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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] The most recent winner is Cillian Murphy ...
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 ...
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. Katharine Hepburn won four times from twelve nominations—all for lead roles—making her the actor with the most wins in Academy Awards history. [3]
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture , its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non ...
The actor was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1915, to a Mexican mother and an Irish father, and is one of one only five actors with a Latin-American background to win an acting Oscar – the others ...
In the list below, winners are listed first in the gold row, followed by the other nominees. [1] Except for the early years (when the Academy used a non-calendar year), the year shown is the one in which the film first premiered in Los Angeles County, California; normally this is also the year of first release, but it may be the year after first release (as with Casablanca and, if the film ...
Connery is the first and only Scottish actor to win an Academy Award for acting. 1988 Alec Guinness Little Dorrit: Nominated 1991 Ben Kingsley: Bugsy: Nominated 1992 Jaye Davidson: The Crying Game: Nominated First black British actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. 1993 Ralph Fiennes: Schindler's List: Nominated Pete Postlethwaite: In the ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Male film actors. It includes Male film actors that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. List of actors that have been awarded the Best Actor oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .