"no such thing as a bad boy"". A 1938 film starring Spencer Tracy, ""Boys Town"", was based on the life of Father Flanagan, and Tracy won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. Mickey Rooney also starred as one of the residents. Spencer Tracy spent his entire Oscar acceptance speech talking about Father Flanagan. ""If you have seen him through me, then I thank you."" An overzealous MGM publicity representative announced that Tracy was donating his Oscar to Flanagan without confirming it with Tracy. Tracy's response was: ""I earned the...thing. I want it."" The Academy hastily struck another"
"FAMAS Best Actor trophy. ""Tiagong Akyat"" was the alias of Santiago Ronquillo, a notorious thief who looted homes in Manila and nearby provinces in the 1920s. The story follows the life of unconventional hero Santiago Ronquillo. Tiago is a streetwise orphan who, after acquiring the amulet known as the ""Pangil ng Kidlat"" (""Fang of Lightning""), gains superhuman strength, speed and the ability to climb high walls. He then uses his gift to steal from the corrupt to help the poor. After many years, Tiago (Gerald Anderson) meets Cornelia (Erich Gonzales) and gets a chance to profess his love for her."
"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"
"Manoel de Oliveira, Samuel Fuller, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Daniel Schmid, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi, Terry Gilliam, Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders, Aleksandr Sokurov, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Amos Gitai, William Friedkin, Alain Tanner, Jia Zhangke, Werner Herzog, Agnès Varda, Michael Cimino and Marco Bellocchio, winners of the Vela d'argento in 1965, and Alejandro Jodorowsky in 2016. Every year the ""Exellence Award Moët & Chandon"", sponsored by Moët et Chandon, celebrates one or more internationally acclaimed actors or actresses, who, through their work and talent, have enriched the cinema with their unique contribution. Since 2004, the Locarno Festival has been honoured to thus"
"Peter Finch Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as ""crazed"" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film ""Network"", which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes. He was the first of two persons to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category, both of whom were coincidentally Australian, the other being Heath Ledger. Finch was born as Frederick George"
"for his role of Pancho Villa in ""Viva Villa!"" Best Actor Best Actor is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actors in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actor award was awarded for acting in a film, on May 16, 1929 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) at the Academy Awards to Emil Jannings for his role of Grand Duke Sergius Alexander in ""The Last Command"" and August Schilling in ""The Way of All Flesh"". In"
"Actress category. Best Actor winner Paul Newman was the fourth actor to have been nominated for portraying the same character in two different films, having previously earned a nomination for his role as ""Fast Eddie"" Felson in 1961's ""The Hustler"". By virtue of his victory in the Best Actor category, Newman and wife Joanne Woodward, who won Best Actress for her performance in 1957's ""The Three Faces of Eve"", became the second married couple to win acting Oscars. """" and ""Down and Out in America""s joint win in the Best Documentary Feature category marked the fourth occurrence of a tie"
"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"
"award in the 58th Academy Awards, and was also nominated as Best Original Screenplay. All of these films, except for The Nest, which was submitted by Spain, has been submitted to the awards by Argentina. Won: Nominated Héctor Alterio Héctor Benjamín Alterio Onorato (born 21 September 1929) is an Argentine theatre, film and television actor, well known both in Argentina and Spain. Alterio's theatre debut came in 1948 as the lead in ""Cómo suicidarse en primavera"" (""How to commit suicide in spring""). After finishing drama school, he created the ""Nuevo Teatro"" (""New Theatre"") company in 1950, where he worked until"
"series created by Jimmy McGovern. In 2012, Darío Grandinetti became the first actor in Latin America awarded an Emmy Award. Sean Bean won in 2013 for his work in BBC One drama series ""Accused"". In 2014, Stephen Dillane wins for his role as a veteran British detective in the Anglo-French crime drama ""The Tunnel"". In 2016, Dustin Hoffman snagged the best actor award for playing Mr. Hoppy in the BBC's ""Roald Dahl's Esio Trot"", an adaptation of the Dahl novel. International Emmy Award for Best Actor The International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actor is a category of"
"special benefit performance in which Ferrer played the title role for the first four acts and Hampden (then in his mid-sixties) assumed it for the fifth. Ferrer reprised the role on live television in 1949 and 1955, and in a 1950 film version for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. It became Ferrer's most famous role. Other notable English-speaking Cyranos were Ralph Richardson, DeVeren Bookwalter, Derek Jacobi, Michael Kanarek, Richard Chamberlain, and Christopher Plummer, who played the part in Rostand's original play and won a Tony Award for the 1973 musical adaptation. Kevin Kline played the role"
"being replaced on 30 May 2011. Joaquim de Almeida Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (born 15 March 1957) is a Portuguese actor. De Almeida began his acting career in theatre during the 1980s, he started his film career appearing on the 1982 action film ""The Soldier"", and later achieved recognition for playing Andrea Bonanno in the 1987 Italian film ""Good Morning, Babylon"". He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1994 thriller ""Clear and Present Danger"" and Bucho in the 1995 action thriller ""Desperado"". Several years later, he became popular for playing Ramon Salazar on"
"John Fraser (actor) John Fraser (born 18 March 1931, Glasgow) is a BAFTA-nominated Scottish actor and writer. One of his earliest roles was as Inigo Jollifant in the second film version of J. B. Priestley's ""The Good Companions"" (1957). He went on to have leading roles in films such as ""El Cid"", ""The Trials of Oscar Wilde"" (playing Lord Alfred Douglas), Roman Polanski's ""Repulsion"", ""Isadora"" and ""Schizo"". He made appearances on television series including ""Danger Man"" (1964), ""Randall and Hopkirk"" (1969), ""Columbo"" (1972), ""Doctor Who"" (1981) and ""The Bill"" (1995). In 2004, he published his autobiography, ""Close Up"", in which"
"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"
"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 †"
"the film won the FAMAS Best Child Actor Award (Lester Llansang) and was nominated for four more awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Ricky Davao)) at the FAMAS Awards. It also won the Gawad Urian Award for Best Actor (Ricky Davao) and was nominated for 5 more awards at the 2000 Gawad Urian Awards. In the same year it won the Original Screenplay of the Year (Gil Portes and Butch Dalisay) and the Actor of the Year (Ricky Davao) and was nominated for 3 more awards at the Star Awards for Movies. The film was also"
"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 Servant"" ""'1977 Derek Jacobi in ""I, Claudius"" ""'1978 Peter Barkworth in ""Professional Foul"" ""'1979 Edward Fox in ""Edward and Mrs Simpson"" ""'1980 Alec Guinness in ""Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"" ""'1981 Denholm Elliott in ""Gentle Folk""; ""In Hiding"";"
"John Cazale John Holland Cazale (; ; August 12, 1935 – March 13, 1978) was an American actor. He appeared in five films over six years, all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: ""The Godfather"", ""The Conversation"", ""The Godfather Part II"", ""Dog Day Afternoon"", and ""The Deer Hunter."" He appeared in archival footage in ""The Godfather Part III"", also nominated for Best Picture. From his start as a theater actor, he became one of Hollywood's premier character actors, starting with his role as the doomed, weak-minded Fredo Corleone opposite longtime friend Al Pacino in Francis"
"Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ""A Free Soul"" (1931), and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film ""It's a Wonderful Life"". He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of ""A Christmas Carol"" during his last two decades. He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in MGM's"
"the film three and a half out of four stars, calling it ""the definitive screen version of the Edmond Rostand perennial"". In his review, Maltin praised the film's staging of scenes, while also noting that the film somewhat faltered during the finale by being overextended. ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" marked the second time that an actor had been nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Cyrano; the first time was in 1950, when José Ferrer won the award for his performance in the English-language version of the film. Gérard Depardieu won the Best Actor award at the 1990 Cannes Film"
"57th Academy Awards The 57th Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1985, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. Jack Lemmon presided over the ceremonies. The big winner at the ceremony was Miloš Forman's ""Amadeus"", which had received 11 nominations and won 8 awards including Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham. As of the 90th Academy Awards, ""Amadeus"" is the most recent film to receive two lead actor nominations. The winner of Best Supporting Actor was also significant. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian surgeon who survived the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, won the award for his"
"F. Murray Abraham F. Murray Abraham (born Murray Abraham; October 24, 1939) is an American actor. He became widely known during the 1980s after winning an Oscar for his leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film ""Amadeus"" (1984). Abraham also won a Golden Globe and received a BAFTA Award nomination for the role. He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as ""All the President's Men"" (1976), ""Scarface"" (1983), ""The Name of the Rose"" (1986), ""Last Action Hero"" (1993), """" (1998), ""Finding Forrester"" (2000), ""Inside Llewyn Davis"" (2013), and ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"""
"nine each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 22, 2015. For the first time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, every Best Picture nominee won at least one award. ""Birdman"" was the first film to win Best Picture without an editing nomination since ""Ordinary People"" (1980). Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win for Best Director after Cuarón who won for helming ""Gravity"". At age 84, Robert Duvall was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. Having won for his work on ""Gravity"""
"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 ""Balibo"" for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor"
"also has an honorary doctorate from Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. F. Murray Abraham F. Murray Abraham (born Murray Abraham; October 24, 1939) is an American actor. He became widely known during the 1980s after winning an Oscar for his leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film ""Amadeus"" (1984). Abraham also won a Golden Globe and received a BAFTA Award nomination for the role. He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as ""All the President's Men"" (1976), ""Scarface"" (1983), ""The Name of the Rose"" (1986), ""Last Action Hero"" (1993), """" (1998),"
"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"
"Hoffman (1985, Golden Globe and Emmy awards), Warren Mitchell (1996) and Dennehy (2000, Golden Globe and SAG awards and Emmy nomination). Fredric March won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama at the 9th Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor at the 24th Academy Awards and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Foreign) at the 6th British Academy Film Awards. Brian Dennehy won Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play at the 53rd Tony Awards in 1999, while Philip Seymour Hoffman was nominated for the same"
"co-starred on some Hollywood movies that were shot in the Philippines, such as ""The Hook"" (with Kirk Douglas) and ""Merrill's Marauders"" (with Jeff Chandler). He won the Famas Best Actor Award in 1958 for ""Hanggang sa Dulo ng Daigdig"" and is best remembered for playing the character Simon in the movie version of Jose Rizal's novel El Filibusterismo. A heavy smoker, he suffered from emphysema and died at Lung Center of the Philippines in April 1998. Pancho Magalona Enrique ""Pancho"" Gayoso Magalona, Jr. (January 22, 1923 – April 1998) was a Filipino actor from the 1940s to the 1970s. Born"
"""Quantum of Solace"" ""Frost/Nixon"" – Peter Morgan ""The Visitor"" – Tom McCarthy The Dark Knight Michael Shannon – ""Revolutionary Road"" Rosemarie DeWitt – ""Rachel Getting Married"" Australia Bryan Cranston – ""Breaking Bad"" Justin Kirk – ""Weeds"" Paul Giamatti – ""John Adams"" Anna Paquin – ""True Blood"" Tracey Ullman – ""Tracey Ullman's State of the Union"" Judi Dench – ""Cranford"" Cranford Dexter Tracey Ullman's State of the Union Nelsan Ellis – ""True Blood"" Fionnula Flanagan – ""Brotherhood"" ""The Godfather"", ""The Godfather Part II"", and ""The Godfather Part III"" ""Iron Man"" Rock Band 2 ""Sleeping Beauty"" No Country for Old Men World"
"father. Peter Stormare Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm (born 27 August 1953), known professionally as Peter Stormare (), is a Swedish American actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright and musician. He is best known for playing the roles of Gaear Grimsrud in ""Fargo"" (1996), Dieter Stark in """" (1997), Vladimir in ""Playing God"" (1997) Uli Kunkel/Karl Hungus in ""The Big Lebowski"" (1998), Lev Andropov in ""Armageddon"" (1998), Jeff in ""Dancer in the Dark"" (2000), Dr. Solomon P. Eddie in ""Minority Report"" (2001), Alexi in ""Bad Boys II"" (2003), Lucifer in ""Constantine"" (2005), John Abruzzi in the Fox series ""Prison Break"" (2005–2007),"
"awarded in the Best Actor – Television Series Drama category before the creation of this category. Since its inception, the award has been given to 34 actors. Ewan McGregor is the current recipient of the award for his portrayal of Emmit and Ray Stussy on ""Fargo"". Robert Duvall, James Garner, and Al Pacino have won the most awards in this category with two each. James Woods has been nominated for the award on seven occasions, the most within the category. Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees. Golden Globe Award"
"from 18 countries. Brazil stood out with the largest number of nominations - a total of nine - in several categories. Rede Globo, meanwhile, scored the most nominations, with six. The winners were announced on November 20, 2017 at a Black-Tie Gala held at the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel, hosted by comedian Maz Jobrani. Kenneth Branagh won the International Emmy for Best Actor for her performance on the British television series ""Wallander"", while Anna Friel won the Best Actress Award for her role in ""Marcella"". Branagh and Friel were among 11 winning performers and programs spanning eight countries: Belgium,"
"Héctor Elizondo Héctor Elizondo (born December 22, 1936) is an American actor. Elizondo is best known for his television roles playing Dr. Phillip Watters on ""Chicago Hope"" and Ed Alzate on ""Last Man Standing"", and movie roles like Mr. Grey in ""The Taking of Pelham One Two Three"", Detective Sunday in ""American Gigolo"", Barnard Thompson in ""Pretty Woman"", and Jon Flint in ""Beverly Hills Cop III"". Elizondo's awards and accolades include a Golden Globe Award nomination, an Emmy Award (five nominations), two ALMA Awards (eight nominations), and five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Elizondo was born in New York City,"