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The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best ...
As of 2024, 45 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] Six have won exactly three acting Academy Awards: Daniel Day-Lewis (three Best Actor awards), Frances McDormand (three Best Actress awards), Meryl Streep (two Best Actress ...
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 ...
- Melissa Leo, Best Supporting Actress—The Fighter - Colin Firth, Best Actor—The King's Speech with trophies known as Oscars. This list of actors with Academy Award nominations includes all male and female actors with Academy Award nominations for lead and supporting roles in motion pictures, and the total nominations and wins for each ...
January 24, 2023 at 9:33 AM. Colin Farrell and Bill Nighy have received their first best actor Oscar nominations. It was a strong showing for Irish talent at the nominations, with Paul Mescal also ...
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, six British Academy Film Awards and eleven Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning one from each of these and three Golden Globe Awards from thirteen nominations. DiCaprio received three Young Artist Award nominations for his roles in television shows during the early 1990s—the ...
Daniel Day-Lewis is an English actor. His major acting awards include three Academy Award wins from six nominations and four BAFTA Award wins from seven nominations. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performances in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot (1989), Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).
Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor known for his appearances on the stage and screen. He became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963). He also received a Grammy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a British Academy Film Award.