None but the Lonely Heart won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ( Ethel Barrymore ) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Cary Grant ), Best Film Editing and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture ( Hanns Eisler and Constantin Bakaleinikoff ).

The film was nominated for two 1965 Academy Awards, for Edmond O ' Brien for " Best Actor in a Supporting Role ", and for " Best Art Direction-Set Decoration / Black-and-White " for Cary Odell and Edward G. Boyle.

Actor Cary Elwes mentioned on the commentary for the uncut edition DVD of Saw that he passed on the role of Josh.

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.

When brought to the screen in 1964, the movie version would win eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Rex Harrison.

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!

In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind brought him numerous awards, including an BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor category Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

It brought him a third Tony nomination, again for Best Actor in a Musical.

In addition to wins for Hepburn ( Best Actress ), and Thompson ( Screenplay ), On Golden Pond brought Fonda his only Oscar-for Best Actor ( he was the oldest recipient of the award ; it also earned him a Golden Globe Best Actor award ).

On Golden Pond, which also starred Katharine Hepburn, brought Henry Fonda his only Academy Award for Best Actor, which Jane accepted on his behalf, as he was ill and could not leave home.

The role brought him international fame, and his performances earned him nominations for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

His portrayal of surgeon and naturalist Stephen Maturin brought more critical acclaim, including a BAFTA nomination, British Actor of the Year ( London Film Critics ' Circle ), and Best Actor ( Evening Standard ).

His turn as John Barrymore brought him his second Tony Award ( this time as Best Actor in Play ) and a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Play.

The 2009 spring musical Beauty and The Beast brought home 3 Cappies Awards for Featured Actor in a Musical ( Mattia D ' Affuso, Lumiere ), Lead Actress in a Musical ( Jessica Futran, Belle ), and Best Song ( Be Our Guest ).

The production was a success and Amphlett's interpretation of Garland, during her final troubled years, brought her critical acclaim: she was nominated for the Helpmann Award for ' Best Female Actor in a Musical '.

Actor Dennis Longwell wrote of sitting in on one of Meisner ’ s classes one day, when Meisner brought two students forward for an acting exercise.

In 1945 his performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, playing an alcoholic, but good-natured Irish father, a dreamer whose presence brought joy to those around him even though he was never a success in the traditional sense.

His Australian series The Outsiders demonstrated another time the wide range of types he could convincingly play, but brought him less praise than the BBC series Workhorses for which he was being nominated for BAFTA Scotland's Best Actor award.

Actor Edward Woodward was brought in especially for the storyline as Tommy Clifford, the man who killed her and subsequently sought his redemption before he died.

Actor / rapper Ice Cube takes over the lead role as the new xXx and Tamahori was brought in to direct following the huge commercial success of the James Bond film Die Another Day which he directed.

Actor Tom Sizemore has also brought the Whizzinator into the public eye after having been caught with one attempting to evade drug tests.

His stage work brought him Best Actor awards for his performance in The People Next Door and he has also starred in Ramayana, Telling Tales, Four and Bluebird, Workers Writes, Vurt, Sandman, and Mercury Fur.