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First Canadian actor to be nominated in multiple categories. 1944 Hume Cronyn: The Seventh Cross: Nominated 1946 Harold Russell: The Best Years of Our Lives: Won Russell was a Canadian born, U.S. veteran. First Canadian actor to win an Oscar. First Canadian actor to win an Oscar for Supporting Actor. 1948 Walter Huston The Treasure of the ...
- Mary Pickford
- Norma Shearer
- Marie Dressler
- Walter Huston
- Raymond Massey
- Walter Pidgeon
- Hume Cronyn
- Alexander Knox
- Harold Russell
- John Ireland
The first Canadian to ever win an Oscar was also the second ever to win best actress and the first for a role in a film with sound. "America's Sweetheart," aka Toronto-born Mary Pickford, won for 1929's Coquette, in which she plays reckless socialite Norma Besant. Her win arguably remains the most controversial for any Canadian, with many in the in...
A year after Pickford's first win, Montreal's Norma Shearer managed to beat herself to win the third Oscar for best actress. It's now against Academy rules for an actor to receive two nominations in the same category, but back in 1931, Shearer did just that for her roles in The Divorcee and Their Own Desire. She'd go on to win for the former, a rol...
In Canada's greatest non-hockey hat trick, Marie Dressler became our third straight winner in the best actress Oscar category in 1931. The Cobourg, Ont.-born Dressler's work as an innkeeper in Min and Bill beat out Shearer's aforementioned work in A Free Soul, marking the first and only time two Canadian actors have competed against one another in ...
Behind Norma Shearer, the most Oscar-nominated Canadian actor, is Toronto-born Walter Huston, who was nominated for best actor in 1936 (for Dodsworth) and 1941 (for The Devil and Daniel Webster) and for best supporting actor in 1942 (for Yankee Doodle Dandy) and 1948 (for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre). He'd finally win for Sierra Madre, a film ...
Grandson of Hart Massey (the man behind Toronto cultural landmark Massey Hall), Raymond Massey rose to fame for playing, oddly enough, archetypal U.S. historical figures. In fact, he portrayed President Abraham Lincoln in two films — a Pulitzer Prize-winning play and a television anthology series (take that, Daniel Day-Lewis) — and won an Oscar no...
Saint John, NB's own Walter Pidgeon is the only Canadian to ever be nominated for back-to-back best actor Oscars, for 1942's Mrs. Miniver and 1943's Madame Curie. Both of the films co-starred Greer Garson, who was also nominated on each occasion. While Garson would win for Miniver, Pidgeon lost both times. But he would still go on to find 30 more ...
In what you'll soon see is a bit of a trend, Hume Crowyn was born in London, Ont., where his father was an Member of Parliament and his mother the heiress to the Labatt Brewing Company. But it would be their son who would become the family's most famed member. This was made clear in 1944, when he was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for ...
The same year Cronyn was nominated for The Seventh Cross, Alexander Knox received a best actor Oscar nod for playing Woodrow Wilson in Henry King's Wilson. And that wasn't all they had in common: three years older than the 1911-born Cronyn, Knox was born a few miles down the road from London in Strathroy, Ont., and at one point worked as a reporter...
Beating Walter Huston by two years, Harold Russell became the first Canadian male to win an acting Oscar for 1947's The Best Years of Our Lives. The thing is, though, that Russell wasn't really an actor. Born in North Sydney, NS, Russell lost both his hands serving in World War II, and while recovering was featured in an Army film called Diary of a...
Robert Rossen's 1949 film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All The Kings Men (the first of many) found Vancouver-born John Ireland winning his first and only Oscar nomination. He'd lose, but for what it's worth, he would notably go on to star in and co-direct the original The Fast and the Furious, written by the great Roger Corman and...
- Stephen Bosustow. There is no category at the Academy Awards where Canadians have excelled more than best animated short film. 60 short films made by Canadians have been nominated over the years, winning a total of 13 Oscars.
- Michèle Burke. Irish-born Michèle Burke immigrated to Canada as a teenager in the early 1970s, first working as a model in Montreal before becoming one of Hollywood's most sought-after makeup artists in the 1980s and 1990s.
- James Cameron. The most Oscars any Canadian has ever won in a single night came, unsurprisingly, when James Cameron took home 3 of the whopping 11 trophies won by his 1997 juggernaut Titanic.
- Richard Day. While James Cameron may have won three Oscars in one night, he doesn't hold the record for the Canadian with the most trophies overall. That would be a tie between two folks who were winning Oscars well before Cameron was even born.
2020s. Directors with multiple wins (3 or more) David Cronenberg -5. Denis Villeneuve -4. Denys Arcand -3. Directors with multiple nominations (3 or more) David Cronenberg -10 times (5 wins) Atom Egoyan -9 times (2 wins) Xavier Dolan -5 times (2 wins) Denis Villeneuve -4 times (4 wins) Denys Arcand -4 times (3 wins)
Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He was born in 1967, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He started his career as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada. He is best known for his feature films Arrival (2016), Sicario (2015), Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), and Incendies (2010).
Mar 13, 2023 · By Joshua Chong Staff Reporter. Brendan Fraser made Academy Award history Sunday night, becoming the first Canadian to receive an Oscar for Best Actor. Fraser, 54, nabbed the prize for his...
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