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.

* Billy Ray Cyrus-Singer / Actor, son of Ron Cyrus and father of Miley Cyrus

Spacey was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor — Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, but the award went to Jamie Foxx for his portrayal of Darin's musical contemporary Ray Charles.

* Ray Bolger ( 1904 – 1987 ), Actor ( The Wizard of Oz )

* Ray Meagher, Actor, and amateur rugby player

The others are Will Smith ( Best Actor, Ali, 2001, and Best Actor, The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006 ), and Jamie Foxx, ( Best Actor, Ray, 2004 ).

The program also earned him Emmy nominations in 2002 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series along with Matt LeBlanc, but he lost to Ray Romano.

Ray Gardner later won the " ITV Best Actor In A Commercial " Award for his performance.

As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical / comedy.

The TV version won four Bafta Awards-for Best Actor ( Ray McAnally ), Best Drama Series, Best Film Editor ( Don Fairservice ) and Best Film Sound-and one International Emmy Award for Best Drama.

* Nominated – Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture: Ray Liotta

* Adil Ray, Actor, Radio / Television presenter

* Actor, Ray Winstone

Theatre being his first ' love ', he is a noted farceur and has won Best Actor awards for his appearances in Ray Cooney farces Not Now Darling ; Two Into One and Out of Order.

* Voice Actor: Ray Trickett

* Voice Actor: Anthony Ray Parker

* Voice Actor: Ray Trout

* 2005-Nominated for an Actor award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards / 11th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Ray ( 2004 ) shared with Jamie Foxx, Terrence Howard, Regina King, Harry Lennix, Clifton Powell, Larenz Tate and Kerry Washington.

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

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.

Actor Chow Yun-Fat who portrayed Li Mu Bai

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.

The film was a success, securing three Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Supporting Actor for Lemmon, who won.

Howard Rollins, who received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance, said, " I was frightened to meet Mr. Cagney.

Voight, who was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of an embittered paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-anti-war activist Ron Kovic, with whom Fonda's character falls in love.

Spacey won universal praise and a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's American Beauty ; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Falk, who played Reles again in the 1960 TV series The Witness, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in the film.

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.

In the film, he is played by Liam Neeson, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal.

Michael Urie, who originated the role of Rudi Gernreich, received a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor.

Rickman, who left the production on April 1, won the Broadway. com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Actor in a Play and was nominated for a Drama League Award.

Actor Gary Lockwood, who also acted in the film, felt that " Kazan and Natalie were a terrific marriage, because you had this beautiful girl, and you had somebody that could get things out of her.

Eastwood's acting was noted by critics, but was overshadowed by Bridges who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Actor Sylvester Stallone starred as a troubled Vietnam war vet who becomes a " one man army " in the popular Rambo ( film series ) | Rambo action films.

Fonda shared the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations with co-producer Reginald Rose and won the 1958 BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his performance as " Juror # 8 ", who with logic and persistence eventually sways all the jurors to an acquittal.

* Actor Milos Milos, the Serbian actor who played the Incubus, killed his girlfriend, Barbara Ann Thomason Rooney – the estranged fifth wife of Mickey Rooney – and himself in 1966, nine months before the film's premiere.

On screen, George VI has been portrayed by, among others, Colin Firth, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the role in the 2010 film The King's Speech, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

On 24 May 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of Dr. No. Actor Toby Stephens, who played Die Another Day Bond villain Gustav Graves, played James Bond, while Dr. No was played by David Suchet.

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

Actor Nicolas Cage, born Nicolas Coppola, chose a new last name to avoid comparisons to his uncle, director Francis Ford Coppola, who gave him his big break in the movie Peggy Sue Got Married.

* Shared Performances: All three of the young actors who shared the duties of performing the lead character in Billy Elliot the Musical ( 2009 awards ) — David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish — also shared a single nomination, then shared the win, for Best Actor in a Musical.