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.

Rupert Crosse, the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor is of Nevisian descent.

In February 2009, Wright and Penn attended the 81st Academy Awards together, at which Penn won Best Actor, but the couple announced separation again in April 2009, only to be withdrawn, and then again in May 2009.

Actor David Walliams reportedly entered talks with Gilliam to play a part in it, and was told that he'd have to " be willing to work with Johnny Depp and fly to Bucharest where the movie is to be filmed.

The film earned critical acclaim and went on to be nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Film Editing, Best Actor in a Leading Role ( for Rea ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Davidson ) and Best Director.

Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

Actor Tom Hanks will be playing Disney in the upcoming film Saving Mr. Banks.

The film was the first to win all five major Academy Awards ( Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay ), a feat that would not be matched until One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( 1975 ) and later by The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ).

And after winning his Best Actor Oscar later in the evening, he said in his acceptance speech, " There must be some terrible mistake, I used up all my English!

Ian McKellen has received widespread acclaim for his performance as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, particularly in The Fellowship of the Ring, for which he received both a Screen Actors Guild Award and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as an Academy Award nomination under the same category ( making him the only individual cast member of the films to be nominated for an Oscar ).

Boyd Gaines was the first performer to be nominated for each of Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1989 for The Heidi Chronicles, Best Actor in a Musical in 1994 for She Loves Me, Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2000 for Contact ( and again in 2008 for Gypsy ) and Best Actor in a Play in 2007 for Journey's End.

Raúl Esparza was the second performer to be nominated in all four categories ( no wins ), achieving this over a mere six seasons: Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2004 for Taboo, Best Actor in a Musical in 2007 for Company, Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2008 for The Homecoming, and Best Actor in a Play in 2009 for Speed-the-Plow.

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Bridges is one of the youngest actors ever to be nominated for an Academy Award ( 1972, age 22, Best Supporting Actor, The Last Picture Show ), and one of the oldest ever to win ( 2010, age 60, Best Actor, Crazy Heart ).

Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s excess, with Douglas's character memorably declaring that " greed, for lack of a better word, is good ".

** Richard Masur, American actor, director and former president of Screen Actor Guild

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 ).

Many popular actresses have played the role of Hedda: they include Eleonora Duse, Alla Nazimova, Asta Nielsen, Eva Le Gallienne, Anne Meacham, Ingrid Bergman, Jill Bennett, Janet Suzman, Diana Rigg, Isabelle Huppert, Kate Burton, Kate Mulgrew, Kelly McGillis, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Annette Bening, Amanda Donohoe, Judy Davis, Erin Berger, Emmanuelle Seigner, Harriet Walter, Rosamund Pike and Cate Blanchett, who won the 2005 Helpmann Award ( Australia ) for Best Female Actor in a Play.

Reelfoot Lake was the location for three memorable Hollywood movie productions: Raintree County, the 1957 drama about the American Civil War, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, and Lee Marvin ; the 1967 Oscar-winner, In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier and Best Actor Rod Steiger ; and U. S. Marshals, the 1998 action thriller, starting Tommy Lee Jones and Wesley Snipes.

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He won a Portuguese Golden Globe for Best Actor in his next film, the 1995 Portuguese drama Adão e Eva ( Adam and Eve ), where he played the main female character career rival Francisco.

It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) became the first film to win all five top Oscars ( Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay ).

Anchors Aweigh became one of the most successful films of 1945 and it garnered Kelly his first and only Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance ( 1972 ), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home ( 1978 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ ( 1979 ).

An enduring cultural icon, Brando became a box office star during the 1950s, during which time he racked up five Oscar nominations as Best Actor, along with three consecutive wins of the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Actor Karl Malden became an early student at the Group Theater in 1937, where he first began acting under Kazan's direction.

He soon became one of Hollywood's highest paid performers, starring in such classics as The Patent Leather Kid ( 1927 ) and The Noose ( 1928 ); he was nominated for Best Actor at the first Academy Awards for his performance in both these films, and he won a Special Citation for producing The Patent Leather Kid.

Although his performance in both Episodes II and III was met with generally mixed reviews by critics ( earning him the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor in both films ) he became popular among audiences, being named in both People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People and Teen Peoples 25 Hottest Stars under 25.

For his performance, Jackie Cooper, at the age of nine, became the youngest person to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

After The Big House became a hit, and his performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role, he became the world's highest paid actor within two years.

In 1969, Scofield became the sixth performer to win the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Male of the Species.

He went on to star in classics such as The Rats of Tobruk and became the first Australian to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, posthumously in 1976.

Actor River Phoenix during his teen years became a teen idol during the later part of the 1980s with films such as Stand By Me, Mosquito Coast, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.

The production became one of the hits of the 1946 / 47 Broadway season, winning Ferrer the first Best Actor Tony Award for his depiction of the long-nosed poet / swordsman ( tied with Fredric March for Ruth Gordon's play about her own early years as an actress, Years Ago ).

A Free Soul became famous for a sequence where Barrymore delivers a monologue that is said to be the main reason he won the Academy Award for Best Actor that year.

He gave a memorable performance in Dennis Potter's 1971 play Traitor, in which he portrayed a " boozy British aristocrat who became a spy for the Soviets "; his performance won him a British Academy of Film and Television Arts " Best Television Actor " award.

Olivier won the New York Film Critics award for Best Actor as a compromise selection after the voters became deadlocked in a choice between Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in The Godfather after Stacey Keach in Fat City won a plurality in initial voting and rules were changed requiring a majority.

For his role in the film, Diamond became the first-ever winner of a Worst Actor Razzie Award, even though he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the same role.

Returning to film, Olmos became the first American-born Latino to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, in Stand and Deliver, for his portrayal of real-life math teacher, Jaime Escalante.

In 2000, Turner ’ s screenplay for the Jackson Pollock biopic Pollock became a successful film which won an Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for Marcia Gay Harden and a Best Actor nomination for Ed Harris.

At the end of this period, he had won six regional Best Actor Filmfare Awards, including four consecutive Best Tamil Actor Awards and became a famous actor in South India by having starred in all languages.