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Keaton's critically praised lead performance earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, the Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor and Best Actor in a Comedy, and nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award, British Academy Film Award, and Academy Award for Best Actor.
- Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight, Best Supporting Actor 2009) It sort of had to be, didn’t it? There are lots of obvious off-screen reasons Ledger’s work in The Dark Knight is so potent, specifically that we were watching a man deliver the performance of a lifetime shortly after he had tragically died.
- Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood, Best Actor 2008) Daniel Day-Lewis is so incredible in There Will Be Blood because it is essentially 12 different performances in one.
- Mo’Nique (Precious, Best Supporting Actress 2010) Known for more than a decade as a stand-up comic and as the star of early Noughties sitcoms like The Parkers, Mo’Nique earnt so much acclaim for Precious partly because her presence in it was so surprising.
- Olivia Colman (The Favourite, Best Actress 2019) In a film dominated by startling performers, Olivia Colman still managed to steal the show. As Queen Anne, she bares the numerous facets of her skill set, all of which were already familiar to UK audiences, and throws them all into one of the richest characters in recent film memory.
Mar 8, 2023 · Enjoy a foolish attempt to rate the 25 finest performances to have won lead actor – that’s best actor or best actress – over the 94 Oscar ceremonies so far.
Francis Ford Coppola won the fight for Brando, Brando won - and refused - his second Oscar, and Paramount won a pot of gold by producing the then top-grossing film of all-time, The Godfather (1972), a gangster movie most critics now judge one of the greatest American films of all time.
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Academy Award for best actor, award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honours the male actor in a leading role who delivered the most outstanding performance in a movie of a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. The prize was presented in 1929 at the ...
•1929: Emil Jannings (The Way of All Flesh [1927] and The Last Command [1928])
•1930: Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona [1928])
•1931: George Arliss (Disraeli [1929])
•1932: Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul [1931])
•1933: Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1931]) and Wallace Beery (The Champ [1931])
•(All subsequent films were released the previous year.)
•1940: Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
•1941: James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)
•1942: Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)
•1943: James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
•1944: Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)
•1945: Bing Crosby (Going My Way)
•1960: Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)
•1961: Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)
•1962: Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)
•1963: Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
•1964: Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)
•1965: Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady)
•1980: Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)
•1981: Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
•1982: Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)
•1983: Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
•1984: Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)
•1985: F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus)
•2000: Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
•2001: Russell Crowe (Gladiator)
•2002: Denzel Washington (Training Day)
•2003: Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
•2004: Sean Penn (Mystic River)
•2005: Jamie Foxx (Ray)
•2020: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
•2021: Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
•2022: Will Smith (King Richard)
•2023: Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
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Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards (all for Best Actress), more than any other actor or actress in the history of the award. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given Academy Awards to actors and actresses for their performances in films since its inception.
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The Best Actor award has been presented 96 times, to 86 actors. The first winner was German actor Emil Jannings for his roles in The Last Command (1928) and The Way of All Flesh (1927). [ 1 ] The most recent winner is Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (2023), who simultaneously became the first Irish-born actor to win this award.
