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At age 89, Best Adapted Screenplay winner James Ivory became the oldest winner of a competitive Oscar. [24] Jordan Peele was the first African American winner for Best Original Screenplay. [ 25 ] Rachel Morrison became the first woman nominated for Best Cinematography .
Frances McDormand has won three times for her lead roles, out of six nominations—three lead and three supporting. [5] Meryl Streep is the most-nominated actor of all, with twenty-one nominations. [6] Jack Nicholson has received the most Academy Award nominations for any male actor with twelve nominations. [7]
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]
Since the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, one actor each year has been awarded for having the greatest performance in a leading role. Here's a list of the best actor Oscar winners since the ...
Best Actor Flight: Won 2016 Best Actor Fences: Won 2021 Best Actor The Tragedy of Macbeth: Nominated 2025 Best Supporting Actor Gladiator II: Pending American Film Institute: 2002 Actor of the Year – Male – Movies: Training Day: Won Berlin International Film Festival: 1993: Silver Bear for Best Actor: Malcolm X: Won 2000: The Hurricane: Won ...
Competitive Academy Awards are separated from non-competitive Awards; as such, any films that were awarded a non-competitive award will be shown in brackets next to the number of competitive wins. Films that were nominated, but had the nomination taken away for any reason are listed here, but without counting the nomination.
In 2020, Mahershala Ali picked up his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Best Picture winner Green Book. He previously won for Moonlight in 2017. Here are the actors with the most Oscar wins.
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).