HistoryThe first awards were presented on May 16, 1929, at a private brunch at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post Academy Awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel.[3] The cost of guest tickets for that night's ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927–1928 period.
Winners had been announced three months earlier of their triumphs; however that was changed in the second ceremony of the Academy Awards in 1930. Since then and during the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11 pm on the night of the awards.[3] This method was used until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began; as a result, the Academy has used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners since 1941.[3] Since 2002, the awards have been broadcast from the Kodak Theatre.
The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. He had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier; this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. The honored professionals were awarded for all the work done in a certain category for the qualifying period; for example, Emil Jannings received the award for two movies in which he starred during that period. Since the fourth ceremony, the system changed, and the professionals were honored for a specific performance in a single film. As of the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony held in 2010, a total of 2,789 Oscars have been given for 1,825 awards.[4] A total of 302 actors have won Oscars in competitive acting categories or been awarded Honorary or Juvenile Awards.
At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27, 1957, the Best Foreign Language Film category was introduced; until then, foreign language films were honored with the Special Achievement Award.
Oscar statuette
Design
Although there are seven other types of awards presented by the Academy (the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13.5 in (34 cm) tall, weighs 8.5 lb (3.85 kg) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes. The five spokes each represent the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians.[5]
MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the design on a scroll.[6] In need of a model for his statuette Gibbons was introduced by his then wife Dolores del Río to Mexican film director and actor Emilio "El Indio" Fernández. Reluctant at first, Fernández was finally convinced to pose nude to create what today is known as the "Oscar". Then, sculptor George Stanley (who also did the Muse Fountain[7] at the Hollywood Bowl) sculpted Gibbons's design in clay and Sachin Smith cast the statuette in 92.5 percent tin and 7.5 percent copper and then gold-plated it. The only addition to the Oscar since it was created is a minor streamlining of the base. The original Oscar mold was cast in 1928 at the C.W. Shumway & Sons Foundry in Batavia, Illinois, which also contributed to casting the molds for the Vince Lombardi Trophy and Emmy Awards statuettes. Since 1983,[8] approximately 50 Oscars are made each year in Chicago, Illinois by manufacturer R.S. Owens & Company.[9]
In support of the American effort in World War II, the statuettes were made of plaster and were traded in for gold ones after the war had ended.[10]
Naming
The root of the name Oscar is contested. One biography of Bette Davis claims that she named the Oscar after her first husband, band leader Harmon Oscar Nelson;[11] one of the earliest mentions in print of the term Oscar dates back to a Time magazine article about the 1934 6th Academy Awards[12] and to Bette Davis's receipt of the award in 1936.[13] Walt Disney is also quoted as thanking the Academy for his Oscar as early as 1932. Another claimed origin is that the Academy's Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick, first saw the award in 1931 and made reference to the statuette's reminding her of her "Uncle Oscar" (a nickname for her cousin Oscar Pierce).[14] Columnist Sidney Skolsky was present during Herrick's naming and seized the name in his byline, "Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette 'Oscar'".[15] The trophy was officially dubbed the "Oscar" in 1939 by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.[16] Another legend reports that the Norwegian-American Eleanor Lilleberg, executive secretary to Louis B. Mayer, saw the first statuette and exclaimed, "It looks like King Oscar II!".[17] At the end of the day she asked, "What should we do with Oscar, put him in the vault?" and the name stuck.
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Ownership of Oscar statuettes
Since 1950, the statuettes have been legally encumbered by the requirement that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette. Academy Awards not protected by this agreement have been sold in public auctions and private deals for six-figure sums.[18]
While the Oscar is under the ownership of the recipient, it is essentially not on the open market.[19] The case of Michael Todd's grandson trying to sell Todd's Oscar statuette illustrates that there are some who do not agree with this idea. When Todd's grandson attempted to sell Todd's Oscar statuette to a movie prop collector, the Academy won the legal battle by getting a permanent injunction. Although Oscar sales transactions have been successful, some buyers have subsequently returned the statuettes to the Academy, which keeps them in its treasury.[20]
Nomination
Since 2004, Academy Award nomination results have been announced to the public in late January. Prior to 2004, nomination results were announced publicly in early February.
Voters
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, maintains a voting membership of 5,835 as of 2007.[21]
Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy's composition. Votes have been certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (and its predecessor Price Waterhouse) for the past 73 annual awards ceremonies.[22]
All AMPAS members must be invited to join by the Board of Governors, on behalf of Academy Branch Executive Committees. Membership eligibility may be achieved by a competitive nomination or a member may submit a name based on other significant contribution to the field of motion pictures.
New membership proposals are considered annually. The Academy does not publicly disclose its membership, although as recently as 2007 press releases have announced the names of those who have been invited to join. The 2007 release also stated that it has just under 6,000 voting members. While the membership had been growing, stricter policies have kept its size steady since then.[23]
Rules
Currently, according to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film must open in the previous calendar year, from midnight at the start of January 1 to midnight at the end of December 31, in Los Angeles County, California, to qualify (except for the Best Foreign Language Film).[24] For example, the 2010 Best Picture winner, The Hurt Locker, was actually first released in 2008, but did not qualify for the 2009 awards as it did not play its Oscar-qualifying run in Los Angeles until mid-2009, thus qualifying for the 2010 awards.
Rule 2 states that a film must be feature-length, defined as a minimum of 40 minutes, except for short subject awards, and it must exist either on a 35 mm or 70 mm film print or in 24 frame/s or 48 frame/s progressive scan digital cinema format with native resolution not less than 1280x720.
Producers must submit an Official Screen Credits online form before the deadline; in case it is not submitted by the defined deadline, the film will be ineligible for Academy Awards in any year. The form includes the production credits for all related categories. Then, each form is checked and put in a Reminder List of Eligible Releases.
In late December ballots and copies of the Reminder List of Eligible Releases are mailed to around 6000 active members. For most categories, members from each of the branches vote to determine the nominees only in their respective categories (i.e. only directors vote for directors, writers for writers, actors for actors, etc.); there are some exceptions though in the case of certain categories, like Foreign Film, Documentary and Animated Feature Film in which movies are selected by special screening committees made up of member from all branches. In the special case of Best Picture, all voting members are eligible to select the nominees for that category. Foreign films must include English subtitles, and each country can only submit one film per year.[25]
The members of the various branches nominate those in their respective fields while all members may submit nominees for Best Picture. The winners are then determined by a second round of voting in which all members are then allowed to vote in most categories, including Best Picture.[26]
Ceremony
Telecast
31st Academy Awards Presentations, Pantages Theater, Hollywood, 1959
81st Academy Awards Presentations, Hollywood and Highland, Hollywood, 2009
The major awards are presented at a live televised ceremony, most commonly in February or March following the relevant calendar year, and six weeks after the announcement of the nominees. It is the culmination of the film awards season, which usually begins during November or December of the previous year. This is an elaborate extravaganza, with the invited guests walking up the red carpet in the creations of the most prominent fashion designers of the day. Black tie dress is the most common outfit for men, although fashion may dictate not wearing a bow-tie, and musical performers sometimes do not adhere to this. (The artists who recorded the nominees for Best Original Song quite often perform those songs live at the awards ceremony, and the fact that they are performing is often used to promote the television broadcast).
The Academy Awards is televised live across the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii), Canada, the United Kingdom, and gathers millions of viewers elsewhere throughout the world.[27] The 2007 ceremony was watched by more than 40 million Americans.[28] Other awards ceremonies (such as the Emmys, Golden Globes, and Grammys) are broadcast live in the East Coast but are on tape delay in the West Coast and might not air on the same day outside North America (if the awards are even televised). The Academy has for several years claimed that the award show has up to a billion viewers internationally, but this has so far not been confirmed by any independent sources. The Awards show was first televised on NBC in 1953. NBC continued to broadcast the event until 1960 when the ABC Network took over, televising the festivities through 1970, after which NBC resumed the broadcasts. ABC once again took over broadcast duties in 1976; it is under contract to do so through the year 2014.[29]
After more than sixty years of being held in late March or early April, the ceremonies were moved up to late February or early March starting in 2004 to help disrupt and shorten the intense lobbying and ad campaigns associated with Oscar season in the film industry. Another reason was because of the growing TV ratings success of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, which would cut into the Academy Awards audience. The earlier date is also to the advantage of ABC, as it now usually occurs during the highly profitable and important February sweeps period. (Some years, the ceremony is moved into early March in deference to the Winter Olympics.) Advertising is somewhat restricted, however, as traditionally no movie studios or competitors of official Academy Award sponsors may advertise during the telecast. The Awards show holds the distinction of having won the most Emmys in history, with 47 wins and 195 nominations.[30]
After many years of being held on Mondays at 9:00 p.m. Eastern/6:00 p.m Pacific, in 1999 the ceremonies were moved to Sundays at 8:30 p.m. Eastern/5:30 p.m. Pacific.[31] The reasons given for the move were that more viewers would tune in on Sundays, that Los Angeles rush-hour traffic jams could be avoided, and that an earlier start time would allow viewers on the East Coast to go to bed earlier.[32] For many years the film industry had opposed a Sunday broadcast because it would cut into the weekend box office.[33]
On March 30, 1981, the awards ceremony was postponed for one day after the shooting of President Ronald Reagan and others in Washington DC.
In 1993 an In Memoriam section was introduced,[34] honoring those who had made a significant contribution to cinema who had died in the preceding 12 months. This section has led to some criticism for omission of notable persons such as Leonard Schrader and Malcolm Arnold in 2007[35] and Gene Barry, Farrah Fawcett, Henry Gibson, Gale Storm, and Bea Arthur in 2010.[34] The list of names chosen to be included in the Memoriam segment is compiled by a small committee of the Academy and not the producers of the show.[36]
Since 2002, celebrities have been seen arriving at the Academy Awards in hybrid vehicles;[37] during the telecast of the 79th Academy Awards in 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio and former vice president Al Gore announced that ecologically intelligent practices had been integrated into the planning and execution of the Oscar presentation and several related events.[37][38]
In 2010, the organizers of the Academy Awards announced that winners' acceptance speeches must not run past 45 seconds. This, according to organizer Bill Mechanic, was to ensure the elimination of what he termed "the single most hated thing on the show" - overly long and embarrassing displays of emotion.[39]
Ratings
Historically, the "Oscarcast" has pulled in a bigger haul when box-office hits are favored to win the Best Picture trophy. More than 57.25 million viewers tuned to the telecast in 1998, the year of Titanic, which generated close to US$600 million at the North American box office pre-Oscars.[40] The 76th Academy Awards ceremony in which The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (pre-telecast box office earnings of US$368 million) received 11 Awards including Best Picture drew 43.56 million viewers.[41] The most watched ceremony based on Nielsen ratings to date, however, was the 42nd Academy Awards (Best Picture Midnight Cowboy) which drew a 43.4% household rating on April 7, 1970.[42]
By contrast, ceremonies honoring films that have not performed well at the box office tend to show weaker ratings. The 78th Academy Awards which awarded low-budgeted, independent film Crash (with a pre-Oscar gross of US$53.4 million) generated an audience of 38.64 million with a household rating of 22.91%.[43] In 2008, the 80th Academy Awards telecast was watched by 31.76 million viewers on average with an 18.66% household rating, the lowest rated and least watched ceremony to date, in spite of celebrating 80 years of the Academy Awards.[44] The Best Picture winner of that particular ceremony was another low-budget, independently financed film (No Country for Old Men).
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academic award for best documentry
1940s
1941 - Churchill's Island - National Film Board of Canada
Adventure in the Bronx
Bomber
Christmas Under Fire
A Letter from Home
Life of a Thoroughbred
Norway in Revolt
Soldiers of the Sky
Warclouds in the Pacific
1942 - At the 15th Academy Awards, 25 films were nominated and four special awards presented in the Documentary category, in recognition of the Allied war in effort in World War II:[1]
The Battle of Midway -- United States Navy
"A special award to Battle of Midway for the historical value of its achievement in offering a camera record of one of the decisive battles of the world - a record unique both for the courage of those who made it under fire, and for its magnificent portrayal of the gallantry of our armed forces in battle."[1]
Kokoda Front Line! -- Australian News & Information Bureau
"A special award to Kokoda Front Line! for its effectiveness in portraying, simply yet forcefully, the scene of war in New Guinea and for its moving presentation of the bravery and fortitude of our Australian comrades in arms."[1]
Moscow Strikes Back -- Artkino
"A special award to Moscow Strikes Back for its vivid presentation of the heroism of the Russian Army and of the Russian people in the defense of Moscow, and for its achievement in so doing under conditions of extreme difficulty and danger."[1]
Prelude to War -- United States Army Special Services
"A special award to Prelude to War for its trenchant conception and authentic and stirring dramatization of the events which forced our nation into the war and of the ideals for which we fight."[1]
Africa, Prelude to Victory -- The March of Time
Combat Report -- United States Army Signal Corps
Conquer by the Clock -- Frederic Ullman, Jr., Producer
The Grain That Built a Hemisphere -- Walt Disney, Producer
Henry Browne, Farmer -- United States Department of Agriculture
High over the Borders -- National Film Board of Canada
High Stakes in the East -- The Netherlands Information Bureau
Inside Fighting China -- National Film Board of Canada
It's Everybody's War -- United States Office of War Information
Listen to Britain -- British Ministry of Information
Little Belgium -- Belgian Ministry of Information
Little Isles of Freedom -- Victor Stoloff and Edgar Loew, Producers
Mr. Blabbermouth! -- United States Office of War Information
Mr. Gardenia Jones -- United States Office of War Information
The New Spirit -- Walt Disney, Producer
The Price of Victory -- William H. Pine, Producer
A Ship Is Born -- United States Merchant Marine
Twenty-One Miles -- British Ministry of Information
We Refuse to Die -- William C. Thomas, Producer
White Eagle -- Concanen Films
Winning Your Wings -- United States Army Air Force
1943 - December 7th - United States Navy
Children of Mars
Plan for Destruction
Swedes in America
To the People of the United States
Tomorrow We Fly
Youth in Crisis
1944 - With the Marines at Tarawa - United States Marine Corps
Hymn of the Nations
New Americans
1945 - Hitler Lives - Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Library of Congress
To the Shores of Iwo Jima
1946 - Seeds of Destiny - United States Department of War
Atomic Power
Life at the Zoo
Paramount News Issue#37
Traffic with the Devil
1947 - First Steps - United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information
Passport to Nowhere
School in the Mailbox
1948 - Toward Independence - United States Army
Heart to Heart
Operation Vittles
1949 - (tie):
A Chance To Live - Richard de Rochemont, Producer
So Much for So Little - Edward Selzer, Producer
1848
The Rising Tide
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1950s
1950 - Why Korea? - Edmund Reek, Producer
The Fight: Science Against Cancer
The Stairs
1951 - Benjy - Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital
One Who Came Back
The Seeing Eye
1952 - Neighbours - Norman McLaren, Producer - National Film Board of Canada
Devil Take Us
Epeira Diadema
Man Alive!
1953 - The Alaskan Eskimo - Walt Disney, Producer
The Living City
Operation Blue Jay
They Planted a Stone
The Word
1954 - Thursday's Children - World Wide Pictures and Morse Films
Jet Carrier
Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
1955 - Men against the Arctic - Walt Disney, Producer
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Face of Lincoln
1956 - The True Story of the Civil War - Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
Man in Space
A City Decides
The Dark Wave
The House Without a Name
1957 - none given
1958 - Ama Girls - Ben Sharpsteen, Producer
Employees Only
Journey Into Spring
The Living Stone
Oeuverture
1959 - Glass - Bert Haanstra, Producer
Donald in Mathmagic Land
From Generation to Generation
Note: A press release issued by AMPAS in 2005 states that "Documentary Short Subject winners Benjy (1951) and Neighbours (1952) are among a group of films that not only competed, but won Academy Awards in what were clearly inappropriate categories. Benjy, directed by Fred Zinnemann and narrated by Henry Fonda, is the fictional tale of a crippled boy. The film was used as a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital. ... Norman McLaren's Neighbours, which today would compete in the Animated Short category, used "pixilation" – animation using living people - to create an allegory of war." [2]
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1960s
1960 - Giuseppina - James Hill, Producer
Beyond Silence
En by ved navn København
George Grosz' Interregnum
Universe
1961 - Project Hope - Frank P. Bibas, Producer
Breaking the Language Barrier
Cradle of Genius
Kahl
L'uomo in grigio
1962 - Dylan Thomas - Jack Howells, Producer
The John Glenn Story
The Road to the Wall
1963 - Chagall - Simon Schiffrin, Producer
The Five Cities of June
The Spirit of America
Thirty Million Letters
To Live Again
1964 - Nine from Little Rock - Charles Guggenheim, Producer
140 Days Under the World
Breaking the Habit
Children Without
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
1965 - To Be Alive! - Francis Thompson, Producer
Mural on Our Street
Nyitany
Point of View
Yeats Country
1966 - A Year Toward Tomorrow - Edmond A. Levy, Producer
Adolescence
Cowboy
The Odds Against
Részletek J.S. Bach Máté passiójából
1967 - The Redwoods - Mark Harris and Trevor Greenwood, Producers
Monument to the Dream
A Place to Stand
See You at the Pillar
While I Run This Race
1968 - Why Man Creates - Saul Bass, Producer
The House That Ananda Built
The Revolving Door
A Space to Grow
A Way Out of the Wilderness
1969 - Czechoslovakia 1968 - Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco, Producers
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
Jenny Is a Good Thing
Leo Beuerman
The Magic Machines
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1970s
1970 - Interviews with My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick, Producer
The Gifts
A Long Way from Nowhere
Oisin
Time Is Running Out
1971 - Sentinels of Silence - Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
Adventures in Perception
Art Is...
The Numbers Start with the River
Somebody Waiting
1972 - This Tiny World - Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden, Producers
Hundertwassers Regentag
K-Z
Selling Out
The Tide of Traffic
1973 - Princeton: A Search for Answers - Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers
Background
Christo's Valley Curtain
Four Stones for Kanemitsu
Paisti ag obair
1974 - Don't - Robin Lehman, Producer
City Out of Wilderness
Exploratorium
John Muir's High Sierra
Naked Yoga
1975 - The End of the Game - Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman, Producers
Arthur and Lillie
Millions of Years Ahead of Man
Probes in Space
Whistling Smith
1976 - Number Our Days - Lynne Littman and Barbara Myerhoff, Producers
American Shoeshine
Blackwood
The End of the Road
Universe
1977 - Gravity Is My Enemy - John C. Joseph and Jan Stussy, Producers
Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
First Edition
Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
The Shetland Experience
1978 - The Flight of the Gossamer Condor - Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd, Producers
The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
An Encounter with Faces
Goodnight Miss Ann
Squires of San Quentin
1979 - Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist - Saul J. Turell, Producer
Dae
Koryo Celadon
Nails
Remember Me
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1980s
1980 - Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue, Producer
Don't Mess with Bill
The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!
It's the Same World
Luther Metke at 94
1981 - Close Harmony - Nigel Noble, Producer
Americas in Transition
Journey for Survival
See What I Say
Urge to Build
1982 - If You Love This Planet - Edward Le Lorrain and Terri Nash, Producers - National Film Board of Canada
Gods of Metal
The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America
To Live or Let Die
Traveling Hopefully
1983 - Flamenco at 5:15 - Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky, Producers - National Film Board of Canada
Ihr zent frei
In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
Sewing Woman
Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
1984 - The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner, Producers
The Children of Soong Ching Ling
Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
The Garden of Eden
Vospominaniye o Pavlovske
1985 - Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements - David Goodman, Producer
The Courage to Care
Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date
Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra
The Wizard of the Strings
1986 - Women – for America, for the World - Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Producer
Sam
Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
The Master of Disaster
Debonair Dancers
1987 - Young at Heart - Sue Marx and Pamela Conn, Producers
Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
In the Wee Wee Hours...
Language Says It All
Silver Into Gold
1988 - You Don't Have to Die - William Guttentag and Malcolm Clarke, Producers
Gang Cops
Family Gathering
The Children's Storefront
Portrait of Imogen
1989 - The Johnstown Flood - Charles Guggenheim, Producer
Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future
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1990s
1990 - Days of Waiting - Steven Okazaki, Producer
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
Chimps: So Like Us
Burning Down Tomorrow
Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn
1991 - Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment - Debra Chasnoff, Producer
A Little Vicious
The Mark of the Maker
Birdnesters of Thailand
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1992 - Educating Peter - Thomas C. Goodwin (posthumous win) and Gerardine Wurzburg
When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories - Dorothy Fadiman
At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai - Geoffrey O'Connor
Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review' - Wendy L. Weinberg
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein - Richard Elson & Sally Bochner
1993 - Defending Our Lives - Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
Chicks in White Satin
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
1994 - A Time for Justice - Charles Guggenheim
89 mm od Europy
Blues Highway
School of the Americas Assassins
Straight from the Heart
1995 - One Survivor Remembers - Kary Antholis
Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls
The Shadow of Hate
The Living Sea
Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
1996 - Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien - Jessica Yu director, producer, writer and editor
Cosmic Voyage
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
An Essay on Matisse
1997 - A Story of Healing - Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
Amazon
Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies
1998 - The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years - Keiko Ibi
A Place in the Land
Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square - National Film Board of Canada
1999 - King Gimp - Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
Eyewitness
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo
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2000s
2000 - Big Mama - Tracy Seretean
Curtain Call
Dolphins
On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
The Man on Lincoln's Nose
2001 - Thoth - Sarah Kernochan and Lynn Appelle
Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
Sing!
2002 - Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port, Robert Port directors
The Collector of Bedford Street - Welcome Change Productions - Alice Elliott producer and director
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - Tell the Truth Pictures - Robert Hudson producer - Robert Houston director
Why Can't We Be a Family Again? - Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel directors
2003 - Chernobyl Heart - Maryann DeLeo
Asylum - Sandy McLeod and Gini Reticker
Ferry Tales - Katja Esson
2004 - Mighty Times: The Children's March – Robert Houston and Robert Hudson
Autism Is a World – Gerardine Wurzburg
The Children of Leningradsky – Hanna Polak and Andrzej Celinski
Hardwood – Hubert Davis and Erin Faith Young
Sister Rose's Passion – Oren Jacoby and Steve Kalafer
2005 - A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
God Sleeps in Rwanda
The Mushroom Club
2006 - The Blood of Yingzhou District
Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
2007 - Freeheld
La Corona
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
2008 - Smile Pinki
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306
2009 - Music by Prudence
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Rabbit à la Berlin
1941 - Churchill's Island - National Film Board of Canada
Adventure in the Bronx
Bomber
Christmas Under Fire
A Letter from Home
Life of a Thoroughbred
Norway in Revolt
Soldiers of the Sky
Warclouds in the Pacific
1942 - At the 15th Academy Awards, 25 films were nominated and four special awards presented in the Documentary category, in recognition of the Allied war in effort in World War II:[1]
The Battle of Midway -- United States Navy
"A special award to Battle of Midway for the historical value of its achievement in offering a camera record of one of the decisive battles of the world - a record unique both for the courage of those who made it under fire, and for its magnificent portrayal of the gallantry of our armed forces in battle."[1]
Kokoda Front Line! -- Australian News & Information Bureau
"A special award to Kokoda Front Line! for its effectiveness in portraying, simply yet forcefully, the scene of war in New Guinea and for its moving presentation of the bravery and fortitude of our Australian comrades in arms."[1]
Moscow Strikes Back -- Artkino
"A special award to Moscow Strikes Back for its vivid presentation of the heroism of the Russian Army and of the Russian people in the defense of Moscow, and for its achievement in so doing under conditions of extreme difficulty and danger."[1]
Prelude to War -- United States Army Special Services
"A special award to Prelude to War for its trenchant conception and authentic and stirring dramatization of the events which forced our nation into the war and of the ideals for which we fight."[1]
Africa, Prelude to Victory -- The March of Time
Combat Report -- United States Army Signal Corps
Conquer by the Clock -- Frederic Ullman, Jr., Producer
The Grain That Built a Hemisphere -- Walt Disney, Producer
Henry Browne, Farmer -- United States Department of Agriculture
High over the Borders -- National Film Board of Canada
High Stakes in the East -- The Netherlands Information Bureau
Inside Fighting China -- National Film Board of Canada
It's Everybody's War -- United States Office of War Information
Listen to Britain -- British Ministry of Information
Little Belgium -- Belgian Ministry of Information
Little Isles of Freedom -- Victor Stoloff and Edgar Loew, Producers
Mr. Blabbermouth! -- United States Office of War Information
Mr. Gardenia Jones -- United States Office of War Information
The New Spirit -- Walt Disney, Producer
The Price of Victory -- William H. Pine, Producer
A Ship Is Born -- United States Merchant Marine
Twenty-One Miles -- British Ministry of Information
We Refuse to Die -- William C. Thomas, Producer
White Eagle -- Concanen Films
Winning Your Wings -- United States Army Air Force
1943 - December 7th - United States Navy
Children of Mars
Plan for Destruction
Swedes in America
To the People of the United States
Tomorrow We Fly
Youth in Crisis
1944 - With the Marines at Tarawa - United States Marine Corps
Hymn of the Nations
New Americans
1945 - Hitler Lives - Gordon Hollingshead, Producer
Library of Congress
To the Shores of Iwo Jima
1946 - Seeds of Destiny - United States Department of War
Atomic Power
Life at the Zoo
Paramount News Issue#37
Traffic with the Devil
1947 - First Steps - United Nations Division of Films and Visual Information
Passport to Nowhere
School in the Mailbox
1948 - Toward Independence - United States Army
Heart to Heart
Operation Vittles
1949 - (tie):
A Chance To Live - Richard de Rochemont, Producer
So Much for So Little - Edward Selzer, Producer
1848
The Rising Tide
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1950s
1950 - Why Korea? - Edmund Reek, Producer
The Fight: Science Against Cancer
The Stairs
1951 - Benjy - Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital
One Who Came Back
The Seeing Eye
1952 - Neighbours - Norman McLaren, Producer - National Film Board of Canada
Devil Take Us
Epeira Diadema
Man Alive!
1953 - The Alaskan Eskimo - Walt Disney, Producer
The Living City
Operation Blue Jay
They Planted a Stone
The Word
1954 - Thursday's Children - World Wide Pictures and Morse Films
Jet Carrier
Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
1955 - Men against the Arctic - Walt Disney, Producer
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Face of Lincoln
1956 - The True Story of the Civil War - Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
Man in Space
A City Decides
The Dark Wave
The House Without a Name
1957 - none given
1958 - Ama Girls - Ben Sharpsteen, Producer
Employees Only
Journey Into Spring
The Living Stone
Oeuverture
1959 - Glass - Bert Haanstra, Producer
Donald in Mathmagic Land
From Generation to Generation
Note: A press release issued by AMPAS in 2005 states that "Documentary Short Subject winners Benjy (1951) and Neighbours (1952) are among a group of films that not only competed, but won Academy Awards in what were clearly inappropriate categories. Benjy, directed by Fred Zinnemann and narrated by Henry Fonda, is the fictional tale of a crippled boy. The film was used as a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital. ... Norman McLaren's Neighbours, which today would compete in the Animated Short category, used "pixilation" – animation using living people - to create an allegory of war." [2]
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1960s
1960 - Giuseppina - James Hill, Producer
Beyond Silence
En by ved navn København
George Grosz' Interregnum
Universe
1961 - Project Hope - Frank P. Bibas, Producer
Breaking the Language Barrier
Cradle of Genius
Kahl
L'uomo in grigio
1962 - Dylan Thomas - Jack Howells, Producer
The John Glenn Story
The Road to the Wall
1963 - Chagall - Simon Schiffrin, Producer
The Five Cities of June
The Spirit of America
Thirty Million Letters
To Live Again
1964 - Nine from Little Rock - Charles Guggenheim, Producer
140 Days Under the World
Breaking the Habit
Children Without
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
1965 - To Be Alive! - Francis Thompson, Producer
Mural on Our Street
Nyitany
Point of View
Yeats Country
1966 - A Year Toward Tomorrow - Edmond A. Levy, Producer
Adolescence
Cowboy
The Odds Against
Részletek J.S. Bach Máté passiójából
1967 - The Redwoods - Mark Harris and Trevor Greenwood, Producers
Monument to the Dream
A Place to Stand
See You at the Pillar
While I Run This Race
1968 - Why Man Creates - Saul Bass, Producer
The House That Ananda Built
The Revolving Door
A Space to Grow
A Way Out of the Wilderness
1969 - Czechoslovakia 1968 - Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco, Producers
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
Jenny Is a Good Thing
Leo Beuerman
The Magic Machines
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1970s
1970 - Interviews with My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick, Producer
The Gifts
A Long Way from Nowhere
Oisin
Time Is Running Out
1971 - Sentinels of Silence - Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
Adventures in Perception
Art Is...
The Numbers Start with the River
Somebody Waiting
1972 - This Tiny World - Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden, Producers
Hundertwassers Regentag
K-Z
Selling Out
The Tide of Traffic
1973 - Princeton: A Search for Answers - Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers
Background
Christo's Valley Curtain
Four Stones for Kanemitsu
Paisti ag obair
1974 - Don't - Robin Lehman, Producer
City Out of Wilderness
Exploratorium
John Muir's High Sierra
Naked Yoga
1975 - The End of the Game - Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman, Producers
Arthur and Lillie
Millions of Years Ahead of Man
Probes in Space
Whistling Smith
1976 - Number Our Days - Lynne Littman and Barbara Myerhoff, Producers
American Shoeshine
Blackwood
The End of the Road
Universe
1977 - Gravity Is My Enemy - John C. Joseph and Jan Stussy, Producers
Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
First Edition
Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
The Shetland Experience
1978 - The Flight of the Gossamer Condor - Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd, Producers
The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
An Encounter with Faces
Goodnight Miss Ann
Squires of San Quentin
1979 - Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist - Saul J. Turell, Producer
Dae
Koryo Celadon
Nails
Remember Me
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1980s
1980 - Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue, Producer
Don't Mess with Bill
The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!
It's the Same World
Luther Metke at 94
1981 - Close Harmony - Nigel Noble, Producer
Americas in Transition
Journey for Survival
See What I Say
Urge to Build
1982 - If You Love This Planet - Edward Le Lorrain and Terri Nash, Producers - National Film Board of Canada
Gods of Metal
The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America
To Live or Let Die
Traveling Hopefully
1983 - Flamenco at 5:15 - Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky, Producers - National Film Board of Canada
Ihr zent frei
In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
Sewing Woman
Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
1984 - The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner, Producers
The Children of Soong Ching Ling
Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
The Garden of Eden
Vospominaniye o Pavlovske
1985 - Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements - David Goodman, Producer
The Courage to Care
Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date
Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra
The Wizard of the Strings
1986 - Women – for America, for the World - Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Producer
Sam
Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
The Master of Disaster
Debonair Dancers
1987 - Young at Heart - Sue Marx and Pamela Conn, Producers
Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
In the Wee Wee Hours...
Language Says It All
Silver Into Gold
1988 - You Don't Have to Die - William Guttentag and Malcolm Clarke, Producers
Gang Cops
Family Gathering
The Children's Storefront
Portrait of Imogen
1989 - The Johnstown Flood - Charles Guggenheim, Producer
Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future
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1990s
1990 - Days of Waiting - Steven Okazaki, Producer
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
Chimps: So Like Us
Burning Down Tomorrow
Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn
1991 - Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment - Debra Chasnoff, Producer
A Little Vicious
The Mark of the Maker
Birdnesters of Thailand
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1992 - Educating Peter - Thomas C. Goodwin (posthumous win) and Gerardine Wurzburg
When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories - Dorothy Fadiman
At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai - Geoffrey O'Connor
Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review' - Wendy L. Weinberg
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein - Richard Elson & Sally Bochner
1993 - Defending Our Lives - Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich
Chicks in White Satin
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
1994 - A Time for Justice - Charles Guggenheim
89 mm od Europy
Blues Highway
School of the Americas Assassins
Straight from the Heart
1995 - One Survivor Remembers - Kary Antholis
Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls
The Shadow of Hate
The Living Sea
Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
1996 - Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien - Jessica Yu director, producer, writer and editor
Cosmic Voyage
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
An Essay on Matisse
1997 - A Story of Healing - Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
Amazon
Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies
1998 - The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years - Keiko Ibi
A Place in the Land
Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square - National Film Board of Canada
1999 - King Gimp - Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford
Eyewitness
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo
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2000s
2000 - Big Mama - Tracy Seretean
Curtain Call
Dolphins
On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
The Man on Lincoln's Nose
2001 - Thoth - Sarah Kernochan and Lynn Appelle
Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
Sing!
2002 - Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port, Robert Port directors
The Collector of Bedford Street - Welcome Change Productions - Alice Elliott producer and director
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - Tell the Truth Pictures - Robert Hudson producer - Robert Houston director
Why Can't We Be a Family Again? - Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel directors
2003 - Chernobyl Heart - Maryann DeLeo
Asylum - Sandy McLeod and Gini Reticker
Ferry Tales - Katja Esson
2004 - Mighty Times: The Children's March – Robert Houston and Robert Hudson
Autism Is a World – Gerardine Wurzburg
The Children of Leningradsky – Hanna Polak and Andrzej Celinski
Hardwood – Hubert Davis and Erin Faith Young
Sister Rose's Passion – Oren Jacoby and Steve Kalafer
2005 - A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
God Sleeps in Rwanda
The Mushroom Club
2006 - The Blood of Yingzhou District
Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
2007 - Freeheld
La Corona
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
2008 - Smile Pinki
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306
2009 - Music by Prudence
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Rabbit à la Berlin
academic award for best supporting actor
History
Throughout the past 74 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 74 Best Supporting Actor awards to 67 different actors. Winners of this Academy Award of Merit receive the familiar Oscar statuette, depicting a gold-plated knight holding a crusader's sword and standing on a reel of film. Prior to the 16th Academy Awards ceremony (1943), however, they received a plaque. The first recipient was Walter Brennan, who was honored at the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936) for his performance in Come and Get It. The most recent recipient was Christoph Waltz, who was honored at the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony (2010) for his performance in Inglourious Basterds.
Until the 8th Academy Awards ceremony (1935), nominations for the Best Actor award were intended to include all actors, whether the performance was in a leading or supporting role. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936), however, the Best Supporting Actor category was specifically introduced as a distinct award following complaints that the single Best Actor category necessarily favored leading performers with the most screen time. Nonetheless, Lionel Barrymore had received a Best Actor award (A Free Soul, 1931) and Franchot Tone a Best Actor nomination (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935) for their performances in clear supporting roles. Currently, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, and Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role constitute the four Academy Awards of Merit for acting annually presented by AMPAS.
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SuperlativesSuperlative Best Actor Best Supporting Actor Overall
Actor with most awards Spencer Tracy
Fredric March
Gary Cooper
Marlon Brando
Dustin Hoffman
Tom Hanks
Jack Nicholson
Daniel Day-Lewis
Sean Penn 2 Walter Brennan 3 Walter Brennan
Jack Nicholson 3
Actor with most nominations Spencer Tracy
Laurence Olivier 9 Walter Brennan
Claude Rains
Arthur Kennedy
Jack Nicholson 4 Jack Nicholson 12
Actor with most nominations
(without ever winning) Peter O'Toole 8 Claude Rains
Arthur Kennedy 4 Peter O'Toole 8
Film with most nominations Mutiny on the Bounty 3 On the Waterfront
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II 3 On the Waterfront
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II 4
Oldest winner Henry Fonda 76 George Burns 80 George Burns 80
Oldest nominee Richard Farnsworth 79 Hal Holbrook 82 Hal Holbrook 82
Youngest winner Adrien Brody 29 Timothy Hutton 20 Timothy Hutton 20
Youngest nominee Jackie Cooper 9 Justin Henry 8 Justin Henry 8
Walter Brennan, the winner of the inaugural award in 1936, is the only actor to win the award three times (from four nominations). Five actors have won the award twice: Anthony Quinn, Melvyn Douglas, Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, and Jason Robards. Robards was the only person to win consecutive Best Supporting Actor awards, for All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977).
Claude Rains and Arthur Kennedy share the greatest number of unsuccessful nominations, four each. The only other actors with four nominations were Walter Brennan (won three times) and Jack Nicholson (won once). Charles Bickford, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, and Al Pacino have each had three unsuccessful nominations.
Harold Russell was the first (and only) actor to receive two Academy Awards for the same performance when he won the Best Supporting Actor award and was also presented with an Academy Honorary Award for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Thanks to a voting quirk, in 1944 Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way became the only actor nominated in both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories for the same performance, winning the latter. (Today, Academy bylaws preclude this from happening.)
Robert De Niro's 1974 win as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II is unique as the only Supporting Oscar won for playing a part previously played by a Best Actor winner (Marlon Brando in The Godfather). De Niro and Benicio del Toro (who won for Traffic) are the only winners for foreign-language performances in this category.
Although five actresses have been nominated for non-speaking supporting roles, John Mills was the only male actor to be so nominated. Mills won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a mute brain-damaged village idiot in Ryan's Daughter (1970). (This excludes actors who were nominated for Best Actor for silent movies in the silent era.)
Heath Ledger is the only person to posthumously win an acting Oscar in a supporting role. He won the Best Supporting Actor award for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight, 2008. He is only the second person to posthumously win any acting Oscar (the other was Peter Finch, who won Best Actor for Network, 1976), and the first to win from a posthumous acting nomination (Finch was alive when his nomination was announced).
The earliest nominee in this category who is still alive is Don Murray and Mickey Rooney (1956), and the earliest winner in this category who is still alive is George Chakiris (1961).
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Winners and nominees
Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by year of their Los Angeles qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the film's year of release. For example, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees. For a list sorted by actor names, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees. For a list sorted by film titles, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees (films).
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1930s
1936 Walter Brennan - Come and Get It as Swan Bostrom
Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey as Carlo
Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade as Amos Dodd
Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet as Tybalt - Nephew to Lady Capulet
Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn as Gen. Yang
1937 Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola as Capt. Alfred Dreyfus
Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth as 'Dan' Leeson
Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane as Dr. Kersaint
H. B. Warner - Lost Horizon as Chang
Roland Young - Topper as Cosmo Topper
1938 Walter Brennan - Kentucky as Peter Goodwin
John Garfield - Four Daughters as Mickey Borden
Gene Lockhart - Algiers as Regis
Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette as King Louis XVI
Basil Rathbone - If I Were King as King Louis XI
1939 Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach as Doc Boone
Brian Aherne - Juarez as Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg
Harry Carey - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as President of the Senate
Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste as Sgt. Markoff
Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine
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1940s
1940 Walter Brennan - The Westerner as Judge Roy Bean
Albert Basserman - Foreign Correspondent as Van Meer
William Gargan - They Knew What They Wanted as Joe
Jack Oakie - The Great Dictator as Benzini Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria)
James Stephenson - The Letter as Howard Joyce
1941 Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley as Mr. Morgan
Walter Brennan - Sergeant York as Pastor Rosier Pile
Charles Coburn - The Devil and Miss Jones as John P. Merrick
James Gleason - Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Max Corkle
Sydney Greenstreet - The Maltese Falcon as Kasper Gutman
1942 Van Heflin - Johnny Eager as Jeff Hartnett
William Bendix - Wake Island as Pvt. Aloysius K. 'Smacksie' Randall
Walter Huston - Yankee Doodle Dandy as Jerry Cohan
Frank Morgan - Tortilla Flat as The Pirate
Henry Travers - Mrs. Miniver as Mr. Ballard
Beginning with the 1943 awards, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded Oscar statuettes similar to those awarded to winners in all other categories, including the leading acting categories. Prior to this, however, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded plaques.
1943 Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier as Benjamin Dingle
Charles Bickford - The Song of Bernadette as Father Peyramale
J. Carrol Naish - Sahara as Giuseppe
Claude Rains - Casablanca as Captain Renault
Akim Tamiroff - For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pablo
1944 Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon
Hume Cronyn - The Seventh Cross as Paul Roeder
Claude Rains - Mr. Skeffington as Job Skeffington
Clifton Webb - Laura as Waldo Lydecker
Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away as Colonel William G. Smollett
1945 James Dunn - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn as Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush
Michael Chekhov - Spellbound as Dr. Alexander 'Alex' Brulov
John Dall - The Corn Is Green as Morgan Evans
Robert Mitchum - The Story of G.I. Joe as Lt. / Capt. Bill Walker
J. Carrol Naish - A Medal for Benny as Charley Martin
1946 Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives as Homer Parrish
Charles Coburn - The Green Years as Alexander Gow
William Demarest - The Jolson Story as Steve Martin
Claude Rains - Notorious as Alexander Sebastian
Clifton Webb - The Razor's Edge as Elliott Templeton
1947 Edmund Gwenn - Miracle on 34th Street as Kris Kringle
Charles Bickford - The Farmer's Daughter as Joseph Clancy (major-domo)
Thomas Gomez - Ride the Pink Horse as Pancho
Robert Ryan - Crossfire as Montgomery
Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death as Tommy Udo
1948 Walter Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Howard
Charles Bickford - Johnny Belinda as Black McDonald
José Ferrer - Joan of Arc as The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France
Oskar Homolka - I Remember Mama as Uncle Chris Halverson
Cecil Kellaway - The Luck of the Irish as Horace (A Leprechaun)
1949 Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High as Major Harvey Stovall
John Ireland - All the King's Men as Jack Burden
Arthur Kennedy - Champion as Connie Kelly
Ralph Richardson - The Heiress as Dr. Austin Sloper
James Whitmore - Battleground as Kinnie
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1950s
1950 George Sanders - All About Eve as Addison De Witt
Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow as Cochise
Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880 as 'Skipper' Miller
Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Boulevard as Max von Meyerling
1951 Karl Malden - A Streetcar Named Desire as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
Leo Genn - Quo Vadis as Petronius
Kevin McCarthy - Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman
Peter Ustinov - Quo Vadis as Nero
Gig Young - Come Fill the Cup as Boyd Copeland
1952 Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata! as Eufemio Zapata
Richard Burton - My Cousin Rachel as Philip Ashley
Arthur Hunnicutt - The Big Sky as Zeb Calloway/Narrator
Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man as 'Red' Will Danaher
Jack Palance - Sudden Fear as Lester Blaine
1953 Frank Sinatra - From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Angelo Maggio
Eddie Albert - Roman Holiday as Irving Radovich
Brandon de Wilde - Shane as Joey Starrett
Jack Palance - Shane as Jack Wilson
Robert Strauss - Stalag 17 as S/Sgt. Stanislas 'Animal' Kasava
1954 Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa as Oscar Muldoon
Lee J. Cobb - On the Waterfront as Johnny Friendly
Karl Malden - On the Waterfront as Father Barry
Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront as Charley 'the Gent' Malloy
Tom Tully - The Caine Mutiny as Commander DeVriess
1955 Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts as Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver
Arthur Kennedy - Trial as Barney Castle
Joe Mantell - Marty as Angie
Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause as John 'Plato' Crawford
Arthur O'Connell - Picnic as Howard Bevans
1956 Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life as Paul Gauguin
Don Murray - Bus Stop as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
Anthony Perkins - Friendly Persuasion as Josh Birdwell
Mickey Rooney - The Bold and the Brave as Dooley
Robert Stack - Written on the Wind as Kyle Hadley
1957 Red Buttons - Sayonara as Airman Joe Kelly
Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell to Arms as Major Alessandro Rinaldi
Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Saito
Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place as Lucas Cross
Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place as Norman Page
1958 Burl Ives - The Big Country as Rufus Hannassey
Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller
Lee J. Cobb - The Brothers Karamazov as Fyodor Karamazov
Arthur Kennedy - Some Came Running as Frank Hirsh
Gig Young - Teacher's Pet as Dr. Hugo Pine
1959 Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur as Sheik Ilderim
Arthur O'Connell - Anatomy of a Murder as Parnell Emmett McCarthy
George C. Scott - Anatomy of a Murder as Asst. State Atty. Gen. Claude Dancer
Robert Vaughn - The Young Philadelphians as Chester A. 'Chet' Gwynn
Ed Wynn - The Diary of Anne Frank as Albert Dussell
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1960s
1960 Peter Ustinov - Spartacus as Lentulus Batiatus
Peter Falk - Murder, Inc. as Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles
Jack Kruschen - The Apartment as Dr. Dreyfuss
Sal Mineo - Exodus as Dov Landau
Chill Wills - The Alamo as Beekeeper
1961 George Chakiris - West Side Story as Bernardo
Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg as Rudolph Petersen
Peter Falk - Pocketful of Miracles as Joy Boy
Jackie Gleason - The Hustler as Minnesota Fats
George C. Scott - The Hustler as Bert Gordon
1962 Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth as Tom 'Boss' Finley
Victor Buono - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Edwin Flagg
Telly Savalas - Birdman of Alcatraz as Feto Gomez
Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia as Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish
Terence Stamp - Billy Budd as Billy Budd
1963 Melvyn Douglas - Hud as Homer Bannon
Nick Adams - Twilight of Honor as Ben Brown
Bobby Darin - Captain Newman, M.D. as Corporal Jim Tompkins
Hugh Griffith - Tom Jones as Squire Western
John Huston - The Cardinal as Cardinal Glennon
1964 Peter Ustinov - Topkapi as Arthur Simon Simpson
John Gielgud - Becket as Louis VII of France
Stanley Holloway - My Fair Lady as Alfred Doolittle
Edmond O'Brien - Seven Days in May as Senator Raymond Clark
Lee Tracy - The Best Man as President Art Hockstader
1965 Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns as Arnold Burns
Ian Bannen - The Flight of the Phoenix as 'Ratbags' Crow
Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago as Pasha Antipov
Michael Dunn - Ship of Fools as Carl Glocken
Frank Finlay - Othello as Iago
1966 Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie as Willie Gingrich
Mako - The Sand Pebbles as Po-han
James Mason - Georgy Girl as James Leamington
George Segal - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Nick
Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons as Henry VIII of England
1967 George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke as Dragline
John Cassavetes - The Dirty Dozen as Victor P. Franko
Gene Hackman - Bonnie and Clyde as Buck Barrow
Cecil Kellaway - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Monsignor Mike Ryan
Michael J. Pollard - Bonnie and Clyde as C.W. Moss
1968 Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses as John Cleary
Seymour Cassel - Faces as Chet
Daniel Massey - Star! as Noel Coward
Jack Wild - Oliver! as The Artful Dodger
Gene Wilder - The Producers as Leo Bloom
1969 Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Rocky
Rupert Crosse - The Reivers as Ned
Elliott Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Ted Henderson
Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider as George Hanson
Anthony Quayle - Anne of the Thousand Days as Cardinal Wolsey
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1970s
1970 John Mills - Ryan's Daughter as Michael
Richard S. Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers as Frank Vecchio
Chief Dan George - Little Big Man as Old Lodge Skins
Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father as Gene Garrison
John Marley - Love Story as Phil Cavalleri
1971 Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show as Sam the Lion
Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show as Duane Jackson
Leonard Frey - Fiddler on the Roof as Motel Kamzoil
Richard Jaeckel - Sometimes a Great Notion as Joe Ben Stamper
Roy Scheider - The French Connection as Detective Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo
1972 Joel Grey - Cabaret as Master of Ceremonies
Eddie Albert - The Heartbreak Kid as Mr. Corcoran
James Caan - The Godfather as Sonny Corleone
Robert Duvall - The Godfather as Tom Hagen
Al Pacino - The Godfather as Michael Corleone
1973 John Houseman - The Paper Chase as Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
Vincent Gardenia - Bang the Drum Slowly as Dutch Schnell
Jack Gilford - Save the Tiger as Phil Greene
Jason Miller - The Exorcist as Father Damien Karras
Randy Quaid - The Last Detail as Larry Meadows
1974 Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II as Vito Corleone
Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno as Harlee Claiborne
Jeff Bridges - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot as Lightfoot
Michael V. Gazzo - The Godfather Part II as Frank Pentangeli
Lee Strasberg - The Godfather Part II as Hyman Roth
1975 George Burns - The Sunshine Boys as Al Lewis
Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Billy Bibbit
Burgess Meredith - The Day of the Locust as Harry Greener
Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon as Leon Shermer
Jack Warden - Shampoo as Lester Carp
1976 Jason Robards - All the President's Men as Ben Bradlee
Ned Beatty - Network as Arthur Jensen
Burgess Meredith - Rocky as Mickey Goldmill
Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man as Dr. Christian Szell
Burt Young - Rocky as Paulie Pennino
1977 Jason Robards - Julia as Dashiell Hammett
Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point as Yuri Kopeikine
Peter Firth - Equus as Alan Strang
Alec Guinness - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Maximilian Schell - Julia as Johann
1978 Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter as Nikonar 'Nick' Chevotarevich
Bruce Dern - Coming Home as Captain Bob Hyde
Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman as Dodger
John Hurt - Midnight Express as Max
Jack Warden - Heaven Can Wait as Max Corkle
1979 Melvyn Douglas - Being There as Benjamin Turnbull Rand
Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now as Lt. Col Bill Kilgore
Frederic Forrest - The Rose as Huston Dyer
Justin Henry - Kramer vs. Kramer as Billy Kramer
Mickey Rooney - The Black Stallion as Henry Dailey
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1980s
1980 Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People as Conrad Jarrett
Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People as Dr. Tyrone C. Berger
Michael O'Keefe - The Great Santini as Ben Meechum
Joe Pesci - Raging Bull as Joey LaMotta
Jason Robards - Melvin and Howard as Howard Hughes
1981 John Gielgud - Arthur as Hobson
James Coco - Only When I Laugh as Jimmy
Ian Holm - Chariots of Fire as Sam Mussabini
Jack Nicholson - Reds as Eugene O'Neill
Howard Rollins - Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker, Jr.
1982 Louis Gossett, Jr. - An Officer and a Gentleman as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley
Charles Durning - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Governor
John Lithgow - The World According to Garp as Roberta Muldoon
James Mason - The Verdict as Ed Concannon
Robert Preston - Victor Victoria as Carroll 'Toddy' Todd
1983 Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment as Garrett Breedlove
Charles Durning - To Be or Not to Be as Colonel Erhardt
John Lithgow - Terms of Endearment as Sam Burns
Sam Shepard - The Right Stuff as Chuck Yeager
Rip Torn - Cross Creek as Marsh Turner
1984 Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields as Dith Pran
Adolph Caesar - A Soldier's Story as Sergeant Waters
John Malkovich - Places in the Heart as Mr. Will
Pat Morita - The Karate Kid as Mr. Kesuke Miyagi
Ralph Richardson - Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as The Sixth Earl of Greystoke (posthumous nomination)
1985 Don Ameche - Cocoon as Arthur Selwyn
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Out of Africa as Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke
William Hickey - Prizzi's Honor as Don Corrado Prizzi
Robert Loggia - Jagged Edge as Sam Ransom
Eric Roberts - Runaway Train as Buck
1986 Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters as Elliot
Tom Berenger - Platoon as Sgt. Barnes
Willem Dafoe - Platoon as Sgt. Elias
Denholm Elliott - A Room with a View as Mr. Emerson
Dennis Hopper - Hoosiers as Shooter
1987 Sean Connery - The Untouchables as Jim Malone
Albert Brooks - Broadcast News as Aaron Altman
Morgan Freeman - Street Smart as Fast Black
Vincent Gardenia - Moonstruck as Cosmo Castorini
Denzel Washington - Cry Freedom as Steve Biko
1988 Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda as Otto West
Alec Guinness - Little Dorrit as William Dorrit
Martin Landau - Tucker: The Man and His Dream as Abe Karatz
River Phoenix - Running on Empty as Danny Pope
Dean Stockwell - Married to the Mob as Tony 'The Tiger' Russo
1989 Denzel Washington - Glory as Pvt. Silas Trip
Danny Aiello - Do the Right Thing as Sal
Dan Aykroyd - Driving Miss Daisy as Boolie Werthan
Marlon Brando - A Dry White Season as Ian Mackenzie
Martin Landau - Crimes and Misdemeanors as Judah Rosenthal
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1990s
1990 Joe Pesci - Goodfellas as Tommy DeVito
Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion as David
Andy García - The Godfather Part III as Vincent Mancini-Corleone
Graham Greene - Dances with Wolves as Kicking Bird
Al Pacino - Dick Tracy as Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice
1991 Jack Palance - City Slickers as Curly Washburn
Tommy Lee Jones - JFK as Clay Shaw
Harvey Keitel - Bugsy as Mickey Cohen
Ben Kingsley - Bugsy as Meyer Lansky
Michael Lerner - Barton Fink as Jack Lipnick
1992 Gene Hackman - Unforgiven as Little Bill Daggett
Jaye Davidson - The Crying Game as Dil
Jack Nicholson - A Few Good Men as Col. Nathan R. Jessep
Al Pacino - Glengarry Glen Ross as Ricky Roma
David Paymer - Mr. Saturday Night as Stan
1993 Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive as Marshall Samuel Gerard
Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape as Arnie Grape
Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List as Amon Göth
John Malkovich - In the Line of Fire as Mitch Leary
Pete Postlethwaite - In the Name of the Father as Giuseppe Conlon
1994 Martin Landau - Ed Wood as Béla Lugosi
Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction as Jules Winnfield
Chazz Palminteri - Bullets Over Broadway as Cheech
Paul Scofield - Quiz Show as Mark Van Doren
Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump as Lieutenant Dan Taylor
1995 Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects as Roger 'Verbal' Kint
James Cromwell - Babe as Farmer Arthur Hoggett
Ed Harris - Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz
Brad Pitt - 12 Monkeys as Jeffrey Goines
Tim Roth - Rob Roy as Archibald Cunningham
1996 Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Jerry Maguire as Rod Tidwell
William H. Macy - Fargo as Jerry Lundegaard
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Shine as Peter Helfgott
Edward Norton - Primal Fear as Aaron Stampler
James Woods - Ghosts of Mississippi as Byron De La Beckwith
1997 Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting as Sean Maguire
Robert Forster - Jackie Brown as Max Cherry
Anthony Hopkins - Amistad as John Quincy Adams
Greg Kinnear - As Good as It Gets as Simon Bishop
Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights as Jack Horner
1998 James Coburn - Affliction as Glen Whitehouse
Robert Duvall - A Civil Action as Jerome Facher
Ed Harris - The Truman Show as Christof
Geoffrey Rush - Shakespeare in Love as Philip Henslowe
Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan as Jacob Mitchell
1999 Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules as Dr. Wilbur Larch
Tom Cruise - Magnolia as Frank 'T.J.' Mackey
Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile as John Coffey
Jude Law - The Talented Mr. Ripley as Dickie Greenleaf
Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense as Cole Sear
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2000s
2000 Benicio del Toro - Traffic as Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez
Jeff Bridges - The Contender as President Jackson Evans
Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire as Max Schreck
Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich as Edward L. Masry
Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator as Commodus
2001 Jim Broadbent - Iris as John Bayley
Ethan Hawke - Training Day as Jake Hoyt
Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast as Don Logan
Ian McKellen - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Gandalf
Jon Voight - Ali as Howard Cosell
2002 Chris Cooper - Adaptation. as John Laroche
Ed Harris - The Hours as Richard Brown
Paul Newman - Road to Perdition as John Rooney
John C. Reilly - Chicago as Amos Hart
Christopher Walken - Catch Me If You Can as Frank Abagnale, Sr.
2003 Tim Robbins - Mystic River as Dave Boyle
Alec Baldwin - The Cooler as Shelly Kaplow
Benicio del Toro - 21 Grams as Jack Jordan
Djimon Hounsou - In America as Mateo
Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai as Katsumoto
2004 Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby as Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris
Alan Alda - The Aviator as Senator Owen Brewster
Thomas Haden Church - Sideways as Jack
Jamie Foxx - Collateral as Max Durocher
Clive Owen - Closer as Larry Gray
2005 George Clooney - Syriana as Bob Barnes
Matt Dillon - Crash as Sergeant John Ryan
Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man as Joe Gould
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain as Jack Twist
William Hurt - A History of Violence as Richie Cusack
2006 Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine as Edwin Hoover
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children as Ronald James McGorvey
Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond as Solomon Vandy
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls as James "Thunder" Early
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed as Sgt. Sean Dignam
2007 Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Robert Ford
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War as Gust Avrakotos
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild as Ron Franz
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton as Arthur Edens
2008 Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight as The Joker (posthumous win)
Josh Brolin – Milk as Dan White
Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt as Father Brendan Flynn
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road as John Givings
2009 Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa
Matt Damon – Invictus as François Pienaar
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger as Capt. Tony Stone
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey
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International presence
As the Academy Awards are based in the United States and are centered on the Hollywood film industry, the majority of Academy Award winners have been Americans. Nonetheless, there is significant international presence at the awards, as evidenced by the following list of winners of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Australia: Heath Ledger
Austria: Joseph Schildkraut, Christoph Waltz
Cambodia: Haing S. Ngor
Mexico: Anthony Quinn
Puerto Rico: Benicio del Toro
Republic of Ireland: Barry Fitzgerald
Spain: Javier Bardem
United Kingdom: Jim Broadbent, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Donald Crisp, John Gielgud, Hugh Griffith, Edmund Gwenn, John Mills, George Sanders, and Peter Ustinov
There have been two years when none of the four top acting awards went to an American:
at the 37th Academy Awards (1964), the winners were Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Peter Ustinov, and Lila Kedrova.
at the 80th Academy Awards (2008), the winners were Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Javier Bardem, and Tilda Swinton.
Throughout the past 74 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 74 Best Supporting Actor awards to 67 different actors. Winners of this Academy Award of Merit receive the familiar Oscar statuette, depicting a gold-plated knight holding a crusader's sword and standing on a reel of film. Prior to the 16th Academy Awards ceremony (1943), however, they received a plaque. The first recipient was Walter Brennan, who was honored at the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936) for his performance in Come and Get It. The most recent recipient was Christoph Waltz, who was honored at the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony (2010) for his performance in Inglourious Basterds.
Until the 8th Academy Awards ceremony (1935), nominations for the Best Actor award were intended to include all actors, whether the performance was in a leading or supporting role. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936), however, the Best Supporting Actor category was specifically introduced as a distinct award following complaints that the single Best Actor category necessarily favored leading performers with the most screen time. Nonetheless, Lionel Barrymore had received a Best Actor award (A Free Soul, 1931) and Franchot Tone a Best Actor nomination (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935) for their performances in clear supporting roles. Currently, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, and Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role constitute the four Academy Awards of Merit for acting annually presented by AMPAS.
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SuperlativesSuperlative Best Actor Best Supporting Actor Overall
Actor with most awards Spencer Tracy
Fredric March
Gary Cooper
Marlon Brando
Dustin Hoffman
Tom Hanks
Jack Nicholson
Daniel Day-Lewis
Sean Penn 2 Walter Brennan 3 Walter Brennan
Jack Nicholson 3
Actor with most nominations Spencer Tracy
Laurence Olivier 9 Walter Brennan
Claude Rains
Arthur Kennedy
Jack Nicholson 4 Jack Nicholson 12
Actor with most nominations
(without ever winning) Peter O'Toole 8 Claude Rains
Arthur Kennedy 4 Peter O'Toole 8
Film with most nominations Mutiny on the Bounty 3 On the Waterfront
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II 3 On the Waterfront
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II 4
Oldest winner Henry Fonda 76 George Burns 80 George Burns 80
Oldest nominee Richard Farnsworth 79 Hal Holbrook 82 Hal Holbrook 82
Youngest winner Adrien Brody 29 Timothy Hutton 20 Timothy Hutton 20
Youngest nominee Jackie Cooper 9 Justin Henry 8 Justin Henry 8
Walter Brennan, the winner of the inaugural award in 1936, is the only actor to win the award three times (from four nominations). Five actors have won the award twice: Anthony Quinn, Melvyn Douglas, Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, and Jason Robards. Robards was the only person to win consecutive Best Supporting Actor awards, for All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977).
Claude Rains and Arthur Kennedy share the greatest number of unsuccessful nominations, four each. The only other actors with four nominations were Walter Brennan (won three times) and Jack Nicholson (won once). Charles Bickford, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, and Al Pacino have each had three unsuccessful nominations.
Harold Russell was the first (and only) actor to receive two Academy Awards for the same performance when he won the Best Supporting Actor award and was also presented with an Academy Honorary Award for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Thanks to a voting quirk, in 1944 Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way became the only actor nominated in both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories for the same performance, winning the latter. (Today, Academy bylaws preclude this from happening.)
Robert De Niro's 1974 win as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II is unique as the only Supporting Oscar won for playing a part previously played by a Best Actor winner (Marlon Brando in The Godfather). De Niro and Benicio del Toro (who won for Traffic) are the only winners for foreign-language performances in this category.
Although five actresses have been nominated for non-speaking supporting roles, John Mills was the only male actor to be so nominated. Mills won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a mute brain-damaged village idiot in Ryan's Daughter (1970). (This excludes actors who were nominated for Best Actor for silent movies in the silent era.)
Heath Ledger is the only person to posthumously win an acting Oscar in a supporting role. He won the Best Supporting Actor award for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight, 2008. He is only the second person to posthumously win any acting Oscar (the other was Peter Finch, who won Best Actor for Network, 1976), and the first to win from a posthumous acting nomination (Finch was alive when his nomination was announced).
The earliest nominee in this category who is still alive is Don Murray and Mickey Rooney (1956), and the earliest winner in this category who is still alive is George Chakiris (1961).
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Winners and nominees
Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by year of their Los Angeles qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the film's year of release. For example, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees. For a list sorted by actor names, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees. For a list sorted by film titles, please see List of Best Supporting Actor nominees (films).
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1930s
1936 Walter Brennan - Come and Get It as Swan Bostrom
Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey as Carlo
Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade as Amos Dodd
Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet as Tybalt - Nephew to Lady Capulet
Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn as Gen. Yang
1937 Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola as Capt. Alfred Dreyfus
Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth as 'Dan' Leeson
Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane as Dr. Kersaint
H. B. Warner - Lost Horizon as Chang
Roland Young - Topper as Cosmo Topper
1938 Walter Brennan - Kentucky as Peter Goodwin
John Garfield - Four Daughters as Mickey Borden
Gene Lockhart - Algiers as Regis
Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette as King Louis XVI
Basil Rathbone - If I Were King as King Louis XI
1939 Thomas Mitchell - Stagecoach as Doc Boone
Brian Aherne - Juarez as Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg
Harry Carey - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as President of the Senate
Brian Donlevy - Beau Geste as Sgt. Markoff
Claude Rains - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine
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1940s
1940 Walter Brennan - The Westerner as Judge Roy Bean
Albert Basserman - Foreign Correspondent as Van Meer
William Gargan - They Knew What They Wanted as Joe
Jack Oakie - The Great Dictator as Benzini Napaloni (Dictator of Bacteria)
James Stephenson - The Letter as Howard Joyce
1941 Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley as Mr. Morgan
Walter Brennan - Sergeant York as Pastor Rosier Pile
Charles Coburn - The Devil and Miss Jones as John P. Merrick
James Gleason - Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Max Corkle
Sydney Greenstreet - The Maltese Falcon as Kasper Gutman
1942 Van Heflin - Johnny Eager as Jeff Hartnett
William Bendix - Wake Island as Pvt. Aloysius K. 'Smacksie' Randall
Walter Huston - Yankee Doodle Dandy as Jerry Cohan
Frank Morgan - Tortilla Flat as The Pirate
Henry Travers - Mrs. Miniver as Mr. Ballard
Beginning with the 1943 awards, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded Oscar statuettes similar to those awarded to winners in all other categories, including the leading acting categories. Prior to this, however, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded plaques.
1943 Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier as Benjamin Dingle
Charles Bickford - The Song of Bernadette as Father Peyramale
J. Carrol Naish - Sahara as Giuseppe
Claude Rains - Casablanca as Captain Renault
Akim Tamiroff - For Whom the Bell Tolls as Pablo
1944 Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon
Hume Cronyn - The Seventh Cross as Paul Roeder
Claude Rains - Mr. Skeffington as Job Skeffington
Clifton Webb - Laura as Waldo Lydecker
Monty Woolley - Since You Went Away as Colonel William G. Smollett
1945 James Dunn - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn as Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush
Michael Chekhov - Spellbound as Dr. Alexander 'Alex' Brulov
John Dall - The Corn Is Green as Morgan Evans
Robert Mitchum - The Story of G.I. Joe as Lt. / Capt. Bill Walker
J. Carrol Naish - A Medal for Benny as Charley Martin
1946 Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives as Homer Parrish
Charles Coburn - The Green Years as Alexander Gow
William Demarest - The Jolson Story as Steve Martin
Claude Rains - Notorious as Alexander Sebastian
Clifton Webb - The Razor's Edge as Elliott Templeton
1947 Edmund Gwenn - Miracle on 34th Street as Kris Kringle
Charles Bickford - The Farmer's Daughter as Joseph Clancy (major-domo)
Thomas Gomez - Ride the Pink Horse as Pancho
Robert Ryan - Crossfire as Montgomery
Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death as Tommy Udo
1948 Walter Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Howard
Charles Bickford - Johnny Belinda as Black McDonald
José Ferrer - Joan of Arc as The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France
Oskar Homolka - I Remember Mama as Uncle Chris Halverson
Cecil Kellaway - The Luck of the Irish as Horace (A Leprechaun)
1949 Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High as Major Harvey Stovall
John Ireland - All the King's Men as Jack Burden
Arthur Kennedy - Champion as Connie Kelly
Ralph Richardson - The Heiress as Dr. Austin Sloper
James Whitmore - Battleground as Kinnie
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1950s
1950 George Sanders - All About Eve as Addison De Witt
Jeff Chandler - Broken Arrow as Cochise
Edmund Gwenn - Mister 880 as 'Skipper' Miller
Sam Jaffe - The Asphalt Jungle as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
Erich von Stroheim - Sunset Boulevard as Max von Meyerling
1951 Karl Malden - A Streetcar Named Desire as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell
Leo Genn - Quo Vadis as Petronius
Kevin McCarthy - Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman
Peter Ustinov - Quo Vadis as Nero
Gig Young - Come Fill the Cup as Boyd Copeland
1952 Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata! as Eufemio Zapata
Richard Burton - My Cousin Rachel as Philip Ashley
Arthur Hunnicutt - The Big Sky as Zeb Calloway/Narrator
Victor McLaglen - The Quiet Man as 'Red' Will Danaher
Jack Palance - Sudden Fear as Lester Blaine
1953 Frank Sinatra - From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Angelo Maggio
Eddie Albert - Roman Holiday as Irving Radovich
Brandon de Wilde - Shane as Joey Starrett
Jack Palance - Shane as Jack Wilson
Robert Strauss - Stalag 17 as S/Sgt. Stanislas 'Animal' Kasava
1954 Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa as Oscar Muldoon
Lee J. Cobb - On the Waterfront as Johnny Friendly
Karl Malden - On the Waterfront as Father Barry
Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront as Charley 'the Gent' Malloy
Tom Tully - The Caine Mutiny as Commander DeVriess
1955 Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts as Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver
Arthur Kennedy - Trial as Barney Castle
Joe Mantell - Marty as Angie
Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause as John 'Plato' Crawford
Arthur O'Connell - Picnic as Howard Bevans
1956 Anthony Quinn - Lust for Life as Paul Gauguin
Don Murray - Bus Stop as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
Anthony Perkins - Friendly Persuasion as Josh Birdwell
Mickey Rooney - The Bold and the Brave as Dooley
Robert Stack - Written on the Wind as Kyle Hadley
1957 Red Buttons - Sayonara as Airman Joe Kelly
Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell to Arms as Major Alessandro Rinaldi
Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Saito
Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place as Lucas Cross
Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place as Norman Page
1958 Burl Ives - The Big Country as Rufus Hannassey
Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones as Sheriff Max Muller
Lee J. Cobb - The Brothers Karamazov as Fyodor Karamazov
Arthur Kennedy - Some Came Running as Frank Hirsh
Gig Young - Teacher's Pet as Dr. Hugo Pine
1959 Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur as Sheik Ilderim
Arthur O'Connell - Anatomy of a Murder as Parnell Emmett McCarthy
George C. Scott - Anatomy of a Murder as Asst. State Atty. Gen. Claude Dancer
Robert Vaughn - The Young Philadelphians as Chester A. 'Chet' Gwynn
Ed Wynn - The Diary of Anne Frank as Albert Dussell
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1960s
1960 Peter Ustinov - Spartacus as Lentulus Batiatus
Peter Falk - Murder, Inc. as Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles
Jack Kruschen - The Apartment as Dr. Dreyfuss
Sal Mineo - Exodus as Dov Landau
Chill Wills - The Alamo as Beekeeper
1961 George Chakiris - West Side Story as Bernardo
Montgomery Clift - Judgment at Nuremberg as Rudolph Petersen
Peter Falk - Pocketful of Miracles as Joy Boy
Jackie Gleason - The Hustler as Minnesota Fats
George C. Scott - The Hustler as Bert Gordon
1962 Ed Begley - Sweet Bird of Youth as Tom 'Boss' Finley
Victor Buono - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Edwin Flagg
Telly Savalas - Birdman of Alcatraz as Feto Gomez
Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia as Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish
Terence Stamp - Billy Budd as Billy Budd
1963 Melvyn Douglas - Hud as Homer Bannon
Nick Adams - Twilight of Honor as Ben Brown
Bobby Darin - Captain Newman, M.D. as Corporal Jim Tompkins
Hugh Griffith - Tom Jones as Squire Western
John Huston - The Cardinal as Cardinal Glennon
1964 Peter Ustinov - Topkapi as Arthur Simon Simpson
John Gielgud - Becket as Louis VII of France
Stanley Holloway - My Fair Lady as Alfred Doolittle
Edmond O'Brien - Seven Days in May as Senator Raymond Clark
Lee Tracy - The Best Man as President Art Hockstader
1965 Martin Balsam - A Thousand Clowns as Arnold Burns
Ian Bannen - The Flight of the Phoenix as 'Ratbags' Crow
Tom Courtenay - Doctor Zhivago as Pasha Antipov
Michael Dunn - Ship of Fools as Carl Glocken
Frank Finlay - Othello as Iago
1966 Walter Matthau - The Fortune Cookie as Willie Gingrich
Mako - The Sand Pebbles as Po-han
James Mason - Georgy Girl as James Leamington
George Segal - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Nick
Robert Shaw - A Man for All Seasons as Henry VIII of England
1967 George Kennedy - Cool Hand Luke as Dragline
John Cassavetes - The Dirty Dozen as Victor P. Franko
Gene Hackman - Bonnie and Clyde as Buck Barrow
Cecil Kellaway - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Monsignor Mike Ryan
Michael J. Pollard - Bonnie and Clyde as C.W. Moss
1968 Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses as John Cleary
Seymour Cassel - Faces as Chet
Daniel Massey - Star! as Noel Coward
Jack Wild - Oliver! as The Artful Dodger
Gene Wilder - The Producers as Leo Bloom
1969 Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Rocky
Rupert Crosse - The Reivers as Ned
Elliott Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Ted Henderson
Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider as George Hanson
Anthony Quayle - Anne of the Thousand Days as Cardinal Wolsey
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1970s
1970 John Mills - Ryan's Daughter as Michael
Richard S. Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers as Frank Vecchio
Chief Dan George - Little Big Man as Old Lodge Skins
Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father as Gene Garrison
John Marley - Love Story as Phil Cavalleri
1971 Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show as Sam the Lion
Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show as Duane Jackson
Leonard Frey - Fiddler on the Roof as Motel Kamzoil
Richard Jaeckel - Sometimes a Great Notion as Joe Ben Stamper
Roy Scheider - The French Connection as Detective Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo
1972 Joel Grey - Cabaret as Master of Ceremonies
Eddie Albert - The Heartbreak Kid as Mr. Corcoran
James Caan - The Godfather as Sonny Corleone
Robert Duvall - The Godfather as Tom Hagen
Al Pacino - The Godfather as Michael Corleone
1973 John Houseman - The Paper Chase as Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
Vincent Gardenia - Bang the Drum Slowly as Dutch Schnell
Jack Gilford - Save the Tiger as Phil Greene
Jason Miller - The Exorcist as Father Damien Karras
Randy Quaid - The Last Detail as Larry Meadows
1974 Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II as Vito Corleone
Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno as Harlee Claiborne
Jeff Bridges - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot as Lightfoot
Michael V. Gazzo - The Godfather Part II as Frank Pentangeli
Lee Strasberg - The Godfather Part II as Hyman Roth
1975 George Burns - The Sunshine Boys as Al Lewis
Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Billy Bibbit
Burgess Meredith - The Day of the Locust as Harry Greener
Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon as Leon Shermer
Jack Warden - Shampoo as Lester Carp
1976 Jason Robards - All the President's Men as Ben Bradlee
Ned Beatty - Network as Arthur Jensen
Burgess Meredith - Rocky as Mickey Goldmill
Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man as Dr. Christian Szell
Burt Young - Rocky as Paulie Pennino
1977 Jason Robards - Julia as Dashiell Hammett
Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point as Yuri Kopeikine
Peter Firth - Equus as Alan Strang
Alec Guinness - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Maximilian Schell - Julia as Johann
1978 Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter as Nikonar 'Nick' Chevotarevich
Bruce Dern - Coming Home as Captain Bob Hyde
Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman as Dodger
John Hurt - Midnight Express as Max
Jack Warden - Heaven Can Wait as Max Corkle
1979 Melvyn Douglas - Being There as Benjamin Turnbull Rand
Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now as Lt. Col Bill Kilgore
Frederic Forrest - The Rose as Huston Dyer
Justin Henry - Kramer vs. Kramer as Billy Kramer
Mickey Rooney - The Black Stallion as Henry Dailey
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1980s
1980 Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People as Conrad Jarrett
Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People as Dr. Tyrone C. Berger
Michael O'Keefe - The Great Santini as Ben Meechum
Joe Pesci - Raging Bull as Joey LaMotta
Jason Robards - Melvin and Howard as Howard Hughes
1981 John Gielgud - Arthur as Hobson
James Coco - Only When I Laugh as Jimmy
Ian Holm - Chariots of Fire as Sam Mussabini
Jack Nicholson - Reds as Eugene O'Neill
Howard Rollins - Ragtime as Coalhouse Walker, Jr.
1982 Louis Gossett, Jr. - An Officer and a Gentleman as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley
Charles Durning - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Governor
John Lithgow - The World According to Garp as Roberta Muldoon
James Mason - The Verdict as Ed Concannon
Robert Preston - Victor Victoria as Carroll 'Toddy' Todd
1983 Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment as Garrett Breedlove
Charles Durning - To Be or Not to Be as Colonel Erhardt
John Lithgow - Terms of Endearment as Sam Burns
Sam Shepard - The Right Stuff as Chuck Yeager
Rip Torn - Cross Creek as Marsh Turner
1984 Haing S. Ngor - The Killing Fields as Dith Pran
Adolph Caesar - A Soldier's Story as Sergeant Waters
John Malkovich - Places in the Heart as Mr. Will
Pat Morita - The Karate Kid as Mr. Kesuke Miyagi
Ralph Richardson - Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as The Sixth Earl of Greystoke (posthumous nomination)
1985 Don Ameche - Cocoon as Arthur Selwyn
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Out of Africa as Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke
William Hickey - Prizzi's Honor as Don Corrado Prizzi
Robert Loggia - Jagged Edge as Sam Ransom
Eric Roberts - Runaway Train as Buck
1986 Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters as Elliot
Tom Berenger - Platoon as Sgt. Barnes
Willem Dafoe - Platoon as Sgt. Elias
Denholm Elliott - A Room with a View as Mr. Emerson
Dennis Hopper - Hoosiers as Shooter
1987 Sean Connery - The Untouchables as Jim Malone
Albert Brooks - Broadcast News as Aaron Altman
Morgan Freeman - Street Smart as Fast Black
Vincent Gardenia - Moonstruck as Cosmo Castorini
Denzel Washington - Cry Freedom as Steve Biko
1988 Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda as Otto West
Alec Guinness - Little Dorrit as William Dorrit
Martin Landau - Tucker: The Man and His Dream as Abe Karatz
River Phoenix - Running on Empty as Danny Pope
Dean Stockwell - Married to the Mob as Tony 'The Tiger' Russo
1989 Denzel Washington - Glory as Pvt. Silas Trip
Danny Aiello - Do the Right Thing as Sal
Dan Aykroyd - Driving Miss Daisy as Boolie Werthan
Marlon Brando - A Dry White Season as Ian Mackenzie
Martin Landau - Crimes and Misdemeanors as Judah Rosenthal
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1990s
1990 Joe Pesci - Goodfellas as Tommy DeVito
Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion as David
Andy García - The Godfather Part III as Vincent Mancini-Corleone
Graham Greene - Dances with Wolves as Kicking Bird
Al Pacino - Dick Tracy as Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice
1991 Jack Palance - City Slickers as Curly Washburn
Tommy Lee Jones - JFK as Clay Shaw
Harvey Keitel - Bugsy as Mickey Cohen
Ben Kingsley - Bugsy as Meyer Lansky
Michael Lerner - Barton Fink as Jack Lipnick
1992 Gene Hackman - Unforgiven as Little Bill Daggett
Jaye Davidson - The Crying Game as Dil
Jack Nicholson - A Few Good Men as Col. Nathan R. Jessep
Al Pacino - Glengarry Glen Ross as Ricky Roma
David Paymer - Mr. Saturday Night as Stan
1993 Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive as Marshall Samuel Gerard
Leonardo DiCaprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape as Arnie Grape
Ralph Fiennes - Schindler's List as Amon Göth
John Malkovich - In the Line of Fire as Mitch Leary
Pete Postlethwaite - In the Name of the Father as Giuseppe Conlon
1994 Martin Landau - Ed Wood as Béla Lugosi
Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction as Jules Winnfield
Chazz Palminteri - Bullets Over Broadway as Cheech
Paul Scofield - Quiz Show as Mark Van Doren
Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump as Lieutenant Dan Taylor
1995 Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects as Roger 'Verbal' Kint
James Cromwell - Babe as Farmer Arthur Hoggett
Ed Harris - Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz
Brad Pitt - 12 Monkeys as Jeffrey Goines
Tim Roth - Rob Roy as Archibald Cunningham
1996 Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Jerry Maguire as Rod Tidwell
William H. Macy - Fargo as Jerry Lundegaard
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Shine as Peter Helfgott
Edward Norton - Primal Fear as Aaron Stampler
James Woods - Ghosts of Mississippi as Byron De La Beckwith
1997 Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting as Sean Maguire
Robert Forster - Jackie Brown as Max Cherry
Anthony Hopkins - Amistad as John Quincy Adams
Greg Kinnear - As Good as It Gets as Simon Bishop
Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights as Jack Horner
1998 James Coburn - Affliction as Glen Whitehouse
Robert Duvall - A Civil Action as Jerome Facher
Ed Harris - The Truman Show as Christof
Geoffrey Rush - Shakespeare in Love as Philip Henslowe
Billy Bob Thornton - A Simple Plan as Jacob Mitchell
1999 Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules as Dr. Wilbur Larch
Tom Cruise - Magnolia as Frank 'T.J.' Mackey
Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile as John Coffey
Jude Law - The Talented Mr. Ripley as Dickie Greenleaf
Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense as Cole Sear
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2000s
2000 Benicio del Toro - Traffic as Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez
Jeff Bridges - The Contender as President Jackson Evans
Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire as Max Schreck
Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich as Edward L. Masry
Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator as Commodus
2001 Jim Broadbent - Iris as John Bayley
Ethan Hawke - Training Day as Jake Hoyt
Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast as Don Logan
Ian McKellen - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Gandalf
Jon Voight - Ali as Howard Cosell
2002 Chris Cooper - Adaptation. as John Laroche
Ed Harris - The Hours as Richard Brown
Paul Newman - Road to Perdition as John Rooney
John C. Reilly - Chicago as Amos Hart
Christopher Walken - Catch Me If You Can as Frank Abagnale, Sr.
2003 Tim Robbins - Mystic River as Dave Boyle
Alec Baldwin - The Cooler as Shelly Kaplow
Benicio del Toro - 21 Grams as Jack Jordan
Djimon Hounsou - In America as Mateo
Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai as Katsumoto
2004 Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby as Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris
Alan Alda - The Aviator as Senator Owen Brewster
Thomas Haden Church - Sideways as Jack
Jamie Foxx - Collateral as Max Durocher
Clive Owen - Closer as Larry Gray
2005 George Clooney - Syriana as Bob Barnes
Matt Dillon - Crash as Sergeant John Ryan
Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man as Joe Gould
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain as Jack Twist
William Hurt - A History of Violence as Richie Cusack
2006 Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine as Edwin Hoover
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children as Ronald James McGorvey
Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond as Solomon Vandy
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls as James "Thunder" Early
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed as Sgt. Sean Dignam
2007 Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Robert Ford
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War as Gust Avrakotos
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild as Ron Franz
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton as Arthur Edens
2008 Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight as The Joker (posthumous win)
Josh Brolin – Milk as Dan White
Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt as Father Brendan Flynn
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road as John Givings
2009 Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa
Matt Damon – Invictus as François Pienaar
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger as Capt. Tony Stone
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey
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International presence
As the Academy Awards are based in the United States and are centered on the Hollywood film industry, the majority of Academy Award winners have been Americans. Nonetheless, there is significant international presence at the awards, as evidenced by the following list of winners of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Australia: Heath Ledger
Austria: Joseph Schildkraut, Christoph Waltz
Cambodia: Haing S. Ngor
Mexico: Anthony Quinn
Puerto Rico: Benicio del Toro
Republic of Ireland: Barry Fitzgerald
Spain: Javier Bardem
United Kingdom: Jim Broadbent, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Donald Crisp, John Gielgud, Hugh Griffith, Edmund Gwenn, John Mills, George Sanders, and Peter Ustinov
There have been two years when none of the four top acting awards went to an American:
at the 37th Academy Awards (1964), the winners were Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Peter Ustinov, and Lila Kedrova.
at the 80th Academy Awards (2008), the winners were Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Javier Bardem, and Tilda Swinton.
academic award for best actor
History
Throughout the past 82 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 83 Best Actor awards to 74 different actors. Winners of this Academy Award of Merit receive the familiar Oscar statuette, depicting a gold-plated knight holding a crusader's sword and standing on a reel of film. The first recipient was Emil Jannings, who was honored at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (1929) for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. The most recent recipient was Jeff Bridges, who was honored at the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony (2010) for his performance in Crazy Heart.
In the first three years of the Academy Awards, individuals such as actors and directors were nominated as the best in their categories. At that time, all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award. However, during the 3rd Academy Awards ceremony (1930), only one of those films was cited in each winner's final award, even though each of the acting winners had had two films following their names on the ballots. For the 4th Academy Awards ceremony (1931), this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Such nominations are limited to five per year. Until the 8th Academy Awards ceremony (1936), nominations for the Best Actor award were intended to include all actors, whether the performance was in either a leading or supporting role. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1937), however, the Best Supporting Actor category was specifically introduced as a distinct award following complaints that the single Best Actor category necessarily favored leading performers with the most screen time. Nonetheless, Lionel Barrymore had received a Best Actor award (A Free Soul, 1931) and Franchot Tone a Best Actor nomination (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1936) for their performances in clear supporting roles. Currently, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, and Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role constitute the four Academy Awards of Merit for acting annually presented by AMPAS.
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Other awards for acting
Actors have also received special awards, or Academy Honorary Awards, for acting in specific films (such as in the case of James Baskett, who received a special honorary award for Disney's Song of the South). Child actors have also been awarded the Academy Juvenile Award.
[edit]SuperlativesSuperlative Best Actor Best Supporting Actor Overall
Actor with most awards Spencer Tracy
Fredric March
Gary Cooper
Marlon Brando
Dustin Hoffman
Tom Hanks
Jack Nicholson
Daniel Day-Lewis
Sean Penn 2 Walter Brennan 3 Jack Nicholson
Walter Brennan 3
Actor with most nominations Spencer Tracy
Laurence Olivier 9 Jack Nicholson
Claude Rains
Arthur Kennedy
Walter Brennan 4 Jack Nicholson 12
Actor with most nominations
(without ever winning) Peter O'Toole 8 Claude Rains
Arthur Kennedy 4 Peter O'Toole 8
Film with most nominations Mutiny on the Bounty 3 On the Waterfront
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II 3 On the Waterfront
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II 4
Oldest winner Henry Fonda 76 George Burns 80 George Burns 80
Oldest nominee Richard Farnsworth 79 Hal Holbrook 82 Hal Holbrook 82
Youngest winner Adrien Brody 29 Timothy Hutton 20 Timothy Hutton 20
Youngest nominee Jackie Cooper 9 Justin Henry 8 Justin Henry 8
Nine men have won the Best Actor award twice. In chronological order, they are: Spencer Tracy (1937, 1938), Fredric March (1932, 1946), Gary Cooper (1941, 1952), Marlon Brando (1954, 1972), Dustin Hoffman (1979, 1988), Tom Hanks (1993, 1994), Jack Nicholson (1975, 1997), Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, 2007), and Sean Penn (2003, 2008). Of these, all were Americans except for Daniel Day-Lewis. Tracy and Hanks were the only actors to win their awards in consecutive years. Furthermore, Tracy and Hanks were the same age at the time they received their Academy Awards: 37 for the first and 38 for the second.
The periods between successive wins by the two-time winners are Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks (1 year), Sean Penn (5 years), Dustin Hoffman (9 years), Gary Cooper (11 years), Fredric March (14 years), Marlon Brando (18 years), Daniel Day-Lewis (18 years), and Jack Nicholson (22 years).
The actors with the most nominations in this category are Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier, with nine each. Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, and Peter O'Toole tie for third place with eight nominations each. Nicholson won his awards a record 22 years apart. O'Toole holds the record for the longest time span between his first and last nominations (44 years), and he also holds the record for the greatest number of nominations without ever winning the award (eight).
Six actors have won both the Best Actor and the Best Supporting Actor awards: Jack Lemmon, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington.
Two actors have won an Academy Award (Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor) for portraying the same character, that of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, respectively. The actors were Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro.
There has been only one announced tie in the history of this category. In 1932, Fredric March received one more vote than Wallace Beery. Academy rules at that time considered such a close margin to be a tie, so both March and Beery received the award. Under the current Academy rules, however, dual awards are only given for exact ties. While that has never happened for the Best Actor award, it did happen for the Best Actress award in 1969.
Peter Finch is the only posthumous winner of the Best Actor award, though he was alive when his nomination was announced (the only other posthumous winner in any acting category was another Australian, Heath Ledger, who won the Best Supporting Actor award in 2009). The only posthumously nominated performers in this category were James Dean, Spencer Tracy, and Massimo Troisi. Dean was posthumously nominated twice.
Three actors have been nominated for Best Actor more than once for the same character: Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's; Peter O'Toole as King Henry II in Becket and The Lion in Winter; and Paul Newman as "Fast Eddie" Felson in The Hustler and The Color of Money. (Al Pacino was nominated in 1975 for a role for which he had previously been nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part II.)
Michael Douglas (1988, Wall Street) and Laurence Olivier (1949, Hamlet) are the only two actors to win the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Picture (Douglas as a producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976, and Olivier as producer of Hamlet). Olivier is also the only actor to win for acting and producing in the same year. Other Oscar nominees for Best Actor and Best Picture are: Clint Eastwood (acting nominations for Unforgiven, 1993, and Million Dollar Baby, 2005, winner for both in the Best Picture category); Kevin Costner, Best Actor nominee for Dances with Wolves and winning producer for the same film, in 1991; Paul Newman, Best Actor winner for The Color of Money and a Best Picture nominee for Rachel, Rachel in 1969; and Henry Fonda, Best Actor winner for On Golden Pond and a Best Picture nominee for 12 Angry Men in 1958.
Barry Fitzgerald is the only actor to be nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same character in the same year (as Father Fitzgibbon for Going My Way). The rules were later changed to prevent a recurrence of this.
Several pairs of actors have been nominated for playing the same character or historical figure: Fredric March and James Mason as Norman Maine in 1937's A Star Is Born and the 1954 version, Robert Donat and Peter O'Toole as Chipping in 1939's Goodbye, Mr. Chips and the 1969 version, Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh as Henry V in 1944's Henry V and the 1989 version (both of which were directed by their stars), Charles Laughton and Richard Burton as Henry VIII in The Private Life of Henry VIII and Anne of the Thousand Days, Leslie Howard and Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady, José Ferrer and Gérard Depardieu as Cyrano de Bergerac in 1950's Cyrano de Bergerac and the 1990 version, Robert Montgomery and Warren Beatty as Joe Pendleton in Here Comes Mr. Jordan and Heaven Can Wait, and Anthony Hopkins and Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Nixon and Frost/Nixon. Robert De Niro won Best Supporting Actor for playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, the role for which Marlon Brando had previously won Best Actor.
Laurence Olivier is the only actor to have won an Oscar for a Shakespearean performance: Best Actor for Hamlet (1948). Olivier also received an Academy Honorary Award for Henry V (1944), which Olivier described as a "fub-off".
Robert Downey, Jr. is the only actor nominated for playing a previous nominee, Charlie Chaplin, in Chaplin.
Two actors directed their own Oscar-winning performances: Laurence Olivier in Hamlet and Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful. To date, however, no individual has won both Best Actor and Best Director.
Two winners have declined the award: George C. Scott, who won for Patton in 1971 (he had also declined his 1962 nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Hustler); and Marlon Brando, upon winning his second Oscar for The Godfather in 1973.
A few early winning and nominated performances have subsequently been lost, including Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1928), Lewis Stone in The Patriot (1928), and Lawrence Tibbett in The Rogue Song (1930), of which only a short fragment and the soundtrack survives.
The earliest nominee in this category who is still alive is Jackie Cooper (1931), followed by Mickey Rooney (1939). The earliest winner in this category who is still alive is Ernest Borgnine (1955), followed by Maximilian Schell (1962)—both won over Spencer Tracy and starred in the films for which Tracy was nominated. The few remaining living nominees from the 1940s–50s Hollywood era include Kirk Douglas (3 nominations). Sidney Poitier also received his first nomination in 1958.
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Multiple nominations
The following actors have received multiple Best Actor nominations. The list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).2 : Spencer Tracy (9)
2 : Jack Nicholson (8)
2 : Marlon Brando (7)
2 : Dustin Hoffman (7)
2 : Gary Cooper (5)
2 : Tom Hanks (5)
2 : Fredric March (5)
2 : Sean Penn (5)
2 : Daniel Day-Lewis (4) 1 : Laurence Olivier (9)
1 : Paul Newman (8)
1 : Jack Lemmon (7)
1 : Paul Muni (6)
1 : James Stewart (5)
1 : Gregory Peck (5)
1 : Al Pacino (5)
1 : Robert De Niro (5)
1 : Burt Lancaster (4)
1 : Charles Laughton (3)
1 : James Cagney (3)
1 : Ronald Colman (3)
1 : Clark Gable (3)
1 : William Holden (3)
1 : Humphrey Bogart (3)
1 : William Hurt (3)
1 : Bing Crosby (3)
1 : Jon Voight (3)
1 : Robert Duvall (3)
1 : Russell Crowe (3)
1 : Denzel Washington (3)
1 : George Arliss (2)
1 : Robert Donat (2)
1 : José Ferrer (2)
1 : Rex Harrison (2)
1 : Rod Steiger (2)
1 : George C. Scott (2)
1 : Alec Guinness (2)
1 : John Wayne (2)
1 : Peter Finch (2)
1 : Sidney Poitier (2)
1 : Maximilian Schell (2)
1 : Henry Fonda (2)
1 : Nicolas Cage (2)
1 : Gene Hackman (2)
1 : Geoffrey Rush (2)
1 : Ben Kingsley (2)
1 : Jeff Bridges (2)
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Life expectancy of winners
In 2001 Donald A. Redelmeier, MD, and Sheldon M. Singh, BSc published a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine in which they found:
"Winning an Academy Award was associated with a large gain in life expectancy for actors and actresses...Winning an Academy Award can increase a performer’s stature and may add to their longevity. The absolute difference in life expectancy is about equal to the societal consequence of curing all cancers in all people for all time (22, 23). Moreover, movie stars who have won multiple Academy Awards have a survival advantage of 6.0 years (CI, 0.7 to 11.3 years) over performers with multiple films but no victories. Formal education is not the only way to improve health, and strict poverty is not the only way to worsen health. The main implication is that higher status may be linked to lower mortality rates even at very impressive levels of achievement."[1]
The aforementioned authors did an update to 29 March 2006 in which they found 122 more individuals and 144 more deaths since their first publication. Their unadjusted analysis showed a smaller survival advantage of 3.6 years for winners compared to their fellow nominees and costars in the films in which their performance garnered them their award.[2] However, in a 2006 published study by Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, MSc, Ella Huszti, MSc, and James A. Hanley, PhD, the authors found:
"The statistical method used to derive this statistically significant difference gave winners an unfair advantage because it credited an Oscar winner's years of life before winning toward survival subsequent to winning. When the authors of the current article reanalyzed the data using methods that avoided this "immortal time" bias, the survival advantage was closer to 1 year and was not statistically significant. The bias in Redelmeier and Singh's study is not limited to longevity comparisons of persons who reach different ranks within their profession."[3]
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Winners and nominees
Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by year of their Los Angeles qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the film's year of release. For example, the Oscar for Best Actor of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.
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1920s
1927–1928 Emil Jannings - The Last Command as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander and The Way of All Flesh as August Schilling
Richard Barthelmess - The Noose as Nickie Elkins and The Patent Leather Kid as Patent Leather Kid
1928–1929 Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona as The Cisco Kid
George Bancroft - Thunderbolt as Thunderbolt Jim Lang
Chester Morris - Alibi as Chick Williams (No. 1065)
Paul Muni - The Valiant as James Dyke
Lewis Stone - The Patriot as Count Pahlen
1929–1930 George Arliss - Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli
George Arliss - The Green Goddess as The Raja of Rukh
Wallace Beery - The Big House as 'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt
Maurice Chevalier - The Big Pond as Pierre Mirande and The Love Parade as Count Alfred Renard
Ronald Colman - Bulldog Drummond as Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond and Condemned as Michel
Lawrence Tibbett - The Rogue Song as Yegor
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1930s
1930–1931 Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul as Stephen Ashe
Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page as Walter Burns
Jackie Cooper - Skippy as Skippy Skinner
Richard Dix - Cimarron as Yancey Cravat
Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway as Tony Cavendish
1931–1932 Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry L. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Wallace Beery - The Champ as Andy "Champ" Purcell (tie)
Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman as The Actor
1932–1933 Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII as King Henry VIII of England
Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square as Peter Standish
Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang as James Allen
1934 Clark Gable - It Happened One Night as Peter Warne
Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini as Alessandro - Duke of Florence
William Powell - The Thin Man as Nick Charles
1935 Victor McLaglen - The Informer as Gypo Nolan
Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty as Fletcher Christian
Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty as William Bligh
Paul Muni - Black Fury as Joe Radek
Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty as Roger Byam
1936 Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur as Louis Pasteur
Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Longfellow Deeds
Walter Huston - Dodsworth as Sam Dodsworth
William Powell - My Man Godfrey as Godfrey Park
Spencer Tracy - San Francisco as Father Tim Mullin
1937 Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous as Manuel
Charles Boyer - Conquest as Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
Fredric March - A Star Is Born as Norman Maine
Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fall as Danny
Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola as Émile Zola
1938 Spencer Tracy - Boys Town as Father Flanagan
Charles Boyer - Algiers as Pepe le Moko
James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces as Rocky Sullivan
Robert Donat - The Citadel as Dr. Andrew Manson
Leslie Howard - Pygmalion as Professor Henry Higgins
1939 Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Arthur Chipping
Clark Gable - Gone with the Wind as Rhett Butler
Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms as Mickey Moran
James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson Smith
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1940s
1940 James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story as Macaulay Connor
Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator as Adenoid Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania) / A Jewish Barber
Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath as Tom Joad
Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abraham Lincoln
Laurence Olivier - Rebecca as 'Maxim' de Winter
1941 Gary Cooper - Sergeant York as Alvin C. York
Cary Grant - Penny Serenade as Roger Adams
Walter Huston - The Devil and Daniel Webster as Mr. Scratch
Robert Montgomery - Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Joe Pendleton
Orson Welles - Citizen Kane as Charles Foster Kane
1942 James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan
Ronald Colman - Random Harvest as Charles Rainier
Gary Cooper - The Pride of the Yankees as Lou Gehrig
Walter Pidgeon - Mrs. Miniver as Clem Miniver
Monty Woolley - The Pied Piper as Howard
1943 Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller
Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca as Rick Blaine
Gary Cooper - For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan
Walter Pidgeon - Madame Curie as Pierre Curie
Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedy as Homer Macauley
1944 Bing Crosby - Going My Way as Father Chuck O'Malley
Charles Boyer - Gaslight as Gregory Anton
Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon
Cary Grant - None but the Lonely Heart as Ernie Mott
Alexander Knox - Wilson as Woodrow Wilson
1945 Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend as Don Birnam
Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary's as Father Chuck O'Malley
Gene Kelly - Anchors Aweigh as Joseph Brady
Gregory Peck - The Keys of the Kingdom as Father Francis Chisholm
Cornel Wilde - A Song to Remember as Frédéric Chopin
1946 Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives as Al Stephenson
Laurence Olivier - Henry V as King Henry V of England
Larry Parks - The Jolson Story as Al Jolson
Gregory Peck - The Yearling as Ezra 'Penny' Baxter
James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life as George Bailey
1947 Ronald Colman - A Double Life as Anthony John
John Garfield - Body and Soul as Charlie Davis
Gregory Peck - Gentleman's Agreement as Philip Schuyler Green aka Greenberg
William Powell - Life with Father as Clarence Day, Sr.
Michael Redgrave - Mourning Becomes Electra as Orin Mannon
1948 Laurence Olivier - Hamlet as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Lew Ayres - Johnny Belinda as Dr. Robert Richardson
Montgomery Clift - The Search as Ralph 'Steve' Stevenson
Dan Dailey - When My Baby Smiles at Me as 'Skid' Johnson
Clifton Webb - Sitting Pretty as Lynn Belvedere
1949 Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men as Willie Stark
Kirk Douglas - Champion as Michael 'Midge' Kelly
Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High as General Savage
Richard Todd - The Hasty Heart as Cpl. Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan
John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima as Sgt. John M. Stryker
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1950s
1950 José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee as Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Holden - Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis
James Stewart - Harvey as Elwood P. Dowd
Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride as Stanley T. Banks
1951 Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen as Charlie Allnut
Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski
Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun as George Eastman
Arthur Kennedy - Bright Victory as Larry Nevins
Fredric March - Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
1952 Gary Cooper - High Noon as Marshal Will Kane
Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata! as Emiliano Zapata
Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful as Jonathan Shields
José Ferrer - Moulin Rouge as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / The Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec
Alec Guinness - The Lavender Hill Mob as Henry Holland
1953 William Holden - Stalag 17 as Sgt. J.J. Sefton
Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar as Mark Antony
Richard Burton - The Robe as Marcellus Gallio
Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity as 1st Sgt. Milton Warden
1954 Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront as Terry Malloy
Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutiny as Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg
Bing Crosby - The Country Girl as Frank Elgin
James Mason - A Star Is Born as Norman Maine
Dan O'Herlihy - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe as Robinson Crusoe
1955 Ernest Borgnine - Marty as Marty Piletti
James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me as Martin Snyder
James Dean - East of Eden as Cal Trask (posthumous nomination)
Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm as Frankie Machine
Spencer Tracy - Bad Day at Black Rock as John J. Macreedy
1956 Yul Brynner - The King and I as King Mongkut of Siam
James Dean - Giant as Jett Rink (posthumous nomination)
Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life as Vincent van Gogh
Rock Hudson - Giant as Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr.
Laurence Olivier - Richard III as King Richard III of England
1957 Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Nicholson
Marlon Brando - Sayonara as Maj. Lloyd 'Ace' Gruver - USAF
Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain as Polo Pope
Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution as Sir Wilfrid Robarts
Anthony Quinn - Wild Is the Wind as Gino
1958 David Niven - Separate Tables as Major Angus Pollock
Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones as John 'Joker' Jackson
Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick Pollitt
Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones as Noah Cullen
Spencer Tracy - The Old Man and the Sea as The Old Man/Narrator
1959 Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur as Judah Ben-Hur
Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top as Joe Lampton
Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot as Jerry ('Daphne')
Paul Muni - The Last Angry Man as Dr. Sam Abelman
James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder as Paul Biegler
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1960s
1960 Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantry
Trevor Howard - Sons and Lovers as Walter Morel
Jack Lemmon - The Apartment as C. C. 'Bud' Baxter
Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer as Archie Rice
Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond
1961 Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe
Charles Boyer - Fanny as Cesar
Paul Newman - The Hustler as Eddie Felson
Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg as Chief Judge Dan Haywood
Stuart Whitman - The Mark as Jim Fuller
1962 Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch
Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz as Robert Stroud
Jack Lemmon - Days of Wine and Roses as Joe Clay
Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style as Ferdinando Cefalù
Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia as T. E. Lawrence
1963 Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith
Albert Finney - Tom Jones as Tom Jones
Richard Harris - This Sporting Life as Frank Machin
Rex Harrison - Cleopatra as Julius Caesar
Paul Newman - Hud as Hud Bannon
1964 Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady as Professor Henry Higgins
Richard Burton - Becket as Thomas Becket
Peter O'Toole - Becket as King Henry II of England
Anthony Quinn - Zorba the Greek as Alexis Zorba
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove
1965 Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou as Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn
Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold as Alec Leamas
Laurence Olivier - Othello as Othello
Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker as Sol Nazerman
Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools as Willie Schumann
1966 Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons as Sir Thomas More
Alan Arkin - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming as Lt. Rozanov
Richard Burton - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as George
Michael Caine - Alfie as Alfie Elkins
Steve McQueen - The Sand Pebbles as Jake Holman
1967 Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night as Police Chief Bill Gillespie
Warren Beatty - Bonnie and Clyde as Clyde Barrow
Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock
Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke as Luke Jackson
Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Matt Drayton (posthumous nomination)
1968 Cliff Robertson - Charly as Charly Gordon
Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as John Singer
Alan Bates - The Fixer as Yakov Bok
Ron Moody - Oliver! as Fagin
Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter as King Henry II of England
1969 John Wayne - True Grit as Rooster Cogburn
Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days as King Henry VIII of England
Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy as Enrico Salvatore 'Ratso' Rizzo
Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Arthur Chipping
Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy as Joe Buck
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1970s
1970 George C. Scott - Patton as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. (declined)
Melvyn Douglas - I Never Sang for My Father as Tom Garrison
James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope as Jack Jefferson
Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces as Robert Eroica Dupea
Ryan O'Neal - Love Story as Oliver Barrett IV
1971 Gene Hackman - The French Connection as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday as Doctor Daniel Hirsh
Walter Matthau - Kotch as Joseph P. Kotcher
George C. Scott - The Hospital as Doctor Herbert Bock
Chaim Topol - Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye
1972 Marlon Brando - The Godfather as Vito Corleone (declined)
Michael Caine - Sleuth as Milo Tindle
Laurence Olivier - Sleuth as Andrew Wyke
Peter O'Toole - The Ruling Class as Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney
Paul Winfield - Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan
1973 Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger as Harry Stoner
Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris as Paul
Jack Nicholson - The Last Detail as SM1 Billy 'Bad Ass' Buddusky
Al Pacino - Serpico as Frank Serpico
Robert Redford - The Sting as Johnny Hooker
1974 Art Carney - Harry and Tonto as Harry Coombes
Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express as Hercule Poirot
Dustin Hoffman - Lenny as Lenny Bruce
Jack Nicholson - Chinatown as Jake 'J.J.' Gittes
Al Pacino - The Godfather Part II as Michael Corleone
1975 Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle Patrick McMurphy
Walter Matthau - The Sunshine Boys as Willy Clark
Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik
Maximilian Schell - The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman
James Whitmore - Give 'em Hell, Harry! as Harry S. Truman
1976 Peter Finch - Network as Howard Beale (posthumous win)
Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver as Travis Bickle
Giancarlo Giannini - Seven Beauties as Pasqualino Frafuso
William Holden - Network as Max Schumacher
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky as Rocky Balboa
1977 Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
Woody Allen - Annie Hall as Alvy Singer
Richard Burton - Equus as Martin Dysart
Marcello Mastroianni - A Special Day as Gabriele
John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever as Tony Manero
1978 Jon Voight - Coming Home as Luke Martin
Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait as Joe Pendleton
Gary Busey - The Buddy Holly Story as Buddy Holly
Robert De Niro - The Deer Hunter as Michael Vronsky
Laurence Olivier - The Boys from Brazil as Ezra Lieberman
1979 Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer as Ted Kramer
Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome as Jack Godell
Al Pacino - …And Justice for All as Arthur Kirkland
Roy Scheider - All That Jazz as Joe Gideon
Peter Sellers - Being There as Chance
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1980s
1980 Robert De Niro - Raging Bull as Jake LaMotta
Robert Duvall - The Great Santini as Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meechum
John Hurt - The Elephant Man as John Merrick
Jack Lemmon - Tribute as Scottie Templeton
Peter O'Toole - The Stunt Man as Eli Cross
1981 Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer
Warren Beatty - Reds as John Reed
Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City as Lou Pascal
Dudley Moore - Arthur as Arthur Bach
Paul Newman - Absence of Malice as Michael Colin Gallagher
1982 Ben Kingsley - Gandhi as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels
Jack Lemmon - Missing as Ed Horman
Paul Newman - The Verdict as Frank Galvin
Peter O'Toole - My Favorite Year as Alan Swann
1983 Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies as Mac Sledge
Michael Caine - Educating Rita as Dr. Frank Bryant
Tom Conti - Reuben, Reuben as Gowan McGland
Tom Courtenay - The Dresser as Norman
Albert Finney - The Dresser as Sir
1984 F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus as Antonio Salieri
Jeff Bridges - Starman as Starman/Scott Hayden
Albert Finney - Under the Volcano as Geoffrey Firmin
Tom Hulce - Amadeus as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sam Waterston - The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg
1985 William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman as Luis Molina
Harrison Ford - Witness as Detective Captain John Book
James Garner - Murphy's Romance as Murphy Jones
Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor as Charley Partanna
Jon Voight - Runaway Train as Oscar 'Manny' Manheim
1986 Paul Newman - The Color of Money as Fast Eddie Felson
Dexter Gordon - Round Midnight as Dale Turner
Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa as George
William Hurt - Children of a Lesser God as James Leeds
James Woods - Salvador as Richard Boyle
1987 Michael Douglas - Wall Street as Gordon Gekko
William Hurt - Broadcast News as Tom Grunick
Marcello Mastroianni - Dark Eyes as Romano
Jack Nicholson - Ironweed as Francis Phelan
Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam as Adrian Cronauer
1988 Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man as Raymond Babbitt
Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning as Agent Rupert Anderson
Tom Hanks - Big as Josh Baskin
Edward James Olmos - Stand and Deliver as Jaime Escalante
Max von Sydow - Pelle the Conqueror as Lassefar
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot as Christy Brown
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V as King Henry V of England
Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July as Ron Kovic
Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy as Hoke Colburn
Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society as John Keating
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1990s
1990 Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves as Lieutenant John J. Dunbar
Robert De Niro - Awakenings as Leonard Lowe
Gérard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
Richard Harris - The Field as 'Bull' McCabe
1991 Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs as Hannibal Lecter
Warren Beatty - Bugsy as Bugsy Siegel
Robert De Niro - Cape Fear as Max Cady
Nick Nolte - The Prince of Tides as Tom Wingo
Robin Williams - The Fisher King as Parry
1992 Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
Robert Downey, Jr. - Chaplin as Charlie Chaplin
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven as William 'Bill' Munny
Stephen Rea - The Crying Game as Fergus
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X as Malcolm X
1993 Tom Hanks - Philadelphia as Andrew Beckett
Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the Father as Gerry Conlon
Laurence Fishburne - What's Love Got to Do with It as Ike Turner
Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day as James Stevens
Liam Neeson - Schindler's List as Oskar Schindler
1994 Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Nigel Hawthorne - The Madness of King George as King George III of the United Kingdom
Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool as Sully Sullivan
John Travolta - Pulp Fiction as Vincent Vega
1995 Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas as Ben Sanderson
Richard Dreyfuss - Mr. Holland's Opus as Glenn Holland
Anthony Hopkins - Nixon as Richard Nixon
Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking as Matthew Poncelet
Massimo Troisi - Il Postino as Mario Ruoppolo (posthumous nomination)
1996 Geoffrey Rush - Shine as David Helfgott
Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire as Jerry Maguire
Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient as Count Laszlo de Almásy
Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry Flynt as Larry Flynt
Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade as Karl Childers
1997 Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets as Melvin Udall
Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting as Will Hunting
Robert Duvall - The Apostle as Euliss 'Sonny' Dewey - The Apostle E.F.
Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold as Ulee Jackson
Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog as Stanley Motss
1998 Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful as Guido Orefice
Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan as Captain John Miller
Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters as James Whale
Nick Nolte - Affliction as Wade Whitehouse
Edward Norton - American History X as Derek Vinyard
1999 Kevin Spacey - American Beauty as Lester Burnham
Russell Crowe - The Insider as Jeffrey Wigand
Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story as Alvin Straight
Sean Penn - Sweet and Lowdown as Emmet Ray
Denzel Washington -The Hurricane as Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter
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2000s
2000 Russell Crowe - Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius
Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls as Reinaldo Arenas
Tom Hanks - Cast Away as Chuck Noland
Ed Harris - Pollock as Jackson Pollock
Geoffrey Rush - Quills as The Marquis de Sade
2001 Denzel Washington - Training Day as Alonzo Harris
Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind as John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Sean Penn - I Am Sam as Sam Dawson
Will Smith - Ali as Muhammad Ali
Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom as Dr. Matthew Fowler
2002 Adrien Brody - The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman
Nicolas Cage - Adaptation. as Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman
Michael Caine - The Quiet American as Thomas Fowler
Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York as William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt as Warren R. Schmidt
2003 Sean Penn - Mystic River as Jimmy Markum
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Captain Jack Sparrow
Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog as Behrani
Jude Law - Cold Mountain as Inman
Bill Murray - Lost in Translation as Bob Harris
2004 Jamie Foxx - Ray as Ray Charles
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina
Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland as Sir J.M. Barrie
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator as Howard Hughes
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby as Frankie Dunn
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote as Truman Capote
Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow as Djay
Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain as Ennis Del Mar
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line as Johnny Cash
David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck as Edward R. Murrow
2006 Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond as Danny Archer
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson as Dan Dunne
Peter O'Toole - Venus as Maurice
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness as Chris Gardner
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview
George Clooney - Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah as Hank Deerfield
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises as Nikolai Luzhin
2008 Sean Penn - Milk as Harvey Milk
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor as Walter Vale
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
2009 Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart as Otis "Bad" Blake
George Clooney - Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
Colin Firth - A Single Man as George Falconer
Morgan Freeman - Invictus as Nelson Mandela
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker as SFC. William James
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International presence
As the Academy Awards are based in the United States and are centered on the Hollywood film industry, the majority of Academy Award nominees have been Americans. Nonetheless, there is significant international presence at the awards, as evidenced by the following list of nominees for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Australia: Peter Finch, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush
Austria: Paul Muni, Maximilian Schell, Oskar Werner
The Bahamas: Sidney Poitier
Canada: Ryan Gosling, Alexander Knox, Raymond Massey, Walter Pidgeon
France: Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier, Gérard Depardieu
Germany: Emil Jannings
Hungary: Paul Lukas
Ireland: Daniel Day-Lewis (Day-Lewis holds dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and currently resides in County Wicklow, Ireland), Barry Fitzgerald, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole,
Israel: Chaim Topol
Italy: Roberto Benigni, Giancarlo Giannini, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi,
Mexico: Anthony Quinn
New Zealand: Russell Crowe
Puerto Rico: José Ferrer
Russia: Yul Brynner
Spain: Javier Bardem
United Kingdom: George Arliss, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine, Ronald Colman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert Donat, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Alec Guinness, Rex Harrison, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Charles Laughton, Jude Law, Ian McKellen, Victor McLaglen, Ray Milland, Liam Neeson, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Stephen Rea, Paul Scofield, Richard Todd, Tom Wilkinson.
Throughout the past 82 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 83 Best Actor awards to 74 different actors. Winners of this Academy Award of Merit receive the familiar Oscar statuette, depicting a gold-plated knight holding a crusader's sword and standing on a reel of film. The first recipient was Emil Jannings, who was honored at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (1929) for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. The most recent recipient was Jeff Bridges, who was honored at the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony (2010) for his performance in Crazy Heart.
In the first three years of the Academy Awards, individuals such as actors and directors were nominated as the best in their categories. At that time, all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award. However, during the 3rd Academy Awards ceremony (1930), only one of those films was cited in each winner's final award, even though each of the acting winners had had two films following their names on the ballots. For the 4th Academy Awards ceremony (1931), this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Such nominations are limited to five per year. Until the 8th Academy Awards ceremony (1936), nominations for the Best Actor award were intended to include all actors, whether the performance was in either a leading or supporting role. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1937), however, the Best Supporting Actor category was specifically introduced as a distinct award following complaints that the single Best Actor category necessarily favored leading performers with the most screen time. Nonetheless, Lionel Barrymore had received a Best Actor award (A Free Soul, 1931) and Franchot Tone a Best Actor nomination (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1936) for their performances in clear supporting roles. Currently, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, and Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role constitute the four Academy Awards of Merit for acting annually presented by AMPAS.
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Other awards for acting
Actors have also received special awards, or Academy Honorary Awards, for acting in specific films (such as in the case of James Baskett, who received a special honorary award for Disney's Song of the South). Child actors have also been awarded the Academy Juvenile Award.
[edit]SuperlativesSuperlative Best Actor Best Supporting Actor Overall
Actor with most awards Spencer Tracy
Fredric March
Gary Cooper
Marlon Brando
Dustin Hoffman
Tom Hanks
Jack Nicholson
Daniel Day-Lewis
Sean Penn 2 Walter Brennan 3 Jack Nicholson
Walter Brennan 3
Actor with most nominations Spencer Tracy
Laurence Olivier 9 Jack Nicholson
Claude Rains
Arthur Kennedy
Walter Brennan 4 Jack Nicholson 12
Actor with most nominations
(without ever winning) Peter O'Toole 8 Claude Rains
Arthur Kennedy 4 Peter O'Toole 8
Film with most nominations Mutiny on the Bounty 3 On the Waterfront
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II 3 On the Waterfront
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II 4
Oldest winner Henry Fonda 76 George Burns 80 George Burns 80
Oldest nominee Richard Farnsworth 79 Hal Holbrook 82 Hal Holbrook 82
Youngest winner Adrien Brody 29 Timothy Hutton 20 Timothy Hutton 20
Youngest nominee Jackie Cooper 9 Justin Henry 8 Justin Henry 8
Nine men have won the Best Actor award twice. In chronological order, they are: Spencer Tracy (1937, 1938), Fredric March (1932, 1946), Gary Cooper (1941, 1952), Marlon Brando (1954, 1972), Dustin Hoffman (1979, 1988), Tom Hanks (1993, 1994), Jack Nicholson (1975, 1997), Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, 2007), and Sean Penn (2003, 2008). Of these, all were Americans except for Daniel Day-Lewis. Tracy and Hanks were the only actors to win their awards in consecutive years. Furthermore, Tracy and Hanks were the same age at the time they received their Academy Awards: 37 for the first and 38 for the second.
The periods between successive wins by the two-time winners are Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks (1 year), Sean Penn (5 years), Dustin Hoffman (9 years), Gary Cooper (11 years), Fredric March (14 years), Marlon Brando (18 years), Daniel Day-Lewis (18 years), and Jack Nicholson (22 years).
The actors with the most nominations in this category are Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier, with nine each. Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, and Peter O'Toole tie for third place with eight nominations each. Nicholson won his awards a record 22 years apart. O'Toole holds the record for the longest time span between his first and last nominations (44 years), and he also holds the record for the greatest number of nominations without ever winning the award (eight).
Six actors have won both the Best Actor and the Best Supporting Actor awards: Jack Lemmon, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington.
Two actors have won an Academy Award (Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor) for portraying the same character, that of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, respectively. The actors were Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro.
There has been only one announced tie in the history of this category. In 1932, Fredric March received one more vote than Wallace Beery. Academy rules at that time considered such a close margin to be a tie, so both March and Beery received the award. Under the current Academy rules, however, dual awards are only given for exact ties. While that has never happened for the Best Actor award, it did happen for the Best Actress award in 1969.
Peter Finch is the only posthumous winner of the Best Actor award, though he was alive when his nomination was announced (the only other posthumous winner in any acting category was another Australian, Heath Ledger, who won the Best Supporting Actor award in 2009). The only posthumously nominated performers in this category were James Dean, Spencer Tracy, and Massimo Troisi. Dean was posthumously nominated twice.
Three actors have been nominated for Best Actor more than once for the same character: Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley in Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's; Peter O'Toole as King Henry II in Becket and The Lion in Winter; and Paul Newman as "Fast Eddie" Felson in The Hustler and The Color of Money. (Al Pacino was nominated in 1975 for a role for which he had previously been nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part II.)
Michael Douglas (1988, Wall Street) and Laurence Olivier (1949, Hamlet) are the only two actors to win the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Picture (Douglas as a producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976, and Olivier as producer of Hamlet). Olivier is also the only actor to win for acting and producing in the same year. Other Oscar nominees for Best Actor and Best Picture are: Clint Eastwood (acting nominations for Unforgiven, 1993, and Million Dollar Baby, 2005, winner for both in the Best Picture category); Kevin Costner, Best Actor nominee for Dances with Wolves and winning producer for the same film, in 1991; Paul Newman, Best Actor winner for The Color of Money and a Best Picture nominee for Rachel, Rachel in 1969; and Henry Fonda, Best Actor winner for On Golden Pond and a Best Picture nominee for 12 Angry Men in 1958.
Barry Fitzgerald is the only actor to be nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for the same character in the same year (as Father Fitzgibbon for Going My Way). The rules were later changed to prevent a recurrence of this.
Several pairs of actors have been nominated for playing the same character or historical figure: Fredric March and James Mason as Norman Maine in 1937's A Star Is Born and the 1954 version, Robert Donat and Peter O'Toole as Chipping in 1939's Goodbye, Mr. Chips and the 1969 version, Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh as Henry V in 1944's Henry V and the 1989 version (both of which were directed by their stars), Charles Laughton and Richard Burton as Henry VIII in The Private Life of Henry VIII and Anne of the Thousand Days, Leslie Howard and Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady, José Ferrer and Gérard Depardieu as Cyrano de Bergerac in 1950's Cyrano de Bergerac and the 1990 version, Robert Montgomery and Warren Beatty as Joe Pendleton in Here Comes Mr. Jordan and Heaven Can Wait, and Anthony Hopkins and Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Nixon and Frost/Nixon. Robert De Niro won Best Supporting Actor for playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, the role for which Marlon Brando had previously won Best Actor.
Laurence Olivier is the only actor to have won an Oscar for a Shakespearean performance: Best Actor for Hamlet (1948). Olivier also received an Academy Honorary Award for Henry V (1944), which Olivier described as a "fub-off".
Robert Downey, Jr. is the only actor nominated for playing a previous nominee, Charlie Chaplin, in Chaplin.
Two actors directed their own Oscar-winning performances: Laurence Olivier in Hamlet and Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful. To date, however, no individual has won both Best Actor and Best Director.
Two winners have declined the award: George C. Scott, who won for Patton in 1971 (he had also declined his 1962 nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Hustler); and Marlon Brando, upon winning his second Oscar for The Godfather in 1973.
A few early winning and nominated performances have subsequently been lost, including Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1928), Lewis Stone in The Patriot (1928), and Lawrence Tibbett in The Rogue Song (1930), of which only a short fragment and the soundtrack survives.
The earliest nominee in this category who is still alive is Jackie Cooper (1931), followed by Mickey Rooney (1939). The earliest winner in this category who is still alive is Ernest Borgnine (1955), followed by Maximilian Schell (1962)—both won over Spencer Tracy and starred in the films for which Tracy was nominated. The few remaining living nominees from the 1940s–50s Hollywood era include Kirk Douglas (3 nominations). Sidney Poitier also received his first nomination in 1958.
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Multiple nominations
The following actors have received multiple Best Actor nominations. The list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).2 : Spencer Tracy (9)
2 : Jack Nicholson (8)
2 : Marlon Brando (7)
2 : Dustin Hoffman (7)
2 : Gary Cooper (5)
2 : Tom Hanks (5)
2 : Fredric March (5)
2 : Sean Penn (5)
2 : Daniel Day-Lewis (4) 1 : Laurence Olivier (9)
1 : Paul Newman (8)
1 : Jack Lemmon (7)
1 : Paul Muni (6)
1 : James Stewart (5)
1 : Gregory Peck (5)
1 : Al Pacino (5)
1 : Robert De Niro (5)
1 : Burt Lancaster (4)
1 : Charles Laughton (3)
1 : James Cagney (3)
1 : Ronald Colman (3)
1 : Clark Gable (3)
1 : William Holden (3)
1 : Humphrey Bogart (3)
1 : William Hurt (3)
1 : Bing Crosby (3)
1 : Jon Voight (3)
1 : Robert Duvall (3)
1 : Russell Crowe (3)
1 : Denzel Washington (3)
1 : George Arliss (2)
1 : Robert Donat (2)
1 : José Ferrer (2)
1 : Rex Harrison (2)
1 : Rod Steiger (2)
1 : George C. Scott (2)
1 : Alec Guinness (2)
1 : John Wayne (2)
1 : Peter Finch (2)
1 : Sidney Poitier (2)
1 : Maximilian Schell (2)
1 : Henry Fonda (2)
1 : Nicolas Cage (2)
1 : Gene Hackman (2)
1 : Geoffrey Rush (2)
1 : Ben Kingsley (2)
1 : Jeff Bridges (2)
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Life expectancy of winners
In 2001 Donald A. Redelmeier, MD, and Sheldon M. Singh, BSc published a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine in which they found:
"Winning an Academy Award was associated with a large gain in life expectancy for actors and actresses...Winning an Academy Award can increase a performer’s stature and may add to their longevity. The absolute difference in life expectancy is about equal to the societal consequence of curing all cancers in all people for all time (22, 23). Moreover, movie stars who have won multiple Academy Awards have a survival advantage of 6.0 years (CI, 0.7 to 11.3 years) over performers with multiple films but no victories. Formal education is not the only way to improve health, and strict poverty is not the only way to worsen health. The main implication is that higher status may be linked to lower mortality rates even at very impressive levels of achievement."[1]
The aforementioned authors did an update to 29 March 2006 in which they found 122 more individuals and 144 more deaths since their first publication. Their unadjusted analysis showed a smaller survival advantage of 3.6 years for winners compared to their fellow nominees and costars in the films in which their performance garnered them their award.[2] However, in a 2006 published study by Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, MSc, Ella Huszti, MSc, and James A. Hanley, PhD, the authors found:
"The statistical method used to derive this statistically significant difference gave winners an unfair advantage because it credited an Oscar winner's years of life before winning toward survival subsequent to winning. When the authors of the current article reanalyzed the data using methods that avoided this "immortal time" bias, the survival advantage was closer to 1 year and was not statistically significant. The bias in Redelmeier and Singh's study is not limited to longevity comparisons of persons who reach different ranks within their profession."[3]
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Winners and nominees
Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by year of their Los Angeles qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the film's year of release. For example, the Oscar for Best Actor of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.
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1920s
1927–1928 Emil Jannings - The Last Command as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander and The Way of All Flesh as August Schilling
Richard Barthelmess - The Noose as Nickie Elkins and The Patent Leather Kid as Patent Leather Kid
1928–1929 Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona as The Cisco Kid
George Bancroft - Thunderbolt as Thunderbolt Jim Lang
Chester Morris - Alibi as Chick Williams (No. 1065)
Paul Muni - The Valiant as James Dyke
Lewis Stone - The Patriot as Count Pahlen
1929–1930 George Arliss - Disraeli as Benjamin Disraeli
George Arliss - The Green Goddess as The Raja of Rukh
Wallace Beery - The Big House as 'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt
Maurice Chevalier - The Big Pond as Pierre Mirande and The Love Parade as Count Alfred Renard
Ronald Colman - Bulldog Drummond as Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond and Condemned as Michel
Lawrence Tibbett - The Rogue Song as Yegor
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1930s
1930–1931 Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul as Stephen Ashe
Adolphe Menjou - The Front Page as Walter Burns
Jackie Cooper - Skippy as Skippy Skinner
Richard Dix - Cimarron as Yancey Cravat
Fredric March - The Royal Family of Broadway as Tony Cavendish
1931–1932 Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Dr. Henry L. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Wallace Beery - The Champ as Andy "Champ" Purcell (tie)
Alfred Lunt - The Guardsman as The Actor
1932–1933 Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII as King Henry VIII of England
Leslie Howard - Berkeley Square as Peter Standish
Paul Muni - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang as James Allen
1934 Clark Gable - It Happened One Night as Peter Warne
Frank Morgan - The Affairs of Cellini as Alessandro - Duke of Florence
William Powell - The Thin Man as Nick Charles
1935 Victor McLaglen - The Informer as Gypo Nolan
Clark Gable - Mutiny on the Bounty as Fletcher Christian
Charles Laughton - Mutiny on the Bounty as William Bligh
Paul Muni - Black Fury as Joe Radek
Franchot Tone - Mutiny on the Bounty as Roger Byam
1936 Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur as Louis Pasteur
Gary Cooper - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Longfellow Deeds
Walter Huston - Dodsworth as Sam Dodsworth
William Powell - My Man Godfrey as Godfrey Park
Spencer Tracy - San Francisco as Father Tim Mullin
1937 Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous as Manuel
Charles Boyer - Conquest as Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
Fredric March - A Star Is Born as Norman Maine
Robert Montgomery - Night Must Fall as Danny
Paul Muni - The Life of Emile Zola as Émile Zola
1938 Spencer Tracy - Boys Town as Father Flanagan
Charles Boyer - Algiers as Pepe le Moko
James Cagney - Angels with Dirty Faces as Rocky Sullivan
Robert Donat - The Citadel as Dr. Andrew Manson
Leslie Howard - Pygmalion as Professor Henry Higgins
1939 Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Arthur Chipping
Clark Gable - Gone with the Wind as Rhett Butler
Laurence Olivier - Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
Mickey Rooney - Babes in Arms as Mickey Moran
James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson Smith
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1940s
1940 James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story as Macaulay Connor
Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator as Adenoid Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania) / A Jewish Barber
Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath as Tom Joad
Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Abraham Lincoln
Laurence Olivier - Rebecca as 'Maxim' de Winter
1941 Gary Cooper - Sergeant York as Alvin C. York
Cary Grant - Penny Serenade as Roger Adams
Walter Huston - The Devil and Daniel Webster as Mr. Scratch
Robert Montgomery - Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Joe Pendleton
Orson Welles - Citizen Kane as Charles Foster Kane
1942 James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy as George M. Cohan
Ronald Colman - Random Harvest as Charles Rainier
Gary Cooper - The Pride of the Yankees as Lou Gehrig
Walter Pidgeon - Mrs. Miniver as Clem Miniver
Monty Woolley - The Pied Piper as Howard
1943 Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller
Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca as Rick Blaine
Gary Cooper - For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan
Walter Pidgeon - Madame Curie as Pierre Curie
Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedy as Homer Macauley
1944 Bing Crosby - Going My Way as Father Chuck O'Malley
Charles Boyer - Gaslight as Gregory Anton
Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way as Father Fitzgibbon
Cary Grant - None but the Lonely Heart as Ernie Mott
Alexander Knox - Wilson as Woodrow Wilson
1945 Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend as Don Birnam
Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary's as Father Chuck O'Malley
Gene Kelly - Anchors Aweigh as Joseph Brady
Gregory Peck - The Keys of the Kingdom as Father Francis Chisholm
Cornel Wilde - A Song to Remember as Frédéric Chopin
1946 Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives as Al Stephenson
Laurence Olivier - Henry V as King Henry V of England
Larry Parks - The Jolson Story as Al Jolson
Gregory Peck - The Yearling as Ezra 'Penny' Baxter
James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life as George Bailey
1947 Ronald Colman - A Double Life as Anthony John
John Garfield - Body and Soul as Charlie Davis
Gregory Peck - Gentleman's Agreement as Philip Schuyler Green aka Greenberg
William Powell - Life with Father as Clarence Day, Sr.
Michael Redgrave - Mourning Becomes Electra as Orin Mannon
1948 Laurence Olivier - Hamlet as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Lew Ayres - Johnny Belinda as Dr. Robert Richardson
Montgomery Clift - The Search as Ralph 'Steve' Stevenson
Dan Dailey - When My Baby Smiles at Me as 'Skid' Johnson
Clifton Webb - Sitting Pretty as Lynn Belvedere
1949 Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men as Willie Stark
Kirk Douglas - Champion as Michael 'Midge' Kelly
Gregory Peck - Twelve O'Clock High as General Savage
Richard Todd - The Hasty Heart as Cpl. Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan
John Wayne - Sands of Iwo Jima as Sgt. John M. Stryker
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1950s
1950 José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
Louis Calhern - The Magnificent Yankee as Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Holden - Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis
James Stewart - Harvey as Elwood P. Dowd
Spencer Tracy - Father of the Bride as Stanley T. Banks
1951 Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen as Charlie Allnut
Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski
Montgomery Clift - A Place in the Sun as George Eastman
Arthur Kennedy - Bright Victory as Larry Nevins
Fredric March - Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
1952 Gary Cooper - High Noon as Marshal Will Kane
Marlon Brando - Viva Zapata! as Emiliano Zapata
Kirk Douglas - The Bad and the Beautiful as Jonathan Shields
José Ferrer - Moulin Rouge as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / The Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec
Alec Guinness - The Lavender Hill Mob as Henry Holland
1953 William Holden - Stalag 17 as Sgt. J.J. Sefton
Marlon Brando - Julius Caesar as Mark Antony
Richard Burton - The Robe as Marcellus Gallio
Montgomery Clift - From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
Burt Lancaster - From Here to Eternity as 1st Sgt. Milton Warden
1954 Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront as Terry Malloy
Humphrey Bogart - The Caine Mutiny as Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg
Bing Crosby - The Country Girl as Frank Elgin
James Mason - A Star Is Born as Norman Maine
Dan O'Herlihy - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe as Robinson Crusoe
1955 Ernest Borgnine - Marty as Marty Piletti
James Cagney - Love Me or Leave Me as Martin Snyder
James Dean - East of Eden as Cal Trask (posthumous nomination)
Frank Sinatra - The Man with the Golden Arm as Frankie Machine
Spencer Tracy - Bad Day at Black Rock as John J. Macreedy
1956 Yul Brynner - The King and I as King Mongkut of Siam
James Dean - Giant as Jett Rink (posthumous nomination)
Kirk Douglas - Lust for Life as Vincent van Gogh
Rock Hudson - Giant as Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr.
Laurence Olivier - Richard III as King Richard III of England
1957 Alec Guinness - The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Nicholson
Marlon Brando - Sayonara as Maj. Lloyd 'Ace' Gruver - USAF
Anthony Franciosa - A Hatful of Rain as Polo Pope
Charles Laughton - Witness for the Prosecution as Sir Wilfrid Robarts
Anthony Quinn - Wild Is the Wind as Gino
1958 David Niven - Separate Tables as Major Angus Pollock
Tony Curtis - The Defiant Ones as John 'Joker' Jackson
Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick Pollitt
Sidney Poitier - The Defiant Ones as Noah Cullen
Spencer Tracy - The Old Man and the Sea as The Old Man/Narrator
1959 Charlton Heston - Ben-Hur as Judah Ben-Hur
Laurence Harvey - Room at the Top as Joe Lampton
Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot as Jerry ('Daphne')
Paul Muni - The Last Angry Man as Dr. Sam Abelman
James Stewart - Anatomy of a Murder as Paul Biegler
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1960s
1960 Burt Lancaster - Elmer Gantry as Elmer Gantry
Trevor Howard - Sons and Lovers as Walter Morel
Jack Lemmon - The Apartment as C. C. 'Bud' Baxter
Laurence Olivier - The Entertainer as Archie Rice
Spencer Tracy - Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond
1961 Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg as Hans Rolfe
Charles Boyer - Fanny as Cesar
Paul Newman - The Hustler as Eddie Felson
Spencer Tracy - Judgment at Nuremberg as Chief Judge Dan Haywood
Stuart Whitman - The Mark as Jim Fuller
1962 Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch
Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz as Robert Stroud
Jack Lemmon - Days of Wine and Roses as Joe Clay
Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce, Italian Style as Ferdinando Cefalù
Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia as T. E. Lawrence
1963 Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field as Homer Smith
Albert Finney - Tom Jones as Tom Jones
Richard Harris - This Sporting Life as Frank Machin
Rex Harrison - Cleopatra as Julius Caesar
Paul Newman - Hud as Hud Bannon
1964 Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady as Professor Henry Higgins
Richard Burton - Becket as Thomas Becket
Peter O'Toole - Becket as King Henry II of England
Anthony Quinn - Zorba the Greek as Alexis Zorba
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove
1965 Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou as Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn
Richard Burton - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold as Alec Leamas
Laurence Olivier - Othello as Othello
Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker as Sol Nazerman
Oskar Werner - Ship of Fools as Willie Schumann
1966 Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons as Sir Thomas More
Alan Arkin - The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming as Lt. Rozanov
Richard Burton - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as George
Michael Caine - Alfie as Alfie Elkins
Steve McQueen - The Sand Pebbles as Jake Holman
1967 Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night as Police Chief Bill Gillespie
Warren Beatty - Bonnie and Clyde as Clyde Barrow
Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock
Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke as Luke Jackson
Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Matt Drayton (posthumous nomination)
1968 Cliff Robertson - Charly as Charly Gordon
Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as John Singer
Alan Bates - The Fixer as Yakov Bok
Ron Moody - Oliver! as Fagin
Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter as King Henry II of England
1969 John Wayne - True Grit as Rooster Cogburn
Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days as King Henry VIII of England
Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy as Enrico Salvatore 'Ratso' Rizzo
Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Arthur Chipping
Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy as Joe Buck
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1970s
1970 George C. Scott - Patton as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. (declined)
Melvyn Douglas - I Never Sang for My Father as Tom Garrison
James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope as Jack Jefferson
Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces as Robert Eroica Dupea
Ryan O'Neal - Love Story as Oliver Barrett IV
1971 Gene Hackman - The French Connection as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday as Doctor Daniel Hirsh
Walter Matthau - Kotch as Joseph P. Kotcher
George C. Scott - The Hospital as Doctor Herbert Bock
Chaim Topol - Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye
1972 Marlon Brando - The Godfather as Vito Corleone (declined)
Michael Caine - Sleuth as Milo Tindle
Laurence Olivier - Sleuth as Andrew Wyke
Peter O'Toole - The Ruling Class as Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney
Paul Winfield - Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan
1973 Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger as Harry Stoner
Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris as Paul
Jack Nicholson - The Last Detail as SM1 Billy 'Bad Ass' Buddusky
Al Pacino - Serpico as Frank Serpico
Robert Redford - The Sting as Johnny Hooker
1974 Art Carney - Harry and Tonto as Harry Coombes
Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express as Hercule Poirot
Dustin Hoffman - Lenny as Lenny Bruce
Jack Nicholson - Chinatown as Jake 'J.J.' Gittes
Al Pacino - The Godfather Part II as Michael Corleone
1975 Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle Patrick McMurphy
Walter Matthau - The Sunshine Boys as Willy Clark
Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik
Maximilian Schell - The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman
James Whitmore - Give 'em Hell, Harry! as Harry S. Truman
1976 Peter Finch - Network as Howard Beale (posthumous win)
Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver as Travis Bickle
Giancarlo Giannini - Seven Beauties as Pasqualino Frafuso
William Holden - Network as Max Schumacher
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky as Rocky Balboa
1977 Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
Woody Allen - Annie Hall as Alvy Singer
Richard Burton - Equus as Martin Dysart
Marcello Mastroianni - A Special Day as Gabriele
John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever as Tony Manero
1978 Jon Voight - Coming Home as Luke Martin
Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait as Joe Pendleton
Gary Busey - The Buddy Holly Story as Buddy Holly
Robert De Niro - The Deer Hunter as Michael Vronsky
Laurence Olivier - The Boys from Brazil as Ezra Lieberman
1979 Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer as Ted Kramer
Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome as Jack Godell
Al Pacino - …And Justice for All as Arthur Kirkland
Roy Scheider - All That Jazz as Joe Gideon
Peter Sellers - Being There as Chance
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1980s
1980 Robert De Niro - Raging Bull as Jake LaMotta
Robert Duvall - The Great Santini as Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meechum
John Hurt - The Elephant Man as John Merrick
Jack Lemmon - Tribute as Scottie Templeton
Peter O'Toole - The Stunt Man as Eli Cross
1981 Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond as Norman Thayer
Warren Beatty - Reds as John Reed
Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City as Lou Pascal
Dudley Moore - Arthur as Arthur Bach
Paul Newman - Absence of Malice as Michael Colin Gallagher
1982 Ben Kingsley - Gandhi as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels
Jack Lemmon - Missing as Ed Horman
Paul Newman - The Verdict as Frank Galvin
Peter O'Toole - My Favorite Year as Alan Swann
1983 Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies as Mac Sledge
Michael Caine - Educating Rita as Dr. Frank Bryant
Tom Conti - Reuben, Reuben as Gowan McGland
Tom Courtenay - The Dresser as Norman
Albert Finney - The Dresser as Sir
1984 F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus as Antonio Salieri
Jeff Bridges - Starman as Starman/Scott Hayden
Albert Finney - Under the Volcano as Geoffrey Firmin
Tom Hulce - Amadeus as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sam Waterston - The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg
1985 William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman as Luis Molina
Harrison Ford - Witness as Detective Captain John Book
James Garner - Murphy's Romance as Murphy Jones
Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor as Charley Partanna
Jon Voight - Runaway Train as Oscar 'Manny' Manheim
1986 Paul Newman - The Color of Money as Fast Eddie Felson
Dexter Gordon - Round Midnight as Dale Turner
Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa as George
William Hurt - Children of a Lesser God as James Leeds
James Woods - Salvador as Richard Boyle
1987 Michael Douglas - Wall Street as Gordon Gekko
William Hurt - Broadcast News as Tom Grunick
Marcello Mastroianni - Dark Eyes as Romano
Jack Nicholson - Ironweed as Francis Phelan
Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam as Adrian Cronauer
1988 Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man as Raymond Babbitt
Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning as Agent Rupert Anderson
Tom Hanks - Big as Josh Baskin
Edward James Olmos - Stand and Deliver as Jaime Escalante
Max von Sydow - Pelle the Conqueror as Lassefar
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot as Christy Brown
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V as King Henry V of England
Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July as Ron Kovic
Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy as Hoke Colburn
Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society as John Keating
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1990s
1990 Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves as Lieutenant John J. Dunbar
Robert De Niro - Awakenings as Leonard Lowe
Gérard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
Richard Harris - The Field as 'Bull' McCabe
1991 Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs as Hannibal Lecter
Warren Beatty - Bugsy as Bugsy Siegel
Robert De Niro - Cape Fear as Max Cady
Nick Nolte - The Prince of Tides as Tom Wingo
Robin Williams - The Fisher King as Parry
1992 Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
Robert Downey, Jr. - Chaplin as Charlie Chaplin
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven as William 'Bill' Munny
Stephen Rea - The Crying Game as Fergus
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X as Malcolm X
1993 Tom Hanks - Philadelphia as Andrew Beckett
Daniel Day-Lewis - In the Name of the Father as Gerry Conlon
Laurence Fishburne - What's Love Got to Do with It as Ike Turner
Anthony Hopkins - The Remains of the Day as James Stevens
Liam Neeson - Schindler's List as Oskar Schindler
1994 Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump as Forrest Gump
Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Nigel Hawthorne - The Madness of King George as King George III of the United Kingdom
Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool as Sully Sullivan
John Travolta - Pulp Fiction as Vincent Vega
1995 Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas as Ben Sanderson
Richard Dreyfuss - Mr. Holland's Opus as Glenn Holland
Anthony Hopkins - Nixon as Richard Nixon
Sean Penn - Dead Man Walking as Matthew Poncelet
Massimo Troisi - Il Postino as Mario Ruoppolo (posthumous nomination)
1996 Geoffrey Rush - Shine as David Helfgott
Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire as Jerry Maguire
Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient as Count Laszlo de Almásy
Woody Harrelson - The People vs. Larry Flynt as Larry Flynt
Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade as Karl Childers
1997 Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets as Melvin Udall
Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting as Will Hunting
Robert Duvall - The Apostle as Euliss 'Sonny' Dewey - The Apostle E.F.
Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold as Ulee Jackson
Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog as Stanley Motss
1998 Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful as Guido Orefice
Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan as Captain John Miller
Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters as James Whale
Nick Nolte - Affliction as Wade Whitehouse
Edward Norton - American History X as Derek Vinyard
1999 Kevin Spacey - American Beauty as Lester Burnham
Russell Crowe - The Insider as Jeffrey Wigand
Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story as Alvin Straight
Sean Penn - Sweet and Lowdown as Emmet Ray
Denzel Washington -The Hurricane as Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter
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2000s
2000 Russell Crowe - Gladiator as Maximus Decimus Meridius
Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls as Reinaldo Arenas
Tom Hanks - Cast Away as Chuck Noland
Ed Harris - Pollock as Jackson Pollock
Geoffrey Rush - Quills as The Marquis de Sade
2001 Denzel Washington - Training Day as Alonzo Harris
Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind as John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Sean Penn - I Am Sam as Sam Dawson
Will Smith - Ali as Muhammad Ali
Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom as Dr. Matthew Fowler
2002 Adrien Brody - The Pianist as Władysław Szpilman
Nicolas Cage - Adaptation. as Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman
Michael Caine - The Quiet American as Thomas Fowler
Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York as William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting
Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt as Warren R. Schmidt
2003 Sean Penn - Mystic River as Jimmy Markum
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Captain Jack Sparrow
Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog as Behrani
Jude Law - Cold Mountain as Inman
Bill Murray - Lost in Translation as Bob Harris
2004 Jamie Foxx - Ray as Ray Charles
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina
Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland as Sir J.M. Barrie
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator as Howard Hughes
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby as Frankie Dunn
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote as Truman Capote
Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow as Djay
Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain as Ennis Del Mar
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line as Johnny Cash
David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck as Edward R. Murrow
2006 Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond as Danny Archer
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson as Dan Dunne
Peter O'Toole - Venus as Maurice
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness as Chris Gardner
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview
George Clooney - Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah as Hank Deerfield
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises as Nikolai Luzhin
2008 Sean Penn - Milk as Harvey Milk
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor as Walter Vale
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
2009 Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart as Otis "Bad" Blake
George Clooney - Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
Colin Firth - A Single Man as George Falconer
Morgan Freeman - Invictus as Nelson Mandela
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker as SFC. William James
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International presence
As the Academy Awards are based in the United States and are centered on the Hollywood film industry, the majority of Academy Award nominees have been Americans. Nonetheless, there is significant international presence at the awards, as evidenced by the following list of nominees for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Australia: Peter Finch, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush
Austria: Paul Muni, Maximilian Schell, Oskar Werner
The Bahamas: Sidney Poitier
Canada: Ryan Gosling, Alexander Knox, Raymond Massey, Walter Pidgeon
France: Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier, Gérard Depardieu
Germany: Emil Jannings
Hungary: Paul Lukas
Ireland: Daniel Day-Lewis (Day-Lewis holds dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and currently resides in County Wicklow, Ireland), Barry Fitzgerald, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole,
Israel: Chaim Topol
Italy: Roberto Benigni, Giancarlo Giannini, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi,
Mexico: Anthony Quinn
New Zealand: Russell Crowe
Puerto Rico: José Ferrer
Russia: Yul Brynner
Spain: Javier Bardem
United Kingdom: George Arliss, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine, Ronald Colman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert Donat, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Alec Guinness, Rex Harrison, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Charles Laughton, Jude Law, Ian McKellen, Victor McLaglen, Ray Milland, Liam Neeson, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Stephen Rea, Paul Scofield, Richard Todd, Tom Wilkinson.
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