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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 Adrien Brody for The Brutalist (2024); he previously won the award for The Pianist (2002), for which he still retains the record ...
Dwayne Johnson was the highest-paid actor in 2016, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Julia Roberts was the highest-paid actress in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Forbes publishes yearly lists of the highest-paid actors and actresses based on total earnings from 1 June the previous year to 1 June the current year.
Too often pigeon-holed as a ‘character actor’ (a Hollywood euphemism for people who don’t look like your average pin-ups), Giamatti has stretched his range across blockbusters (Planet of the ...
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]
Cillian Murphy, winner of the Best Actor in a Leading Role award for 'Oppenheimer' poses in the press room during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood ...
We interview the eight actors you need to know right now: Gavin Casalegno, Lexi Underwood, Jabari Banks, Coral Peña, Samantha Hanratty, Olivia Liang, Fin Argus, and Karen Fukuhara.
Because of the effects of inflation on cinema ticket prices, a list unadjusted for inflation gives much more weight to later actors. [1] Therefore, gross revenue lists are largely meaningless for comparing acting careers widely separated in time, as many actors from earlier eras will not appear on a modern, unadjusted list, despite their films achieving higher commercial success when adjusted ...
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 ...