* Best Supporting Actor – John Hannah ( lost to Samuel L. Jackson for Pulp Fiction )

Richard Burton is judged as the Worst Actor of All Time over nominees John Agar, Tony Curtis and Victor Mature.

John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor.

John Huston won the Academy Award for direction and screenplay and his father won Best Supporting Actor, but the film had mediocre box office results.

Both Voight and co-star Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor, but lost out to John Wayne in True Grit.

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

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.

* The Tale of Sweeney Todd ( 1998 ), a television movie directed by John Schlesinger, commissioned by British Sky Broadcasting for which Ben Kingsley received a Screen Actors Guild Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of the title role.

Travesties was a Broadway hit which won two Tony Awards ( Best Performance by an Actor for John Wood and Best Comedy ), as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award ( Best Play ), and Curry's performance as the famous dadaist Tristan Tzara received good reviews.

* Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special ( John Lithgow )

Near the end of his career, McLaglen was nominated again, this time for Best Supporting Actor, for his role opposite John Wayne in The Quiet Man ( 1952 ).

In the 1964 film adaptation he was portrayed by John Gielgud, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

* John Cleese, Actor and comedian of Monty Python fame

Actor John Wayne's real name was Marion Morrison.

Previously, the only prior joint winners were John Kani and Winston Ntshona, who shared the Best Actor in a Play award in 1975 for Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, two plays they co-wrote and co-starred in.

She later co-starred in Arthur ( 1981 ), starring with Dudley Moore ( in the title role ) and Sir John Gielgud, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as Arthur's snobbish but loveable butler.

The film was an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor ( John Garfield ), Best Adapted Screenplay and Sound Recording ( Nathan Levinson ).

Murray was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, and John Lee Beatty was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design.

The film received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor ( Humphrey Bogart, losing to Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront ), Best Supporting Actor ( Tom Tully ), Best Screenplay, Best Sound Recording ( John P. Livadary ), Best Film Editing, and Best Dramatic Score ( Max Steiner ).

It was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Malkovich ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Crouse ), Best Costume Design, Best Director, and Best Picture.

* Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play-John Malkovich ( win ); David Huddleston ( nominee )

For his portrayal of Mr. Will, Malkovich received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

* 1994 Academy Award Nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( John Malkovich )

* 1994 BAFTA Film Award Nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( John Malkovich )

* 1994 Chicago Film Critics Association Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor ( John Malkovich )

* 1994 Golden Globe Award Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role ( John Malkovich )

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

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

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.

Other New York portrayals of Hamlet of note include that of Ralph Fiennes's in 1995 ( for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor ) – which ran, from first preview to closing night, a total of one hundred performances.

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.

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

He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects ( Best Supporting Actor ), followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty ( 1999 ).

In 2010, Grammer enjoyed his first Tony Award nomination for La Cage Aux Folles as Best Leading Actor in a Musical.

Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou ( 1965 ), he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles.

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.

Brando won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but turned down the Oscar, becoming the second actor to refuse a Best Actor award ( the first being George C. Scott for Patton ).

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

He was nominated for his first Tony Award ( Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play ) for this role, but lost out to his co-star Ian McKellen, who played Antonio Salieri.

* April 13-Sidney Poitier is the first black person to win an Academy Award in the catergory Best Actor in a Leading Role in Lilies of the Field

It becomes the first film to win all 5 of the major Academy Awards – Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture.

He earned his first award nominations for his role as Snape at the 2011 Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards, 2011 Saturn Awards, 2011 Scream Awards and 2011 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards in the Best Supporting Actor category.

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

After two years in the role, he played the same part in the 1951 film version, this time playing opposite Vivien Leigh, where he won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

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 ).