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However, in recent years, it has shifted towards being presented by previous years’ Best Actor winners instead. 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]
This occurred again at the 79th Academy Awards. Shirley Booth was the last person born in the 19th century to win an Oscar in a Leading Role, and the first woman in her 50s to win Best Actress, at the age of 54 (the second woman in her 50s to win, Julianne Moore, was also 54 when she won at the 87th Academy Awards).
This rule was implemented after Barry Fitzgerald received a Best Actor and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Going My Way. [3] As of 2025, 46 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Katharine Hepburn holds the record with four Oscars (all Best Actress). [4]
Here's a list of the best actor Oscar winners since the very beginning. ... Gary Oldman, "Darkest Hour" 2017 - Casey Affleck, "Manchester by the Sea" ... 1959 - David Niven, "Separate Tables"
Gascón was nominated for best actress for her performance in "Emilia Pérez," making her the first trans actor to be nominated for an acting Academy Award.Troy Kotsur's best supporting actor win ...
First black English actor to be nominated for Best Actor. 2014 Benedict Cumberbatch: The Imitation Game: Nominated Eddie Redmayne: The Theory of Everything: Won 2015 The Danish Girl: Nominated 2016 Andrew Garfield: Hacksaw Ridge: Nominated Garfield is an American-British actor. 2017 Daniel Day-Lewis Phantom Thread: Nominated Gary Oldman Darkest ...
With "The Whale," Fraser's return to the silver screen led to an inspiring comeback narrative and, ultimately, awards glory as the Best Actor Oscar winner in 2023. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty ...
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.