Actor John Wayne's real name was Marion Morrison.

Beery won the Oscar for Best Actor ( sharing the prize with Fredric March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ), and Marion for Best Story.

* New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor ( Robert De Niro )

* Academy Award for Best Actor ( Robert De Niro )

* August 25 – Robert Maschio, USA Actor

** Robert Hardy, English Actor

" Actor Robert De Niro called him a " master of a new kind of psychological and behavioral faith in acting.

The following year he won a Golden Globe for Best Actor and an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a marooned FedEx systems analyst in Robert Zemeckis's Cast Away.

Astaire continued to act into the 1970s, appearing on television as the father of Robert Wagner's character of Alexander Mundy in It Takes a Thief and in films such as The Towering Inferno ( 1974 ), in which he danced with Jennifer Jones and for which he received his only Academy Award nomination, in the category of Best Supporting Actor.

It was also nominated in the categories for Best Supporting Actor ( Jeff Bridges ), Best Supporting Actress ( Ellen Burstyn ), Best Cinematography ( Robert L. Surtees ), Best Director ( Peter Bogdanovich ), Best Picture ( Stephen J. Friedman ), and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich ).

It was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Robert Montgomery ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( James Gleason ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Director and Best Picture.

Anchors Aweigh was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gene Kelly ), Best Cinematography, Color ( Robert Planck, Charles P. Boyle ), Best Music, Song ( for Jule Styne ( music ) and Sammy Cahn ( lyrics ) for " I Fall in Love Too Easily ") and Best Picture.

James Whitmore won a 1950 Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actor, and Robert Pirosh's script won Best Screenplay.

* Robert Redford – Actor, Academy Award winner, Van Nuys High alumnus

Robert Mitchum was awarded that year's National Board of Review award for Best Actor for his performance.

Picnic won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color ( William Flannery, Jo Mielziner, Robert Priestley ) and Best Film Editing and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( O ' Connell, who reprised his stage role ), Best Director, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture ( George Duning ) and Best Picture.

The Sand Pebbles was nominated for eight Academy Awards, but failed to win any: Best Picture for Robert Wise, Best Actor for Steve McQueen, Best Supporting Actor for Mako, Best Art Direction / Set Decoration-Color, Best Cinematography-Color, Best Film Editing, Best Sound ( James Corcoran ) and Best Original Music Score for Jerry Goldsmith.

Onscreen, he continued in older roles: in Fanny ( 1961 ) starring Leslie Caron ; Barefoot in the Park ( 1967 ) with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda ; and the French film Stavisky ( 1974, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo ), the latter winning him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, and also received the Special Tribute at Cannes Film Festival.

It won Academy Awards for Best Actor ( Jon Voight ), Best Actress ( Jane Fonda ) and Best Original Screenplay ( Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, and Nancy Dowd ).

Mercies starred Robert Duvall, who won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film.

Actor Robert Duvall once owned a restaurant in the Plains called " The Rail Stop.

Actor Robert Stack claimed in his 1980 biography that Chaney and drinking buddy Broderick Crawford were known as " the monsters " around the Universal Pictures lot because of their drunken behavior that frequently resulted in bloodshed.

Quiz Show was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director ( Robert Redford ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Paul Scofield ) and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Paul Attanasio ).

Although there was a great outcry when a Canadian was cast as an American president, he scored a great triumph on Broadway in Robert E. Sherwood's play Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and repeated his role in the 1940 film version ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor ).

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Clarke featured in several films, Never Say Die, alongside New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison, Death in Brunswick, alongside another New Zealand Actor Sam Neill and Blood Oath ( released in some countries as Prisoners of the Sun ).

* Temuera Morrison Actor

The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.

Actor Clint Eastwood recalled seeing Wills when he was 18 or 19 ( 1948 or 1949 ) and working at a pulp mill in Springfield, Oregon.

Bixby was nominated for the Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 1971.

In 1976, he was honored with two Emmy Award nominations, one for Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in Drama or Comedy for The Streets of San Francisco and the other for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Comedy or Drama Series for Rich Man, Poor Man.

Downey Jr. was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance.

Actor Richard Dix's best-remembered early role was in the silent version of DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Leon in Dog Day Afternoon.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

Another exploit was in 1998 when Roberto Benigni won three oscars for his movie Life Is Beautiful ( La vita è bella ) ( Best Actor, Best Foreign Film, Best Music ).

His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.

In 1971, he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award again, this time for 1970's I Never Sang for My Father, working alongside Melvyn Douglas and Estelle Parsons.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1978 for his role in The Buddy Holly Story.

It won the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the Nebula Award for Best Script, and was also nominated for ten Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director for Parisot, Best Actress for Weaver and Best Supporting Actor for Rickman, winning Best Actor for Allen.

* Worst Actor: Richard Burton ( a highly controversial choice, considering the fact that he was Oscar-nominated many times, but made because Burton starred in so many bad films )

The film was the highest-grossing film of 1941 and won two Academy Awards ( Best Actor and Best Editing ), as well as earning Hawks his only nomination for Best Director.

Bogart was nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role, but lost out to Paul Lukas for his performance in Watch on the Rhine.

The novel was made into a 1979 movie directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the role and Melvyn Douglas, who won the award for Best Supporting Actor.

He became a favorite actor of director Billy Wilder, starring in his films Some Like It Hot ( for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Apartment, Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti !, The Front Page, and Buddy Buddy.

Lemmon was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1956 for Mister Roberts ( 1955 ) and the Best Actor Oscar for Save the Tiger ( 1973 ), becoming the first actor to achieve this double.