"the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories. At that time, all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award. However, during the 3rd ceremony held in 1930, only one of those films was cited in each winner's final award, even though each of the acting winners had two films following their names on the ballots. The following year, this system was replaced by the current system in which an actor"
"Only Clark Gable sold more tickets than Wayne, although the ticket prices were not commensurate since, although both actors started their careers at the same time, Gable's career height preceded Wayne's by approximately fifteen years. As shown below, Wayne was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning once for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1969. The category's nominees for each year in which Wayne was nominated are shown, with that year's winner highlighted in yellow. The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic"
"and appeared in World War II propaganda film entitled ""Combat America"", which was produced by the United States Army Air Forces. During his career as a motion picture actor, Clark Gable was thrice nominated for the Best Leading Actor Academy Award. Below is a complete list of his nominations, along with his fellow nominees. Clark Gable filmography Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) appeared as an ""extra"" in thirteen films between 1924 and 1930. He also appeared in sixty seven films, as himself in seventeen ""short subject"" films, and he narrated for the World War II propaganda"
"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"
"have appeared in as an ""extra"". Excluding his work as an ""extra"", short films, and war time documentaries, Clark Gable appeared in a total of 67 theatrically released motion pictures. These films are listed below with the names of the characters Gable played, his leading ladies, directors, and co-stars. Except where noted, all of Gable's films were produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. During his career as a movie star Gable appeared as himself in the following short subjects: For a number of years US movie exhibitors voted Gable among the most popular film stars in the country: In 1943, Clark Gable narrated"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"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. One actress has been nominated posthumously, Jeanne Eagels. Only three film characters have been nominated more than once in this category: Elizabeth I of England (twice by Cate Blanchett), Leslie Crosbie in ""The Letter"", and Esther Blodgett in ""A Star Is Born"". Seven women on the list have received an Honorary Academy Award for their acting; they are Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Pickford, Deborah Kerr, Gena Rowlands, Cicely Tyson and Sophia"
"Clark Gable filmography Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) appeared as an ""extra"" in thirteen films between 1924 and 1930. He also appeared in sixty seven films, as himself in seventeen ""short subject"" films, and he narrated for the World War II propaganda film, ""Combat America"", produced by the United States Army Air Forces. During the period 1924–1930, Clark Gable established himself as a major stage actor. Also during this period, Gable supplemented his income by working as an ""extra"" in motion pictures. Below is a listing of the films that Gable is known or believed to"
"Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1965, and was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Dr. Richard Kimble is pursued by the relentless Stafford police detective Lt. Philip Gerard (Morse), a formidably intelligent family man and dedicated public servant. Gerard directly appears in 37 episodes and also in the main title sequences of all 120 episodes; Barry Morse is also listed in the closing credits of every episode. Morse portrayed Gerard as a man duty-bound to capture Kimble. Guilt or innocence was of no consequence to Gerard,"
"(1950), ""A Life of Her Own"" (1950), and ""Grounds for Marriage"" (1951). He was upped to leading man for ""Cause for Alarm!"" (1951) with Young and ""Payment on Demand"" (1951) with Bette Davis at RKO but was back down the cast list for ""Three Guys Named Mike"" (1951), ""Mr. Imperium"" (1951), and ""Inside Straight"" (1951). MGM gave him top billing in ""No Questions Asked"" (1951), a role originally meant for Gable. He was also in ""The Unknown Man"" (1951), ""Skirts Ahoy!"" (1952), ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" (1952), ""Jeopardy"" (1953), ""Cry of the Hunted"" (1953), and ""A Slight Case of"
"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"
"""Dracula"", ""Giselle"", and ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". Many of the projects he created later were performed by other dance companies, including the Atlanta Ballet and the Royal New Zealand Ballet. He played Arthur Ainsley in the 1984 TV British miniseries ""A Woman of Substance"". In 1996 Gable was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to British dance. The following year he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Bradford. Gable was married to dancer Carole Needham. He died from cancer near Halifax, Yorkshire, at the age"
"the offer of a CBE in 1980 and a knighthood in 2000. He has criticised the honours system for ""perpetuating snobbery"". He has five Oscar nominations but has never won. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for ""Tom Jones"" (1963), ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974), ""The Dresser"" (1983), and ""Under the Volcano"" (1984); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Erin Brockovich"" (2000). Julia Roberts mentioned Albert Finney in her Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in ""Erin Brockovich"", thanking him and sharing the Oscar with"
"produced ""True Grit"", for which John Wayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor of 1969, and its sequel. After moving to Universal Pictures, he produced ""Mary, Queen of Scots"" (starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson) and ""Anne of the Thousand Days"" (starring Richard Burton and Canadian-born actress Geneviève Bujold). He received 16 Academy Award producer nominations for Best Picture, winning for ""Casablanca"" in 1943. For his consistently high quality of motion picture production, he was twice honored with the Academy Awards' Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was also nominated for seven Golden Globe awards, twice winning awards for"
"Agent"" (2003), ""Lassie"" (2005), """" (2014), ""Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"" (2017) and """" (2018). Dinklage won a Golden Globe Award for his performance in ""Game of Thrones"". He has also won three Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the same role. Dinklage has been nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor each year from 2013 to 2016. He has also been nominated for Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor three times, in 2012, 2016 and 2017. , Dinklage has won twelve awards from 58 nominations."
"Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" in 1975 and ""The Silence of the Lambs"" in 1991. ""It Happened One Night"" was also the last film to win both lead acting Academy Awards until ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" in 1975. On December 15, 1996, Gable's Oscar was auctioned off to Steven Spielberg for $607,500; Spielberg promptly donated the statuette to the Motion Picture Academy. On June 9 of the following year, Colbert's Oscar was offered for auction by Christie's, but no bids were made for it. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: ""It Happened One"
"eight medalists. His teams won 21 Big Ten Conference championships, and 17 NCAA Division I titles. In addition to coaching folkstyle wrestling at the University of Iowa, Gable coached freestyle wrestling. Gable was the head coach of three Olympic teams and six world teams. In April 1973, Esquire Magazine profiled Gable in an article entitled ""Gorgeous Dan."" In November 1996, in a GQ Magazine cover story, actor Tom Cruise spoke of his admiration for Gable. More recently, in 2005, professional wrestler The Iron Sheik praised Gable at his induction to the WWE Hall of Fame. Gable also appears in the"
"worked on the film since 1930 when he assigned three different writers to come up with three different treatments. By 1931 Thalberg had decided on the one storyline and spent the next four years working on a script with two dozen writers, half a dozen directors and three supervisors. Gable had several temper tantrums on the set, which were tolerated by MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer because the star had recently won an Academy Award for Best Actor in ""It Happened One Night"" (1934) on a loan-out to Columbia Pictures, and he did not want to risk losing him."
"Gene Hackman Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist. In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Hackman was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning Best Actor in ""The French Connection"" and Best Supporting Actor in ""Unforgiven"". He won four Golden Globes, one SAG Award and two BAFTAs. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in ""Bonnie and Clyde"", when he received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His major subsequent films include: ""I Never Sang for My Father"" (1970), when he received his"
"the film was popular, and viewers at the time likely recognized Bugs Bunny's behaviour as satire. Gable has been portrayed in films by James Brolin in ""Gable and Lombard"" (1976), Larry Pennell in """" (1980), Edward Winter in """" (1980), Boyd Holister in ""Grace Kelly"" (1983), Gary Wayne in ""Malice in Wonderland"" (1985), Gene Daily in ""The Rocketeer"" (1991), Bobby Valentino in ""RKO 281"" (1999), Bruce Hughes and Shayne Greenman in ""Blonde"" (2001), and Charles Unwin in ""Lucy"" (2003). Clark Gable William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor and military officer, often"
"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"
"Golden Globe Award for Best Director The Golden Globe Award for Best Director has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization composed of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America, since 1943. Having won all four of his nominations, Elia Kazan has been honored most often in this category. Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, David Lean, Miloš Forman, and Oliver Stone tie for second place with three wins each. Steven Spielberg has had the most nominations (twelve) and has received the award twice. Barbra Streisand is the only woman to"
"personally. Thomson’s entry on Tom Cruise, for example, opens by considering the actor’s age, recognizing that detractors see him as “representative of all that is most immature in American cinema today.” Thomson notes that Clark Gable was a rising star at thirty: “Now, in our collective recollection, Gable may seem older, worldlier, and more grown-up than Cruise was at thirty. But when did Gable ever risk playing the jerk to whom Cruise was totally committed in ""The Color of Money""? When was Gable as uninhibitedly tender as Cruise managed in Risky Business? And could Gable have survived the black-hole narcissism"
"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"
"received multiple nominations in the same year was Steven Soderbergh for ""Erin Brockovich"" and ""Traffic"" in 2000, winning the award for the latter. The Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 90 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 64 have also been awarded Best Director. Since its inception, the award has been given to 69 directors or directing teams. John Ford has received the most awards in this category with four. William Wyler was nominated on twelve occasions, more than any other individual. Damien Chazelle became the youngest"
"Best Actor. In 1972, Alfonso Arau won for his self-directed leading role in ""El Águila Descalza"". Spanish actor Javier Bardem was nominated in 2011 for his performance in ""Biutiful"", for which he was also nominated for the Academy Award and a BAFTA Award, and won the Goya and the Prix d'interprétation masculine at the Cannes Film Festival. Six films have featured two nominated performances for Best Actor, ""De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas"" (Jorge Russek and Juan Ferrara), ""Cuartelazo"" (Héctor Ortega and Bruno Rey), ""Vidas Errantes"" (José Carlos Ruiz and Ignacio Guadalupe), ""Chido Guan, El Tacos de Oro"" (Fernando Arau"
"Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama is an award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The award honors the best performance by an actor in a drama television series. It was first awarded at the 19th Golden Globe Awards on March 5, 1962 under the title Best TV Star – Male to John Charles Daly and Bob Newhart. The nominees for the award announced annually starting in 1963. In 1969, the award was presented under the new title Best TV Actor –"
"Kazan leads with four wins, followed by Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Miloš Forman, David Lean and Martin Scorsese with three wins each. Steven Spielberg holds the record for most nominations with twelve (as of the 2017 nominations). Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh are the only directors to receive two nominations in the same year. As of the 75th Golden Globe Awards, Barbra Streisand is the only woman to have won in this category; she won for ""Yentl"" in 1983. Notes: Notes: The HFPA has had a lucrative contract with NBC for decades, which began broadcasting the award"
"Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Cooper is one of the ten actors to receive an Academy Award nomination in three consecutive years. Between 2013 and 2015, he was nominated for Best Actor (for ""Silver Linings Playbook"" and ""American Sniper""), Best Supporting Actor (for ""American Hustle"") and Best Picture (for ""American Sniper""). He has also been nominated for two British Academy Film Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role for ""Silver Linings Playbook"" and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ""American Hustle"", and two Golden Globe Awards: Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for ""Silver"
"Foreign Press Association Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Farrell starred in the black comedy film ""Horrible Bosses"" (2011), for which he received critical praise, along with the comedy-horror film ""Fright Night"" (2011) and the sci-fi action film ""Total Recall"" (2012), both remakes, and McDonagh's second feature, the black comedy crime film ""Seven Psychopaths"" (2012). He also starred in the Niels Arden Oplev action film ""Dead Man Down"" (2013), and as Travers Goff in the period drama ""Saving Mr. Banks"" (2013). In 2014, Farrell starred as Peter Lake in the supernatural fable ""Winter's Tale"","
"to attempt a film career. In 1924, with Dillon's financing, they went to Hollywood, where she became Gable's manager and first wife. He changed his stage name from W. C. Gable to Clark Gable. He found work as an extra in such silent films as Erich von Stroheim's ""The Merry Widow"" (1925), ""The Plastic Age"" (1925), which starred Clara Bow, ""Forbidden Paradise"" (1924), starring Pola Negri, plus a series of two-reel comedies called ""The Pacemakers"". He appeared as an extra in Fox's ""The Johnstown Flood"" (1926). Seventeen-year-old Carole Lombard, later his third wife, appeared as an extra in that film"
"became the oldest winner in the Best Actor category in Academy history. The only other nomination he received in his career was Best Actor for his performance in ""The Grapes of Wrath"" 41 years earlier – a record gap between acting nominations. His co-star, Katharine Hepburn, won her fourth Best Actress award, extending her own record for the most Best Actress wins by any actress. This year's nominations also marked the second time (after 1967) that three different films were nominated for the ""Big Five"" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay. The three films were ""On Golden"
"member of the conservative Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a pro-McCarthy organization, alongside Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and other conservative actors and filmmakers. In February 1952, he attended a televised rally in New York where he enthusiastically urged General Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for president. This was when Eisenhower was still being sought by both parties as their candidate. Despite having suffered a severe coronary thrombosis, Gable still managed to vote by mail in the 1960 presidential election for Richard Nixon. On November 6, 1960, Gable was sent to Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center"