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Mar 12, 2023 · Every Best Actor Winner in the History of the Oscars. From Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington to Sidney Poitier and Brendan Fraser, a list of every man who has ever won the Best Actor...
- Alexandra Schonfeld
The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year.
- Every Best Actor Oscar Winner. The first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 had 13 categories. Now there are 24, and while the categories have changed over time, the honors for best actor and actress have remained steady for 90 years.
- Brendan Fraser. “The Whale” Though critics were divided on Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” Oscar voters agreed that Brendan Fraser’s performance as a 600 lb.
- Will Smith. “King Richard” Few best actor winners had an evening as memorable as Will Smith’s. Less than an hour before winning for “King Richard” (his third acting nomination), he set off one of Oscars’ all-time jaw-dropping moments.
- Anthony Hopkins. “The Father” When Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Father” debuted at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, critics predicted Anthony Hopkins would win the Oscar.
Mar 13, 2023 · Brendan Fraser tearfully accepted the Academy Award for best actor for his role in the film “The Whale” on Sunday. He began his speech by thanking the film’s director Darren Aronofsky “for...
- Alli Rosenbloom
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- EW Staff
- Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy. On the Waterfront (1954), directed by Elia Kazan. So much has been said about Marlon Brando's simmering Method genius during the early '50s that watching his revolutionary approach to acting now couldn't possibly live up to the hype, right?
- Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta. Raging Bull (1980), directed by Martin Scorsese. Playing boxer Jake LaMotta, Robert De Niro gave all of his mind and body to this portrait of a man destroyed by his anger, his jealousies, his pride, his retrograde notions of manhood.
- Daniel Day Lewis as Christy Brown. My Left Foot (1990), directed by Jim Sheridan. It should be challenging to identify an absolute "best performance" from an actor as distinguished as Daniel Day-Lewis, who owns three Oscars.
- George C. Scott as Gen. George Patton. Patton (1970), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. George C. Scott didn't attend the Oscars to collect his honor. He considered the show a "goddamn meat parade," and didn't feel acting should be turned into a sport.
Mar 13, 2023 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brendan Fraser won the best actor Oscar for “The Whale,” a transformative role in which he revived a career that was once so bright. “I started in this business 30 years ago and things didn’t come easily to me,” said an emotional Fraser, breathing heavily on stage Sunday night.
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Sep 3, 2024 · Daniel Day-Lewis has won the most Academy Awards for best actor (three), and a number of actors have received two such Oscars, including Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks, both of whom won in consecutive years. Below is a list of the winning actors and the films for which they won.
