"to win Best Actor. With her 13th nomination, Meryl Streep became the most nominated actor in Oscar history. Meanwhile, Best Actor nominee Jack Nicholson earned his 12th nomination, extending his record as the most nominated male performer. Julianne Moore was the ninth performer to earn two acting nominations in the same year. ""Lose Yourself"" from ""8 Mile"" became the first rap song to win the Best Original Song award. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The following 13 films received multiple nominations: The following four films received multiple awards: The following individuals"
"is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year. Since its inception, the award has been given to 80 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars. Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2018 ceremony, Gary Oldman is the most recent winner in this category for portraying former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in ""Darkest Hour"". In the following table, the years are"
"for Best Actor was first introduced in 1976 for the 1974 and 1975 years, to reward a lead performance by a male actor in film. The record for most awards is held by Robert Downey, Jr. and Mark Hamill with three wins, with Jeff Bridges and Harrison Ford as the only others to have won more than once, each winning twice. Tom Cruise is the most nominated actor in the category with ten nominations, with Arnold Schwarzenegger being second with seven (two of which for playing The Terminator) and Harrison Ford (all of them for playing either Han Solo or"
"took place on December 15, 2008, where he was inducted alongside 11 other Californians. In 2010, Nicholson was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. In 2011, Nicholson received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Brown University at its 243rd commencement. At the ceremony, Ruth Simmons, Brown University's president, called him, ""the most skilled actor of our lifetime"". With 12 Academy Award nominations (eight for Best Actor and four for Best Supporting Actor), Nicholson is the most nominated male actor in Academy Awards history. Only Nicholson (1960s–2000s), Michael Caine (1960s–2000s), Meryl Streep (1970s–2010s), Paul Newman (1950s–1960s, 1980s–2000s),"
"single year. Amitabh Bachchan has been nominated thrice in 1979 and 1983 and Shah Rukh Khan in 2005. Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan are the most awarded actors in the overall acting categories, with eight awards each: Dilip Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan are the winners of eight ""Best Actor"" awards, and Amitabh Bachchan is the winner of five ""Best Actor"" awards and three ""Best Supporting Actor"" awards. Amitabh Bachchan is the most nominated actor in any major acting category at Filmfare, with 41 nominations overall. Amitabh Bachchan holds a unique record of receiving nominations in this"
"Since its inception, the award has been given to 24 actors. ""General Hospital"" has the most awarded actors in this category with a total of eleven wins. In 2008, Anthony Geary became the actor with the most wins in the category when he won for a sixth time, surpassing David Canary's previous record. Geary went on to win again in 2012 and 2015, thus far winning on eight occasions. Peter Bergman has been nominated on 20 occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2018 ceremony, James Reynolds is the most recent winner in this category for his portrayal"
"been given to 11 actors. Desmond Tan is the most recent winner in this category for his role in ""When Duty Calls"". Since the ceremony held in 2017, Chen Hanwei and Xie Shaoguang remain as the only actors to win in this category five times, surpassing Li who has three wins. Christopher Lee has been nominated on 13 occasions, more than any other actor. Terence Cao holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with six. Each year is linked to the article about the Star Awards held that year. Star Awards for Best Actor The Star Awards"
"and ""Pan's Labyrinth"", with eight and six, respectively. This had previously occurred at the 5th and 25th Academy Awards. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 25, 2007. With his latest unsuccessful nomination for Best Actor, Peter O'Toole became the most nominated performer without a competitive win. Another oddity in the Best Actor category is that four of the five nominees were only nominated in that category and nothing else (the exception being Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond). This results in the only year since the 1st Academy Awards where none of the Best Actor Nominees were"
"Linings Playbook"" and Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for ""American Hustle"". Bradley Cooper Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for many awards, including four Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and a Tony Award. Cooper appeared in ""Forbes"" Celebrity 100 on two occasions and ""Time"" list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2015. His films have grossed $7.8 billion worldwide and he was named one of the world's highest-paid actors for three years. Cooper enrolled in the MFA program at the Actors Studio at The New"
"male actors to win three Academy Awards. Nicholson is one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s; the other is Michael Caine. He has won six Golden Globe Awards, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, at 57, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. He has had a number of high-profile relationships, most notably with Anjelica Huston and Rebecca Broussard, and was married to Sandra Knight from 1962 until their divorce"
"Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times: 4 wins 3 wins 2 wins The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times: 5 nominations 4 nominations 3 nominations 2 nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Actor ""'1970 Edward Woodward in ""Callan"" ""'1971 Keith Michell in ""The Six Wives of Henry VIII"" ""'1972 John Le Mesurier in ""Traitor"" ""'1973 Anthony Hopkins in ""War and Peace"" ""'1974 Frank Finlay in ""The Adventures of Don Quixote""; ""Candide""; ""The Death of Adolf Hitler"" ""'1975 Peter Barkworth in ""Crown Matrimonial"" ""'1976 John Hurt in ""The Naked Civil"
"statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has been given to 74 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards. Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2018 ceremony, Sam Rockwell is the most recent"
"the award has been given to 17 actors. Chen Hanwei is the most recent winner in this category for his role in ""The Lead"". Since the ceremony held in 2006, Huang Yiliang remains as the only actor to win in this category thrice, surpassing Chen Guohua, Chen Hanwei, Tay Ping Hui, and Xie who have two wins each. Chen Shucheng has been nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. Zheng Geping holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with six. Each year is linked to the article about the Star Awards held that year. Star"
"Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among the four producers nominated for ""The Reader."" the Producers Branch Executive Committee determines such exceptions, noting they take place only in ""rare and extraordinary circumstance[s]."" Steven Spielberg currently holds the record for most nominations at ten, winning one, while Kathleen Kennedy holds the record for most nominations without a win at eight. Sam Spiegel and Saul Zaentz tie for the most wins with three each. As for the time when the Oscar was given to production companies instead, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer holds the record with five wins and 40 nominations. The Academy Awards"
"this category twice. In addition, Lee and Jesseca Liu; Li Nanxing and Rui En; Ng and Rui En; Qi and Aw; Qi and Joanne Peh; Qi and Rui En have been nominated on two occasions, more than any other onscreen couple. For the actors who were nominated in this category, Ng and Qi are the only actors to win in this category twice. In addition, Qi has been nominated on six occasions, more than any other actor. Li holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with three. For the actresses who were nominated in this category, Aw"
"highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The following 21 films received multiple nominations: The following four films received multiple awards: The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers. In September 2007, the Academy hired Gil Cates to oversee production of the telecast for a record 14th time. Ganis explained his decision to hire Cates as producer stating, ""He's so talented...so creative and inventive, and so enormously passionate about the Oscars. All of that will again translate into a night that people can't wait to experience."" Immediately, Cates selected actor, comedian, and talk-show host Jon Stewart"
"Cuarón's ""Children of Men"" and Matthew Vaughn's action comedy film """". As of February 2017, films in which he has starred have grossed over $3.5 billion domestically, and over $7.8 billion worldwide. Caine is ranked as the twentieth-highest-grossing box office star. Caine is one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s, the other one being Jack Nicholson; Lord Olivier was also nominated for an acting Academy Award in five different decades, beginning in 1939 and ending in 1978. Caine appeared in seven films that featured in the"
"that garnered Damon the most recognition or awards include: Matt Damon Matthew Paige Damon (; born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter. He is ranked among ""Forbes"" magazine's most bankable stars and is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Damon has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, from five nominations, two Golden Globe Awards, from eight nominations, and has been nominated for three British Academy Film Awards and six Emmy Awards. Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Damon began his acting career by appearing in high school theater productions. He made his"
"from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License."" César Award for Best Supporting Actor List of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Supporting Actor (French: ""César du meilleur second rôle masculin""). 2 nominations 3 nominations 4 nominations 5 nominations Fabrice Luchini has the record of most consecutive nominations with three (1993, 1994, 1995). Eight actors have 2 consecutive nominations: Guy Marchand (1981, 1982), Vincent Pérez (1998, 1999), Jamel Debbouze (2002, 2003), Clovis Cornillac (2004, 2005), Dany Boon (2006, 2007), Niels Arestrup (2010, 2011), Louis Garrel (2015, 2016) and Laurent Lafitte (2017, 2018). ""Adapted from the article"
"and Laurence Olivier (1930s–1970s) have been nominated for an acting (lead or supporting) Academy Award in five different decades. With three Oscar wins, he also ties with Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ingrid Bergman, and Meryl Streep for the second-most Oscar wins in acting categories. Only Katharine Hepburn, with four Oscars, won more. In 2012, Nicholson co-presented the Academy Award for Best Picture with First Lady Michelle Obama. This ceremony marked the eighth time he has presented the Academy Award for Best Picture (1972, 1977, 1978, 1990, 1993, 2006, 2007, and 2012). Nicholson is an active and voting member of the"
"ceremony on March 5, 2006. Several notable achievements by multiple individuals and films occurred during the ceremony. ""Crash"" was the first Best Picture winner since 1976's ""Rocky"" to win only three Oscars. Best Director winner Ang Lee became the first non-Caucasian winner of that category. For this first time since the 34th ceremony held in 1962, all four acting winners were first-time nominees. Best Supporting Actor winner George Clooney was the fifth person to receive acting, directing, and screenwriting nominations in the same year and the first person to achieve this feat for two different films. By virtue of his"
"It would be short-lived, however, as ""Ben-Hur"" broke the record with eleven Oscars the following year. ""Gigi"" was the last film until ""The Last Emperor"" (1987) to win Best Picture without any acting nominations. It also had the biggest clean sweep at the time, winning all nine of its nominations, a record that would be tied by ""The Last Emperor"". This record was broken in 2003 when """" won all 11 of its nominations. The ceremony was hosted by an ensemble of actors: Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven, and Laurence Olivier. Niven won Best Actor"
"on the official list of nominees. Going into the awards ceremony, ""The Godfather"" was seen as the favorite to take home the most awards. From the nominations that ""The Godfather"" had remaining, it only won three of the Academy Awards: Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture. Brando, who had also not attended the Golden Globes ceremony two months earlier, boycotted the Academy Awards ceremony and refused to accept the Oscar, becoming the second actor to refuse a Best Actor award after George C. Scott in 1970. Brando sent American Indian Rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather in his place, to"
"was born in late April 2017. He resides in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Oscar Isaac Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada (born March 9, 1979) is a Guatemalan-born American actor and musician. He has played lead film roles in the comedy-drama ""Inside Llewyn Davis"" (2013), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, the crime drama ""A Most Violent Year"" (2014), and the science fiction thriller ""Ex Machina"" (2015), in which he played Nathan Hamlet Bateman. In 2006, he portrayed Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, in ""The Nativity Story"". He also portrayed José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor, in the Australian film"
"Buyers Club"" as Ron Woodroof † 2014: Michael Keaton – ""Birdman"" as Riggan Thomson ‡ 2015: Leonardo DiCaprio – ""The Revenant"" as Hugh Glass † 2016: Casey Affleck – ""Manchester by the Sea"" as Lee Chandler † 2017: Gary Oldman – ""Darkest Hour"" as Winston Churchill † 2018: Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at their annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. 2000: Russell Crowe – ""Gladiator"" as Maximus Decimus Meridius †"
"2004: Jamie Foxx – ""Ray"" as Ray Charles † 2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""Capote"" as Truman Capote † 2006: Forest Whitaker – ""The Last King of Scotland"" as Idi Amin † 2007: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""There Will Be Blood"" as Daniel Plainview † 2008: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" as Harvey Milk † 2009: Jeff Bridges – ""Crazy Heart"" as Otis ""Bad"" Blake † 2010: Colin Firth – ""The King's Speech"" as King George VI † 2011: George Clooney – ""The Descendants"" as Matt King ‡ 2012: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""Lincoln"" as Abraham Lincoln † 2013: Matthew McConaughey – ""Dallas"
"""Capote"" as Truman Capote 2006: Forest Whitaker – ""The Last King of Scotland"" as Idi Amin 2007: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""There Will Be Blood"" as Daniel Plainview 2008: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" as Harvey Milk 2009: George Clooney – ""Up in the Air"" as Ryan Bingham 2010: James Franco – ""127 Hours"" as Aron Ralston 2011: George Clooney – ""The Descendants"" as Matt King 2012: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""Lincoln"" as Abraham Lincoln 2013: Matthew McConaughey – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" as Ron Woodroof 2014: Michael Keaton – ""Birdman"" as Riggan Thomson 2015: Leonardo DiCaprio – ""The Revenant"" as Hugh Glass 2016:"
"pop stars are most often nominated in the songwriting category. A handful that were nominated in the Scoring categories includes: The Beatles, Prince, Pete Townshend, Rod McKuen, Isaac Hayes, Kris Kristofferson, Quincy Jones, Randy Newman, Anthony Newley, Paul Williams, Tom Waits, David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Trent Reznor and Matthew Wilder. Record producers George Martin (The Beatles) and Jerry Wexler (Atlantic Records) also received nominations in the Scoring categories. At the age of 87, Ennio Morricone became the oldest winner in Oscar history at the time for a competitive award. The following is a list of composers nominated more than once"
"2016. Scott Eastwood Scott Eastwood (born Scott Clinton Reeves; March 21, 1986) is an American actor and model. He has appeared in the films ""Flags of Our Fathers"" (2006), ""Gran Torino"" (2008), ""Invictus"" (2009), ""The Forger"" (2012), ""Trouble with the Curve"" (2012), ""Texas Chainsaw"" (2013), ""Fury"" (2014), ""The Perfect Wave"" (2014), ""The Longest Ride"" (2015), ""Mercury Plains"" (2016), ""Suicide Squad"" (2016), ""Snowden"" (2016), ""Walk of Fame"" (2017), ""The Fate of the Furious"" (2017), ""Overdrive"" (2017), and ""Pacific Rim Uprising"" (2018). He has also been the model for the fragrance Cool Water by Davidoff. He is the youngest son of Academy"
"Oscars, ""Spotlight"" was the first film since 1952's ""The Greatest Show on Earth"" to win Best Picture with only one other award. Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the third individual to win two consecutive Oscars for Best Director. By virtue of his previous nomination for his portrayal of the titular character in 1976's ""Rocky"", Best Supporting Actor nominee Sylvester Stallone was the sixth person to be nominated for playing the same role in two different films. At the age of 87, Ennio Morricone was believed to be the oldest competitive winner in Oscar history. Having previously won for ""Gravity"" and ""Birdman"","
"Ashton Kutcher, Anna Faris, Danny McBride, Ed Helms, Jason Bateman, Lupita Nyong'o, Adam Sandler, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins, Logan Lerman, Shaun White, Rosario Dawson, Willie Nelson, Blake Griffin, Taylor Swift, Martin Scorsese, James Franco, Paul Rudd, Aziz Ansari, Grumpy Cat, Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen, Skrillex, Demi Moore, Tracy Morgan, Tom Arnold, Simon Helberg, Melissa Rauch, Mayim Bialik, Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kunal Nayyar, Kaley Cuoco, Mindy Kaling, Adam Scott, Ellen Page, Charles Barkley, Jack Nicholson, Katy Perry, and Jack White. The following films received multiple nominations: The following individuals received multiple nominations: The winners are in"
"Bradley Cooper Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for many awards, including four Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and a Tony Award. Cooper appeared in ""Forbes"" Celebrity 100 on two occasions and ""Time"" list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2015. His films have grossed $7.8 billion worldwide and he was named one of the world's highest-paid actors for three years. Cooper enrolled in the MFA program at the Actors Studio at The New School in 2000. His career began in 1999 with a guest role"
"category (score, substantially original). Best Sound Effects was introduced this year with ""It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"" winning the award. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. Sidney Poitier's performance in ""Lilies of the Field"" as Homer Smith earned him an award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. This marked the first time a Black male won a competitive Oscar (Poitier is Bahamian-American). This win came five years after his nomination for Best Actor in the 1958's ""The Defiant Ones"". Another African-American male would not"