?w=235\")
\t\t\t“The King & I”
\nYul Brynner had a great year in 1956, also starring in two other big hits, “The Ten Commandments” and “Anastasia.” Brynner had won a Tony as supporting actor in the Broadway production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, but he was moved up to the lead category for the film.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ernest-borgnine.jpg?w=238\")
\t\t\t“Marty”
\n“Marty” originated as a TV drama starring Rod Steiger, who turned down the big-screen version because producers Burt Lancaster and Harold Hecht wanted him to sign a long-term contract. Ernest Borgnine took the part and earned one of four Oscars for the small-scale, intimate film, also including best picture, director, and screenplay.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/marlon-brando.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“On the Waterfront”
\nMarlon Brando earned his fourth consecutive Oscar nomination (after “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Viva Zapata!” and “Julius Caesar”) and first win as Terry Malloy, a dockworker who testifies against corrupt union leaders.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/william-holden.jpg?w=250\")
\t\t\t“Stalag 17”
\nWilliam Holden made a splashy debut in “Golden Boy” (1939), but had a hard time finding roles to match his talent until Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Blvd” (1950). Three years after starring in that classic, Holden won the Oscar, again under Wilder’s direction, as a cynical POW during WWII.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/gary-cooper-2.jpg?w=248\")
\t\t\t“High Noon”
\nGary Cooper scored his second win for “High Noon,” only the second actor to take top prize for a western. Many saw this film as a McCarthy-era parable, about a sheriff who single-handedly takes on a gang of murderous outlaws.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/humphrey-bogart.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“The African Queen”
\nHumphrey Bogart had been a star since 1936, with his greatest successes in film noirs like “The Maltese Falcon” and “The Big Sleep.” He is probably best remembered for “Casablanca,” but he won his Oscar as the Cockney skipper sparring with Katharine Hepburn.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/jose-ferrer.jpg?w=241\")
\t\t\t“Cyrano de Bergerac”
\nJose Ferrer, born in Puerto Rico, became the first Latino/Hispanic acting winner. He won in his flashy role as the big-nosed poet-swordsman in the film adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s play. Ferrer had also won a Tony Award for his performance. (He had tied with Fredric March of “Years Ago” to take home the first Tony for best actor, in the 1946/47 season).
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/broderick-crawford.jpg?w=237\")
\t\t\t“All the King’s Men”
\nCharacter actor Broderick Crawford won for his work as Willie Stark, a character based on Louisiana’s powerful and corrupt governor Huey Long. The film was directed by Robert Rossen, based on Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer-winning novel. The film won three awards, including best picture.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/laurence-olivier.jpg?w=249\")
\t\t\t“Hamlet”
\nLaurence Olivier, one of the world’s great actors, won in one of the greatest roles of all time. He became the first of only two actors to direct himself to a best-actor win. The film won three other Oscars, including best picture.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ronald-colman.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“A Double Life”
\nRonald Colman, the silky-voiced English actor, won on his third nomination, playing an actor. In the film, the character is starring in a stage version of “Othello” and the work gets under his skin so much that he contemplates murder.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/fredric-march.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“The Best Years of Our Lives”
\nFredric March was the second actor (after Spencer Tracy) to become a repeat winner in the best-actor category. March’s win was one of eight Oscars awarded to the William Wyler-directed film about WWII vets trying to adjust to life after the war.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ray-milland.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“The Lost Weekend”
\nHollywood had been portraying alcoholics for laughs or for pathos, but never really explored how heavy drinking affects daily life. This is a Hollywood “serious issue” film but it holds up well, thanks to director Billy Wilder and to the performance of Ray Milland, who’d been in a lot of films but never had never had a role so gritty and demanding.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/bing-crosby.jpg?w=243\")
\t\t\t“Going My Way”
\nBing Crosby was the king of crooners in the 1930s, and appeared in various musicals and several “Road” movies with Bob Hope. But he found the perfect musical-dramatic role for his velvet-voiced charm as the unconventional Father Chuck O’Malley, assigned to a poor parish where he butts heads with his superior (Barry Fitzgerald).
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/paul-lukas.jpg?w=203\")
\t\t\t“Watch on the Rhine”
\nPaul Lukas, born in Hungary, came to Hollywood in 1927 and won an Oscar for re-creating his stage performance in Lillian Hellman’s “Watch on the Rhine.” He played a German engineer married to an American (Bette Davis), with both of them fighting fascism.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/james-cagney.jpg?w=227\")
\t\t\t“Yankee Doodle Dandy”
\nAfter a decade of success in gangster roles (e.g., the 1931 “The Public Enemy”) James Cagney reminded Hollywood of his unique song-and-dance style in this bio of vaudeville-stage actor-writer George M. Cohan. (Variety is featured prominently in the backstage musical; in one scene, Cohan explains the classic 1935 headline “Sticks Nix Hick Pix” to some students.) Cagney was the fourth actor in seven years to win for playing a real person.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/gary-cooper.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“Sergeant York”
\nWith his good looks and down-to-earth quality, Gary Cooper was a beloved Hollywood star. He again proved that he was also a good actor as Alvin York, a real-life WWI pacifist who becomes a war hero. It’s one of many Hollywood films of the era designed to persuade Americans of the importance of joining the war.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/james-stewart.jpg?w=202\")
\t\t\t“The Philadelphia Story”
\nJames Stewart had been one of the front-runners in 1939 for his tour-de-force work in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” The best actor race for 1940 was full of heavy-hitters, including Charlie Chaplin, Henry Fonda, Laurence Olivier and Raymond Massey, but Stewart won for his role opposite Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/robert-donat.jpg?w=231\")
\t\t\t“Goodbye, Mr. Chips”
\nThe Canadian actor Robert Donat was the surprise winner, with pundits predicting James Stewart for “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” or maybe Clark Gable as part of a “Gone With the Wind” sweep. But Donat’s award was well-deserved for his work as a shy professor at an English boys school who slowly falls in love and learns his value as a teacher.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/spencer-tracy-2.jpg?w=247\")
\t\t\t“Boys Town”
\nSpencer Tracy became the second of five back-to-back acting Oscar winners. Luise Rainer was first (1936-37); she and Tracy were followed by Katharine Hepburn, Jason Robards, then Tom Hanks. In “Boys Town” (made in an era when members of the clergy were depicted positively in Hollywood films), Tracy played the real-life Father Flanagan, a priest who created a refuge near Omaha for boys who were homeless or abused.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/spencer-tracy.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“Captains Courageous”
\n“Captains Courageous” was a change of pace for Spencer Tracy, who often played American rocks of Gibraltar. In the adaptation of Kipling’s work, he played a Portuguese fisherman who is a mentor to a young boy.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/paul-muni.jpg?w=202\")
\t\t\t“The Story of Louis Pasteur”
\nPaul Muni was the Meryl Streep of his generation, displaying a great range of looks and voices in his film career. He was born in Europe (in an area that’s now the Ukraine), and became a member of Yiddish Art Theatre in New York. His work as the 19th century French scientist resulted in the fourth of his six Oscar noms.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/victor-mclaglen.jpg?w=236\")
\t\t\t“The Informer”
\nVictor McLaglen was the third best actor winner in a decade who was born in Britain. McLaglen, of Scottish heritage, plays a guilt-driven man who turns in his friend for a cash reward during Dublin’s 1920 rebellion.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/clark-gable.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“It Happened One Night”
\nClark Gable, often called “The King Of Hollywood,” was a big star for 30 years. “It Happened One Night” is the first of three films to take the top five Oscars: best picture, director (Frank Capra), script (Robert Riskin), actress (Claudette Colbert) and actor.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/charles-laughton.jpg?w=247\")
\t\t\t“The Private Life of Henry VIII”
\nCharles Laughton marked the first win for a non-Hollywood production. The actor is best remembered for this role, the 1935 “Mutiny on the Bounty,” the 1939 “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and the Agatha Christie drama “Witness for the Prosecution” (1957). Billy Wilder, who directed “Witness,” hailed Laughton as one of the all-time great actors.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/jekyll.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”
\n(Tie, with one more vote than Wallace Beery, which the Academy decided was close enough to honor both of them)
\nThe Robert Lewis Stevenson tale had been filmed several times before. This was the first of two best-actor wins for March, a stage actor who later was cited by Marlon Brando and William Holden as an inspiration.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/the-champ.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“The Champ”
\n(Tie, Beery had one vote less than March)
\nBeery appeared in about 250 films, including MGM’s all-star “Grand Hotel” and “Dinner at Eight.” He won his Oscar as an over-the-hill boxer who works hard on his relationship with his young son (Jackie Cooper).
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/lionel-barrymore1.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“A Free Soul”
\nLionel Barrymore was the older brother of Ethel and John, part of the esteemed family that reigned over Broadway and Hollywood in the early 20th century. He won for his role as an alcoholic lawyer whose life is complicated when his daughter falls in love with his client.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/george-arliss1.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“Disraeli”
\nGeorge Arliss was 61 when he won the best-actor prize. (The English actor was born in 1868). He had also starred in a 1911 stage production as the British Prime Minister, then a 1921 silent and got the Oscar for the 1929 talkie remake.
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/warner-baxter.jpg?w=244\")
\t\t\t“In Old Arizona”
\nWarner Baxter won as the Cisco Kid , who rode around the Texas-Mexico border helping people. Baxter was the only person to win best actor for a Western until Gary Cooper 25 years later. Baxter’s most widely seen performance may be in the musical “42nd Street.”
\n![\"\"](\"https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/emil-jannings1.jpg?w=300\")
\t\t\t“The Last Command” and “The Way of All Flesh”
\nEmil Jannings was the first winner in this category, when actors could be nominated for multiple performances. Winners were announced in advance, and he requested his award before his departure for Germany, which makes him the first person ever to be handed an Oscar. Jannings won for “Last Command,” as a former Russian general who finds himself in Hollywood. In “Flesh,” he was an upstanding businessman whose life declines. But he is best remembered as the professor who is obsessed with cabaret singer Lola (Marlene Dietrich) in “The Blue Angel.”
\nA complete list of actors and actress winning or nominated for the Best Actor or Best Actress in A Leading role or Supporting role from the 2010 decade onwards.
Ranked IN ORDER of Most wins, Most noms, and the rest by year\n2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Most wins: Mahershala Ali and Frances McDormand (2).\nMost noms and 0 wins: Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Denzel Washington, Michelle Williams (4).\nMost wins and noms: Meryl Streep (5).\nYoungest prolific actor: Jennifer Lawrence (b. 1990)\nOldest prolific actor: Christopher Plummer (b. 1929, d. 2021)\nTotal number of individuals nominated by an acting Oscar from 2010: 185.
For a complete list of nominees since 1929 see: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls096107034/
\n Actor |\n Leave the World Behind\n
\n\nMahershala Ali is fast becoming one of the freshest and most in-demand faces in Hollywood with his extraordinarily diverse skill set and wide-ranging background in film, television, and theater.
He can be seen in the independent feature film, Moonlight, as well as reprising his role in The Hunger ...
WIN Best Supporting Actor - Moonlight (2016)\nWIN Best Supporting Actor - Green Book (2018)
\n Actress |\n Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri\n
\n\nFrances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She ...
\nWIN Best Actress - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)\nWIN Best Actress - Nomadland (2020)
\n Actress |\n Out of Africa\n
\n\nConsidered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...
\nWIN Best Actress - The Iron Lady (2011)\nNOM Best Actress - August: Osage County (2013)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Into The Woods (2014)\nNOM Best Actress - Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)\nNOM Best Actress - The Post (2017)
\n Actor |\n The Dark Knight\n
\n\nChristian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer \"Jenny\" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actor - The Fighter (2010)\nNOM Best Actor - American Hustle (2013)\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - The Big Short (2015)\nNOM Best Actor - Vice (2018)
\n Actress |\n The Hunger Games\n
\n\nAs the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence...
WIN Best Actress - Silver Linings Playbook (2012)\nNOM Best Actress - Winter's Bone (2010)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - American Hustle (2013)\nNOM Best Actress - Joy (2015)
\n Actress |\n Hidden Figures\n
\n\nSpencer is a native of Montgomery, Alabama, which she claims is the proverbial buckle of the Bible belt. She's the sixth of seven siblings and holds a BS in Liberal Arts from Auburn University. A \"closet\" lover of acting, this practical Alabamian knew that she'd someday work in the film industry, ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - The Help (2011)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Hidden Figures (2016)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - The Shape of Water (2017)
\n Actress |\n Carol\n
\n\nCate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...
\nWIN Best Actress - Blue Jasmine (2013)\nNOM Best Actress - Carol (2015)\nNOM Best Actress - T\u00e1r (2022)
\n Actor |\n Inception\n
\n\nFew actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
\nWIN Best actor - The Revenant (2015)\nNOM Best actor - The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)\nNOM Best actor - Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019)
\n Actress |\n La La Land\n
\n\nEmily Jean \"Emma\" Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (n\u00e9e Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles \"Jeff\" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the ...
\nWIN Best Actress - La La Land (2016)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Birdman (2014)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - The Favourite (2018)
\n Actor |\n Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy\n
\n\nGary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...
\nWIN Best Actor - Darkest Hour (2017)\nNOM Best Actor - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)\nNOM Best Actor - Mank (2020)\n
\n Actress |\n Fences\n
\n\nViola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television, and theater and has won rave reviews for her multitude of substantial and intriguingly diverse roles. Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her celebrated, Oscar-nominated ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - Fences (2016)\nNOM Best Actress - The Help (2011)\nNOM Best Actress - Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom (2020)
\n Actress |\n The Favourite\n
\n\nOlivia Colman was born on January 30, 1974 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Favourite (2018), Tyrannosaur (2011) and The Lost Daughter (2021). She has been married to Ed Sinclair since August 2001. They have three children.
\nWIN Best Actress - The Favourite (2018)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - The Father (2020)\nNOM Best Actress - The Lost Daughter (2021)
\n Actress |\n Zero Dark Thirty\n
\n\nJessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and ...
\nWIN Best Actress - The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - The Help (2011)\nNOM Best Actress - Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
\n Actress |\n Black Swan\n
\n\nNatalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...
WIN Best Actress - Black Swan (2010)\nNOM Best Actress - Jackie (2016)
\n Actor |\n There Will Be Blood\n
\n\nBorn in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...
\nWIN Best Actor - Lincoln (2012)\nNOM Best Actor - Phantom Thread (2017)
\n Actor |\n Les Mis\u00e9rables\n
\n\nBritish actor Eddie Redmayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor (for The Theory of Everything (2014)).
Edward John David Redmayne was born and raised in London, England, the son of Patricia (Burke) and Richard Charles Tunstall Redmayne, a businessman. His great-grandfather was Sir Richard ...
WIN Best actor - The Theory of Everything (2014)\nNOM Best actor - The Danish Girl (2015)
\n Actor |\n Whiplash\n
\n\nJ.K. Simmons is an American actor.
He was born Jonathan Kimble Simmons in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Patricia (Kimble), an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, a music teacher. He attended the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Montana, Missoula, MT (BA in Music).
He had ...
WIN Best Supporting Actor - Whiplash (2014)\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - Being the Ricardos (2021)
\n Actor |\n Walk the Line\n
\n\nJoaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...
\nWIN Best Actor - Joker (2019)\nNOM Best Actor - The Master (2012)\n
\n Actor |\n Beginners\n
\n\nLegendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actor - Beginners (2011)\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - All The Money in the World (2017)
\n Actor |\n Moon\n
\n\nSam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actor - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - Vice (2018)
\n Actor |\n Fight Club\n
\n\nWilliam Bradley \"Brad\" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (n\u00e9e Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin \"Bill\" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actor - Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019)\nNOM Best Actor - Moneyball (2011)\n
\n Actress |\n Jurassic Park\n
\n\nLaura Dern was born on February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, the daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd. Dern was exposed to movie sets and the movie industry from infancy, and obtained several bit parts as a child. Her parents divorced when Dern was two and Dern lost contact with her father for ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - Marriage Story (2019)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Wild (2014)\n
\n Actor |\n The Silence of the Lambs\n
\n\nAnthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
\nWIN - Best Actor - The Father (2020)\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - The Two Popes (2019)
\n Actor |\n Get Out\n
\n\nDaniel Kaluuya is a British actor and writer. He is best known for Get Out (2017), Black Panther (2018) and for portraying Fred Hampton in Judas & The Black Messiah (2021).
He had a supporting role in Sicario (2015).
He also starred in the Black Mirror episode \"Fifteen Million Merits\".
For his work in...
WIN Best Supporting Actor - Judas and the Black Messiah (2020)\nNOM Best Actor - Get Out (2017)
\n Actor |\n A Single Man\n
\n\nColin Andrew Firth was born into an academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. His mother, Shirley Jean (Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at the Open University, and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, lectured on history at Winchester University College (formerly King Alfred's...
\nWIN Best Actor - The King's Speech (2010)
\n Actor |\n The Artist\n
\n\nIn 1995 he began his first one man show, the same year he met Bruno Salomone, Eric Collado, Emmanuel Joucla and Eric Massot with whom he created the \"Nous \u00c7 Nous\". In 1999, he became \"Loulou\" in Un gars, une fille (1999). This part permitted him to show his talent to a larger public. Since the end ...
\nWIN Best Actor - The Artist (2011)
\n Actor |\n Interstellar\n
\n\nAmerican actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is ...
\nWIN Best actor - Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
\n Actress |\n Far from Heaven\n
\n\nJulianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on December 3, 1960, the daughter of Anne (Love), a social worker, and Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper, colonel, and later military judge. Her mother moved to the U.S. in 1951, from Greenock, Scotland. Her father, from ...
\nWIN Best Actress - Still Alice (2014)
\n Actress |\n Room\n
\n\nBrie Larson has built an impressive career as an acclaimed television actress, rising feature film star and emerging recording artist. A native of Sacramento, Brie started studying drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco...
\nWIN Best Actress - Room (2015)
\n Actor |\n Manchester by the Sea\n
\n\nAn accomplished and striking performer, Academy Award\u00ae winner Casey Affleck has established himself as a powerful leading man with performances in multiple projects.
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. His mother, Chris Anne (n\u00e9e Boldt), is a school teacher, and ...
WIN Best actor - Manchester By the Sea (2016)
\n Actor |\n Bohemian Rhapsody\n
\n\nRami Said Malek (born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He won a Critics' Choice Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his lead role as Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot. He also received Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors ...
\nWIN Best Actor - Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
\n Actress |\n Chicago\n
\n\nRen\u00e9e Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas, Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (Andreassen), is a Norwegian-born former nurse and midwife, of Norwegian, Kven (Finnish), and Swedish descent. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is a Swiss-born engineer. The two married in 1963. Ren\u00e9e ...
\nWIN Best Actress - Judy (2019)
\n Producer |\n The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\n
\n\nWillard Carroll \"Will\" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him \"the most powerful actor in Hollywood\". Smith has been nominated for five Golden ...
\nWIN Best Actor - King Richard (2021)
\n Actress |\n Minari\n
\n\nBeloved by audiences around the world, Youn Yuh-Jung's a legendary actress who has starred in many of Korea's most revered films & TV shows in a career that spans 5 decades. After winning Korea's Blue Dragon Award for best actress in her film debut as the country girl turned femme fatale in 1971's ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - Minari (2020)
\n Actress |\n The Fighter\n
\n\nMelissa Leo is an American actress. She is known for her Academy Award-winning performance in the 2010 film The Fighter (2010). She was born on September 14, 1960, in New York City. Leo starred as the mother of boxer Micky Ward in the 2010 film The Fighter, also starring Mark Wahlberg. The role ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - The Fighter (2010)
\n Actress |\n Les Mis\u00e9rables\n
\n\nAnne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Kate McCauley Hathaway, an actress, and Gerald T. Hathaway, a lawyer, both originally from Philadelphia. She is of mostly Irish descent, along with English, German, and French. Her first major role came in the short-lived television series ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - Les Mis\u00e9rables (2012)
\n Actor |\n Django Unchained\n
\n\nChristoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenf\u00fchrer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actor - Django Unchained (2012)
\n Actress |\n 12 Years a Slave\n
\n\nLupita Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico, to Kenyan parents, Dorothy Ogada Buyu and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o. Her father, a senator, was then a visiting lecturer in political science. She was raised in Kenya. At age 16, her parents sent her back to Mexico for seven months to...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - 12 Years A Slave (2013)
\n Actor |\n Dallas Buyers Club\n
\n\nJared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto is an accomplished actor merited by the numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to be ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actor - Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
\n Actress |\n True Romance\n
\n\nWith her expressive blue eyes, soft, Southern-tinged voice and an acting range that can carry her from hysterically funny to terrifying in seconds, Patricia Arquette is one of the most underrated and talented actresses of her generation. Though she has been working for years, she's always stayed ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - Boyhood (2014)
\n Actress |\n Ex Machina\n
\n\nAlicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, V\u00e4stra G\u00f6talands l\u00e4n, Sweden, to Maria Fahl, an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Through her mother, she is one quarter Finnish, and had a maternal great aunt who moved...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - The Danish Girl (2015)
\n Actor |\n Bridge of Spies\n
\n\nMark Rylance was born in Ashford, Kent, the son of Anne (n\u00e9e Skinner) and David Waters, both English teachers. His grandmother was Irish. His parents moved to Connecticut in 1962 and Wisconsin in 1969, where his father taught English at the University School of Milwaukee. Rylance attended this ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actor - Bridge of Spies (2015)
\n Actress |\n The Help\n
\n\nAllison Janney is an award-winning actress who has earned a solid reputation in stage productions and in many supporting roles on screen, and who more recently has become prominent by portraying one of the major characters in the popular TV series The West Wing (1999).
Entertainment Weekly magazine ...
WIN Best Supporting Actress - I, Tonya (2017)
\n Actress |\n Ray\n
\n\nRegina King was born in Los Angeles, California, to Gloria, a special education teacher, and Thomas King, an electrician. She began her career in the television show 227 (1985), followed by a role in Boyz n the Hood (1991). She began to be recognized by a mainstream audience after her role as Cuba ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
\n Actor |\n CODA\n
\n\nTroy Kotsur has been acting and directing for over 20 years. Deaf since birth, he was raised in Mesa, AZ. In his career he has had critically acclaimed performances in major films, a lead role in the Broadway run of a Tony Award-winning play, and numerous memorable roles on Television.
Troy has ...
WIN Best Supporting Actor - CODA (2021)
\n Actress |\n West Side Story\n
\n\nAriana DeBose is an American actress, dancer, and singer. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2022, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - West Side Story (2021)
\n Actress |\n Everything Everywhere All at Once\n
\n\nMichelle Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia. She's the daughter of Janet Yeoh & Kian Teik Yeoh. She's of Hokkien descent, speaking English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since 4, she moved to London to study at the Royal Academy as a teen. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss ...
\nWIN Best Actress - Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
\n Actor |\n The Mummy\n
\n\nBrendan James Fraser was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Canadian parents Carol Mary (Genereux), a sales counselor, and Peter Fraser, a journalist and travel executive. He is of Irish, Scottish, German, Czech, and French-Canadian ancestry. As his parents frequently moved, Brendan can claim ...
\nWIN Best Actor - The Whale (2022)
\n Actress |\n Halloween\n
\n\nJamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Trading...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actress - Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
\n Actor |\n Everything Everywhere All at Once\n
\n\nKe Huy Quan, also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is a Vietnamese-born Chinese-American actor and stunt choreographer. Quan played Short Round in \"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\" (1984) and Data in \"The Goonies\" (1985). In 1990 and 1991, he co-starred as Jasper Kwong in the sitcom \"Head of the ...
\nWIN Best Supporting Actor - Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
\n Actress |\n My Week with Marilyn\n
\n\nA small-town girl born and raised in rural Kalispell, Montana, Michelle Ingrid Williams is the daughter of Carla Ingrid (Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry Richard Williams, a commodity trader and author. Her ancestry is Norwegian, as well as German, British Isles, and other Scandinavian. She was ...
\nNOM Best Actress - Blue Valentine (2010)\nNOM Best Actress - My Week with Marilyn (2011)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Manchester By the Sea (2016)\nNOM Best Actress - The Fabelmans (2022)
\n Actress |\n Arrival\n
\n\nAmy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as ...
\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - The Fighter (2010)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - The Master (2012)\nNOM Best Actress - American Hustle (2013)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Vice (2018)
\n Actor |\n A Star Is Born\n
\n\nBradley Charles Cooper was born on January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (Campano), is of Italian descent, and worked for a local NBC station. His father, Charles John Cooper, who was of Irish descent, was a stockbroker. Immediately after Bradley graduated from the ...
\nNOM Best Actor - Silver Linings Playbook (2012)\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - American Hustle (2013)\nNOM Best Actor - American Sniper (2014)\nNOM Best Actor - A Star is Born (2018)
\n Actor |\n Fences\n
\n\nDenzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...
\nNOM Best Actor - Flight (2012)\nNOM Best Actor - Fences (2016)\nNOM Best Actor - Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)\nNOM Best Actor - The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
\n Actor |\n Spotlight\n
\n\nAward-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...
\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - The Kids Are All Right (2010)\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - Foxcatcher (2014)\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - Spotlight (2015)
\n Actress |\n Moulin Rouge!\n
\n\nElegant Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were there on educational visas.
Kidman is the daughter of Janelle Ann (Glenny), a nursing instructor, and Antony David Kidman, a biochemist and clinical ...
NOM Best Actress - Rabbit Hole (2010)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Lion (2016)\nNOM Best Actress - Being the Ricardos (2021)
\n Actress |\n Fatal Attraction\n
\n\nEight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. \"Bettine\" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.
Glenn was a noted ...
NOM Best Actress - Albert Nobbs (2011)\nNOM Best Actress - The Wife (2018)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
\n Actress |\n Hanna\n
\n\nSaoirse Una Ronan was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, to Irish parents, Monica Ronan (n\u00e9e Brennan) and Paul Ronan, an actor. When Saoirse was three, the family moved back to Dublin, Ireland. Saoirse grew up in Dublin and briefly in Co. Carlow before moving back to Dublin ...
\nNOM Best Actress - Brooklyn (2015)\nNOM Best Actress - Lady Bird (2017)\nNOM Best Actress - Little Women (2019)
\n Actor |\n The Big Lebowski\n
\n\nJeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (n\u00e9e Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...
\nNOM Best Actor - True Grit (2010)\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - Hell or High Water (2016)
\n Actress |\n Silver Linings Playbook\n
\n\nJacqueline Ruth Weaver is an Australian theatre, film and television actress. She is known internationally for her performances in Animal Kingdom (2010) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012), both of which earned her nominations for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Weaver emerged in the ...
NOM Best Supporting Actress - Animal Kingdom (2010)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
\n Actor |\n Skyfall\n
\n\nJavier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.
He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (Mar\u00eda del Pilar Bardem Mu\u00f1oz) and businessman Jos\u00e9 Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...
NOM Best Actor - Biutiful (2010)\nNOM Best Actor - Being the Ricardos (2021)
\n Actress |\n The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\n
\n\nActress and philanthropist Rooney Mara was born on April 17, 1985 in Bedford, New York. She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming-of-age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror ...
\nNOM Best Actress - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Carol (2015)
\n Actress |\n The Heat\n
\n\nMelissa McCarthy was born in Plainfield, Illinois, to Sandra and Michael McCarthy, and was raised on her family's corn and soybean farm. She began her performing career as a stand-up comedian in New York where she appeared at the famous clubs, Stand Up New York and The Improv. She worked on her ...
\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Bridesmaids (2011)\nNOM Best Actress - Can You Ever Forgive Me (2018)
\n Actor |\n 21 Jump Street\n
\n\nJonah Hill was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of Sharon Feldstein (n\u00e9e Chalkin), a fashion designer and costume stylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses. He is the brother of music manager Jordan Feldstein and actress Beanie Feldstein. He graduated from ...
\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - Moneyball (2011)\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
\n Actor |\n Shame\n
\n\nMichael Fassbender is an Irish actor who was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a German father, Josef, and an Irish mother, Adele (originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland). Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south-west Ireland, where his family moved to when ...
\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - 12 Years A Slave (2013)\nNOM Best Actor - Steve Jobs (2015)
\n Actress |\n The Shape of Water\n
\n\nSally Cecilia Hawkins was born in 1976 in Lewisham hospital, London, England, to Jacqui and Colin Hawkins, authors and illustrators of children's books. She is of English and Irish descent. Hawkins was brought up in Greenwich, in southeast London. She attended James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich...
\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Blue Jasmine (2013)\nNOM Best Actress - The Shape of Water (2017)
\n Actress |\n Skyfall\n
\n\nDame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...
\nNOM Best Actress - Philomena (2013)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Belfast (2021)
\n Actor |\n The Imitation Game\n
\n\nBenedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold ...
\nNOM Best Actor - The Imitation Game (2014)\nNOM Best Actor - The Power of the Dog (2021)
\n Actor |\n The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King\n
\n\nSince his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.
Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother ...
NOM Best Actor - Captain Fantastic (2016)\nNOM Best Actor - Green Book (2018)
\n Actor |\n Hacksaw Ridge\n
\n\nAndrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother, Lynn, and American father, Richard Garfield. When he was three, he moved to Surrey, U.K., with his parents and older brother. He is of English and Polish Jewish heritage. Andrew was raised in a middle class family, ...
\nNOM Best Actor - Hacksaw Ridge (2016)\nNOM Best Actor - tick, tick...BOOM! (2021)
\n Actress |\n Suicide Squad\n
\n\nMargot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her father, is Doug Robbie. She comes from a family of four children, having two brothers and one sister. She graduated from Somerset College in ...
\nNOM Best Actress - I, Tonya (2017)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Bombshell (2019)
\n Actor |\n Spider-Man\n
\n\nHaving made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...
\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - The Florida Project (2017)\nNOM Best Actor - At Eternity's Gate (2018)
\n Actor |\n Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens\n
\n\nAdam Douglas Driver was born in San Diego, California. His mother, Nancy (Needham) Wright, is a paralegal from Mishawaka, Indiana, and his father, Joe Douglas Driver, who has deep roots in the American South, is from Little Rock, Arkansas. His stepfather is a Baptist minister. His ancestry includes...
\nNOM Best Supporting Actor - BlacKkKlansman (2018)\nNOM Best Actor - Marriage Story (2019)
\n Actress |\n Lost in Translation\n
\n\nScarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, ...
\nNOM Best Actress - Marriage Story (2019)\nNOM Best Supporting Actress - Jojo Rabbit (2019)
\n Actress |\n American Beauty\n
\n\nAnnette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. She graduated from San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, ...
\nNOM Best Actress - The Kids Are All Right (2010)
\n Actor |\n The Social Network\n
\n\nCurly haired and with a fast-talking voice, Jesse Eisenberg is a movie actor, known for his Academy Award nominated role as Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film The Social Network. He has also starred in the films The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland, The Education of Charlie Banks, 30 Minutes or ...
\nNOM Best Actor - The Social Network (2010)
\n Actor |\n Spring Breakers\n
\n\nKnown for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene \"Doug\" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. His mother is Jewish and his father was of ...
\nNOM Best Actor - 127 Hours (2010)
\n Actor |\n The Hateful Eight\n
\n\nDemi\u00e1n Bichir N\u00e1jera was born in Mexico City, Mexico, to Maricruz N\u00e1jera (Mar\u00eda de la Cruz Najera Botello), an actress, and Alejandro Bichir (Alejandro Bichir Batres), a theatre director. His parents met in the theatre. He has two brothers who are also actors, Bruno Bichir and Odiseo Bichir. His ...
\nNOM Best Actor - A Better Life (2011)
\n Actor |\n The Ides of March\n
\n\nGeorge Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (n\u00e9e Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...
\nNOM Best Actor - The Descendants (2011)
\n Actress |\n Hiroshima mon amour\n
\n\nAn only child, Emmanuelle was born Paulette Germaine Riva in Chenim\u00e9nil, but eventually grew up in Remiremont. Her mother, Jeanne Fernande Nourdin, was a seamstress. Her father, Ren\u00e9 Alfred \"Alfredo\" Riva, was a sign writer. Her paternal grandfather was Italian. She dreamed of becoming an actress ...
\nNOM Best Actress - Amour (2012)
\n Actress |\n Beasts of the Southern Wild\n
\n\nWallis was born in Houma, Louisiana, to Qulyndreia (Jackson) Wallis, a teacher, and Venjie Wallis, Sr., a truck driver. She has one sister, Qunyquekya, and two brothers, Vejon and Venjie, Jr. \"Quven\", the first part of her name, combines the first syllables of her parents' first names. Wallis, at ...
\nNOM Best Actress - Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
\n Actress |\n Mulholland Dr.\n
\n\nNaomi Ellen Watts was born on September 28, 1968 in Shoreham, England to Myfanwy Edwards \"Miv\" (Roberts), an antiques dealer and costume/set designer, and Peter Watts (Peter Anthony Watts), Pink Floyd's road manager. Her maternal grandfather was Welsh. Her father died when she was seven and she ...
\nNOM Best Actress - The Impossible (2012)
\n Actor |\n Les Mis\u00e9rables\n
\n\nHugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...
\nNOM Best Actor - Les Mis\u00e9rables (2012)
\n Producer |\n The Proposal\n
\n\nSandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (n\u00e9e Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent. Sandra grew up on the road ...
\nNOM Best Actress - Gravity (2013)
\n Actor |\n 12 Years a Slave\n
\n\nEnglish actor, writer and director Chiwetel Ejiofor is renowned for his portrayal of Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations, along with the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He is also known for playing Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things...
\nNOM Best Actor - 12 Years A Slave (2013)
\n Actor |\n Nebraska\n
\n\nTwo-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern's tremendous career is made up of playing both modern day heroes and legendary villains. Through decades of lauded performances, Dern has acquired the reputation of being one of the most talented and prolific actors of his generation. Dern has several high profile ...
\nNOM Best Actor - Nebraska (2013)
\n Actress |\n La M\u00f4me\n
\n\nAcademy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.
Raised in Orl\u00e9ans, France, she ...
NOM Best Actress - Two Days, One Night (2014)
\n Actress |\n Rogue One\n
\n\nFelicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress and producer. Jones started her professional acting career as a child, appearing at age 12 in The Treasure Seekers (1996). She went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series in the television show The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. ...
\nNOM Best Actress - The Theory of Everything (2014)
\n Actress |\n Gone Girl\n
\n\nBorn in 1979 in London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is the only child of a classical violinist mother, Caroline (Friend), and an opera singer father, Julian Pike. Due to her parents' work, she spent her early childhood traveling around Europe. Pike attended Badminton School in ...
\nNOM Best Actress - Gone Girl (2014)
\n Producer |\n Wild\n
\n\nLaura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the ...
\nNOM Best Actress - Wild (2014)
\n Actor |\n The Office\n
\n\nSteve Carell, one of America's most versatile comics, was born Steven John Carell on August 16, 1962, in Concord, Massachusetts. He is the son of Harriet Theresa (Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His mother was of Polish descent and his father of Italian and ...
\nNOM Best Actor - Foxcatcher (2014)
\n Actor |\n Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)\n
\n\nQuirky, inventive and handsome American actor Michael Keaton first achieved major fame with his door-busting performance as fast-talking ideas man Bill Blazejowski, alongside a nerdish morgue attendant (Henry Winkler), in Night Shift (1982). He played further comedic roles in Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny...
\nNOM Best Actor - Birdman (2014)
\n Actress |\n 45 Years\n
\n\nTessa Charlotte Rampling was born 5 February 1946 in Sturmer, England, to Isabel Anne (Gurteen), a painter, and Godfrey Lionel Rampling, an Olympic gold medalist, army officer, and colonel, who became a NATO commander. She was educated at Jeanne d'Arc Acad\u00e9mie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles, ...
\nNOM Best Actress - 45 Years (2015)
\n Actor |\n Good Will Hunting\n
\n\nMatthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...
\nNOM Best Actor - The Martian (2015)
\n Actor |\n Breaking Bad\n
\n\nBryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in Hollywood, California, to Audrey Peggy Sell, a radio actress, and Joe Cranston, an actor and former amateur boxer. His maternal grandparents were German, and his father was of Irish, German, and Austrian-Jewish ancestry. He was raised in the Canoga ...
\nNOM Best Actor - Trumbo (2015)
\n Actress |\n Elle\n
\n\nIsabelle Huppert was born March 16, 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother Annick Huppert (who was a teacher of English), she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset's \"Un caprice\". She then...
\nNOM Best Actress - Elle (2016)
\n Actress |\n Loving\n
\n\nRuth Negga was born on May 4, 1981 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is an actress and producer, known for Loving (2016), Passing (2021) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013).
\nNOM Best Actress - Loving (2016)
\n Actor |\n Blue Valentine\n
\n\nBorn Ryan Thomas Gosling on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, he is the son of Donna (Wilson), a secretary, and Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman. Ryan was the second of their two children, with an older sister, Mandi. His ancestry is French-Canadian, as well as English, ...
\nNOM Best Actor - La La Land (2016)
\n Actor |\n Call Me by Your Name\n
\n\nTimoth\u00e9e Hal Chalamet was born in Manhattan, to Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and dancer, and Marc Chalamet, a UNICEF editor. His mother, who is from New York, is Jewish, of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent. His father, who is from N\u00eemes, France, is of French and English ancestry. ...
\nNOM Best Actor - Call Me By Your Name (2017)
\n Soundtrack |\n A Star Is Born\n
\n\nLady Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is an American songwriter, singer, actress, philanthropist, dancer and fashion designer.
Gaga was born on March 28, 1986 in Manhattan, New York City, to Cynthia Louise (Bissett), a philanthropist and business executive, and Joseph Anthony ...
NOM Best Actress - A Star Is Born (2018)
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