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The following is a list of awards, honors, and nominations received by American actor Brendan Fraser.For his performance in the 2022 psychological drama film The Whale, Fraser garnered critical acclaim and won a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Academy Award, becoming the first Canadian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
For his role in The Whale, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, the first Canadian actor to do so. [1] [2] Fraser's television work includes the miniseries Texas Rising (2015), the Showtime drama series The Affair (2016–2017), the FX anthology series Trust (2018), the Epix series Condor (2018), and the Max action series Doom Patrol (2019 ...
Brendan James Fraser (/ ˈ f r eɪ z ər / FRAY-zər; [1] [2] born December 3, 1968) is an American-Canadian actor. Fraser had his breakthrough in 1992 with the comedy Encino Man and the drama School Ties.
Highest-grossing films of 2007 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Spider-Man 3: Sony: $336,530,303 2 Shrek the Third: Paramount: $322,719,944 3 Transformers: $319,246,193 4 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: Disney: $309,420,425 5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Warner Bros. $292,004,738 6 I Am Legend: $277,322,503 7 The ...
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.
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western thriller film produced, directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. [1] [2] Based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name, the film is about an ordinary man to whom chance delivers a fortune that is not his, and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as the paths of three men intertwine in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. [3]
The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2006 and took place February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy ...
A total of 980 actors appear in the list—494 males and 486 females. Non-winning nominees include 335 males and 328 females—a total of 663. 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.