* 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.

Actor John Malkovich first saw the film at the 1998 Cairo International Film Festival and subsequently adopted the film as a kind of post-facto executive producer ( the reissued film's titles read " John Malkovich Presents ").

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 ).

The production was nominated for four Tony awards including Best Play, Best Director, and two Best Featured Actor nominations for Robert Prosky and Joe Mantegna, who won the production's one Tony.

** The Robert Prosky Award-For Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play

His role as " Ouyang " earned him the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards, and Happy Together ( 1997 ), which depicted a complex relationship between a a pair of gay lovers ), in which he played " Ho Po-wing ", who goes to Argentina with his lover ( played by Tony Leung Chiu-wai ).

Actor Tony Nardi depicted the adult Joseph Bonanno in Bonanno: A Godfather's Story ; Eric Roberts portrayed him in the 1993 made-for-TV movie, " Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage ".

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

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

* 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.

In the film he is played by F. Murray Abraham, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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

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.

In addition, Jason Alexander, who performed as Pseudolus in one scene in Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, also won a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical.

Star Gary Busey received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Holly.

Lancaster won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the New York Film Critics Award for his performance in Elmer Gantry.

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.

Actor Gunnar Hansen sought inspiration from special needs children to develop Leatherface's mannerisms.

Astaire personally won the Emmy for Best Single Performance by an Actor but the choice had a controversial backlash because many felt that his dancing in the special was not the type of " acting " the award was designed for.

His portrayal of Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ), earned him a special award at the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

" Actor Phillip Bloch explained on a TV Land special entitled The 100 Most Unexpected TV Moments, that the special "... just wasn't working.

Included with the normal Golden Raspberry categories to mark the dawn of the year 2000 were four special awards: Worst Picture of the Decade, Worst New Star of the Decade, Worst Actor of the Century, and Worst Actress of the Century.

In 2006, Leachman's performance alongside Sir Ben Kingsley and Annette Bening in the HBO special Mrs. Harris earned her an Emmy nomination for outstanding supporting actress in a miniseries or TV movie as well as an SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries.

Bumper Robinson won a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Television Movie, and Alex Burrall and Jason Weaver both won a special award for Outstanding Young Performers Starring in a Mini-Series.

In the Actor model sequentiality was a special case that derived from concurrent computation as explained in Actor model theory.