Best Supporting Actor Nominees BEST to WORST

1. Walter Brennan

In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. While in school he became interested in acting and ...

9th Academy Awards

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Mischa Auer in My Man Godfrey Walter Brennan in Come and Get It (WINNER) Stuart Erwin in Pigskin Parade Basil Rathbone in Romeo and Juliet Akim Tamiroff in The General Died at Dawn

2. Joseph Schildkraut

Actor | The Shop Around the Corner

An imposing Austrian import-turned-matinée idol on the silent screen, Hollywood actor Joseph Schildkraut went on to conquer talking films as well -- with Oscar-winning results. Inclined towards smooth, cunning villainy, his Oscar came instead for his sympathetic portrayal of Captain Alfred Dreyfus ...

10th Academy Awards

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Bellamy in The Awful Truth Thomas Mitchell in The Hurricane Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola (WINNER) H. B. Warner in Lost Horizon Roland Young in Topper

3. Gene Lockhart

Actor | His Girl Friday

Gene Lockhart was born on July 18, 1891, in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of John Coates Lockhart and Ellen Mary (Delany) Lockhart. His father had studied singing and young Gene displayed an early interest in drama and music. Shortly after the 7-year-old danced a Highland fling in a concert ...

11th Academy Awards

1. Gene Lockhart in Algiers

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Walter Brennan in Kentucky (WINNER) John Garfield in Four Daughters Robert Morley in Marie Antoinette Basil Rathbone in If I Were King

4. Claude Rains

Actor | Casablanca

William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. The younger Rains followed, making his stage debut at the age of eleven in "Nell of Old Drury." Growing up in the world of theater, he saw not only acting up close but the down-to-earth...

12th Academy Awards

1. Claude Rains in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 2. Harry Carey in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 3. Thomas Mitchell in Stagecoach (WINNER)

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Brian Aherne in Juarez Brian Donlevy in Beau Geste

5. Jack Oakie

Actor | The Great Dictator

"America's Joyboy," beefy, plump-faced comedian Jack Oakie, was one of the funniest top and second banana jokesters of stage, radio and especially film's "Golden Age." He would accomplish so much despite the fact that he was "functionally deaf" throughout his career and performed primarily with the...

13th Academy Awards

1. Jack Oakie in The Great Dictator

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Albert Bassermann in Foreign Correspondent Walter Brennan in The Westerner (WINNER) William Gargan in They Knew What They Wanted James Stephenson in The Letter

6. Sydney Greenstreet

Actor | The Maltese Falcon

Sydney Greenstreet's father was a leather merchant with eight children. Sydney left home at age 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business and back to England. He managed a brewery and, to escape boredom, took acting lessons. His stage debut was as a ...

14th Academy Awards

1. Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon 2. Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (WINNER)

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Walter Brennan in Sergeant York Charles Coburn in The Devil and Miss Jones James Gleason in Here Comes Mr. Jordan

7. Walter Huston

Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

For many years Walter Huston had two passions: his career as an engineer and his vocation for the stage. In 1909 he dedicated himself to the theatre, and made his debut on Broadway in 1924. In 1929 he journeyed to Hollywood, where his talent and ability made him one of the most respected actors in ...

15th Academy Awards

1. Walter Huston in Yankee Doodle Dandy 2. Henry Travers in Mrs. Miniver

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- William Bendix in Wake Island Van Heflin in Johnny Eager (WINNER) Frank Morgan in Tortilla Flat

8. Claude Rains

Actor | Casablanca

William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. The younger Rains followed, making his stage debut at the age of eleven in "Nell of Old Drury." Growing up in the world of theater, he saw not only acting up close but the down-to-earth...

16th Academy Awards

1. Claude Rains in Casablanca 2. Charles Bickford in The Song of Bernadette

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier (WINNER) J. Carroll Naish in Sahara Akim Tamiroff in For Whom the Bell Tolls

9. Barry Fitzgerald

Actor | The Quiet Man

One of Hollywood's finest character actors and most accomplished scene stealers, Barry Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. Educated to enter the banking business, the diminutive Irishman with the irresistible brogue was bitten by the acting bug in the 1920s and ...

17th Academy Awards

1. Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way (WINNER) 2. Clifton Webb in Laura

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Hume Cronyn in The Seventh Cross Claude Rains in Mr. Skeffington Monty Woolley in Since You Went Away

10. Michael Chekhov

Actor | Spellbound

Michael Chekhov was a Russian actor in the Moscow Art Theatre who emigrated to America and made a career in Hollywood, earning himself an Oscar nomination.

He was born Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1891. His mother, Natalya Golden, was Jewish, and his father, Aleksandr ...

18th Academy Awards

1. Michael Chekhov in Spellbound

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- John Dall in The Corn Is Green James Dunn in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (WINNER) Robert Mitchum in The Story of G.I. Joe J. Carroll Naish in A Medal for Benny

11. Harold Russell

Actor | The Best Years of Our Lives

Harold John Russell was born in Nova Scotia in 1914. His family moved to Cambridge Massachusetts when his father died in 1919. He was training paratroopers at Camp MacKall NC on June 6, 1944 when some TNT he was using exploded in his hands. He lost both hands. After receiving hooks, and training on...

19th Academy Awards

1. Harold Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives (WINNER) 2. Claude Rains in Notorious 3. William Demarest in The Jolson Story 4. Clifton Webb in The Razor's Edge

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Charles Coburn in The Green Years

12. Edmund Gwenn

Actor | Miracle on 34th Street

There are very few character actors from the 1930s, '40s or '50s who rose to the rank of stardom. Only a rare man or woman reached the level of renown and admiration, and had enough audience appeal, to be the first name in a cast's billing, a name that got marquee posting. Charles Coburn comes to ...

20th Academy Awards

1. Edmund Gwenn in Mircale on 34th Street (WINNER)

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Charles Bickford in The Farmer's Daughter Thomas Gomez in Ride the Pink Horse Robert Ryan in Crossfire Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death

13. Walter Huston

Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

For many years Walter Huston had two passions: his career as an engineer and his vocation for the stage. In 1909 he dedicated himself to the theatre, and made his debut on Broadway in 1924. In 1929 he journeyed to Hollywood, where his talent and ability made him one of the most respected actors in ...

21st Academy Awards

1. Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (WINNER) 2. José Ferrer in Joan of Arc

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Charles Bickford in Johnny Belinda Oscar Homolka in I Remember Mama Cecil Kellaway in The Luck of the Irish

14. Dean Jagger

Actor | White Christmas

Dean Jagger was born in Lima, Ohio, on November 7, 1903. He dropped out of high school twice before finally graduating from Wabash College. Working first as a school teacher, he soon became interested in acting and enrolled at Chicago's "Lyceum Art Conservatory". Mr. Jagger made his first movie and...

22nd Academy Awards

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- John Ireland in All the King's Men Dean Jagger in Twelve O'Clock High (WINNER) Arthur Kennedy in Champion Ralph Richardson in The Heiress James Whitmore in Battleground

15. George Sanders

Actor | All About Eve

George Sanders was born of English parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. He worked in a Birmingham textile mill, in the tobacco business and as a writer in advertising. He entered show business in London as a chorus boy, going from there to cabaret, radio and theatrical understudy. His film debut, in ...

23rd Academy Awards

1. George Sanders in All About Eve (WINNER) 2. Sam Jaffe in The Asphalt Jungle 3. Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Boulevard

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Chandler in Broken Arrow Edmund Gwenn in Mister 880

16. Karl Malden

Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire

Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten. After graduating from high school in the nearby steel town of Gary, Indiana, Malden worked in the industry for three years until 1934, when...

24th Academy Awards

1. Karl Malden in A Streetcar Named Desire (WINNER) 2. Peter Ustinov in Quo Vadis 3. Leon Genn in Quo Vadis

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Kevin McCarthy in Death of a Salesman Gig Young in Come Fill the Cup

17. Victor McLaglen

Actor | The Quiet Man

Rambunctious British leading man (contrary to popular belief, he was of Scottish ancestry, not Irish) and later character actor primarily in American films, Victor McLaglen was a vital presence in a number of great motion pictures, especially those of director John Ford. McLaglen (pronounced ...

25th Academy Awards

1. Victor McLaglen in The Quiet Man

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Richard Burton in My Cousin Rachel Arthur Hunnicutt in The Big Sky Jack Palance in Sudden Fear Anthony Quinn in Viva Zapata! (WINNER)

18. Brandon De Wilde

Actor | Shane

Brandon De Wilde was born into a theatrical family and made a much-acclaimed Broadway debut in "The Member of the Wedding" at age 9. He was the first child actor to win the Donaldson Award, and went on to repeat his role in the film version, directed by Fred Zinnemann in 1952. As the blond-haired, ...

26th Academy Awards

1. Brandon De Wilde in Shane 2. Eddie Albert in Roman Holiday 3. Jack Palance in Shane 4. Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (WINNER) 5. Robert Strauss in Stalag 17

19. Lee J. Cobb

Actor | 12 Angry Men

Lee J. Cobb, one of the premier character actors in American film for three decades in the post-World War II period, was born Leo Jacoby in New York City's Lower East Side on December 8, 1911. The son of a Jewish newspaper editor, young Leo was a child prodigy in music, mastering the violin and the...

27th Academy Awards

1. Lee J. Cobb in On the Waterfront 2. Rob Steiger in On the Waterfront 3. Karl Malden in On the Waterfront 4. Tom Tully in The Caine Mutiny

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Edmund O'Brien in The Barefoot Contessa (WINNER)

20. Sal Mineo

Actor | Exodus

Salvatore (Sal) Mineo Jr. was born to Josephine and Sal Sr. (a casket maker), who emigrated to the U.S. from Sicily. His siblings were Michael, Victor and Sarina. Sal was thrown out of parochial school and, by age eight, was a member of a street gang in a tough Bronx neighborhood. His mother ...

28th Academy Awards

1. Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Clause 2. Joe Mantell in Marty

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Kennedy in Trial Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger (WINNER) Arthur O'Connell in Picnic

21. Robert Stack

Actor | Written on the Wind

"Straight Shooting" -- whether skeet shooting, or portraying Eliot Ness -- Robert Stack always told it like it was, and shot straight. Born in Los Angeles, California, the younger son of James Langford Stack (1860-1928), the owner of an advertising agency, and Mary Elizabeth Modini Wood (1891-1975)...

29th Academy Awards

1. Robert Stack in Written on the Wind HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Don Murray in Bus Stop Anthony Perkins in Friendly Persuasion Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life WINNER) Mickey Rooney in The Bold and the Brave

22. Sessue Hayakawa

Actor | The Bridge on the River Kwai

Sessue Hayakawa was born in Chiba, Japan. His father was the provincial governor and his mother a member of an aristocratic family of the "samurai" class. The young Hayakawa wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become a career officer in the Japanese navy, but he was turned down due to ...

30th Academy Awards

1. Sessue Hayakawa in The Bridge on the River Kwai

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Red Buttons in Sayonara (WINNER) Vittorio De Sica in A Farewell to Arms Arthur Kennedy in Peyton Place Russ Tamblyn in Peyton Place

23. Burl Ives

Actor | The Big Country

Burl Ives was one of six children born to a farming family in Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, the son of Cordellia "Dellie" (White) and Levi Franklin Ives. He first sang in public for a soldiers' reunion when he was age 4. In high school, he learned the banjo and played fullback, intending to become a...

31st Academy Awards

1. Burl Ives in The Big Country (WINNER) 2. Gig Young in Teacher's Pet

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Theodore Bikel in The Defiant Ones Lee J. Cobb in The Brothers Karamazov Arthur Kennedy in Something Came Running

24. Hugh Griffith

Actor | Ben-Hur

Enjoyably larger-than-life character actor Hugh Emrys Griffith was born in Marianglas, Anglesey, North Wales, to Mary (Williams) and William Griffith. Griffith left the world of banking (having been employed as a teller) after winning a scholarship to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic ...

32nd Academy Awards

1. Hugh Griffith in Ben-Hur (WINNER) 2. Arthur O'Connell in Anatomy of a Murder 3. George C. Scott in Anatomy of a Murder

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Robert Vaughn in The Young Philadelphians Ed Wynn in The Diary of Anne Frank

25. Jack Kruschen

Actor | The Apartment

Canadian-born Jack Kruschen entered films after years on the stage, and became a dependable character actor both in movies and on television. Often cast as ethnic comedy relief, Kruschen occasionally landed a role as a villain, but was more often the volatile, emotional Italian or Jewish neighbor ...

33rd Academy Awards

1. Jack Kruschen in The Apartment 2. Peter Ustinov in Spartacus (WINNER) 3. Peter Falk in Murder, Inc. 4. Chill Wills in The Alamo

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Sal Mineo in Exodus

26. George Chakiris

Actor | West Side Story

George Chakiris made his film debut at the age of 12 singing in the chorus of Song of Love (1947). Following his graduation from high school, he supported his night-time dancing, singing and dramatic lessons with a daytime job clerking in a Los Angeles department store. Later he started his acting/...

34th Academy Awards

1. George Chakiris in West Side Story (WINNER) 2. George C. Scott in The Hustler 3. Jackie Gleason in The Hustler 4. Montgomery Clift in Judgment at Nuremberg

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Peter Falk in A Pocketful of Miracles

27. Omar Sharif

Actor | Lawrence of Arabia

Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965), was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932 in Alexandria, Egypt to Joseph Shalhoub, a lumber merchant, and his wife, Claire (Saada). Of Lebanese and ...

35th Academy Awards

1. Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia 2. Victor Buono in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 3. Telly Savalas in Birdman of Alcatraz

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Ed Begley in Sweet Bird of Youth (WINNER) Terence Stamp in Billy Budd

28. Melvyn Douglas

Actor | Being There

Two-time Oscar-winner Melvyn Douglas was one of America's finest actors, and would enjoy cinema immortality if for no other reason than his being the man who made Greta Garbo laugh in Ernst Lubitsch's classic comedy Ninotchka (1939), but he was much, much more.

Melvyn Douglas was born Melvyn Edouard...

36th Academy Awards

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Nick Adams in Twilight of Honor Bobby Darin in Captain Newman, M.D. Melvyn Douglas in Hud (WINNER) Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones John Huston in The Cardinal

29. John Gielgud

Actor | Arthur

Born in London, England, John Gielgud trained at Lady Benson's Acting School and RADA, London. Best known for his Shakespearean roles in the theater, he first played Hamlet at the age of 26. He worked under the tutelage of Lilian Bayliss with friend and fellow performer Laurence Olivier and other ...

37th Academy Awards

1. John Gielgud in Becket 2. Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Edmund O'Brien in Seven Days in May Lee Tracy in The Best Man Peter Ustinov in Topkaki (WINNER)

30. Tom Courtenay

Actor | 45 Years

Acting chameleon Sir Tom Courtenay, along with Sir Alan Bates and Albert Finney, became a front-runner in an up-and-coming company of rebel upstarts who created quite a stir in British "kitchen sink" cinema during the early '60s. An undying love for the theatre, however, had Courtenay channeling a ...

38th Academy Awards

1. Tom Courtenay in Doctor Zhivago

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns (WINNER) Ian Bannen in The Flight of the Phoenix Michael Dunn in Ship of Fools Frank Finlay in Othello

31. Walter Matthau

Actor | The Odd Couple

Walter Matthau was best known for starring in many films which included Charade (1963), The Odd Couple (1968), Grumpy Old Men (1993), and Dennis the Menace (1993). He often worked with Jack Lemmon and the two were Hollywood's craziest stars.

He was born Walter Jake Matthow in New York City, New York...

39th Academy Awards

1. Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (WINNER) 2. George Segal in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 3. Robert Shaw in A Man for All Seasons

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Mako in The Sand Pebbles James Mason in Georgy Girl

32. George Kennedy

Actor | Cool Hand Luke

George Harris Kennedy, Jr. was born on February 18, 1925 in New York City, to Helen (Kieselbach), a ballet dancer, and George Harris Kennedy, an orchestra leader and musician. Following high school graduation, Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in 1943 with the hope to become a fighter ...

40th Academy Awards

1. George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke (WINNER) 2. John Cassavetes in The Dirty Dozen 3. Cecil Kellaway in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 4. Gene Hackman in Bonnie and Clyde 5. Michael J. Pollard in Bonnie and Clyde

33. Gene Wilder

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

When he was 11, he wanted to be a comedian like Sid Caesar. Then, when he was 15 and saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman,' he decided he would be a comedy actor and found that Mel Brooks was a great influence on his screen writing. He combined both talents with directing in The World's Greatest...

41st Academy Awards

1. Gene Wilder in The Producers 2. Jack Wild in Oliver!

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses (WINNER) Seymour Cassel in Faces Daniel Massey in Star!

34. Jack Nicholson

Actor | Chinatown

Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...

42nd Academy Awards

1. Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider 2. Gig Young in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (WINNER)

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Rupert Crosse in The Reivers Elliot Gould in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Anthony Quayle in Anne of the Thousand Days

35. Chief Dan George

Actor | Little Big Man

Actor, author, and musician Chief Dan George was born in present-day North Vancouver as Geswanouth Slahoot (later anglicized as 'Dan Slaholt'), the son of a tribal chief on Burrard Indian Reserve Nº. 3. He is the only Aboriginal actor in Canadian history to date with the right to use the title "...

43rd Academy Awards

1. Chief Dan George in Little Big Man 2. John Marley in Love Story

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Richard S. Castellano in Love and Other Strangers Gene Hackman in I Never Sang for My Father John Mills in Ryan's Daughter (WINNER)

36. Roy Scheider

Actor | Jaws

Lean, angular-faced and authoritatively spoken lead / supporting actor Roy Scheider obviously never heard the old actor's axiom about "never appearing with kids or animals" lest they overshadow your performance. Breaking that rule did him no harm, though, as he achieved pop cult status by finding, ...

44th Academy Awards

1. Roy Scheider in The French Connection 2. Jeff Bridges in The Last Picture Show 3. Leonard Frey in Fiddler on the Roof 4. Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (WINNER)

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Richard Jaeckel in Sometimes a Great Notion

37. James Caan

Actor | Thief

A masculine and enigmatic actor whose life and movie career have had more ups and downs than the average rollercoaster and whose selection of roles has arguably derailed him from achieving true superstar status, James Caan is New York-born and bred.

He was born in the Bronx, to Sophie (Falkenstein) ...

45th Academy Awards

1. James Caan in The Godfather 2. Al Pacino in The Godfather 3. Robert Duvall in The Godfather 4. Joel Grey in Cabaret (WINNER)

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Eddie Albert in The Heartbreak Kid

38. Jason Miller

Actor | The Exorcist

Character actor and playwright Jason Miller had a variety of jobs before he started a writing career and wrote his own play, "That Championship Season", for which he received the Pulitzer Prize Award. Miller gave up his professional writing career in the early seventies to start acting. In 1973, he...

46th Academy Awards

1. Jason Miller in The Exorcist 2. Jack Gilford in Save the Tiger

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Vincent Gardenia in Bang the Drums Slowly John Houseman in The Paper House (WINNER) Randy Quaid in The Last Detail

39. Robert De Niro

Actor | Cape Fear

One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...

47th Academy Awards

1. Robert De Niro in The Godfather: Part II (WINNER) 2. Fred Astaire in The Towering Inferno 3. Michael V. Gazzo in The Godfather: Part II 4. Lee Strasberg in The Godfather: Part II 5. Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

40. Brad Dourif

Actor | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Gaunt character actor Brad Dourif was born Bradford Claude Dourif on March 18, 1950 in Huntington, West Virginia. He is the son of Joan Mavis Felton (Bradford) and Jean Henri Dourif, a French-born art collector who owned and operated a dye factory. His father died when Dourif was three years old, ...

48th Academy Awards

1. Brad Dourif in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2. Chris Sarandon in Dog Day Afternoon 3. Jack Warden in Shampoo

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- George Burns in The Sunshine Boys (WINNER) Burgess Meredith in The Day of the Locust

41. Laurence Olivier

Actor | Sleuth

Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, to Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Gerard Kerr Olivier, a High ...

49th Academy Awards

1. Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man 2. Burgess Meredith in Rocky 3. Jason Robards in All the President's Men (WINNER) 4. Burt Young in Rocky 5. Ned Beatty in Network

42. Alec Guinness

Actor | Star Wars

Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...

50th Academy Awards

1. Alec Guiness in Star Wars

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Mikhail Baryshnikov in The Turning Point Peter Firth in Equus Jason Robards in Julia (WINNER) Maximilian Schell in Julia

43. John Hurt

Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...

51st Academy Awards

1. John Hurt in Midnight Express 2. Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter (WINNER) 3. Jack Warden in Heaven Can Wait

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Dern in Coming Home Richard Farnsworth in Comes a Horseman

44. Justin Henry

Actor | Kramer vs. Kramer

Justin Henry had a dream start in the business, when he was chosen for a pivotal role in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) at the age of seven, without any acting experience. He was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his role in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), becoming one of the youngest...

52nd Academy Awards

1. Justin Henry in Kramer vs. Kramer 2. Melvyn Douglas in Being There (WINNER) 3. Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Frederic Forrest in The Rose Mickey Rooney in The Black Stallion

45. Joe Pesci

Actor | Goodfellas

Compact Italian-American actor Joe Pesci was born February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, to Mary (Mesce), a part-time barber, and Angelo Pesci, a bartender and forklift driver. Pesci first broke into entertainment as a child actor, and by the mid-1950s, was starring on the series "Star Time Kids"....

53rd Academy Awards

1. Joe Pesci in Raging Bull 2. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People (WINNER) 3. Judd Hirsch in Ordinary People

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Michael O'Keefe in The Great Santini Jason Robards in Melvin and Howard

46. John Gielgud

Actor | Arthur

Born in London, England, John Gielgud trained at Lady Benson's Acting School and RADA, London. Best known for his Shakespearean roles in the theater, he first played Hamlet at the age of 26. He worked under the tutelage of Lilian Bayliss with friend and fellow performer Laurence Olivier and other ...

54th Academy Awards

1. John Gielgud in Arthur (WINNER) 2. Ian Holm in Chariots of Fire

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- James Coco in Only When I Laugh Jack Nicholson in Reds Howard E. Rollins Jr. in Ragtime

47. Louis Gossett Jr.

Actor | An Officer and a Gentleman

Louis Gossett Jr. was one of the most respected and beloved actors on stage, screen and television and was also an accomplished writer, producer and director. Off-screen, he was a social activist, educator, and author dedicated to enriching the lives of others. He was the first African-American to ...

55th Academy Awards

1. Louis Gossett Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman (WINNER) 2. James Mason in The Verdict 3. John Lithgow in The World According to Garp

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Charles Durning in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Robert Preston in Victor Victoria

48. Jack Nicholson

Actor | Chinatown

Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...

56th Academy Awards

1. Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment (WINNER) 2. Sam Shepard in The Right Stuff 3. John Lithgow in Terms of Endearment

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Charles Durning in To Be or Not to Be Rip Torn in Cross Creek

49. Haing S. Ngor

Actor | The Killing Fields

Haing S. Ngor was a native of Cambodia. Before the war, he was a physician & medical officer in the Cambodian army. He became a captive of the Khmer Rouge. He was imprisoned & tortured. In order to escape execution, he denied being a doctor or having an education. He moved to the U.S. as a refugee ...

57th Academy Awards

1. Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields (WINNER) 2. Pat Morita in The Karate Kid 3. Ralph Richardson in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Adolph Caesar in A Soldier's Story John Malkovich in Places in the Heart

50. William Hickey

Actor | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Son of Edward & Nora Hickey. Best known as the ancient Mafia don in Prizzi's Honor (1985), Hickey had a long, distinguished career in film, television, and the stage. Began career as a child actor on the variety stage. Made Broadway debut as walk-on in George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" (1951 ...

58th Academy Awards

1. William Hickey in Prizzi's Honor 2. Klaus Maria Brandauer in Out of Africa 3. Don Ameche in Cocoon (WINNER)

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Robert Loggia in Jagged Edge Eric Roberts in Runaway Train

51. Willem Dafoe

Actor | Spider-Man

Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...

59th Academy Awards

1. Willem Dafoe in Platoon 2. Tom Berenger in Platoon 3. Dennis Hopper in Hoosiers 4. Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters (WINNER) 5. Denholm Elliott in A Room with a View

52. Sean Connery

Actor | The Rock

The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...

60th Academy Awards

1. Sean Connery in The Untouchables (WINNER) 2. Vincent Gardenia in Moonstruck 3. Albert Brooks in Broadcast News

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Morgan Freeman in Street Smart Denzel Washington in Cry Freedom

53. Kevin Kline

Actor | Wild Wild West

Kevin Kline was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Margaret and Robert Joseph Kline, who owned several stores. His father was of German Jewish descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. After attending Indiana University in Bloomington, Kline studied at the Juilliard School in New York. In 1972, ...

61st Academy Awards

1. Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda (WINNER) 2. River Phoenix in Running on Empty 3. Dean Stockwell in Married to the Mob

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Alec Guiness in Little Dorrit Martin Landau in Tucker: The Man and His Dreams

54. Denzel Washington

Actor | Fences

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...

62nd Academy Awards

1. Denzel Washington in Glory (WINNER) 2. Danny Aiello in Do the Right Thing 3. Dan Aykroyd in Driving Miss Daisy 4. Marlon Brando in A Dry White Season 5. Martin Landau in Crimes and Misdemeanors

55. Joe Pesci

Actor | Goodfellas

Compact Italian-American actor Joe Pesci was born February 9, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, to Mary (Mesce), a part-time barber, and Angelo Pesci, a bartender and forklift driver. Pesci first broke into entertainment as a child actor, and by the mid-1950s, was starring on the series "Star Time Kids"....

63rd Academy Awards

1. Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (WINNER) 2. Graham Greene in Dances with Wolves 3. Al Pacino in Dick Tracy 4. Andy Garcia in The Godfather: Part III

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Davison in Longtime Companion

56. Tommy Lee Jones

Actor | The Fugitive

Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...

64th Academy Awards

1. Tommy Lee Jones in JFK 2. Harvey Keitel in Bugsy 3. Ben Kingsley in Bugsy 4. Jack Palance in City Slickers (WINNER) 5. Michael Lerner in Barton Fink

57. Jack Nicholson

Actor | Chinatown

Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...

65th Academy Awards

1. Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men 2. Gene Hackman in Unforgiven (WINNER) 3. Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross 4. Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- David Paymer in Mr. Saturday Night

58. Tommy Lee Jones

Actor | The Fugitive

Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school ...

66th Academy Awards

1. Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive (WINNER) 2. Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape 3. Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List 4. Pete Postelthwaite in In the Name of the Father 5. John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire

59. Samuel L. Jackson

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...

67th Academy Awards

1. Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction 2. Martin Landau in Ed Wood (WINNER) 3. Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump 4. Paul Scofield in Quiz Show

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Chazz Palminteri in Bullets Over Broadway

60. Kevin Spacey

Actor | The Usual Suspects

Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...

68th Academy Awards

1. Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects (WINNER) 2. James Cromwell in Babe 3. Ed Harris in Apollo 13 4. Brad Pitt in Twelve Monkeys 5. Tim Roth in Rob Roy

61. Edward Norton

Actor | Fight Club

American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.

His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...

69th Academy Awards

1. Edward Norton in Primal Fear 2. William H. Macy in Fargo 3. Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry Maguire (WINNER) 4. Armin Mueller-Stahl in Shine

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- James Woods in Ghosts of Mississippi

62. Robin Williams

Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire

Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...

70th Academy Awards

1. Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting (WINNER) 2. Anthony Hopkins in Amistad 3. Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights 4. Robert Forster in Jackie Brown 5. Greg Kinnear in As Good as It Gets

63. Ed Harris

Actor | Appaloosa

By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.

Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. ...

71st Academy Awards

1. Ed Harris in The Truman Show 2. Robert Duvall in A Civil Action 3. Billy Bob Thornton in A Simple Plan 4. Geoffrey Rush in Shakespeare in Love

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- James Coburn in Affliction (WINNER)

64. Michael Clarke Duncan

Actor | The Green Mile

Michael Clarke Duncan was born on December 10, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised on Chicago's South Side by his single mother, Jean, a house cleaner, Duncan grew up resisting drugs and alcohol, instead concentrating on school. He wanted to play football in high school, but his mother wouldn't let ...

72nd Academy Awards

1. Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile 2. Tom Cruise in Magnolia 3. Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense 4. Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley 5. Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules (WINNER)

65. Joaquin Phoenix

Actor | Walk the Line

Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...

73rd Academy Awards

1. Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator 2. Benicio del Toro in Traffic (WINNER) 3. Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich 4. Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Bridges in The Contender

66. Ian McKellen

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Widely regarded as one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, twice nominated for the Oscar and recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK and US, Ian Murray McKellen was born on May 25, 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, to Margery ...

74th Academy Awards

1. Ian McKellen in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2. Ethan Hawke in Training Day 3. Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast 4. Jon Voight in Ali

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Jim Broadbent in Iris (WINNER)

67. Christopher Walken

Actor | The Deer Hunter

Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...

75th Academy Awards

1. Christopher Walken in Catch Me If You Can 2. John C. Reilly in Chicago 3. Chris Cooper in Adaptation. (WINNER) 4. Paul Newman in Road to Perdition 5. Ed Harris in The Hours

68. Ken Watanabe

Actor | The Last Samurai

Ken Watanabe was born on October 21, 1959 in Uonuma, Japan. Both of his parents were teachers: his mother taught general education and his dad taught calligraphy. He became interested in acting at the age of 24, when a director of England's National Theater Company, where he was studying, told him ...

76th Academy Awards

1. Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai 2. Tim Robbins in Mystic River (WINNER) 3. Benicio del Toro in 21 Grams 4. Djimon Hounsou in In America

HAVEN'T SEEN: ------------------------------------------------------- Alec Baldwin in The Cooler

69. Morgan Freeman

Actor | Driving Miss Daisy

With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman...

77th Academy Awards

1. Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby (WINNER) 2. Jamie Foxx in Collateral 3. Clive Owen in Closer 4. Alan Alda in The Aviator 5. Thomas Haden Church in Sideways

70. William Hurt

Actor | A History of Violence

William McChord Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., to Claire Isabel (McGill) and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked at the State Department. He was trained at Tufts University and The Juilliard School and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including the most recent nomination for his ...

78th Academy Awards

1. William Hurt in A History of Violence 2. Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain 3. George Clooney in Syriana (WINNER) 4. Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man 5. Matt Dillon in Crash

71. Djimon Hounsou

Actor | Blood Diamond

Djimon Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, in west Africa to Albertine and Pierre Hounsou, a cook. He moved to Lyon, France, when he was 13. Hounsou has graced the catwalks of Paris and London as a popular male model. He has since left his modeling career and has worked on Gladiator (2000) by ...

79th Academy Awards

1. Djimon Hounsou in Blood Diamond 2. Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine (WINNER) 3. Mark Wahlberg in The Departed 4. Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls 5. Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children

72. Javier Bardem

Actor | Skyfall

Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.

He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...

80th Academy Awards

1. Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men (WINNER) 2. Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 3. Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild 4. Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton 5. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War

73. Heath Ledger

Actor | Brokeback Mountain

When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...

81st Academy Awards

1. Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (WINNER) 2. Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder 3. Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road 4. Josh Brolin in Milk 5. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt

74. Christoph Waltz

Actor | Django Unchained

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...

82nd Academy Awards

1. Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds (WINNER) 2. Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones 3. Matt Damon in Invictus 4. Woody Harrelson in The Messenger 5. Christopher Plummer in The Last Station

75. Christian Bale

Actor | The Dark Knight

Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...

83rd Academy Awards

1. Christian Bale in The Fighter (WINNER) 2. John Hawkes in Winter's Bone 3. Jeremy Renner in The Town 4. Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right 5. Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech

76. Nick Nolte

Actor | Warrior

Nick Nolte was born in Omaha, Nebraska and began his career on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse and in regional theatre productions. His breakthrough role was in the TV miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), playing the role of "Tom/Tommy Jordache". Nick Nolte said that when he played a young man in ...

84th Academy Awards

1. Nick Nolte in Warrior 2. Jonah Hill in Moneyball 3. Kenneth Branagh in My Week with Marilyn 4. Christopher Plummer in Beginners (WINNER) 5. Max von Sydow in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

77. Christoph Waltz

Actor | Django Unchained

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...

85th Academy Awards

1. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (WINNER) 2. Robert de Niro in Silver Linings Playbook 3. Alan Arkin in Argo 4. Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master 5. Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln

78. Jared Leto

Actor | Dallas Buyers Club

Jared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto is an accomplished actor merited by the numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to be ...

86th Academy Awards

1. Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club (WINNER) 2. Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street 3. Michael Fassbender in 12 Years a Slave 4. Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips 5. Bradley Cooper in American Hustle

79. J.K. Simmons

Actor | Whiplash

J.K. Simmons is an American actor.

He was born Jonathan Kimble Simmons in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Patricia (Kimble), an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, a music teacher. He attended the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Montana, Missoula, MT (BA in Music).

He had ...

87th Academy Awards

1. J.K. Simmons in Whiplash (WINNER) 2. Mark Ruffalo in Foxcatcher 3. Edward Norton in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 4. Ethan Hawke in Boyhood 5. Robert Duvall in The Judge

80. Mark Ruffalo

Actor | Spotlight

Award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo was born on November 22, 1967, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of humble means to father Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, a construction painter and Marie Rose (Hebert), a stylist and hairdresser; his father's ancestry is Italian and his mother is of half French-Canadian and half ...

88th Academy Awards

1. Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight 2. Sylvester Stallone in Creed 3. Christian Bale in The Big Short 4. Tom Hardy in The Revenant 5. Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies (WINNER)

81. Mahershala Ali

Actor | Leave the World Behind

Mahershala Ali is fast becoming one of the freshest and most in-demand faces in Hollywood with his extraordinarily diverse skill set and wide-ranging background in film, television, and theater.

He can be seen in the independent feature film, Moonlight, as well as reprising his role in The Hunger ...

89th Academy Awards

1. Mahershala Ali in Moonlight (WINNER) 2. Lucas Hedges in Manchester by the Sea 3. Dev Patel in Lion 4. Michael Shannon in Nocturnal Animals 5. Jeff Bridges in Hell or High Water

82. Sam Rockwell

Actor | Moon

Sam Rockwell was born on November 5, 1968, in San Mateo, California, the only child of two actors, Pete Rockwell and Penny Hess. The family moved to New York when he was two years old, living first in the Bronx and later in Manhattan. When Sam was five years old, his parents separated, at which ...

90th Academy Awards

1. Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (WINNER) 2. Wllen Dafoe in The Florida Project 3. Woody Harrelson in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 4. Richard Jenkins in The Shape of Water 5. Christopher Plummer in All the Money in the World

83. Mahershala Ali

Actor | Leave the World Behind

Mahershala Ali is fast becoming one of the freshest and most in-demand faces in Hollywood with his extraordinarily diverse skill set and wide-ranging background in film, television, and theater.

He can be seen in the independent feature film, Moonlight, as well as reprising his role in The Hunger ...

91st Academy Awards

1. Mahershala Ali in Green Book (WINNER) 2. Sam Elliott in A Star Is Born 3. Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman 4. Sam Rockwell in Vice 5. Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

84. Brad Pitt

Actor | Fight Club

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...

92nd Academy Awards

1. Brad Pitt in Once Upon s Time in Hollywood (WINNER) 2. Joe Pesci in The Irishman 3. Al Pacino in The Irishman 4. Tom Hanks in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 5. Anthony Hopkins in The Two Popes

85. Leslie Odom Jr.

Actor | Hamilton

Leslie Odom Jr. was born on August 6, 1981 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Hamilton (2020), One Night in Miami... (2020) and Central Park (2020). He has been married to Nicolette Robinson since December 1, 2012. They have two children.

93rd Academy Awards

1. Leslie Odom Jr. in One Night in Miami 2. Daniel Kaluuya in Judas and the Black Messiah (WINNER) 3. Paul Raci in Sound of Metal 4. LaKeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah 5. Sacha Baron Cohen in The Trial of the Chicago 7

86. Troy Kotsur

Actor | CODA

Troy Kotsur has been acting and directing for over 20 years. Deaf since birth, he was raised in Mesa, AZ. In his career he has had critically acclaimed performances in major films, a lead role in the Broadway run of a Tony Award-winning play, and numerous memorable roles on Television.

Troy has ...

94th Academy Awards

1. Troy Kotsur in CODA (WINNER) 2. Ciarán Hinds in Belfast 3. Jesse Plemons in The Power of the Dog 4. Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Power of the Dog 5. J.K. Simmons in Being the Ricardos

87. Ke Huy Quan

Actor | Everything Everywhere All at Once

Ke Huy Quan, also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is a Vietnamese-born Chinese-American actor and stunt choreographer. Quan played Short Round in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984) and Data in "The Goonies" (1985). In 1990 and 1991, he co-starred as Jasper Kwong in the sitcom "Head of the ...

95th Academy Awards

1. Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER) 2. Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin 3. Judd Hirsch in The Fabelmans 4. Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin 5. Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway

88. Robert De Niro

Actor | Cape Fear

One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...

96th Academy Awards

1. Robert De Niro in Killers of the Flower Moon 2. Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer (WINNER) 3. Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things 4. Ryan Gosling in Barbie 5. Sterling K. Brown in American Fiction