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AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
The film won Oscars for Best Actor (Peter Finch), Best Actress (Faye Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight), and Best Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky). Thanks to a stellar cast, experienced director, and a poignant story, Network became one of the largest critical successes of 1976.
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.
2. Dog Day Afternoon (1975). Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning Rating: R Al Pacino stars as Sonny, a criminal who teams up with his dim-witted sidekick, Sal, to rob a Brooklyn bank on ...
In the 1960s and '70s, he won over audiences playing rebellious criminals in "Cool Hand Luke" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," then went on to nab his first Best Actor Oscar in 1987 for ...
That ’70s Show managed to cultivate some of the most iconic moments in pop culture history. It’s also responsible for catapulting its younger stars Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Ashton Kutcher ...
Dreyfuss at the Kennedy Center in 1997. Richard Dreyfuss is an American actor and producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his leading role in The Goodbye Girl (1977), [1] and was Oscar-nominated in the same category for his portrayal of the title character in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995).
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 1 Scream and Scream Again: American International Pictures / Amicus Productions: Gordon Hessler (director); Christopher Wicking (screenplay); Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alfred Marks, Judy Huxtable, Michael Gothard, Anthony Newlands, Kenneth Benda, Uta Levka, Yutte Stensgaard, Julian Holloway, Peter Sallis ...