Actor Gene Wilder made his film debut as Eugene Grizzard, one of Bonnie and Clyde's hostages.

Despite having rejected the Oscar the previous year for his work in Patton, Scott was nominated for Best Actor, but the gold statuette went instead to Gene Hackman for The French Connection.

In 1968, The Producers won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay — Written Directly for the Screen, and Gene Wilder was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

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.

* Nominated: Academy Award, Best Actor, Gene Kelly

It also won Academy Awards for Best Actor ( Gene Hackman ), Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Ernest Tidyman ).

* Gene Jones, Film and Television Actor

* 1989: Berlin International Film Festival: Best Actor: Gene Hackman

** Best Actor: Gene Hackman

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Melvyn Douglas ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Gene Hackman ) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

In 1967, he played the supporting role of C. W. Moss in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde alongside Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons, for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor and won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles.

Actor Gene Hackman's pet in the 1995 movie Crimson Tide was a smooth-coated Jack Russell terrier named " Bear ".

Charles Grodin was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, and Gene Saks was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play.

Actor and former Mystic Knight Gene Cunningham helped fund the film.

In the early 1990s, O ' Donnell was a featured player in many successful movies such as Fried Green Tomatoes ( 1991 ), School Ties ( 1992 ), and Scent of a Woman ( 1992 ) with Al Pacino ( receiving a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he lost to Gene Hackman for Unforgiven ).

Actor Gene Hackman who portrayed gunslinger John Herod.

* New York Times 1 April 1957 Gene Lockhart of Stage, Screen Actor of Supporting Roles Dies — Had First Broadway Part in 1916

* Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy: Gene Kelly

Actor / cowboy singer / producer Gene Autry purchased the Monogram Ranch property from the Hickson heirs in 1953, renaming it after his film Melody Ranch.

It won a Locarno Film Festival award for Best Actor for Gene Kelly.

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.

He achieved great film success in a 1966 comedy as a shyster lawyer called " Whiplash Willie " Gingrich starring opposite Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie, the first of numerous collaborations with Billy Wilder, and a role that would earn him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

" Wilder received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his role as Willy Wonka, but lost to Chaim Topol as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.

Actor Vincent Cassel also compared Black Swan to Polanski's early films, commenting that it also shared influences with David Cronenberg's early work.

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who has often been compared to Kaufman, is similarly best known as the characters Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno and Aladeen.

Actor James Belushi compared the series ( among others ) to the British TV serial The Prisoner, and stated: " It's very tough, very challenging – a lot of viewers probably won't dig it.

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.

He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish ( 1983 ) and The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), and received critical recognition for his work in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

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

In 1992, he played the sadistic sheriff " Little " Bill Daggett in the western Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples which earned him a second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actor.

His work on the series earned him the 1996 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

His performance earned him another Best Actor Academy Award nomination, 17 years after his first.

I'm All Right Jack featured Peter Sellers and as a result, boosted his film career, winning him a BAFTA Best Actor Award.

His performance as the enigmatic criminal Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

His work in Seven, The Usual Suspects, and Outbreak earned him Best Supporting Actor honors at the 1995 Society of Texas Film Critics Awards.

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.

These first five films of his career established him, as evidenced in his winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in three consecutive years, 1951 to 1953.

He returned to Broadway in 1984 to star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, which saw him earn another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor ( Musical ).

Actor Steve Buscemi has described Tarantino's different style of film making as " bursting with energy " and " focused ," a style that has earned him many accolades worldwide.

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.

Crowe's work has earned him several accolades, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Academy Award nominations in a row ( 1999 – 2001 ), one Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, one BAFTA and an Academy Award.

In 1993, Curry played Alan Swann in the Broadway musical version of My Favourite Year, earning him his second Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical.

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

The movie stars Audrey Hepburn in the role of Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison repeating his stage performance as Professor Henry Higgins, and which will win him his only Academy Award for Best Actor.

His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations, one of them being in the same year.

Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Kazan next directed him in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), where he was also nominated as Best Supporting Actor for his role as a sympathetic priest.

In 1956, Kazan directed him in a starring role in Baby Doll, alongside Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach, a controversial story written by Tennessee Williams, and he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

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