Actor Jon-Erik Hexum died when he shot himself in the head with a blank, and actor Brandon Lee was famously killed during filming of “ The Crow ” when a blank fired behind a bullet that was stuck in the bore drove that bullet through his abdomen and into his spine.

* Brandon Baker — Actor

* Actor Brandon Lee and his girlfriend were due to be married in Ensenada on April 17, 1993, he died filming The Crow.

** Outstanding Youth Actor / Actress ( Brandon Hammond )-Winner

Road to Perdition was nominated for six Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor ( Paul Newman ), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography ( Conrad L. Hall ), Best Original Score ( Thomas Newman ), Best Sound ( Scott Millan, Bob Beemer and John Pritchett ), and Best Sound Editing.

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.

Actor Wallace Shawn is the son of William Shawn, the longtime editor of The New Yorker.

Cheng's latest film with Shawn Yue, Rule Number 1 directed by Kelvin Tong, won Best Actor Awards for both Cheng and Yue.

* Nominated: Best Performance in a TV Drama Series-Guest Starring Young Actor, Shawn Pyfrom ( 2002 )

Rob Schneider earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actor for the movie, but lost to both Shawn and Marlon Wayans for Little Man.

McClure's play The Beard debuted at the Actor ’ s Workshop Theatre in San Francisco on the December 18, 1965.

Actor Sudip Mukherjee debuted with the role of Byomkesh Bakshi.

Every actor who has opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway ( Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane ) won a Best Actor Tony Award for their performance.

He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

* Guldbagge Awards, Sweden: Best Actress in a leading role ( won jointly by Alexandra Dahlström and Rebecka Liljeberg ); Best Direction ( won by Lukas Moodysson ); Best Film ; Best Screenplay ( won by Lukas Moodysson ); Best Supporting Actor ( Nominee, Ralph Carlsson ) ( 1999 )

Another supporting role, Buck Barrow in 1967's Bonnie and Clyde, earned him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor.

The role of Charlie Allnutt won Bogart his only Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1951.

He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film Missing in 1982, and for his roles in Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), The Apartment ( 1960 ), Days of Wine and Roses ( 1962 ), The China Syndrome ( 1979 ), and Tribute ( 1980 ).

At the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, he was nominated for " Best Actor in a Made for TV Movie " for his role in Twelve Angry Men losing to Ving Rhames.

Jane Fonda won her second Best Actress award for her role, and Voight won for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Spacey won universal praise and a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's American Beauty ; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Bacon won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for his role.

On April 18, 2010, Grammer made his Broadway musical debut playing the role of Georges in a revival of the Jerry Herman / Harvey Fierstein musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.

At the 2012 Golden Globe Awards Kelsey Grammer won the award for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama for his role on Boss.

He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in X-Men: The Last Stand.

Marvin won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Actor for his comic role in the offbeat Western Cat Ballou starring Jane Fonda.

De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John " Johnny Boy " Civello.

Critics voted him " Broadway's Most Promising Actor " for his role as an anguished veteran in Truckline Café, although the play was a commercial failure.

Brando brought his performance as Stanley Kowalski to the screen in Kazan's adaptation of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for that role, and again in each of the next three years for his roles in Viva Zapata!

He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.

For the role, Crowe won an Australian Film Institute ( AFI ) award for Best Actor, following up from his Best Supporting Actor award for Proof in 1991.