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Apr 30, 2023 · At the 1975 Oscars, Art Carney - surprisingly - beat Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, and Albert Finney to pick up Best Actor.
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Carney won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his 1974 performance as Harry Coombes, an elderly man going on the road with his pet cat, in Harry and Tonto. Other nominees that year were Albert Finney, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, and Al Pacino.
Art Carney wins the Oscar for Best Actor for Harry and Tonto at the 47th Academy Awards.
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Original Screenplay winner for Chinatown, with presenter James Michener. Art Carney. Best Actor winner for Harry and Tonto, with presenter Glenda Jackson. Ingrid Bergman. Supporting Actress winner for Murder on the Orient Express. View More Memorable Moments.
Art Carney, who won a best-actor Oscar for “Harry and Tonto” and originated the role of fussy Felix Ungar in “The Odd Couple” on Broadway, but who is best remembered as Jackie Gleason’s lovable...
It would also earn Carney his sixth Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the first and only time he would win it for playing a role that was not Ed Norton. Unbeknownst to Carney however, his relationship with the man who had created Ed Norton was not quite over.
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Art Carney (1918–2003) was an American actor who had a long and varied career. He won an Academy Award for best actor for his role in the movie Harry and Tonto (1974), but he is probably best known for playing Ed Norton on the TV show The Honeymooners (1955–56).
