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First English-Australian to win for Best Actor and first with multiple nominations in this category. First ever posthumous winner in any acting category. [32] [33] 1996 : Geoffrey Rush: Shine: Won First Australian male actor to be nominated across acting categories (Best Supporting Actor for Shakespeare in Love). [34] 1999 : Russell Crowe: The ...
Academy Award for Best Picture: Year Name Film Status Milestone / Notes 1963: Elia Kazan: America, America: Nominated 1964: Michael Cacoyannis: Zorba the Greek: Nominated Cacoyannis is Cypriot-born Greek. 1995: George Miller: Babe: Nominated Miller is an Australia of Greek descent. Shared with Doug Mitchell and Bill Miller. 2011: Alexander ...
Alex Dimitriades (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Δημητριάδης, romanized: Aléxandros Dimitriádis; born 28 December 1973 [citation needed]) is an Australian television, film and stage actor of Greek descent. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Nick Polides in the 1993 romantic comedy film The Heartbreak Kid and as Nick Poulos in ...
Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an Australian [1] actor and musician. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award as well as a nomination for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award. He started his career portraying Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours (1986
He has a quality no acting school can teach you and few actors can match. You cannot look away from him". [4] [13] Chopper was a critical and financial success in Australia, and was nominated for Best Film at the Australian Film Institute Awards in 2001. Bana's performance won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor. [10]
Giamatti, 56, had one previous Oscar nod for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Cinderella Man in 2006. As for Murphy, 47, Domingo, 54, and Wright, 58, they each received their first Academy ...
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.
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. Katharine Hepburn won four times from twelve nominations—all for lead roles—making her the actor with the most wins in Academy Awards history. [3]